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Wednesday, December 7th
Iraq to Palestine: Resistance to US Empire
With JOE CARR

7:00 p.m.
Rutgers University Women's Center
Third Floor, Douglass College Center
100 George Street (click for map)
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ

He's seen occupation and resistance....and he's bringing the stories and the struggles to Rutgers!

Joe Carr, with his upbeat and creative performance style, will share pictures, stories, music, poetry, and analysis from his time in Iraq, Palestine, and US direct action movements. He will discuss the nuances of each conflict and draw parallels between the stories of oppression and resistance. He will tell you about the struggle of At-Tuwani, an ancient Palestinian village struggling to survive Zionist violence and settlement expansion, and discuss his experiences in Gaza before and after Israel's "disengagement". Hear about his work in Iraq, documenting ongoing human rights violations and organizing with Iraqi anti-occupation activists in Baghdad, Karballa, and Fallujah. Learn more about what you can do to oppose US foreign policy and resist the oppression done in our name.


flyer Wednesday, November 16th
TARGETS OF EMPIRE:
Iraq, Iran, Palestine

7:00 p.m.
Rutgers University Women's Center
Third Floor, Douglass College Center
100 George Street (click for map)
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ

As the war and occupation of Iraq continue, threats of war against Iran escalate, and the occupation of Palestine and the denial of the right to return of Palestinian refugees continues, all funded by U.S. dollars or enforced by U.S. troops and U.S. weapons, it is vital that the voices of the targets of empire today are heard.

Come to a very special forum featuring...

KADDOURI AL-KYSI

Kaddouri al-Kysi is an Iraqi American activist who has long been engaged in anti-war and anti-imperialist activity. Founder of the Committee to Support the Iraqi People, al-Kysi was deeply involved in the anti-sanctions movement and helped lead delegations to Iraq that worked against the sanctions on Iraq and to raise awareness of the U.S. use of depleted uranium weapons in Iraq. He has been deeply involved in building the movement against the occupation of Iraq.

ARDESHIR OMMANI

Ardeshir Ommani, an activist in the anti-war and anti-imperialist struggle for over 40 years, and is a co-founder of the American-Iranian Friendship Committee (AIFC). He has written much on U.S. - Iran relation, and has translated many articles into Farsi, which have been published inside Iran in the progressive press. In the 1960's, he was a co-founder of the Iranian Students Association (ISA), which contributed to the struggle against the Shah of Iran, a U.S. puppet. Mr. Ommani returned to Iran in 1979, at the dawn of the revolution and participated in the revolutionary surge of that period and returned to the U.S. in 1980.

Attend this important event and hear these speakers - and take a stand alongside the targets of empire!

DIRECTIONS:

From the New Jersey Turnpike (north or south): Take Exit 9 to Route 18 North. Take the first exit for George Street (Cook/ Douglass Campus) which is after the traffic light at Paulus Boulevard. Follow George Street to the second traffic light. Turn left on Nichol Avenue. At Co-op Bookstore, turn left on Lipman Drive. Immediately turn left again into the College Center parking lot.

From Garden State Parkway South: Take Exit 129 to NJ Turnpike South to Exit 9. Follow New Jersey Turnpike directions from this point.

From Garden State Parkway North: Take Exit 105 to Route 18 North. Follow NJ Turnpike directions from this point.

From Route 1: Take Route 1 to the intersection of Route 18 and take the exit for Route 18 North. Follow New Jersey Turnpike directions from this point.

From Route 287: Take Exit 9 to River Road -- Bound Brook/Highland Park. Proceed east on River Road towards Highland Park for approximately 3.4 mile to Route 18 South. Follow Route 18 South to the first traffic light and turn right on Commercial Avenue. At the first traffic light, turn left on George Street. At the first traffic light, turn right on Nichol Avenue. At Co-op Bookstore, turn left on Lipman Drive. Immediately turn left again into the College Center parking lot.

Public transportation

Douglass College is also accessible by public transportation. New Jersey Transit's Northeast Corridor Line provides New Brunswick with both local and express service between New York and Newark's Penn Stations and Trenton, New Jersey. (For information, call 201-762-5100). SEPTA (Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority) provides service at Trenton to and from Philadelphia.

The New Brunswick Train Station is located at the corner of Albany Street and Easton Avenue across from the Rutgers Bookstore. Cab service is available from the train station. Rutgers University Campus Bus Route "F" or "EE" will provide direct service from the train station to Douglass Campus. RU Campus Bus Stop is located at the corner of Somerset St. and George St.

Parking: Parking is available in the parking deck located directly behind the Douglass College Center.


flyer Wednesday, November 9th
"Frontiers of Dreams and Fears"
Film Showing

7:00 p.m.
Rutgers University Women's Center
Third Floor, Douglass College Center
100 George Street (click for map)
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ

FRONTIERS OF DREAMS AND FEARS explores the lives of a group of Palestinian children growing up in refugee camps. The film focuses on two teenage girls, Mona and Manar. Although living in refugee camps miles apart, the girls manage to communicate and become friends with each other despite the overwhelming barriers separating them. The film reveals their lives and dreams and their growing relationship, at first through email, then culminating in their dramatic meeting at the fence that separates them at the Lebanese border.


flyer Wednesday, October 19th
"Gaza Strip"
Film Showing and Discussion

7:00 p.m.
Rutgers University Women's Center
Third Floor, Douglass College Center
100 George Street (click for map)
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ

Despite the transfer of illegal settlers from Gaza to the West Bank, the reign of terror upon the Palestinians of Gaza continues. Join New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine for a screening of James Longley's 2002 film "Gaza Strip," followed by an open discussion of the false "disengagement" and the true situation in Gaza.


Saturday, September 24th
Mass Rally and March
All day at the White House
Gather at 11:00 a.m. at the Ellipse (south side)
Washington D.C.

On September 24, in Washington DC, join the mass march rally to:

Stop the War on Iraq!
End Colonial Occupation from Iraq to Palestine to Haiti!
Support the Palestinian People's Right to Return!
Bring the Troops Home Now!
Stop the Threats Against Venezuela, Cuba, Iran & North Korea!
U.S. out of the Philippines!
U.S. out of Puerto Rico!
Stop the Racist, anti-Immigrant and anti-Labor Offensive at Home, Defend Civil Rights!

New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine endorses the demonstration is called for by the September 24 National Coalition, initiated by the ANSWER Coalition and including in its leadership such organizations as the National Council of Arab Americans (NCA), Muslim American Society (MAS) Freedom Foundation, Haiti Support Network, Alliance for a Just and Lasting Peace in the Philippines, the National Lawyers Guild, and the Troops Out Now Coalition.

It is imperative that the voice, leadership and strength of the Palestinian people and the Palestinian and Arab movement is heard and felt in the antiwar movement. By including, rather than excluding, these communities and voices, the movement is strengthened and empowered. It is critically important that this demonstration is ALSO a demonstration for the Right to Return for all Palestinian refugees, standing fully for liberation from all colonial occupation, from Iraq to Palestine to Haiti and everywhere.

Buses, car caravans and other transportation will be organized locally - if you need information on attending September 24 or want to help mobilize in this area for September 24, please email us at info@newjerseysolidarity.org

ALL OUT FOR SEPTEMBER 24!


flyer Wednesday, September 14th
NJS General Interest Meeting

7:00 p.m.
Rutgers University Women's Center
Third Floor, Douglass College Center
100 George Street (click for map)
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ

Want to get involved with New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine?

Want to help raise public awareness about Palestine? Want to help organize for antiwar mobilizations, actions, and events to build solidarity with the Palestinian movement?

Come out! Find out more about: NJS's work...Hear a report from Palestine..Find out more about the Palestinian cause...and what you can do! See the short film "Palestine is Waiting," and discuss with NJS members and others...


Tuesday, August 30th
GAZA: OPPRESSION AND RESISTANCE
Film Screening of "GAZA STRIP"

7:00 p.m.
New Brunswick Public Library
Community Room
60 Livingston Ave
New Brunswick, NJ

"Disengagement" has been a prominent buzzword in recent discussion of Gaza, even as Gaza remains an open-air prison and the over 80% of Gaza residents who are refugees continue to be prohibited from returning to their original homes and properties in Palestine 48.

Join New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine for a showing of the film "GAZA STRIP", exposing the ongoing oppression in Gaza and the continuing resistance of the Palestinian people, and a discussion of recent news - and the reality - for Gaza and all of Palestine.

DIRECTIONS:

From Rutgers University Campus or New Brunswick Train Station: Take the F bus to the Livingston Avenue bus stop. Library is two blocks down Livingston Avenue on the left.

From NJ Turnpike Exit 9, Route 1 or Route 18 North: Take Route 18 North to New Brunswick. Exit at New Street. Follow New Street to 3rd traffic light (Elks Club on corner). Turn left onto Livingston Avenue. Library is on your left.

Traveling South on Route 18: Exit at George Street/Rutgers University. Follow George Street to Livingston Avenue. Turn right onto Livingston Avenue. Library is two blocks past the stop light on your right



Wednesday, August 10th
Resisting the Wall:
Discussion and Meeting with Sherin Alaraj of al-Walajah

7:00 p.m.
Zafra Vegetarian Restaurant
46 Paterson St.
New Brunswick, NJ

Join New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine for a meeting and discussion with SHEREN ALARAJ, Program Director of Ansar Center in Al-Walajah village in Palestine, currently engaged in organizing youth in Al-Walajah and building resistance to the Apartheid Wall! The Apartheid Wall is encircling Al-Walajah and its residents in their entirety, and villagers are organizing to resist. Join us to learn about and discuss her work, the situation on the ground in Palestine, and what we here, solidarity activists and members of the Palestinian and Arab community, can do to support organizing in Palestine!


Wednesday, July 20th
Films from Balata Camp:
Visions of Struggle and Steadfastness

7:00 p.m.
New Brunswick Public Library, Henry Guest House
60 Livingston Ave.
New Brunswick, NJ

Balata Refugee Camp is one of the most hard-hit communities in Palestine?s West Bank. The over 30,000 residents, refugees of the 1948 Nakba, live in a heavily militarized zone where tear gas, gunshots, and military searches are a part of everyday life. Join us on Wednesday, July 20 to see these remarkable films - made in Balata Camp by young Palestinians, members of the Balata Film Collective!

DIRECTIONS:

From Rutgers University Campus or New Brunswick Train Station: Take the F bus to the Livingston Avenue bus stop. Library is two blocks down Livingston Avenue on the left.

From NJ Turnpike Exit 9, Route 1 or Route 18 North: Take Route 18 North to New Brunswick. Exit at New Street. Follow New Street to 3rd traffic light (Elks Club on corner). Turn left onto Livingston Avenue. Library is on your left.

Traveling South on Route 18: Exit at George Street/Rutgers University. Follow George Street to Livingston Avenue. Turn right onto Livingston Avenue. Library is two blocks past the stop light on your right


Wednesday, June 29th
FILM SHOWING: "until when..."

7:00 p.m.
New Brunswick Public Library, Henry Guest House
60 Livingston Ave.
New Brunswick, NJ

FILM SHOWING: "until when..."

"'Until when?' is about our deep commitment to returning to our land. Because the Palestinian narrative is about return; the Palestinian narrative is about being a refugee, having the right to return, and keeping that consciousness in our minds; and then making sure that we speak to each of our successive generations about returning, about being connected to our land, our history, our culture..." Jess Ghannam, producer, "until when.."

Set during the current Intifada, this documentary follows four Palestinian families living in Dheisheh Refugee Camp near Bethlehem. Fadi is thirteen and cares for his four younger brothers, the Hammash family pass on the lessons of life with humor and passion, Sana is a single woman who endures long commutes to do community work, and Emad and Hanan are a young couple trying to shield their daughter from the harsh realities of the occupation. They talk about their past and discuss the future with humor, sorrow, frustration and hope. "until when..." paints an intimate in-depth portrait of Palestinian lives today.

(Documentary, 76 min., Palestine/USA 2004, Directed by Dahna Abourahme)


flyer Saturday, June 18th
The CHILDREN of the CAMPS:
Al-Rowwad Palestinian Children's Theatre from Aida Refugee Camp

6:00 p.m.
Passaic County Technical Institute
45 Reinhardt Rd. (click for map)
Wayne, NJ

TICKETS: $15/adults $5/children and youth

Contact for tickets: 973-954-2521 or email info@newjerseysolidarity.org

Buy Tickets Online Here!

See video of Al-Rowwad Children's Theater!
(Requires Windows Media Player or compatible.)

Introduction to Al-Rowwad
Excerpts from the Play, "The Children of the Camps"

Join us to welcome Al-Rowwad Palestinian Children's Theater to New Jersey! Headquartered in Aida Refugee Camp, Al-Rowwad Children's Theater is a unique project that supports and emphasizes the creativity of Palestinian refugee youth. Al-Rowwad Center is a home for the cultural, artistic and theatrical training of children and youth, housing a computer center, a debke program, a children's theater program, an art program, and much more. Lauded in "American Theater" magazine, and visited by some of the U.S.'s leading playwrights, Al-Rowwad is an inspiring home of children's creativity and expression amid war and occupation, and an illustration of the resourcefulness of the refugee youth who continue to struggle for return and liberation, across generations.

See Al-Rowwad website for details: http://alrowwad.virtualactivism.net/

See Al-Awda Newspaper article about tour: Palestinian Children's Theatre Troupe to Visit NJ

In June 2005, Al-Rowwad Children's Theater will be touring the U.S., beginning their tour in the New York City area, and then traveling to Connecticut, Vermont, and Kentucky.

Diverse organizers and activists from New York and New Jersey's theater community and Palestine activist community have joined together to raise funds to bring Al-Rowwad on this U.S. tour, and to our community. They will be performing in the New York area from June 18-22.

Join us in welcoming them on June 18!

New Jersey event sponsored by: New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine and Palestinian American Congress - New Jersey Chapter


Saturday, June 4th
NJS Study Group:
Ghassan Kanafani's "1936-39 REVOLT IN PALESTINE"

4:00 p.m.
Zafra Vegetarian Restaurant
46 Paterson Street
New Brunswick, NJ

Please join New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine members in a study group discussion of Ghassan Kanafani's historical work on the 1936-39 Palestinian revolt. Kanafani's famous work analyzes the class nature of the revolt, as well as the contradictions which lead to its ultimate defeat.

The study group will feature a presentation on the writing, followed by open discussion as we draw parallels between the struggle then and the struggle today.

The reading for this study group is available online at:

http://www.newjerseysolidarity.org/resources/kanafani


Tuesday, May 17th
Memorial for a Palestinian Fighter

7:30 p.m.
Widdi Hall
5602 6th Ave.
Brooklyn, NY
Subway: Take the N or the R trains to 59th St. stop.

Ali Qased, long-time activist and organizer for Palestinian national rights and a true revolutionary, died at the age of 62 in the early hours of Sunday, April 3rd, 2005, after a long struggle with a debilitating illness. He succumbed to complications from heart failure at St. Joseph's Hospital in Paterson, New Jersey.

On Tuesday, May 17th, 2005, a little over 40 days after his death, the Palestine activists of New York and New Jersey will host a memorial in his honor. Friends, family, and colleagues from across the country will descend on a popular Arab community in Brooklyn, site of much of his organizing, to renew their solidarity and their determination to continue fighting for liberation, and to honor his life's work.

We solicit written messages of solidarity to be collected in a memorial scrapbook, and we invite sympathizing local, national and international organizations to send representatives to this important event where we will celebrate the life of one of our own ? a rich life that contributed to the culture of liberation worldwide.

Sponsors: Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition; New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine; the New York Committee to Defend Palestine; Palestine Solidarity Group - Chicago; Arab Community Center - Chicago



Sunday, May 1st
Union Square
14th Street in New York City
Jobs, Not War! Bring the Troops Home Now!
1:00 Rally and March

The Million Worker March Movement, the Troops Out Now Coalition and scores of other progressive groups are calling for a "JOBS NOT WAR-Bring the Troops Home Now!" MAY DAY RALLY and MARCH in Union Square on Sunday, May 1, beginning at 1:00 p.m.

The rally is part of a campaign across the country to revive May Day in the U.S.

http://www.troopsoutnow.org




flyer Saturday, April 23rd
SAY NO TO EMPIRE!
A Teach-In at Rutgers' Tent State University

11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
At Voorhees Mall (next to Scott Hall, at the intersection of College Ave. and Hamilton St.)
at Tent State University at Rutgers University
College Avenue Campus
New Brunswick, NJ

All Welcome! Free Admission! Teach-in will be followed by Tent State bands and Entertainment!

11:00 AM - Teach-In on the Empire Around the World

Featuring panelists on: Iraq - Palestine - Cuba - Colombia - Venezuela - Puerto Rico - the Philippines

1:00 PM - Teach-In on the Empire at Home

Featuring panelists on: the Draft - Youth and Students - Racism - Our Cities - Immigrant Rights

AND MORE!

Don't miss this informative, educational and fascinating teach-in, linking the assaults by U.S. imperialism on the peoples of the world - and popular resistance, internationally and here at home! Find out what you can do, and how you can become involved with working to SAY NO TO EMPIRE!

This teach-in is part of Tent State University, the third annual protest at Rutgers University for higher education funding, and for "Education, Not War!"



PALESTINE AWARENESS WEEK 2005
AT RUTGERS UNIVERSITY-New Brunswick, NJ
APRIL 3 - APRIL 8

flyer Sunday, April 3rd
FREE PALESTINIAN POLITICAL PRISONERS!
North American Speaking Tour of
ex-Political Prisoners from Occupied Palestine

7:30 p.m.
Rutgers University Women's Center
Third Floor, Douglass College Center
100 George Street (click for map)
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ

Join us for an evening of discussion with Palestinian ex-political prisoners and activists from Occupied Palestine! The tour participants are from Addameer, a Palestinian organization in Ramallah that campaigns around Palestinian political prisoners.

The evening will feature presentations by:

Sahar Francis, a Palestinian lawyer with Addameer who has worked for many years with Palestinian prisoners,

Akram Al Ayasa an ex-political prisoner and former President of Bethlehem University Student Council. Arrested seven times from 1976-1990 by the Israeli occupation forces.

Presented in cooperation with Sumoud: A Political Prisoner Soldarity Group:
http://sumoud.tao.ca



flyer Wednesday, April 6th
War, Occupation & the Draft

7:30 p.m.
Rutgers Student Center
Room 410
126 College Ave (click for map)
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ

What's happening in Iraq? What's happening in Palestine? What about the DANGER of THE DRAFT? What about military recruitment? What does it mean for youth and students?

The evening will feature presentations by:

Dustin Langley, a U.S. Navy Veteran, from No Draft No Way and the Support Network for an Armed Forces Union (SNAFU).

Nadia Taha, a Palestinian activist with New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine.



flyer Friday, April 8th
"WOMEN IN STRUGGLE"
Film Screening

7:30 p.m.
Rutgers University Women's Center
Third Floor, Douglass College Center
100 George Street (click for map)
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ

The documentary film "Women in Struggle" is about Palestinian women whom are ex-political detainees demonstrating their struggle during their years of imprisonment in Israeli jails exploring the affects and influence on their present life and their future outlook.

The focus will be on the lives of four women who came out of their regular roles as sisters, mothers, wives, and took on a different role being involved in the Palestinian national struggle for independence. Without narration, these women give their testimony in their own words about their past difficult experiences, of their suffering while living their daily difficult life in the current Palestinian Intifada which was not an element present during the initial research of this documentary nor was the so called "war on terror" and the apartheid wall.

These additional three elements have made this film critical in exploring, identifying, and understanding how these women detainees made the effort to preserve their dignity and integrate in the social and political aspects of the Palestinian life. Although these four women are out of the actual Israeli prison they actually find themselves in a bigger prison carrying "prison" within them in every aspect of their life.

For more information about the film please see http://www.womeninstruggle.com.



Saturday, March 19th
Central Park - East Meadow
Mass Rally and March
US Troops OUT NOW!!

Central Park, NYC

March to Central Park on Saturday, March 19, 2005, the second anniversary of the launching of war on Iraq - the whole world will be watching - and marching! Rally against occupation from Iraq to Palestine to everywhere!

Please join the Troops Out Now Coalition, including New Jersey Solidarity-Activists for the Liberation of Palestine and many labor, community, antiwar and progressive organizations as we rally and march against war and occupation and for justice! People will be meeting throughout NJ for "Peace Trains" to the rally - make your plans now to join!

Endorse the rally today: http://www.troopsoutnow.org

Also visit the Troops Out Now website for updates on logistics, to sign up for email updates, to download flyers and literature and to find out the latest on this important mobilization.

All out for March 19!!

Tuesday, March 8th
Film Showing: Arna's Children

8:00 p.m.
Frist 302
Frist Campus Center
Washington Rd (Click for directions.)
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ

WINNER: Best Documentary Feature (Tribeca Film Festival)
WINNER: FIPRESCI Best First Documentary (Hot Docs Canadian Int'l Film Festival)

About "Arna's Children":

Arna Mer Khamis was a legendary activist against the Israeli Occupation. Born into a Jewish family she married a Palestinian Arab and spent her life campaigning for justice and human rights in her homeland. Arna founded an alternative education system for Palestinian children whose lives had been disrupted by Israeli occupation. In the Jenin refugee camp, Arna opened a theatre group where she taught the children to express anger, bitterness and fear through acting and art. The children slowly grew to trust and to love Arna: "She's like my mother," says one child. "She helps us. She saved us from the streets." Arna's son, Juliano Mer Khamis, was a director at the theater group and filmed his mother and the children rehearsing and performing over a six year period. When Arna died of cancer in 1995, the theater group struggled to continue for another two years but ultimately did not survive.

Five years after Arna's death, Juliano, now one of the region's leading actors, returns to the camp to discover what happened to "Arna's Children." Shifting back and forth in time, Mer Khamis's film juxtaposes the sweet-faced young boys with the militants and martyrs they become. "Arna's Children" reveals the tragedy and horror of young lives trapped by the circumstances of occupation.

For more information on the film, please visit http://www.arnaschildren.com.

Sponsored by Princeton Committee on Palestine and New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine.



flyer Friday, March 4th
Ellen O'Grady-Art and Activism for Palestine

7:00 p.m.
Center Hall
Busch Campus Center
604 Bartholomew Rd (Click for map)
Rutgers University
Piscataway, NJ

Ellen O'Grady is the author and creator of a new book, "OUTSIDE THE ARK: An Artist's Journey in Occupied Palestine," a provocative collection of paintings and stories, a window into the realities of life under occupation and a witness to the enduring human spirit.

Ellen O'Grady is an artist and social justice activist in Durham, North Carolina. She spent six years living in Palestine and has returned several times since to work with a variety of grassroots activist groups. Her work has been shown in galleries and museums around the country. Copies of "OUTSIDE THE ARK" will be available for sale.



flyer Monday, February 28th
BREAKING THE CHAINS:
AN EVENING OF POLITICAL PRISONER SOLIDARITY

7:00 p.m.
St. Mary's Church
521 W. 126th St. NYC (Between Broadway and Amsterdam)
(Subway: 1/9 to 125th Street and Broadway or A/B/C/D to 125th and St. Nicholas and walk west)

Featuring "Women in Struggle," a new film direct from Palestine about Palestinian women political prisoners.

Join us for an important evening of political prisoner solidarity, as activists from communities around the world and across NYC join together to support our prisoners and their struggles for freedom! From Palestine to NYC, political prisoners must be free!

Featuring speakers:
Buthina Canaan Khoury, Palestinian filmmaker and director of "Women in Struggle"
Lynne Stewart, people's lawyer facing jail for her work
Benjamin Ramos, ProLibertad
Representative of NYC Free Mumia Coalition
Representative of the Jericho Movement
Representative of NY Committee to Free the Cuban Five and more!

Sponsored by: Al-Awda NY, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition; Asian Pacific Action, Iglesia de San Romero de las Americas, Jericho Movement, New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine, NYC Free Mumia Coalition, New York Committee to Free the Cuban Five, ProLibertad, Queers for Peace and Justice and more!

**Endorsers/sponsors in formation, email info@newjerseysolidarity.org to endorse or sponsor the event**



flyer Sunday, February 27th
"WOMEN IN STRUGGLE"
Film Screening and discussion with Palestinian filmmaker Buthina Canaan Khoury

7:00 p.m.
Rutgers University Women's Center
Third Floor, Douglass College Center
100 George Street (click for map)
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ

Please join us for this opportunity to view this important new film about a critical issue and to welcome Buthina Canaan Khoury to New Jersey!

The documentary film "Women in Struggle" is about Palestinian women whom are ex-political detainees demonstrating their struggle during their years of imprisonment in Israeli jails exploring the affects and influence on their present life and their future outlook.

The focus will be on the lives of four women who came out of their regular roles as sisters, mothers, wives, and took on a different role being involved in the Palestinian national struggle for independence. Without narration, these women give their testimony in their own words about their past difficult experiences, of their suffering while living their daily difficult life in the current Palestinian Intifada which was not an element present during the initial research of this documentary nor was the so called "war on terror" and the apartheid wall.

These additional three elements have made this film critical in exploring, identifying, and understanding how these women detainees made the effort to preserve their dignity and integrate in the social and political aspects of the Palestinian life. Although these four women are out of the actual Israeli prison they actually find themselves in a bigger prison carrying "prison" within them in every aspect of their life.

For more information about the film please see http://www.womeninstruggle.com.

About Buthina Canaan Khoury

Buthina Canaan Khoury has been an independent filmmaker for the past few years. She has established Majd Production Company in Palestine in (2000). The company's main objective is to produce documentaries about different and vital Palestinian issues . Ms. Khoury has over fourteen years of experience in the media field and a bachelor degree in filmmaking and photography from Boston, MA.

She worked as the first Palestinian camera woman, producer and coordinator covering special events in the Middle East area for the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and other well known European TV stations in Palestine. Women in Struggle is her first one hour documentary.



flyer Wednesday, February 16th
UNVEILING APARTHEID:
Palestine 1948 - The Struggle for Land and Freedom
Film Showing of "500 Dunam on the Moon" and Presentation

7:00 p.m.
New Brunswick Public Library
Henry Guest House
60 Livingston Ave
New Brunswick, NJ

Directions: http://www.lmxac.org/nbfpl/libinfodir.htm

"500 DUNAM ON THE MOON" (2002, 48 min) presents a critical look at the art of dispossession and the creativity of the dispossessed, examining Ayn Hawd, a Palestinian village captured and depopulated by Zionist armies in 1948, and "Ein Hod", the Zionist "artists' colony" established over Ayn Hawd, while Ayn Hawd's original and rightful Palestinian residents, deemed "present absentees", settled only 1.5 kilometers away on the outlying hills, prevented from returning home, and their village unrecognized, denied water, electricity, or an access road. This film presents the story and the resilience of the people of Ayn Hawd in their struggle for land and freedom.

Plus, a presentation by and discussion with SAID SHEHADEH, 1948 Palestinian and graduate student at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ.



flyer Monday, January 31st
General Interest Meeting
Get Involved!

9:00 PM
Hardenbergh Hall
Room A-3
615 George St.
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ

Come to this General Interest Meeting to find out more about New Jersey Solidarity-Activists for the Liberation of Palestine and find out what you can do to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for justice, liberation and return! Learn our exciting plans for upcoming events, actions and demonstrations and bring your own ideas, initiatives and projects. Help build the Palestinian and Palestine solidarity struggle for justice.



Monday, January 24th
SIMON SHAHEEN: MUSIC "MADE IN PALESTINE"
Live Concert to Support "Made in Palestine" Art Show!

8:00 p.m.
At Peter Norton Symphony Space
2537 Broadway at 95th Street
New York, NY

Tickets available NOW for $25!
Buy online at www.symphonyspace.org (click on "Buy Tickets")
Or by calling the Symphony Space Box office at 212-864-5400

Get your tickets for this exciting and important musical performance today! Enjoy the masterful Arabic musical performance of renowned Palestinian musician Simon Shaheen while supporting Palestinian art and culture. All proceeds will go to bring the "Made in Palestine" art exhibition - a major traveling exhibition of 22 Palestinian artists - to New York City.

Sponsored by Al-Jisser Group



Thursday, January 20th
Protest the Inauguration in Washington, DC

9:00 AM
Convergence at 4th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
North Side of Parade Route (Look for bleachers)
Washington, DC

Local Transportation available from International Action Center (Call 212-633-6646 ) or from New Jersey Independents. Buses will leave at approximately 5 AM. Please reserve tickets in advance!

New Jersey Solidarity-Activists for the Liberation of Palestine joins with the antiwar and progressive movement across the country in calling upon its supporters and members to rally on Thursday, January 20 against the inauguration of illegitimate war president George W. Bush! We have supported the call for this demonstration since before the elections, as their result - whatever it was - promised nothing but continued occupation and oppression for people in Palestine, Iraq, and around the world. George W. Bush continues to wage a brutal war on the people of Iraq and support a brutal war on the people of Palestine, while extending the imperial tentacles of his regime and its corporate controllers ever further. It is imperative that our voices are heard, rejecting George W. Bush and his agenda, and the entire system of oppression, colonialism and imperialism that he represents - and supporting the people of Palestine, Iraq, Haiti, the Philippines, Venezuela, Colombia, Cuba, Korea and around the world who continue to resist oppression and occupation, and the people here at home - workers, people of color and other oppressed people - who continue to struggle for justice.

George W. Bush is committed to a project to destroy the Palestinian people and the Palestinian nation. He is committed to undermine the Right of Return, to a brutal apartheid colonial-settler state, and to support a vicious war against the people of Palestine. We must be present on Inauguration Day, to ensure that the Palestinian and solidarity voice is heard, echoing the voices of the Palestinian people, that no occupation and no repression will kill the resistance and steadfastness of Palestine!

STAND FOR JUSTICE ON JANUARY 20! If you would like to meet up with NJS to create a strong local Palestinian and solidarity contingent at the demonstration, please contact us:
Email: info@newjerseysolidarity.org
Phone: 973-954-2521