Students for Justice in Palestine - University of Chicago present a public lecture by
Cynthia McKinney
"A Familiar Struggle: Why Americans Should Care About Justice in Palestine"
Wednesday, February 10, 2010, 7.30PM
Kent 107, 1020 E. 58th Street
57th Street between Ellis and University Avenues
Chicago
2008 presidential candidate and former U.S. congresswoman Cynthia McKinney will be discussing "a familiar struggle" with a focus on why Americans who care about justice here should care about injustice in Palestine. She will draw on the relationships between struggles for justice in our country (ex. civil rights movement) and struggles for human rights in other parts of the world.
She will also discuss her aid work in Gaza, and what she had to undergo as an aidworker last year when her aid boat was rammed by the Israeli navy in international waters and when she was held by Israeli military officials.
Finally, she will discuss America's political involvement in Palestine and why the average American should care.
(note: I am posting this on my blog for informational purposes. I am not an organizer of the event.)