PMWATCH - August 19, 2002 -- In addition to mobilizing criticism against the media and providing the media with access to pro-Palestinian voices, PMWatch is also always actively promoting a greater presence of Palestinian voices in the media. Radio Intifada is such a presence and we urge everyone to help support it.

Palestine Media Watch
(610) 993 - 0608

Dear Friends and all supporters of justice,

To those from the Arab and Muslim American communities, I urge you to support this program and Pacifica’s KPFK station fund drive in Los Angeles. We shouldn't limit ourselves to criticizing the distortions of main stream media about Arab and Islamic cultures and issues. We must be pro-active and support alternative voices. Radio Intifada is a genuine program that strives to bring the authentic voices of the peoples of the regions of West/South Asia and North Africa.

And for non Arab, non-Muslim, Americans, I urge you to strongly support this program, which is offering a rare opportunity to learn the stories and issues directly from people belonging to these regions and organically connected to its progressive issues. Radio Intifada is produced by volunteers who among them have immigrants from the regions it is covering.

Please listen and pledge money to help the station sustain such an alternative quality programming. Listen to our Palestine program below and you'll find out what we are talking about.

In solidarity, Michel Shehadeh shehadeh@pacbell.net

Radio Intifada ....Voices from Calcutta to Casablanca

Palestine Wed, August 21st @ 3 p.m., KPFK 90.7 FM

By popular demand, this program on Palestine, which launched the West/South Asia and North Africa Collective’s “Radio Intifada,” will be re-broadcast August 21, during the Mini-Fund Drive.

You will hear -

Dr. Salman Abu Sitta, who has done ground breaking demographic research establishing the viability of the Palestinian’s right of return

Kayan, a teenager from Deheheishe Refugee camp outside Bethlehem who was touring the US

Eileen Kuttab, long time Palestinian women’s movement activist and professor of women’s studies at Birzeit University

The poetry of Mahmoud Darwish

The music of Marcel Khalife and Sabreen.

Hosted by Michel Shehadeh

Co-produced by

Hagit Borer, Armineh Ebrahimian, Sherna Gluck and Michel Shehadeh with technical support from Esther Manilla and Eben Ray

Listen - Call in - Subscribe - and show your support for Radio Intifada.

Special Pledge Offers include:

Ali on Broadway CD (Lebanese artist fusing ME music and jazz)

Current issue and one year back copies of Al Jadid, Quarterly Review of Arab Culture and Arts

A CD of any back programs of Radio Intifada and a limited number of copies of the book, An American Feminist in Palestine: the Intifada Years- (first one), by Sherna Berger Gluck