PALESTINE-RELATED EVENTS in the SEATTLE AREA MARCH 27-APRIL 9
For information about history, issues, and our Seattle Divest from Israeli
Military Occupation campaign, please see www.palestineinformation.org, the
Palestine Solidarity Committee’s website. E-mail us at
palestinejustice@aol.com.
We try to limit this listserve to Seattle area events and news about the
International Solidarity Movement to End the Occupation. PSC is the local
support
chapter of the ISM.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. THIS WEEK:
WOMEN IN BLACK***PALESTINE IN YOUR LIVINGROOM? BRING SPEAKERS AND VIDEOS TO
YOUR FRIENDS ANYTIME -- CALL PSC FOR MORE INFO 206 633-1086***
2. UPCOMING: ***ISM DISCUSSION CAFE ***SIDEWALK EDUCATION***ELLEN O’GRADY,
AUTHOR/ARTIST, REPORTS ON SIX YEARS IN OCCUPIED TERRITORIES; PEACE UNDER FIRE
READINGS***CATERPILLAR ACTION *** FILMS ABOUT ISRAEL AND PALESTINE***WOMEN
WRITERS OF THE ARAB WORLD***PALESTINE IN YOUR LIVINGROOM? BRING SPEAKERS AND
VIDEOS TO YOUR FRIENDS ANYTIME -- CALL PSC FOR MORE INFO 206 633-1086***
3. PALESTINE SOLIDARITY COMMITTEE/ISM SEATTLE NEWS
4. ONGOING CAMPAIGNS
***STOP THE WALL CAMPAIGN *** SEATTLE DIVEST FROM ISRAELI MILITARY
OCCUPATION CAMPAIGN***OLYMPIA-RAFAH SISTER CITY PROJECT***RACHEL CORRIE
REBUILDING
CAMPAIGN IN GAZA***PSC RESPONSE NETWORK***PALESTINE ONLINE STORE ** OUR
CALENDAR
& INFO ***US CAMPAIGN TO END THE OCCUPATION CALENDAR OF NATIONAL DAYS OF
ACTION & OTHER IMPORTANT DATES (PSC IS A SEATTLE AFFILIATE OF THIS CAMPAIGN)
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1. THIS WEEK:
WOMEN IN BLACK ***PALESTINE IN YOUR LIVINGROOM? BRING SPEAKERS AND VIDEOS TO
YOUR FRIENDS ANYTIME -- CALL PSC FOR MORE INFO 206 633-1086***
WOMEN IN BLACK. Stand against occupation and war every Thursday at Westlake.
4th & Pine. 5-6 pm. Wear Black. Men can support.
2. UPCOMING: ***ISM DISCUSSION CAFE ***SIDEWALK EDUCATION***ELLEN O’GRADY,
AUTHOR/ARTIST, REPORTS ON SIX YEARS IN OCCUPIED TERRITORIES; PEACE UNDER FIRE
READINGS***CATERPILLAR ACTION *** FILMS ABOUT ISRAEL AND PALESTINE***WOMEN
WRITERS OF THE ARAB WORLD***PALESTINE IN YOUR LIVINGROOM? BRING SPEAKERS AND
VIDEOS TO YOUR FRIENDS ANYTIME -- CALL PSC FOR MORE INFO 206 633-1086***
April 6. ISM DISCUSSION CAFE at the B&O Espresso, Belmont and Olive on
Capitol Hill. Drop by anytime between 5 and 8 pm to learn more about the
International Solidarity Movement to End the Occupation. Every first Wednesday
of the
month. More info: 206 633-1086.
April 9, 12-2 pm. SIDEWALK EDUCATION FOR PALESTINIAN HUMAN RIGHTS. Usually
every 2nd Saturday from 12-2 pm. We have info, banners, signs, and welcome
all anti-racists to join us. Palestine Solidarity Committee. More info:
palestinejustice@aol.com. Check our calendar for updates. Call 206 633-1086
if you need to confirm a location. Westlake Park: 4th & Pine, downtown Seattle.
Apr. 9 ELLEN O’GRADY, artist, writer who spent six years living in the
Occupied Territories will discuss her book, Outside the Ark, and current
conditions in Palestine. Also, Peace Under Fire, about nonviolent direct action
in
Palestine. Readers may include: John Reese, Ed Mast, Linda Bevis. At Elliot
Bay Bookstore, downtown Seattle, 2 pm.
Apr. 13, CATERPILLAR ACTION day. Stop Caterpillar from selling bulldozers to
Israel which uses them to commit war crimes: house demolitions in the Occupied
Palestinian Territories. Rally at N.C. Machinery in Tukwila, 17900 W. Valley
Highway, 2PM, Wednesday, April 13, to highlight the role of Caterpillar
Corporation in the Israeli occupation of Palestine. More info: 206 633-1086;
(360) 556-4673.
April 23 (last Sunday of each month) at Visionary Studios - 4128 Fremont Ave
N (Across from the Buckaroo) in Seattle. 7:30 pm (doors open at 7 pm). Stop
the Wall Campaign will be showing FILMS ABOUT ISRAEL AND PALESTINE. Admission
by
donation (NOTA (no one turned away), we're suggesting at least $5 but we can
accept up to....oh say, $10,000) STW will be showing films at this location
on the last Sunday of each month as part of the Fremont Freedom Flicks
(Meaningful Movies for Our Times.) For more information about the full
schedule as
it emerges, check in at the www.weaponsofmassdistractionproject.org website or
contact us at 206-568-7110 office; 206-351-2863 cell; stw@riseup.net;
www.stopthewall.us
May 10, Tues., 7:30, Nordstrom Ball Illsley Recital Hall, WOMEN WRITERS OF
THE ARAB WORLD: Raja Alem, Suheir Hammad, Choman Hardi, Alia
Mamdouh, Somaya Ramadan, Ibtihal Salem, and Shireen Qaf. These
world-renowned visiting authors will spend four weeks writing at
Hedgebrook while offering the Seattle-area community the opportunity to
hear their voices, and engage in dialogue at readings, lectures,
receptions, panel presentations, and book signings. Where: Various Seattle
locations and Hedgebrook at Langley, WA . Please join us for a special evening
featuring four of the most exciting Arab women writing today. Seattle Arts &
Lectures is pleased to host this event with Hedgebrook, a retreat for women
writers on Whidbey
Island, and Seattle's Arab-American community.For tickets to this event,
please log onto the website: <http://www.lectures.org/arabwomen.html>;
http://www.lectures.org/arabwomen.html
Nordstrom Ball Illsley Recital Hall
7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
<http://www.lectures.org/boxoffice.html> Order tickets
** Suheir Hammad: Born in a Palestinian refugee camp, Suheir Hammad moved to
Brooklyn when she was a child. She has explored the tensions of her
twenty-first-century amalgam of identities in biography, poetry, and
theatre, and is best known for her performance in the Tony award-winning
Def Poetry Jam.
**Alia Mamdouh: Iraqi-born writer, journalist, and editor Alia Mamdouh is a
close
observer of Arab literary life and East-West relations, as a well as a
cultural journalist who has lived and worked in several Arab and Western
capitals. Her only novel available in English is Mothballs.
**Fadia Faqir: was born in Amman, Jordan in 1956. Faqir's first novel,
Nisanet, was hailed by critics for its "passionate, breathtaking,
masterful style_which interweaves ancient Arabic storytelling traditions
with Muslim and Christian sources to tell Arab women's stories."
** Somaya Ramadan: Egyptian writer, translator, and literary critic Somaya
Ramadan is winner of the 2001 AUC Nagib Mahfouz Literary Award for her first
novel The Narcissus. One of the judges observed that "marked by a hallucinating
and captivating narration, this is liminal writing par excellence."
PALESTINE IN YOUR LIVING ROOM: As always, Palestine Solidarity Committee
would love to help you discuss this issue with your community. Invite friends
over
for dinner or tea and show a video and host a speaker who’s just back from
witnessing the occupation. All for free. Let us know if you’re interested:
206
633-1086, palestinejustice@aol.com.
3. PALESTINE SOLIDARITY COMMITTEE/ISM SEATTLE NEWS
* Next Palestine Solidarity Committee Meeting: Mar. 29, 6-9 pm
* Next ISM Seattle subcommittee meeting: April 6, 7-8 pm
* Next ISM Seattle Discussion Cafe: April 6 , 5-8 pm (every first Wed.)
* Next Sidewalk Education,April 9, 12-1 or 2 p.m.
* Next Theatre meeting: call 206 633-1086 for info.
* Next ISM pre-training: April (call if planning to go: 206 633-1086)
* Next ISM Palestine Campaign: “We urgently request your presence here
with us from now until June to support ongoing Palestinian non-violent
initiatives and from mid June to join our Freedom Summer 2005 campaign. More
details on
our summer campaign will follow shortly.” www.palsolidarity.org
* National Day of Action against Caterpillar: April 13
* Palestine Film Festival: 2005
Call 206 633-1086 for locations, dates, times.
For information about videos in PSC’s lending library, contact:
palestinejustice@aol.com
4. ONGOING CAMPAIGNS
***STOP THE WALL CAMPAIGN *** SEATTLE DIVEST FROM ISRAELI MILITARY
OCCUPATION CAMPAIGN***OLYMPIA-RAFAH SISTER CITY PROJECT***RACHEL CORRIE
REBUILDING
CAMPAIGN IN GAZA***PSC RESPONSE NETWORK***PALESTINE ONLINE STORE ** OUR
CALENDAR & INFO ***US CAMPAIGN TO END THE OCCUPATION CALENDAR OF NATIONAL
DAYS
OF
ACTION & OTHER IMPORTANT DATES (PSC IS A SEATTLE AFFILIATE OF THIS CAMPAIGN)
STOP THE WALL CAMPAIGN
The Wall is higher than the Berlin Wall, will take millions of American tax
dollars to build, and cuts the West Bank in two: confiscating some of the
richest Palestinian farmland and many wells for Israeli use. For more info:
John Reese, jreese@scn.org, 206-568-7110 or Community Action Network
can@drizzle.com
SEATTLE DIVEST FROM ISRAELI MILITARY OCCUPATION CAMPAIGN
Ask Seattle City Council to divest its pension funds from American companies
selling war machines to Israel. Includes Caterpillar and Boeing. More info:
www.palestineinformation.org; 206 633-1086.
OLYMPIA-RAFAH SISTER CITY PROJECT
Although Rachel Corrie’s life was cut short, many of us were inspired by
her
and have resolved to carry out her project. Beginning with a small core
group, we have steadily expanded since our formation last Spring. A number of
our
members have gone to live in Rafah, building connections with people and
institutions there. We have begun a Fair Trade exchange for Palestinian artwork
through the Union of Palestinian Women, we support a Center for Disabled
Persons, we have sponsored cultural exchanges, and we offer translation between
English and Arabic for our pen-pal program. You can find out more about us, or
contact us, through our website at http://www.orscp.org/. (360) 867-0290 or via
email at tomwright59@comcast.net
RACHEL CORRIE REBUILDING CAMPAIGN IN GAZA
It has been two years since Rachel Corrie was killed and I need your help in
April to rebuild the home that Rachel stood to safeguard. With your help, we
will
start building in May -- just before the Gaza redeployment begins. By
rebuilding
the Nasrallah family's home this May, thousands of Americans and people
around the world will learn what is really going on in Gaza and throughout
the West Bank and Jerusalem. House parties in the US with a live audio/video l
ink bringing the Nasrallah family into your home, live from Gaza on April 21
(East coast) and April 22 (West coast). Cindy and Craig Corrie will also be
joining the
link from Olympia, and it will be interactive, so your questions can be asked
and
answered. If interested in hosting a house party in April, or in more
information, please contact: Donna Baranski-Walker, Director, p: 650 325-4663
f:
650 325-4667,
The Rebuilding Alliance, 457 Kingsley Avenue, Palo Alto, California 94301,
United States, phone: 650 325-HOME, fax: 650 325-4667, email:
info@RebuildingAlliance.org, web: http://RebuildingAlliance.org, Internet
Shopping to rebuild
home and schools:, http://RebuildingAlliance.OneCause.com.
PSC RESPONSE NETWORK
The Response Network hopes to provide opportunities regularly for
participants
to take action on important issues related to Palestinian human rights. The
network will allow concerned citizens from all over Washington State to act
in a coordinated way to influence U.S. foreign policy with regard to
Israel/Palestine and the occupation. Please join by writing
outreach@palestineinformation.org. with as much of the following information as
you wish to
share: your name, mailing address, telephone number, and e-mail address. You
will receive action bulletins from us via email regarding the most urgent
issues once or twice a month. You can participate by contacting your
representative
or news editor, as the case may be. Please send us copies of your postings at
alerts@palestineinformation.org so we can keep track of the effectiveness of
the project.
Reminders:
1) Please write even if it’s brief. Numbers count. If you are not published,
you will be helping someone with a similar viewpoint get into print.
2) The usual word limit for letters is 200.
3) Begin your letter with a reference to the title and date of the article or
opinion piece to which you are responding.
4) Personal experiences and/or qualifications, when relevant, can be helpful
in establishing your authority. However, you can also establish your authority
by writing factual, logical, respectful letters. When possible, include a
reference to your source, such as, "according to the Israeli human rights
organization, B'Tselem,..."
5) Don't try to respond to every problem with the piece in question. Just
pick one or two points to concentrate on.
6) Include your full name, street address and contact phone numbers. The
paper needs these to verify that you are actually the author. Only your name
and
city will appear in print.
7) Bcc us at alerts@palestineinformation.org or forward your letter to that
address.
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questions or comments by
emailing us at outreach@palestineinformation.org .
SUPPORT PALESTINE WITH YOUR SHOPPING!
The Palestine Online Store features an extensive product selection. Please
consider doing your shopping here, to support Palestinian relief projects,
Palestinian artisans and their families, and Palestinian efforts at raising
awareness about the struggle for freedom. The wide selection of items includes
Palestinian traditional embroidery, handmade olive wood carvings, delightful
music
CDs, feature and documentary films, books, calendars, kaffiya scarves, pins,
and much much more! Please take a few minutes to browse
www.palestineonlinestore.com today!
Among the beneficiaries of this project are: KinderUSA's Emergency Appeal
Fund for the children of Rafah, the Children's Cultural Center in Dheisheh
refugee camp (Bethlehem), Palestine Aid Society, the Ghassan Kanafani Cultural
Foundation, MAMA (humanitarian relief in Nablus), artisans and their families
in
Bethlehem and the refugee camps of Lebanon and Jordan, and Solidarity Design.
During these difficult times in Palestine, and for Palestinian refugees
elsewhere, every little bit of help makes a difference.
www.palestineonlinestore.com
CALENDAR & INFO
To have us post an event on this calendar, please email lindabevis1@aol.com.
For more general news and analysis on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict without
a pro-Israeli-government bias, please see: palestinechronicle.com,
electronicIntifada.net, btselem.org, miftah.org and other sites listed on our
website.
To send a letter about anything you learn here to your congressional rep:
http://www.truemajority.com/index.asp?action=2174&ms=irqpeace. To
unsubscribe, email palestinejustice-unsubscribe@lists.riseup.net. To acquire
books or
buttons or kaffiyehs for tabling, try www.palestineonlinestore.com
US CAMPAIGN TO END THE OCCUPATION CALENDAR OF NATIONAL DAYS OF ACTION & OTHER
IMPORTANT DATES (PSC IS A SEATTLE AFFILIATE OF THIS CAMPAIGN)
Be sure to bookmark http://www.endtheoccupation.org/article.php?id=988 and
check it frequently to see what we're working on and how you can get involved.
(** indicates a national day of action)
**March 19, 2005 - Anniversary of the Invasion of Iraq
A national day of action in cooperation with United for Peace and Justice
(www.unitedforpeace.org ) . The US Campaign will mobilize nationally to educate
about the dual occupations of Iraq and Palestine.
March 21-April 1 - Congressional Break: Meet with your members of Congress!
The Congressional break is an excellent time to meet with your members of
Congress in their home districts. For tips on setting up a meeting with your
representatives contact congress@endtheoccupation.org
April 2-3 - Regional Organizers Conference: New Orleans, Louisana
Hosted by New Orleans Palestine Solidarity
http://www.nolapalestinesolidarity.org/
**April 13, 2005 - National Day of Action Against Caterpillar
A national day of action to hold Caterpillar and the United States
accountable to international law. For more information and ideas for action
visit
http://www.endtheoccupation.org/article.php?id=901
May 30-June 3 - Congressional Break: Meet with your members of Congress!
The Congressional break is an excellent time to meet with your members of
Congress in their home districts. For tips on setting up a meeting with your
representatives contact congress@endtheoccupation.org
**June 5, 2005 - 38th Anniversary of the occupation of the West Bank, Gaza
Strip, and East Jerusalem
June 24-25 - Regional Organizers Conference: Madison, WI
Hosted by the Madison-Rafah Sister City Project http://www.madison-rafah.org/
July 4-8 - Congressional Break: Meet with your members of Congress!
The Congressional break is an excellent time to meet with your members of
Congress in their home districts. For tips on setting up a meeting with your
representatives contact congress@endtheoccupation.org
August - National Organizers Conference: Date and Location TBA
**September 28 - Anniversary of the Second Intifada
**November 29 - International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
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