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BE STEEL MY BEATING HEART (Or Love & Haiti)
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Saturday, September 19, 2009
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4:45pm - 6:00pm
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20th Century Club
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4201 BIGELOW BOULEVARD 15213
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Pittsburgh, PA
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A student and Palestinian-led workshop with a focus on Israel's occupation and apartheid policies in Palestine, and the international boycott and divestment movement...
This workshop is part of The Peoples’ Summit, a program of informed dialogue about the economic, social and political problems facing the world, will take place from Saturday, September 19 to Tuesday, September 22, 2009 at several locations in the city of Pittsburgh. Saturday’s conference and Tuesday evening’s events will take place at the Twentieth Century Club in Oakland, and Monday evening’s program will take place at the New Hazlett Theatre on the North Side.
Some of the speakers confirmed for the summit are:
* Howard Zinn
* Walden Bello
* James Quilligan
* Tim Stevens
* State Senator Jim Ferlo
* Carl Redwood
* Molly Rush
* Anthony Arnove
* Jeremy Scahill
For full schedule follow:
http://www.peoplessummit.com/page/full-schedule
For more on the Peoples Summit, follow:
http://www.peoplessummit.com/home
Saturday’s conference and Tuesday evening’s events will take place at the Twentieth Century Club in Oakland, and Monday evening’s program will take place at the New Hazlett Theatre on the North Side.
THURSDAY JULY 30 10:00 PM
Thursday July 30, 2009
10pm-2am
DJ James Gyre
Leslie Addis
Man in the Street
Alberto J. Almarza
Live Art
A Monster Raffle
Middle eastern food
and a lot more
$10-20
with no one turned away for lack'o funds
Shadow Lounge
5972 baum blvd
Pittsburgh, PA 15206
for more info, call 412-583-5062
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- Join the Pittsburgh Palestine Solidarity Committee, Pitt Students for Justice in Palestine, and members of the community for our weekly
"Stand for Palestine."
Schedule:
DATES AND LOCALES (Every Thursday 5:30 PM):
-July 9 East Liberty Presebyterian Church, Penn Ave at Highland Ave
- July 16- New Children's Hospital- Penn Ave @Main St
- July 23- Squirrel Hill- Forbes Ave @Murray Ave
- July 30- Trader Joe's - East End Plaza. Penn Ave
- Aug 6- Forbes Ave @ Morewood Ave, Carnegie Mellon University Intersection
-Aug 13- Hilton Hotel, Downtown at the tail end of Liberty Ave
-Aug 20- Forbes Ave at Bigelow Blvd, University of Pittsburgh
- Aug 27- Forbes Ave at Bigelow Blvd, University of Pittsburgh
- 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza have been under a debilitating military siege for the past two years, creating a "surrealistic situation in the Gaza Strip" forcing the tiny piece of land back to the Middle Ages, according to Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) Karen Abu Zayd.
- On July 3, 2009, in an act of piracy, Israeli forces kidnapped 21 passengers on board a boat of the Free Gaza Movement--A human rights group that in August 2008 sent the first international boats to land in the port of Gaza in 41 years. Their mission is to break the siege of Gaza and to raise international awareness about the prison-like closure of the Gaza Strip. Former US Congreewoman Cynthia McKinney and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mairead Maguire were on the boat and are still in an Israeli prison.
-Learn more about what President Jimmy Carter and Nelson Mandela have called "Worse than Apartheid South Africa" at Stand for Palestine
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SATURDAY JULY 18 8:00 PM
Pittsburgh Presents Palestine:
A Night of Poetry, Plays & Performances
PITTSBURGH, PA: On Saturday, July 18 and 8pm, local peace and justice groups will showcase for the public the upcoming event, "Pittsburgh Presents Palestine: A Night of Poetry, Plays & Performances." This is a limited, one-night engagement at Pittsburgh Playwright’s Theatre in the Cultural District of Downtown Pittsburgh.
The evening will consist of poetry readings of Palestinian poet, Mahmoud Darwish, a premier performance of "Palindrome" by Pittsburgh playwright, Jonas Moffat, an encore performance of Caryl Churchill’s "Seven Jewish Children: A Play for Gaza," and an eyewitness photo show set to live music by local musician and artist, Alberto Almarza, and more!
This evening of collected art forms serves as a benefit to help send local activists to Palestine to work with human rights groups. A reception will follow compliments of Allegro Hearth Bakery.
Pittsburgh Playwright's Theatre is located at 540 Penn Ave Pittsburgh, PA 15222 in the Cultural District. Tickets are $10 and seating is limited. Nobody will be turned away for lack of funds.
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MOCK ISRAELI CHECKPOINT ACTION (weekly)
Please join the e-mail list to find out which location we will be at next by emailing: joeskillet@riseup.net
Don't you just hate it when you are coming home from work and the military has blocked the roads between your school/home/hospitals, your produce rots in the sun, the patients in your ambulance are forced to wait in pain before receiving treatment, and you have to divert to a route that takes hours to get to your destination instead of minutes?!
Well, it probably doesn't happen much to you in the U.S. But it happens everyday in the Israeli-Occupied Palestinian Territories...
So.....
Let's show these Pittsburgh commuters what it's like to be held up at one of Israel's 600 illegal checkpoints!!!
Our last action at at Forbes and Craig was amazing! Lots of engagement with passersby, lots of information handed out, chanting and added props. Like the checkpoint monstrosities in Occupied Palestine, this checkpoint keeps getting bigger...Similar to Israel's roaming checkpoints that are constructed on Occupied Palestinian land, this checkpoint action will continue to roam as we hit different locations each week in and around Oakland. Note that Wednesday will be the new day for this weekly action- every week at 5:30pm. Feel free to dress the part-- soldier garb with toy guns encouraged.
Like with our previous actions, this will be a non-arrestable action. At no point do we hold up traffic- so feel free to join us! The feedback has been amazing, including people getting out of their cars to join the demonstration, and Rustbelt Radio doing a news story on the mock checkpoints. Many people I know have said they heard the news report and that they will join in on the actions.
So, as the weather gets nicer, and the rain is pushed away by sunshine (for now), join the Pittsburgh Palestine Solidarity Committee and Students for Justice in Palestine this Wednesday for the next mock Israeli checkpoint!
I Witness Gaza
-a night of arts and eyewitness accounts from Gaza
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
7:00pm - 9:00pm
First Unitarian Church, Shadyside
605 Morewood Ave at Ellsworth
Event includes:
-A book reading by Lora Gordon, a Jewish American who has spent over a year in the Gaza Strip
-Eyewitness accounts from Regina Birchem, past president of Women’s Interntional League for Peace and Freedom
-A reading of Seven Jewish Children, a 10-minute play written in response to the Gaza massacres
-Plus a Short film screening by Palestinian American video artist Edward Salem
Sponsored by: The Pittsburgh Palestine Solidarity Committee, Pitt Students for Justice in Palestine, Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East, Thomas Merton Center Antiwar Committee, Middle East Peace Forum, Codepink Piitsburgh, Coalition for Peace and Justice in the Middle East, Muslim Student Association, Women’s Interntional League for Peace and Freedom
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DAM!
Palestinian Hip Hop at CMU Thursday April 9
Palestinian hip hop at CMU Thursday April 9
BENEFIT CONCERT for GAZA!
--WHEN: Thursday, April 9th. Doors open at 6:30 for the 7:00 show
--WHERE: McConomy, in the University Center at Carnegie Mellon University
--WHO: DAM, a Palestinian Hip-Hop Band
--$5 tickets available at the Info Desk. All proceeds go to UNWRA, a relief fund for humanitarian aid in Gaza. See the attached flyer for more information.
DAM is an internationally acclaimed Palestinian Hip-Hop group. They're a cultural phenomenon, mixing a musical backdrop of Arabic drumbeats and electric hip hop rhythms. This will be an awesome concert, and an excellent way to help donate towards supporting humanitarian aid in Gaza.
Invite all your friends, and don't miss out!
On March 16, 2003, Rachel Corrie, an American peace activist, was murdered by the Israeli army when she was deliberately run over by a military bulldozer in the Gaza Strip. Join us as we commemorate her life with the production of:
My Name is Rachel Corrie
Taken from the writings of Rachel Corrie
Edited by Alan Rickman and Katharine Viner
Sponsored by Pitt Students for Justice in Palestine, Muslim Students Association, Pittsburgh Palestine Solidarity Committee,
OPTICS (Organizing Pittsburgh to Increase Community Solidarity), CodePink Pittsburgh Chapter,Thomas Merton Center's Antiwar Committee
the Tel Rumeida Circus for Detained Palestinians, International Solidarity Movement- Pittsburgh Chapter
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Israeli Anarchists Against the Wall
North American Speaking-Tour
Anarchists Against the Wall is a direct action group that fights against Israeli apartheid and oppression in all its forms, most recently also the atrocities in Gaza. For five years the group has waged a constant struggle against Israel's Wall. The work on the ground in the West Bank, alongside the Palestinian popular movement is breaking new ground in the joint struggle for Palestinian liberation. In December 2008, Anarchists Against the Wall and the Bil'in Village Committee were jointly awarded the prestigious Carl von Ossietzky Medal---an award given annually by the Berlin-based International League of Human Rights, named after German Nobel Peace Prize winner Carl von Ossietzky who died in a Nazi concentration camp.
Now more than ever, it is critical to support the Israeli resistance movement against the state's attempted repression of our work. Members of Anarchists Against the Wall continually pay the price for our activism, including being shot, beaten, arrested and indicted. We desperately need funding for legal support for both Palestinian and Israeli activists who are arrested and charged in the course of the struggle.
Schachaf Polakow, a member of Anarchists Against the Wall, will be touring the U.S. and Canada from February 1st to March 9th. His presentation will include film and photos, and will focus both on AATW's recent work in solidarity with Gaza and our ongoing work in the West Bank. Please see the tour schedule below, and help us get the word out. A highlight of the tour is bound to be a special evening with Noam Chomsky at Harvard Square, February 17th.
For more information questions about the tour, please email aatwtour@gmail.com.
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ISRAEL/PALESTINE as a SHARED HOMELAND
With David A. Wesley, Ph.D.
Author of:
State Practices and Zionist Images:
Shaping Economic Development in Arab Towns in Israel
Monday, March 2, 8:00 p.m. –
Kurtzman Room, William Pitt Union
We hear much about Israel’s policies in the West Bank and Gaza. Dr. David A. Wesley looks at policies toward Arab Israeli citizens living in Israel. Wesley is an American-born Israeli citizen who lived and worked in a kibbutz for thirty years. He began to question the historic premise for why the former Palestinian owners of the land, displaced in 1948, were now the day laborers hired to pick the fruit in kibbutz orchards.
Engaged in study at Tel Aviv University, he launched an investigation of the relationship between Jewish and Arab towns in the Zipporit industrial area near Nazareth between 1992 and 1997. During this time, the Israeli Ministry of Industry was instituting a program of industrial development in that area. What Wesley observed was that industrial development of Jewish towns was promoted, while development in Arab centers was denied.
Wesley observes that in recent years, Arab towns have become involved in the planning process and are more actively articulating their demands for inclusion. He asks, “Might these efforts offer hope for a future in which Jews, Christians, and Muslims come to be incorporated as equal citizens, in law and practice, in a single national project?”
He and his wife, Elana, live in a mixed Arab-Jewish neighborhood in Jaffa, which is greatly to their liking.
Sponsored by Pitt Students for Justice in Palestine
Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East (UUJME), Muslim Students Association, Pittsburgh Palestine Solidarity Committee,
Pittsburgh Jews for Peace, OPTICS (Organizing Pittsburgh to Increase Community Solidarity,
the Tel Rumeida Circus for Detained Palestinians, International Solidarity Movement- Pittsburgh Chapter
Boycott and Protest Batsheva Dance Company
Click HERE for more info
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Thursday, February 5, 2009 |
| Time: | 7:00pm - 9:00pm |
| Location: | Benedum center, downtown pittsburgh |
| City/Town: | Pittsburgh, PA |
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MY NAME IS RACHEL CORRIE
Friday, January 30 & Saturday, January 31
Friday, February 6 & Saturday, February 7
An encore, limited-engagement performance of the hit Off-Broadway play.
On March 16, 2003, Rachel Corrie, a twenty-three-year-old American,
was crushed to death by an Israeli Army bulldozer in Gaza as she tried to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian home.
My Name is Rachel Corrie is composed from Rachel Corrie’s own journals, letters, and e-mails,
creating a portrait of a passionate young woman who left the safety of her home and school in Washington state to work as an
activist in the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Performances will be at 8 PM
Friday, January 30 & Saturday, January 31
Friday, February 6 & Saturday, February 7
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Tel Rumeida Circus for Detained Palestinians
Memoirs of NonViolent Resistance
Katie Miranda and Jonas Moffat have spent several years in Palestine working with the International Solidarity Movement in support of the Palestinian non-violent resistance to the Israeli occupation.
Jonas, a Pittsburgh native, and Katie, an Israeli-American, worked mainly in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood of the city of Hebron, an area in the West Bank under Israeli military control where violent and extremist Israeli settlers live side-by-side with Palestinians. Palestinians in the neighborhood suffer greatly from the apartheid system of law that prevents them from driving cars (including taxis and ambulances). Civilian Israeli settlers are allowed to carry weapons, while Palestinians are not. The police and army in control of this neighborhood are Israeli only, meaning they do not come to the assistance of Palestinians.
Katie and Jonas founded the Tel Rumeida Circus for Detained Palestinians in response to the abuse and harassment they witnessed by settlers and soldiers towards Palestinians. Jonas and Katie performed a circus routine at checkpoints in Tel Rumeida where Palestinians were routinely detained for hours by soldiers and border police. The purpose of the performances were to entertain the detained men and to add some humor to the situation which had the effect of putting the soldiers in a better mood and causing them to be less abusive towards the Palestinians.
Katie and Jonas will share their experiences in Palestine, show a documentary video from Tel Rumeida, and perform their fire circus routine if possible.
Katie's Blog: moomin13.livejournal.com/
Jonas' Blog: joeskillet.livejournal.com/
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Hope Under Siege
Opening Reception Friday January 9, 8PM
Pittsburgh to Palestine Photo Exhibit
WHERE: Kimbo Art Gallery, University of Pittsburgh, First Floor of William Pitt Union
WHEN: Opening Reception with live music, poetry, food, and so much more:
Opening Reception: Jan 9, 2009 8:00PM
Exhibit runs from Jan. 9-19, 2009
EXHIBIT EXTENDED UNTIL FRIDAY, JANUARY 23
May 2008 marked the 60th anniversary of what Palestinians call the “Nakba.” It is a date engrained into the minds of every Palestinian, everywhere. The translation means the “Catastrophe,” because three quarters of a million Palestinian women, men, and children were expelled from their homes, massacred ensued, and 531 Palestinian towns and villages were destroyed for what was to become the state of Israel.
For the 60 years of Israel’s existence, Palestinians have been refused the right to return to their homes. Palestinians remain the largest refugee population in the world. Many continue to see the uprooting of their trees, the demolition of their homes, the building of apartheid walls, confiscation of their farmland, and the murder of their family members and friends by the Israeli army.
Jonas Moffat is a student at Pitt who lived and volunteered as a human rights worker in Palestine for two years. He traveled to Palestine to witness and document what is happening on the ground in order to amplify the voices of the marginalized Palestinians and spread the truth through eyewitness accounts of life under occupation, of a hope that is under siege.
Please join Students for Justice in Palestine as they reveal Jonas' photographs from Occupied Palestine. Hear eyewitness accounts from Palestinians and Pittsburghers who have seen and experienced life under the gun. View the scenes of hope and the images of despair. Share the truth with the world about 60 years of dispossession and a hope that refuses to perish.
Enjoy Palestinian music with live oud performances, Palestinian poetry, spoken word, and munchies courtesy of Allegro Hearth Bakery-- at the opening reception on Friday, January 9th, 2009.
Browse the exhibit down the hallway between sets. Meet with the photographer and chat with Palestinians and local activists who have witnessed life under occupation in Palestine.
Hope Under Siege is sponsored by Students for Justice in Palestine, the Muslim Student Association, The Pittsburgh Palestine Solidarity Committee, the International Solidarity Movement, The Tel Rumeida Circus for Detained Palestinians, OPTICS (Organizing Pittsburgh to Increase Community Solidarity), and many more!
HOPE UNDER SIEGE runs from January 9-19, 2009
For more information, contact: Jonas: joeskillet@riseup.net
STUDENTS FOR JUSTICE IN PALESTINE:
http://www.pitt.edu/~sorc/pittsjp/
http://joeskillet.livejournal.com
From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free!
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Drought, Settlements, the Wall
A Presentation on Israel's Systematic Violation of Palestinians' Human Right to Water
With Susan Koppelman, LifeSource co-founder
2 Dates!!
Wednesday December 3, 7:30PM
First Unitarian Church, Shadyside
605 Morewood Avenue, at the corner of Ellsworth Ave
Thursday, December 4, 7:30PM
University of Pittsburgh
Cathedral of Learning Room 232
Presentation will feature screening of LifeSource documentary, "We, the Women of Jayyous"--the story of an individual Palestinian village's resistance to confiscated wells and Israeli industrial waste.
Come meet LifeSource co-founder Susan Koppelman, learn about the situation of Palestinians suffering acute water shortages due to Israeli policies, and reflect on some examples of water campaigns that LifeSource is supporting at the grassroots level as a strategic means for securing Palestinian water rights and ending the illegal Israeli Occupation.
www.LifeSource.ps
Drought, Settlements, the Wall is being sponsored by Pitt Students for Justice in Palestine and co-sponsored by the Muslim Student Association (Pitt), the Pittsburgh Palestine Solidarity Committee, and the Tel Rumeida Circus for Detained Palestinians.
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Witness in the Holy Land:
Palestinian Christians Under Occupation
with Maria Khoury, Ed. D.
Tuesday, November 11
8:30 PM
University of Pittsburgh
Cathedral of Learning Room 244A
The newly reconstituted Students for Justice in Palestine at Pitt is pleased to sponsor "Witness in the Holy Land: Palestinian Christians Under Occupation.
On Tuesday, November 11, Dr. Maria Khoury will speak at the University of Pittsburgh. The event is entitled, "Witness in the Holy Land: Palestinian Christians Under Occupation."
Maria Khoury, Ed. D. is the author of Christian children's books and Witness in the Holy Land, a publication reflecting personal experiences under Israeli military occupation. She and her husband, the Honorable Mayor David Khoury, have helped boost the Palestinian economy with investments in the Palestinian beer, "Taybeh," and in fair trade bottling of Taybeh Olive Oil.
Witness in the Holy Land is being sponsored by Pitt Students for Justice in Palestine and co-sponsored by the Muslim Student Association (Pitt), the Pittsburgh Palestine Solidarity Committee, and the Tel Rumeida Circus for Detained Palestinians.
VIGIL FOR PALESTINE
Hillman Library. Oakland
Although Israel's massacre in Gaza has ceased, the Illegal Siege and Brutal Occupation
of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank continues.
Come Stand in Solidarity with the people of Palestine and make their voices heard!
WHERE: Corner of Forbes and Bigelow, near the Hillman Library
WHEN: EVERY Thursday, 5pm
Bring candles, Palestinian flags, pictures, and leaflets as we share with the folks at rush hour the truth about what is happening in Occupied Palestine!
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THESE EVENTS WILL RESUME IN FALL SEMESTER.
PLEASE STAY TUNED FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE FILM SERIES
Weekly Palestine Film Series
EVERY Tuesday, 7:00PM
WESLEY W. POSVAR HALL 5405
Last showing of Spring 2009 Semester: "Wall", April 7
Past Films Shown
March 3:
Divine Intervention
a 2002 film by Palestinian director Elia Suleiman, which may be described as a surreal black comedy. The film consists largely of a series of brief interconnected sketches, but for the most part records a day in the life of a Palestinian living in Nazareth, whose girlfriend lives several checkpoints away in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
Feb. 10
THE KILLING ZONE
We will show a film every Tuesday, same time/same place, every Tuesday thereafter.
Dispatches reporter Sandra Jordan and producer Rodrigo Vasquez risk their lives to reveal the shocking level of daily violence and murderous hate in the Gaza Strip.
An American peace activist was crushed to death by an IDF bulldozer; a British peace protester was shot in the head by an IDF sniper and remains in a coma; and last weekend, a British cameraman was shot dead by the IDF.
Within hours of arriving Sandra and Rodrigo are shot at and tear-gassed by Israeli troops breaking up a memorial service for Rachel Corrie, an American peace activist crushed by an Israeli Army bulldozer two days before.
Broadcast Channel 4 - 05/19/06 Runtime 49 Minutes
NEXT WEEK:
February 17 and 24, 7pm
"Occupation 101"
