• Jimmy Carter, interviewed by Michael Krasny, “President Jimmy Carter” (Radio KQED, San Francisco, Forum, Thursday May 1 2008, 9-11am, at 10-11am, possible repeat at 10pm) (“the most-listened to public radio station in the United States”), also broadcast live on Sirius Satellite Radio (NPR: National Public Radio, NPR Talk 135), audio {51:59, 7.87mb.rm, 23.82mb.mp3, rss, menu, rss, menu, archive, search}.
• Jimmy Carter, luncheon interview, Wednesday April 30 2008, by the Chicago Tribune editorial board, reported, Hugh Dellios, “Carter defends Mideast meetings with Hamas: In Chicago, he calls for talks with Iran” {pf} (Chicago Tribune, Friday May 2 2008), “Conversation with Jimmy Carter” {pf} (“Vox Pop” blog, May 2 2008, “a place for readers to join a discussion with the members of the Chicago Tribune editorial board”) (“Here’s much more of what Carter had to say: On Barack Obama and Rev. Jeremiah Wright, prospects for peace in the Middle East, U.S. relations with Iran, 1979 hostage crisis, U.S. image in the world, John McCain, the economy, his meeting with Hamas leaders”).
• Jimmy Carter (WAMU studios, Washington D.C.), interviewed by Tavis Smiley (Los Angeles) Tuesday April 29 2008 (“Former President Jimmy Carter discusses his controversial meeting with leaders of the Islamic Militant group Hamas and also pays homage to the late Bessie Lillian Gordy Carter in his new book A Remarkable Mother”) (PRI: Public Radio International, The Tavis Smiley Show, Los Angeles, Friday May 2 2008, first hour, first segment) (weekly radio show) (blog), audio {14:06, 3.3mb.wma}, podcast audio (first segment) {36:58, 16.9mb.mp3, rss, rss, source, menu}, copy source, “Jimmy Carter on 'The Tavis Smiley Show'” (PRI, “Interviews”), broadcast by 72 U.S. radio stations (some also listed here), of the 800 PRI affiliates, and by satellite radio (XMPR: XM Public Radio, XM channel 133, Saturday/Sunday May 3/4, Saturday 9-11am, Sunday 5-7pm ET).
• Jimmy Carter (studio), interviewed by Steve Bertrand, presumably on Wednesday April 28, “Meet the Writers: Jimmy Carter” (copy) (Barnes and Noble, “Meet the Writers Audio Interviews”, New York City, posted Monday May 5 2008, 9am ET) (“President Jimmy Carter joins Steve Bertrand in the studio to talk about his numerous books, including his heartfelt tribute to his mother, A Remarkable Mother”), posdast audio {17:32, 8.03mb.mp3, archive, rss, rss}.
• Jimmy Carter (studio), interviewed by Patt Morrison (Radio KPCC, Patt Morrison, Pasadena California, Wednesday May 7 2008, 1-3pm PT, first hour) (“Southern California’s premiere public radio news station”), photo, audio {37:30, 7.92mb.rm}, entire first hour (omitting news, station IDs) {52:30, Carter at 15:15, 24.0mb.mp3, archive, rss, rss, source}. Later, book signing at Vroman’s Book Store (Pasadena, 6:30-8:30pm).
• Jimmy Carter (studio), interviewed by Jay Leno (NBC, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, episode 3552, Burbank California, Wednesday May 7 2008, 11:35pm ET) (photo, photo {source, cat=936}, broadcast by about 200 U.S. TV stations affiliated to NBC, by cable, by satellites (western hemisphere), by AFN: American Forces Network (nf) (TV schedule, pf, TS, nf) (AFN|Pacific, 1:30pm GMT, AFN|Freedom, 7:30pm, AFN|Atlantic, 9:30pm). “It was estimated in 2003 that NBC is viewable by just over 97 percent of all households, reaching 103,624,370 viewers in the United States. NBC has 207 affiliated stations in the United States and its possessions. It is also seen throughout Latin America and the Caribbean via cable and satellite, via the WNBC-TV feed from New York City.”
• Jimmy Carter (studio), interviewed by Tavis Smiley (KCET/PBS TV, Tavis Smiley, Los Angeles, Wednesday May 7 2008) (nightly half hour TV talk show), broadcast and repeated at different local times (KCET-TV at 7 and 11pm PT), PBS transcript, photo, audio (Jimmy Carter segment) {24:11, 5.66mb.rm}, audio (entire show) {25:33, 5.66mb.rm} {rss source source}, PBS video (entire interview) {24:20, 64.31mb.wmv, 78.34mb.wmv, 42.77mb.mov, 68.85mb.mov, source} (“Former president shares his thoughts on the Democratic presidential race and recounts stories from his new book”), PBS video (interview excerpt) {1:24, 6.49mb.wmv, source}, YouTube PBS copy {1:35, 6.08mb.flv} (“Former president explains how the next president can repair the United States' global reputation in 10 minutes”), distributed by PBS: Public Broadcasting Service, the largest U.S. TV network, with 349 U.S. TV stations (336 listed here), and via satellites in the western hemisphere (PBS national feed (at 9pm and repeat 9:30pm ET) to Dish Network, DirecTV, AMC-3, AMC-4), and by AFN: American Forces Network (nf) (TV schedule, pf, Tavis, nf), on AFN|news, 7:30am GMT), Tavis video blog (recorded May 7, posted May 8 2008), YouTube PBS video {2:42, 6.22mb.flv}.
“Anti-Zionism Week 2008” (UCI: University of California, Irvine, May 7-15 2008, 9 events, 8 speakers, press release, poster), sponsors: MSU: Muslim Student Union, Alkalima, Amnesty International, Pakistani Student Association, Society of Arab Students, Students for Peace and Justice, Worker Student Alliance) (“four of the eight speakers were Jewish”).
• Norman Finkelstein (independent scholar), “What's the Fuss? Is Criticism of Israel Anti-Semitic?” (UCI: University of California, Irvine, UCI Student Center, level-1, meeting room G118D: Pacific Ballroom D {2.9mb.pdf}, Irvine, Orange County California, Wednesday May 7 2008, 8-10pm), 9 photos (by Nida Chowdhry), part of, “Anti-Zionism Week 2008,” Never Again? The Palestinian Holocaust (organizing sponsor, UCI MSU: Muslim Student Union, May 7-15 2008), event calendars: MSU, Google, UCI, UCI Anteater Weekly, Shura, YouTube video (msuuci) {2:02:31, search, search}: 1/13 {9:53, 10.19mb.flv}, 2/13 {9:58, 11.77mb.flv}, 3/13 {9:58, 9.78mb.flv}, 4/13 {10:00, 9.53mb.flv}, 5/13 {9:50, 10.08mb.flv}, 6/13 {9:50, 9.68mb.flv}, 7/13 {9:50, 9.99mb.flv}, 8/13 {9:50, 10.07mb.flv}, 9/13 {9:55, 10.13mb.flv}, 10/13 {9:55, 13.68mb.flv}, 11/13 {9:55, 13.62mb.flv}, 12/13 {6:45, 11.19mb.flv}, 13/13 {7:52, 13.56mb.flv}, reported, Taylor Hudson, “Finkelstein Downplays Middle East Conflict” (New University, volume 41 issue 28, May 12 2008) {search, archive} (ballroom-D, “a capacity of 632”), opinion, Frida Alim, “Can't the Campus Get Along?” (New University, volume 41 issue 29, May 19 2008) (“After Finkelstein concluded his speech, he offered to take questions from dissenters first — and you could practically hear the crickets chirp. When the dissenters finally got around to challenging the speaker, instead of focusing on the content of his speech, they chose to try to discredit him.”).
• Jimmy Carter, interviewed by Joe Donahue, introduced by Julia Taylor (radio WAMC, The Roundtable, Albany New York, broadcast Friday May 9 2008, 9am-noon, at 9:35-9:45am ET), audio {8:35, 2.46mb.mp3, ditto} {source, rss, menu, menu, archive, search}, broadcast on a northeast public radio network of 20 antennas in 18 towns, 9 stations and 11 translators {fcc}.
Judiasm
is a religion.
Zionism
however, is a political movement that has twisted biblical and historical truths to justify the illegal occupation of Palestine.
It is a philosophy that has bred violence over the past 60 years; it has also created inequality and prejudice against innocent Palestinians to make them live as strangers in their own homeland.
• Ilan Pappé, “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine with Dr. Ilan Pappe” (UCI: University of California, Irvine, UCI Student Center, level-1, meeting room A220: Crystal Cove Auditorium {2.9mb.pdf}, Irvine, Orange County California, Wednesday May 14 2008, 8-10:30pm) (“424 fixed seats”), 13 photos (by Nida Chowdhry), part of, “Anti-Zionism Week 2008,” Never Again? The Palestinian Holocaust (organizing sponsor, UCI MSU: Muslim Student Union, May 7-15 2008), event calendars: MSU, Google, UCI, Shura, YouTube video (msuuci, Cfalcon7688) {2:00:55, search, search}, speech (55:50): 1/13 {10:00, 14.91mb.flv}, 2/13 {9:57, 15.80mb.flv}, 3/13 {9:59, 17.66mb.flv}, 4/13 {9:53, 22.8mb.flv}, 5/13 {9:59, 15.91mb.flv}, Q&As (65:05, start at 6:05): 6/13 {9:43, 22.42mb.flv}, 7/13 {9:49, 22.73mb.flv}, 8/13 {9:57, 20.37mb.flv}, 9/13 {9:42, 16.87mb.flv}, 10/13 {9:49, 22.71mb.flv}, 11/13 {9:50, 22.69mb.flv}, 12/13 {7:11, 16.63mb.flv}, 13/13 {5:06, 11.75mb.flv}, reported, Paul Backus, “Muslim Student Union Hosts Palestine Awareness Week” (New University, volume 41 issue 29, May 19 2008) {search, archive} (Pappe said, “A rapist and a raped woman are not engaged in conflict. ... There is nothing that protects the Israelis better than the concept of a conflict ... The fact that the crime is not even acknowledged, either by Israel, or by the West, is sometimes worse than the crime itself. ... Let's acknowledge the crime, before we even talk about how to find a solution. ... There is a way forward, that goes through strong pressure on the Israeli government, through sanctions and boycott and divestment, to stop the occupation, through a future for Jews, Muslims, and Christians, in this land, in a joint state. And through the creation of a democratic state that would allow everyone to have an equal opportunity for rights, on the torn land.”).
True peace is not merely the absence of tension, it is the presence of justice.
Martin Luther King Jr., quoted by, Maisam Alomar, “Up the 'Wall' with Palestine Awareness Week” (New University, volume 41 issue 30, May 27 2008) {search, archive} (“The problem began with the theft of Palestinian land and the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people.”).
• Jimmy Carter, interviewed by Philippe Sands QC (professor, Faculty of Laws, UCL: University College London), introduced by Alan Rusbridger (editor, The Guardian, London), “The Guardian Lecture: Jimmy Carter” (“The Nobel Laureate and former US President on conflict resolution and human rights, and the work of the Carter Foundation”) (Hay 21: The Guardian Hay Festival 2008, 22 May-June 1 2008, Hay Festival of Literature & the Arts, Hay-on-Wye, between Brecon and Hereford, Powys, Wales) (event number 127, “Barclays Wealth Marquee,” ticket £50, Sunday May 25 2008, 7pm), audio {64:54, 26mb.mp3, price £1, rss, archive}, YouTube thehayfestival video (excerpt), “Jimmy Carter: Talks George Bush & war crimes at Hay Festival” {7:25, 19.3mb.flv, search, search}, program (90 pages) {1.83mb.pdf, 3.06mb.pdf (omits cover), source, 3.06mb.pdf (omits cover), source, source}, “Hay Festival” (The Guardian, “Books”), reported, Charlotte Higgins, “Will Self defied Orwell, Andrew Davies gave Jane Austen some useful tips, and Jimmy Carter delighted everyone” {pf} (The Guardian, “The Guardian Hay Festival 2008,” “Diary,” Tuesday May 27 2008) (“Radiating decency and intelligence, speaking with extraordinary fluidity and cogency, Jimmy Carter is the man of the moment at Hay: he has delighted all who have encountered him (bar one energetic anti-Palestinian heckler at his event).”).
“Jimmy Carter and Jeremy Clarkson have more in common than their initials: they are the two most popular acts at this year’s Guardian Hay festival, which begins today.
According to festival director Peter Florence, whose family has run the literary event for the 21 years of its existence, Carter and Clarkson were the first acts to sell out this year. ...
Tickets to see the two JCs sold out almost as soon as they were available, but the 1,000-capacity tent where both men will speak could have been filled many more times over.
"Since it sold out, we have had 7,000 or 8,000 inquiries about those events, as well as for Salman Rushdie," said Florence. ...
The festival, which is sponsored by the Guardian, takes place in a tented village at Hay-on-Wye, a small town on the edge of the Brecon Beacons national park. Ticket sales are up 10% on last year’s event, with the organisers expecting 140,000 visitors over the coming 10 days.”
Helen Pidd, “Hay festival: The peacemaker and the provocateur are hottest tickets in writing's big tent” {pf} (The Guardian, Friday May 23 2008).
£50/ticket × 1000 tickets = £50,000 ≈ $100,000
“It’s become a Hay tradition, a game played in the biggest tent at the festival and always before a packed house: the game is Fantasy American President. ...
Tonight Hay offered a new collective prayer: if only we could have a man like Jimmy Carter back in the Oval Office. Now 83 years old, the former president ... held his audience spellbound as he set out a radically alternative vision of America’s place in the world.
The emotional high point came when Carter seemed to be playing the fantasy game himself, offering the opening words of the speech the next president should deliver when he or she is inaugurated next January.
“When I’m the president of the United States,” he intoned, the voice still strong, “My country will never again torture a prisoner. When I’m the president of the United States, we will never again attack another country unless our security is directly threatened. When I’m the president of the United States, human rights will be the foundation of our foreign policy.” He went on in that vein, with ringing declarations on global warming, a promise to honour international agreements and to bring “security and peace to Israel and all its neighbours and treat them all on an equal basis.”
The audience thundered its applause, signalling that this was the American speech they yearned to hear. Carter insisted that a new president would not need a hundred days to change America’s image in the world, just the “ten minutes” required to say those words.”
Jonathan Freedland, “Carter: 10 minutes to change the world” {pf} (Cif: Comment is Free, “Hay festival 2008,” guardian.co.uk, Sunday May 25 2008, 9:30pm) (“Hay festival 2008: An inspiring address from a former US president left the audience wondering — can we have him back?”), and see, Jonathan Freedland, “Why we get Carter” {pf} (Comment is Free, “Hay festival 2008,” Monday May 26 2008, 2pm) (“Hay festival 2008: What’s clear from the reception Jimmy Carter got is that we were never anti-American so much as anti-Bush”).
• Norman Finkelstein (Brooklyn New York), interviewed by Carol Off, introduced by Barbara Budd (hosts) (CBC Radio One, As It Happens, Toronto, Monday May 26 2008, 6:30-8:00pm, first half-hour, at 6:46pm ET), audio {30:30, 14.12mb.wmv, Finkelstein 8:12 at 16:28-24:40, nf.link, archive, archive, logs, search, search, search} {rss menu menu}, broadcast throughout Canada, and by 98 U.S. radio stations, and by satellite radio in North America (CBC Radio One, Sirius channel 137) (“Dr. Finkelstein has visited Israel about fifteen times, but this was the first time he was detained and deported.”).