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SUMMARY:The Exiled Palestinians: Stateless Palestinians from the Camps in Lebanon
DESCRIPTION:On May 14\, 1948\, as Zionist leader David Ben Gurion was proclaiming a Jewish state in Palestine\, his heavily armed troops seized the ancient Palestinian Arab town of al-Zeeb and drove out most of the inhabitants. Eighteen-year-old Mariam Fathallah was one of them. She and her young husband and their families were forced to flee to Lebanon\, along with most of the town. By the end of the year\, the 4\,000 year old community had been leveled to the ground. More than half the Arab Palestinians in Palestine were killed or expelled and more than half of the cities\, towns and villages of Palestine were made to disappear\, a crime that Palestinians call al-Nakba (the Catastrophe). \nMariam\, now 86 years old\, wants to meet you and tell her story in person. So does Amena Ashkar\,the granddaughter and great granddaughter of other Nakba survivors\, who has known no other home than refugee camps. \nCOME AND HEAR THEIR STORIES. COME AND ASK YOUR QUESTIONS. \nSponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace Tacoma and The Rachel Corrie Foundation.
URL:https://rachelcorriefoundation.org/event/the-exiled-palestinians-stateless-palestinians-from-the-camps-in-lebanon
LOCATION:Fircrest United Methodist Church\, 6308 South 19th\, Tacoma\, WA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Bake Sale Benefiting the Olympia Arab Festival
DESCRIPTION:Eastside Olympia Food Co-op\nWe are moving into full preparation mode for this year’s 3rd Olympia Arab Festival – Shuruq III at the The Olympia Center\, October 8th! Help support us by buying some delicious homemade treat made by our Festival Coordinator Farihan Bushnaq. \n\nThanks to the Olympia Co-op for donating ingredients and the opportunity to sell our Arab baked goods!
URL:https://rachelcorriefoundation.org/event/bake-sale-benefiting-the-olympia-arab-festival-2
LOCATION:Olympia Co-op (Eastside)\, 3111 Pacific Ave SE\, Olympia\, WA\, 98501\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160514T100000
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SUMMARY:Bake Sale Benefiting the Olympia Arab Festival
DESCRIPTION:Westside Olympia Food Co-op\nWe are moving into full preparation mode for this year’s 3rd Olympia Arab Festival – Shuruq III at the The Olympia Center\, October 8th! Help support us by buying some delicious homemade treat made by our Festival Coordinator Farihan Bushnaq. \n\nThanks to the Olympia Co-op for donating ingredients and the opportunity to sell our Arab baked goods!
URL:https://rachelcorriefoundation.org/event/bake-sale-benefiting-the-olympia-arab-festival
LOCATION:Olympia Co-op (Westside)\, 921 Rogers St NW\, Olympia\, WA 98502\, WA\, United States
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SUMMARY:March 16 -- Remember Rachel - Remember Gaza
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, March 16th \n\nRemember Rachel – Remember Gaza \n  \n\n\n  \n\n6:00 – 8:30 PM\nFirst Christian Church\, Koinonia Hall\n701 Franklin St SE\, in downtown Olympia\nCommunity Potluck\n\nSpecial Guest: Alice Coy \nJoin the Rachel Corrie Foundation Wednesday\, March 16th\, to remember and reflect upon Rachel Corrie’s stand in Gaza thirteen years ago\, and upon all those who continue to live and struggle there.  This annual event will feature guest Alice Coy\, International Solidarity Movement activist\, visiting from the UK\, who was with Rachel in Gaza in 2003.  Join us as we celebrate Rachel’s community here in Olympia and those in Gaza whom she grew to love.  Help us explore how we can make a difference for our global community and our friends in the Middle East.  Please bring a potluck dish to share. \nFor further information contact info@rachelcorriefoundation.org or (360) 754-3998
URL:https://rachelcorriefoundation.org/event/march-16-remember-rachel-remember-gaza
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160303T213700
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SUMMARY:"Healing Palestine's Children" featuring Dr. Mads Gilbert\, March 11 at Seattle Town Hall
DESCRIPTION:7:30PM\, Friday\, March 11th\nTown Hall Seattle – Great Hall\n1119 Eighth Avenue (enter on Eighth Avenue)\, Seattle\nDoors open at 6 p.m.\n\n\n\n\n\nDuring Israel’s 51-day attack on Gaza in 2014\, Norwegian doctor Mads Gilbert rushed to the scene to assist. Working day and night\, he documented his work at al-Shifa Hospital\, wanting the rest of the world to see.  In this fundraising event for KinderUSA at Town Hall Seattle\, Gilbert will share what he witnessed and offer a call to action to help the thousands of children in Gaza still affected physically and psychologically by this devastating war.  His presentation\, unseen in mainstream media\, is a tribute to the courage\, endurance\, and strong spirit of Palestinian health workers\, volunteers\, and the severely tested population of Gaza.  The fundraising event for KinderUSA will support the organization’s psychosocial and food security programs for Gaza’s children\, who have endured three wars in six years.\n\n\n\n\n\nTICKETS: ($10 – $50)\n\n $10 economy seating; $25 general seating\, plus post-event book signing; and $50 premium seating\, plus pre-event reception. \n\nTICKETS AVAILABLE online at https://www.kinderusa.org/events/ \n  \n\n\n\n“Healing Palestine’s Children” featuring Dr. Mads Gilbert\, March 11 at Seattle Town Hall
URL:https://rachelcorriefoundation.org/event/healing-palestines-children-featuring-dr-mads-gilbert-march-11-at-seattle-town-hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160122T200200
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SUMMARY:May 3 -- Peace Works 2016: The Inaugural Rachel Corrie Memorial Lecture featuring Ilan Pappé
DESCRIPTION:The Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace & Justice Presents Peace Works 2016\n The Inaugural\nRachel Corrie Memorial Lecture\n\n \nFeaturing world-renowned historian & activist \nIlan Pappé\n“Why is Palestine Still the Issue?”\n\nMay 3\, 2016 — 6:30 PM\nThe Longhouse Education and Cultural Center at\nThe Evergreen State College\n\n\nThis event is free and open to the public\, but you must RSVP to reserve a seat. Click here to reserve your spot today!\n\nCo-Sponsored By:\nReInterpreting Liberation: Third World Movements and Migrations*; U.S. Foreign Policy & The Roots of Terrorism*; Americans United for Palestinian Human Rights; Creative Solutions: Activism\, Advocacy and Self-Determination in Indian Country*; A New Middle East?: Diagrams\, Diagnosis\, and Power*; Americans Committed to Justice and Truth; Jewish Voice for Peace – Portland; Rebuilding Alliance; Diversity\, Multiculturalism and Public Education*; Political Economy and Social Movements: Race\, Class\, and Gender*; Tree of Life Educational Fund; Northfielders for Justice in Palestine; Al-Shabaka\, The Palestinian Policy Network; Jewish Voice for Peace – Tacoma; G.I. Voice\n* – Evergreen State College Program\n\n  \nWe need your help!  We welcome cosponsors who want to be a part of spearheading this inaugural Rachel Corrie Memorial Lecture and to ensure that it is a success for years to come.  Your support will provide for the staffing and organization\, the promotion\, and the realization of this first and future event.  You will help make possible the much needed conversations that this new project will provide.  Can you help us?  We would love to include you\, your organization\, or your business as a cosponsor for 2016 Peace Works and for its launch of the Rachel Corrie Memorial Lecture! \nDonation levels begin at $50. \nSimply fill out the Peace Works 2016 – Cosponsorship Support Form OR go to our online Co-sponsorship page and let us know how you can contribute\, so we can proceed confidently\, knowing you are with us! \nQuestions?  Feel free to contact us by email or call (360) 754-3998.
URL:https://rachelcorriefoundation.org/event/may-3-peace-works-2016-the-inaugural-rachel-corrie-memorial-lecture-featuring-ilan-pappe
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SUMMARY:Oct. 2-3: "Murals of Solidarity" at Olympia Fall Arts Walk
DESCRIPTION:Visit the Olympia-Rafah Solidarity Mural during the 2015 Fall Arts Walk for an interactive exhibition of community mural projects.\n \n\nFALL ARTS WALK \nOctober 2nd & 3rd \nFriday: 5-10pm Saturday: noon-8pm \nState Ave & Capitol Way\, Olympia WA \n\nMurals of Solidarity: \nFrom the Local to the Global showcases the mural projects of Art Forces. These projects make visible histories and relationships that have been obliterated and forgotten; making connections between national and global issues of social justice\, borders\, precarity\, migrations and colonization. Art Forces’ murals are projects that create perceptual “ruptures” to imagine new possibilities. They work “Off the Wall” as sites of cultural organizing to bring people together across movements in Palestine\, Oakland and Olympia. \nMore info at: artforces.org
URL:https://rachelcorriefoundation.org/event/oct-2-3-murals-of-solidarity-at-olympia-fall-arts-walk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150915T214200
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SUMMARY:Sept. 24: "The Look of Silence" 6:30pm at Olympia Film Society
DESCRIPTION:Produced by master filmmakers\, Werner Herzog and Errol Morris\, The Look of Silence is Joshua Oppenheimer’s follow-up to the Oscar-nominated documentary The Act of Killing. In this powerfully moving film\, survivors of the 1965 Indonesian genocide face the men responsible for incomprehensible atrocities. The focus is on Adi\, a traveling optometrist\, whose family was devastated by the past. While giving eye exams and fitting glasses\, Adi uses the opportunity to confront the aging perpetrators\, challenging them to accept responsibility for the horrific events that have not only affected his family\, but crippled the spirit of an entire nation. \n \nDir: Joshua Oppenheimer / 2015 / Global / Indonesian\, with English subtitles / 103 min / DCP \nPost-film discussion with Evergreen State College professors Eric Stein and Larry Mosqueda on Sept. 24 at 6:30pm.\nSAT 9/19 6:30 \nSUN 9/20 2:30 & 7:30 \nTUE 9/22 6:30 \nWED 9/23 9:00 \nTHU 9/24 6:30 \nTickets for this film screening can be purchased at the box office 1/2 hour before showtime. \nOlympia Film Society \n206 5th Ave SE \nOlympia\, WA 98501 \n  \nSponsored by: \n \n 
URL:https://rachelcorriefoundation.org/event/sept-24-the-look-of-silence-630pm-at-olympia-film-society
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SUMMARY:Sept. 12: Author Susan Abulhawa at Orca Books
DESCRIPTION:Susan Abulhawa\nSaturday\, September 12\, 2015\n1pm\nOrca Books Olympia\, WA\n&\n7pm\nElliott Bay Book Company Seattle\, WA\n  \nAbout  The Blue Between Sky and Water:  \nIt is 1947\, and Beit Daras\, a quiet village in Palestine surrounded by olive groves\, is home to the Baraka family. Eldest daughter Nazmiyeh looks after her widowed mother\, prone to wandering and strange outbursts\, while her brother Mamdouh tends to the village bees. Their younger sister\, Mariam\, with her striking mismatched eyes\, spends her days talking to imaginary friends and writing. When Israeli forces gather outside the town’s borders\, nobody suspects the terror that is about to descend. Soon the village is burning and\, amidst smoke and ash\, the family must take the long road to Gaza\, in a walk that will test them to their limits. Sixty years later\, Mamdouh’s granddaughter Nur is living in America. She falls in love with a married man\, a doctor who works in Palestine\, and follows him to Gaza. There she meets Alwan\, the mother of Khaled – a boy trapped in his own body\, unable to wake up from a deep blue dream. It is through her that Nur will at last discover the ties of kinship that transcend distance – and even death.The Blue Between Sky and Water is a story of powerful\, flawed women; of relocation\, separation and heartache; of renewal\, family\, endurance\, and love. Susan Abulhawa brings a raw humanity and delicate authority to the story of Palestine in this devastatingly beautiful tale. \n \nSusan Abulhawa is a human rights activist\, a biologist\, and political commentator. She is the founder of Playgrounds for Palestine\, a children’s organization dedicated to upholding The Right to Play for Palestinian children. Her debut novel\, Mornings in Jenin\, was an international bestseller\, translated into 26 languages. She lives in Pennsylvania with her daughter and their beloved dogs.
URL:https://rachelcorriefoundation.org/event/sept-12-author-susan-abulhawa-at-orca-books
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150811T203600
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SUMMARY:Sept. 12: Vancouver Peace and Justice Fair
DESCRIPTION:The Vancouver Peace and Justice Fair at Esther Short Park will showcase the hard work and creative spirit of individuals\, social justice groups\, peace organizations\, faith communities\, performers\, artists\, businesses\, and environmental activists who are making the world a better place. Join the fun and visit the Rachel Corrie Foundation booth! \n\nESTHER SHORT PARK\n8th and Columbia St.\nVancouver\, Washington\nSaturday\, Sept. 12\, 2015\n9am to 4pm
URL:https://rachelcorriefoundation.org/event/sept-12-vancouver-peace-and-justice-fair
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150808T215500
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SUMMARY:August 25: REFLECTING ON GAZA\, 7pm Olympia\, WA
DESCRIPTION: Tuesday\, August 25\n7-9pm\nTraditions Fair Trade – 300 5th Ave SW\, Olympia\, WA 98501\nCommunity discussion: how can we work together to prevent another assault like last year’s from happening again?\nSpecial Guests: \n\nMaxine Fookson is a pediatric nurse practitioner and member of Jewish Voice for Peace – Portland.  For nine days in November 2014 she was part of the Washington State Physicians for Social Responsibility Health Delegation to Gaza following the devastating Israeli military attack there in summer 2014.\n\n\nEitan Isaacson grew up in a modern orthodox Jewish community in Rehovot\, Israel. He served as a tank commander in the Israeli military in 2001 to 2004 during the second intifada. Today\, Eitan is an activist in the Seattle chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace.Dr. \n\n\nSteve Niva teaches International Politics and Middle East Studies at the Evergreen State College in Olympia\, Washington. His primary areas of research and writing include the Israeli-Palestinian conflict\, U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East\, Islamist movements\, and contemporary war and violence. He has written for and served on the editorial board of Middle East Report magazine (www.merip.org).\n\nMohammed Usrof was born and raised in Khan Yunis\, a city in the Gaza Strip\, in Palestine. After receiving a Bachelors Degree in Counseling and Guidance from Al-Aqsa University in Gaza in 2012\, he moved to the Pacific Northwest for study at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland and at The Evergreen State College.  Mohammed has been a coordinator of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and a volunteer for the Rachel Corrie Foundation.\n\nIMAGE CREDIT:\nYours Very Truly\nBy Maybe Jairan Sadeghi\nSource: Palestine Poster Project Archives\nhttp://palestineposterproject.org/poster/yours-very-truly
URL:https://rachelcorriefoundation.org/event/august-25-reflecting-on-gaza-7pm-olympia-wa
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150714T035500
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SUMMARY:Rachel Corrie Ramadan Football Tournament 2015
DESCRIPTION:Friends\,\nToday is about Gaza. Today is about remembering those we lost last summer\, and honoring their lives. Today is about resistance. Today is about doing our part. \nAs our supporters know\, Rachel Corrie’s friends in Rafah\, Gaza\, have created and produced the Rachel Corrie Ramadan Football Tournament in her memory for the past seven years. The month-long amateur sporting event celebrates Ramadan by providing a festive atmosphere and a safe community space\, and it’s back again! \nIn 2014\, the tournament was delayed by the Israeli assault on Gaza\, but eventually over 300 players took to the field to demonstrate to the world that the spirit of Palestinian youth was not broken. Mahmoud Al Neirab\, a famous player who lost his mother and three sisters in an air strike bombing to their home insisted on participating despite his family’s tragedy\, and the audience encouraged him and appreciated his steadfastness and resilience. \nAfter Tamer Al Aydi\, a member of the tournament logistics team and a popular figure in the local football community\, was killed during the Israeli assault\, the al Ramla team took Tamer’s name for their own. Winning the tournament cup\, the team presented it to Tamer’s soul. Over three thousand spectators came out for the finale\, despite the tremendous hardship the Gaza community was facing. \nTournament organizers sent messages to us at the Rachel Corrie Foundation thanking each person who supported the project. Gaza Coordinator Adnan Abu Sa’ud wrote\, “With this tournament\, we have created a real way to strengthen personal connections in our community\, and with our friends around the world.” Although delayed as a result of the assault on Gaza\, the tournament fostered power and pride in a community under siege. \nDuring this special season of Ramadan and as the world remembers the events of a year ago\, the 2015 Rachel Corrie Ramadan Football Tournament is under way now! Commemorating Palestinian history and the 2014 assault on Gaza\, 32 teams\, featuring hundreds of players\, have chosen team names ranging from historic villages in Palestine to individuals killed during last year’s tragedy. \nThe Rachel Corrie Ramadan Sports Tournament is an inclusive space for persons regardless of physical ability.  From December 1-3 (in time for the UN’s International Day of Persons with Disabilities December 3)\, part two will feature 150 disabled athletes participating in football\, table tennis\, sitting volleyball\, and basketball.  This inspiring event organized by Al Basma Club for the Disabled will provide a sport forum for the deaf\, amputees\, paraplegics and polio victims. \nOur Gaza friends remind us that it is important to support programs that build community and well-being there.  The Rachel Corrie Ramadan Football Tournament allows children and young teens affected by the ongoing occupation and its associated trauma to find positive role models – adults taking charge of their immediate situation\, working together\, creating healthy outlets to dispel stress\, and reaching out in a positive way to build community relationships. \nPlease remember and support our friends in Gaza who are resisting occupation and strengthening community through athleticism and sportsmanship.  Follow tournament developments at the website Gazalife.org and lend your financial support for all 2015 Rachel Corrie Ramadan Tournament events by donating now! \n\nMany thanks and Ramadan Kareem from all of us at the Rachel Corrie Foundation!
URL:https://rachelcorriefoundation.org/event/rachel-corrie-ramadan-football-tournament-2015
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150527T144700
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SUMMARY:June - July: Boycott! The Art of Economic Activism exhibit tours WA state
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nCheck out the exhibit as it tours Washington state:\n  \nJune 3 – 12\nWashington State University \nPhase 1 Classroom Building \n668 N Riverpoint Blvd \nSpokane\, WA 99202 \n9 am-7 pm daily \nJune 13 – July 1\nUniversity of Washington \nOdegaard Undergraduate Library \n4060 George Washington Lane NE \nSeattle\, WA 98195 \nJuly 2 – 16\nUrban Grace \n902 Market Street \nTacoma\, WA 98402 \n\nTuesday and Thursday: Noon to 6:00 pm \nFriday through Sunday: 1:00 to 5:00 pm \n(closed July 4) \nOpening Reception: \nThursday\, July 2\, 4-6 pm \n             Featuring Beverly Naidus\, art faculty at UWT\, making a short presentation: Irresistible Resistance — Compelling Images of Art for Social Change \n  \n  \nThe exhibit features more than twenty boycotts including the Montgomery bus boycott\, United Farm Workers’ grape and lettuce boycott\, divestment from Apartheid in South Africa\, the Palestinian call for Boycott\, Divestment\, and Sanctions\, and many others. \nActivists and solidarity groups have often responded to injustices by implementing boycott and divestment campaigns targeting companies and governments that support and sustain these injustices—these posters have been a primary tool for educating around issues and inspiring people to action. These powerful posters serve as a platform for understanding the effectiveness of boycotts as a nonviolent tactic to end injustice and oppression. \n\nThanks to the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and Center for the study of Political Graphics (CSPG) for making these posters available! \nSponsored by the Rachel Corrie Foundation \n\n 
URL:https://rachelcorriefoundation.org/event/june-july-boycott-the-art-of-economic-activism-exhibit-tours-wa-state
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SUMMARY:June 12: Ask Your Representative to Sign Congressional Letter Challenging Israel's Mistreatment of Palestinian Children
DESCRIPTION:The deadline for signing the letter is June 12th.\n  \nOn Tuesday\, June 2\, the American Friends Service Committee hosted a Congressional briefing on Capitol Hill to examine Israel’s child detention practices. The briefing was attended by more than one hundred people\, including 36 Congressional offices. \nIn response to concerns about Israel’s treatment of Palestinian children\, Representative McCollum has initiated a letter to Secretary Kerry calling on the State Department to make the protection of children a priority in the United States-Israel relationship. \nEvery year\, hundreds of Palestinian children – some as young as 12 years old – are detained and arrested in an Israeli military detention system where ill treatment and abuse is widespread. \nMany are taken from their families in night raids\, held without charges or due process\, and subjected to abuse and poor conditions while in custody.\n\n\n\n\nPlease call and write your representative today and urge them to sign this important letter before the June 12th deadline.  \n\nCLICK HERE TO TAKE ACTION! \n\nAlso\, please make a quick call to Representative McCollum’s office to thank them for leading this important initiative.\n(1-202-225-6631)\n\n\n\nThe Rachel Corrie Foundation is eager to support this effort\, because of our connections through the years with those who as children were imprisoned themselves or impacted by seeing young relatives imprisoned\, and raised into a reality that deprives them of a fundamental sense of freedom. \n\n\nThe “No Way to Treat a Child” campaign\, organized by the Chicago Faith Coalition\, is aimed at bringing attention to Israel’s routine mistreatment of Palestinian children.\n\n\n\nThank you to the American Friends Service Committee\, the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation\, and many others for organizing and supporting this important effort.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n#NOWAYTOTREATACHILD
URL:https://rachelcorriefoundation.org/event/june-12-ask-your-representative-to-sign-congressional-letter-challenging-israels-mistreatment-of-palestinian-children
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SUMMARY:May 21 Hatim Kanaaneh author of "Chief Complaint" in Olympia\, WA
DESCRIPTION:Hatim Kanaaneh from Arrabeh in the Galilee will be in Olympia May 21 to speak about his latest book Chief Complaint\, fictionalized short stories about life in his village. \nThursday\, May 21st 2015\n7pm\nOrca Books\n509 4th Ave E\, Olympia\, WA 98501\n  \n\nIn Chief Complaint\, Dr. Kanaaneh explores the changing\, precarious\, and ever-shrinking world of Palestinians living in Israel. As his village’s first Western ­trained physician\, Kanaaneh has had intimate access to his neighbor’s lives\, which he chronicles here in a fictionalized collection of vignettes. These compelling short stories reveal the struggles\, triumphs\, memories\, and hopes of the indigenous Palestinian community living in a state that does not acknowledge their past or encourage their future. \n\n\nDr Hatim Kanaaneh completed his medical and public health degrees at Harvard in 1970. He then returned to Galilee where\, in 1973\, he became the Public Health Doctor of the sub­district of Acre. He is the founder of the NGO\, the Galilee Society (The Arab National Society for Health Research and Services).
URL:https://rachelcorriefoundation.org/event/may-21-hatim-kanaaneh-author-of-chief-complaint-in-olympia-wa
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SUMMARY:Monday\, May 11 @ 4pm: Corries Speak at CWU's First Amendment Festival
DESCRIPTION:Join Craig and Cindy Corrie in Ellensburg\, Washington as they help kick off Central Washington University’s (CWU’s) third annual First Amendment Festival which runs May 11 – May 14 2015. To honor the First Amendment\, the week features a series of events in celebration of the freedoms of speech\, religion\, the press and peaceful assembly and demonstration. Events are  free and open to the public. \nThe festival opens Monday\, May 11 at 4 PM with “An American Activist in Palestine: Remembering Rachel Corrie” featuring keynote speakers Craig and Cindy Corrie\, parents of the 23-year-old political activist who was killed by an Israel Defense Forces bulldozer while protecting the home of a Palestinian family in the Gaza Strip. Following the speech\, there will be clips from a documentary about Rachel and three CWU theater students will perform excerpts from the play\, “My Name is Rachel Corrie.” A panel discussion with Rachel’s parents and various CWU professors will conclude the evening. The event is located in the Student Union and Recreation Center (SURC) Ballroom. \nFor more information about the First Amendment Festival see links below:  \nCWU’s festival announcement \nNews Article in “The Daily Record” (Ellensburg\, WA) \n 
URL:https://rachelcorriefoundation.org/event/monday-may-11-4pm-corries-speak-at-cwus-first-amendment-festival
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SUMMARY:April 30\, 7pm Amos Gvirtz "Don't Say We Did Not Know" book tour
DESCRIPTION:The Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice Presents:\nAmos Gvirtz\n \n“Writing this book has brought me some new ideas. Some surprised me and some frighten me.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, April 30th 2015\n7:00 – 8:30pm\nFirst Christian Church\nKoinonia Hall\n701 Franklin St. SE\nOlympia\, WA 98501\n\nAmos Gvirtz has developed an international audience with his “Don’t Say We Did Not Know” weekly emails about unpublicized incidents\, events\, and government actions affecting the Palestinian and Bedouin communities in Israel and Palestine. A life-long pacifist and Israeli peace activist\, he is a longtime member of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR) and part of the Negev Coexistence Forum for Civil Equality. His newly-published book\, “Don’t Say We Did Not Know” is based on the moral questions Israelis must face today and the reasons people don’t want to know about the crimes being committed. He will describe the difficulties human rights and peace organizations face along with the history of their successes\, examining both the nonviolent approach and the risks Occupation presents for the future existence of Israel. \n\nThe event is free and open to the public.\nAll donations will support the legal costs\nof the Bedouin Negev village Al-Araqib\,\ndemolished 80 times by Israeli police\n\n\n \nFor further information: \ninfo@rachelcorriefoundation.org \n(360) 754-3998 \n\n\n 
URL:https://rachelcorriefoundation.org/event/april-30-7pm-amos-gvirtz-dont-say-we-did-not-know-book-tour
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SUMMARY:April 25-27 My Name is Rachel Corrie in California theaters
DESCRIPTION:My Name is Rachel Corrie\nIn California theaters April 25-27\nPerformed by Ashley Malloy\n\nPost-play discussion with\nCraig and Cindy Corrie\n\n\nGrass Valley\, CA \nSaturday\, April 25\, 7:00-9:00 p.m.\nSierra Center for Spiritual Living\n119 Florence Ave.\nSponsored by Palestine-Israel Working Group\nPeace and Justice Center of Nevada County\nTickets $10 or by donation\nFor information: 530-274-1018 or office@sierracenter.org\nhttp://www.ncpeace.org/event/my-name-is-rachel-corrie/?instance_id=17266\n\n\n\n\n\nBerkeley\, CA\n\nSunday\, April 26\, 6:00-8:30 p.m.\nLaPeñaCulturalCenter 3105 Shattuck AvenueSponsored by Rebuilding Alliance\nTickets $10 in advance; $15 at the door\nFor information: 650-325-4663 or contact@rebuildingalliance.org\nFacebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1656503744583202/\nLa Pena Tickets Page: http://lapena.org/event/my-name-is-rachel-corrie/\nEventbrite: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/my-name-is-rachel-corrie-tickets-16323421794\n\n\n\n\n\nSacramento\, CA\n\n\n\nMonday\, April 27\, 7:00 p.m.\nCalifornia Stage Theatre\n2509 R Street\nPresented by Resurrection Theatre and California Stage\nin partnership with Jewish Voice for Peace and the Palestine American League\nFor information: https://www.facebook.com/events/349288885263024/\nTickets: $15-20 http://rachelcorriesacramento.bpt.me/
URL:https://rachelcorriefoundation.org/event/april-25-27-my-name-is-rachel-corrie-in-california-theaters
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SUMMARY:April 24-25 Olympia-Rafah Solidarity Mural Project Social Justice Bloc Party
DESCRIPTION:Olympia-Rafah Solidarity Mural Project \nSocial Justice Bloc Party \nCelebrate social justice with visual art\, music\, theatre\, poetry\, food and community organizations building strong movements for collective liberation. \nFeaturing visual art from Malachi Muncy\, the Just Seeds Artist Collective\, Assembly of Revolutionary Artists of Oaxaca with performances by the Old Growth Poetry Collective\, Lennée Reid\, Artesian Rumble Arkestra\, Citizen’s Band\, a Theatre of the Oppressed performance\, an acrobatic performance\, an open mic and Combat Papermaking demonstrations led by an artist and member of Iraq Veterans Against the War. \n\nStop by to learn about and connect with many of the area’s social justice organizations\, including the Rachel Corrie Foundation\, POWER\, Coffee Strong\, Stonewall Youth\, the Black Student Union\, Gateways for Incarcerated Youth\, Center for Community Based Learning & Action\, Fellowship of Reconciliation\, Students for Justice in Palestine\, Books to Prisoners and more! \nRoots and Leaves of Solidarity\, the Theatre of the Oppressed performance is seeking community organizers\, cultural workers and activists to participate in a workshop April 17; 7-9pm\, 18 & 19;10-5pm.Using the interactive tools of Theatre of the Oppressed\, this workshop will focus on political organizing with intersectionality as a strategy. We will explore what it takes to build strong anti-racist\, multi-class movements. Click here to RSVP or email sastockholm@gmail.com. \nWant to give a little extra? Volunteer with the mural during Arts Walk and beyond. Contact Sarah at sastockholm@gmail for more ways you can get involved in this local project. \n  \n\nFriday  April the 24th \n  \n5-7 Social Justice Tabling \n  \n5:30- 6:30 Combat Paper Making \ndemo with Malachi Muncy \n  \n6:40 Artesian Rumble Arkestra \n  \n7:00 Roots & Leaves of Solidarity: Interactive Theatre of the Oppressed Performance \n  \nPeople’s History Performance: \nFreedom Isn’t Free \n  \n8:30 Old Growth Poetry Collective Reading \n  \n9-10 Lennee Reid Poetry \n& People’s Mic \n  \nSaturday April the 25th \n  \n1-2  Combat Paper Making \ndemo with Malachi Muncy \n  \n4:30-6 Procession of the Species
URL:https://rachelcorriefoundation.org/event/april-24-25-olympia-rafah-solidarity-mural-project-social-justice-bloc-party
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SUMMARY:April 17-19\, 24 Roots & Leaves of Solidarity: A Theatre of the Oppressed Workshop
DESCRIPTION:The Olympia-Rafah Solidarity Mural Project invites mural participants to engage in a dialogue utilizing Theatre of the Oppressed. We will re-imagine society using games & exercises to explore collective resistance and resilience. As founder Augosto Boal said\, “The theater itself is not revolutionary: it is a rehearsal for the revolution.” \nUsing the interactive tools of Theatre of the Oppressed\, this workshop will focus on political organizing with intersectionality as a strategy. We will explore what it takes to build strong anti-racist\, multi-class movements. \nWhat does it mean to be an organizer & activist? \nHow do political issues intersect? \nWhat does solidarity mean in practice? \nJoin fellow community organizers\, cultural workers & activists in exploring the work of making another world possible. \nIf you can’t attend the workshop\, come to the interactive performance on April 24th during Arts Walk at the Olympia-Rafah Solidarity Mural. Please share this information with your leadership & members. RSVP early\, workshop space is limited. No theatre experience is needed.\n  \n\nFollow this link to RSVP by April 12th or Contact Sarah at sastockholm@gmail.com \n$0-$15 Sliding Scale Donation \nSponsored by the Olympia-Rafah Solidarity Mural Project
URL:https://rachelcorriefoundation.org/event/april-17-19-24-roots-leaves-of-solidarity-a-theatre-of-the-oppressed-workshop
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SUMMARY:April 8: Steven Salaita 11AM-1PM @ TESC
DESCRIPTION:Indigenous Peoples and Academic Freedom in the New Era of Civility \n\nWednesday\, April 8th\, 2015\n11am – 1pm\nLecture Hall I\nThe Evergreen State College\nOlympia\, Washington\nFree and Open to the Public\n\nSalaita is a former Associate Professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. In August 2014 the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign withdrew a formal offer of employment to Steven Salaita in response to his Twitter posts critical of Israel’s attack on Gaza that summer. This unprecedented move on the part of the university has drawn international attention to efforts to silence faculty and students on North American campuses for speaking in support of Palestinian human rights. The Chronicle of Higher Education named Salaita to its 2014 Influence List. \nSteven Salaita is an independent scholar and author of six books including Israel’s Dead Soul (2011); Modern Arab American Fiction: A Reader’s Guide (2011); The Holy Land in Transit: Colonialism and the Quest for Canaan (2006); and Anti-Arab Racism in the USA: Where It Comes from and What It Means for Politic (2006)\, winner of an Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights.
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SUMMARY:April 2-5/April 9-12: My Name Is Rachel Corrie returns to NYC
DESCRIPTION:“Extraordinary power…funny\, passionate\, bristling with idealism and luminously intelligent.”\nTime Out (London)\n  \n\nSpecial Ticket Offer for the Rachel Corrie Foundation\nApril 2-5 and April 9-12\, 2015\nLynn Redgrave Theater\, NYC\n\n  \nMy Name is Rachel Corrie \nThe compelling and controversial play My Name Is Rachel Corrie \nreturns for an Off-Broadway run in New York City for the first \ntime in nine years for 10 performances at Culture Project’s Lynn \nRedgrave Theater. The play is taken from the writings of Rachel \nCorrie and edited by Alan Rickman and Katharine Viner. \nPerformances will be April 2-5 and April 9-12\, 2015. Friday April \n10\, Rachel Corrie’s birthday\, will be a special benefit for the \nRachel Corrie Foundation. Refreshments will be served and Craig \nand Cindy Corrie\, Rachel’s parents\, will speak after the \nperformance. \nAs a special offer to the Rachel Corrie Foundation all $65 general \nadmission tickets will be reduced to $35 if purchased by March 1\, \n2015. \nJust enter the code RCF35 by March 1 when purchasing \ntickets for any performance except for April 10 when all tickets \nwill be $100. \nFor all ticket information call Ovation Tix at \n1.866.811.4111 \nor visit Culture Project’s website at \ncultureproject.org\n  \n \nStarring Charlotte Hemmings.\nHemmings is the daughter of iconic English actor David Hemmings (Blow Up\, Gangs of New York\, Gladiator) and she will be making her New York stage debut. Presented by Sawtooth Productions LLC.
URL:https://rachelcorriefoundation.org/event/april-2-5april-9-12-my-name-is-rachel-corrie-returns-to-nyc
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SUMMARY:April 2: Remi Kanazi - Poetic Injustice\, 4-6pm @ TESC
DESCRIPTION:Join Students for Justice in Palestine at The Evergreen State College for an afternoon of spoken word with Remi Kanazi.\n \nLecture Hall I\n4 – 6pm\nThursday April 2\, 2015 \nThe Evergreen State College \nfollowed by discussion\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRemi is a poet\, writer\, and activist based in New York City. He is the editor of Poets For Palestine and the author of the collection of poetry\, Poetic Injustice: Writings on Resistance and Palestine. His political commentary has been featured by news outlets throughout the world\, including Al Jazeera English\, GRITtv with Laura Flanders\, and BBC Radio.\nHis poetry has taken him across North America\, the UK\, and the Middle East\, and he appeared in the Palestine Festival of Literature as well as Poetry International. He is a recurring writer in residence and advisory board member for the Palestine Writing Workshop.
URL:https://rachelcorriefoundation.org/event/april-2-remi-kanazi-poetic-injustice-4-6pm-tesc
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SUMMARY:March 16: Remembering Rachel Corrie – Peace\, Justice\, & Dance at Olympia Ballroom with special guest Ronnie Barkan
DESCRIPTION:Thank you to our friends across the globe who joined us Monday\, March 16\, 2015\, to commemorate Rachel Corrie and her strong stand for justice twelve years ago in Rafah\, Gaza. \nWe were joined in Olympia by warm community\, and local poets and activists Lennée Reid and Rachel Greene.  Their words moved us to the emotional core of issues of social injustice prevalent today\, and echoed Rachel Corrie’s visions of equality. \n \nRonnie Barkan\, a longtime Jewish Israeli activist and cofounder of Boycott From Within\,  spoke of being inspired by the Corrie family\, and asked that we simply continue doing the work that we’re doing.  For peace anywhere will not happen in isolation to itself\, but needs our united commitment. \nThe Corrie family’s statement from Washington DC on March 16th\, where they were meeting with Department of State and Congressional officials\, echoed similar sentiments: “As we look back at Selma fifty years ago and Ferguson today\, we realize that our own civil rights struggle is not won in a single march or court case.  It is ongoing.  As our family continues our journey for justice\, we thank those across the U.S.\, the world\, and in Palestine and Israel who travel with us.  Together\, we will find justice for Rachel – both the justice she deserves and the justice for which she stood.” \nWith this\, all at the Rachel Corrie Foundation urge you to take action this month in solidarity with Rachel Corrie’s vision of justice\, peace\, and equality. \n\n\n\n\n\nTo read the full Corrie family statement click here.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHuffPost Live – Rachel Corrie’s Parents on Their Daughter’s Legacy\nView here the interview by Marc Lamont Hill with Craig and Cindy Corrie that aired Monday\, March 16th\, from the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington DC.\n“No Justice for Rachel Corrie–or Palestine” \nRead here the article by Katherine Gallagher\, Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\nSpecial thanks to the wonderful Yodelady and caller Anne Marie Schaefer for helping us dance our March 16th night away! \n \n\n\n“This has to stop.  I think it is a good idea for us all to drop everything and devote our lives to making this stop.  I don’t think it’s an extremist thing to do anymore.  I still really want to dance around to Pat Benatar and have boyfriends and make comics for my coworkers.  But I also want this to stop.”  Rachel Corrie \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nContact Information:\n(360)754-3998  info@rachelcorriefoundation.org
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SUMMARY:March 9: Chris Hedges “Wages of Rebellion” at SPSCC
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nChris Hedges “Wages of Rebellion”\n  \n7pm Monday March 9th \nSPSCC \nSouth Puget Sound Community College \nMinnaert Center for the Arts \n\n\n\nSponsored by BRICK \n(Building Revolution by Increasing Community Knowledge) \n\n\n$13\nFree with SPSCC student ID\nTickets are available online at OlyTix.org\,\n\n(360)753-8586\, or at the Washington Center or Minnaert Center box offices. \nFocusing on the stories of rebels from around the world and throughout history\, Hedges investigates what it takes to be a rebel in modern times. Utilizing the work of Reinhold Niebuhr\, Hedges describes the motivation that guides the actions of rebels as “sublime madness” – the state of passion that causes the rebel to engage in an unavailing fight against overwhelmingly powerful and oppressive forces. For Hedges\, resistance is carried out not for its success\, but as a moral imperative that affirms life. Those who rise up against the odds will be those endowed with this “sublime madness.” \n  \n\nChris Hedges is a columnist for Truthdig. A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist\, he spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America\, the Middle East\, Africa\, and the Balkans\, with fifteen years at the New York Times. He is the author of numerous bestselling books\, including Empire of Illusion; Death of the Liberal Class; War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning; and Days of Destruction\, Days of Revolt. He lives in Princeton\, New Jersey.
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SUMMARY:Feb. 23: Peace Works 2015 with Omar Barghouti
DESCRIPTION:Join the Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace Works 2015: Justice Rising! A gathering of related struggles that will explore systematized oppression and inspire learning and action for local and global justice and peace.   \n\nLOCATION: \nThe Evergreen State College\, Olympia WA 2700 Evergreen Parkway Northwest\, Olympia\, WA 98505 \nDAY EVENTS:\nLecture Hall I \n12:00 – 1:00  “The BDS Movement Explained”  With Omar Barghouti\, author and cofounder of the BDS movement (Boycott\, Divestment\, Sanctions) \nSeminar II – E1105 \n1:30 – 3:00  “Children at the Borders”  Workshop with MEXA (Movimiento Estudiantil Xicano de Aztlan) \n3:30 – 5:00  “Gaza in Arizona: How Israeli High Tech Firms will Up-Armor the U.S.-Mexican Border” Workshop with Gabriel Schivone \nSeminar II – E1107 \n1:30 – 3:00  “Update on Indigenous Struggles”  Workshop with Kanahus Manuel (Secwepemc Nation) \nSeminar II – D1107 \n1:30 – 3:00  “Imagination = Resistance”  Workshop with Sarah Stockholm (Olympia-Rafah Solidarity Mural Project) \n3:30 – 5:00  “Conversations on BDS”  Workshop with Students for Justice in Palestine \nEVENING EVENT:\n7:00 – 9:00 – Evergreen Longhouse  \n“Justice Rising: From Palestine to Ferguson\, from First Nations to the US Borderlands”\nA panel discussion connecting voices across politics and identities. With Omar Barghouti and activists Jesse Hagopian\, Gabriel Schivone\, Kanahus Manuel\, and moderator Sarah Eltantawi \n  \n\n\n  Admission is free and open to the public!\nSPEAKER BIOS: \nOmar Barghouti is an independent Palestinian researcher and human rights activist. He is a co-founder of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) and the Palestinian Civil Society-led Boycott\, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israeli occupation. Omar is a Research Fellow at the International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Columbia University and a master’s in philosophy (ethics) from Tel Aviv University. He is the author of\, BDS: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights. His commentaries and interviews have appeared in the New York Times\, The Guardian\, and on Bloomberg\, CNN\, and BBC\, among others. \n \n  \nJesse Hagopian teaches history and is the co-adviser to the Black Student Union at Seattle’s Garfield High School\, the site of the historic boycott of the MAP test in 2013. He is the ditor and contributing author of More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing\, an associate editor of the acclaimed Rethinking Schools magazine\, and a founding member of Social Equality Educators (SEE). Jesse was the recipient of the 2012 Abe Keller Foundation award for “excellence and innovation in peace education\,” and won the 2013 “Secondary School Teacher of the Year” award and the Special Achievement “Courageous Leadership” award from the Academy of Education Arts and Sciences. In 2011\, he participated in the Interfaith Peace Builder’s historic first African heritage delegation that brought fourteen African Americans ages 28-79 to Israel and Palestine to meet with civil society organizations\, human rights groups\, and grassroots activists to better understand the conflict. \n \n  \nKanahus Manuel is a mother and warrior from the Secwpemc Nation in the Shuswap region of so-called British Columbia\, Canada. She has been active in fighting against development projects and corporations such as the Sun Peaks Ski Resort and Imperial Metals. Recently\, she has been involved in organizing to raise awareness about the Mount Polley gold-copper mine tailings spill\, possibly the worst mining pollution disaster in Canadian history. She helped to set up the Yuct Ne Senxiymetkwe camp at the disaster site. For her efforts\, she has been named as a defendant by Imperial Metals in a court injunction to stop blockades of the mining company’s operations. \n \n  \nGabriel M. Schivone (@GSchivone on Twitter) is a writer from Tucson\, Arizona\, and has worked as a humanitarian volunteer in the Mexico-U.S. borderlands for more than six years. He is also co-coordinator of UNIDOS\, an indigenous-based ethnic studies youth group. Schivone blogs at Electronic Intifada and Huffington Post’s “Latino Voices”. His articles have appeared in The Arizona Daily Star\, The Arizona Republic\, Student Nation\, The Guardian\, McClatchy newspapers\, The Chicago Tribune and others. Gabriel is a founding member of the ad hoc National Students for Justice in Palestine conference steering committee. \n \n  \nMODERATOR \nSarah Eltantawi is faculty of Comparative Religion at Evergreen\, with a specialty in political Islam and the contemporary Muslim world. A graduate of Harvard\, she recently held post-doctoral fellowships in Berlin and at UC Berkeley\, and has provided political commentary on Al-Jazeera and PRI radio. \n  \nJustice Rising! is cosponsored by The President’s Diversity Fund at The Evergreen State College\, Evergreen Students for Justice in Palestine\, and the following Evergreen Programs: Power in American Society; Cultural Landscapes; Landscapes of Faith and Power in the Eastern Mediterranean; Political Economy and Social Movements; Diversity and Dissent in Education and The Media and What Does it Mean to be an American? \nAnd by Grateful Dogs Grooming & Daycamp – 1010 Homann Dr SE Lacy\, WA 98503 – www.gratefuldogslle.net \n \n\n\n                                                                                                                                   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCan you or your organization help with publicity or financial cosponsorship support?  We’d love to announce you as a consponsor at the event and in our print and web publications.  \nContact Ray at raymond@rachelcorriefoundation.org for more info!\n\n\n\n\nPeace Works is an annual project of The Rachel Corrie Foundation which continues the work that Rachel Corrie began\, with her vision\, spirit\, and creative energy in mind. 
URL:https://rachelcorriefoundation.org/event/feb-23-peace-works-2015-with-omar-barghouti
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SUMMARY:March 2: "My Name Is Rachel Corrie" comes to Spokane\, WA
DESCRIPTION:Join Craig and Cindy Corrie for the talk-back following the play.\n \nOn Monday March 2nd\, 7:00 pm\, the award-winning play “My Name is Rachel Corrie” will be shown at the Magnuson Theater on the campus of Gonzaga University in Spokane\, WA. The play is brought to the Gonzaga Campus by the Peace and Justice Action League of Spokane (PJALS)’s Palestine-Israel Human Rights Committee in collaboration with Gonzaga student Forrest Potter and featuring actress Erin Fitzgerald. The performance is presented free of charge and open to the public. \nMore detail can be found at the PJALS or see the related article here. \n 
URL:https://rachelcorriefoundation.org/event/march-2-my-name-is-rachel-corrie-comes-to-spokane-wa
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SUMMARY:March 5\, Documentary: ARRESTING POWER: Resisting Police Violence in Portland\, Oregon
DESCRIPTION:At Olympia Film Society\n6:30pm Thursday\, March 5th\n\nThe Rachel Corrie Foundation presents:\nARRESTING POWER RESISTING POLICE VIOLENCE IN PORTLAND\, OREGON\n\nPost-film Q&A with directors\n6:00pm doors / 6:30pm film\n$5.00 – $10.00 sliding scale admission\nTickets available at the box office\nDir: Erin Yanke\, Julie Perini & Jodi Darby / USA / 2015 / 84 minutes / DV \n  \n \n  \nArresting Power provides a historical and political analysis of the role of police in contemporary society and the history of policing in the United States. It provides a framework for understanding the systems of social control in Portland\, its history of exclusion laws\,racial profiling\, gentrification practices and policing along lines of race and class. \nThis fascinating documentary features interviews with families of people who were killed by Portland police\, victims of everyday harassment and intimidation\, as well as local activists\, historians and community organizers. \nThe film explores a 50 year history of local reform and abolition movements and introduces viewers to community leaders including Walidah Imarisha\, author of the Oregon Black History Timeline\, JoAnn Hardesty and Rev. Dr. LeRoy Haynes of the Albina Ministerial Alliance Coalition for Justice and Police Reform\, Dan Handelman of Portland Copwatch and Kent Ford\, founder of the Portland chapter of the Black Panther Party. \n  \n  \nWATCH TRAILER HERE
URL:https://rachelcorriefoundation.org/event/march-5-documentary-arresting-power-resisting-police-violence-in-portland-oregon
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SUMMARY:Jan 20 @ 1:30 PM: WA State Supreme Court to hear Olympia Food Co-op Boycott Case
DESCRIPTION:The Right to Boycott \nWashington State Supreme Court to Hear  \nthe Olympia Food Co-op Boycott Case (Davis v. Cox) \non January 20\, 2015 at 1:30 PM \nat the Temple of Justice\, Olympia\, WA USA \nAttorneys for the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) will be in the Washington Supreme Court\, defending the right of the Olympia Food Co-op to boycott Israeli goods. The co-op board was sued in 2011 by five of its members for the boycott decision. In 2012\, a judge dismissed the suit\, Davis v. Cox\, under the state’s anti-SLAPP statute\, a decision upheld on appeal in 2014. SLAPPs (strategic lawsuits against public participation) are brought to silence the defendants by burdening them with the costs and stressors of a lawsuit\, irrespective of the ultimate merit of the case. Washington State law protects against such infringement on the fundamental rights of free speech. At issue is not just the right of one institution to express its political beliefs and moral conscience through a boycott. The Olympia Food Co-op’s boycott is part of the international Boycott\, Divestment\, and Sanctions (BDS) movement\, a crucial tool in the struggle for Palestinian human rights. The suit in turn is part of a widespread\, well-funded effort to silence speech critical of Israel and supportive of Palestinian rights. CCR has long been fighting repression against people who speak out on behalf of Palestinian rights in the United States. They currently also represent Prof. Steven Salaita\, who was fired from his tenured job at the University of Illinois following his public criticism on Twitter of Israel’s assault on Gaza last year. \nComprehensive information about the case can be found at the Center for Consitutional Rights (CCR). \nWHAT:  Washington State Supreme Court to Hear the Olympia Food Co-op Boycott Case (Davis v. Cox) \nWHEN:  Tuesday\, January 20th at 1:30 PM. The hearing is expected to last about an hour. \nWHERE: Temple of Justice\, Olympia\, WA USA. The Temple of Justice (where the Supreme Court is located) is on the Washington State Capitol Campus about 100 yards to the north of\, and directly facing\, the Capitol Dome. The Temple is a white marble building with columns in front. See driving and parking directions. \nHOW TO PARTICIPATE: \n\nFrom noon until 1 p.m. (just prior to the hearing) stand along Capitol Way in a show of support for the Olympia Food Co-op and the right to boycott. If you can attend\, please RSVP info@rachelcorriefoundation.org or call 360-754-3998 and additional details will be provided.\n\n\nAttend the hearing. The hearing is open to the public. Please be seated prior to the 1:30 PM start time. Review the court’s rules of conduct and please remain respectful of the courtroom environment at all times.\n\n\nWatch the hearing live online on TVW at 1:30pm Pacific Time.\n\n\nFollow updates on Twitter! The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) will be posting real-time updates on Twitter.\n\n\n 
URL:https://rachelcorriefoundation.org/event/jan-20-130-pm-wa-state-supreme-court-to-hear-olympia-food-co-op-boycott-case
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SUMMARY:Mon.\, Jan. 12: Alice Rothchild with her new book "On The Brink" at Orca Books @ 7pm
DESCRIPTION:When: Monday\,January 12th at 7:00 \nWhere: Orca Books\, 509 E 4th Ave\, Olympia\, WA 98501 \nWhat: Alice will be speaking about her recently published book\, On The Brink: Israel and Palestine on the Eve of the 2014 Gaza Invasion\, a compelling collection of blog posts made during a fact-finding and solidarity visit to the West Bank and Israel encompassing the last three weeks of June 2014. \nAlice Rothchild turns her powers of careful observation and her deep understanding of the consequences of racism and occupation into a lively\, honest\, heart breaking\, collection of reports from the field. She documents the stories and lives that do not make the evening news\, but are essential to understanding the context in which that news occurs. In 2014\, On the Brink was published by Just World Books. \nWho: Alice is an advocate for women’s health\, physician\, author\, filmmaker and activist. She has dedicated a great amount of energy to understanding the Israel/Palestine conflict since retiring from her medical practice. Alice co-founded and co-chairs American Jews for a Just Peace-Boston\, co-organizes the AJJP Health and Human Rights Project\, and is on the coordinating committee of Jewish Voice for Peace-Boston. \nFor more information about Alice Rothchild visit www.alicerothchild.com \nFor event information and to purchase a copy of the book visit Orca Books
URL:https://rachelcorriefoundation.org/event/mon-jan-12-alice-rothchild-with-her-new-book-on-the-brink-at-orca-books-7pm
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