George Cadman of Free Radio Santa Cruz (96.3 fm. or 101.1 fm.; www.freakradio.org) interviews Brian Avery of the International Solidarity Movement about what it was like to be shot in the face by the Israeli army and about his work with the ISM. The ISM is a group of Palestinian, Israeli and international peace activists who use nonviolent direct action in an effort to end the illegal occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. Several listeners call in and express their views.

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April 7, 2003 was a day we will not soon forget. It was our first protest against the war profiteers who operate out of the Port of Oakland. The police shootings which occurred on that day guaranteed that our commitment would be a long one. This year, on Wednesday, April 7th, we will return to the docks to protest the profiteers and reaffirm our First Amendment rights.

...Overthrow of the Fundamentalist Taliban Regime* Interview with Sima Wali, founder of Refugee Women in Development, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus

Lombrum Detention Center in Papua New Guinea, 2004: Predestined to refugee status by the political circumstances of his birth in Kuwait to a Palestinian father and an Egyptian mother, 25 year old Aladdin Sisalem now sits in solitary confinement on an island that costs the Australian government almost as much in bad public relations as it does in money.

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