Dear Kevin,
Please join Jewish Voice for Peace -
Boston at the upcoming events listed below.
Note the Mass March for Gaza this
coming Monday as well as the August 17th talk in Newton. Please let people you
know in Newton and Brookline about this opportunity.
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Mass March for
Gaza
Monday, August 11 at 5:30pm
City Hall Plaza, Boston
a growing list
of co-sponsorsWith over 1900 Palestinians killed already in the Israeli
assault on Gaza, please join us in a march of solidarity with the Palestinian
people to demonstrate against the US government's enabling role in the massacre,
including the $3 billion in aid every year as well as its unconditional
political support for the land siege and naval blockade that renders Gaza as the
world's largest "open air prison."
The march will also target Hewlett Packard
(HP), one of the companies complicit in the occupation and colonization of
Palestinian lands, and hence a target for the Palestinian called - and led -
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Besides providing numerous
services to the IDF, HP developed and maintains the automated biometric access
management system that controls the movement of Palestinians and specifically
Palestinian workers through checkpoints in the West Bank and Gaza. Read more
about HP at
http://wedivest.org/c/57/hp#.U-I9UfldXGA.
We
will be gathering at City Hall Plaza. We will then move to the JFK Federal
Building, from where the rally and march begins around 5:30pm.
https://www.facebook.com/events/812176275483913/---
Special
Report from the Occupied Territories
Sunday,
August 17, 6:00 Potluck; presentation at 7:00.
Newton. Call Joan Ecklein at
617 244 8054 for directions(leave message.) Cosponsored by: Women's
International League for Peace and Freedom, Newton Dialogues on Peace and War,
UJP Palestine Task Force, Massachusetts Peace Action
"The Gaza Crisis and
Growing Palestinian Resistance: a First-hand view from the West Bank," A talk by
Nora Murad. Nora has lived in the Occupied Territories for more than ten years
and has close contacts with youth in Gaza. She was in Ramallah this July
during the Israeli attack. She is a co-founder of the Dalia Association on the
West Bank; Dalia provides material aid directly to community projects formulated
and organized by local people. She has extensive first hand knowledge of the
impact of the Occupation and grass roots resistance to it. She is also well
connected to Gaza residents struggling to survive under horrific
conditions.
Nora is a writer and mother living in Palestine. Her blog: "The
View From My Window in Palestine" (
www.noralestermurad.com) addresses
issues of development, international aid, and daily life under military
occupation. Before she moved to Palestine in 2004, Nora was assistant professor
of cross-cultural understanding at Bentley College.
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Jewish Voice
for Peace Boston: Gathering
Sunday, August 17th, 6-8 PM
Make Shift Boston,
549 Columbus AveSad and angry about the news from Gaza? Looking for
ways to respond? In this time of mourning, action, and solidarity, join with JVP
Boston to hear updates and plug into our work for Gaza in the short and long
term. Pizza will be provided, and we’ll end in a community mourning ritual.
Both new and longtime activists welcome.
Please RSVP HereWith Sorrow and
Resolve,
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