[Peace] Palestine Action Week!

[sara zainab bokhari]

please forward widely!

    ::::::::::::::::::::::::PALESTINE ACTION WEEK!!!!::::::::::::::::::::::

 Wednesday April 21 - Jenin, Jenin 7pm @ 106 Lincoln Hall
    An award-winning documentary film which exposes Israel's war crimes
    and consistent policy of ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian
    people.  Banned in Israel, "Jenin Jenin" is dedicated to Iyad Samudi,
    the producer of the film, who was shot dead by Israeli soldiers on June
    23rd, 2002, as he returned home after completing the film.

 Thursday April 22 - Gaza Strip 7pm @ 245 AltGeld Hall
    "Gaza Strip" pushes the viewer headlong into the tumult of the
    Israeli-occupied Gaza, examining the lives and views of ordinary
    Palestinians.  The documentary often sees the world through the eyes of
    young people. The central character is Mohammed Hejazi, a 13-year-old
    paperboy in Gaza City, one of the young "stone-throwers" who risk their
    lives throwing rocks at Israeli tanks across the barbwire fences

 Friday April 23 - Panel on Hip Hop as Resistance Art 5pm @ 100 Greg Hall
    *sponsored in part by the Center for Democracy in a Multiracial Society
    featuring local and national artists in an open dialogue on the
    culture of resistance in the art of hip hop

 Friday April 23 - HIP HOP FOR PALESTINE!  Free Show, open to all!
                         9pm @ University YMCA
    Featuring Iron Sheik, Remarkable Current, Man-o-Wax and local talents!

 Monday April 26 - Rally @ Noon on the Quad - Justice for Palestine!
                             *Please wear black*

 Monday April 26 - The Tale of the Two Occupations 6:30pm @ Allen Hall
    Presented by Mike Miles, founder of the Anathoth Community Farm, a
    center for the study of nonviolence, community, and sustainable
    living located in Luck, Wisconsin.  Over two decades of practicing
    active non violence has netted him dozens of arrests and more than a
    year served in various jails and prisons.  He currently works for both
    Voices in the Wilderness and the Middle East Children's Alliance.
    He has been to Iraq three times since 1997 and recently returned from
    Palestine/Israel. He helps coordinate the Wheels of Justice-- a mobile
    peace center that has traveled 85,000 miles making over 800 stops at
    campuses, peace groups, and faith communities all over the US promoting
    non violent solutions to war and occupation.

 Monday April 26 - Music for Palestine - featuring Command Zulu and David
                   Rovics 8pm @ Allen Hall Main Lounge
    David Rovics is a peace and social justice folksinger.  He has
    graced the stage with activists such as Amy Goodman, Howard Zinn, Noam
    Chomsky, Ralph Nader, Cynthia McKinney, Dennis Kucinich, Barbara Lee,
    Angela Davis, Danny Glover, Desmond Tutu, Michael Moore, Susan
    Sarandon, Ward Churchill, Jello Biafra, Pete Seeger, Billy Bragg, Bruce
    Cockburn, and the Indigo Girls...just to name a few.  Rovics lives out
    of his truck as he travels across the U.S. playing at clubs and
    universities with stops at major protests and demonstrations.  While in
    Miami late last year for an anti-globalization rally, Rovics played to
    literally a captive audience of thousands when police refused to allow
    the audience to leave a downtown amphitheatre. "I believe music can be
    more than an escape," says Rovics.  It can be a tool for selling
    products, or ammunition necessary to build and maintain social
    movements."

 Tuesday April 27 - Images of Arabs in the United States 7pm @ 217 Noyes
    Presented by Khalil Shalabi - a Palestinian American who is the
    founder and president of the Arab American Democratic Club in Chicago.
    He has served on the Board of the Arab American Institute in
    Washington DC, helped found the Arab American Advisory Board to the
    City of Chicago Mayors office and is active in the Arab American
    community locally and at the national level.

 Wednesday April 28 - Right of Return 7pm @ 192 Lincoln
    A representative of the Chicago chapter of Al-Awda, the Palestinian
    Right of Return Coallition will be giving a history of the conflict as
    well as a personal account of travels in Occupied Palestine

 Thursday April 29 - The Occupation: A Personal View 7pm @ 196 Lincoln
    Presented by Kevin Clark, founder of the Chicago Chapter of the
    International Solidarity Movement.  Kevin recently returned from a
    ISM delegation to Palestine in January 2004 where he served as a
    street medic.  He is also a key organizer in the statewide April CAT
    bulldozer protests.







 Cosponsors - Justice for Palestine, Student Peace Action, Penguin
 Revolution, Egyptian American Student Association, Illinois Disciples
 Foundation, Students for Palestine, Worldwide Human Rights Organization,
 Progressive Resource Action Cooperative, Graduate Muslim Students
 Association, CAIR UIUC, Artists Against Racism, Spirit of Seattle, Anti
 War Anti Racism Effort, Central Illinois Mosque and Islamic Center,
 Muslim Students Association, Student Organization Resource Funding Board





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