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Mar 29, 2007 at 09:24 PM |
Fiction under occupation -
The gospel according to Monsieur le Wazzo
Sparrow Story, by David Rhodes
(Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, prbk; £9.99)
Reviewed by Jenny Lynn
 "Take a country languishing under a brutal military occupation, where bulldozers tear down homes, bored young soldiers shoot as soon as look at you, and children are shot dead for throwing stones. It’s this situation, only too familiar to anyone interested in the ongoing saga of Israel/Palestine, that is the setting for a powerful modern-day gospel story by David Rhodes. Narrated in the pacey present tense, echoing crime writers like Damon Runyon, the story fairly races along in a sequence of short, action-packed episodes. Unusually, the author has put the story-telling in the mouth of a sparrow with attitude, nicknamed ‘Monsieur le Wazzo’ by the first character we meet, a hard-drinking newspaper reporter called Johnny Palotski..."
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The Wall Must Fall - CUPE BC |
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Jun 20, 2005 at 12:00 AM |
June 20, 2005
CUPE BC has released the third edition of its popular booklet, The Wall Must Fall, about the conflict in the Middle East.
click here for 3rd edition of The Wall Must Fall
click here for the French version
Packed with facts, analysis, maps, charts and photographs, The Wall Must Fall is a powerful primer for CUPE members and others.
As Canadian Jewish Outlook editor Carl Rosenberg writes in his foreword: “This CUPE BC booklet is part of a growing educational effort meant to build a solidarity campaign similar to the one created to fight against the apartheid regime in South Africa.”
CUPE BC’s international solidarity committee was directed to produce the booklet by resolution at the 2003 provincial division convention. Contact CUPE BC for your copy.
CUPE BC
510-4940 Canada Way
Burnaby, B.C.
V5G 4T3
Phone: 604-291-9119
Fax: 604-291-9043
info@cupe.bc.ca
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Sep 30, 2002 at 12:00 AM |
Encounters in the Promised Land
by Deborah Campbell
This Heated Place takes readers into twenty-first century Israel and the occupied territories. During the first Gulf War, journalist Deborah Campbell was a student of Middle Eastern studies at Tel Aviv University; she returned to the region ten years later seeking insights into one of the world's most intractable conflicts. "I wanted to fill in the missing pieces, ask the questions I had been unable to formulate in the past," she writes. "I arrived to an escalating crisis."
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