--- "Messier, Matt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> From: "Messier, Matt"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject:
> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 11:36:54 -0400
>
> Dear VTJP
> I was at one of your meetings earlier this year
> I Just returned from Nablus
> Here is some info about our work
>
<http://www.najah.edu/english/Youth%20Prog/workcamps2004.htm>
> During my time there i met someone who arranges
> speakers to US universities
> The next one is in November
> Here is some more info
> Looking for contacts, suggestions
> Thanks
> Matt Messier
> Student international network for human rights
> and justice in
> Israel/Palestine
> An international network of college and
> university students working
> to end the Israeli occupation, promote human
> rights, equal rights, and peace
> and justice in Israel/Palestine.
> Affiliated with the Faculty For
> Israeli-Palestinian Peace, FFIPP,
> International.
>
>
> The Middle East has been one of the most
> turbulent regions since
> WWII. While attracting extraordinary world
> attention and inspiring
> initiatives of great imagination, it has also
> seen some of the worst
> violations of human rights and international
> law, ethnic humiliation and the
> perpetration of war, injustice and abuse of
> resources. These dynamics have
> intensified in the past decade, alongside the
> emergence of hope for a
> fundamental change of course. Particularly
> tragic is the conflict in
> Israel/Palestine.
>
> We call upon students worldwide to join an
> International Network,
> whose efforts would support and promote the
> causes of real peace and human
> concern in Israel/Palestine, while opposing
> violence and the degradation of
> human life. The International Network will act
> to promote the following
> aims:
> 1. The right to self determination for
> Palestinians as well as the
> right for Israelis and Palestinians to live in
> peace and security within the
> norms of the international community.
>
> 2. The freedom from military occupation,
> territorial annexation and
> incursion, humiliation and the destruction of
> livelihood.
>
> 3. Conformity with international law including
> the human right to teach and
> to learn.
>
> 4. The meaningful reconciliation between
> conflicting ethnic groups and
> denominations through joint educational and
> cultural projects.
>
> 5. Activity within campuses and related
> networks toward the mobilization of
> academia worldwide in support of the above.
>
>
> Student international network for human rights
> and justice in
> Israel/Palestine
> Coordinating Committee
>
> Alaa Hamdan, Haifa University, Israel
> Dina Jaber, Mt. Holyoke College, USA
> Calanit Saenger, UC Berkeley, USA
> Daniel Safran-Hon, Tel Aviv University, Israel
> Christophe Soil, Universite Libre de Bruxelles,
> Belgium
> Reem Whadan, Birzeit University, Palestine
> Upcoming Events
> Europe: A campus tour of a Palestinian and an
> Israeli student from Haifa
> University. October 2004
>
> USA: A campus tour of two Palestinian students
> from the West Bank. November
> 2004
>
> Israel/Palestine: A student delegation from
> Europe and the USA to
> Israel/Palestine.
> Decmber 27, 2004 - January 5, 2005
> Al-Quds University ,Jerusalem: An international
> conference on student
> activism for human rights and justice
> January 4, 2005
>
>
> What can you do?
> Join the Student International Network for
> Human Rights and Justice in
> Israel/Palestine by sending us an email.
> Get involved in organizing a visit for students
> or faculty from
> Israel/Palestine at your campus.
> Join a student delegation from Europe and the
> US to Israel/Palestine.
> Use FFIPP resources to organize an educational
> event at your campus.
> Participate in FFIPP conference.
> For more information contact:
> FFIPP/ Student International Network
> 1563 Solano Ave #303, Berkeley CA, 94707
> And
> PO Box 2091, Amherst MA, 01004
> E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.ffipp.org
>
> FFIPP- International
> Advisory Board
>
> Zygmunt Bauman
> Leeds University, United Kingdom
> Harvey Cox
> Harvard University, USA
> Jacques Derrida
> Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales,
> France
> Freeman Dyson
> Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
> University, USA
> Arun Gandhi
> Founder, President, M.K.Gandhi Institute for
> Nonviolence, USA
> Stuart Hall
> Birmingham University, United Kingdom
> Albert Hirschman
> Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
> University USA
> Eric Hobsbawm
> University of London, United Kingdom
> Stanley Hoffmann
> Harvard University, USA
> Edvard Hauff
> University of Oslo, Norway
> Robert Lifton
> Yale University, City University of
> New York, John Jay College, USA
> Abdelwahab Mahjoub
> Universit� Tunis El Manar
> Institut Sup�rieur des Sciences
> Humaines de Tunis, Tunisia
> Ahmed Okasha
> President World Psychiatric Association
> Director, WHO Collaborating Center for Training
> and Research
> Institute of Psychiatry
> Ain Shams University - Cairo, Egypt
> Frances Fox Piven
> City University of New York, USA
> Hilary Putnam
> Harvard University, USA
> Jacqeline Rose
> University of London, United Kingdom
> Joseph Rotblat
> University of London, United Kingdom
> Founder, President, Pugwash
> Conferences on Science & World Affairs
> Nobel Prize, Peace, 1995
> Jack Steinberger
> Centre Europ�en de Recherche Nucl�aire
> Nobel Prize, Physics, 1988
> Edriss Titi
> Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
> UC Irvine, USA
>
>
>
>
>
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