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Sunday, January 19th 8pm-12pm PALESTINE TRUTH TOUR 2003 First hand reports from Palestine. With speakers, video, photos, and more.
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 November 15th by Doug Minkler |
Featuring:
Amandla Intfada, a new video from Palestine by Big Noise Tactical, the documentary filmmaking collective that made This is What Democracy Looks Like and Zapatista. The video features Palestinian leaders including Dr. Mustafa Barghouti and Hanan Ashrawi, and front-line scenes from Jenin, Hebron, and other cities. The video concludes with never-before seen footage of the Israeli invasion of Jenin from the summer of 2002.
First-hand reports from Palestine, and from Palestine-solidarity organizers in the US.
Speakers Include:
George Qassis - Qassis is a resident of Bethlehem, a coordinator with the Palestinian Center for Rapprochement Between People, and one of the founders of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM). He is here in the US to talk about his work organizing for peace and justice, through international and Palestinian nonviolent resistance to the Israeli occupation.
Liv Dillon - Dillon has for years been an activist on local issues of economic and social justice, including union rights, police brutality, and workfare. On September 11th, she witnessed both planes hit the World Trade Center on the way to work, which launched her into U.S. Foreign policy and her place in it. She spent 3 weeks this April in a Palestinian Refugee camp in Bethlehem during the Israeli invasion. During this time, she lived with a refugee family under curfew for almost the entire time, and did volunteer work in Bethlehem during the siege of Manger Square, delivering food to besieged areas, riding with ambulances and walking people to the hospital during curfew.
Ora Wise - The daughter of a rabbi, Wise was born in Jerusalem. Her political awakening came working in the West Bank with the Israeli peace group Rabbis for Human Rights. Here in the US, she has worked tirelessly for justice for the people of Palestine. She was one of the organizers of this year’s National Student Conference in Solidarity with Palestine, and helped start the Committee for Justice in Palestine while a student at the University of Ohio in Columbus.
Jordan Flaherty – Flaherty is a union organizer and direct action activist. He has written for The Village Voice, New York Press, and a chapter in a Palestine anthology to be published by South End Press this spring. He spent three months this year in the West Bank and Gaza, living in homes in danger of demolition by the Israeli Military and participating in nonviolent direct action in support of Palestinian human rights. In March of 2002, he helped start Direct Action for Justice in Palestine, which has recruited, trained, and fundraised to send over 100 activists to Palestine to support nonviolent resistance against the Israeli occupation.
Also part of the tour: Drawings by the children of the Jenin Refugee Camp, and educational info from activist groups including Jews Against the Occupation; the International Solidarity Movement; Al-Awda, the Palestinian right of return coalition; and Voices in the Wilderness.
*The International Solidarity Movement is a Palestinian-led international coalition of concerned citizens participating in nonviolent resistance to the Israeli occupation. For More info, see http://www.palsolidarity.org.
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