The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict - Jordan

June Jordan June Jordan talks with David Barsamian about some of the issues below the media radar screen. For example - Israel receives billions in US aid - while aid to all the countries of sub-Saharan Africa totals $700 million. She explains why the Palestinians have had such difficulty in making their case in the US She thinks they must establish moral authority. The plight of the Palestinians under occupation is rapidly deteriorating - creating even more volatility. We don't have much time - she warns. She chillingly ties in the events in the Middle East to her classroom in Berkeley. (audio cassette - 60 minutes - 2001) June Jordan is professor of African American Studies at the University of California at Berkeley - where she is the founder and Director of the Poetry for the People program. She is an award-winning poet - essayist and critic. She has been called the most published African American in history. A regular contributor to The progressive - she is the author of Technical Difficulties - Naming Our Destiny - Affirmative Acts - Poetry for the People - Haruko/Love Poems and Soldier - a memoir of her childhood.