Rebecca Hosking: A Farm for the Future

Wildlife film maker Rebecca Hosking investigates how to transform her family’s farm in Devon into a low energy farm for the future, and discovers that nature holds the key.

BBC – Natural World | Google Video

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Gaza – the district of Abe Drabbe after the war and after the rain

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‘Viva Palestina’ breaks Gaza siege

Press TV
9 March 2009

Despite efforts to prevent ‘Viva Palestina’ from breaking a long-term blocked on the Gaza Strip the aid convoy has entered the costal sliver.  [Read more]

* To read Yvonne’s intriguing account of her experiences en route to Gaza check out the Features and Reflections section of Gaza Under “Siegefire”.

Related:
8 March 2009: Hassan Ghani reporting for PressTV from Egypt

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Kosta Harlan: UNC Students Kick Off Campaign to Divest from Israel

Letter Delivered to Administration Demands Boycott and Divestment

By Kosta Harlan, Fight Back!, 9 March 2009

uncpalestineChapel Hill, NC – A delegation of students from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s chapter of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) delivered a letter to Chancellor Thorp’s office, Feb. 25, demanding that UNC divest from Israel. Holding a banner that said, “End U.S. aid to Israel!” the students explained their demands to the university administrator who received the letter in place of Chancellor Thorp. “We want our university to stop investing in the murder of Palestinian civilians,” said Maddy Miller, a member of SDS.

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Ramzy Baroud: Was Hamas the Work of the Israeli Mossad?

By Ramzy Baroud, PalestineChronicle.com, 5 March 2009

While various Western governments are struggling to define a possible relationship with the Palestinian movement Hamas, some progressive and leftist circles are also uneasy regarding their own perception of the Islamic movement.

Some have even made the claim that Hamas is, more or less, an Israeli concoction. In fact, the accusation that Hamas was created by Israeli intelligence has become so commonplace that it often requires no serious substantiation. While the claim, as it stands, is erroneous, there is certainly a reason and history behind it. But was Hamas, in fact the work of the Israeli Mossad?

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