{"id":33702,"date":"2013-01-18T10:08:41","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T17:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=33702"},"modified":"2013-01-18T10:08:41","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T17:08:41","slug":"a-conversation-with-palestinian-activist-iyad-burnat-on-activism-and-the-occupation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/01\/18\/a-conversation-with-palestinian-activist-iyad-burnat-on-activism-and-the-occupation\/","title":{"rendered":"A Conversation With Palestinian Activist Iyad Burnat on Activism and the Occupation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/iyad_burnat_interview.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>A pioneer of non-violent direct action in the West Bank is the 39 year old activist Iyad Burnat from the tiny village of Bil\u2019in. Heading the Bil\u2019in Popular Committee, Burnat has organized weekly demonstrations for years, against the so-called \u201cseparation wall\u201d or \u201capartheid wall\u201d built by Israel that has cut local villagers off from their lands. Featured in the new documentary, Five Broken Cameras, directed by his brother Emad Burnat, and which was just nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary, Iyad Burnat is currently touring the United States sharing his experiences as a non-violent Palestinian activist. <\/p>\n<p>Watch a video of this interview here: <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"477\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kQwIsnJNu9o\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Bipasha Shom recorded this interview. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pioneer of non-violent direct action in the West Bank is the 39 year old activist Iyad Burnat from the tiny village of Bil\u2019in. Heading the Bil\u2019in Popular Committee, Burnat has organized weekly demonstrations for years, against the so-called \u201cseparation wall\u201d or \u201capartheid wall\u201d built by Israel that has cut local villagers off from their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}