Annette Koh
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HAWAIIAN CONSCIENCISM with Linda Tuhiwai Smith on May 2, 2013 at UH Manoa. She spoke on activism, feminism, culture, difference,...
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After 666 comments, a friend of mine was kicked off Metafilter. That was ten years ago. He told me his old screennames over drinks a...
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The Cola Road (2013)
There are ways of daily living that seem absurd to Americans. But really, black market ham dealers (Cuba) or mass games (North Korea) are not so far away from the pot delivery guys (San Francisco) or mass mourning (post-Princess Diana Britain).
Over the years the distance a Palestinian fisherman can go in search of a decent catch has been whittled down from the twenty-nautical-mile limit established in the Oslo Accords to the three-mile limit imposed by the Israelis as of January 2009. This makes 85 percent of Gaza’s waters inaccessible to local fishermen. Of the ten thousand local fishermen in 2000, there are only around 3,500 today. The lights have the effect of drawing the fish to the surface, which means that the best fishing is as close to the line as possible. It’s a dangerous task. Israeli patrol ships run circles around the smaller fishing boats so as to tip them over.
I think what’s hard to imagine is a life bifurcated and bounded by walls and borders that are political, drawn up in treaty meetings by men with ideologies, but just as real as any river or ocean barrier. The Berlin Wall, the 38th Parallel, the Partition of India.
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