PALESTINE-RELATED EVENTS in the
For
information about history,
issues, and our Seattle Divest from Israeli
Military
Occupation campaign, please see www.palestineinformation.org,
the
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International Solidarity Movement to End the
Occupation. PSC is the local support
chapter
of the ISM.
THIS WEEK:
WOMEN IN BLACK ***MICHAEL
TARAZI ***ALTERNATIVE GIFT FAIR *** REPORTBACK ON
IRAQ & PALESTINE
***FILMS ***
CELEBRATION/FUNDRAISER
***SIDEWALK EDUCATION***
VIDEOS TO YOUR FRIENDS
ANYTIME -- CALL PSC FOR MORE INFO 206 633-1086***
WOMEN IN BLACK. Stand against occupation and war every Thursday at
4th & Pine. 5-6 pm. Wear Black. Men can support.
Dec.
4, Palestinian Heritage Group Invites you to
ALTERNATIVE GIFT FAIR - 2004
on
Saturday Dec. 4th
10th
Avenue E. Seattle Your Gift supports a needy family International
crafts,
Bedoiun Rugs,Hand-made
cards, Fair traded coffee, home-baked gift items and
much much more! Come and Enjoy our TEA
ROOM and much much more. More info: 206
633-1086.
Dec.
4,
months
witnessing for peace in
Peacemaker’s
Team in
Keystone Pl N). More info: speacework@yahoo.com.
Dec.
6,
and
legal advisor to the Negotiations Affairs Department of the
Liberation
Organization, will speak in Kane Hall (room 220) at the University of
his
talk is: "Understanding Israeli Strategy:
A Palestinian
Perspective".Michael Tarazi provides legal
advice to the Negotiations Affairs Department on a
wide
array of permanent status issues such as refugees, Israeli settlements and
the BBC
and been published in such newspapers as The New York Times and
Ha'areetz. Mr. Tarazi was
raised in
Harvard
Law School.This event is presented by the Palestine
Solidarity
Committee--Seattle
and Voices of Palestine and co-sponsored by the
the
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee--Seattle, the Arab Student Union
(UW),
Friends of Sabeel--
Association (UW), and the Palestine Concerns Group at
Saint Mark's Cathedral. For
more
information: (206) 633-1086,
www.palestineinformation.org*The
Center's
sponsorship of this event does not imply that the Center endorses
the
content of the event.
Amnesty
International Seattle, FILM Festival -- Several films on the Israeli
Palestinian relationship. All on Monday, December 6.
See the link for the full
schedule:
http://www.amnestyusa.org/filmfest/seattle
ANOTHER
ROAD HOME
Director: Danae Elon
Documentary. 2004. Israel. 77min. English
mother,
her
father,
and Musa Obeidallah, a
Palestinian man who worked for her family.
For
more than 20 years, Obeidallah devoted himself to Danae, but when her
family
moved to the States, he stayed behind in the divided region. Over a
decade
later, Danae undertakes a quest to find the man who
once meant so
much to
her. Danae's quest brings out the delicate boundaries
of politics,
class
and family relationships. A painful, contradictory, gentle and
loving
story takes place against the backdrop of a distant and brutal
conflict.
Danae Elon
Qi Film
114 East 7 st # 16NY, NY 10009
danae@qifilm.com
PASSIONATE
VOICES
Director:
Cindy Burstein, Tony Heriza & Wendy Univer
Documentary. 2004.
reconcile
the relationship between their
religion
and the
amongst
American Jews who have different relationships to, and different
opinions
of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Occupying both sides of the
often
contentious debate, some American Jews claim unconditional support for
PASSIONATE
VOICES is an even-handed, thought-provoking account of the issue. Wendy Uni
ver. ucreative@verizon.net
9pm, 911 Media Arts Center
ARNA'S
CHILDREN
Directors:
Juliano Mer Khamis & Danniel Danniel
Documentary. 2003. Israel/Netherlands. 84 min. Arabic and Hebrew,
subtitled
in the
West
Bank.
Her son Juliano, who directed the group, filmed the
rehearsals and
performances of the plays. Through playing, the children try to cope with
their
memories of the refugee camps and their daily realities. When the
Israeli
army occupies the city, the theatre rehearsals come to an end. But
Arna
doesn't take it lying down. She establishes an alternative
educational system to replace the formal one that was practically
paralysed by the Israeli occupation. After the death of his
mother and
years
after the theatre has closed, Juliano looks up
"ARNA'S children."
Back
in Jenin, he discovers little by little the tragic
story of the
theatre
children who were so dear to him.
Micki Krimmel
DETAIL
Director:
Avi Mograbi
Documentary. 2004.
Learn
more and get involved. An intimidating tank drives back and forth. A
Palestinian
family stands outside,
hoping for an ambulance to arrive to take
them to
the hospital.
They
keep waiting. Avi Mograbi's
DETAIL is in fact a detail of his next
film,
soon to be released. This powerful short exposes the filmmaker's
concern
with the realities of life in the
ourselves
many stories as to what reality is like," says Mograbi,
"but the
truth
is that we lost the ability to look at our own doings."
Avi Mograbi
mograbi@netvision.net
Dec.
11, 7-Midnight. OLYMPIA-RAFAH SISTER CITY WINTER CELEBRATION: second
annual
Winter Celebration at the Olympia Ballroom,
More
info: dubdadeck@hotmail.com phone: 306-459-4024
Dec.
11,
every
2nd Saturday from
all
anti-racists to join us.
palestinejustice@aol.com. Check our calendar for updates. Call 206 633-1086 if
you
need to confirm a location.
UPCOMING: ISM DISCUSSION CAFE ***
SPEAKERS AND VIDEOS TO
YOUR FRIENDS ANYTIME -- CALL PSC FOR MORE INFO 206
633-1086***
Jan
5. ISM DISCUSSION CAFE at the B&O
Espresso, Belmont and Olive on
Capitol Hill. Drop by anytime between 5 and
International Solidarity Movement to End the
Occupation. Every first Wednesday of the
month.
More info: 206 633-1086.
would
love to help you discuss this issue with your community. Invite friends over
for
dinner or tea and show a video and host a speaker who’s just back from
witnessing the occupation. All for free. Let us know if you’re interested: 206
633-1086,
palestinejustice@aol.com.
* Next
* Next ISM
* Next ISM Seattle Discussion Cafe: Jan. 5 ,
* Next Sidewalk Education, Dec 11,
* Next Theatre meeting: call 206 633-1086 for
info.
* Next ISM pre-training: Dec. or Jan. (call if
planning to go: 206 633-1086)
* Next ISM Palestine Campaign: TBA -- maybe
during Pal. elections (Jan. 9)?
*
Call 206 633-1086 for
locations, dates, times.
PSC now has a copy of the
new Media Education Foundation video, "Peace,
Propaganda and the
Promised Land: American Media and the
Subversion of Peace"
(75
minutes) that you can borrow to show in your living room or
community hall.
We previewed the video
and found it extremely informative as a tool for
understanding what is really happening in the
don't know about it.
For more details on the video, go to the website of
the Media Education Foundation at www.mediaed.org. To borrow the video, email
woodwend@earthlink.net
with your request. For
information about other videos in
PSC’s lending library, contact: palestinejustice@aol.com
ONGOING CAMPAIGNS
RESPONSE NETWORK ***STOP THE WALL CAMPAIGN ***
PROJECT***
AN
INITIATIVE FROM THE
This is an invitation to participate in a new
Response Network being
organized by the
Palestine Solidarity Committee of Seattle. The purpose of
the Response Network
is to provide opportunities regularly for participants
to take action on
important issues related to Palestinian human rights. The
network will allow
concerned citizens from all over
in a coordinated way
to influence
Israel/Palestine and the
occupation.
We believe that those of us who oppose the
Israeli occupation of
and
order to influence
Israel/Palestine. In
working more effectively for justice for
are confident that we
can increase the possibility for a broader peace
throughout the
If you are ready to take part in this
initiative, please sign on by
responding to us with
as much of the following information as you wish to
share: your name,
mailing address, telephone number, and e-mail address. To
make the response
network function via e-mail, at the very least we need
your e-mail address.
But the more of this information you provide for us,
the more we will be
able to include you in various activities such as
meetings with
political officials or with representatives of the media.
When the Response Network is activated, you
will receive action bulletins
from us regarding the
most urgent issues once or twice a month. We will call
your attention to an
issue, suggest talking points, and provide you with the
contact information
for the appropriate government official or major media
outlet. At that time,
we hope that you will participate by contacting your
representative or
news editor, as the case may be. We also encourage you to
send us copies of
your postings so that we may learn from your work -- and
so that we can keep
track of the effectiveness of the project.
As we develop our technical capabilities, our
action bulletins will be
posted and archived
on the Response Network section of our web site (see
below), with
information about the volume of response and the effectiveness
of the project. In
this way, we hope to make a voice for peace and justice
in the
offices
of
this region's media!
To
sign up and receive action alerts, please write to us at
outreach@palestineinformation.org. If you have
questions, suggestions or
requests
for us, please let us know. Also, we would very much appreciate your
help in
forwarding this letter to other potential participants in this response
network.
To learn more about PSC—
please visit our
website at www.palestineinformation.org
STOP
THE WALL CAMPAIGN
The
Wall is higher than the Berlin Wall, will take millions of American tax
dollars
to build, and cuts the
richest
Palestinian farmland and many wells for Israeli
use. For more info:
John
Reese, jreese@scn.org, 206-568-7110 or Community Action Network
can@drizzle.com
Council
to divest its pension funds from American companies selling war machines
to
www.palestineinformation.org; 206 633-1086.
Although Rachel Corrie’s
life was cut short, many of us were inspired by her
and
have resolved to carry out her project.
Beginning with a small core
group,
we have steadily expanded since our formation last Spring. A number of our
members
have gone to live in Rafah, building connections with
people and
institutions there. We have begun a Fair
Trade exchange for Palestinian artwork
through
the Union of Palestinian Women, we support a Center for Disabled
Persons,
we have sponsored cultural exchanges, and we offer translation between
English and Arabic for our pen-pal program. You can find
out more about us, or
contact
us, through our website at http://www.orscp.org/. (360) 867-0290 or via
email
at tomwright59@comcast.net
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Palestinian-Israeli
conflict without a pro-Israeli-government bias, please see:
palestinechronicle.com,
electronicIntifada.net, btselem.org, miftah.org and other sites listed
on our
website.
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send a letter about anything you learn here to your congressional rep:
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