2009 Apr 29 - 12:00pm
2009 Apr 29 - 1:30pm
The third in our series UNDERSTANDING PALESTINE AND ISRAEL, this presentation will discuss the discrepancy between the mainstream U.S. perception of Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the under- reported realities of the military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. The U.S. mainstream media construct this conflict as one over a disputed piece of territory claimed on the one hand by a vibrant Israeli democracy and on the other by a series of Islamic terrorist groups. The realities of ethnic cleansing, oppression, apartheid, and a staggering power imbalance are generally invisible in the U.S. media.
April 29, 2009 (Wednesday)
12 noon – 1:30 pm
Community Change Library on Racism
14 Beacon Street, Room 605
Boston MA
Presenter: Omar Baddar (MA, International Relations and Comparative Politics, U of Memphis) wrote his thesis on US policy toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Director of the Palestine Cultural Center for Peace and Steering Committee member of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, Omar travels to the Middle East on a biennial basis. He has participated in dozens of panels, lectures, and debates on college and university campuses throughout the country on conflicts in the Middles East and U.S. policy towards the region.
The current public discourse around race assumes that we live in a color-blind society where the American Dream is attainable by all individuals who work hard enough. This deeply flawed discourse obscures the racial disparities in employment, education, criminal justice, housing, health care, etc. and provides a powerful but faulty rationale for leaving our systems and institutions the way they are. The issues presented at the Community Change Brown Bag Discussion Series are concrete examples of the structural racism that affects the lives of all, most acutely communities of color. The 2009 Series places these issues in their social/historical context and gives attendees a truthful discourse, as well as ways to put that discourse into action, in order to challenge institutional and systemic racism.
Please bring your lunch. Beverages will be provided. $5 contribution requested.
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED!!! RSVP (617) 523-0555 or janet@communitychangeinc.org
Community Change, Inc 617-523-0555 www.communitychangeinc.org
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