Upcoming Palestine & Middle East events

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Fall 2014 Sacramento Area Middle East Events - Click for flyer
<https://sacbds.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/fall-2014-sacramento-area-middle
-east-events-full-page-flyer.pdf> 

 

Saturdays in November: Join Sacramento BDS bannering and leafleting at local
stores asking shoppers to boycott Israeli products
<http://www.sacbds.org/products>  and divest from companies
<http://www.wedivest.org/>  that profit from Israel's human rights
violations. 

Sunday, Nov 9, 2014, 12:30pm,  <http://www.sacramentobethlehem.org/>
Sacramento Bethlehem Sister City Celebrates 5 years in "sistership" with
Bethlehem, Palestine. 
Delicious Palestinian food; displays; and sales of holiday crafts and olive
oil. St John's Hall, Our Lady of the Assumption Church, RSVP:
SacramentoBethlehem at yahoo.com


Monday, Nov 10, 2014, 5:30pm, Inter/Nationalism from the Holy Land to the
New World: Encountering Palestine in American Indian Studies. 
A Public Lecture by
<http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/15652/demanding-equality_interview-wit
h-steven-salaita-o> Dr. Steven Salaita who was fired by the University of
Illinois apparently
<http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/university-illinois-fires-
professor-steven-salaita-after-gaza-massacre-tweets> over views critical of
Israel. Multi-Purpose Room, Student Community Center, UC Davis.  FMI:
smaira at ucdavis.edu



Wednesday, Nov 12, 2014, 7pm, Syria & the U.S. agenda in the Middle East.
CSU Stanislaus Prof. As'ad AbuKhalil, author of the
<http://www.angryarab.blogspot.com/> angryarab.blogspot.com addresses the
effect of U.S. intervention in Syria and the region. 909 12th St, Sacramento
916-448-7157; sacpeace at dcn.org

Thursday, Nov 13, 2014, Mass incarceration by Israel: The struggles of
Palestinian political prisoners.  
Talk by Sahar Francis, Director of Addameer, an NGO that provides
representation and advocacy for Palestinian political prisoners held by
Israel, now over 6,000.
12 noon, Rm 2304, King Hall Law School, UC Davis, Davis and 5pm, Classroom
A, McGeorge Law School 3200 5th Ave. Sacramento. 916-769-1641.

Saturday, Nov 15, 2014, 2pm, Saving Wadi Foquin. 
In August, Israel issued orders illegally confiscating 1000 acres of West
Bank Palestinian land to expand illegal Israeli settlements, including land
from  <http://www.friendsofwadifoquin.com/> Wadi Foquin.  Meet the village's
mayor and learn about their struggle. Sacramento Japanese UMC, 6929 Franklin
Blvd., Sacramento. SabeelSacramento at gmail.com

Saturday, Nov 29, International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian
People. For info on local actions: SacramentoBDS at gmail.com

In case you missed it:  Click to see press coverage of Sacramento Kings
protest
<http://fox40.com/2014/10/18/israel-protesters-gather-outside-of-preseason-k
ings-game/> .  This was one of 6 US/Canadian-Israeli exhibition games this
month (Cleveland <http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nY3dopUvf24&sns=fb> ,
Brooklyn <https://m.facebook.com/events/637040066410796/> , Washington DC
<https://www.facebook.com/events/1511114582467257> , Portland
<http://www.change.org/p/portland-trailblazers-don-t-be-used-as-a-screen-for
-israel-s-attacks-on-civilians-children-and-athletes-take-a-stand-against-th
e-nba-exhibition-games-with-israeli-basketball-teams-cancel-the-portland-gam
e?share_id=lJbwVheBJe&utm_campaign=share_button_action_box&utm_medium=facebo
ok&utm_source=share_petition> , Sacramento
<https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fans-of-Freedom-and-Justice/782170095158770>
and Toronto) - all of which have been or are being protested because they
are "sports-washing" Israel's illegal and racist policies. 


 


 

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