Week Against the Occupations
The UMass Anti-War Coalition, Palestine Action Coalition and Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace have organized a week of educational events as part of the Week Against the Occupations.
MONDAY, Nov 13
12 PM Rally Against the Occupations, Student Union Steps
6:30PM Refusing to Comply: Stories of Resistance to Occupation,
Campus Center Room 101
Speakers: Sulaiman Khatib (Former member of Fatah and co-founder of Combatants for Peace), Noam Bahat (Israeli highschool refusnik & member of Anarchists Against the Wall), Roi Etinger (former Israeli army officer and member of Combatants for Peace), Speaker from Iraqi Veterans against the war
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TUESDAY, Nov 14
6:30 PM Movie screening: "Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land"
Followed by Q&A with producer Sut Jhally and student activist Romain Beaucher
Campus Center Room 162-75
Speakers: Sut Jhally (producer Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land, professor Communications Dept, Umass) & Romain Beaucher (French Palestine solidarity activist, member of La Brassée)
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WEDNESDAY, Nov 15
7-9:30 PM Teach-In: Alternatives to War in the Middle East (Iran & Iraq), Campus Center Room 162-75
Speakers: Dr. Arang Keshavarzian (Connecticut College) & Dr. Anita Dancs (National Priorities Project)
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THURSDAY, Nov 16
7-930 PM Teach-In: Alternatives to the War in the Middle East (Isreal/Palestine & Syria/Lebanon)
Campus Center Room 162-75
Speakers: Dr. Elaine Hagopian (Simmons College) & Dr. Mary Wilson (UMASS Amherst)
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FRIDAY, Nov 17
6:30 PM Student Panel
Campus Center Room 162-75
Speakers: Safia Albaiti (Muslim Student Association, Umass), Sarah Matari (Palestine Solidarity Activist, Smith College), Elvis Mendez (SGA, Umass), Amy Kent (Volunteer to Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace), Charles Peterson (Anti-war Coalition), and more.
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Tuesday through Friday: Machsom Watch Photo Exhibit- pictures taken at Israeli Checkpoints in
the Occupied Territories, Location: Campus Center Concourse
Cosponsors: The UMass Anti-War Coalitions, Palestine Action Coalitions, & Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace, Graduate Employee Organization (GEO), Graduate Student Government (GSS), Inetrnational Socialist Organization, Radical Student Union, Food For Thought Books, Media Education Foundation, Middle East Peace Coalition, & Northampton Committee to Stop the War.
For more information go to www.umassgss.org/AWC
or send an email to: umassAWC@gmail.com or umasspac@gmail.com