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Must see play: Fever Chart – Three Visions of the Middle East + other events

Posted by admin in Events, News on November 10th, 2010

The Fever Chart –

Three Visions of the Middle East

(Discount Code PFF35)
By Naomi Wallace
Presented by Underground Railway Theater
Nov. 18-Dec. 19, 2010
Central Square Theater
450 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, MA  02139

For the schedule and info about the free Talk-in-the-Box series, visit: http://centralsquaretheater.org/season/10-11/fever.html

The Fever Chart – Three Visions of the Middle East is a unique combination of lyrical theatricality and political passion, presented by Underground Railway Theater.  Three visions: An Israeli soldier’s encounter with a mysterious Palestinian woman in the Rafah Zoo; A Palestinian father’s revelation to a young Israeli woman of their shared history; A bookish Iraqi bird collector’s tale of his conscription into Saddam’s army.

Directed by Elena Araoz, with a cross-cultural cast featuring local favorite Ken Baltin and Najla Said, daughter of author/activist Edward Said, The Fever Chart: Three Visions of the Middle East reaches out like prophecy, challenging us to envision peace during the holiday season.

An Old English Cello – Health & Human Rights…… a story A promising New England Conservatory student from Palestine, an Israeli Jew, born into Leftist activist Yemenite family, and a Health & Human Rights Project…come and learn about the connection, enjoy a concert and support a project working for peace with justice in Israel / Palestine

Save the Date – Buy Tickets NOW

Sunday, November 14, 2010  :: 2 to 4 pm

Boston College

Cabaret Room, Vanderslice Hall

Lower campus, chestnut hill

E1 on this map

Parking is available at a nearby college parking garage for a small fee.

Tickets are available online at www.ajjpboston.org,

by mail* or purchased “at the door”

$10 students

General admission: $30 in advance / $35 at the door

Please consider becoming a benefit sponsor with a donation of $150 per person or $250 per couple.

Benefit sponsors are invited to a post concert reception at 4:30 pm to meet with the artist, enjoy food ** and wine.

All tickets are tax deductible, the hall is wheelchair accessible.

For advanced tickets and donations:

Online: www.ajjpboston.org

By mail: * make checks out to AJJP-Boston, memo line – HaHRP benefit tix

PO Box 400473, Cambridge, MA 02140

**food donated by: Amir’s Natural Foods & Amir’s Caterers, Jamaica Plain
November 8 – November 12The first ever whole week in solidarity with Palestine at Brandeis university – we hope to see you!

Brandeis Israel Occupation Awareness Week: A Week for Palestine hosting a special speaker:

Professor Noam Chomsky

Note if you are attending the Chomsky event you need to RSVP to noamshuster@gmail.com

Details of events here: http://innermostparts.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/occupationzine.pdf
A FUNDRAISER FOR THE U.S. BOAT TO BREAK THE BLOCKADE OF GAZA

WWW.USTOGAZA.ORG

The Portland Peace Players of Maine Present Two Plays

M Y   N A M E   I S   R A C H E L   C O R R I E

taken from the writings of Rachel, edited by Alan Rickman and Katharine Viner

&

S E V E N   J E W I S H   C H I L D R E N

by Caryl Churchill

Sunday, November 14, 3 to 5 PM

Boston University’s Photonics Center, Room 206

8 St. Mary’s Street

(Green Line “B” branch subway stop on Commonwealth Avenue)

Suggested donation $10 – $20

For more information and reservations:

greaterbostoncodepink@gmail.com facebook: greaterbostoncodepink

Doors open at 2:30

Co-sponsors (list in formation): American Jews for a Just Peace, Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights, BU Students for Justice in Palestine, Code Pink Boston, JewishVoice for Peace, Palestinian House of New England, Sabeel-New England, United for Justice with Peace Palestine Task Force ,Veterans for Peace,Smedley Butler Brigade,Unitarian-Universalists for Justice in the Middle East.
The Arab World: Leading for Tomorrow Conference

Leadership in the private, public, and social sectors

www.harvardarabweekend.org

Nov 18-21, Harvard University

With two distinguished guests opening this year’s Harvard Arab Weekend on Thursday, November 18:

Drew Gilpin Faust

President of Harvard University and Lincoln Professor of History  – Harvard Welcome &

Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan

Through the theme of “The Arab World: Leading for Tomorrow”, the Harvard Arab Weekend will be a venue for discussion on what it takes to tap into the region’s opportunities, leveraging its strengths and openly addressing its shortcomings.

The keynote speakers will be joined by over 40 leaders in the fields of business, education, medicine, public health, law and economics from within the Arab world and Harvard University.
Re-imagining Gaza and Youth Visions of Jerusalem
Photography Exhibition at MIT Rotch Library
November 1, 2010 – January 28, 2011
The Rotch Library is located on MIT’s campus at
77 Massachusetts Avenue, on the second floor of Building 7 in room 238.The photography exhibition showcases work emerging from a participatory media program conducted by Voices Beyond Walls with community centers in Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank and Gaza since 2006.
Re-imagining Gaza (2010) peers into rarely seen perspectives captured through photography and films produced with Palestinian youth in Gaza City, the Jabaliya refugee camp, and the Gaza buffer zone, re-imagining their lives despite the ongoing blockade and recent war in the Gaza Strip.

Voices Beyond Walls is a participatory media initiative led by a collective of local and international filmmakers, artists, educators, technologists and activists.
Program Website: www.voicesbeyondwalls.org
Exhibition Information: http://info-libraries.mit.edu/rotch/exhibitions/

PRESS RELEASE:
Voters Choose Equality: 57 % vote for ending Israeli government discrimination against Palestinians

Organization:  Massachusetts Residents for International Human Rights

Voters in the 34th Middlesex district of South Medford – West Somerville, the 23rd Middlesex district of Arlington, the 15th Suffolk district of Boston (Jamaica Plain), and the 29th Middlesex of Watertown voted “Yes” on a Question that asked: “Shall the state representative from this district be instructed to vote in favor of a non-binding resolution calling on the federal government to support the right of all people, including non-Jewish Palestinian citizens of Israel, to live free from laws that give more rights to people of one religion than another?”

The winning percentages were 55%, 54%, 66%, 61% respectively.  In total 30,778 people voted Yes (57%) and 22,813 voted No.

Voters in one district, the 2nd Suffolk district of Charlestown – Chelsea voted 48 % in favor but came up just short in passing the ballot question.

The victories in 4 of 5 districts came even though only 1 municipal elected supported the ballot question.   Nearly 5 dozen elected officials were contacted and all except one, supported the ballot question.

In 2008, 73% of voters in the 25th Middlesex district (Central Cambridge) and 62% of Somerville voters in 27th Middleses District (Central Somerville) voted Yes on the same question.  The ballot question has carried in 7 of 8 cities in the last two years.

John Spritzler, a Brighton resident of the Massachusetts Residents for International Human Rights (MRIHR) says “We’re ecstatic.  Voters showed that they support the principle of equality and don’t support Isreali laws that discriminate.  When given a chance to choose between the principle of equality versus the Zionist principle of inequality (i.e. that Israel must be a Jewish state in which the sovereign authority is “the Jewish people” and not all citizens equally) then Americans chose equality, even when few if any politicians will support openly equality.

Kathy Felgran, a Watertown resident of MRIHR, stated “the road to lasting peace is equality for all, and the recognition of the oneness of all humanity.  It’s heartening that the majority of residents agreed”.

Sprtilzer believes that MRIHR can help Americans throughout the nation understand this: the principles of equality and democracy that they overwhelmingly support, are the opposite of the principles of inequality and top-down control that our politicians and mass media defend, by telling us lies about Israel and about Palestinians.

Massachusetts Residents for International Human Rights

P.O. Box 441259

Somerville, MA 02144

Phone: 617 230-2835

Contact: John Spritzler <spritzler@comcast.net> for more info

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Die-in at Israeli Consulate-Boston

Posted by admin in News on June 3rd, 2010

June 1, 12:30PM - there was a demonstration outside the Israeli consulate to protest Israel’s attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. Some demonstrators staged a die-in in the street, and the police, unusually, let the event continue without interference.

Die-in at Israeli consulate, Boston

Check out full story and photos here: http://blog.dennisfox.net/index.php/archives/2010/06/01/die-in-at-israeli-consulate-boston-2/

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