You are asking mewhat it is to be a palestinian. I think that in very simple terms it is a lack of identity. If this man finds a place, and nchor, he will always be the faceless, refugee, the man who is searching for this right. And this is a humanrights. To be a palestinian is to accept the toughest love wherever you happen to be without a real sense of belonging. Strictly speaking you are wherever you are at the goodwill of the country that is accepting view. They tend to look at him as a suspect because he does not have an identity in the sense that he does not have a ountry. He is stateless. They have come from haifa and jaffa and jerusalem. They fled again in 67 and in 70 and in 78. Each time new hostilities had forced them to seek new shelter. Some have been refugees for 30 years. Ome were born as refugees. These people think of themselves as palestinians first and most have but one dream to return to their omes in palestine. Since world war ii, the middle east has been a scene o
They admire most, and Nelson Mandela will likely as not be the answer. Other world figures are usually famous within their own professional disciplines, sections of society, Interest Groups or age groups. Many attract cynicism or play at indifference. Nelson mandelas achievement was to combine fame, affection and admiration from virtually anyone anywhere in the world. So if, i believe, he is more iconic than anybody else, then why . His life story of sacrifice, courage, endowns and suffering in the great and noble cause of democracy, liberty and justice, places him alongside a very select few; suffragists, gandhi himself, anticolonial african leader, che get around rah, often sang suu kyi to name just some. But mandela towers above all of them in popular imagination. Perhaps in part because he was the first such figure to be projected to the worlds peoples through the powerful media of the modern Global Television and the internet. He was quite simply far better known than any comparab
Anc, in order to deliver not just a transfer of power that offered the prospect of peace for all the people of south africa. Mandela once notably said, this is not about moving from white domination to black domination. There must be no domination of either community. He was an extraordinary man in not only believing that but practising it with every fibre of his being. As we look today at the lessons of mandelas extraordinary life and incredible achievements, at his contribution not just to south africa, which goes without saying, but to the wider world and at why he has become such an iconic figure, two factors stand out. First, he is perhaps the best example we have had in the past 100 years of how political leaders, by force of personality, transform themselves from politicians into statesman can by their sheer personal effort change the world and make what was impossible possible and then deliver it. He is not the only one who has done so. We should not think of him as unique. Gor
As the house of representatives ended session for the year without cutting Immigration Reform, we speak to labor leader Eliseo Medina who long hungerd a month fast on the mall for Immigration Reform. He joined the Labor Movement for decades ago, working alongside cesar chavez. A south africa prepares for the funeral of Nelson Mandela, we look back at how African American workers at polaroid helped launch the Divestment Movement against apartheid in south africa in the early 1970s. We will speak with Caroline Hunter, cofounder of the Polaroid Workers Revolutionary Movement, who opposed polaroid making photos for the id pass books for blacks under apartheid. And by whatever means necessary, we have found corporations, Government Forces of imperialism have aligned. What were are calling for is the same tactics. By whatever means necessary, we as an African People align ourselves, understand the seriousness of the struggle. And we look at how the cia helped south africa capture Nelson Mand
As the house of representatives ended session for the year without cutting Immigration Reform, we speak to labor leader Eliseo Medina who long hungerd a month fast on the mall for Immigration Reform. He joined the Labor Movement for decades ago, working alongside cesar chavez. A south africa prepares for the funeral of Nelson Mandela, we look back at how African American workers at polaroid helped launch the Divestment Movement against apartheid in south africa in the early 1970s. We will speak with Caroline Hunter, cofounder of the Polaroid Workers Revolutionary Movement, who opposed polaroid making photos for the id pass books for blacks under apartheid. And by whatever means necessary, we have found corporations, Government Forces of imperialism have aligned. What were are calling for is the same tactics. By whatever means necessary, we as an African People align ourselves, understand the seriousness of the struggle. And we look at how the cia helped south africa capture Nelson Mand