[act-ma] Fwd: ❄️❄️ CCB Winter Newsletter Dec. 10 @11AM ET: “Israel, Palestine, & The Nakba” with Linda Dittmar

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*12/10 @11AM: **“Israel, Palestine, and The Nakba” *with
*Linda Dittmar 12/10 @2PM: Alfred de Zayas*


*December 10, 2023 at 11am "Israel, Palestine, and The Nakba" with Linda
Dittmar*

The focus of this presentation will be on the Palestinian ethnic cleansing
of 1948, “The Nakba.” It will be from the point of view of one Israeli’s
journey to locate the ruins located within Israel’s 1949 “Green Line”
border that camouflage signs of Palestinian life. Linda’s eyewitness
political coming-of-age account, invites you to reconsider some eight
decades of this history and its implications for the future ahead.

• *Linda Dittmar*’s early years were marked by the turmoil of war and
nation building as Mandatory Palestine became Israel. Born in 1938, she
grew up steeped in Zionism and served in the IDF. During those years she
witnessed the intertwined effects of the Holocaust and the Nakba—the Nakba
suppressed and kept out of view. In the U.S. since 1961, she received her
Ph.D. from Stanford, taught literature and film studies at the UMass
Boston, and lectured in Tel Aviv, India, and elsewhere. Her publications
include *From Hanoi to Hollywood; The Vietnam War in American Film*
and *Multiple
Voices in Feminist Film Criticism*. Her work has been recognized by several
residencies and awards, including two Fulbright awards and the
Massachusetts Cultural Council award.

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“Songwriter’s Exchange” at the Cornelia Street Cafe. He co-founded the
Greenwich Village Folk Festival. In 2018, MacDonald released his 13th solo
recording, “Beginning Again,” on Blue Flute Music. rodmacdonald.com
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speech. Alfred de Zayas is a US and Swiss jurist, who resides in Geneva,
Switzerland. He is a former UN Independent Expert on International Order, a
former Secretary of the UN Human Rights Committee, and the author of a
human rights trilogy published by Clarity Press -- Building a Just World
Order (2021), Countering Mainstream Narratives (2022), and The Human Rights
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*December 17th @11AM ET*
*“A Changing World Economy: G7, BRICS, Capitalism and Socialism”*
*with Richard Wolff*

"We are living through a fast-changing world economy. The dominance of the
US since 1945 is now ending and being replaced by a Chinese-led multi-polar
world. This in turn changes the nature of capitalism and the prospects for
socialism. This talk explores the links among all these developments."

*• Richard Wolff* is a Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the New
School University in New York. He is also a co-founder of
DemocracyatWork.info and its weekly radio and TV show "Economic Update."
See also democracyatwork.info and rdwolff.com.

*Music by Dean Stevens*

*January 7th @11AM ET*
*“El periodismo y la democracia en Guatemala”*
(Journalism and Democracy in Guatemala)
*con Eslly Melgarejo y Diego Silva*

Doing journalism in today’s Guatemala is to speak about the danger that
democracy faces in this Central American country, where justice and state
power has been used illegally, and journalists and justice seekers have
been persecuted, where incumbent power structure is attempting to interfere
with the transition of power by trying to invalidate the results of the
general election.

*• Eslly Melgarejo*, a video journalist since 2007, she works for the
digital outlets Prensa Comunitaria and for the feminist video magazine,
Ruda, where she covers security, justice and politics. She has interviewed
many exiled justice workers. Her specialty is “backpack journalism” which
is a combination of producing, recording, writing editing and anchoring
audiovisual journalism.
*• Diego Silva* is a freelance audiovisual journalist, working with the
digital platform Factor4, producing political and social interviews. He has
been independently documenting the demonstrations in defense of democracy
since 2017. He began his journalism career in 2006 and is the founder of
azacuan.com, a digital cultural magazine.

*January 14th @11AM ET*
*“Freedom for Gaza, Freedom for All:*

*Honoring MLK’s Dream by Saying NO to Militarism” with Khury Petersen-Smith*

*• Khury Petersen-Smith* is a researcher who studies and writes about U.S.
empire, Black liberation,
Palestine, and decolonization. He is a co-founder of Black 4 Palestine. He
coauthored the 2015 "Black Solidarity with Palestine" statement, which was
signed by more than 1,100 black activists, artists, and scholars.
Petersen-Smith has been a leading activist for internationalist solidarity,
economic justice, and racial and gender equality since he was a high school
student. He traveled to Iraq in 2004 on a United for Peace and Justice
delegation where he represented the Campus Anti-War Network.

*Music by The Foundation*

*January 21st @11AM ET*


*“Who are These Russians and Why Do We Hate Them”  with Regis Tremblay*

Why Americans hate Russia and demonize President Putin. What life is really
like in Russia. Why I came to Russia in 2016.

 *• Regis Tremblay * is an American documentary filmmaker living in Yalta,
Crimea of the Russian Federation since March of 2020. Tremblay went to
Russia in 2016 to find out for myself what Russia and Russians were really
like. He returned in 2018 - 2019 to discover and learn more. Since 2021, he
has been the producer of the Media Campaign for *The Friends of
Crimea-Friends of Russia* international association. "My purpose has been
to counter the US narrative about all things Russian and President Putin."

*Music by David Rovics*

*January 28th @11AM ET*
*“Benito Mussolini: The Dictator and*
*Revolutionary Socialist” *
*with Steven Kellerman*

Steven Kellerman will examine the life and significance of Mussolini as a
revolutionary socialist, as dictator of Italy from 1923 until 1945, and as
the founder of fascism. Kellerman will assess the meaning of fascism, how
Mussolini was perceived in his lifetime, and the circumstances of his fall.

*• Steve Kellerman* is a long-time member of Community Church of Boston, a
retired machinist, who was for many years a member of the Industrial
Workers of the World (IWW); a founding member of the Boston Labor
Solidarity Committee; and a student of history and social movements. He has
spoken at Community Church on a number of subjects, most recently on the
life and work of Eugene V. Debs.

*Music by Kingsley Chen*

*February 4th @11AM ET*
*“Keeping Hope Alive:*
*MECI’s Story in Palestine”*
*with Molly Ames*

For more than 15 years, the Middle East Children’s Institute (MECI) has
provided comprehensive humanitarian support to children and women in two
rural West Bank communities, Beit Rima and Deir Ghassaneh. On February 4th
at the Community Church in Boston, MECI team member Mollie Ames will
describe the NGO’s evolution since launching in 2007 through its response
to the challenges of the current devastation in Palestine. Everyday, and in
the face of such immense tragedy, MECI’s unique grassroots model centers
education and the development of human potential as cornerstones of
fostering peace.

*• Mollie Ames* is a recent graduate of Harvard College, where she studied
Arabic and the history and literature of the Middle East. With a background
in education and mental health reporting, she now works for the
communications team at the Middle East Children's Institute (MECI), an
international humanitarian NGO based in the rural West Bank.

*Music by Max Ridley and Nat Mugavero*

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