-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Gaza - Palestine Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 08:37:24 -0800 (PST) From: Hekmat K. Bessiso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi My Friends i wish all of u are well please look at this - i will be one of the students whom will come to the USA in next April 2005 regareds Hekmat Dear Friend, The Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace is organizing a campus tour for six Palestinian students from three different Universities in Gaza City. The tour is scheduled to take place at universities and colleges in the U.S. and Europe from April 1st to April 24th, 2005. If you are interested in organizing an event for the students from Gaza at your campus please let us know ASAP. The purpose of the tour: ... To allow the Gaza students to tell the story of life under occupation, their suffering, hopes and dreams for a future and life of dignity. ... Encourage greater understanding and cooperation between Palestinians and American students and faculty to promote an end to the occupation, freedom, human rights, and a just peace between Israelis and Palestinians. ... To educate the American and European academic community about conditions in Gaza, now attracting attention with the Israeli governmentıs planned withdrawal from Gaza. For most of the academic community in Europe and the U.S. it will be a new experience to meet and get to know students from Gaza. The tour will be the first time for most of the visiting students to be outside Gaza, to fly and visit Europe and the U.S, and will be an amazing learning experience for them. Tour Plan: The group will arrive in Boston on March 31st. They will be in the East Coast from April 1 to April 10. They will then go to the West Coast until April 17. From Los Angles they will fly to visit universities in England, Brussels and Paris. They will return to Gaza on April 24th. The visitors will travel in teams of 2-3 students and in some cases as one group. The host campus is asked to organize an event for the visitors and cover the cost of travel to their campus and for providing accommodations, which can be at studentsı homes. The event can be a lunch meeting with students and faculty, a visit to a class/seminar and/or a public event. They can do more than one event in a day. It will be great if you could arrange for them an interview on your local Radio, TV station or newspaper. Thank you, Dina Jaber, Mt. Holyoke College, <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://mail.yahoo.com/config/login?/ym/[EMAIL PROTECTED]&YY=28008&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b>> Yousef Munayyer, UMass, Amherst, <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://mail.yahoo.com/config/login?/ym/[EMAIL PROTECTED]&YY=28008&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b>> Yoav Elinevsky, FFIPP, <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://mail.yahoo.com/config/login?/ym/[EMAIL PROTECTED]&YY=28008&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b> Hekmat K. Bessiso Trainer & Community Activist Gaza - Palestine Phone: +972 8 2844978 / Cell: +972 59 603475 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> DonorsChoose. A simple way to provide underprivileged children resources often lacking in public schools. Fund a student project in NYC/NC today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/5F6XtA/.WnJAA/E2hLAA/7gSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ <*> 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/