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Breaking the Silence:

Israeli soldiers speaking on the moral price of occupation Highlighting the Experience of Female Soldiers

Tuesday, Feb 23, 7-9pm
Congregation Eitz Chayim
136 Magazine Street, Cambridge, MA

Wednesday, Feb 24 7-9pm
Temple Hillel B'nai Torah
120 Corey Street, West Roxbury

Breaking the Silence is an organization of veteran Israeli soldiers who served in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The soldiers were witness to, and participated in, military actions which changed them immensely. Dana Golan, veteran IDF lieutenant, is the executive director of Breaking the Silence. She will present a talk based on interviews with female IDF soldiers about their experiences in the Occupied Territories. Join us for this unique opportunity to hear the perspective
of female IDF soldiers.

Breaking the Silence believes that "every Israeli citizen must know what is being done in his/her name in the Occupied Territories."

For more information: http://www.shovrimshtika.org/

February 23rd sponsored by: Congregation Eitz Chayim and New Israel Fund
February 24th sponsored by: Boston Workmen's Circle, Temple Hillel
B'nai Torah, and New Israel Fund

Donations welcome to support the work of Breaking the Silence Individuals who wish to carpool or who can offer a ride to West Roxbury, please contact Nicole: nicole_simon@mail.harvard.edu

Temple Hillel B'nai Torah is wheelchair accessible.

Renowned actor and playwright Najla Said:

On Monday, Oct. 5, renowned actor and playwright Najla Said (daughter of the late Edward Said) will present her one-woman play, "Palestine," at 5 PM at Brown University in Providence, RI The performance will take place in Leeds Theatre (Lyman Hall) 77 Waterman St in, Providence, RI. For information on this remarkable woman go to http://www.counterpunch.org/said07222006.html.

An excerpt from her play can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEMrmRCbvA0

Presentation by Anna Baltzer
Brown University (Providence, RI)

On Tuesday, October 20 at 7 pm at Brown University (Providence, RI) , Anna Baltzer, a Jewish American author, Columbia University graduate and Fulbright scholar will share a photographic presentation about what is happening in the occupied Palesinian territories.

Anna has recently returned from the Middle East. She’ll speak at 7 pm in Wilson 102 (on the Main Green). Anna will undoubtedly have copies of her book, Witness in Palestine: A Jewish American woman in the Occupied Territories, and her DVD for sale. Her website is http://www.annainthemiddleeast.com.

Eyewitness from Gaza with Tom Arabia

Monday, August 24, 2009 at 7pm

Rochambeau Library Providence, RI
(708 Hope Street, near the intersection of Hope and Rochambeau) Bottom Floor Conference Room

For close to three years, in an act of collective punishment, Israel has imposed a strangling blockade on the Gaza Strip that severely restricts access to basic food, medicine, and fuel supplies, maintaining the siege throughout and after the most recent invasion of Gaza, in which more than 1,400 Gazans were killed.

On July 4 ,in the single largest humanitarian aid effort from the US to Gaza in history, VivaPalestina, a delegation of US citizens, traveled to Gaza in order to break the blockade. After days at the Egyptian border, during which the Mubarak regime prevented them from traveling into the Strip, they were finally allowed to enter for 24 hours. Tom Arabia, who participated in the VivaPalestina delegation, will present on what he saw.

Sponsored by the International Socialist Organization and the Rhode Island Mobilization Committee to Stop War and Occupation.
For more information, go to RIStopWar.com or contact RIStopWar@gmail.com or 401 578 2513

For more information on VivaPalestina:www.vivapalestina-us.org/

• Conferences

  Check out the following conferences:

  • Friday, Saturday and Sunday, March 27-29, 2009, Tufts University, MEDFORD, MA: New Strategies for New Realities
  • A New England regional conference to help re-focus the movement for peace and social justice for our new era; the conference will provide an opportunity for in-depth exploration & campaign development for 3 priorities: US foreign & military policies, the economic crisis, & energy and the environment; with Noam Chomsky, Phyllis Bennis, Bill Fletcher, Jr., Zia Mian, & many others; to learn more visit www.afsc.org/newstrategies2009 or email Joseph Gerson or Genevie Gold at the Peace & Economic Security Program, American Friends Service Committee, or call (617)661-6130.
  • March 28-29 UMass Boston, BOSTON, MA: One State for Palestine / Israel: A Country for All Its Citizens?
  • An international conference to undertake a critical assessment of the current status of the two state solution to the Palestinian/Israeli conflict and to explore the logic and feasibility of a one-state solution based on equal citizenship for Palestinians and Israelis.

• Workshops

  • To be scheduled