Israeli apartheid and Palestinian popular resistance with Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh
Mazin Qumsiyeh, Human Rights Activist, currently teaches at Bethlehem and Birzeit Universities in Occupied Palestine. He is president of the Palestinian Center for Rapprochement Between People and coordinator of the Popular Committee to Defend Ush Ghrab (PCDUG)*
*Dr. Qumsiyeh has written several books including the highly acclaimed, Sharing the Land of Canaan: Human Rights and the Israeli/Palestinian Struggle and has served on the faculties of several universities. He has also served on the boards and steering committees of groups including the Peace Action Education Fund, the US Campaign to End Israeli Occupation, the Palestinian American Congress, the Association for One Democratic State in Israel/Palestine, and BoycottIsraeliGoods.org.
Professor Qumsiyeh published over 200 letters and 100 op-ed pieces and has been interviewed on several TV and radio programs.
Appearances in national media include the Washington Post, New York Times, Boston Globe, CNBC, C-Span, and ABC, among others. He also regularly lectures on issues of human rights and international law. He is currently working on a book on Palestinian civil resistance from the beginning of the Zionist project in the 19th century until today. His website is: http://qumsiyeh.org.
Sponsors include: Pittsburgh Palestine Solidarity Committee, U of Pitt Students for Justice in Palestine,
Stand for Palestine- Every First Thursday!
Note: The Stands are every First Thursday, at the intersection of Forbes Ave and Bigelow Blvd, outside of the Hillman Library, from 5:30 – 6:30PM
- Join the Pittsburgh Palestine Solidarity Committee, Pitt Students for Justice in Palestine, and members of the community for our weekly “Stand for Palestine.”
- 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza have been under a debilitating military siege for the past two years, creating a “surrealistic situation in the Gaza Strip” forcing the tiny piece of land back to the Middle Ages, according to Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) Karen Abu Zayd.
- On July 3, 2009, in an act of piracy, Israeli forces kidnapped 21 passengers on board a boat of the Free Gaza Movement–A human rights group that in August 2008 sent the first international boats to land in the port of Gaza in 41 years. Their mission is to break the siege of Gaza and to raise international awareness about the prison-like closure of the Gaza Strip. Former US Congreewoman Cynthia McKinney and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mairead Maguire were on the boat and are still in an Israeli prison.
-Learn more about what President Jimmy Carter and Nelson Mandela have called “Worse than Apartheid South Africa” at Stand for Palestine
Palestine Rocks. benefit show for palestine. Thurs July 30
Thursday July 30, 2009
10pm-2am
With DJ James Gyre
Singer Songwriter Leslie Addis
Man in the Street
Live Art with Alberto J Almarza
Poetry
A Monster Raffle
Middle eastern food
and a lot more
$10-20
with no one turned away for lack’o funds
Shadow Lounge
5972 baum blvd
Pittsburgh, PA 15206
for more info contact, joeskillet@riseup.net
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.
