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Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for October 07, to the 13, 2017.

Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for September 30, to October 06, 2017.

Puerto Rican artist and organizer Jorge Díaz Ortiz phoned in from San Juan to update WTUL News & Views on the devastation brought to the island by Hurricane Maria and decades of colonialism. Tina Orlandini, Development Coordinator for the community arts and organizing collective AgitArte (of which Jorge is the Artistic Director), keeps us updated on how to plug into relief efforts and show up for Puerto Rico in New Orleans.

Kezia Vida speaks with Hannah Pepper Cunningham of the Political Education Committee within European Dissent about their voting guide and platform, which was based upon the Movement for Black Lives Policy Platform and was developed through consultation with VOTE, Stand with Dignity, Congresso, and the Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative in New Orleans for the upcoming City Council and Mayoral elections.

Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for September 23, to the 29, 2017.

Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for September 16, to the 22, 2017.

WTUL correspondent Theo Hilton interview's No Dram Deferred Theater Production Co's Lauren Turner. Turner is the director of this weekend's production of two plays by Alice Childress--MOJO: A Black Love Story and String. No Dream Deferred seeks to create a space for people who have been marginalized from mainstream theater to develop and present works. [10:18]

Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for September 9, to the 15, 2017.

Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for August 19, to the 25, 2017.

Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for August 12, to the 18, 2017.

Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for August 05, to the 11, 2017.

WTUL News & Views was joined in the studio by Nuestra Voz Cultural Organizer Lydia Nichols to discuss two important polices that will be voted on by the Orleans Parish School Board on Thursday, September 14th, 2017 that would regulate the relationship between schools and law enforcement. The suggested policy change will prevent law enforcement officers (including but not limited to ICE) from interviewing students on campus or accessing student/family data without a warrant.

Sue Mobley, Public Programs Manager at Tulane School of Architecture's Small Center for Collaborative Design, joined WTUL News and Views to talk about the Small Center's upcoming exhibit, Sites of Resistance. The exhibit explores geographies and histories of social change in New Orleans and intends to reframe the narrative of New Orleans as a city with a dominant role in intense organizing, legal strategy, labor struggle, and civil rights activism.

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Books 2 Prisoners sends books of all kinds to people incarcerated across the Deep South, and for almost every package delivered, they receive letters asking for more.

Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for July 29, to August 04, 2017.

Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for July 22, to the 28, 2017.

Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for July 15, to the 21, 2017.