***PUBLIC EVENT PLEASE POST WIDELY** (PDF flyer attached) Apologies for cross-posting. *It's TIME to Boycott Israel!*
*/Find Out Why It's Time!/* *Featuring LISA TARAKI and BEN WHITE* *with MC Sonali Kolhatkar, host of Uprising on KPFK * * * *SUNDAY OCTOBER 24, 2010* *4:00 -- 6:30 pm * *Bellevue** Recreation Center** | **826 Lucile Ave**, Los Angeles 90026** * *Lisa Taraki* is a sociologist at Birzeit University in Palestine. In addition to her academic work on aspects of Palestinian society, politics and urban social history, she has been an activist in the struggle for the right to education in Palestine since the late 1970s. She is one of the founders of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), established in Ramallah in 2004. *Ben White* is a freelance journalist and writer specializing in Palestine/Israel. He also writes on the broader Middle East, Islam and Christianity, and the 'war on terror'. Ben has been visiting Palestine/Israel since 2003 for periods of between two weeks and three months, typically basing himself in the Bethlehem district of the West Bank. *Why boycott Israel:* . More than 4 million Palestinian refugees are still being kept from returning to their homes in Israel after being ethnically cleansed more than 60 years ago . More than 40 years of brutal military occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem . Apartheid policies inside Israel leaving Palestinians as second class citizens . The ongoing siege of Gaza . Regular military aggression against Gaza and Lebanon *JOIN THE INTERNATIONAL BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT & SANCTIONS CAMPAIGN AGAINST ISRAEL* * * *Presented by BDS-LA for Justice in Palestine * *Please RSVP by email to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> * *For more information: bdsla4justiceinpalestine.org <http://bdsla4justiceinpalestine.org/>* *Este evento será traducido al español. | Spanish language interpretation provided.* * * *This event is wheelchair accessible. Email [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> for special accommodations at least 72 hours in advance.* [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
