Report Back from Palestine
Friday, January 22nd at 7pm
WESPAC in White Plains
255 Dr. Martin Luther King Blvd., second floor
White Plains, New York 10601We will open with brief video footage provided by Felice Gelman and commentary by Mike Levinson, two of the Westchester residents who participated in the Gaza Freedom March.With Dhoruba Bin Wahad and Ali AbunimahDhoruba Bin Wahad is a Veteran Black Panther and 19-year political prisoner in this country. He won his freedom in 1990 after a New York State judge found that the FBI had suppressed evidence that could have helped clear him of his 1971 charge. He recently tried to enter the West Bank to attend a Palestinian conference on political prisoners and was denied entry by Israeli authorities. There are over 10,000 Palestinian political prisoners being held by Israel with hundreds of them under the age of 16. Dhoruba will discuss the challenges in building Palestine Solidarity within the African American Community.Ali Abunimah is one of the more than 1,300 international solidarity activists who participated in the Gaza Freedom March in Cairo. The Egyptian Authorities did not allow the participants to leave Cairo and travel to Gaza. Ali is one of the founders of the electronic intifada http://electronicintifada.net. Ali will discuss the next steps for the Palestine Solidarity Movement.For more information contact http://www.wespac.org
Friday, January 22nd at 7pm
WESPAC in White Plains
255 Dr. Martin Luther King Blvd., second floor
White Plains, New York 10601We will open with brief video footage provided by Felice Gelman and commentary by Mike Levinson, two of the Westchester residents who participated in the Gaza Freedom March.With Dhoruba Bin Wahad and Ali AbunimahDhoruba Bin Wahad is a Veteran Black Panther and 19-year political prisoner in this country. He won his freedom in 1990 after a New York State judge found that the FBI had suppressed evidence that could have helped clear him of his 1971 charge. He recently tried to enter the West Bank to attend a Palestinian conference on political prisoners and was denied entry by Israeli authorities. There are over 10,000 Palestinian political prisoners being held by Israel with hundreds of them under the age of 16. Dhoruba will discuss the challenges in building Palestine Solidarity within the African American Community.Ali Abunimah is one of the more than 1,300 international solidarity activists who participated in the Gaza Freedom March in Cairo. The Egyptian Authorities did not allow the participants to leave Cairo and travel to Gaza. Ali is one of the founders of the electronic intifada http://electronicintifada.net. Ali will discuss the next steps for the Palestine Solidarity Movement.For more information contact http://www.wespac.org