Registration 9:00 am. Opening Plenary 10:00 am.
Develop strategies to build a solidarity movement with Palestine in New England.
Workshops include:
• Introduction to Zionism
• Why does the US support Israel?
• Campus action for divestment from Israel
• History of Palestinian resistance
• Building a community movement for Palestine & more!
Featuring:
• Chuck Turner - Boston City Councilor
• Jess Chilton McConnell - Leading organizer of student occupation at Edinburgh University in Scotland
• Joel Kovel - Jewish professor facing termination from Bard College for anti-Zionist views. Author of Overcoming Zionism
• Assaf Kfoury - Boston University professor, & leader of the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
• Leila Farsakh - assistant professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts Boston
• Layla Cable - Palestinian writer, activist and teacher. Layla is a founder and leader of the Somerville Divestment Project
• Ron Francis - Veteran of the anti-South African apartheid movement and founder of the Somerville Divestment Project
• Omar Baddar - Palestinian scholar, activist, and director of the Palestine Cultural Center for Peace
• Sarah Roche-Mahdi, PhD. - activist in CodePink: Women for Peace, recent participant in CodePink’s peace delegation to Gaza
• Deema Faisal - Palestinian poet, and NEU student
... & more!
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