Friday, November 6, 7:00 p.m. Walker Methodist Church, 3104 16th Avenue South, Minneapolis.

Free and open to the public. Donations accepted. 
Sponsored by the Middle East Committee of WAMM
, 612.827.5364, www.worldwidewamm.org.

Hear former Congresswoman and presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney tell the story of her three valiant attempts and final success at entering Gaza to show solidarity and provide humanitarian aid to its besieged people.

While attempting to deliver humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza, Cynthia McKinney was a passenger in the relief vessel Dignity when it was rammed by the Israeli army in international waters, December 30. The heavily damaged ship was forced to limp into a Lebanese port. In late June, McKinney and twenty other human rights activists were arrested when their boat, Spirit of Humanity, was boarded by the Israeli Navy.

McKinney spent days in an Israeli prison before being released, but within days was on her way to join the Viva Palestina U.S. caravan, organized by British Member of Parliament George Galloway.



While in Gaza, Cynthia McKinney witnessed the devastation and destruction caused by “Operation Cast Lead,” a military offensive against the people of the Gaza Strip launched by Israel(with U.S-supplied weapons).

After 22 days of unrelenting aerial attacks coupled with an intensive ground invasion that began on 3 January 2009, the death toll exceeded 1,400 Palestinians, the majority of them civilians including women and children. Over 5,000 more were wounded. Excessive civilian casualties were compounded by the unprecedented destruction of civilian infrastructure across the Gaza Strip including hospitals, schools, mosques, civilian homes, police stations and United Nations compounds.



Today, the siege of Gaza continues as Israel pursues an illegal policy of extreme collective punishment against the 1.5 million residents of Gaza—more than half of whom are children. Former US president Jimmy Carter called the blockade of humanitarian goods to Gaza “one of the greatest human rights crimes on Earth.”



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The $3 billion dollars of annual U.S. aid to Israel helps fund Israeli prisons and detention centers where 8,100 Palestinian prisoners — including 60 women, 390 children, and 550 administrative detainees held without charge — are imprisoned in substandard conditions and subject to torture.

Human rights activist Ala Jaradat, the program manager of Addameer, the Palestinian prisoners rights organization in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, and a former Palestinian political prisoner, will be sharing his experiences campaigning against political prosecution, for the rights of political detainees, actively working against the use of torture, arbitrary detention, the use of isolation, and other forms of political repression.

A Report on the Conditions of Palestinian Political Prisoners featuring human rights activist Ala Jaradat from Addameer – Prisoners’ Support and Human Rights Association.

Wednesday, November 11th @ 7PM
Blegen Hall 150, West Bank, U of M

Co-Sponsored by the Anti-War Committee and WAMM

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Debating Academic Boycott: A Quest for Justice in Palestine
a presentation followed by open discussion and debate

Omar Barghouti is an independent Palestinian researcher, commentator, and founding member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.

Omar Barghouti
7:00-8:30 pm
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Cowles Auditorium, Humphrey Institute, West Bank, University of Minnesota
(parking available in 21st ave or 19th ave ramps)

Sponsored by: Department of Asian Languages and Literatures | Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature | Department of Geography | Institute for Global Studies | Teachers Against Occupation

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Wednesday October 28, 2009
12:00 – 1 PM.
Social Sciences Building, Room 614
University of Minnesota (West Bank)

Please join us for a presentation by Amber Michel (St. Cloud University) as she shares her experience in Israel and Palestine where she conducted research together with several undergraduate students from Minnesota. Amber’s presentation will be followed by a discussion.

Sponsored by Teachers Against Occupation
www.teachersagainstoccupation.org
teachers.against.occupation@gmail.com

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Join us as we challenge the dominant paradigm and discuss a course of action to address the conflict.

November 21st at the Friends Meeting House, 1802 East 1st St, Duluth, MN

Conference Schedule

9a.m.-9:15 Welcome with Session I Moderator Mary B. Newcomb
 
9:15-11 a.m. Session I: Challenging the Dominant Narrative – Joel Sipress, Bret Thiele, Mayra Gomez
 
11:15-Noon Session II, Part One: Vocalizing Concerns, Moderator: Carl Sack

Lunch Provided

12:30-1:30 Session II, Part Two Workshop

11:45 -3PM Session III: The Activist Plan, Moderator: Bob Kosuth

Contact Information
Bob Kosuth: 724-4800
Jay and Mary B. Newcomb: 724-6141
Bret Thiele and Mayra Gomez: 525-5609
Joel Sipress: 724-4624

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Friday October 16th @ 5:30pm

Film Showing: “Gaza: the Killing Zone.” A British documentary on Israeli violence in Gaza against not only Palestinian civilians, but international aid volunteers and foreign reporters as well.

Bob Kosuth will be talking about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at 6:30pm.

The film showing is part of “Remember the Refugee Week”, sponsored by Amnesty International, St. Scholastica.

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Bill McGrath lived with an Arab Palestinian family, and walked around in Nablus, Jericho, Bethlehem, Hebron, Jerusalem, Jenin, Ramallah and the Negev Desert of southern Israel.

McGrath is giving a series of talks to persuade Americans to go see the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for themselves.

Sunday, October 18th
10:15 a.m. at Pilgrim House Unitarian-Universalist church in Arden Hills.

Sunday, October 25th
10:30 a.m. at the St. Cloud Unitarian-Universalist fellowship in St. Cloud.

Wednesday, October 28th
7 p.m. at Unity Unitarian Church in St. Paul.