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| Palestine-related events |
There are a lot of exciting Palestine-related events happening in the St Louis area & at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. Below is information about.
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By Anna Baltzer
Palestinian Hip Hop Film & Live Performance ( + Q&A with Anna Baltzer--bio below)
I'm excited to announce a screening of "Slingshot Hip Hop" followed by Q&A with me and a live performance by local Palestinian hip-hop artists "Bird" & "Sharif the Truth" (bios below)! This film is perhaps the best movie on Palestine I have ever seen (and I've seen a lot!) -- "like a ground-zero tour of the Israeli-Palestine conflict with young Arab rappers as our guides. Spitting lyrics instead of throwing rocks ... it's profoundly uplifting when politico hip-hop can once again transcend borders, from the West Bank to Tel Aviv, even though the rappers themselves can't." The movie focuses on the hip hop ground DAM and others that have built an incredible movement of nonviolent resistance through spoken word. Local performers: Bird (b. Shadi Abdelaziz) and Sharif the Truth (b. Sharif Ead) are first generation Palestinian-American Hip-Hop artists. Born and raised in the U.S., they lived in the West Bank from 1995-1998 & 1993-1998, respectively, where they lived under Israeli occupation. This theme is heard throughout their music & with it, they hope to inspire & educate people about the Palestinian struggle. For the past 4 years, Bird & Sharif have performed at numerous shows around the Midwest, which have included Gaza fundraisers and other beneficiary shows. For more information, go to myspace.com/birdmanSTL and myspace.com/sharifthetruth1
SUN, Mar 28th @ 7pm
New Grassroots Speaker Training Workshop!
Are you someone who has been to Palestine or knows a lot about the issue but hasn't quite figured out how to best convey your experience to others? Do you feel frustrated and ill-prepared when confronted with opposition and difficult questions? Or do you feel ready to speak but don't know who will listen? This interactive workshop with award-winning speaker Anna Baltzer (bio below) offers techniques and talking points for dealing with hostility and effectively engaging your communities to take action.IMPORTANT: The date and time below are pending confirmation. Please email anna.baltzer@gmail.com if you are interested in such a training, either Monday or at a later date.
MON, Mar 29th @ ~ 5:30 - 8:30 PM (pending confirmation)
Washington UniversitySt Louis, MO
RSVP to anna.baltzer@gmail.com if you're interested in attending the training Monday or in the future...
Presentations by Anna Baltzer (bio below)
"Palestine: What Aren't We Hearing & How is Peace Possible?"
SAT, Mar 27th @ 2:00 PM
Market Street & Tucker Blvd.
St Louis, MOPresentation as part of "The People's Settlement" 6-day (Mar 24th - 29th) encampment outside City Hall. Quote: "Frustrated with Corporate Control of Politics? Angry over unjust Housing Foreclosures? Big Bank Bailouts? Continuous War? No Change?... That is why a group of us has decided to take the power back and come together on a broad based front, united against a common threat. Join us at the People's Settlement, a week of action dedicated to focusing on various corporations in the downtown area... This is the first step in building a genuine broad-based anti-corporate movement in St. Louis..." More information at the bottom of this email or at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=375440387465
MON, Apr 26th
Southern Illinois University - Carbondale
Carbondale, IL
Departmental sponsors TBA. Check www.AnnaInTheMiddleEast.com/presentations closer to the event date for more details.
FYI: Other upcoming film screenings on Palestine:All at 7pm, following a potluck at:Center for Theology & Social Analysis (CTSA) 1077 South NewsteadSt. Louis, MOApril 18th: "Amreeka" (www.amreeka.com)May 16th: "Occupation 101" (www.occupation101.org)June 20th: "The Visitor" (www.thevisitorfilm.com)
BIO:
Anna Baltzer, Jewish American award-winning speaker, author, former Fulbright scholar, granddaughter of Holocaust refugees, and recent guest on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, is coming to town with her acclaimed presentation about the conflict and what you can do to bring peace and justice to Israel/Palestine.
Baltzer has lived and worked part-time in the Middle East for more than 7 years. She has appeared on television more than 200 times and lectured at more than 400 universities, schools, churches, mosques, synagogues, think tanks, and other policy institutes around the world with her book, Witness in Palestine. In 2009, Baltzer received the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee’s Rachel Corrie Peace & Justice Award and a Certificate of Commendation from the Governor of Wisconsin for her commitment to a justice in the Holy Land. She is a contributor to four upcoming books on the subject and serves on the Middle East committee of the Women's International League for Peace & Freedom and the Board of Directors of The Research Journalism Institute, Grassroots Jerusalem, and NewPolicy.org. For more information about Baltzer's work, visit www.AnnaInTheMiddleEast.com
Watch Baltzer’s interview on the Daily Show alongside Palestinian presidential candidate and nonviolence leader:
Part 1: www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-october-28-2009/exclusive---anna-baltzer---mustafa-barghouti-extended-interview-pt--1
Part 2: www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-october-28-2009/exclusive---anna-baltzer---mustafa-barghouti-extended-interview-pt--2
Following her presentation, Baltzer will be selling and signing copies of her book: Witness in Palestine: A Jewish American Woman in the Occupied Territories.
Testimonials:
“Baltzer sheds light on the important political, historical, and emotional complexities of the challenges facing Israel and Palestine.”
--Jim Doyle, Governor of Wisconsin
“Even those who are familiar with the grim reality of the occupied territories will quickly be drawn into a world they had barely imagined by these vivid, searingly honest, intensely acute portrayals.”
--Noam Chomsky, Professor Emeritus & Middle East Specialist
For more information, visit www.AnnaInTheMiddleEast.com/presentations |
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