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	<title>Alternative Film Guide &#187; Boycotts</title>
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		<title>John Greyson Boycotts 2009 Tel Aviv LGBT Film Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:43:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Boycotts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fig Trees]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fucking Different Tel Aviv]]></category>
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In  Haaretz.com, Cnaan Liphshiz discusses the reactions to Toronto-based filmmaker John Greyson&#8217;s refusal to attend the 2009 Tel Aviv International LGBT film festival, which runs June 23-27. Below are a couple of brief quotes from Liphshiz&#8217;s piece:
&#34;&#8217;What Greyson has done is an act of violence both  against Israeli gays as well as [gay] Palestinians, for whom this  festival is a rare ray of light,&#8217; said Yair Hochner, the festival&#8217;s  Israeli-born organizer and an internationally-acclaimed director.  Greyson told Anglo File this week: &#8216;With ongoing violations by Israel  of Palestinian human rights and given the specific content of my film,  screening it in Israel would be hypocrisy.&#8217; The film, Fig Trees,  deals with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sundance 2009: To Boycott or Not to Boycott</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sundance 2009]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sundance Film Festival]]></category>

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David Poland at Movie City News:
&#34;Movie City News will spend a lot of money in Park City to cover  Sundance this year. I will be happy to pledge, right now, that we will  not spend a dime that money in businesses that were financial  supporters of California&#8217;s Prop 8. 
&#34;So&#8230; activists&#8230; make that list. Make it honestly. Don&#8217;t tell me all  Mormons are evil or that the entire state is off limits. But if a local  gas station company is owned by a Prop 8 funder&#8230; we will fill up  elsewhere. If a local restaurant or grocery or ski shop or taxi  service&#8230; anything like that&#8230; if the owner sent money to California [...]]]></description>
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