<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><br><h2 class="entry-title"><a class="entry-title-link" target="_blank" href="http://www.bostonsocialism.org/2011/04/wed-413-forum-omar-barghouti-at-harvard.html">Wed, 4/13, Forum, "Omar Barghouti at Harvard: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights"</a></h2><span style="font-size:large">Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions:<br>
The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights</span><br>
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<b>Wednesday, April 13, 2011 - 7:30pm<br>
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Emerson Hall, Room 105<br>
Harvard University <br>
Cambridge, MA 02138</b><br>
(<a target="_blank" href="http://map.harvard.edu/?ctrx=760145&ctry=2961498.5&level=9&layers=Campus%20Base%20and%20Buildings,Map%20Text">See map</a>)<br>
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<div align="justify">International boycott, divestment, and sanctions
(BDS) efforts helped topple South Africa’s brutal apartheid regime. In
this urgent book, Omar Barghouti makes the case for a rights-based BDS
campaign to stop Israel’s rapacious occupation, colonization, and
apartheid against the Palestinian people. This considered, convincing
collection contributes to the growing debate on Israel’s violations of
international law and points the way forward to a united global civil
society movement for freedom, justice, self-determination, and equality
for all.<br>
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OMAR BARGHOUTI is an independent Palestinian commentator and human
rights activist. He is a founding member of the Palestinian Campaign for
the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) and the Palestinian
Civil Society Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign.<br>
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“Omar Barghouti’s lucid and morally compelling book is perfectly timed
to make a major contribution to this urgently needed global campaign for
justice, freedom and peace.”<br>
—Archbishop Desmond Tutu<br>
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“No one has done more to build the intellectual, legal, and moral case
for BDS than Omar Barghouti. The global Palestinian solidarity movement
has been transformed and is on the cusp of major breakthroughs.”<br>
—Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine<br>
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“When powerful governments will not act, ordinary people must take the
lead... Essential reading for all who care about justice and the plight
of an oppressed people.”<br>
—Ken Loach, filmmaker<br>
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Part of a national speaking tour for <i>Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions</i>, organized by Haymarket Books (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.haymarketbooks.org/tour/Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions">see full tour details</a>)</div><br>
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