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Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine Start: 12:00 pm Prof. Joel Kovel, author of Overcoming Zionism Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine Speaking this week: Thur October 29 Noon Harvard Law School, Pound 335 Sponsored by Justice for Palestine, a Harvard Law School Student Organization 7pm E5 in Chinatown (fifth floor of 33 Harrison Ave - near the Downtown Crossing subway) E5 Forum is very comfortable with having as few as five and as many as fifty people at an event. The point of the event is not the numbers but, in the spirit of the Social Forum process, building productive social relationships across political and thematic differences - hence the comfort with a small audience. After the event - at around 9pm - we usually all go out for dinner at a nearby restaurant. Friday October 30 6:30pm MIT, Room 4-337 The Day That Changed My Life Forever: A Guatemalan Torture Survivor Speaks Out on Violence, Impunity, and Immigration Reform Start: 6:00 pm End: 8:00 pm Contact: Halbert Jones, hmjones@fas.harvard.edu Gladys Monterroso, Attorney; Professor; Secretary General of the Encuentro por Guatemala Party. Gladys Monterroso is a Guatemalan lawyer, university professor, secretary for the Encuentro por Guatemala political party, and wife of the Guatemalan Human Rights Ombudsman, Sergio Morales. Gladys was kidnapped and tortured in March 2009. Gladys is touring various U.S. cities with the Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA to speak out on violence and impunity in Guatemala, and the need for immigration reform here in the U.S. ?I speak out in order to break the silence and impunity, to put an end to the uncontrollable violence in Guatemala that forces thousands to migrate to the US,? she said. Opportunity for comments and questions to follow presentation. Iraqi Peace Activist Visits New England Start: 7:00 pm Abdulsattar Younus, a member of “La’Onf,” a coalition of Iraqi civil society organizations working for the nonviolent transformation of their society, has been brought to New England by September 11^th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows. The members of La’Onf include women’s organizations, human rights groups, humanitarian aid, trade unions, student groups, arts and culture organizations. The Bravest Woman in Afghanistan Start: 7:00 pm Malalai Joya has been called "the bravest woman in Afghanistan." At a constitutional assembly in Kabul in 2003, she stood up and denounced her country's powerful NATO-backed warlords. She was twenty-five years old.

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