Gaza: This Is Not A Reality Show

Eight human rights organizations in Israel have come together to produce this video to mark the second year of closure of the Gaza Strip...

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Call for Entries: Imagine Peace

A call for art and writing for a "visual encyclopedia" about peace, specifically in relation to Gaza from Institute Design2context in Switzerland...

At the Institute Design2context, of the Zurich University for the Arts, we are working on an international and socio-politically highly ambitious educational and creative research project titled "Imagine Peace! A visual and critical encyclopedia". It is at the heart of the project to collect world wide representations and imagery of the peace and to gain the collaboration of well known designers, theorists, writers and critics around the world to discuss and exchange critical visions and visualizations of it, without catering to any specific religious belief/history or sectarian creed.

The publication will be a collection of historical, contemporary, posters, drawings, symbols, signs etc. with representations of peace based on the thesis that today’Äôs discordances and hostilities express the absence of proper imaginations of peace.

We are calling for images about Peace, in the context of the recent Gaza Assault. We would like to know whether you could post our call for it.

Imaging Peace! is aimed as an exchange project, a source and networking knot for everyone active for the cause and creation of peace, be it in a political or personal context.

We'd be happy to answer any concerns you might have. Hereby you will find embedded the link to our database (in progress) for more information about the project. http://peace.zhdk.ch/

(deadline May 2009)

Israeli Apartheid?

Kevin Yuen-Kit Lo at LOKi design shared a recent poster he designed for Tadamon!'s Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign. The current situation in Gaza is undeniably tragic, but like most of what happens in Israel/Palestine the response by progressives in the US is a mixed bag. The typical left/right dividing lines seem to shift when it comes to that region and I find it hard to talk with people about it since emotions run so high. I'm interested to know where readers of this blog fall. Feel free to comment below, though please be respectful of others here, I'm not looking for diatraibes and will delete personal attacks.

If you are interested you can download a PDF of Kevin's poster HERE.