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Announcement :: Civil & Human Rights : Israel / Palestine |
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Balata Refugee Camp Installation May 11 |
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by Peter Rohloff
Email: rohloff (nospam) uiuc.edu (unverified!) |
11 May 2004
Modified: 09:44:52 AM |
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The Balata Refugee Camp Installation will be at the Channing-Murray Foundation tonight, May 11, from 7-9 pm. |
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Two activists who have spent the better part of the last year living and working in the Balata Refugee Camp will present a multimedia installation consisting of video footage, artwork, audio interviews, etc. The event is tonight, May 11, 7-9 pm at the Channing Murray Foundation, 1209 W Oregon, Urbana.
Balata Refugee Camp is one of the hardest-hit communities in the West Bank, Palestine. Refugees from the 1948 expulsion, the over 30,000 residents are crammed into a single suffocating square kilometre. Unemployment is the norm, and most families rely on UNWRA handouts for survival. Daily 'visits' by Israeli military jeeps and tanks that park at the entrances and shoot into the camp are taken for granted. It is rare to meet somebody who hasn't tasted tear gas, every second boy seems to have been shot at some stage, and there isn't a house the soldiers haven't entered at some point.
Despite being the largest refugee camp in the West Bank, Balata receives very limited outside support. Visitors are rare and links to abroad are practically non-existent.
This installation is designed to raise awareness about daily life in Balata and to encourage activists and community groups to forge links with this and other refugee communities. |
See also:
http://www.minio.co.uk/balata.htm
http://www.palsolidarity.org
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