<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">FORWARD WIDELY!!<br>******************************<div>**************************************************************<br><font size="6"><font color="#ff0000">BOSTON</font> PALESTINE <font color="#33cc00">SOLIDARITY</font> STRATEGY CONFERENCE</font><br>
<font size="6">Saturday, April 25, UMass Boston<br><font color="#ff0000">*********</font>***********<font color="#33cc00">**********</font></font><br>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.<br>
This is a conference for community and student Palestine solidarity activists--experienced and new--to talk about <b>action</b> for solidarity with Palestine.<br><br></div><b>WORKSHOPS INCLUDE: </b><br>Introduction to Zionism ~ Campus action for divestment from Israel ~ How to start a new group ~ Why does the US support Israel? ~ History of Palestinian resistance ~ Building a community movement for Palestine and more!<div>
<br><br><b>FEATURING:<br><br></b><div><b>Jess Chilton McConnell </b>- 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<br>
<br><b>Joel Kovel </b>- Jewish professor and activist facing termination from Bard College for anti-Zionist views. Author of Overcoming Zionism</div></div><div><div><br><b>Assaf Kfoury </b>- 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<br>
<br></div><b>E</b><b>laine Hagopian </b>- professor emerita at Simmons College, writer and activist for justice in the Middle East. Editor of Civil Rights in Peril: The Targeting of Arabs and Muslims<div><br></div><div>
<span style="font-weight: bold; ">Chuck Turner</span> - Boston District 7 City Councilor, civil and human rights activist <br> <br><b>Layla Cable</b> - Palestinian writer, activist and teacher. Layla is a founder and leader of the Somerville Divestment Project<br>
<br><b>Ron Francis </b>- Veteran of the anti-South African apartheid movement and founder of the Somerville Divestment Project<br> <br></div><b>Omar Baddar</b> - Palestinian scholar, activist and managing director of the Palestine Cultural Center for Peace<br>
</div><div><b>Sarah Roche-Mahdi,</b> PhD. - activist in CodePink: Women for Peace, recent participant in CodePink's peace delegation to Gaza</div> <br><b>Darryl Li </b>- scholar on Palestine, contributor to Middle East Report and other publications<br>
<br>...and more!<br> <br>For more information, check out <a href="http://www.bostonfreepalestine.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176); ">www.bostonfreepalestine.org</a> or email <a href="mailto:palestineapril25@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176); ">palestineapril25@gmail.com</a></span><br>