destruction

One year has passed since the first Palestinians were allowed to return to the outskirts of the destroyed Nahr al-Bared refugee camp, to the so-called "new camp". Meanwhile, up to 15.000 people have resettled there, many of them waiting to access their destroyed homes in the "old camp", the core of what used to be Nahr al-Bared Camp.

One year has passed since the first Palestinians were allowed to return to the outskirts of the destroyed Nahr al-Bared refugee camp, to the so-called "new camp". Meanwhile, up to 15.000 people have resettled there, many of them waiting to access their destroyed homes in the "old camp", the core of what used to be Nahr al-Bared Camp.

These days it seems like everybody wants to build something--this is an impulse that is entirely revolutionary, exciting, and captivating. From community gardening projects, independent media centers, no-waste food distribution programs like Food Not Bombs, thousands of active independent arts projects, community health collectives, culture centers, alternative economies, cooperative agriculture, and bicycle collectives. Building things is good. It helps us create a livable world.

The anarchist video collective "a-films" announces its latest short film (4 min.) from Lebanon called "Landscape of Destruction". The 4-month battle of Nahr al-Bared in 2007 left tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees homeless - once again. In winter, a few thousands of them where allowed to return to their destroyed refugee camp, where they've started to rebuild their homes.