FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
"People and the Land" raises and highlights the issue of US aid to Israel. Billions of dollars in US aid, direct and indirect in the form of US corporate investment in the Israeli state, continue to fund the oppression and occupation of the Palestinian people and Palestinian land. These US corporations investing in Israel include those invested in by Rutgers University. At campuses across the country, including Rutgers, students and faculty are demanding that our universities divest - withdraw investment from - the apartheid state of Israel, in order to cut off that corporate aid to the apartheid regime.
Featuring speakers:
In this exciting, informative presentation, Samia Halaby will present, using the lens of Palestinian art of the past fifty years, an analysis of the political and social environment which lay behind the creation of the liberation art of Palestine. Journey through Palestinian art, Palestinian history and Palestinian politics and culture through the art of Palestinian liberation!
Samia A. Halaby was born in Jerusalem, Palestine, in 1936. In 1948, Israeli aggression forced their emigration to Beirut and from their her family emigrated to the US. There her art education took place in Midwestern Universities. She taught in American universities for eighteen years ending with ten years at the Yale School of Art. She has lectured as visiting artists at many distinguished schools. In recent years she has added work with electronic media. She programs kinetic computer paintings and performs them live with musicians. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is in many museum collections among them the Guggenheim Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Institute Du Monde Arab. She is active with Al-Awda NY-NJ, the Al-Jisser Working Group, and the Defend Palestine Committee.
An event for Palestine -- in support of women's organizations in the West Bank
Showing the film "Jenin Jenin"
After the film there will also be poetry, music, rap, food, and a short fashion
show of Palestinian dresses -- dancing at the end.
DIRECTIONS: take the subway, lines N or R to Whitehall St./South Ferry, or the 4 train to
Bowling Green.
Sponsored by Al-Awda-NY-NJ and the Defend PAlestine Committee, supported by New Jersey Solidarity
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
"People and the Land" raises and highlights the issue of US aid to Israel. Billions of dollars in US aid, direct and indirect in the form of US corporate investment in the Israeli state, continue to fund the oppression and occupation of the Palestinian people and Palestinian land. These US corporations investing in Israel include those invested in by Rutgers University. At campuses across the country, including Rutgers, students and faculty are demanding that our universities divest - withdraw investment from - the apartheid state of Israel, in order to cut off that corporate aid to the apartheid regime.
Join us to view "People and the Land," and discuss divestment from apartheid Israel!
*Plus: A report from October 25 demonstration in Washington, DC!
Sponsored by ANSWER Coalition and United For Peace and Justice
Get on the Bus!
New Brunswick
Buses Leaving from New Brunswick at approximately 7am.
Cost: $30.00;
$20.00 for students (sliding scale is also available)
Reservations: Oct25bus@hotmail.com or call (732) 846-8625 or (732) 613-1610
Buses sponsored by Central Jersey Coalition Against Endless War
Friday, October 10th to Sunday, October 12th
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Click here to register online now!
Following in the path set by the first two conferences of the student/community Palestine solidarity movement, we are proud to announce that the third North American conference will be held from October 10-12, 2003 at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. Divestment movements have sprouted across the country, International Solidarity Movement activists have traveled to Palestine, and at campuses and in communities throughout the United States, organizers have taken action, rallied, demonstrated, spoken and educated--to bring the truth about Palestine to a broad audience and build a mass movement for action.
The Third Conference will seek to build on our successes, analyze our tactics and develop strategies, skills and knowledge for the future. We will engage in educational sessions and workshops, activist skill-sharings and trainings, collective decision-making, public speaking events, rallies and direct action; we will come together as a movement to build unity and action, recognize and act upon diverse voices, and encourage collective involvement and expression. We will celebrate Palestinian resistance and work to build our own voices of resistance; we will strategize for divestment from Israeli apartheid. As Israel continues its oppression and occupation of Palestinian people and Palestinian land, we will raise our voices to demand an end and call for meaningful peace with justice in Palestine. As a solidarity movement, we will work to act in full support of and solidarity with the Palestinian national liberation movement. At a time when Palestine and the fundamental rights of the Palestinian people are under attack by forces of Zionism and imperialism, it is imperative that we come together to build a student movement that unites with our brothers and sisters in Palestine to uphold Palestinian rights and Palestinian liberation.
Beginning on Friday, October 10 with a major opening plenary and cultural event, the conference will lead to two more exciting days of plenaries, action-oriented workshops and decision-making sessions for the Palestine solidarity movement, following in the tradition of many years of Palestinian activism and Palestine solidarity work!
Come to the conference, at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ!
DIRECTIONS:
Getting here by air.....
While there are several area airports (including JFK, LaGuardia, and even Philadelphia International), by far the closest and most convenient is Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) in nearby Newark, NJ. From Newark International Airport, the AirTrain runs directly to New Brunswick several times hourly; the trip takes about 25 minutes.
Getting here by car...
The Douglass College Student Center is centrally located near several major highways. Detailed driving directions can be found at http://www.rutgers.edu/kiosk/directions/DCC.html.
Getting here by train...
Rutgers University can also be easily accessed by train from Philadelphia, New York and many places in between on New Jersey Transit. From New York take the North East Corridor line to New Brunswick. From Philadelphia take the R7 SEPTA Line and transfer at Trenton Station. The Douglas Student Center is located about fifteen minutes (walking) from the train station. The train station is located at French and Albany Street, between Easton Avenue and George Street. Upon locating George Street, proceed South towards downtown. The student center is located at the intersection of George Street and Nichol Avenue, about half a mile past downtown. Campus buses are free and run semi-frequently from several stops near the train station.
HOUSING AND LOGISTICS:
There are many local hotels in New Brunswick and the surrounding areas, as well as students willing to share their living quarters with traveling activists! For assistance with housing and hotels, please contact our housing coordinator at .
We are happy to help in this area!
Sunday, September 28th
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On the anniversary of the Palestinian Intifada...
END OCCUPATION in Iraq, Palestine and EVERYWHERE!
No to Empire!
No to Colonialism!
BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW!
We protest as the people of Iraq, Palestine, Korea, the Philippines, Afghanistan, Colombia and elsewhere continue to resist empire and colonial rule, and as the people of Africa resist US invasion and oppression.
On the anniversary of the Palestinian intifada (uprising), September 25-28, people around the world will join in International Days of Protest Against War, Occupation and Empire.
The U.S. is spending $4 billion a month to occupy Iraq - and $17 million a day on aid to Israel to occupy and oppress the Palestinian people and Palestinian land, as we are told there is no money for education, healthcare and vital social services.
To endorse, email september28@internationalanswer.org
Thursday, September 25th
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On the anniversary of the Palestinian Intifada...
END OCCUPATION in Iraq, Palestine and EVERYWHERE!
No to Empire!
No to Colonialism!
BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW!
On the anniversary of the Palestinian Intifada, September 25-28, people around the world will join in International Days of Protest Against War, Occupation and Empire.
We protest as the people of Iraq, Palestine, Korea, the Philippines, Afghanistan, Colombia and elsewhere continue to resist occupation and colonial rule, and as the people of Africa resist US invasion and oppression.
The US is spending $4 billion each month to occupy Iraq - and $17 million daily on aid to Israel to occupy and oppress the Palestinian people and Palestinian land, as we are told there is no money for education, health care and other vital social services.
ENDORSE THE PROTEST! SPEAK AT THE RALLY!
Contact info@newjerseysolidarity.org for more information!
Alison Weir is a journalist and founder of If Americans Knew , an organization dedicated to providing Americans with information on topics that are under reported.
Alison Weir lives in Sausalito, California. She is the executive director of If Americans Knew and is a contributor to THE NEW INTIFADA (Verso press) and the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. She traveled extensively throughout Gaza and the West Bank in winter, 2001, as a freelance reporter, and has given presentations on the Middle East on Capitol Hill, the Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine, and numerous other venues throughout the United States and Canada.
Tell Natan Sharansky hie is not welcome at Rutgers!
Sharansky calling for the military reoccupation of the West Bank: "Just as Hebron was the last city we gave up because of the Jewish community there, it should be the first city to be taken back."
Calling for the expansion of illegal colonies (settlements) in the West Bank: "We have to build settlement contiguity between Kiryat Arba, the Cave of the Patriarchs and the settlement community in Hebron."
Coming from New York? Take the NJ Transit NE Corridor Line from Penn Station to the New Brunswick station. Scott Hall is on College Ave, only a couple of blocks from the train station.
Tuesday, September 16th
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Take a stand! Call upon Rutgers University to end all investments in corporations doing business with Israel!
Thursday, September 11th
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"Chile, Obstinate Memory" (58 minutes/1997), a film by Patricio Guzmán, visits with Chileans who experienced the coup first-hand (some of whom are seen in "The Battle of Chile" from 25 years ago). Survivors reminisce as they watch that film, recognizing lost comrades and recalling their courage, gaiety and love of life. Those who were not killed during the coup itself were crowded into the National Stadium in Santiago, where many were tortured, disappeared, and never seen again. Survivors talk about the terror that characterized the Pinochet regime until the dictator was finally obliged to relinquish power.
Wednesday, September 3rd
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Become part of organizing the Third North American Conference of the Palestine Solidarity Movement!
Call upon Rutgers University to divest its holdings in corporations that do business with the apartheid state of Israel!
Stand for justice in Palestine at Rutgers, in New Jersey and in the United States!
IBDAA DANCE PERFORMANCE TOUR
A Palestinian folkloric dance performance by the youth of Dheisheh refugee camp, West Bank Palestine
Paul Robeson Campus Center
Multipurpose Room
Rutgers University
350 Martin Luther King Blvd
Newark, NJ
DOORS OPEN at 7:00 PM
ADMISSION: $10 / ticket $5 /students-low-income
No one will be turned away
FUNDRAISER FOR IBDA'A CULTURAL CENTER IN DEHEISHEH REFUGEE CAMP, WEST
BANK, PALESTINE
Advance reservations recommended - tickets sold at the door.
To guarantee your seat email
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IBDAA is a Palestinian youth dance troupe from Dheisheh refugee camp, near the city of Bethlehem in the Israeli occupied West Bank. It is a project of Ibdaa Cultural Center, which provides educational and cultural activities for the children and youth in the refugee camp. The dance troupe is made up of 18 young men and women, aged 15 - 18. They perform dance pieces that tell the history, struggle and aspiration of Palestinian refugees by intertwining debkeh, traditional Palestinian dance, and theatrical choreography.
Since its founding in 1994, Ibdaa has performed in over ten European and Middle Eastern countries. This tour will be Ibdaa's second visit to the United States, following their successful 5-city tour in the fall of 1999, sponsored by the Middle East Children's Alliance.
In the summer of 2003, MECA is bringing back Ibdaa's youth, touring eight major cities in the United States. They will be performing at local theaters and visiting with communities. Ibdaa hopes that they will meet as many people as possible to let their their voices for a just peace heard in these critical times of the history, and to build a bridge of friendship and solidarity.
About Dheisheh Refugee Camp
Dheisheh camp was established in 1949, after the expulsion and flight of more than 750,000 Palestinians following the creation of the state of Israel. Those that fled to Dheisheh originated from 45 villages west of Jerusalem and Hebron, the descendants of whom comprise the 11,000 inhabitants of the camp today. A resilient and active community, Dheisheh has a long history of struggle against oppression. Until the Israeli army's withdrawal in 1995, the camp was surrounded with a high barbed-wire fence. Soldiers and violent confrontations filled the alleys, killing tens of residents, while hundreds were injured, imprisoned and disabled for life. During the peace process years, the worsening plight of refugees was largely ignored in the negotiation framework, bringing a sense of stagnation and desperation to the community. Since the second Intifada (Palestinian uprising) began in September 2000, Dheisheh has been continuously besieged and invaded by the Israeli army, and losing a number of its residents in the violence.
Ibdaa - to create something out of nothing
Ibdaa, which means 'to create something out of nothing', is a grassroots initiative of Dheisheh Refugee Camp. Founded in 1995, Ibdaa serves over 1500 children and young people annually through various programs, while providing job opportunities to over 60 families in the camp. Ibdaa's mission is to provide an environment for the camp's children and young people to develop their ability, creativity and leadership skills through social, cultural and educational activities that are not readily available in the camp. Ibdaa strives to empower the children and instill in them confidence and strength to face their difficult future, while educating the international community on the Palestinian refugee issue. Ibdaa's program includes a nursery, kindergarten, children's library, computer and Internet centers, restaurant, multipurpose hall, sports programs, community mural, women's cooperative, music courses, guesthouse, income generation projects, and scholarships.
OCCUPATION AND RESISTANCE: FROM PALESTINE TO IRAQ:
A discussion with Sara Flounders
co-director of the International Action Center
Discuss occupation and resistance in Iraq and Palestine - and our role in working to end occupation - with Sara Flounders, co-director of the International Action Center, a steering committee member of the International ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) Coalition that was deeply involved in organizing the many mass mobilizations that brought millions to the streets against war on Iraq, and is currently organizing for September 25-28 Days of Action in support of global resistance and to commemmorate the anniversary of the Second Intifada, and for the October 25 march on the Pentagon to end the occupation of Iraq. Sara Flounders is co-coordinator of the Iraq Sanctions Campaign, and has traveled to Iraq and Palestine with international antiwar delegations.
7:00 p.m.
Room 256-7, Paul Robeson Campus Center
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
350 Martin Luther King Blvd.
Newark, NJ
Directions
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
Award-winning Palestinian filmmaker Mai Masri's most recent work traces the delicate friendship that evolves between two Palestinian girls: Mona, a resident of the economically marginalized Beirut refugee camp and Manar, an occupant of Bethlehem's Al-Dheisha camp under Israeli control. The two girls begin and continue their relationship through letters until they are finally given the opportunity to meet at the border during the Israeli withdrawal from South Lebanon. When the intifada suddenly erupts around them, both girls face heart-breaking changes in their lives.
As in Masri's earlier films, Children of Shatila (1998) and Children of Fire (1990), Frontiers of Dreams and Fears focuses on the difficult plight of Palestinian children while exhibiting an optimism that defies their unbearable circumstances.
7:00 p.m.
Dana Room, Fourth Floor
John Cotton Dana Library
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
185 University Avenue
Newark, NJ
Directions
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
Listen to the old men, the children, the doctors and the grieving mothers of Jenin, after the Israeli army's April 2002 attack flattened homes and buried an unknown number of civilians. Bitterness and grief are the prevailing feelings among the majority of the population. Many have lost loved ones or are still searching for victims and belongings among the debris. 'Where is God,' an elderly man desperately wonders when surveying the debris in the Jenin refugee camp.
A little girl, who does not seem to be much older than twelve, tells her story but knows no fear. The ongoing violence in her day-to-day life only nourishes her feelings of hatred and the urge to take revenge. She shouts that the Palestinians will never give up the struggle, that they will keep on producing children who can continue the fight against injustice.
The sad question forces itself on the spectator. What will become of a country, a people when its children are confronted with war and violence from a very early age?
Banned in Israel, "Jenin Jenin" is dedicated to Iyad Samudi, the producer of the film, who was shot dead by Israeli soldiers on June 23rd, 2002, as he returned home after completing the film.
RESISTING RACISM, FIGHTING for LIBERATION:
Voices of Color SPEAK OUT from the US to Palestine!
CLEO SILVERS is a former member of the Black Panther Party and the Young Lords Party, a labor activist and a longtime organizer for social justice.
VICENTE "PANAMA" ALBA is a former member of the Young Lords Party, a community organizer and labor activist in New York City.
ASSATA WRIGHT and BOB ALOTTA visited Palestine in Summer 2002 with the New York Solidarity Movement for a Free Palestine, a predominantly people of color-led delegation. Wright is a journalist and Alotta is a filmmaker and video activist who teaches at Columbia University.
CECILIA JOULAIN is a student organizer and writer in New Brunswick, NJ,
who works with New Jersey Solidarity, Caellian - the Progressive Magazine
of Douglass College and who is involved in the campaign to save cultural
studies at Rutgers.
CONCERT with Palestinian American Hip Hop Artists
The Iron Sheik and Tarik the Excentrik
plus local artists
The Iron Sheik recently released a full-length CD called "Camel Clutch 2003." He is currently working on an EP with Excentrik due out in the fall.
In a recent music review in Muslim Wakeup, Jawad Ali wrote, "Like a young Sid Vicious or a Chuck D, Iron Sheik is shaking out some sacred taboos without much regard for refinement and polish. With great artistry, he is saying what desperately needs to be said. This is what great music is all about."
For more info on the Sheik, please see: www.ironsheik.biz.
Counter-Demonstration to the "Salute to Israel Day Parade"
11:00 a.m.This demonstration is called by the Palestine Activist Forum of New York, a coalition in which New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine is a participant organization.
South Africa was the site of a mass people's resistance movement to its apartheid regime--a movement that achieved victory through the strength of its resistance, with the support of millions around the globe standing in solidarity. Palestinians face a similar apartheid reality, living under military occupation, denied the right to return to their homeland, split and separated from one another, colonized and oppressed--and have a similar heritage of steadfast resistance. Join long-time South African anti-apartheid activist NA'EEM JEENAH and Palestinian American writer and activist RIMA ANABTAWI as they discuss apartheid, resistance to it, and the necessity of international solidarity.
NA'EEM JEENAH is the spokesperson for the Palestine Solidarity Committee of South Africa and President of the Muslim Youth Movement of South Africa. He was a longtime anti-apartheid activist with the MYM and the Mass Democratic Movement, and is an author, journalist,community leader and lecturer in the Department of Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
RIMA ANABTAWI is a Palestinian-American writer and a founding member of Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition. She serves as Co-Coordinator of Al-Awda and Chair of the International Events committee, and co-coordinator of internal affairs as well as Executive Editor of Palestine Media Watch, the CNN division.
Sunday, April 27:
2 PM -- Introduction
2:10 PM - The Battle of Algiers (1967), 125 minutes.
Fictionalized account of the Algerian uprising against French colonialism
and for self-determination and national liberation.
4:15 PM -- Hate (1995), 91 minutes. Follows the journey of three
lower-class French youth as police brutality and race riots reign over the
streets of Paris.
6:00 PM -- La Ciudad/The City (1999), 88 minutes. Interweaves three
stories of dispossesed Latin American immigrants in NYC.
Followed by discussion period!
As an organization committed to action and resistance in support of the Palestinian struggle, New Jersey Solidarity is proud to present two organizers from the Concordia/Montreal community speaking about solidarity and resistance to repression:
Leila Khaled Mouammar: Leila is a graduate student at Concordia University active with the Karameh campaign and is a member of Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR-Montreal). She has been just one of many people targeted by Administrative persecution at Concordia for forming part of a loose collective of diverse individuals and groups, united by a belief in social justice, who stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people and their resistance to the injustices bred by the Israeli occupation, Zionist apartheid and Anglo-American-Israeli imperialism.
Stefan Christoff: Stefan is a community organizer and artist living in Montreal active with the Karameh campaign. Stefan also is active with the No One is Illegal Campaign of Montreal, CLAC (the Anti-Capitalist Convergence) and works with CKUT Community Radio in Montreal.
The Karameh Campaign of Montreal - Standing in Solidarity with the Palestinian Resistance
In Montreal Canada the Karameh campaign has been launched to respond the ongoing attempt to criminalize Palestinian solidarity organization at Concordia University, other universities and communities, throughout Montreal and around the world. The Karameh campaign is composed of many groups, organizations and individuals from throughout Montreal including organizers from Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights and the No One is Illegal Campaign of Montreal.
The Karameh campaign has been inspired by Palestinian solidarity organizing in Montreal and is intimately connected to social justice organizing in general. Also the Karameh campaign to defend Palestinian solidarity organizing, has been inspired by the actions taken on September 9th 2002, at Concordia University where 1500 students and allies rose up in opposition to the presence of Israeli war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu at Concordia University in Montreal.
The Karameh campaign is committed to values of solidarity, justice, and dignity while standing in opposition to racism, anti-Semitism, sexism and all forms of oppression. The word Karameh means Dignity in Arabic and is also the name of a town from which the Palestinian resistance launched its first effective attack in the effort to reclaim their land and rights.
The program of events will begin at 7 pm, including dramatic readings, performances, music, art displays and more. Join us for the evening, sleep out with us at night and celebrate and express solidarity with the resistance of the Palestinian people on Wednesday, April 9 at 12 noon at the steps of Brower Commons for a rally for justice in Palestine and divestment from Israel!
Assemble at Marcus Garvey Park at 124th St. & 5th Ave.
March starts at 12:00 Noon
2 PM Rally at Harlem State Office Building
125th St. & Adam Clayton Powell Blvd (7th Ave.)
We stand in opposition to a war where most of our children's bodies will litter the deserts in Iraq. It is our children who are being sent to kill others due the economic draft that leaves them without jobs, decent homes, health care, quality education or protection against police brutality! It is our children and our families whose human rights continue to be violated by this racist government and big business.
Join your sisters and brothers in Harlem!
Organizer: Black Solidarity Against the War Coalition
Endorsed by NJSolidarity
8:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m.
Kreeger Learning Center
131
College Ave (click for map)
New Brunswick, NJ
NEW JERSEY PREMIERE!
Listen to the old men, the children, the doctors and the grieving mothers of Jenin, after the Israeli army's April 2002 attack flattened homes and buried an unknown number of civilians. Bitterness and grief are the prevailing feelings among the majority of the population. Many have lost loved ones or are still searching for victims and belongings among the debris. 'Where is God,' an elderly man desperately wonders when surveying the debris in the Jenin refugee camp.
A little girl, who does not seem to be much older than twelve, tells her story but knows no fear. The ongoing violence in her day-to-day life only nourishes her feelings of hatred and the urge to take revenge. She shouts that the Palestinians will never give up the struggle, that they will keep on producing children who can continue the fight against injustice.
The sad question forces itself on the spectator. What will become of a country, a people when its children are confronted with war and violence from a very early age?
Banned in Israel, "Jenin Jenin" is dedicated to Iyad Samudi, the producer of the film, who was shot dead by Israeli soldiers on June 23rd, 2002, as he returned home after completing the film.
6:00 PM
Brower Commons: Rutger's University
145 College Ave
New Brunswick, NJ
7:30 PM
Center for Latino Arts and Culture
122
College Ave (click for map)
New Brunswick, NJ
7:00 PM
Livingston Student Center
Room 113
84 Joyce Kilmer Ave (click for map)
Piscataway, NJ
Rutgers University
8:00 PM
Demarest Lounge
125
College Ave (click for map)
New Brunswick, NJ
11:00 AM
CONVERGE at Times Square then MARCH to Union Square
Join the NJS contingent! Meet at 9:30 AM at the New Brunswick Train Station!
2 PM - 7 PM
Busch Campus Center
604 Bartholomew Rd (click for map)
Piscataway, NJ
Rutgers University
Come experience the enchanted culture of an oppressed and resisting people! An afternoon of heritage, harmony and history, featuring:
7:00 p.m.
Center for Latino Arts and Culture
122
College Ave (click for map)
New Brunswick, NJ
Imam Mahdi Bray is a longtime civil and human rights activist, currently serving as the Executive Director of the Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice (NICWJ) and the Interfaith Alliance and hosts a Washington, DC based television and radio talk show. Bray was actively involved and insturmental in the success of the anti-Apartheid movement in the United States that helped upend the system in South Africa. Bray worked in the 1960s in coalitions with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and other activist groups.
7:00 p.m.
Room 113
Livingston Student Center
84 Joyce Kilmer Ave (click for map)
Piscataway, NJ
Rutgers University
At last year's World Conference on Racism, African governments and landless South Africans rallied behind the Palestinian cause. This April, with Palestinian cities under siege, tens of thousands of Egyptians broke the ban on public demonstrations and more than 2 million people participated in one of the largest rallies ever in Morocco. Generations of Africans struggling for liberation have stood by the Palestinian cause. Their stances over the past 50 years reflect a history of shared forms of oppression, and a growing sense of creativity, compassion and urgency in African visions of liberation. Carwil James, an activist and researcher from Oakland, will present this perspective.
7:00 p.m.
Center for Latino Arts and Culture
122
College Ave (click for map)
New Brunswick, NJ
Right click here to download color flyer and here to download black and white flyer.
For more than two decades, Dr. Samara has written extensively about the most vital issues facing Arab and Palestinian struggles. He has written a plethora of books, both in Arabic and English, and co-authored and edited numerous articles and essays. His most recent book, "Epidemic of Globalization: Ventures in World Order, Arab Nation and Zionism", was published in 2002.
Dr. Samara is the editor-in-chief of Kana'an, an Arabic quarterly periodical published in Palestine devoted to the debate of theoretical, cultural, political, and economic issues that affect the Arab nation and is dedicated to the causes of Arabic unity, development, and socialism.
Due to his political views and activism, Dr. Samara had to face imprisonment several times. He was arrested three times by the Jordanian authority and spent two and half years in West Bank jails before the 1967 war. Under the Israeli occupation, he was imprisoned for five and half years. Most recently, November 1999, as one of the signatories of the Bayan Al-Ishreen (The declaration of the Twenty) he was placed under arrest for twenty-three days by the Palestinian Authority with other Palestinian leaders.
7:00 p.m.
Center for Latino Arts and Culture
122
College Ave (click for map)
New Brunswick, NJ
SUBHASH KATEEL-organizer with Families for Freedom, a New York-based immigrants' rights group that works with families of immigrants subject to detention or deportation
PARASTOU HASSOURI-coordinator, New Jersey Civil Liberties Union Immigrants Rights Project
JEANNETTE GABRIEL-staff organizer, New Jersey National Writers Union and organizer with NJ Free the Detainees
WIND OF THE SPIRIT REPRESENTATIVE - organizer with this immigrants' rights and advocacy group that provides services, Spanish-language classes and serves as a bridge between immigrant and non-immigrant communities
ROGER CALERO DEFENSE COMMITTEE - spokesperson with the defense committee of recently-detained journalist Roger Calero
- on February 20, wear a blue triangle in solidarity with immigrants! see www.bluetriangle.org -
7:00 p.m.
College Hall
Livingston Student Center
84 Joyce Kilmer Ave (click for map)
Piscataway, NJ
Rutgers University
Right click here to download color flyer and here to download b&w flyer.
Dr. Hatem Bazian, longtime anti-apartheid activist and professor of Islamic Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, will speak about the strategy of divestment in overturning South African apartheid in the 1980s-early 1990s, and its similar relevance for the struggle for justice in Palestine today.
Dr. Bazian has also authored numerous articles on various aspects of the Middle East. In the past, he has also played a significant role in the civil rights, anti-Apartheid, and affirmative action movements at Berkeley. He is the director of the Al-Qalam Institute of Islamic Sciences.
2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Room 255
Paul Robeson Campus Center
350 Martin Luther King Blvd (click for map)
Newark, NJ
Rutgers University, Newark Campus
Right click to download Flyer 1 and Flyer 2.
When standing for peace and justice, one challenge activists frequently face is dealing with the press and media distortions. Mazin Qumsiyeh, professor at Yale University, a founder of Al- Awda, the Palestinian Right of Return Coalition, and chair of its Media Committee, will provide an introduction to the truth about Palestine, shattering myths and presenting information necessary to understand the current situation in the Middle East.
Co-sponsored by New Jersey Solidarity with Rutgers Acts for Peace and Justice
6:00 p.m.
Douglass College Center
Women's Center, Third Floor
100
George Street (click for map)
New Brunswick, NJ
Right click here to download flyer.
After several months of Israeli attempts to conceal the conduct of the IDF in the Israeli invasion of the Jenin refugee camp in April 2002, the most compelling, detailed and revealing account of the historic events will finally be available to the public.
The book entitled "Searching Jenin, Eyewitness Accounts of the Israeli Invasion, 2002", is without a doubt, a must for anyone interested in Middle East history, politics and current events. The work, which includes final statistics of casualties, human and material losses, is by far the most comprehensive and exhaustive volume written on the issue.
"Searching Jenin," a collective effort of nearly 60 scholars, reporters, and activists, Palestinians, Israelis and Internationals, is edited by Ramzy Baroud and includes a Forward by the highly- renowned scholar, Noam Chomsky. The book is being published by Cune Press in Seattle, and is a part of their Bridge Between Cultures project.
"I owe my greatest thanks to our commissioned reporters in Palestine," said Ramzy Baroud, the editor of 'Searching Jenin", Many of them put their safety, and in some cases, their lives on the line to collect account after tragic account for this book. Because of their integrity and professionalism, they were able to interview many high profile figures that refused to take an interview with any other news agency."
The courageous reporters who combed the streets of Jenin, interviewed medical personnel, resistance fighters, and even children, including an 8 year old girl named Rund, who complained that the army broke her only doll. Rund's father was later shot and killed by the army. They also interviewed an elderly widow who explained how she implored Israeli forces as they demolished her small home, burying her disabled son alive under the rubble. Her son's body was never recovered.
In an interview with Flashpoints Radio in Berkeley, Baroud stressed, "For the past several months, the Israeli government has done everything in their power to cover-up their actions, including the barring of a UN investigation team to the area. 'Searching Jenin' will not simply add fuel to the controversy regarding the events in Jenin, but that it will prove to be the most revealing document to date regarding the atrocities last April that came to be a symbol of Palestinian resistance world-wide."
Ali Samoudi, the project facilitator in Jenin stressed, "The promotion of this important book is the collective responsibility of all who care about justice and truth. This book is dear to the hearts off all refugees in Jenin, because for the first time, we are narrating our own story."
7:00 p.m.
Douglass College Center
100
George Street (click for map)
New Brunswick, NJ
Directions by mass transit: Take NJ Transit Rail to the New Brunswick Station. At the corner of Somerset & George (next to train station) take an F bus. Stay on the bus through downtown New Brunswick. When the driver announces "Cooper Dining Hall/Douglass College Center," (first oncampus stop), get off the bus and walk half a block to the Douglass College Center.
Cynthia is the daughter of veteran Georgia State Representative Billy McKinney and Leola McKinney, a nurse of forty years at Grady Hospital in Atlanta. Unwilling to bend or dance to the tune of the unfounded rhetoric of critics, Representative McKinney boldly answers the calls of constituents and, when appropriate, holds American government agencies responsible for their practices and policies. Cynthia's concerns have included such diverse issues as excessive military spending, environmental sustainability, trade relations with African countries and encouraging international trade that is consistent with American values and American laws. As part of her duties to her constituents, Congresswoman McKinney was one of the first members of Congress to appeal for a thorough investigation into 9/11, an event that affected many Americans, including people from Georgia who perished at the Pentagon and World Trade Center.
Few elected officials possess an equal amount of endurance and courage to wage necessary fights.
Cynthia McKinney was targeted by AIPAC and other reactionary forces for defeat in the 2002 elections, for her consistent support for the human rights of the Palestinian people and her willingness to question the Bush administration. Since the election, she has dedicated herself to fighting against a war on Iraq, standing for justice, and building new coalitions for social action across the country.
7:00 p.m.
Room 113
Livingston Student Center
84 Joyce Kilmer Ave (click for map)
Piscataway, NJ
Rutgers University
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For links to his writings, click here.
He is the author of four books: The Teacher, a work of Islamically-based poetry and commentary on a myriad of social and political issues; Sacrilege In the Haramain, an eyewitness account of the tragedy that occurred in Mecca, Arabia (on 6th Zul-Hijjah 1407/July 31, 1987); Why Our Children Are Killing Themselves, an examination of the root causes behind the crises facing children, youth and families in America; Criminal Justice in America, an examination of the U.S. Criminal Justice System and its impact on the African American community.
He is a critically-acclaimed poet, was selected as An Outstanding Young Man of America in 1986. In 1995 he was the recipient of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Award, from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and a Maryland State Senate Resolution, (for his human rights work in and outside the State of Maryland).
In 1999 Saalakhan served as a consultant for Amnesty International's year long focus on human rights abuses in the United States of America. Presently he heads the National Public information/Education Campaign (initiated by The Peace And Justice Foundation) to repeal the US government's unconstitutional use of "secret evidence," and to mobilize support for Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin.
11 AM - 4 PM
Brecht Forum
122 West 27th St., NYC
Co-sponsored by New Jersey Solidarity. Go here for full details.
On January 28, 2003, New Jersey Solidarity and the Rutgers University Campaign for Divestment from Israeli Apartheid will officially launch their divestment campaign with a series of events, activities and actions.
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