[act-ma] FREE PALESTINE!! Come to the Boston strategy conference!!

[Keith Rosenthal]

FORWARD WIDELY!!
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BOSTON PALESTINE SOLIDARITY STRATEGY CONFERENCE
Saturday, April 25, UMass Boston
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We organized and marched against Israel's barbaric war on Gaza.  Now's the time to come together and develop strategies to build a sustained movement for solidarity with Palestine in New England.
This is a conference for community and student Palestine solidarity activists--experienced and new--to talk about action for solidarity with Palestine.
 
FEATURING:
Jess Chilton McConnell - Leading organizer of student occupation at Edinburgh University in Scotland as part of the recent Palestine solidarity movement of over two dozen student occupations in the United Kingdom
 
Joel Kovel - Jewish professor and activist facing termination from Bard College for anti-Zionist views.  Author of Overcoming Zionism

Assaf Kfoury - economist, Boston University professor, writer and activist regarding US and Israeli oppression in the Middle East.  Leader of the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
 
Elaine Hagopian - professor emeritus, Simmons College, writer and activist for justice in the Middle East.  Editor of Civil Rights in Peril: The Targeting of Arabs and Muslims
 
Layla Cable - Palestinian writer, activist and teacher.  Layla is a founder and leader of the Somerville Divestment Project
 
Ron Francis - Veteran of the anti-South African apartheid movement and founder of the Somerville Divestment Project
 
Omar Baddar - Palestinian activist and speaker against Israeli apartheid
 
Sarah Roche-Mahd - activist in CodePink: Women for Peace, recent participant in CodePink's peace delegation to Gaza
 
and more!
 
For more information, check out www.bostonfreepalestine.org or email palestineapril25 at gmail.com





      
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