David Baldinger - Cartoonist & Photographer

  A message from Firuz Kutal in Norway, Dear colleagues, I send you a portrait that I did. Usually we do portraits of either celebrities or people who are known by us in a context. The person I did a portrait of is not a famous person. He is a kind of insubordinate and remonstrant. His name is Cem Yilmaz and works nowadays as a music producer. He will be known from now on as a person who did a very interesting protest against the military coup d'etat which took place in Turkey in 1980. After the military came to power he was arrested and tortured for three years. One of the torture methods used against him and others was to force political prisoners to listen to a song named ''Turkiyem'' (My country Turkey) from loudspeaker while they were either under torture or they were in their room. After he released later, in 1993 he decided to establish a music production company and searched for the copyright owner of the song he heard...

Dear All  As you know, Israel seized and confiscated 19,000,000 donums of Palestinian land which makes 93% of Israel's area. Now Israel passed a law which effectively allow the sale of this land to any Jew any where. Adalah alerted all to this grave development. The report: " Dividing War Spoils " at this link: http://www.plands.org/store/writing/Selling%20Refugees%20Land%20Sept%202009.pdf summarizes the history and suggests recommendations. Maps and Tables are from the "Atlas of Palestine 1948" and Adalah's compiled data of 1953/54 confiscation. This subject should be raised in every forum. Salman Abu Sitta Zahi Damuni Cause Admin Join this cause on Facebook ( must be a Facebook member ) at http://apps.facebook.com/causes/1752?m=479104c3 Technorati Tags: Palestine Cartoons , settlements , Isreal

Neda al-Watan , the PFLP’s Arabic-language newspaper published monthly in the West Bank and Gaza, conducted an interview with Brazilian cartoonist and artist Carlos Latuff , who is well known for his graphics and cartoons in support of the Palestinian struggle, for its September 2009 issue. Read the full interview in English below: Neda al-Watan Question: What inspired you to become a cartoonist? How did you become involved with the struggle to free Palestine and how did Palestine become the subject of so much of your work? Carlos Latuff: Since my childhood my dream was to be an artist. I used to spend hours in front of the television watching Hanna-Barbera cartoons. After 1990, I started to produce cartoons for Leftist union papers but not for political reasons, just as a professional. Until my contact with the Zapatista Movement in 1997 through the Internet, I wasn’t engaged in any political cause. Then, after a trip to the West Bank, invited by Palestinian Center for Peac...