Sunday, June 17, 7:00pmTraditions Café
300 5th Ave SW, Olympia, WA
FREE – Donations gladly acceptedDr. El-Farra, a Palestinian physician, activist, and mother, founded the Rachel Corrie Children and Youth Cultural Center in 2003. She is the Director of Gaza Projects for the Middle East Children’s Alliance, serves as a health development consultant for the Union of Health Work Committees in Gaza, and is Vice President of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society. Dr. El-Farra is an internationally-recognized human rights leader who speaks regularly at conferences in Europe and is currently writing a book with Noam Chomsky. [Read more…]
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SPECIAL EVENT: Day of action on Caterpillar and human rights
Friends of Palestine,
The Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice,
and the Corrie Family
Call for Courtroom Support and a Vigil Presence
For Oral Arguments in the Case Corrie, et al., v. Caterpillar
Park Place Building, 1200 6th Avenue (6th Avenue and Seneca St.)
Downtown Seattle
Monday, July 9
9:30 am – 1 pm
Come for the whole morning or any amount of time
- 9:30 – 10:30 am: Silent Vigil and Informational Flyering
- 10:30 am: The approximate time that the oral arguments will be heard by the Court of Appeals. People are needed in the courtroom to show that the outcome of this case has broad importance to people’s lives, and the struggle to limit corporate abuse of power around the globe.
- 12 pm: A press conference outside the Courthouse will follow the hearing, coordinated by the Center for Constitutional Rights (representing the Corrie family and four Palestinian families)
Day in court: Caterpillar appeal
Members of Rachel Corrie’s family and friends took part in a vigil and informational flyering July 9 as the family as the oral arguments in the case against Caterpillar got under way the in the US Court of Appeals at the Park Place Building in downtown Seattle. The Center for Constitutional Rights (representing the Corrie family and four Palestinian families in the case) held a press conference at noon. The case was widely covered. What follows is a rundown of what’s been reported. [Read more…]
Up Against the Wall: From Palestine to Mexico
Up Against the Wall Presentation: Friday, January 25, 2008 – 7:00pm – Parish Hall, St. John’s Episcopal Church – 114 20th Ave SE, Olympia
Olympia-Rafah Mural Project workshops: Saturday, January 26, 2008 – 10:00am – 4:30pm – The Olympia Center, Rooms 101 and 102 – 222 Columbia St. NW, Olympia
On Friday, January 25th, Carlos Marentes of Comité Pro-Amnistía General y Justicia Social in Seattle and Susan Greene of Break the Silence Mural Project in the San Francisco Bay Area will present Up Against the Wall—from Palestine to Mexico. Marentes and Greene will discuss connections between the walls constructed and proposed on the U.S.-Mexico border and those in Israeli occupied West Bank and Gaza and, also, connections between the struggles of the oppressed populations impacted by these walls.
The Exiled Palestinians: Stateless Palestinians from the Camps in Lebanon
Friday, May 27th, 7:00 PM
Bloedel Hall at St. Mark’s Cathedral
(1245 10th Ave E., Seattle)
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).
Mariam, 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.
COME AND HEAR THEIR STORIES. COME AND ASK YOUR QUESTIONS.
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