[Imc-midwest-regional] Sabra/Shatila survivor to speak at divestment conference

[ChrisGeovanis at aol.com]

Palestinian feminist and Sabra & Shatila survivor Rafeef Ziadah of the New 
Jersey Coalition for Peace with Justice in the Middle East will speak at this 
conference. Please help spread the word...Chris Geovanis

Solidarity with Palestine: A mini-conference about the growing movement to 
divest from Israeli apartheid

Saturday, May 25
Columbia College, Room # 309, 33 E. Congress, Chicago
(Enter on west side of Wabash, just south of Congress.)
Suggested registration fee: $10. No-one will be turned away.

Featuring: Elias Rashmawi of the Free Palestine Alliance, Mark Lance of 
SUSTAIN, Snehal Shingavi of Students for Justice in Palestine/Berkeley, 
feminist and Sabra & Shatila survivor Rafeef Ziadah of the New Jersey 
Coalition for Peace with Justice in the Middle East, and others.

9:30 am:  Registration
10:30 - 11:00 am:  Welcome Plenary
11:15 am - 12:45 pm:  Workshops
12:45 pm - 1:30 pm:  Lunch (available/affordable at nearby cafes)
1:45 pm - 3:15 pm:  Workshops
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm:  Closing plenary

The Israeli occupation of Palestine has been bankrolled by direct U.S. aid – 
totalling roughly $100 billion in the last three decades – and billions more 
in indirect support for Israel Bonds, investment in Israeli companies, and 
investment in U.S. companies that sell weapons and goods to Israel. The 
Israeli government’s treatment of Palestinians is nothing short of 
apartheid...a systematic effort to displace Palestinians from their homeland, 
deny their basic rights, and rob them of their future.

At the same time, students, church groups, civil liberties advocates and 
activists from around the country are building projects on the ground to 
oppose aid to Israel – and to pressure local and national institutions to 
divest from Israel and end financial support for Israel’s brutal repression 
of the Palestinian people. Learn what you can do to help build an effective 
local and national movement for divestment in Israel.

It has worked before – and it can work again. Join us.

Workshop topics:
* History of the U.S. in the Middle East
* Palestine 101: A Crash Course in Palestinian History
* Myths of the ‘Peace Process’
* Women in Palestine
* Global Justice and the Palestinian Struggle
* Divestment Then & Now: from South Africa to Palestine

To download a pdf file of the conference flyer, go to the following url: 
http://chicago.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=10787&group=webcast

To read, copy, print and resend the flyer, use Adobe Acrobat Reader, 
available for free from the following url: 
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

Convened by the Chicago Palestine Solidarity Network. Please make checks 
payable to the 8th Day Center for Justice. For more information, call 
773-531-8667 or email CDPChicago at aol.com. Labor donated.

Related background news articles:

Analysis: Berkeley pressured to divest investments in Israel
http://chicago.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=10746&group=webcast

Unfair Shares: UC Berkeley students demand that regents divest from Israel
http://www.sfbg.com/News/35/24/24ogdivest.html

In Defense of a Disvestment Campaign against Israel
http://www.counterpunch.org/boyle0520.html

Stop American Billions for Israeli Bombs
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0152/solomon.php

Israel forces internal movement permits on Palestinians
http://chicago.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=10727&group=webcast

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