Palestinian theatre

This week Artsworld visits Freedom Theatre in the Jenin refugee camp. This pioneering project is the only professional venue for theatre and the arts in the north of the Palestinian occupied territories. Zakaria Zubeidi, the head of the al Aqsa Martyr's Brigade in Jenin in the West Bank, has now put down his weapons and believes that children's theatre is an important way to fight for Palestinian statehood.

The programme also features the China Disabled People's Performing Arts Troupe, which has entertained audiences in more than 50 countries. The troupe consists of 100 performers who say their tightly knit community has given them a renewed sense of pride and purpose despite a history of discrimination that continues to haunt many of China's 80 million people with disabilities.

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[acoolguyguy]

Very inspiring!!! Support theatre in these hard times, keep it alive!

[prkjs08]

You're fooling yourself if you think Obama is going to bring any kind of change...the few off the cuff remarks he's made about Gaza has been the same old shit as everyone before him.

[Zuckdawg]

I LOVE ISRAEL AND ZIONISM! :)

[PloughTheSky]

an Iraq under US backed dictatorship; or keeping the government as it is now, praying that it won't collapse within a month of the withdrawal, plunging Iraq into civil war, with the toughest guys taking over in the end..?)

If someone is serious about withdrawing from Iraq, then these questions have to be answered. Obama hasn't even mentionned them for the moment.

[PloughTheSky]

Oh, Obama also paid lip service to going out of Iraq but hasn't yet made any mention of the issues that ought to be seriously discussed in regards to post war Iraq (like, what kind of Iraq does the US want? An Iraq with a government that represents the Iraqi people, that is, an Iran-inspired Shi'a Islamic democracy, that will align with Iran and draw closer to China and Russia (very bad scenario for the US); ...

[PloughTheSky]

International politics are not about freeing the oppressed people of the earth, spreading democracy and all that sort of bullshit and cynical propaganda, it's about controlling and subjugating other countries, Obama or not.

[PloughTheSky]

- As expected, he paid lip service to peace, the two-state solution etc... while promising Israel 30 billion dollars in military aid, making clear taht he won't put any pressure on Israel to align with international law (i.e. accepting to exist within its legal borders, without occupying, colonizing and attacking its neighbors)

- He continues to threaten Iran and to go on with the unfounded allegations that Iran is developping nuclear weapons.

Noticed any change? No.

[PloughTheSky]

Obama certainly is a nice guy, but he relies the same strategists and foreign policy makers and his campaign was funded by the same people as any other American pres before him so... Don't expect any meaningful change in his policy. What has he done so far, after a few month in office?

- He blessed the latest Israeli carnage in Gaza and doesn't complain about Israel starving the population of Gaza, proving that his line will be supporting Israeli brutality as usual

[0061129]

Please watch my video "voices for Israel we stand as one song remix" and tell me if you think that there's something wrong with my data. Because some people are telling to check it.

[thetallashi]

nICE NICE!