[IMC-Boston-Dispatch] 4/12: Conference on Zionism, new venue

Mon Mar 31 06:24:29 PDT 2008

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Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:19:45 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [inciteboston] Fwd: Venue Change! Struggle for the Land: Conference on Zionism, 4/12-4/13

 Subject: Venue Change! Struggle for the Land: Conference on Zionism, 4/12-4/13
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:58:27 -0400
From: "Habash, Lana" <Lana.Habash at bmc.org>
To: "Habash, Lana" <Lana.Habash at bmc.org>

 ***CHANGE IN VENUE***

***Please circulate widely***

On the 60th Anniversary of the Nakba

the New England Committee to Defend Palestine presents

Struggle for the Land:
Zionism and the Repression of Anti-Colonial Movements

An Education and Strategy Conference

Saturday, April 12 to Sunday, April 13

Saturday  April 12 at 12 PM: Community Church of Boston
565 Boylston St, Boston at Copley Square near the Back Bay T stop  (Orange Line)
and the Copley T stop (Green Line)

Sunday April 13 at 1 PM: Venue and workshop locations will be announced at the conference on  Saturday

Suggested Donation: $15

Confirmed speakers include:

Amer Jubran, Palestinian activist and former political detainee
Saja Raoof, Iraqi anti-war activist
Kali Akuno, Executive Director of the People's Hurricane Relief Fund in New Orleans and Malcolm X Grassroots Movement National Organizer
Marta Rodriguez, Puerto Rican independence activist and member of the NECDP
Ward Churchill, American Indian Movement activist and author
Dara Bayer, Palestine solidarity activist
Jihad Abdul-Mumit, former Black Liberation Army political prisoner
Nada Elia, Palestinian activist, and member of the INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence national collective.
Jeffrey Blankfort, anti-Zionist journalist and activist, co-plaintiff in a lawsuit
against the ADL for spying on left organizations

as well as

Photography Exhibition from Gaza
Palestinian political artwork, and art by Brazilian Artist Carlos Latuff

This year  commemorates the sixtieth anniversary of the Nakba (Arabic for 'catastrophe') in Palestine. While this past January saw an escalation of the already brutal strangulation of Gaza, as well as continued colonization throughout historic Palestine, Palestinians have continued to resist in all of their historic land. In Gaza, under starvation conditions, Palestinians broke the siege by destroying the wall at Rafah crossing and continue to defend their land through armed resistance against settlers.

In spite of a wider public awareness of the brutal policies of colonial settlement in Palestine, the "United States" continues to provide the main economic, political and military aid to the Zionist settler colony. While every major presidential candidate pledges undying support for "Israel," there is a growing public discussion about the role of Zionism in the "US" political system, and especially of its relationship to the war in Iraq.

Zionism has played a role not  only in defining "foreign policy," but also in the suppression of anti-colonial movements here-not least of all, because these movements have recognized the Palestinian struggle as part of a common global struggle against colonialism. In order to suppress the emergence of a serious pro-Palestinian bloc of oppositional power, Zionists have attacked genuine leaders and organizations, while at the same time cultivating less radical alternatives.

The combination of "Israeli" political ties to imperialist policies abroad and Zionist opposition to anti-colonial liberation movements here, has led to a repressive collaboration between Zionist political organizations, "Israeli" and "US" police and intelligence forces, mercenaries, and corporations in the private "security" sector.

Confronting Zionism is crucial to any movement forward against militarism and internal oppression.

Bringing together representatives of several movements, our conference will focus on  two themes: Zionist disruption of anti-colonial movements and land as the basis of struggle and solidarity.

For more information and to pre-register, go to www.onepalestine.org 

Co-sponsored by Jericho Boston  http://www.jerichoboston.org 

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NECDP
PO Box 681
East Boston, MA 02128

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