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Israel Palestine conflict 101 slide show

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This power point slide show compares the new wall
in Palestine with the Berlin wall that was in Germany.

Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land

Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land

U.S. Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

How Israel manipulates and distorts American public perceptions

Through the voices of scholars, media critics, peace activists, religious figures, and Middle East experts, Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land carefully analyzes and explains how--through the use of language, framing and context--the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza remains hidden in the news media, and Israeli colonization of the occupied terrorities appears to be a defensive move rather than an offensive one.

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October 30th: Iraq war

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/country_profiles/791014.stm


November 6th: Iranian crisis

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4031603.stm


November 8th: Israel-Palestine conflict

www.israel.org/MFA/facts%20about%20israel/state/zionism-%20background


November 13th: Darfur crisis

http://www.cfr.org/publication/13129?bcpid?=716091889&bctid=716320015


November 15th: North Korea crisis

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2792.htm

North Koreans ~ Terror on the Run in China 2007.09.11 ABC

Reporter: Stephen McDonell ABC Australia


While North Korea and the United States are making progress on the issue of nuclear weaponry and nuclear energy, life remains a desperate struggle for most North Koreans.


They’ve suffered years of deprivation, famine and tyrannical rule. The latest disaster was the worst flooding in 30 years. International aid agencies have warned of food shortages.

Its little wonder many North Koreans flee the country, if they can. But in China, life for North Korean escapers is often another, Orwellian sinkhole.

But reporter Stephen McDonell discovers that making it across the river is no guarantee of freedom and a better life.

He goes underground in Yanbian to meet some of the refugees and those trying to protect them from Chinese authorities.

“I’m always in hiding…..I thought if I came to China life would be better, but I was wrong” one refugee admits to McDonell.

Women particularly find themselves in a perilous position and often fall into the hands of human traffickers and end up being sold as “brides” or forced into prostitution.

Without Chinese language skills most refugees remain at risk of being discovered by the Chinese police. If that happens they are detained, classed as economic migrants and sent back to North Korea to almost certain death. The UN Refugee agency is given no access to them.

Christian activist Tim Peters says ‘These North Koreans are being sent back by the hundreds and some of them are being killed and many being tortured and some of them get thrown into prison and the key is thrown away.

CBC Our World ~Iraq Four Years On 2007 09 16 21 mins.

This week, we look at the turning of the political tide in the U.S., as
Washington assesses its Iraq strategy and girds itself for the future.
We have reports from CBC correspondent, Nahlah Ayed inside Iraq.
And feature interviews with Washington Post columnist, David
Ignatius and with Phil Donahue, once a famous American talk show
host, now the director of a moving documentary about the Iraq war.

As we have followed the course of the Iraq war, we have seen a clear
trajectory from early bravado, to confusion over the unanticipated
chaos and now to a sense of failure, as the death count of American
soldiers and Iraqi civilians mounts.

The majority of Americans now believe that the war was a mistake
and the administration of George W. Bush is confronting the difficult
challenge of what to do next.
The dilemma: how to declare some kind of victory and get out of
Iraq without further destabilizing the country and the region?


The CBC is now one of the only major television networks with
reporters inside Iraq, so dangerous a place has it become.
The CBC's Nahlah Ayed and Margaret Evans and their crews are
there this week sending back daily reports on the situation on the
ground. It's a mixed and contradictory picture. We show two
reports by Nahlah Ayed.

In the first one, she examines the desperation of many
people in the capital as they struggle without basic services and
constant danger. In the second report, she travels with US
soldiers who show her some evidence of their success in
establishing security.

A majority of Americans now disapprove of the way President
George Bush is handling Iraq. It wasn't always like that.
When he launched the war, Bush had strong public and political
support. Phil Donahue, the famous talk show host,
was among the minority who passionately denounced the war
from the very beginning, losing his TV show for his efforts.
About a year ago, he met an American soldier who was shot only
a week after arriving in Iraq, leaving him paralyzed from the
chest down.

Donahue decided to track both the man's life and the memorable
vote in the Congress and Senate that gave Bush full authority to
invade Iraq. The film is called "Body of War." Brian's
conversation with Donahue is lively and compelling.

Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land pt 2

Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land
U.S. Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

How Israel manipulates and distorts American public perceptions

Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land pt 1

Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land
U.S. Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

How Israel manipulates and distorts American public perceptions

Through the voices of scholars, media critics, peace activists, religious figures, and Middle East experts, Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land carefully analyzes and explains how--through the use of language, framing and context--the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza remains hidden in the news media, and Israeli colonization of the occupied terrorities appears to be a defensive move rather than an offensive one.

Unreported World 2007 06.08 Israel's Wild West

On the West Bank, ideologically-driven Israeli settlers are taking back settlements that the Israeli government expelled them from only two years before and expanding into new areas.

As reporter Sandra Jordan and producer Edward Watts find when a member of their own team is injured, violence in the West Bank is never far from the surface. As tensions escalate, the prospect of more widespread conflict across the West Bank is growing by the day. If that happens, it'll make what's happening in Gaza look insignificant by comparison.

The Last Shah - Iran History BBC Documentary part 3

Final part of video.

The Last Shah - Iran History BBC Documentary (Ben Kingsley )

Part 2

The Last Shah - Iran History BBC Documentary part 1

How NOT To Use Powerpoint By Comedian Don McMillan

How To Use Powerpoint

How to create a presentation using Microsoft Power Point

PART 3 OF 3

PBS FRONTLINE: KIM'S NUCLEAR GAMBLE PART 3 OF 3

Foreign Relations

In 1998, South Korean President Kim Dae-jung implemented a Sunshine policy (Haetpyŏt chŏngch'aek) to improve North-South relations and to allow South Korean companies to start projects in the North. Kim Jong-il announced plans to import and develop new technologies to develop North Korea's fledgling software industry. As a result of the new policy, the Kaesong Industrial Park was constructed in 2003 just north of the inter-Korean border, with the planned participation of 250 South Korean companies, employing 100,000 North Koreans, by 2007. However, by March 2007, the Park contained only 21 companies - employing 12,000 North Korean workers.

In 1994, North Korea and the United States signed an Agreed Framework which was designed to freeze and eventually dismantle the North's nuclear weapons program in exchange for aid in producing two power-generating nuclear reactors. In 2002, Kim Jong-il's government admitted to having produced nuclear weapons since the 1994 agreement. Kim's regime argued the secret production was necessary for security purposes - citing the presence of United States owned nuclear weapons in South Korea and the new tensions with the U.S. under President George W Bush.

Internal Politics

North Korea remains silent on the issue of an appointed successor. South Korean media have suggested that he is grooming his son, Kim Jong-chul; however, Kim Yong Hyun, a political expert at the Institute for North Korean Studies at Seoul's Dongguk University, believes any appointee would be outside the family. "Even the North Korean establishment would not advocate a continuation of the family dynasty at this point." His eldest son, Kim Jong-nam, was earlier believed to be the designated heir, but he appears to have fallen out of favor after being arrested at Narita International Airport in Narita, Japan, near Tokyo, in 2001 while traveling on a forged passport.

PBS FRONTLINE: KIM'S NUCLEAR GAMBLE PART 2 OF 3

PBS FRONTLINE: KIM'S NUCLEAR GAMBLE PART 2 OF 3

WHO IS KIM JONG ILL?

Kim Jong-il (also written as Kim Jong Il) (born February 16, 1942) is the leader of North Korea. He is the Chairman of the National Defense Commission, Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army, and General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (the ruling party since 1948). He succeeded his father Kim Il-sung, founder of North Korea, who died in 1994.

Continuing the official ideology of Juche (self-reliance) established by his father, Kim Jong-il operates out of a secretive and restrictive North Korea - criticized for human rights abuses and controversy over its nuclear projects.

Kim Jong-il has been routinely criticized by world governments and international NGOs for human rights abuses carried out under his rule, as well as for North Korea's production of nuclear weapons, contrary to previous legal, international obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and his own commitment to make the Korean Peninsula free of nuclear weapons. Camp 22 is North Korea's largest concentration camp, where up to 50,000 men, women and children accused of political "crimes" are held. Reports of gross violations of human rights by the guards have been reported, such as murdering babies born to inmates.

Kim's expensive taste has become a media target. In the context of United Nations sanctions restricting the trade in luxury items to North Korea following the country's October 2006 nuclear test, Reuters coverage noted that "No one enjoys luxury goods more than paramount leader Kim Jong-il, who boasts the country's finest wine cellar with space for 10,000 bottles. Kim has a penchant for fine food such as lobster, caviar and the most expensive cuts of sushi that he has flown in to him from Japan." His annual purchases of Hennessy cognac reportedly total to $700,000, while the average North Korean earns the rough estimate equivalent of $900 per year.

PBS FRONTLINE: KIM'S NUCLEAR GAMBLE PART 1 OF 3

PBS FRONTLINE: KIM'S NUCLEAR GAMBLE PART 1 OF 3

DEBATE OVER HOW TO DEAL WITH NORTH KOREA

The past 10 years have been marked by a contentious debate between Democrats and Republicans over America's North Korea policy. When the Clinton administration held high-level talks and negotiated the 1994 Agreed Framework with the North Koreans, Republicans called it appeasement. Now Democrats are criticizing President Bush's approach to the DPRK, maintaining that labelling North Korea part of the "axis of evil" and refusing to engage in direct talks serves no useful security purpose. Here are excerpts from FRONTLINE's interviews with Richard Perle, Thomas Hubbard, Madeleine Albright, Robert Gallucci, Stephen Bosworth, and William Perry, in which they discuss the two administrations' contrasting approaches, the current nuclear crisis, and the U.S. refusal to talk with the North unless Japan, South Korea, and China are involved.

NORTH KOREA's NUCLEAR THREAT

Since October 2002, North Korea has admitted to a secret uranium-enrichment program, kicked international inspectors out of the country, announced its withdrawal from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and restarted its plutonium program. Pyongyang maintains that it needs nuclear bombs to defend itself against a U.S. attack. In excerpts from their FRONTLINE interviews, William Perry, Thomas Hubbard, and Ashton Carter debate how close the North may be to achieving its nuclear ambitions.

THE CHILDREN OF DARFUR PART 2 OF 2

THE CHILDREN OF DARFUR PART 2 OF 2

-About The Author-

Camilla Nielsson is an anthropologist, whose research interests have centered on visual anthropology, third world media and communication practices in developing countries, primarily in a South Asian context.

She has produced various communication materials concerning children's rights, developed guidelines for visual representation of children's rights issues and produced public service announcements on children's rights, health and education.

THE CHILDREN OF DARFUR PART 1 OF 2

THE CHILDREN OF DARFUR PART 1 OF 2

"The Children of Darfur" is a youth documentary film that will tell the children's version of what is happening in Darfur. Some of the strongest testimonies are told by the children and etched in drawings made in the support centres that have opened throughout Darfur.

”When the militia came to our village, we were at school. 45 Students were killed including my cousin and best friend Mona. We walked for two days, without water, before arriving in Nyala. A month later we were brought here to the displaced people’s camp. In my village we had animals and crops and trees. Here we have nothing”, says Sumaya, 15 years old.

More than 10 years ago, when the international community finally realized the kind of atrocities that had taken place in Rwanda, the world’s leaders gathered to take action. Under the slogan “Never Again”, they decided that what had happened in Rwanda should never happen again. Today, in 2006, Darfur has turned into, what the United Nations describes as, the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

The families, who have fled their villages, escaping attacks by marauding bands of Janjaweed militia, are often killed or separated during the escape. Many have lost family members, and witnessed rape and killing. The worst affected by the crisis are Darfur’s children, who represent more than 50% of the displaced people in the region

The North Korean Human Rights Crisis

ABSTRACT

North Korea today is home to a network of several dozen concentration camps rivaling those of Auschwitz and Dachau of days past, hosting over 250,000 political prisoners and their families. North Korea is a prison state- there are no freedoms of religion, speech, movement, assembly- even the right to leave the nation is barred from the people. Hundreds of thousands of North Koreans have fled to neighboring China, only to be hunted down by Chinese authorities and sent back to North Korea to face torture and death; or to be sold by brokers and smugglers as labor or sexual slaves. An additional 15,000 North Koreans toil in slave labor camps outside North Korea.

How soon could Iran have a nuclear weapon?(1:39)

Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com#/video/world/2007/04/10/meserve.how.close.is.iran.ap#/video/world/2007/04/10/meserve.how.close.is.iran.ap#/video/world/2007/04/10/meserve.how.close.is.iran.ap: "Iran's nuclear timetable 1:39 How soon could Iran have a nuclear weapon? CNN's Jeanne Meserve takes a look"

Emergency In Darfur

A humanitarian crisis is raging in the Darfur region of western Sudan. Civilians are suffering torture and death by government-supported militia. Tens of thousands have been killed and over a million people have been driven from their homes. The refugees and those who remain in their villages in Darfur must deal with hunger and disease, lack of water and the absence of sanitation facilities. Seasonal rains hamper access by humanitarian aid organizations, whose assistance is already drastically reduced by limitations imposed by the Sudanese government.

Iran's Nuclear Program Symposium

Iran's Nuclear Development and Production--A Status Report (video)
Speakers:

Charles Ferguson, Fellow for Science & Technology, Council on Foreign Relations
Mark Fitzpatrick, Senior Fellow for Nonproliferation, International Institute for Strategic Studies;

Former Deputy Assistant Secretary Of State for Nonproliferation
Daniel Poneman, Senior Fellow, Forum for International Policy;

Former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Nonproliferation and Export Controls,
National Security Council

Presider:Carla Anne Robbins, Chief Diplomatic Correspondent, Wall Street Journal
• April 5, 2006
Symposium: Iran's Nuclear Program Symposium: Iran's Nuclear Development and Production: A Status Report

Crisis Guide: Darfur

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid716091889/bctid716320015

DARFUR'S SMALLEST WITNESSES

Online NewsHour Video Player

Media Talk: Is Iran building a nuclear bomb?

With Frank Barnaby (Oxford Research Group), Mark Fitzpatrick (IISS), Abbas Edalat (Imperial College London) and Majid Tafreshi (historian and journalist). Moderated by Sheila MacVicar (CBS).

Darfur: Our Choice Too

With Darfur activists focused on building pressure for U.N. force, Jon Sawyer makes the case to strengthen the African force on the ground.

Al-Jazeera - Inside Story America’s Oil Grab in Iraq

Iraq's massive oil reserves, the third-largest in the world, are about to be thrown open for large-scale exploitation by Western oil companies under a controversial law which is expected to come before the Iraqi parliament within days.

The US government has been involved in drawing up the law, a draft of which has been seen by The Independent on Sunday.

It would give big oil companies such as BP, Shell and Exxon 30-year contracts to extract Iraqi crude and allow the first large-scale operation of foreign oil interests in the country since the industry was nationalized in 1972.

Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers part 2of2

Is the story of what happens to everyday Americans when corporations go to war.
Acclaimed director Robert Greenwald (Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, Outfoxed and Uncovered) takes you inside the lives of soldiers, truck drivers, widows and children who have been changed forever as a result of profiteering in the reconstruction of Iraq. Iraq for Sale uncovers the connections between private corporations making a killing in Iraq and the decision makers who allow them to do so.
Brave New Films are both funded and distributed completely outside corporate America. Over 3000 people donated to make Iraq for Sale, and it is up to you to distribute it. Give copies to co-workers and organize a screening in your neighborhood. Get involved →
A small South Carolina parts supplier collected about $20.5 million over six years from the Pentagon for fraudulent shipping costs, including $998,798 for sending two 19-cent washers to a Texas base, U.S. officials said.
The company also billed and was paid $455,009 to ship three machine screws costing $1.31 each to Marines in Habbaniyah, Iraq, and $293,451 to ship an 89-cent split washer to Patrick Air Force Base in Cape Canaveral, Florida, Pentagon records show.
The owners of C&D Distributors in Lexington, South Carolina -- twin sisters -- exploited a flaw in an automated Defense Department purchasing system: bills for shipping to combat areas or U.S. bases that were labeled ``priority'' were usually paid automatically, said Cynthia Stroot, a Pentagon investigator.
The film is 75 minutes long.

Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers part 1of2

Is the story of what happens to everyday Americans when corporations go to war.
Acclaimed director Robert Greenwald (Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, Outfoxed and Uncovered) takes you inside the lives of soldiers, truck drivers, widows and children who have been changed forever as a result of profiteering in the reconstruction of Iraq. Iraq for Sale uncovers the connections between private corporations making a killing in Iraq and the decision makers who allow them to do so.
Brave New Films are both funded and distributed completely outside corporate America. Over 3000 people donated to make Iraq for Sale, and it is up to you to distribute it. Give copies to co-workers and organize a screening in your neighborhood. Get involved →
A small South Carolina parts supplier collected about $20.5 million over six years from the Pentagon for fraudulent shipping costs, including $998,798 for sending two 19-cent washers to a Texas base, U.S. officials said.
The company also billed and was paid $455,009 to ship three machine screws costing $1.31 each to Marines in Habbaniyah, Iraq, and $293,451 to ship an 89-cent split washer to Patrick Air Force Base in Cape Canaveral, Florida, Pentagon records show.
The owners of C&D Distributors in Lexington, South Carolina -- twin sisters -- exploited a flaw in an automated Defense Department purchasing system: bills for shipping to combat areas or U.S. bases that were labeled ``priority'' were usually paid automatically, said Cynthia Stroot, a Pentagon investigator.
The film is 75 minutes long.

Buying the war: Part 3of3

Last segment.

Buying the war:part 2of3

Second part.

Buying the war:Part 1of3

Bill Moyers returns to PBS with a 90-minute special called “Buying the War,” and it features prominently the work of the Washington Bureau in the run-up to the Iraq war. Producing journalism that raised doubts about the war’s rationale, or about the country’s planning for it, was a lonely place to be in the months after 9/11. But that’s where the reporting of Knight Ridder’s Warren Strobel and Jonathan Landay, and bureau chief John Walcott, squarely took them.

The Moyers report provides a very interesting narrative about the signals missed by many reporters as they weighed pre-war evidence. Our colleagues Landay, Strobel and Walcott weren’t missing. Here’s Jonathan speaking on the show about a story in the New York Times, which cited an Iraqi Kurd’s assertion that Iraq had hidden chemical and biological weapons:

“There were some red flags that the New York Times story threw out immediately, which caught our eye immediately. The first was the idea that a Kurd, the enemy of Saddam, had been allowed into his most top-secret military facilities. I don’t think so. That was, for me, the biggest red flag. And there were others, like the idea that Saddam Hussein would put a biological weapons facility under his residence. I mean, would you put a biological weapons lab under your living room? I don’t think so.”

Are we proud of their work? Damned right. It came about through smart and dogged reporting but also because of a big ration of courage. It sure as heck looked like there was a right side and wrong side in the run-up to the war, and darned if it didn’t seem like Walcott, Strobel and Landay must be on the wrong side. They were not.

One of John Walcott’s favorite questions at news meetings is, “But is it true?” This show is a quite good reminder that we journalists, no matter how “slam-dunk” the assertion, must never fail to ask it.

Uncovered - The Whole Truth About the Iraq War

In his documentary feature, UNCOVERED: The War on Iraq, filmmaker Robert Greenwald chronicles the Bush Administration's determined quest to invade Iraq following the events of September 11, 2001. The film deconstructs the administration's case for war through interviews with U.S intelligence and defense officials, foreign service experts, and U.N. weapons inspectors -- including a former CIA director, a former ambassador to Saudi Arabia and even President Bush's Secretary of the Army. Their analyses and conclusions are sobering, and often disturbing, regardless of one's political affiliations.
Since this film was first released in November 2003 via thousands of house parties organized by MoveOn.org, the issues addressed have become well known, and the arguments made by the experts in the film have been proven. Most recently, by the Downing Street Memos.
This is an important film documenting exactly how the Bush administration hoodwinked the American people into supporting an unnecessary war. A war that has claimed tens of thousands of lives, and continues today.

Stopping Genocide:Darfur,Sudan

9 mins

Inside story:Darfur Crisis

Millions of people have fled their homes since the conflict in the Darfur region in western Sudan began in 2003.

The United Nations estimates that 2.1 million people are internally displaced, many of them living in one of 130 officials camps across region.

Darfur Genocide Documentary 10 mins.

The Promise:Genocide in Darfur

Iran's Nuclear Secrets: part 3of3

Final part of the video...

Iran's Nuclear Secrets: Part 2of3

Second part...

Iran's Nuclear Secrets part 1of3

As Iran defies the world by restarting its nuclear program, Paul Kenyon travels to the Islamic Republic with UN nuclear inspectors, and gains exclusive behind-the-scene access to the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Iranian negotiators talk candidly about why they deceived the world over their nuclear program for 18 years.
The diplomatic to-ing and fro-ing covered in the program was filmed in the first six months of this year.
But it takes on a new complexion now we know that Iran later abandoned the diplomacy and chose to start enriching uranium again.
First shown in May of 2005, the program has been updated with the latest events.

North Korea:Children of the secret state part 2

Final segment of this video.

North Korea:Children of the secret state part 1

Children of the
Secret State

Children of the Secret State' is an investigation into North Korea, considered by many as the last Stalinist dictatorship, a hidden and sealed country riddled with propaganda and saturated with hostility to democracy and the West.

Joe Layburn and the Hardcash team discovered a young North Korean, known by the pseudonym 'Ahn Chol', who has been filiming undercover so that the world can see what is going on in his native land: the country where his parents both starved to death.

His devastating footage shows some of the estimated 200,000 street children, mainly orphans, foraging for food in the mud and the gutters, ignored by the adults around them and ignored by the state which claims they are at its bosom.

Joe embarks on a state-run tourist visit of North Korea, revealing vast unoccupied hotels, empty boulevards and countless monuments of Kim Jong II, the county's leader.

Seoul Train part 2

last portion of the video

Seoul train:North Korean refugees part 1

"With its riveting footage of a secretive underground railroad, SEOUL TRAIN is a riveting documentary about the life and death of North Koreans as they try to escape their homeland. SEOUL TRAIN is the definitive exposé into this growing and potentially explosive humanitarian crisis. It portrays not only the human toll, but also the complex geopolitics of a crisis that threatens to undermine the stability of East Asian peace. SEOUL TRAIN will have its television premiere on PBS' Independent Lens, hosted by Edie Falco.

By combining vérité footage, personal stories, and interviews with experts and government officials, SEOUL TRAIN depicts the flouting of international laws by major countries, the inaction and bureaucracy of the United Nations, and the heroics of activists who put themselves in harm's way to save the refugees. Today, there are an estimated 250,000 North Korean refugees living underground in China. They escaped a food crisis and other persecutions at home that have claimed the lives of approximately 3 million in the past 10 years. As the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) stands idly by, the Chinese government-in direct violation of international laws to which it's a party-systematically arrests and forcibly repatriates hundreds of these refugees each month.

Defecting from North Korea is a capital offense, and repatriated refugees face human rights abuses ranging from concentration camps and torture to forced abortion and summary executions. For a lucky few refugees, however, there is hope. A group of multinational activists has taken it upon themselves to create an underground railroad. Via a network of safe houses and escape routes, the activists-at great personal risk-help the refugees in daring escapes to freedom over thousands of miles of Chinese territory. This is an odyssey in which betrayal and deceit lurk around every corner, and the price of getting caught likely means death. It's an epic tale involving years on the lam living in underground shelters, North Korean and Chinese agents, double-crosses, covert border crossings, and the terror of what happens if they get caught

Occupation 101: Part 2

last segment of the video.

Occupation 101:Israel-Palestine Conflict Pt. 1

"A thought-provoking and powerful documentary film on the current and historical root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Unlike any other film ever produced on the conflict -- 'Occupation 101' presents a comprehensive analysis of the facts and hidden truths surrounding the never ending controversy and dispels many of its long-perceived myths and misconceptions.

The film also details life under Israeli military rule, the role of the United States in the conflict, and the major obstacles that stand in the way of a lasting and viable peace. The roots of the conflict are explained through first-hand on-the-ground experiences from leading Middle East scholars, peace activists, journalists, religious leaders and humanitarian workers whose voices have too often been suppressed in American media outlets.

The film covers a wide range of topics -- which include -- the first wave of Jewish immigration from Europe in the 1880's, the 1920 tensions, the 1948 war, the 1967 war, the first Intifada of 1987, the Oslo Peace Process, Settlement expansion, the role of the United States Government, the second Intifada of 2000, the separation barrier and the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, as well as many heart wrenching testimonials from victims of this tragedy."

SUPPORT THE MAKERS OF THIS OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY, GET THE DVD: http://www.occupation101.com/purchase.html

U.N: HUMAN TRAFFICKING AS AN INTERNATIONAL TRADE:PREVENTION AND CONTROL STRATEGIES

Here are the questions and answers with

an explanation from the slide show.

GOOD LUCK ON YOUR SUMMER ESSAYS!!!

TRAFFICKING TRUE /FALSE QUIZ

1. Trafficking requires transportation across international borders.

2. Physical confinement or violence must be witnessed for a case to be considered trafficking.

3. If a person signs a contract or knows beforehand that she or he will be a sex worker, the person cannot be considered a victim of trafficking.

4. Victims of trafficking often have legitimate visas.

5. Rape, kidnapping and murder are crimes frequently associated with human trafficking

6. If an individual claims to be a victim of trafficking, this claim should be accepted at face value.

7. If a person claims to be a victim of trafficking, you should report it immediately to your

supervisor or commanding officer.

8. The internationally accepted definition of a child is any person below 18 years of age.

9. Human trafficking is an element of organized crime and can affect the security of a DPKO (Department of Peacekeeping Operations) mission.

10. Victims of trafficking may include household servants.

ANSWERS

1. Trafficking requires transportation across international borders. FALSE

—Trafficking does not require crossing an international border. Victims from rural areas are often promised opportunities in urban centers of the same region or country.

2. Physical confinement or violence must be witnessed for a case to be trafficking. FALSE

—While force and containment are central components of trafficking cases, they are not automatically evident. Threats, pressure or deception are sufficient to make an initial determination of trafficking. In many cases, women are trafficked from their small villages in rural areas through a criminal network linked to their local community. Traffickers often threaten the safety of the victim’s family members, such as their children, to ensure they will not attempt to escape. Trafficked persons are also dependent upon their traffickers for food, clothing and housing and must submit to the demands of their captors.

3. If a person signs a contract or knows beforehand that she or he will be a sex worker, the person cannot be considered a victim of trafficking. FALSE

—Traffickers deceive their victims about the conditions of work or the abuse they will be forced to endure. No person can consent to slavery-like conditions. Freedom is an inalienable right.

4. Victims of trafficking often have legitimate visas. TRUE

—Trafficking can occur whether people are moved by legal or illegal means. Traffickers may arrange for a tourist or short-term work visa for the country where the exploitation occurs. For example, in one country in South-East Europe, women trafficked for forced prostitution had been granted valid visas for work as ‘dancers’ or ‘performers.’ Some victims of trafficking have received visas for education or marriage, but were forced into sexual slavery upon arrival.

5. Rape, kidnapping and murder are crimes frequently associated with human trafficking.

TRUE

—Trafficking is a human rights abuse that equates human beings with commodities that can be bought, sold, damaged or destroyed. Traffickers commit serious crimes in the process of trafficking, especially at the workplace or site where the victim is being abused in slavery-like conditions.

6. If an individual approaches you and claims to be a victim of trafficking, this claim should be accepted at face value. TRUE

— Many victims of trafficking fear additional abuse and reprisals from their trafficker if they identify themselves as a victim. Language barriers can also limit the ability of a victim to communicate with a PKO mission member. However, if an individual does come forward and asks for rescue or other help, he/she should immediately be given assistance. In some cases, this could include transportation to a local emergency shelter and immediate access to services such as medical, psychological and legal support.

7. If a person claims to be a victim of trafficking, you should report it immediately to your supervisor or commanding officer. TRUE

—All military, civilian police and civilian staff have an obligation to report all rumors or suspicions of human trafficking in their mission area or allegations of misconduct by any colleague or mission member. These should be reported through the mission’s complaint mechanism. All rumors of human trafficking or the involvement of peacekeeping personnel in human trafficking must be investigated thoroughly.

8. The internationally accepted definition of a child is any person below 18 years of age. TRUE

—The Convention on the Rights of the Child defines a child as any person below 18 years of age. Peacekeepers have a duty to uphold and respect the rights of all members of the host population, particularly women and children who may be at greater risk of sexual exploitation and abuse. Sexual activity with anyone under the age of 18 is prohibited, regardless of consent.

9. Human trafficking is an element of organized crime and can affect the security of a DPKO (Department of Peacekeeping Operations) mission. TRUE

—Trafficking in human beings has been linked to trafficking in drugs and arms. Personnel involved in human trafficking may be open to blackmail. Involvement in trafficking by UN peacekeepers could result in violent retaliation by organized criminal groups against the perpetrators, or against the entire contingent or the mission. Corruption of local officials infrequently linked to trafficking, thus anti-corruption strategies should be linked to criminal investigations from the outset of civilian police efforts.

10. Victims of trafficking may include household servants. TRUE

—Many women and children are trafficked into slavery-like situations that do not always include sexual exploitation or abuse. In some cases, women and children are sold to employers as household servants. The core elements of trafficking are the coercive and abusive conditions into which the trafficker places the victim. The kind of business or service into which a person is trafficked does not dictate whether or not trafficking has occurred.

HUMAN TRAFFICKING: Modern Day Slavery

I presented a Powerpoint slide show to you on Human Trafficking.

Here is some more information on the 'T' visas.

Trafficking Visa (T visa)

-New visa created to offer safe haven for certain eligible victims of severe forms of trafficking in persons
-Who are assisting law enforcement authorities in investigating and prosecuting traffickers

What Is A T Visa?

Enables certain victims of human trafficking and/or slavery to live and work in U.S. for three years (VAWA=violence against women act) 2005 – 4 years)

-Can apply for adjustment of status to lawful permanent resident
-Can petition to have spouses and children accompany (and parents and siblings if under 21)
-Cap of 5,000 visas annually

Enables certain victims of human trafficking and/or slavery to live and work in U.S. for three years (VAWA=Violence Against Women Act)2005 – 4 years)

-Can apply for adjustment of status to lawful permanent resident
-Can petition to have spouses and children accompany (and parents and siblings if under 21)
-Cap of 5,000 visas annually

T visa requirements

-Applicant is or was victim of severe form of trafficking in person
-Applicant physically present in the U.S., Am. Samoa, N. Mariana Islands due to trafficking
-Applicant either is under 18 or has complied with any federal LEA(local education agency) reasonable. request for assistance in the investigation or prosecution of acts of trafficking
-Applicant would suffer extreme hardship involving unusual and severe harm if removed

Benefits of the T visa

-Non immigrant status in U.S. for 3 yrs
-Employment authorization
-Possibility of non immigrant status for family
-Possibility of adjusting status to LPR (Lawful Permanent Resident ) after 3 yrs
-Same benefits as refugees
-Applicant has not engaged in trafficking

Lawful permanent residence for T visa recipients Who Prove:

-Continuous presence in the U.S. for 3 years
-Good moral character
-Complied with with reasonable request for assistance in the investigation or prosecution (If over age 18) or
-Would suffer extreme hardship if denied

Sex Slaves video

We watched the Frontline sex slave video.

HOMEWORK:

-Read the Spirited away article

-Read sex slave girl and 217 slaves

in China newspaper articles.

What do we really know about sex trafficking? Although trafficking of women and girls for sexual exploitation is a global problem, hard statistics on the numbers of women involved, and in which countries, are close to impossible to come by:

• It is an illegal, underground business, and it is difficult to extrapolate the scale of the problem from statistics on arrests and convictions, because many victims don't come forward for fear of retribution.

"When it comes to statistics, trafficking of girls and women is one of several highly emotive issues which seem to overwhelm critical faculties. Numbers take on a life of their own, gaining acceptance through repetition, often with little inquiry into their derivations. Journalists, bowing to the pressures of editors, demand numbers, any number. Organizations feel compelled to supply them, lending false precisions and spurious authority to many reports. The UNESCO TRAFFICKING STATISTICS PROJECT is a first step toward clarifying what we know, what we think we know, and what we don't know about trafficking."

I WILL GIVE YOU THE UNESCO STATS NEXT CLASS.

Human Trafficking Presentations

The presentations were great!

I was deeply impressed by all the groups!!!

Way to go everyone!

HOMEWORK:

-Read the articles on Moldova and sex slaves.

UP COMING NEXT CLASS...

SEX SLAVES

Katia, from Moldova, was sold into sexual slavery in Turkey. Her husband decided to go undercover and try to find her.

Also find out about how five women from the struggling countries of Eastern Europe were tricked into sexual slavery, beaten by traffickers and pimps, forced to work to turn a profit -- and finally escaped. Plus, a convicted Ukrainian sex trafficker talks about the multi billion dollar sex trade business, and why he sold an acquaintance for $1,000.

Research Class #2

I was so glad that you all seemed to have
gathered lots of great info for the project!

The next step is to organize it!!!

Perhaps start with step 4, then step 1, and in the middle somewhere
steps 2, and 3.

Step 4 is very important because it is an introduction to the class
on your assigned country. Tell us the main points of importance
about the country. Statistics, relevant info about problems, or
any thing that you feel important to share with the class.

Remember your visual aid. Picture, graph, map etc...........

Divide the work evenly within your groups. 5-6 minutes
is all we need to present it.

Good luck everyone and see you Tuesday!

Human Trafficking Research Project

We started the student pair research project in the PC room.

Remember you have one more class on Thursday to complete the research.

Presentations will be from Tuesday.

TO REMEMBER:

-Include at least one visual in your presentation(poster, picture, graph etc.)

-Keep your eye on the clock when sharing your info with the class(5-6 mins. max.)

-Don't over research for this! Just use the 4 class sites that I gave you.

Should be a great class next time!

THANKS!

Sex Tourism In Asia

We watched a brief segment of "TRADING WOMEN" today, as well as the main feature "BANGKOK GIRL."

Bangkok girl:
Producer/Director Jordan Clark enters a world with various levels of prostitution -- from basic bargirls, who merely pour you a drink, money for sex relationships, to hooking on both sides of the gender line.The documentary provides a glimpse of Thailand's sex tourism told through the experiences of a 19-year-old bar girl named Pla.

Working in the bars since the age of thirteen, Pla has managed to avoid selling her body for sex, a remarkable discovery, given her surroundings that sadly cannot last. En route to the film's startling conclusion, you are given a true understanding of why and how she ended up in her current environment and wonder if she will ever escape.The introduction of 'falangs', or foreigners, to Thailand has forever changed their city, their economy, their lives, and their desires.

This film is a daring and unabashed look at ourselves, through the eyes of one girl, in an honest, morally gripping story, which challenges the worldwide, accepted practice of sex tourism.

About trading women:
Trading Women enters the worlds of brothel owners, trafficked girls, voluntary sex workers, corrupt police and anxious politicians. Filmed in Burma, China, Laos, and Thailand, this is the first film to follow the trade in women in all its complexity and to consider the impact of this 'far away' problem on the gobal community.

UPCOMING NEXT CLASS-GROUP PC RESEARCH PROJECT:
LESSON PLAN 1

Title – Human Trafficking & Modern Day Slavery - Introduction
Unit Topic: International Relations
Grade: 12
Lesson Topic: The Extent of Human Trafficking in the World Today
Primary Method Used: Cooperative Learning
Lesson Objectives: Students will be able to:
1. Identify the main purposes for which people are trafficked
2. Discuss with 100% clarity the three-tier country-rating system
3. Present examples of these concepts and how they occur in today's society
4. Outline the main points for the countries assigned to their group

Equipment and Supplies Needed (To do research):

PC access to both the Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery website and to the HREA Study Guide on Slavery and Forced Labor.
[http://www.gvnet.com/humantrafficking/index.html]
[http://www.hrea.org/learn/guides/slavery.html]
[ [http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2005/

Anticipatory Set: The anticipatory set for this lesson will begin with an introduction to slavery and forced labor, followed by a brief discussion of how the revelation of injustice can lead to social change. The set will include an overview of how the U.S. State Department is striking a blow at Human Trafficking by publishing an annual resource report [http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2005/] that rates countries according to their progress in fighting Human Trafficking. The anticipatory set will serve to enforce the concept that social change can be accelerated when resources are provided and intelligent leadership is exercised.

Sequence of Learning Activities:
1. Anticipatory set
2. Break into groups – one group per geographic region
3. Discuss the objectives of this group project.
4. Assign sections of responsibility to each group

Assignments: Each group will receive a specific list of countries from the Human Trafficking website as their area of responsibility. Each group will receive two days to work together in order to present the results of their assigned research to the rest of the class. Each group will, during their presentation, cover Lesson Objectives 1, 3, & 4 (above) for their assigned countries, and suggest possible action plans.

Closure: The lesson will conclude with each group being graded during their presentations according to the rubric designed in class.

BRING THIS ASSIGNMENT SHEET WITH YOU NEXT CLASS!

Child slavery

Today we watch a documentary on child slavery in Africa, Saudi Arabia, and Cambodia.

Unregulated industry in Ghana
Then there is the gentle and sweet 12-year-old boy Mawulehawe from Ghana, who is sold by his mother to a fishing "master".

The child slaves of Saudi Arabia
On the wealthy streets of Jeddah, in Saudi Arabia, thousands of young child-beggars, under the auspices of ruthless gangmasters, are simply trying to survive.

My life as a child prostitute
Dalyn, 17, was once among the thousands of young children working as prostitutes in Cambodia. Now living in a shelter, this is her disturbing account of being a child sex slave.

"It is slavery of the worst kind. They have total power over you; they get you to do anything they want."

UPCOMING NEXT CLASS..........

"Bangkok Girl" is a 'remarkably accomplished, beautifully photographed and intimate debut documentary that puts a human face on the devastating social issue that, sadly, is the fate of too many impoverished girls.' The documentary provides a glimpse of Thailand's sex tourism told through the experiences of a 19-year-old bar girl named Pla.

Human Trafficking Intro: What is slavery?

"No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms."Article 4, Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Millions of men, women and children around the world are forced to lead lives as slaves. Although this exploitation is often not called slavery, the conditions are the same. People are sold like objects, forced to work for little or no pay and are at the mercy of their 'employers'.
Slavery exists today despite the fact that it is banned in most of the countries where it is practised. It is also prohibited by the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the 1956 UN Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery. Women from eastern Europe are bonded into prostitution, children are trafficked between West African countries and men are forced to work as slaves on Brazilian agricultural estates. Contemporary slavery takes various forms and affects people of all ages, sex and race.

We watched the documentary HELL ON EARTH today.

UPCOMING PROGRAM NEXT CLASS...

Poverty underlies almost all aspects of the phenomenon of modern child slavery.
It is the one issue that most often lies behind the reasons and circumstances they were given up or sold into such conditions.

Yet although there has been progress internationally on creating laws and standards aimed at stamping out child slavery, there are still many adults who not only gain from child slavery but believe that they will, in more cases than not, get away with it.

Defining what modern slavery is, even finding out the scale of it around the world, is not enough if the practice is not seen to be punished.

more about the program click here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/this_world/6458377.stm

Group Questions & Essays....

Today was your last class to work on your group questions.

They are do along with your essays ay the start of next class.

NEXT CLASS:

-An introduction to slavery and humantrafficking.

Human Trafficking
Also known as "trafficking in persons," human trafficking is modern-day slave trade. It victimizes millions of people by forcing them from their homes and families and forcing them to work against their will, often in degrading circumstances. It is one of the most urgent human rights issues in the world today.

Al Gore- a hypocrite?

We talked at the start of class the CNN article liberal hypocrites.

Here is an article that you may all find interesting:

HOMEWORK:
- Start working on your essays!

Al Gore: Hypocrite?
Al Gore's Gaudy Mansion Shouldn't Hurt His Environmental Crusade
By: Christian Areas
Christian Areas is a Rollins School of Public Health MPH candidate from Berkeley, Calif.

The human race possesses an immeasurable capacity for invention and innovation. We can comprehend the workings of the universe on both the micro and macroscopic levels, ponder abstract concepts of philosophy and reason and create new and brilliant works of art. And we like to remind ourselves of it, too. Last week, the world tried to make sense of one of the more grandiose celebrations of artistic achievement and the human ego: The Academy Awards. At the event, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science awarded Al Gore - former vice president and presidential candidate turned environmental advocate - an Oscar for his global climate change documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth."Although many celebrate the prestigious award as a victory for the environment, several take Gore's latest hobnob with Hollywood as further evidence the man is nothing more than a "limousine liberal" - a person who touts energy conservation without attempting to live by his own mantra.

The Tennessee Center for Policy Research, a conservative think-tank which focuses on right-of-center economic policy and touts its own "nonpartisanship," believes Gore "deserves a gold statue for hypocrisy." In a statement released last Monday, the organization reports that in 2006, Gore's Tennessee home consumed electricity and natural gas at a rate nearly 20 times that of the national average.Gore's gaudy mansion is a testament to the human ego's propensity for self-inflation. Even if he uses renewable energy and installs solar panels, the fact remains that Gore is human, and human beings like to show off. Gore, like many of his new Hollywood buddies, has a big house, and bigger houses simply use more electricity.

But Gore is just one man, and his energy consumption represents an infinitesimal percentage of the energy consumption of the entire country. Our nation's government - specifically the Bush administration - is guilty of a larger hubris.Bush and his administration have only recently begun to acknowledge the science behind global climate change. In the past, the Bush administration went as far questioning the science, insinuating that human beings (and, more specifically, U.S. businesses) were not and could not be responsible for global climate change. It seems that, when it's convenient, we think very little of ourselves.

The administration's policy stance is contrary to scientific truth, a realization that even big business is making. On the eve of Bush's latest State of the Union speech, 10 corporations and four prominent environmental groups announced they were joining into an unusual coalition in an effort to push the federal government to curb greenhouse gas emissions.What's behind the corporations' desire for such a lobby? Simple. They came to the realization that change is inevitable. So far, the government's inaction has discouraged businesses from doing what they do best - innovate. With the government pushing them to do so, there's little doubt the spirit of American enterprise will be able to find ways to lessen mankind's impact on the environment. So criticize Gore, if you will. I do not find any evidence the man is not sincere in his efforts to lead the United States toward energy-use innovation.

The environmental movement needs someone like him, someone who can mobilize supporters throughout the country and someone who can both raise eyebrows and suggest solutions to the problem from a governmental standpoint. For now at least, Al Gore is that person. Mark Twain once said, "Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it." The current administration should pay closer heed to Gore's message and take the inconvenient truth of global climate change into account when writing new policy. Until then, when it comes to the environment, our federal government certainly does not deserve my support.

Today we watched some video clips about Carbon Credits and science censorship.

Quote
"In my more than three decades in the government I've never witnessed such restrictions on the ability of scientists to communicate with the public."

James Hansen

(CBS) This story originally aired on March 19, 2006.As a government scientist, James Hansen is taking a risk. He says there are things the White House doesn't want you to hear but he's going to say them anyway. Hansen is arguably the world's leading researcher on global warming. He's the head of NASA's top institute studying the climate. But as correspondent Scott Pelley first reported last spring, this imminent scientist says that the Bush administration is restricting who he can talk to and editing what he can say. Politicians, he says, are rewriting the science. But he didn't hold back speaking to Pelley, telling 60 Minutes what he knows.

HOMEWORK:
-Reading on hypocrisy
- Think about what you want to write about for the essay.

Carbon Credits...

Well it was a split in our class, where 50 % are FOR carbon credits

and 50 % of you and myself-are AGAINST them.

We them worked on completing the group discussion questions.

HOMEWORK:

- Read the article on Global warming carbon credits collapse.

WE SHALL CONTINUE WITH THE MORAL AND ETHICAL QUESTIONS

Global warming with Leo...

Today I presented a powerpoint slide show

about what we can do to reduce carbon.

I then showed you three video clips about Leo and Al Gore at the Oscars, the ultimate green home, and a video on CARBON CREDITS will Alex James of BLUR.

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE LEO & GORE CLIP

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/25/al-gores-big-announcement

Leo says global warming is not only the number one issue affecting the environment—it's one of the most important issues facing all of humanity.

"It's something that's going to affect not only us, but our children and our grandchildren…and generations to come," says Leo.

HOMEWORK:

- About Carbon Credits reading

- Take a side for or against Carbon Credits(back your stand)

Group Discussion # 2

We continued with the group discussions today based on "SCIENCE" and Global warming.

Stay tuned for a Powerpoint slide presentation next class from Mr.Noda, in which we will cover the answers from your Table of things to do to help global warming.