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Hang Up on Motorola Start: 1:00 pm End: 3:00 pm Boycotts helped end South African Apartheid. We are joining in the world wide movement to hang up on Motorola. Motorola Israel is exclusively used by Israeli settlers living illegally in the Occupied PalestinianTerritories. These products normalize the expropriation of Palestinian land and apartheid practices that make life in Jewish-only settlements tenable. Join us in Boycotting Motorola Howard Zinn Memorial Event Start: 2:00 pm The Boston University community will hold a memorial event for Howard Zinn. This memorial will be addressed by family and friends of Howard including Frances Fox Piven, Jim Carroll, Noam Chomsky, Betty Zisk and others. Members of Howard's family will participate. Recent Experiences in Gaza: Talk with Photo Presentation & Dinner Start: 7:00 pm End: 10:00 pm Informal Talk by Garry over Dinner with Photo Presentation Suggested Donation for dinner plate and beverages ($5-$15) For the past three years, Garry has been working as an economist on poverty-, vulnerability-, and labor-market- related issues in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in various organizations. Recently he completed his first assignment in the Gaza Strip for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. More generally, as a social scientist, Garry studies dynamic complexity and change in social systems. Interfaith Dessert and Dialogue Start: 7:00 pm Hear about the Lemon Tree house in Ramle, Israel, described in Sandy Tolan's book of that name, and about Open House, the Arab and Jewish children's peace center that is in the house now. Speaker will be Yehezkel Landau, who co-founded Open House with Dalia Landau, the girl who grew up in the house. Professor Landau will tell us about his interfaith-based work on the Mideast conflict. Sponsored by Cambridge Friends Cambridge traffic department has agreed not to ticket in the area that evening.

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