AMERICAN LEFT HISTORY

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Wednesday, September 30, 2015

In Cambridge- Our Destiny is to Resist: An evening with Palestinian human rights activist Bassem Tamimi

Our Destiny is to Resist: An evening with Palestinian human rights activist Bassem Tamimi

When: Wednesday, October 7, 2015, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Where: Friends Meeting at Cambridge • 5 Longfellow Park • Cambridge

Bassem Tamimi is a renowned Palestinian human rights activist from the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, where, for the past 6 years, residents have opposed Israel’s illegal settlement construction and military occupation with weekly non-violent protests. Tamimi has been detained over a dozen times, at one point spending 3 years in an Israeli jail without charges or trial. In 1993, Shin Bet interrogators left him unconscious for 8 days and partially paralyzed for months to follow. He has been an Amnesty International ‘prisoner of conscience’ and was featured in a New York Times Magazine cover story on March 17, 2013.
On August 30, 2015, the village of Nabi Saleh made world-wide headlines when videos and photos of Bassem’s wife and daughter physically preventing the arrest of the family’s 12-year-old son went viral over social media.
This event is free and open to the public.
Co-sponsored by: Alliance for a Secular & Democratic South Asia, American Friends Service Committee - New England Region, Boston Alliance for Water Justice, Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights, Friends of Sabeel - New England, Jewish Voice for Peace - Boston, Jewish Women for Justice in Israel-Palestine, Mass Peace Action, Middle East Education Group at First Parish Cambridge, Palestinian House of New England, Peace and Social Concerns Committee of Friends Meeting at Cambridge, Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East - MA Chapter, United for Justice with Peace, 1for3.org.

Upcoming Events:

Tapped	Tuesday, October 6, 2015 - 7:00pm	SATV-Salem	Salem
Our Destiny is to Resist: An evening with Palestinian human rights activist Bassem Tamimi	Wednesday, October 7, 2015 - 7:00pm	Friends Meeting at Cambridge	Cambridge
Music for Peace: Music of Schumann and Beethoven	Saturday, October 17, 2015 - 7:30pm	Harvard-Epworth Methodist Church	Cambridge
Shut Pilgrim Speakout	Thursday, October 22, 2015 - 1:00pm	Boston State House	Boston
Palestinian Villages: Erased from Space and Consciousness	Thursday, October 22, 2015 - 7:00pm	3 Church Street	Cambridge
A New Day? Organizing to Change US Policy on Israel and Palestine	Saturday, November 14, 2015 - 1:00pm	Location TBA	Boston/Cambridge
Rising to the Challenge: Sustainable Security for All	Saturday, November 21, 2015 - 9:00am	Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall	Cambridge