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The winners of the various IDFA (International Doc Festival Amsterdam) competition programs were announced Friday, November 25 in Escape, during the awards ceremony of the 24th IDFA.

The Special Jury Award went to 5 Broken Cameras (Palestine/Israel) by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi, who also won the Publieke Omroep IDFA Audience Award.

See trailer here:

http://vimeo.com/21967570

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Palestine Today 11 24 2011

24-11-2011 15:00

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Thursday November 24, 2011

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Letter to the UK representatives of Israeli Bickel

23-11-2011 13:52

Bickel flowers are represented in the UK by Macilvin Moore Reveres in Harrow. This is the letter that was handed in to them. As the person dealing with Bickel was not there, we got his phone number and left him a long voice mail urging him to drop his clients whilst holding a picket outside.

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Letter to Valley Grown Salads urging them to divest from Israel

23-11-2011 13:39

This was the letter protesters attempted to hand in to Valley Grown Salads. However, they did not seem too pleased about the idea of a boycott campaign against them. Instead of accepting the letter they got violent, then making a point of shredding it.

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Letter urging Glinwell PLC to divest from Israeli Edom UK

23-11-2011 13:32

This was the letter handed in to the management of Glinwell PLC, who own 20% of the shared in Edom UK. They claimed to know nothing about that, but admitted that they did grow produce in Israel.

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British companies targeted for investment in Israel

23-11-2011 13:09

Yesterday Palestine solidarity campaigners targeted the British company Valley
Grown Salads in Roydon, Essex, and Glinwell in St Albans, for their 20% each share in Edom UK -an Israeli agricultural exporter. Campaigners also picketed Macilvin Moore Reveres in Harrow, the UK representative of Bickel Flowers.

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Palestine Today 11 21 2011

21-11-2011 15:16

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Monday November 21, 2011

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PSC and LFOP presents a night of Palestinian performance poetry and discussion o

21-11-2011 09:33

PSC and Liverpool Friends of Palestine present the Remi Kenazi UK tour!

23 November · 19:00 - 22:00
University of Liverpool, The Courtyard, Student's Union (Guild)

PSC and Liverpool Friends of Palestine are very excited to welcome Palestinian-American radical performance poet Remi Kenazi to Liverpool for one night only!

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This Week in Palestine week 46 2011

18-11-2011 17:03

Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, from November 12 to the 18th 2011.

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Palestine Today 11 17 2011

17-11-2011 14:22

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Thursday November 17, 2011

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Palestine Today 11 16 2011

16-11-2011 14:34

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday November 16, 2011

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Palestine Today 11 15 2011

15-11-2011 16:55

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday November 15, 2011

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Palestinian Freedom Riders

15-11-2011 13:03

Groups of Palestinian Freedom Riders will attempt to board segregated settler buses heading to Jerusalem through the occupied West Bank this Tuesday November 15, in an act of civil disobedience that takes its inspiration from the US Civil Rights Movement Freedom Riders aim to challenge Israel’s apartheid policies, the ban on Palestinians’ access to Jerusalem, and the overall segregated reality created by a military and settler occupation that is the cornerstone of Israel’s colonial regime.

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Smash EDO Talk at Occupy Sheffield

15-11-2011 10:28

On Monday 14th November, campaigners from Brighton came to talk at Occupy Sheffield about the campaign against the arms trade with Israel, and specifically the campaign to shut down the EDO factory, which supplies parts used against civilians in Palestine, Afghanistan and elsewhere.

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8 December, Liverpool: Another Census Refuser's Court Hearing

14-11-2011 12:46

Sarah Ledsom, 56, of Bromborough, Wirral, a grandmother who suffers with a disabling chronic condition, is due to appear at the Magistrates Court in Liverpool on Thursday 8 December to answer a charge of failing to complete the 2011 Census form. Sarah's objections to completing the census relate to the contract with arms manufacturer Lockheed Martin for processing census data. Sarah refers in particular to the use by Israel of deadly Lockheed Martin weaponry on the people of Palestine.

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Palestine Today 11082011

08-11-2011 16:06

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday November 8, 2011  