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Palestine Occupation
Watching a documentary called SLINGSHOT HIPHOP.
http://www.slingshothiphop.com/
Basically about how hip hop has helped the youth voice their opinions regarding their current situation, occupation, oppression & the death & distruction many of them witness constantly.
It's pretty depressing seeing how much oppression these Palestinians face with Israelis. They showed one of the rappers going to Tel Aviv, and how people are hesitant to allow an Arab on the bus, especially with a back pack. And when he was approaching some venue, a military guard stopped him, because he was speaking Arabic. The camera-woman asked or verified that they were stopped & approached simply because that guy was speaking (actually he was rapping & speaking to the camera in Arabic), the guard said yes and escorted them away.
In another scene, they showed an apartment building that was blown up after the camera crew was just shooting there weeks before. Another scene was how their electricity gets shut off for whatever made up justified raeson.
It makes me realize how the U.S. continues to pretend this great, super power whose mission is to democricize (is there such a term) everyone around the world, that they're passifists (to some extent) and because of this false image, they can basically get away with murder. Not in the literal sense, but it is this ideology that makes people have a hard time believing that we are under occupation.
This makes me even angrier, yet watching this film, I understand that our situation has not escalated to that point like it is for the Palestinians. It isn't to the point where the language is suppressed, unlike how it has in the past. Nevertheless, it really makes me think a lot about Hawaii's situation. Most importantly, where can we go from this point, or when can we start to see things happening, whatever that "thing" really is. Either more discussions, education, protesting, whatever.
http://www.slingshothiphop.com/
Basically about how hip hop has helped the youth voice their opinions regarding their current situation, occupation, oppression & the death & distruction many of them witness constantly.
It's pretty depressing seeing how much oppression these Palestinians face with Israelis. They showed one of the rappers going to Tel Aviv, and how people are hesitant to allow an Arab on the bus, especially with a back pack. And when he was approaching some venue, a military guard stopped him, because he was speaking Arabic. The camera-woman asked or verified that they were stopped & approached simply because that guy was speaking (actually he was rapping & speaking to the camera in Arabic), the guard said yes and escorted them away.
In another scene, they showed an apartment building that was blown up after the camera crew was just shooting there weeks before. Another scene was how their electricity gets shut off for whatever made up justified raeson.
It makes me realize how the U.S. continues to pretend this great, super power whose mission is to democricize (is there such a term) everyone around the world, that they're passifists (to some extent) and because of this false image, they can basically get away with murder. Not in the literal sense, but it is this ideology that makes people have a hard time believing that we are under occupation.
This makes me even angrier, yet watching this film, I understand that our situation has not escalated to that point like it is for the Palestinians. It isn't to the point where the language is suppressed, unlike how it has in the past. Nevertheless, it really makes me think a lot about Hawaii's situation. Most importantly, where can we go from this point, or when can we start to see things happening, whatever that "thing" really is. Either more discussions, education, protesting, whatever.
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Comment by Tina matildo botelho on December 28, 2009 at 5:36pm
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I KNOW MY GOD HE WILL REACH THE EARS TO OUR PRESIDENT ABOUT THIS HE WLL HEAR THIS
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THANK YOU KALEO BACK UP GOD ALHE WAY AND JESUS THIS IS WHAT OURKINGDOM IS ALL ABOUT.
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i was doing a research on this and we are still searching for osama bin laden this is waht hey a re still ding trying to stop osama bin ladin and these teroist still. thank you kaleo this people need to advise him the president to stop kiling even childrens childrens are notgeeny pigs i had a n abortion before because a lady told me that i n do tis andi did not even tell my mom that id di his and i prayed to jesus tati will never do this again andid this past years i even had a nother child and i ahd a miscarraige i did not know i was pregnant , i am not perfect ,i do wat the president to stop alrady i thimk he was backing up the people because of peoples rights. YES HE NEED TO UPHOLD JESUS COMMANDS.
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i a tudying aout whtthy did to those soldiers in the abu ahrhib this was not good we kn tat osama bin laden is hiding in the moountains still yet, and this is not right t kill thou shall not kill.
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Comment by Ululani on December 28, 2009 at 4:16pm
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Have you seen the protestors who protested while Obama's motorcade passed through? Kaleo Farias has good video footage:
Video Blog #20: Confronting U.S. President Barack Obama & Ameri... from Kaleo Farias III on Vimeo.
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