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<DIV class=MsoNormal><SPAN>Dear Friends,<BR><BR></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal>On Tuesday May 22nd at 7pm at 44 Danforth St (Spontaneous
Celebrations right near the Stony Brook T Stop) in Jamaica Plain, the Jamaica
Plain Residents for Human Rights (JPRHR) will be having a talk and video
presentation by <BR><BR></DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal>Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh <BR><BR>on The Right of Return of
Palestinian Refugees.<BR><BR>The event is organized by Jamaica Plain Residents
for Human Rights (contact P.O. Box 302055, JP MA 02130 or
jphumanrights@yahoo.com for more info).</DIV><BR>At our last SDP meeting we
voted to support this event. It is a local effort to organize with
politics that seem similar to our own politics of opposing Israel's ethic
cleansing program, and supporting the right of return of Palestinian
refugees. In fact, one JP member of SDP is involved with this effort....
so maybe we helped encourage this new effort !<BR><BR>Mazin has given two
presentations in Somerville and always has new information about Palestine and
is able to coherently connect this to the history of ethnic cleansing.<BR><BR>He
is also part of the Wheels for Justice Network of people doing local grassroots
organizing around the U.S. which SDP is also a part of.<BR><BR>Hope you can make
it and support this new JP grouping. (more info about Mazin below)<BR>Ron
Francis 617 230-2835<BR>
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<DIV class=MsoNormal>Mazin Qumsiyeh is Palestinian American and former Professor
of Genetics at Yale University School of Medicine. He is author of the widely
acclaimed book Sharing the <?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = ST1
/><ST1:PLACE><ST1:PLACETYPE>Land</ST1:PLACETYPE> of
<ST1:PLACENAME>Canaan</ST1:PLACENAME></ST1:PLACE>: Human Rights and the
Israeli-Palestinian Struggle. Dr. Qumsiyeh is a cofounder of Al-Awda, the
Palestine Right to Return Coalition, AcademicsForJustice.org and
BoycottIsraelGoods.org campaigns. He won the Jallow activism award from the Arab
American Anti-Discrimination Committee in 1998.<BR><BR><?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX =
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<DIV class=MsoNormal><SPAN></SPAN>Dr. Qumsiyeh’s specialty is media activism. He
published over 120 letters to the editor and 50 op-ed pieces and interviewed in
TV and radio extensively.</DIV>
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<DIV class=MsoNormal>Mazin writes:</DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal> For my family's story and my encounters <BR>along the
way, please see The Cucumbur and the Cactus: A Palestinian <BR>Christian Story
published in Northeast Magazine 2002, posted at <BR><A
href="http://www.qumsiyeh.org/thecucumberandthecactus/"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"
size=3>http://www.qumsiyeh.org/thecucumberandthecactus/</FONT></A><BR></DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal>You can visit his website for more info:
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A href="mailto:qumsiyeh@org">qumsiyeh@org</A> for
a biography, <A
href="http://qumsiyeh.org/aboutqumsiyeh/">http://qumsiyeh.org/aboutqumsiyeh/</A></FONT></DIV></DIV></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>