Boston Free Palestine http://www.bostonfreepalestine.org Palestine related events in the Boston area Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:02:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The Truth About the Attack at Sea:Gaza Freedom Flotilla with Ann Wright http://www.bostonfreepalestine.org/2010/06/15/the-truth-about-the-attack-at-seagaza-freedom-flotilla-with-ann-wright-2/ http://www.bostonfreepalestine.org/2010/06/15/the-truth-about-the-attack-at-seagaza-freedom-flotilla-with-ann-wright-2/#comments Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:02:24 +0000 admin http://www.bostonfreepalestine.org/?p=152 Details of the three events scheduled for an eye witness account on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla.

June 18th Friday 7 PM: Essex, MA

First Universalist Church of Essex — 57 Main Street, Essex,MA

June 19th Saturday 6 PM: Allston, MA

Palestinian Cultural Center for Peace – 41 Quint Avenue, Allston,MA

$10 Suggested donation; Community dinner included

June 20th Sunday 6:30 pm: Worcester, MA

Blessed Sacrament Church, Phelan Center — 551 Pleasant Street, Worcester MA


Ann Wright, a retired US Army colonel, spent twenty-nine years in the military and later served as a high-ranking diplomat in the US State Department. In 2001, she helped oversee the opening of the US mission in Afghanistan. In 2003, she resigned her post at the State Department to protest the war in Iraq. Ms. Wright was a passenger on the Challenger 1, one of the six boats in the Gaza flotilla that was raided by Israeli commandos on May 31.   She was deported to Turkey.

Source: www.bdsmovement.net

]]> http://www.bostonfreepalestine.org/2010/06/15/the-truth-about-the-attack-at-seagaza-freedom-flotilla-with-ann-wright-2/feed/ 0 Die-in at Israeli Consulate-Boston http://www.bostonfreepalestine.org/2010/06/03/die-in-at-israeli-consulate-boston/ http://www.bostonfreepalestine.org/2010/06/03/die-in-at-israeli-consulate-boston/#comments Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:50:28 +0000 admin http://www.bostonfreepalestine.org/?p=146 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/

]]> http://www.bostonfreepalestine.org/2010/06/03/die-in-at-israeli-consulate-boston/feed/ 0 June 4: Boston Demands: End the Siege on Gaza! at Government Center http://www.bostonfreepalestine.org/2010/06/03/june-4-boston-demands-end-the-siege-on-gaza-at-government-center/ http://www.bostonfreepalestine.org/2010/06/03/june-4-boston-demands-end-the-siege-on-gaza-at-government-center/#comments Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:04:44 +0000 admin http://www.bostonfreepalestine.org/?p=134 Boston Demands: End the Siege on Gaza!

Friday, June 4
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
JFK Federal Building, Government Center
Downtown Boston

Tell President Obama: Enough is enough! End the illegal and immoral siege on Gaza! Demand an independent investigation into the Israeli attack on the Freedom Flotilla!

The U.S. State Department is closer than ever to declaring its support for an end to the siege on Gaza. Accelerate this change, using the momentum gained from the Flotilla attack. Join us Friday as we call for an end to the siege and for an investigation into the murderous attack on the Mavi Marvara.

Please forward widely.

–
From: www.bdsmovement.net

]]> http://www.bostonfreepalestine.org/2010/06/03/june-4-boston-demands-end-the-siege-on-gaza-at-government-center/feed/ 0 May 20, 2010 7 PM: Commemorating the 62nd Anniversary of the Nakba in Palestine, with Ghassan Kanafani at Cambridge Public Library http://www.bostonfreepalestine.org/2010/05/13/may-20-2010-62nd-anniversary-nakba-palestine-ghassan-kanafani-cambridge-public-library/ http://www.bostonfreepalestine.org/2010/05/13/may-20-2010-62nd-anniversary-nakba-palestine-ghassan-kanafani-cambridge-public-library/#comments Thu, 13 May 2010 15:06:56 +0000 admin http://www.bostonfreepalestine.org/?p=126 Commemorating the 62nd Anniversary of the Nakba in Palestine,

Please join us for an evening of readings from the work of Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani

This event is free.

When

Thursday May 20th, 2010
7:00 PM

Directions

Where: Lewis Room, Cambridge Public Library, Central Square

Address: 45 Pearl St Cambridge, MA 02139

Public Transportation

accessible by bus and red line, Central Sq stop, wheelchair accessible

Featuring:

  • Sameer Abu-Alsaoud
  • Laila Murad
  • Nada Samih
  • Dara Bayer
  • Lana Habash
  • Spiritchild
  • Viviane Saleh-Hanna
  • Gina Rodriguez, and
  • Ashanti Allston, former political prisoner

There will be readings of Kanafani’s work, musical performance, a photo exhibit, and Palestinian food.

From Ghassan Kanafani’s “Returning to Haifa”, 1969:

“What happened to you, Said?”
“Nothing. Nothing at all. I was just asking. I’m looking for the true Palestine,
the Palestine that’s more than memories, more than peacock feathers, more than a son,
more than scars written by bullets on the stairs. I was just saying to myself:
What’s Palestine with respect to Khalid? He doesn’t know the vase or the picture
or the stairs or Halisa or Khaldun. And yet for him, Palestine is something worthy
of a man bearing arms for, dying for…. Tens of thousands like Khalid won’t be stopped
by the tears of men searching in the depths of their defeat for scraps of armor and broken flowers.
Men like Khalid are looking toward the future, so they can put right our mistakes and the
mistakes of the whole world…”

History:

This May marks the 62nd anniversary of the Nakba (Arabic for “catastrophe”) in Palestine in 1948 when over 935,000 Palestinians (85% of the indigenous population of Palestine at that time) were forced off their land, in some cases at gunpoint, in other cases through massacres or threats of massacres like the massacre at Deir Yassin. As a result, 530 of an estimated 550 total villages were completely destroyed or depopulated. “Israel” was founded on the racist ideology of zionism. It has followed the expansionist and genocidal logic of white supremacy and colonialism for over sixty years. Today, the genocide in Palestine continues: from the planned expulsion of thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank, to the demolition of Palestinian homes in occupied Al Quds (Jerusalem), to the continued siege of the people of Gaza– deprived of food, water, electricity, and medicine– to the mass detention of over 11,000 Palestinian political prisoners. Ghassan Kanafani, beloved Palestinian writer, was murdered by Zionist forces in 1972. His work reminds us of the spirit of resistance that has sustained the Palestinian people for generations.

Please join us.

**The Cambridge Public Library is not a sponsor of this event.
]]> http://www.bostonfreepalestine.org/2010/05/13/may-20-2010-62nd-anniversary-nakba-palestine-ghassan-kanafani-cambridge-public-library/feed/ 0 May 3, 2010: Boston Activists Disrupt Israeli Innovation Weekend at Museum of Science http://www.bostonfreepalestine.org/2010/05/06/may-3-2010-boston-activists-disrupt-israeli-innovation-weekend-at-museum-of-science/ http://www.bostonfreepalestine.org/2010/05/06/may-3-2010-boston-activists-disrupt-israeli-innovation-weekend-at-museum-of-science/#comments Thu, 06 May 2010 15:22:42 +0000 admin http://www.bostonfreepalestine.org/?p=108 Boston, MA, May 3, 2010 – Local activists protested the so-called “Israeli Innovation Weekend” (IIW) at the Museum of Science in Boston through multiple, disparate actions on Sunday. IIW’s sponsors, including the Consulate General of Israel to New England, were left flummoxed by the activists’ efforts and largely unable to prevent their successful, multi-pronged disruption of the event.

Protesters targeted IIW because it was part of a state-sponsored campaign to “greenwash” Israel’s discriminatory, apartheid regime and atrocious human rights record.  IIW was officially sponsored by the Israeli Consulate, which also played a major role in funding and planning the event; nearly half of IIW’s steering committee was composed of Consulate staff and the Consulate was one of the top donors.

Throughout the day, protesters maintained a visible public presence outside the Museum.  Protesters held signs drawing attention to Israeli “innovation” in technologies of death such as white phosphorus and cluster bombs, parodying the exhibit’s slogan, “Healing the World Through Technology.”

Across the street from the Museum, demonstrators also prominently displayed a large Palestinian flag from the adjacent East Cambridge Lechmere Viaduct Bridge.  The protesters’ message was seen by hundreds of Museum visitors and passing tour groups, many of whom called out or honked horns in expressions of solidarity.

Meanwhile, inside the Museum, lone activists stealthily replaced the IIW program with a duplicate program, virtually identical in appearance but which highlighted themes of the Israeli science and technology sectors’ complicity in water theft and other abuses.  The front of the program named Israel “The World’s Leader in Cutting-Edge Apartheid Technologies,” while inside the program, titles of IWW lectures were re-printed with altered titles.  For example, “Sunshine and Sustainability: Israeli Leadership in Solar Technology” was renamed “Sustainable Darkness: Israeli Innovations in Torture Technology and Extra-Legal Maneuvering,” while “Sharing Water in the Middle East—Israel’s Cross-Border Water Resource Strategy” became “Strategic Water Appropriation in the Middle East: Might Makes Right.”  IIW organizers were overheard multiple times expressing anger and frustration at their inability to determine who was “plastering” the exhibit with this literature.

Download a copy of the brochure here:  http://www.scribd.com/doc/30892732/mos-flier

Activists surreptitiously distributed this material for more than two hours before finally being discovered and asked to leave the Museum.  Yet Museum staff were observed reading the alternative program and several expressed sympathy with the activists’ cause as they were escorted out of the Museum.

Finally, yet another group of activists infiltrated the last panel lecture of the day, entitled “Israeli Technology: An Investor’s Perspective.”  As the panel began, two participants unfurled a giant banner reading “Don’t Invest in Israeli Apartheid.”  After the activists were shouted down by the audience and removed by Museum security, others continued to disrupt the session every five to ten minutes, individually standing up and interrupting the lecture by condemning investment in Israeli technology, calling for justice for Palestinians, or singing liberation songs.

One disrupter referred the audience to the report about war crimes in Gaza by the UN inquiry commission led by South African jurist Richard Goldstone if they truly wanted to know more about Israeli technological innovation.  Another declared that investing in Israel was investing in the dispossession and genocide of indigenous people.  Yet another sang a re-written, Palestine-specific version of Sweet Honey in the Rock’s Chile Your Waters Run Red Through Soweto.  In sum, the activists made it impossible for the event to proceed and visibly agitated the audience.

Video of the activists’ disruption,

This video was embedded using the YouTuber plugin by Roy Tanck. Adobe Flash Player is required to view the video.

In another positive sign of Israel’s increasing marginalization, there were so few people in actual attendance of the lecture that after all the activists had been removed, there was more security present in the auditorium than attendees.

The Boston-area activists were pleased to be part of a larger, international campaign that refuses to let the Israeli government “greenwash” its occupation and devastation of Palestinian life by presenting itself as a leader in scientific innovation and green technology, a campaign that is part of the larger movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel.  Just days earlier, activists in Scotland held a three-day protest of a similar such exhibition of Israeli science and technological innovation at their national Parliament building, a demonstration that included 400 tiny coffins to represent the children massacred in the 2008-2009 war on Gaza:  http://indymedia.org/uk/en/2010/05/450182.html

The BDS movement is an international response to the call from Palestinian society to boycott, divest from, and sanction the Israeli government until it ends its occupation and dismantles the Wall inside the West Bank, recognizes the equal rights of Palestinian citizens, and respects the right of return of Palestinian refugees.  To learn more about the call for BDS, and to read about other organizations engaged in BDS work who also support the protest of the greenwashing of Israel, see:

http://www.bdsmovement.net/ – site of the global BDS movement; you can read the call for BDS here

http://www.pacbi.org/ – site of the Palestinian campaign for Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel

http://www.endtheoccupation.org/ – site of the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation

]]> http://www.bostonfreepalestine.org/2010/05/06/may-3-2010-boston-activists-disrupt-israeli-innovation-weekend-at-museum-of-science/feed/ 0 April 25, 2010: Benefit Fundraiser for The Children of Gaza at UMass Boston http://www.bostonfreepalestine.org/2010/04/21/april-25-2010-benefit-fundraiser-for-the-children-of-gaza-at-umass-boston/ http://www.bostonfreepalestine.org/2010/04/21/april-25-2010-benefit-fundraiser-for-the-children-of-gaza-at-umass-boston/#comments Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:40:59 +0000 admin http://www.bostonfreepalestine.org/?p=102 Benefit Fundraiser for The Children of Gaza

When: Sunday, April 25, 2010, 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Where: UMass Boston Campus Center • 100 Morissey Blvd • Ballroom • Dorchester

The Maia Project – Water for Gaza

You Are Invited to a Benefit Fundraiser for

The Children of Gaza

Your contributions will provide the Beit Hanoun Preparatory School for Boys in Gaza with a clean water supply system

Founded in 1988, the Middle East Children’s Alliance is a nonprofit organization working for the rights and well-being of children in Palestine, Lebanon and Iraq.  MECA sends shipments of aid, builds playgrounds and supports projects that make life better for women and children.

When MECA asked the children in Bureij Refugee Camp in Gaza what they could do to help them, they responded that what they wanted more than anything was to have a clean glass of water to drink at school.  Because of the Israeli occupation and the diversion of water to the settlements in the West Bank and Israel, the water table has been lowered to such an extent that the water in Gaza is almost undrinkable and causes disease.

Your contributions of 11,000 dollars will provide the children at the Beit Hanoun Preparatory School for boys with clean water.

Join us for an afternoon of speakers, slide show, music, fundraiser sale and refreshments

Speaking at the event:

Noam Chomsky – Professor emeritus of linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Laila Farsakh -  Assistant professor of political science,  the University of Massachusetts Boston.

Nancy Murray – President, Gaza Mental Health Foundation

Ziad Abbas, Associate Director, Middle East Children’s Alliance

Slide Show: Skip Schiel, photographs from Gaza

Music: Traditional Arabic music

Suggested donation: $25 (no one will be turned away)

All proceeds of this event will go to the Middle East Children’s Alliance – the Maia project

Make your tax-deductible contribution to: MECA – Maia Project www.mecaforpeace.org

(When making an online contribution, be sure to put the name of our school Beit Hanoun Preparatory School for Boys under “gift on behalf of”)

For any questions, or if you would like to volunteer, please email water4gazaboston@gmail.com

]]> http://www.bostonfreepalestine.org/2010/04/21/april-25-2010-benefit-fundraiser-for-the-children-of-gaza-at-umass-boston/feed/ 0 An Evening with Kamal Aljafari: at Harvard Film Archive Friday April 9, 2010 http://www.bostonfreepalestine.org/2010/04/06/an-evening-with-kamal-aljafari-at-harvard-film-archive/ http://www.bostonfreepalestine.org/2010/04/06/an-evening-with-kamal-aljafari-at-harvard-film-archive/#comments Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:45:27 +0000 admin http://www.bostonfreepalestine.org/?p=91 Please join us for film screenings of Palestinian director Kamal Aljafari, currently a Benjamin White Whitney Scholar and Radcliffe-Harvard Film Study Center Fellow.

An Evening with Kamal Aljafari

Special Event Tickets $12
THE ROOF  &  PORT OF MEMORY
 Friday April 9 at 7pm

The haunting films of Kamal Aljafari (b. 1972) mix documentary, fiction and personal memoir to render complex portraits of the Palestinian communities in Ramleh and Jaffa, now part of Israel. While providing a rare look at the everyday lives of Palestinian Israelis, the films are more than simply sociopolitical treatises of often-overlooked communities and neighborhoods in danger of dissolving. Aljafari instead astutely balances fiction and nonfiction to capture the fragile rhythms of lives lived in a kind of permanent displacement and the strange limbo of neighborhoods subtly yet inexorably transforming. Although the Ramleh and Jaffa depicted in Aljafari’s films have managed to avoid the raw hardships of life in the occupied territories, they cannot avoid the paradoxes of the occupation itself, filed as they are with lives and buildings frozen in time even as they are part of the Israeli present. Pointedly political, Aljafari’s films wonderfully embed their ideology into a cinematic poetry graced by light humor.

Aljafari has established an international reputation not only with his films but also with gallery shows exhibited around the world. A graduate of the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, this year he has been based at Harvard as a Film Study Center-Radcliffe Fellow. He has an installation opening on April 28th at the Radcliffe Gallery entitled “Not Without Me.”

This screening is presented by the Harvard Film Archive, the Boston Palestine Film Festival and the Film Study Center, Harvard.

See below for details of films screened, or visit the HFA website.

Screenings are followed by a reception with the filmmaker
Friday April 9 at 7pm
Harvard Film Archive – Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
24 Quincy Street – Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
]]> http://www.bostonfreepalestine.org/2010/04/06/an-evening-with-kamal-aljafari-at-harvard-film-archive/feed/ 0 Free DAM concert Wednesday April 7, 2010 at North Eastern http://www.bostonfreepalestine.org/2010/04/05/free-dam-concert-wednesday-april-7-2010-at-north-eastern/ http://www.bostonfreepalestine.org/2010/04/05/free-dam-concert-wednesday-april-7-2010-at-north-eastern/#comments Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:39:05 +0000 admin http://www.bostonfreepalestine.org/?p=85 DAM, Palestine’s First Rap Group

is back in Boston!

This Wednesday, April 7

8:00pm-10:00pm

Location: Northeastern University

afterHOURS

360 Huntington Avenue
Ground Floor, Curry Student Center
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
(617) 373-2632

EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

http://www.dampalestine.com/

FORWARD WIDELY.

If you aren’t in Boston SEE BELOW FOR SHOW DATES IN OTHER CITIES.

******

Palestine’s first Rap Group DAM will be performing at Northeastern
afterHOURS on 4/7/10. They have been featured in many documentaries
aiming to define Palestinian identity and show their first hand
experiences in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

DAM’s music is a unique fusion of East and West, combining Arabic
percussion rhythms, Middle Eastern melodies and urban Hip Hop.

The lyrics of DAM are influenced by the continuing Israeli -
Palestinian conflict as well as by the Palestinian struggle for
freedom and equality. DAM also draw their influence from such
controversial issues as terrorism, drugs and women’s rights.

Musically they take their inspiration from both Hip Hop artists (Nas,
2Pac, Mos Def, IAM, NTM, Saian Supa Crew, MBS etc.) and Arabic music
(Marcel Khalifa,Kazem Saher,George Wassouf, Majda al Romi etc.)

DAM are now gaining increased international popularity around the
world through their unique message and ground-breaking live shows.

——
Entry into afterHOURS follows the ticket policy of NU +1. This means
any guests of Northeastern University needs to be signed in by a
student. Max is one guest for every student.
EVERY NU STUDENT INTERESTED SHOULD TRY TO INVITE FRIENDS. INTEREST
FROM OTHER UNIVERSITIES MEANS THEY NEED HELP BEING SIGNED IN.
For people outside NU: I dont anticipate this being a problem as there
are many NU students around the venue. Dont let the ticket policy
prevent you from coming!

*******

April 6: Philadelphia, PA

Time: 7:00pm-9:00pm

Location: University of Pennsylvania

Claudia Cohen Hall
3417 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Other Performers: Excelano Project, the university’s spoken word group

Price: Event is free and open to the public

Sponsoring Groups: Students for Justice in Palestine, Greenfield
Intercultural Center, Black Student League

April 7: Boston, MA

Time: 8:00pm-10:00pm

Location: Northeastern University

afterHOURS

360 Huntington Avenue
Ground Floor, Curry Student Center
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
(617) 373-2632

Price: Event is free and open to the public

Sponsoring Groups: Northeastern University Middle East Center and
International Affairs, Arab Student Association, Students for Justice
in Palestine – Law School

April 8: Amherst, MA

Time: 8:00pm-12:00am

Location: Friedman room

Keefe Campus Center

Amherst College

Amherst, MA

Price: $5

Sponsoring Groups: Students for Justice in Palestine

April 9: Trinity International Hip Hop Festival, Hartford, CT

Time: 9:00pm-2:00am

Location: Trinity International Hip-Hop Festival

Vernon Social Hall
Trinity College

114 Vernon Street

Hartford, CT

Other Performers: Shokanti (Cape Verde), The Reminders (Colorado);
Wagable (Senegal); Toni Blackman; Self Suffice (Hartford)

Price: Free

Sponsoring Groups: Trinity College (www.trincoll.edu), Temple of Hip
Hop (www.templeofhiphop.org), Nomadic Wax (www.nomadicwax.com), World
Hip Hop Market (www.worldhiphopmarket.com), and The City of Hartford
Youth Services

April 10: Trinity International Hip Hop Festival, Hartford, CT

Time: 10:00am-12:00pm

Location: Cinestudios

Trinity College

300 Summit Street

Hartford, CT

Event: Screening of Slingshot Hip Hop, followed by Q&A with Director
Jackie Salloum and DAM

April 10-12: OPEN (East Coast or Midwest – If you want to bring DAM,
let us know)

April 14: Williamsburg, VA

Time: 7:00pm-9:30pm

Location: Commonwealth Auditorium

Sadler Center

College of William & Mary

Williamsburg, VA 23187

Price: Free for students, $5 for non-students

Sponsoring Groups: The College of William & Mary chapter of Students
for Justice in Palestine, http://www.wm.edu/so/sjp/

April 15: Kennesaw, GA

Time: 6:30pm-9:00pm

Location: Kennesaw State University

1000 Chastain Road

Kennesaw, GA 30144

Social Science Building room 1021

Event: Screening of Slingshot Hip Hop, followed by Q&A with DAM and
Director Jackie Salloum, followed by a short set by DAM

Price: Free and open to the public

Sponsoring Groups: Alpha Kappa Delta, the Sociology Honors Society

April 16: Atlanta, GA

Time: 9:00pm-12:00am

Location: The Drunken Unicorn

736 Ponce De Leon Place Northeast
Atlanta, GA

Other Performers: Futureshock and Contra.verse

Price: $8 in advance, $10 at door

Sponsoring Groups: Movement to End Israeli Apartheid-Georgia, www.meiag.org

For more information and tickets: http://www.ticketalternative.com/Events/10590.aspx

http://thedrunkenunicorn.net/#

April 17/18: OPEN (Possibly Texas – If you can help bring DAM to
Austin/Houston, be in touch)

April 19: Tucson, AZ

Time: 5:00pm-? (More details to come; there will be a DAM show and a
screening of Slingshot Hip Hop with Q&A)

Location: University of Arizona

Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Bldg. Rm S202
1130 N. Mountain Ave., Tucson AZ 85721

NE Corner of Speedway and Mountain; free parking

Price: Events are free and open to the public

Sponsoring Groups: Students for Justice in Palestine (www.uasjp.org),
University Community for Human Rights (uaforhumanrights.org), Voices
of Opposition (voicesofopposition.com)

April 20: San Diego, CA

Time: 6:00pm-10:30pm

Location: University of California, San Diego

Other Performers: Slingshot Hip Hop screening, Q&A with DAM and
Director Jackie Salloum, and performance by DAM

Price: Free and open to the public

Sponsoring Groups: UC San Diego Students for Justice in Palestine, One
Earth One Justice, The Art Collective, Black Student Union, MEChA,
MSA, Amnesty International, Arab Student Union, Pakistani Student
Association

April 21: Los Angeles, CA

Time: 5:00pm-6:30pm, 8:00pm-10:00pm

Location: University of California, Los Angeles

De Neve Plaza: De Neve Learning Auditorium

Event: There will be a Slingshot Hip Hop screening with Q&A, and a
performance with DAM.  In between, there will be workshops about
calligraphy, henna, and dabkeh dance.

Sponsoring Groups: Students for Justice in Palestine, Office of
Residential Life

Note: Event is intended for UCLA students who live in on campus
housing. Non-students RSVP to cdsocialjustice@gmail.com

April 22 & 23: Portland, OR?

More details soon

April 24: Missoula, MT

Time: 7:00pm-10:00pm

Location: University of Montana

Missoula, MT

(exact location coming soon)

Price: $15

Sponsoring Groups: Jeannette Rankin Peace Center (www.jrpc.org); Mount
of Olives Arabic Club, The office of President Dennison at the
University of Montana(http://www.umt.edu/president/); International
Programs at the University of Montana

April 25: Denver, CO

Time: 5:00pm-8:00pm

Location: University of Denver, Sturm Hall

Denver, CO 80210

Other Performers: Marj Bin Amer dance troupe

Price: $10-$15

Sponsoring Groups: SABEEL and Colorado Palestine Community Network

April 26 or April 27 (TBD soon): New York, NY

Time: 6:00pm-10:00pm

Location: Columbia University

Diana Oval Auditorium

New York, NY

Other Performers: Immortal Technique, Krs-One, M1 from Dead Prez
(pending)

Price: $7

Sponsoring Groups: Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine, Turath,
Arab Students Organization, Black Students Organization, African
Students Association, LUCHA,United Students of Color Council

Note: This is a panel discussion and not a performance.

April 28: Washington, DC

Location: Leavey Esplanade

Georgetown University

Washington, DC

Price: $5 for students, $15 for community

Sponsoring Groups: Georgetown University Department of Arabic, GU
Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, CMCU Program on Justice and
Peace, Georgetown Program Board, GUSA fund, Department of Performing
Arts, Event Sponsorship Form SFS, Common Word, Seeds of Peace

April 29: Princeton, NJ

Time: 8:00pm-10:00pm

Location: Princeton University

Price: Free and open to the public

Sponsoring Groups: Princeton University’s Music and Near Eastern
Studies Department, Arab Society, and Princeton Middle East Society

April 30: Brooklyn, NY

Time: 9:00pm-1:00am

Location: Southpaw

125 5th Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11217-3227
(718) 230-0236

Other Performers: Queen GodIS, DJ Laylo, DJ Oja

Price: $12 in advance, $15 at door

Sponsoring Groups: Nomadic Wax www.nomadicwax.com, Palestine Education
Project www.thinkpalestineact.org

—– End forwarded message —–

DAM, Palestine’s First Rap Group

is back in Boston

This Wednesday, April 7

8:00pm-10:00pm

Location: Northeastern University

afterHOURS

360 Huntington Avenue Ground Floor, Curry Student Center Boston, Massachusetts 02115 (617) 373-2632

EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

http://www.dampalestine.com/

FORWARD WIDELY.

If you aren’t in Boston SEE BELOW FOR SHOW DATES IN OTHER CITIES.

******

Palestine’s first Rap Group DAM will be performing at Northeastern afterHOURS on 4/7/10. They have been featured in many documentaries aiming to define Palestinian identity and show their first hand experiences in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

DAM’s music is a unique fusion of East and West, combining Arabic percussion rhythms, Middle Eastern melodies and urban Hip Hop.

The lyrics of DAM are influenced by the continuing Israeli – Palestinian conflict as well as by the Palestinian struggle for freedom and equality. DAM also draw their influence from such controversial issues as terrorism, drugs and women’s rights.

Musically they take their inspiration from both Hip Hop artists (Nas, 2Pac, Mos Def, IAM, NTM, Saian Supa Crew, MBS etc.) and Arabic music (Marcel Khalifa,Kazem Saher,George Wassouf, Majda al Romi etc.)

DAM are now gaining increased international popularity around the world through their unique message and ground-breaking live shows.

——
Entry into afterHOURS follows the ticket policy of NU +1. This means any guests of Northeastern University needs to be signed in by a student. Max is one guest for every student.
EVERY NU STUDENT INTERESTED SHOULD TRY TO INVITE FRIENDS. INTEREST FROM OTHER UNIVERSITIES MEANS THEY NEED HELP BEING SIGNED IN.
For people outside NU: I dont anticipate this being a problem as there are many NU students around the venue. Dont let the ticket policy prevent you from coming!

*******

April 6: Philadelphia, PA

Time: 7:00pm-9:00pm

Location: University of Pennsylvania

Claudia Cohen Hall
3417 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Other Performers: Excelano Project, the university’s spoken word group

Price: Event is free and open to the public

Sponsoring Groups: Students for Justice in Palestine, Greenfield Intercultural Center, Black Student League

April 7: Boston, MA

Time: 8:00pm-10:00pm

Location: Northeastern University

afterHOURS

360 Huntington Avenue
Ground Floor, Curry Student Center
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
(617) 373-2632

Price: Event is free and open to the public

Sponsoring Groups: Northeastern University Middle East Center and International Affairs, Arab Student Association, Students for Justice in Palestine - Law School

April 8: Amherst, MA

Time: 8:00pm-12:00am

Location: Friedman room

Keefe Campus Center

Amherst College

Amherst, MA

Price: $5

Sponsoring Groups: Students for Justice in Palestine
April 9: Trinity International Hip Hop Festival, Hartford, CT

Time: 9:00pm-2:00am

Location: Trinity International Hip-Hop Festival

Vernon Social Hall
Trinity College

114 Vernon Street

Hartford, CT

Other Performers: Shokanti (Cape Verde), The Reminders (Colorado); Wagable (Senegal); Toni Blackman; Self Suffice (Hartford)

Price: Free

Sponsoring Groups: Trinity College (www.trincoll.edu), Temple of Hip Hop (www.templeofhiphop.org), Nomadic Wax (www.nomadicwax.com), World Hip Hop Market (www.worldhiphopmarket.com), and The City of Hartford Youth Services

April 10: Trinity International Hip Hop Festival, Hartford, CT

Time: 10:00am-12:00pm

Location: Cinestudios

Trinity College

300 Summit Street

Hartford, CT

Event: Screening of Slingshot Hip Hop, followed by Q&A with Director Jackie Salloum and DAM

April 10-12: OPEN (East Coast or Midwest – If you want to bring DAM, let us know)


April 14: Williamsburg, VA

Time: 7:00pm-9:30pm

Location: Commonwealth Auditorium

Sadler Center

College of William & Mary

Williamsburg, VA 23187

Price: Free for students, $5 for non-students

Sponsoring Groups: The College of William & Mary chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, http://www.wm.edu/so/sjp/

April 15: Kennesaw, GA

Time: 6:30pm-9:00pm

Location: Kennesaw State University

1000 Chastain Road

Kennesaw, GA 30144

Social Science Building room 1021

Event: Screening of Slingshot Hip Hop, followed by Q&A with DAM and Director Jackie Salloum, followed by a short set by DAM

Price: Free and open to the public

Sponsoring Groups: Alpha Kappa Delta, the Sociology Honors Society

April 16: Atlanta, GA

Time: 9:00pm-12:00am

Location: The Drunken Unicorn

736 Ponce De Leon Place Northeast
Atlanta, GA

Other Performers: Futureshock and Contra.verse

Price: $8 in advance, $10 at door

Sponsoring Groups: Movement to End Israeli Apartheid-Georgia, www.meiag.org

For more information and tickets: http://www.ticketalternative.com/Events/10590.aspx

http://thedrunkenunicorn.net/#


April 17/18: OPEN (Possibly Texas – If you can help bring DAM to Austin/Houston, be in touch)

April 19: Tucson, AZ

Time: 5:00pm-? (More details to come; there will be a DAM show and a screening of Slingshot Hip Hop with Q&A)

Location: University of Arizona

Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Bldg. Rm S202
1130 N. Mountain Ave., Tucson AZ 85721

NE Corner of Speedway and Mountain; free parking

Price: Events are free and open to the public

Sponsoring Groups: Students for Justice in Palestine (www.uasjp.org), University Community for Human Rights (uaforhumanrights.org), Voices of Opposition (voicesofopposition.com)
April 20: San Diego, CA

Time: 6:00pm-10:30pm

Location: University of California, San Diego

Other Performers: Slingshot Hip Hop screening, Q&A with DAM and Director Jackie Salloum, and performance by DAM

Price: Free and open to the public

Sponsoring Groups: UC San Diego Students for Justice in Palestine, One Earth One Justice, The Art Collective, Black Student Union, MEChA, MSA, Amnesty International, Arab Student Union, Pakistani Student Association
April 21: Los Angeles, CA

Time: 5:00pm-6:30pm, 8:00pm-10:00pm

Location: University of California, Los Angeles

De Neve Plaza: De Neve Learning Auditorium

Event: There will be a Slingshot Hip Hop screening with Q&A, and a performance with DAM.  In between, there will be workshops about calligraphy, henna, and dabkeh dance.

Sponsoring Groups: Students for Justice in Palestine, Office of Residential Life

Note: Event is intended for UCLA students who live in on campus housing. Non-students RSVP to cdsocialjustice@gmail.com

April 22 & 23: Portland, OR?

More details soon
April 24: Missoula, MT

Time: 7:00pm-10:00pm

Location: University of Montana

Missoula, MT

(exact location coming soon)

Price: $15

Sponsoring Groups: Jeannette Rankin Peace Center (www.jrpc.org); Mount of Olives Arabic Club, The office of President Dennison at the University of Montana(http://www.umt.edu/president/); International Programs at the University of Montana
April 25: Denver, CO

Time: 5:00pm-8:00pm

Location: University of Denver, Sturm Hall

Denver, CO 80210

Other Performers: Marj Bin Amer dance troupe

Price: $10-$15

Sponsoring Groups: SABEEL and Colorado Palestine Community Network

April 26 or April 27 (TBD soon): New York, NY

Time: 6:00pm-10:00pm

Location: Columbia University

Diana Oval Auditorium

New York, NY

Other Performers: Immortal Technique, Krs-One, M1 from Dead Prez (pending)

Price: $7

Sponsoring Groups: Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine, Turath, Arab Students Organization, Black Students Organization, African Students Association, LUCHA,United Students of Color Council

Note: This is a panel discussion and not a performance.
April 28: Washington, DC

Location: Leavey Esplanade

Georgetown University

Washington, DC

Price: $5 for students, $15 for community

Sponsoring Groups: Georgetown University Department of Arabic, GU Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, CMCU Program on Justice and Peace, Georgetown Program Board, GUSA fund, Department of Performing Arts, Event Sponsorship Form SFS, Common Word, Seeds of Peace
April 29: Princeton, NJ

Time: 8:00pm-10:00pm

Location: Princeton University

Price: Free and open to the public

Sponsoring Groups: Princeton University’s Music and Near Eastern Studies Department, Arab Society, and Princeton Middle East Society

April 30: Brooklyn, NY

Time: 9:00pm-1:00am

Location: Southpaw

125 5th Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11217-3227
(718) 230-0236

Other Performers: Queen GodIS, DJ Laylo, DJ Oja

Price: $12 in advance, $15 at door

Sponsoring Groups: Nomadic Wax www.nomadicwax.com, Palestine Education Project www.thinkpalestineact.org

]]> http://www.bostonfreepalestine.org/2010/04/05/free-dam-concert-wednesday-april-7-2010-at-north-eastern/feed/ 0 UN Gaza Report: Richard Goldstone at Brandeis, November 5 http://www.bostonfreepalestine.org/2009/10/28/un-gaza-report-richard-goldstone-at-brandeis-november-5/ http://www.bostonfreepalestine.org/2009/10/28/un-gaza-report-richard-goldstone-at-brandeis-november-5/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:30:17 +0000 admin http://www.bostonfreepalestine.org/?p=78 Visit www.brandeis.edu/ethics for more information and for updates about live streaming.

Thursday, November 5, 2009
Time: 5:00-7:00 pm
Location: Levin Ballroom, Usdan Student Center (overflow seating in Schwartz Auditorium)

The head of a controversial United Nations fact-finding mission to the Gaza Strip and a former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations will discuss assertions that Israel and Palestinian fighters committed war crimes during three weeks of fighting in the Middle East last winter.

Justice Richard Goldstone, head of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, and chair of the Ethics Center’s Advisory Board, and Dore Gold, former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, will exchange views on the report’s findings. The report said there is evidence of war crimes on both sides and that the Israelis made disproportionate use of force.

Read the full Brandeis University press release and the Boston Globe article about the event. The website of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict includes links to the full report. The Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs published its “Initial Response to Report of the Fact Finding Mission on Gaza Established Pursuant to Resolution S-9/1 of the Human Rights Council” on September 24, 2009.

The Ethics Center’s recent “Ethical Inquiry” article “Proportionality in the Context of Armed Conflict” includes some historical and legal context for the issue of proportionality and links to additional responses to the Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict.

Seating is first come, first served. The event will be streamed live on the Brandeis website and simulcast in the Schwartz Auditorium. Priority for questions will be given to Brandeis students. Doors open at 4:30 pm. Parking is available in the Tower Lot. For directions and a campus map, click here.

This event is hosted by the Ethics Center and the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies. For more information, please contact the Ethics Center at 781-736-8577 or by email at ethics@brandeis.edu or Charles Radin in the Office of Communications at 781-736-4210 or by email at radin@brandeis.edu.

]]> http://www.bostonfreepalestine.org/2009/10/28/un-gaza-report-richard-goldstone-at-brandeis-november-5/feed/ 0 Free Palestine/Honduras Solidarity Concert, Friday October 2nd 8 PM at Kresge Auditorium, Cambridge http://www.bostonfreepalestine.org/2009/09/27/free-palestine-honduras-solidarity-concert-friday-october-2nd-8-pm-at-kresge-auditorium-cambridge/ http://www.bostonfreepalestine.org/2009/09/27/free-palestine-honduras-solidarity-concert-friday-october-2nd-8-pm-at-kresge-auditorium-cambridge/#comments Sun, 27 Sep 2009 22:09:23 +0000 admin http://www.bostonfreepalestine.org/?p=73 Dame Pa Matala

Dame Pa Matala

The Consulate General of Venezuela presents:
a concert in solidarity with Palestine & Honduras
featuring:

Dame Pa Matala
revolutionary hip hop and folk music
and from Palestine: Sabreena Da Witch
with
The Foundation Movement,
Natural Bliss & los trovadores por Honduras


FREE!

FRIDAY OCTOBER 2nd 8 PM
Kresge Auditorium
77 Mass Ave
Cambridge MA
more info: 781 724 0752

cosponsored by: Boston Boycott Divestment Sanctions
Proyecto Hondureño
and MLK Bolivarian Circle

El Consulado General de Venezuela en Boston presenta
un concierto en solidaridad con el pueblo de Palestina y de Honduras

Dame pa Matala
hip hop y musica folklórica revolucionaria
con
Sabreena da Witch (desde Palestina)
y
The Foundation Movement, Natural Bliss y Los Trovadores por Honduras
Entrada Gratis!!!

VIERNES 2 de Octubre
Kresge Auditorio
77 Mass Ave
Cambridge, MA
mas información: 781 724 0752

con el apoyo de
Boston Boycott Sanctions and Divestment
Proyecto Hondureño
y MLK Bolivarian Circle

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