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| Upcoming events on Palestine in St Louis |
There are two upcoming events on Palestine in St Louis, MO, Sunday Feb 27th and Friday March 11th.
EVENT 1:
Anna Baltzer presents "What Aren't We Hearing About Palestine & How is Peace Possible?"
Baltzer will give an overview of the Israeli Occupation and Apartheid policies and discuss the campaign to urge TIAA-CREF to divest from 5 companies involved in the occupation. The American Friends Service Committee (Quakers) offers TIAA-CREF to its employees, as do many academic and other organizations in St Louis and nation-wide.
SUNDAY, February 27th @ 11:45am
St Louis Friends Meeting House
1001 Park Ave.
St Louis, Missouri
Free and open to the public. Sponsored by the St Louis Friends Meeting (Quakers)
Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=154665834589297
Anna Baltzer is a Jewish-American Columbia graduate, former-Fulbright scholar, the granddaughter of Holocaust refugees, and an award-winning lecturer, author, and activist for Palestinian human rights. Baltzer has lived and worked part-time in the Middle East for more than 7 years. She has appeared on television more than 100 times and lectured at more than 500 universities, schools, churches, mosques, synagogues, think tanks, and other policy institutes on 5 continents. Baltzer serves as National Organizer for the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation and is author of the book Witness in Palestine: A Jewish American Woman in the Occupied Territories.
EVENT 2:
St Louis Palestine Solidarity Committee presents... "Popular Resistance: At Home and Abroad"
This first annual STL-PSC fundraiser will feature Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh, Dinner, Music by Meriam Dwidar, and More!
FRIDAY, March 11th, 6:30 - 9:30pm
St Louis Friends Meeting House
1001 Park Ave.
St Louis, Missouri
Tickets $25 (including dinner). RSVP to staff@insteadofwar.org or 314.761.7428.
Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh teaches and does research at Bethlehem and Birzeit Universities in occupied Palestine. He serves as chairman of the board of the Palestinian Center for Rapprochement Between People and coordinator of the Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements in Beit Sahour. He is author of “Sharing the Land of Canaan: Human rights and the Israeli/Palestinian Struggle” and his new book “Popular Resistance in Palestine: A history of Hope and Empowerment.” |
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