Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights @ UBC
Presents Ali Abu Nimah and Anna Baltzer
Palestine: What Aren't We Hearing & How is Peace Possible?
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Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=313883021036
Date: Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Time: 6:30pm - 9:30pm
Location: Wood 6 @ UBC
2198 Health Sciences Mall V6T 1Z3
Vancouver, BC
Ali will review the current situation in Palestine-Israel, in particular attention to the blockade of Gaza, creeping apartheid in the West Bank and Israel the failure of the peace process to produce a two-state solution, and future prospects for a just peace based on full equality for Palestinians and Israeli Jews.
Ali Abunimah is author of "One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse" and has contributed to numerous other volumes and written hundreds of articles on the question of Palestine. He was a 2008-2009 Palestine Center Fellow. He is co-founder of The Electronic Intifada, an award-winning online publication about Palestine and the Palestine-Israeli conflict.
Anna Baltzer is an American Columbia graduate, former-Fulbright scholar, the granddaughter of Holocaust refugees, and an award-winning lecturer, author, and activist for Palestinian rights. As a volunteer with the International Women's Peace Service in the West Bank, Baltzer documented human rights abuses and supported Palestinian-led nonviolent resistance to the Occupation. Baltzer has appeared on television more than 100 times (including most recently The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, where she appeared alongside Palestinian presidential candidate and nonviolence leader Dr. Mustafa Barghouti) and lectured at more than 400 universities, schools, churches, mosques, and synagogues around the world with her acclaimed presentation, "Life in Occupied Palestine: Eyewitness Stories & Photos," and her full-color book: Witness in Palestine: A Jewish American Woman in the Occupied Territories. In 2009, Baltzer received the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee's prestigious Annual Rachel Corrie Peace & Justice Award and a Certificate of Commendation from the Governor of Wisconsin for her commitment to justice in the Holy Land. She is a contributor to four upcoming books on the subject and serves on the Middle East committee of the Women's International League for Peace & Freedom and the Board of Directors of The Research Journalism Institute, Grassroots Jerusalem, and Council for the National Interest. For information about Baltzer's book, DVD, speaking tours, and eyewitness reports, visit www.AnnaInTheMiddleEast.com
Anna will give a presentation about the Occupation (checkpoints, settlements, the Wall, etc), the Nakba, censorship, Israeli activism, and Ways to Get Involved. Her book on the situation on the occupied Palestinian territory is excellent and it accurately captures the essence of the Israeli occupation. Her experience in Palestine is very valuable and important to learn, understand and reflect upon.
Anna will be selling books and Palestinian embroidery at the event. :)
Admission by donations: suggested donation between $10 - $20 sliding scale...
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