Pittsburgh Presents Palestine: A Night of Poetry, Plays & Performances
On Saturday, July 18 and 8pm, “Pittsburgh Presents Palestine: A Night of Poetry, Plays & Performances” will open to the public. This is a limited, one-night engagement at Pittsburgh Playwright’s Theatre in the Cultural District of Downtown Pittsburgh.
The evening will consist of poetry readings of Palestinian poet, Mahmoud Darwish, a premier performance of “Palindrome” by Pittsburgh playwright, Jonas Moffat, an encore performance of Caryl Churchill’s “Seven Jewish Children: A Play for Gaza,” and an eyewitness photo show set to live music by local musician and artist, Alberto Almarza, and more!
This evening of collected art forms serves as a benefit to help send local activists to Palestine to work with human rights groups. A reception will follow compliments of Allegro Hearth Bakery.
Pittsburgh Playwright’s Theatre is located at 540 Penn Ave Pittsburgh, PA 15222 in the Cultural District on Saturday, July 18th at 8pm. Tickets are $10 and seating is limited. Nobody will be turned away for lack of funds.
I Witness Gaza
A night of arts and eyewitness accounts from Gaza
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
7:00pm – 9:00pm
First Unitarian Church, Shadyside
605 Morewood Ave at Ellsworth
-A book reading by Lora Gordon, a Jewish American who has spent over a year in the Gaza Strip
-Eyewitness accounts from Regina Birchem, past president of Women’s Interntional League for Peace and Freedom
-A reading of Seven Jewish Children, a 10-minute play written in response to the Gaza massacres
-Plus a Short film screening by Palestinian American video artist Edward Salem
Sponsored by: The Pittsburgh Palestine Solidarity Committee, Pitt Students for Justice in Palestine, Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East, Thomas Merton Center Antiwar Committee, Middle East Peace Forum, Codepink Piitsburgh, Coalition for Peace and Justice in the Middle East, Muslim Student Association, Women’s Interntional League for Peace and Freedom
DAM – Live Palestinian Hip Hop in Pittsburgh
The internationally acclaimed Palestinian hip hop group DAM will perform on the Carnegie Mellon campus on April 9. DAM was recently featured in the Sundance documentary “Slingshot Hip Hop” and is Palestine’s first and leading hip hop group. With fiercely political lyrics sprung onto a musical backdrop of Arabic drumbeats and American hip hop rhythms, DAM is a cultural phenomenon born out of the Palestinian struggle for liberation. Featuring our very own local DJs Elie and Joud Mansour. Come get empowered!
http://www.dampalestine.com/main.html
http://www.myspace.com/damrap
McConomy Auditorium, CMU campus
Thursday April 9, 2009
Doors open at 6:30, show at 7pm
Tickets available at the University Center Info Desk: call 412.268.2107
$5 students; $10 adults
All proceeds go to UNRWA humanitarian fund for Gaza
Gaza in Context
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Professors Jules Lobel and Magid Shihade will discuss the current crisis in Gaza, its local, regional and global impact, and the role of the United States in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
Monday, March 30, 5pm
Carnegie Mellon, Porter Hall 100
Political Science Professor Majid Shihade is currently an Endowed Visiting Professor on Contemporary Global Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also a research Associate at the Middle East/South Asia Studies at the University of California, Davis. Dr. Shihade has published articles in the Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ), the Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences (JAPSS), and in publications such as Men of the Global South. He has also published chapters on comparative violence, race and religion in an edited volume–”Color Struck”– among other places. His manuscript—What a soccer game reveals: Modernity, Colonialism, the State, and Violence among Arabs in Israel, is under an advanced contract with Syracuse University Press.
University of Law Professor Jules Lobel recently traveled to Israel and Palestine with an international human rights delegation and met with high ranking officials from Israel and both Israeli and Palestinian human rights organizations. Professor Lobel has litigated important issues regarding the application of international law in the U.S. courts. He is editor of a text on civil rights litigation and of a collection of essays on the U.S. Constitution, “A Less Than Perfect Union” (Monthly Review Press, 1988). He is author of numerous articles on international law, foreign affairs, and the U.S. Constitution in publications including Yale Law Journal, Harvard International Law Journal, Cornell Law Review, and Virginia Law Review. He is a member of the American Society of International Law.
March 17 – Ali Abunimah in Pittsburgh
Ali Abunimah, co-founder of the Electronic Intifada, speaking on Palestine
March 17
7:00pm
David Lawrence Hall, Room 120
University of Pittsburgh.
March 16 & 29 Play: My Name is Rachel Corrie
An encore, limited-engagement performance of the hit Off-Broadway play:
My Name is Rachel Corrie
Mon, March 16, 8pm @ Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre, 540 Penn Avenue.
Sun, March 29, 2pm @ University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health Auditorium, 130 DeSoto St.
download flyer (2mb pdf). For tickets, call 724-977-5096.
(As recently seen at The New Olde Bank Theatre in Verona)
March of the Dead – Saturday Jan 17
Coalition for Peace & Justice in the Middle East:
MARCH OF THE DEAD
Saturday, 3:00pm
January 17, 2009
Rally @ Pitt Student Union
March to the SEI building (5th+Craig)
In the past two weeks at least 888 Palestinians have been killed and 3,700 injured. March with us to END THE WAR ON GAZA and to commemorate the innocent lives taken. We will provide white masks and encourage everyone to dress in BLACK.
Sponsored by: American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, Black Voices for Peace, CAIR PA Pgh, CMU Muslim Student Association, International Solidarity Movement, Middle East Peace Forum, OPTICS (Organizing Pittsburgh to Increase Community Solidarity), Pittsburgh Friends of Immigrants, Pittsburgh Palestine Solidarity Committee, Students for Justice in Palestine, Tel Rumeida Circus for Detained Palestinians, Thomas Merton Center Anti-War Committee, Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East, University of Pittsburgh Muslim Student Association and Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.
Emergency Protest Called
EMERGENCY PROTEST
OF ATTACKS ON GAZA
Wednesday, December 31
4 pm – 6 pm Federal Building
1000 Liberty Ave.
Downtown Pittsburgh
Endorsements in Alphabetical Order:
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee – Pittsburgh Chapter (ADC)
Arab American Community Center of Greater Youngstown (AACC)
Coalition for Peace in the Middle East (CPME) Youngstown
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) – Pittsburgh Chapter
Code Pink – Pittsburgh chapter
Human Rights Coalition–Fed Up! Chapter
Iranian Workers Solidarity Network
Interfaith Council for Peace in the Middle East (IFCPME) Cleveland
Islamic Council of Greater Pittsburgh
Masjid Nur Uz Zamaan
Muslim American Society – Pittsburgh chapter
Middle East Peace Forum – Pittsburgh (MEPF-P)
Peace Action Youngstown (PAY)
PFOI- Pittsburgh Friends of Immigrants
Pitt Muslim Students Association
Pittsburgh Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC)
Students for Justice in Palestine
The Thomas Merton Center AWC
Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East
Valley Coalition for Peace and Justice (VCPJ) Mahoning-Trumbull Cos. OHIO
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
Workers International League
