[WCUSP] INVITATION: SECOND ANNUAL CONFERENCE IN BIL'IN, PALESTINE

[yvonne simmons]

 INVITATION: SECOND ANNUAL
> CONFERENCE IN BIL'IN, PALESTINE
> 
> Subject: PLEASE DISTRIBUTE AS WIDELY AS YOU CAN
> 
> 
> 
> 
> YOU ARE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE
> 
> SECOND ANNUAL CONFERENCE IN BIL'IN, PALESTINE
> 
> 18 – 20 APRIL 2007
> 
> February 2007 marks the second anniversary of the
> weekly non-violent
> protests in opposition to the "work-site of shame"
> for the Apartheid Wall
> that has annexed almost 60% of the land of Bil'in
> village in the West Bank.
> Bil'in has become a symbol both of the theft of land
> across Palestine and of
> the power of non-violent grassroots movements in
> building local and
> international resistance to Occupation.
> 
> The International Conference will follow upon a
> Palestinian conference to be
> held in March to extend the Popular Non-Violent
> Struggle across Palestine
> and offers Israelis and Internationals opportunity
> to join their Palestinian
> partners in spreading non-violent resistance to the
> injustice suffered by
> Palestinians: land confiscation, home demolitions,
> checkpoints, and
> imprisonment behind the Wall.
> 
> The year between June 2007 and May 2008 provides an
> effective framework for
> highlighting the ongoing Palestinian catastrophe: 
> 90 years since the
> Balfour Declaration, 60 years since the Nakba, 40
> years of Occupation, 25
> years since Sabra/Shatila, 20 years since the First
> Intifada, 5 years of
> building the Apartheid Wall.  Join us in
> strategizing effective, concerted
> non-violent action in Palestine and across the
> globe!
> 
> WHEN:   18 – 20 APRIL, 2007 with a major non-violent
> action on the final day
> 
> WHERE:  BIL'IN VILLAGE near Ramallah, Palestine
> 
> SPEAKERS:
> 
>   a.. Dr. Azmi Bishara, Palestinian Israeli Knesset
> member
> 
>   b.. Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Irish Nobel Peace
> Prize recipient
> 
>   c.. Dr. Ilan Pappe, author of The Ethnic Cleansing
> of Palestine
> 
>   d.. Luisa Morgantini, Italian EU Parliament member
> and Peace Activist
> 
>   e.. Stéphane Hessel, former French Ambassador
> 
>   f.. Jean-Claude Lefort, French parliament member
> 
>   g.. Amira Hass, author and journalist, Ha'aretz
> 
>   h.. Sam Bahour, Palestinian activist and
> entrepreneur
> 
>   i.. Representatives of the Bil'in Popular
> Committee
> 
> WORKSHOPS: NON-VIOLENT STRATEGIES TO OPPOSE
> OPPRESSION
> 
>     a.. Boycott, divestment, and sanctions
> 
>     b.. Building economic independence
> 
>     c.. Media & Advocacy
> 
>     d.. Direct Action
> 
> COST:  Accommodations per night, 20 Euros plus
> Conference Registration, 20
> Euros per day (April 18 -19)
> 
> TO REGISTER and for information on options for
> pre-and-post conference
> activities see:   www.bilin-village.org
> 
> 
> 
> > To post your events and to subscribe to this list
> please send an email to pdxpeaceevents-subscribe
@lists.riseup.net.



 
____________________________________________________________________________________
Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate 
in the Yahoo! Answers Food & Drink Q&A.
http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545367
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: FINAL INVITATION.doc
Type: application/msword
Size: 30208 bytes
Desc: pat876079448
Url : http://wilpf.org/pipermail/wcusp_wilpf.org/attachments/20070310/38242c54/attachment-0001.doc 
-------------- next part --------------
An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed...
Name: message-footer.txt
Url: http://wilpf.org/pipermail/wcusp_wilpf.org/attachments/20070310/38242c54/attachment-0001.txt