[indymediapr] VENUE CHANGE:Puerto Rico to Palestine: Emad Bournat & Tito Kayak Speak in NYC Sept 14-16

[Mary Anne Grady Flores]

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http://puertoricotopalestine.org

Puerto Rico to Palestine:
Uniting Struggles in Defense of the Land
Sept. 14, 15 & 16: In New York City
Sept. 16:  Syracuse, NY
Sept. 17, 18, 19:  Ithaca, NY


NB: Venue change for Saturday and additional event on Sunday (details below)

  Emad Bornat from Bil'in, Palestine & Tito Kayak from Puerto Rico
Endorsed by ISM-NYC and Adalah-NY: The Coalition for Justice in the Middle East

On September 4, 2007, after nearly three years of nonviolent 
resistance, the people of Bil'in won an appeal in the Israeli Supreme 
Court forcing the Israeli government to move the Apartheid Wall and 
return some of Bil'in's land.  During Bil'in's long campaign, on 
April 20, 2007, Puerto Rican Activist Tito Kayak scaled a 10 story 
Israeli surveillance tower & unfurled Palestinian Flag as Palestinian 
Film Journalist Emad Bornat documented the action.The two will speak 
and show the documentary "Bil'in Against the Wall".

SEPTEMBER 14 AT 7:45 PM
Mary House (Catholic Worker)
55 E. 3rd Street
Manhattan


SEPTEMBER 15 AT 7:30 PM  (NOTE VENUE CHANGE FROM EARLIER 
ANNOUNCEMENT)   NOT at 1199 MLK Labor Center -43rd st. Not here

NEW VENUE 7:30 pm
Office of UNITE HERE
275 7th Avenue, between 25th & 26th Sts.
7th Floor
Manhattan


SUNDAY MORNING -SEPTEMBER 16 AT 11 AM
Alianza Dominicana, 4th floor
Iglesia San Romero De las Americas-UCC
2410 Amsterdam Ave. bet. 179 & 180
Manhattan

SUNDAY EVENING - SEPTEMBER 16  AT 7PM
WESTCOTT COMMUNITY CENTER - Syracuse, NY
will be on the corner to your right
(an old firehouse converted to a community center -- 826 Euclid Ave.)

MONDAY EVENING - SEPT. 17TH - 7PM
GIAC (Greater Ithaca Activities Center)
Albany & Court St. Ithaca NY

Saludos! Greetings! Salaam! Shalom!

We invite you to join Tito & Emad on their speaking and film tour: 
"Puerto Rico to Palestine: Uniting Struggles in Defense of the Land". 
Tito & Emad will be touring from August 23rd until Sept. 21st, 2007, 
in Puerto Rico and cities in the US. This event represents an effort 
to strengthen ties between communities that are struggling in defense 
of the land, environmentally, politically, for survival and for the 
sake of justice. We will present some of those parallels and examples 
of inspired resistance that will help cross germinate ideas for 
nonviolent action that can be shared with all struggles. Emad 
Bornat's documentary film from Palestine will be shown, including 
Tito Kayak scaling a tower in Palestine with the Palestinian flag. 
Read below to find out how you can invite the tour or help to 
financially support the tour.

This past April our delegation, from Puerto Rico and Ithaca, NY, Tito 
Kayak, Dara Guadalupe, Ivan Torres, and Mary Anne Grady Flores, 
traveled to Palestine. We attended an international conference on 
Nonviolent Popular Joint Resistance in the West Bank Palestinian 
village of Bil'in, where there is steadfast, creative nonviolent 
resistance against the Separation Fence, confiscation of land and 
Israeli military occupation. In 2005, 60% of Bil'in land was 
expropriated to construct a separation fence and make way for a new 
settlement, an extension of Modi'in Ilite. During the conference, the 
Bil'in Popular Committee invited participants from 22 countries to 
share resistance from different places to strengthen the resistance 
against the construction of the wall and occupation of Palestine. 
Emad Bornat and international journalists documented Tito's dramatic 
climb up the surveillance tower and unfurling of the Palestinian 
flag, and this solidarity action was flashed around the world.

Emad Bornat has documented the 30 months of nonviolent struggle of 
his village to reclaim the stolen land and end the Israeli 
occupation. Emad, a former film journalist for Reuters, has worked 
with many international film makers. His work is featured in the 
film, "Bil'in My Love", winner of the Jerusalem Film Festival, 2006. 
His first film "One Year of Peaceful Resistance", won second prize at 
the 2007 Al-Awda Film Festival in San Diego, California. His second 
film, "Bil'in Against the Wall" has been entered in film festivals in 
US cities for this fall 2007. His films are available to for entry in 
university film festivals. He was arrested and beaten by Israeli 
Defense Forces and imprisoned for rock throwing despite evidence 
showing his innocence.

Both Emad and Tito continue their nonviolent struggles in defense of 
their lands. Every Friday Emad risks his life to film the 
demonstrations resisting the confiscation of the village land. Just 
last week on August 2nd, 2007, he documented 200 settler families 
moving illegally into the incomplete condominium settlement, despite 
a pending Israeli High Court decision determining the legality of the 
settlement. Just this week Tito along with 4 other Puerto Rican 
activists climbed a crane to prevent the illegal construction of 
luxury condos costing $1-2 million per unit, which will prevent 
public access to the public beach in Old San Juan.

-- 
Mary Anne Grady Flores
     514 N. Plain St.
       Ithaca, N.Y. 14850
(607)273-7437 / (607)280-8797 (cell)
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http://www.puertoricotopalestine.org

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