55 Palestinians have been killed and over 1,000 injured by Israeli forces since the ‘Great March of Return’ protests began on March 30 2018.
The rallies are part of a six-week protest to mark what Palestinians refer to as the Nakba" or "catastrophe" - a reference to Israel's establishment in 1948 and when 750,000 Arabs were forcibly removed from Palestine.
Roger will be covering a number of topics that include
*Israel’s continuing lethal attacks of unarmed citizens gathering in Gaza,
*Political prisoners, detention of children,
*House demolitions on the West Bank,
*Author Dr Ramzy Baroud’s speaking tour of NZ talking about his new book “The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story”.
* The upcoming 2018 international Freedom Flotilla to Gaza which will again include a prominent human rights advocate from NZ.
Roger’s bio:
Roger Fowler is a veteran activist & community organizer, and played a prominent role in building the local protest movement against the war on Vietnam and South African Apartheid in the late 1960s & 70s.
He was manager of Auckland’s Resistance Bookshop and coordinator of the inner-city People’s Union community organization throughout the 1970s, an active supporter of the protest occupation at Bastion Point, and union delegate in the car assembly industry.
Roger is director of the Mangere East Community Centre, and organizer of Kia Ora Gaza which has sponsored NZ involvement in several international solidarity convoys to break Israel’s inhumane siege of Gaza.
He has led two Kiwi humanitarian convoys to Gaza which was featured in an interview on GreenplanetFM in 2016.
You can DONATE to this and other fundraising for Palestine on the web site:
Kia Ora Gaza: www.kiaoragaza.net
This interview was sponsored by The Awareness Party.