Tag: Eva Bartlett
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Widows and Children Begin to Beg
Eva Bartlett | Inter Press Service 21 September 2009 There are few parks and green spaces in Gaza, and those that exist are crowded with people hungry for nature. Day and night, people of all ages flock to the Joondi, or the park of the Unknown Soldier, in central Gaza City. Vendors set up, selling…
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Popular resistance lives on in Gaza
Eva Bartlett | In Gaza 19 September 2009 On 15 September, we join farmers and residents, including a contingent of women, youths and men, in a non-violent walk to the border region east of Beit Hanoun in the north of Gaza, singing and chanting as they march past Israeli army razed fields and destroyed water…
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To rap is to resist
Eva Bartlett | Inter Press Service 12 September 2009 In a backstreet open-air café in Gaza late at night, Khaled Harara from the Black Unit Band starts to talk about rap. A phone call interrupts him. “Oh my god, it’s my dad, he will kill me because I’m not home yet.” Not quite the tough…