Israel/Palestine

Afghanistan/Pakistan Briefing - UJP Strategy Conference

When: Saturday, June 13, 2009, 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Where: Friends Meeting House • 5 Longfellow Park, Cambridge
2009 Jun 13 - 1:00pm
2009 Jun 13 - 5:00pm

Let's all get together with each other again.....

On Saturday June 13 from 1-5 in the afternoon, all of us in UJP will gather for our next strategy conference.  Once again, we will be meeting at the Cambridge Friends Center in the Harvard Square area.

To start the conference off, two speakers will assess the crises in Afghanistan and Pakistan:
 
Joseph GersonDr. Joseph Gerson is Director of Programs and Director of the Peace and Economic Security Program, American Friends Service Committee, New England.    Dr. Gerson’s program work focuses on challenging and overcoming U.S. global hegemony: its preparations for and threats to initiate nuclear war, and its military domination of the Asia-Pacific and the Middle East.
 
Adil NajamProf. Adil Najam is Professor of International Relations and Geography and the Environment at Boston University.    He was a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which received the Nobel Prize in 2007.   He edits the Pakistani affairs blog pakistaniat.com and testified at the Congressional Progressive Caucus’ April forum on Afghanistan.
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Break the Siege of Gaza

When: Thursday, October 8, 2009, 7:00 pm
Where: Palestine Cultural Center for Peace • 41 Quint Ave • Allston
2009 Oct 8 - 7:00pm

 Benefit to send Boston youth on the Gaza Freedom March

New Year’s Day, 2010 

 

September 18, 2009Human Rights Watch has called the siege of Gaza “a serious violation of international law”.  The conscience of humankind is shocked.  Yet the siege of Gaza continues.  Join people from around the world on January 1, 2010 on the mile long march to Gaza.  The world will be watching.  www.gazafreedommarch.org

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Step 5: continuing the media battle!

Ridgely FullerI am not sure if you have had a chance to keep up with all that is appearing in the press.....with the Flotilla is definitely setting the terms vis a vis State Department and Israel; even mainstream media is getting energized.. AP!..picked up by Mondoweiss: Matt Lee of AP grilling the State Department spokesperson at the Daily Briefing about just why does the US have a problem with the flotilla sailing in international waters.

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