Sunday, December 28th, 2008
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2:00 p.m.
Rockefeller Center - 50th St. and 5th Ave.
March to Zionist Consulate - 42nd St. and 2nd. Ave
100 George St.
New York City, NY
We must act now, before the massacres continue! Over 200 people were killed in Gaza on Saturday, December 27 in a series of Israeli attacks - with US-made and paid for weaponry - upon the Palestinian people. These cold-blooded killings come on top of a siege on Gaza that has killed hundreds by depriving them of medical care, deprived Gazans of electricity, power and fuel and attempted to strangle the life of the Palestinian people in Gaza.
The people of Gaza are standing steadfast in the face of these massacres but our voices must be heard to demand an immediate end to the massacres and an end to US aid to Israel! The Israeli military is promising more massacres - we must say no NOW!
ALL OUT TO PROTEST THE MASSACRES IN GAZA!
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
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7:00 p.m.
Douglass Student Center
Meeting Room F
100 George St.
New Brunswick, NJ
Rutgers University - Dougless Campus
Please join New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine as we kick off a new campaign in support of Palestinian political prisoners and their families - a campaign in which YOU can play a key role in expressing your support for those who struggle and suffer daily to serve the Palestinian people.
"Nidal" is the Arabic word for struggle. With this campaign, we honor the Palestinian political prisoners and all those who struggle against 60 years of oppression and occupation.
This campaign is based on a direct, simple expression of support and solidarity - letters written to prisoners and their families, from students, workers, activists, artists, families, and others throughout the United States and around the world, expressing human support, honor, respect and commitment to the freedom and dignity of the Palestinian people and Palestinian political prisoners.
Israel, as an illegal occupier, currently holds over 11,000 Palestinian political prisoners. These prisoners are not held because they are charged with traditional crimes, disturbing their communities or hurting their families. Rather, they are held because they, as Palestinians, organized, acted, or fought for the freedom of their land.
With this campaign, we seek to build a connection between families of political prisoners living in Palestine with activists and individuals in the U.S. Our letters will express our solidarity. We look to provide encouragement to the families who face great challenges with the absence of their loved ones.
Please join us on Tuesday, November 18th for our campaign kick-off meeting. We will provide an overview of the issue of Palestinian political prisoners and a brief introduction to the campaign. From there we invite you to help us strategize and develop the campaign. We will organize teach-ins, letter writing sessions, and solidarity events. Join us!
Free all Palestinian Political Prisoners!
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
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7:00 p.m.
SAC Conference Room
Student Activities Center
613 George St.
New Brunswick, NJ
Rutgers University- College Avenue Campus
Please join New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine as we kick off a new campaign in support of Palestinian political prisoners and their families - a campaign in which YOU can play a key role in expressing your support for those who struggle and suffer daily to serve the Palestinian people.
"Nidal" is the Arabic word for struggle. With this campaign, we honor the Palestinian political prisoners and all those who struggle against 60 years of oppression and occupation.
This campaign is based on a direct, simple expression of support and solidarity - letters written to prisoners and their families, from students, workers, activists, artists, families, and others throughout the United States and around the world, expressing human support, honor, respect and commitment to the freedom and dignity of the Palestinian people and Palestinian political prisoners.
Israel, as an illegal occupier, currently holds over 11,000 Palestinian political prisoners. These prisoners are not held because they are charged with traditional crimes, disturbing their communities or hurting their families. Rather, they are held because they, as Palestinians, organized, acted, or fought for the freedom of their land.
With this campaign, we seek to build a connection between families of political prisoners living in Palestine with activists and individuals in the U.S. Our letters will express our solidarity. We look to provide encouragement to the families who face great challenges with the absence of their loved ones.
Please join us on Tuesday, November 18th for our campaign kick-off meeting. We will provide an overview of the issue of Palestinian political prisoners and a brief introduction to the campaign. From there we invite you to help us strategize and develop the campaign. We will organize teach-ins, letter writing sessions, and solidarity events. Join us!
Free all Palestinian Political Prisoners!
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
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Join New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine and generations of Palestinian activists and organizers to commemorate 60 years of Al-Nakba and celebrate 60 years of Palestinian resistance, and discuss the struggle for the future of Palestine!
Featuring speakers including:
DAWUD ASSAD, Nakba survivor and survivor of the Deir Yassin Massacre
MOHAMMAD AWADALLAH, New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine and Palestinian student
Join us to learn about:
and to find out how you can be part of exciting initiatives in the struggle for Palestine!
Join us for an unforgettable evening of commemoration, discussion and solidarity!
DIRECTIONS:
Thursday, December 6, 2007
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Featuring performers and speakers:
HAYA ASHAYER - an original performance by Haya Ashayer of a short play focusing on the struggles of Palestinian political prisoners. Haya Ashayer is a student at Rutgers University, a member of New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine and an organizer with the US Popular Palestinian Conference Network. She will be joined by student members of NJS in performing the play. Haya's website
ASHANTI ALSTON OMOWALI - Ashanti Alston Omowali is an anarchist activist, speaker, and writer, and former member of the Black Panther Party. He was also a member of the Black Liberation Army, and spent more than a decade in prison after government forces captured him (and the official court system convicted him) of armed robbery. Ashanti is a former northeast coordinator for Critical Resistance, currently co-chair of the National Jericho Movement (to free U.S. political prisoners), a member of pro-Zapatista people-of-color U.S.-based Estación Libre, and is on the board of the Institute for Anarchist Studies.
CHARLOTTE KATES - Charlotte Kates is a lawyer and an organizer for New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine and Al-Awda New York, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, and co-chair of the Middle East Subcommittee of the National Lawyers Guild. She recently participated in a delegation to occupied Palestine and met with former political prisoners. She was one of the three U.S.-based attorneys to attend a session of the Israeli military trial of Ahmad Sa'adat.
SPEAKER ON THE CUBAN FIVE - New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine supports the Month of Action for the Cuban Five, five Cubans who are unjustly imprisoned in the United States for defending their people against US-based attacks.
December 3, 2007 marks the International Day of Solidarity with Political Prisoners. Join New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine for an evening of solidarity, struggle and education in support of political prisoners, from the US to Palestine, and their struggle for freedom and liberation!
For more information on Palestinian political prisoners, visit the NJS Political Prisoner Resource Center.
Sponsored by: New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine
For more information:
Email: info@newjerseysolidarity.org
Phone: 973-954-2521
DIRECTIONS:
New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine is pleased to present RAMZY BAROUD, as he tours the US, and feature his latest book, THE SECOND PALESTINIAN INTIFADA. Palestinian journalist Ramzy Baroud taught Mass Communication at Australia's Curtin University of Technology and is Editor-in-Chief of the Palestine Chronicle (http://www.palestinechronicle.com).
Baroud's work has been published in hundreds of newspapers and journals worldwide, including The Washington Post, The International Herald Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Seattle Times, The Miami Herald, The Japan Times and Al-Ahram Weekly.
He has been a guest on numerous television programs including CNN International, BBC, ABC Australia, National Public Radio, Al-Jazeera and many others. He has contributed to many anthologies and his 2002 book, "Searching Jenin: Eyewitness Accounts of the Israeli Invasion" has received international recognition.
Copies of THE SECOND PALESTINIAN INTIFADA will be available at the event.
Reviews of Baroud's book include:
Norman Solomon: "Ramzy Baroud offers clarity about what remains in the shadows of Western media coverage. He illuminates a process of propaganda that combines with political machinations and military suppression to violate the most basic human rights of Palestinian people. The value of his Writings on the Second Palestinian Uprising can be appreciated as a refutation of the clichés and arrogance that so often turn ostensible journalism into rationalizations for Israeli policies. The awful truths in Baroud's essays are unacceptable to those who prefer to rely on euphemism and evasion. For the rest of us, his willingness to expose what cannot stand the light of day is a real service to movements for human rights everywhere."
Remi Kanazi: "The relevancy and necessity of Baroud's analysis and critique in these pressing times cannot be overstated. The genuineness of Baroud's approach is one to be admired and applauded. His insistence to uncover injustices carried out by Israel (with full support of the US administration) is unwavering ..."
DIRECTIONS:
Saturday, July 28th, 2007
2:00 p.m. |
Featuring FILM SCREENINGS of:
"WOMEN IN STRUGGLE" and "STOLEN YOUTH"
There are, today, approximately 11,000 Palestinian political prisoners held in the jails of the Israeli state. Palestinians, living under occupation and oppression for sixty years, have been targeted relentlessly for imprisonment and detention. Since the extension of occupation to the West Bank and Gaza Strip in 1967, over 650,000 Palestinians have been taken prisoner - one out of every four Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza; 40% of Palestinian men in the West Bank and Gaza have spent time in jail as a political prisoner or held under administrative detention.
Of late, the Palestinian political prisoners - activists, organizers and leaders, men, women and children - have been spotlighted. 255 Palestinian prisoners were released on July 20, while nearly 300 additional prisoners were taken in the week prior to the release. Palestinian prisoners represent every major Palestinian political organization, and include 41 members of the elected Palestinian Legislative Council. On July 29, the trial of Ahmad Sa'adat, Palestinian political prisoner and General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, is scheduled to begin, over a year after he was kidnapped from Jericho prison in an Israeli military attack. Other key Palestinian political leaders, including Marwan Barghouthi of Fateh and Aziz Dweik, the Hamas speaker of the Legislative Council, are also imprisoned.
Join us for two remarkable films and edifying discussion about Palestinian political prisoners, and to find out what you can do to support freedom for all Palestinians!
Film Details:
"WOMEN IN STRUGGLE"
(Dir: Buthina Canaan Khoury, 2004, 56 min)
WOMEN IN STRUGGLE presents rare testimony from four female Palestinian ex-detainees who disclose their experiences during their years of imprisonment in Israeli jails and the effect it has had on their present lives and future outlooks. The focus will be on the lives of four women who came out of their roles as sisters, mothers, and wives, and took on a different role - being involved in the Palestinian national struggle. Without narration, these women give their testimony in their own words about their past difficult experiences, and their daily life in the current Intifada, facing the so called "war on terror" and the apartheid wall.
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"STOLEN YOUTH"
(Dir. Saed Andoni, 2004, 20 min.)
STOLEN YOUTH casts a light on the experience of Palestinian child prisoners. The documentary includes interviews with ex-child detainees, their families and their lawyer as well as exclusive footage from the inside an Israeli military court. The film highlights the personal pain experienced by the children and their relatives during the period of their incarceration, as well as placing this suffering within the wider context of occupation and oppression.
Directions:
PATH Train: Take the PATH to Journal Square station. Walk down Bergen Ave. to the corner of Bergen and Highland. The Church is on the southwest corner of the intersection.
Parking is available in the Church parking lot on Highland Avenue.
Sunday, June 10, 2007
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2:00 Rally
4:00 March (From Capitol Hill to the Ellipse)
Get on the van! Click here for details.
New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine and Al-Awda New York (the Palestine Right to Return Coalition) call on Right to Return activists to join us in Washington D.C. on June 10th to march together in a "Liberation and Return" contingent.
While the organizers/sponsors of this mass rally and march are emphasizing the commemoration of 40 years of occupation in the West Bank, Gaza, East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights, we must also commemorate the 60th year of the occupation which began with Al-Nakba in 1948. Solidarity with the Palestinian liberation struggle must include solidarity with Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, Palestinians in Palestine '48, and Palestinians in exile.
Over 6 million refugees have the Right to Return to their original lands and properties, and we must not limit our discussion of Palestine to a subsequent attack that took place 19 years after the invasion that forced over 750,000 Palestinians into exile.
Thousands of activists will be marching on Washington D.C. on Sunday, June 10th. We must be there to raise the banner of Liberation and Return. Join us to carry Right to Return signs, carry Palestinian flags and chant for Return and Liberation!
When the call is made to line up for marching, meet us near the tabling area to the Left when facing the capitol.
Groups in the New York area are organizing buses from Manhattan and Brooklyn. Please get in touch with us if you need more information on this.
Wednesday, June 27 - Sunday, July 1, 2007
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Please join New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine for our workshops at the United States Social Forum! Thousands of organizers and activists from a variety of movements will come together in Atlanta, GA for the first US Social Forum, from June 27-July 1, 2007, to stategize, discuss, and build stronger movements for justice and against oppression. For more information on the US Social Forum, please visit http://www.ussf2007.org/.
Alongside a number of organizations working for justice in Palestine, New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine will be organizing two workshops at the US Social Forum. Please join us for these workshops, and participate in all of the important Palestine workshops at the USSF!
POLITICAL PRISONERS: FROM GUANTANAMO TO ABU GHRAIB TO PALESTINE
Friday, June 29, 2007
10:30 AM
Mezzanine Center, Atlanta Civic Center
Atlanta, GA
This workshop seeks to advance political prisoner solidarity and support work, by linking prisoners of occupation and imperialism around the world, especially those affected by U.S. or U.S.-sponsored occupation and imperialism - the prisoners of Iraq and Afghanistan, the detainees of Guantanamo, and Palestinian political prisoners. Supporting its prisoners is a critical responsibility for any movement, and supporting the prisoners of a liberation struggle is an especially crucial responsibility for a solidarity movement.
Thus, the purpose of this workshop is to present information, strategies and ideas about meaningful political support, linking Palestine solidarity, anti-torture, constitutional rights, anti-war and anti-imprisonment work with one another in order to build links of solidarity between Palestinian prisoners of Zionist occupation and the prisoners of the so-called "war on terror" held by the United States.
Today, 11,000 Palestinian prisoners are held by Israel. Over half have never been tried; this number includes hundreds of women and children. Of a total of 784, 384 prisoners remain at Guantanamo Bay, and the Bush administration proposes that it may continue to hold them indefinitely, with no legal recourse. Thousands more are held by the US in Iraq and Afghanistan, and more still in secret CIA detention or "black sites," and even more in an emerging system of proxy detention in the Horn of Africa. Breakouts into regional and sectoral groups would help to refine campaign development and action, and report back on how we can strengthen the links of solidarity explored in this workshop and blend the lines between anti-torture, anti-war, prisoner solidarity and Palestine solidarity work into a comprehensive and united front for action, including:
COORDINATION WORKSHOP: PLANNING FOR AL-NAKBA 60th ANNIVERSARY
Saturday, June 30, 2007
1:00 PM
Magnolia Conference Room, Days Inn Downtown
Atlanta, GA
This workshop is an internal coordination and preparation workshop for a broad assembly that will take place the following day, seeking to develop and draw out ideas, proposals, and actions for coordination around the 2008 60th anniversary commemoration of Al-Nakba. As the 1948 Nakba, or catastrophe, marked the birth of the occupation of 78% of Palestine, the creation of 750,000 Palestinian refugees (who today number over 5 million, the world's largest refugee population), and thus the birth of the modern Palestinian movement for liberation; commemoration of this 60th anniversary will form a crucial part of Palestine solidarity and Arab community organizing throughout 2008, with local, regional, national and international initiatives for commemoration, action, remembrance and solidarity.
Various organizations and coalitions planning activities will attend and discuss their activities and how we can best work together to support those events. This internal coordination workshop will seek to prepare for a much larger assembly for the development of programs across the country, but will help attending groups and organizations to flesh out their ideas, as well as seeing where they fit in to current proposals and initiatives, as well as how various groups can enhance existing initiatives with their skills and expertise.
Sunday, May 20, 2007
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Bring Palestinian flags! Literature will be provided!
59 years ago, the people of Palestine endured al-Nakba (the catastrophe), the attack by zionist militias that led to the dispossession of over 750,000 Palestinians and the theft of 78% of Palestine by force of arms. Replacing Britain as the colonial power ruling Palestine, the zionist state was established in 1948. Since that time, Palestinians have continued to remember al-Nakba, and, in the face of ongoing brutality, the occupation of the remaining 22% of Palestine, the continuing denial of Palestinian self-determination and Palestinian rights, and the ongoing refusal to recognize the national, collective, individual and human right of over six million Palestinian refugees to return to their original homes, lands and villages, to struggle for liberation and return.
Join us on Sunday, May 20 to educate the public about al-Nakba, distributing literature and sharing information about the ongoing catastrophe in Palestine and what we can do here to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people - in Palestine '48, in the West Bank and Gaza, and in exile - and to build a movement for justice in Palestine.
Thursday, May 3, 2007
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Subway: ABCDEF or Q to West 4th; N or R to 8th Street; 6 to Astor Place Station; 1 or 9 to Christopher Street
Going Beyond the Headlines and the Hype - Why is Israel now targeting the Palestinian leader Dr. Azmi Bishara? What are the implications of this new campaign for Palestinians inside Israel? Why are calls for equality of all citizens deemed a "strategic threat" for the State of Israel? How will this new anti-democratic campaign affect political dissent and mobilization against wars, military occupations and injustice in the Middle East?
Come join us for a panel discussion on the issues that are impacting on and affected by the Israeli campaign targeting the Palestinian intellectual and former member of Israel's parliament, Dr. Azmi Bishara.
Speakers:
Sponsored by: Ad-Hoc Committee in Support of Azmi Bishara, Adalah-NY: Coalition for Justice in the Middle East, WESPAC Foundation, ISM-NYC, NY Campaign for Boycott Divestment and Sanctions Against Israel, Al-Awda NY and New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine, United for Peace and Justice / NYC, Friends of the Jenin Freedom Theatre, Students for Justice in Palestine - NYU
Saturday, March 31st, 2007
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Public transportation: take PATH train to Journal Square Station
On March 30, 1976, 6 Palestinians, of Palestine '48, citizens of the apartheid state of Israel yet subject to its policies of ethnic cleansing and its racist nature, were murdered by the Israeli military as they protested to defend their land from confiscation. Since that day, March 30 has been recognized as the Day of the Land (Yom al-Ard), a day that commemorates the struggle of 1948 Palestinians, and the struggle of all Palestinians to protect their homeland from occupiers and liberate it from colonization. These six fallen Palestinians were six of thousands killed and millions made refugees, since before 1948, in the Zionist quest for the colonization and ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Today, that quest continues - as does Palestinians' resistance. Join us to learn about and commemorate the struggles of Palestinians in Palestine '48, in the West Bank and Gaza, and in exile, as they struggle for liberation and return. As Palestinians work for their freedom, the US government provides $15 million daily in tax-funded aid to Israel - money that goes to demolish Palestinian homes, uproot Palestinian olive trees, and take Palestinian lives with the newest US military hardware. Join us to find out how you can get involved in a movement to end all US aid to Israel and support justice in Palestine!
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Come to see, meet and support renowned Palestinian actor, director and filmmaker...
MOHAMMAD BAKRI
Suggested Donation: $5-10 - Donations go to support Mohammad Bakri's future projects. Additional donations to support Bakri's work are welcome!
Don't miss this wonderful opportunity to meet with and discuss the work of Palestinian filmmaker Mohammad Bakri. An actor featured in films such as "Private" and "The Olive Harvest"; the director of "1948" and "Jenin Jenin"; as well as a theatrical actor and director, Bakri's work is award-winning and renowned.
Join him for a screening of "Jenin Jenin," a film that reveals the extent to which the prolonged oppression and terror has affected the state of mind of the Palestinian inhabitants of the Jenin refugee camp. 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. 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?
Join Mohammad Bakri for an evening of Palestinian film and support for Palestinian cultural work!
For more information on Mohammad Bakri, please visit http://www.mohammadbakri.com
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From Rutgers Campus, take the EE bus to Rockoff - just down Livingston Ave
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
WINNER: Best Documentary Feature - Tribeca Film Festival, 2004
WINNER: Best First Documentary Feature - Canadian International Documentary Festival, 2004
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 brutality of occupation.
DIRECTIONS:
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
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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! Meet current members and learn about the many ways you can get involved!
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(75 minutes, 2003, Dir: Nicholas Dembowski)
At a time when media bias and bigotry against Arabs is at an all-time high - beginning with "24"'s portrayal of "crazed terrorists" - please join New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine for a screening of this important and powerful film:
From Disney's Aladdin to Indiana Jones to Warner Brothers' cartoons of crazed Middle Eastern villains to today's "24".... These are America's pop culture depictions of Arabs and Muslims.
With T.V.'s Promised Land, director Nicholas Dembowski creates a clever montage of found footage from Hollywood movies, cable news networks, European news broadcasts, American Westerns, etc. The accumulated evidence powerfully asserts that Western media has long demonized a catch-all "Arab/Muslim world" via selective coverage and dehumanizing imagery that boosts the "good vs. evil" rhetoric of politicians and pundits like George W. Bush, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice and Bill O'Reilly. By offering no narration or other commentary of its own, "T.V.'s Promised Land" lets news outlets, Hollywood and politicians incriminate themselves.
T.V's Promised Land is a brilliant media montage that reveals the bigotry that supports settler colonialism, from the U.S. to Palestine. Taking us from popular mass media images of "savage Indians" and the claiming of the "Wild West" to the similar portrayals that justify colonialism in Palestine, imperialism and genocide indict themselves through their own televised lens.
JOIN US FOR THIS IMPORTANT FILM! Don't miss it!
| Sunday, February 18th, 2007
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EXPOSING ISRAELI APARTHEID-SUPPORTING PALESTINIAN LIBERATION: Public Outreach
12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m.
Fountain at Journal Square
Jersey City, NJ
NJS is teaming up with the Jersey City Peace Movement as part of the JCPM's "Stop the War Sundays" vigil held every week at the fountain at Journal Square in Jersey City. This week's action will place a special emphasis on exposing Israeli Apartheid. Help us distribute hundreds or thousands of leaflets at this busy transportation hub, calling for an end to occupations and an end to Israeli Apartheid. Check http://www.thenewjournalsquare.com/html/map_directions.htm for directions by car. Coming from New York? Just take the NJ Path to Journal Square!
EXPOSING ISRAELI APARTHEID-SUPPORTING PALESTINIAN LIBERATION: A Teach-In
2:00 p.m.
Al-Awda Center
7111 5th Ave. (between 71st and Ovington)
Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, NY
The 3rd International Israeli Apartheid Week - New York City
Come out to Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) to be held in New York City for the first time. IAW will be a weeklong series of events held concurrently in different cities around the world to contribute to a growing public discussion of Israel as an apartheid state and to gather support for the international boycott, divestment, and sanctions campaign called for by more than 170 Palestinian civil society organizations in July, 2005. For more information about Israeli Apartheid Week please visit http://www.endisraeliapartheid.net.
On Sunday, join New Jersey Solidarity, and hear activists, organizers, students and others discuss Israeli Apartheid, the current situation in Palestine, the history of the Palestinian struggle, the right to return of Palestinian refugees, and achieving justice for Palestine - and what you can do to end Israeli Apartheid and support Palestinian liberation!
Saturday, January 20th, 2007
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Initiated by People's Organization For Progress (POP)
SPONSORED BY THE PEACE COALITION:
People's Organization For Progress (POP), NJ State Conference NAACP General Baptist State Convention of NJ, Inc., Board of Deacons of Bethany Baptist Church Newark Teachers Association, NJ Human & Civil Rights Association Mayor Wayne Smith of Irvington, Assemblyman Craig Stanley Association of Black Law Students at Rutgers-Newark School of Law (ABLS) Martin Luther King Committee of Elizabeth, NJ Peace Action, Enough Is Enough Coalition NJ Millions More Movement Coalition, Black Women's History Conference Mothers of Murdered Sons & Daughters (MOMSAD), WBAI Radio, City Belt New Jersey Black Issues Convention, New Jersey African-American Political Alliance Clinton Hill-South Ward Improvement Association, Street Warriors, Inc. South Orange-Maplewood Martin Luther King Holiday Committee, Mt. Teman A.M.E. Church The Black Ministers' Council of New Jersey, Teaneck Peace & Justice Coalition Women In Support of the Million Man March (WISOMMM), Boycott Crime Committee Anti-Lynching Campaign, Ras Baraka Civic Association, Kidnapped African Descendants (KAD) Reconstruct Economics for African Liberty (REFAL), George Tillman Civic Association Black Telephone Workers For Justice, Coalition For Peace Action, School of African Philosophy Veterans for Peace-Chapter 21, Africa Newark International, Inc., My Father Knows Best National Action Network-NJ Chapter, Harlem Tenants Council, United Youth Council Antiracism Committee-Unitarian Society of Ridgewood NJ, Cuba Solidarity-NY Peace & Justice Committee-Unitarian Society of Ridgewood NJ, Morristown Peace Vigil Northern New Jersey-National Organization for Women (NOW), Onyx Society American Students of African Descent Association (ASADA), Nubian Queendom International Youth Organization, Central Jersey Coalition Against Endless War Rev. Malachi D. Rountree Ministries, New Black Panther Party-Newark NJ Chapter Justice For Michael Anglin Coalition, Parents Advocacy & Service Academy (PASA) December 12th Movement, NJ Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine National Black Independent Political Party, The Essex Green Party, Socialist Party of New Jersey National Organization For Women of New Jersey, Secondary Parent Council of Newark Striving Together Equals Progress (S.T.E.P.), Rutgers-Newark National Lawyers Guild Black Cops Against Police Brutality (B-CAP), Quest Ink, Inc., Uhuru Dr. Benjamin Chavis Muhammad & The Hip Hop Summit Action Network, Urban Issues Institute Central Ward Family Support Center, Brotherhood Academy, Inc.-Essex County B.T.Kwanzaa Group-Roselle NJ, Social Responsibility Committee-Central Unitarian Church Martin Luther King Association-Columbia HS, NJ State Industrial Union Council (IUC) Jersey City Peace Movement, International Action Center, Troops Out Now Coalition Unitarian Church of Montclair, NJ State Council of Urban League Executives
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FUND PEOPLE'S NEEDS NOT WAR!
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| Saturday, January 13th, 2007
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(minutes from Journal Square - take the PATH to Journal Square, and walk down Bergen Ave. to the church)
In the past year, the people of Lebanon weathered a brutal Israeli invasion that saw over a thousand Lebanese killed, massive destruction to Lebanon's civilian infrastructure, including airports, roads and bridges, the dropping of over a million cluster bombs on Lebanon, and a wholesale attack on the Lebanese people; a complement to the ongoing Zionist war on the Arab people of Palestine.
Since the people of Lebanon, and their resistance forces, repelled the invasion, the people's movement in Lebanon has only grown stronger, despite the massive destruction. Surging from their resistance, millions of Lebanese have taken to the streets of Beirut, filling the squares and staying in downtown Beirut, struggling to achieve their demands.
See a powerful film documenting the human cost of the war on Lebanon, and hear from an activist who recently returned from Lebanon, where he attended the massive demonstrations in Beirut...
Film Showing: "SAMIDOUN" ("Steadfastness") - a multi-media journey through the 34 day war in Lebanon and its aftermath, by Ana Nogueira and Andrew Stern - Samidoun is a multimedia presentation of the recent war in Lebanon and its aftermath, produced by award-winning independent reporters Ana Nogueira and Andrew Stern. Interweaving still photography, audio and video, Samidoun is a uniquely intimate look at the human cost of this conflict that took the lives of over 1200 people, wounded thousands more, and displaced over one million.
Speaker: BILL DOARES, a New York-based activist with the International Action Center and Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, who recently returned from a month in Lebanon with a delegation that attended a major international solidarity conference in Beirut, toured the towns of South Lebanon deeply impacted by the war on Lebanon, and attended the major demonstrations in Beirut, speaking with participants, organizers and leaders.
Please join us for this informative and powerful event!
