Alice Walker Fights Anti-Palestinian Bias
By Dennis Bernstein
Alice Walker is Pulitzer Prize winning poet, author and activist. She participated recently in the U.S. Boat to Gaza, which was a part of the Freedom Flotilla, to break the Israeli embargo on the Gaza Strip.
Last year, a flotilla was attacked by Israeli commandos and a number of people were killed and wounded. Walker’s boat was stopped by Greek authorities before it could traverse the eastern Mediterranean to Gaza.
Media Advisory: Censored Palestinian Children’s Exhibit to Open Outside of Museum
Media Advisory
For Immediate Release
Censored Palestinian Children’s Exhibit to Open Outside of Museum
September 22, 2011
Stretching the Siege From Gaza to Oakland
By Barbara Lubin & Ziad Abbas
Asil, a ten-year-old girl from Rafah refugee camp in Gaza, painted a picture of herself in jail, with Arabic phrases in the spaces between the bars: “I have a right to live in peace,” “I have a right to live this life,” and “I have a right to play.”
Museum Stands By Decision to Censor Palestinian Children’s Exhibit
For Immediate Release: September 16, 2011
Berkeley, CA—Despite the massive outcry against its censorship of a Palestinian children’s art exhibit, the Museum of Children’s Art (MOCHA) in Oakland has refused to change its decision to cancel “A Child’s View From Gaza.”
Empathy Is a Wave: The Banning of Palestinian Children’s Art (From the Museum of Children’s Art in Oakland)
I was injured as a child; my brother shot me in the eye with a pellet gun, causing disfigurement and loss of sight. The incident itself, as well as the trauma surrounding it: my father was unable to flag down a white driver (cars among black people were rare) to take me to a doctor, left me despairing and contributed to severe depressions that lasted for many years. What helped? I was ab
Oakland museum cancels Palestinian kids’ war art
By Jill Tucker
Noah Berger / Special to The Chronicle Middle East Children's Alliance staff members Ziad Abbas, Leena Al-Arian (center) and Barbara Lubin look over artwork.
MEDIA ADVISORY: Oakland Museum of Children’s Art Shuts Down Palestinian Children’s Exhibit
Media Advisory
For Immediate Release
Berkeley, CA— The Museum of Children’s Art in Oakland (MOCHA) has decided to cancel an exhibit of art by Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip. The Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA), which was partnering with MOCHA to present the exhibit, was informed of the decision by the Museum’s board president on Thursday, September 8, 2011. For several months, MECA and the museum had been working together on the exhibit, which is titled “A Child’s View From Gaza.”