<div><font size="4"><u><b style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Iyad Burnat Speaking Tour in Boston on Non-Violent, Popular Resistance in Palestine</b></u></font></div><div><font size="4"><u><b style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br>
</b></u></font></div><div><b><u>Dates:</u></b></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font><b>Sunday,November 11</b> <b style="color:rgb(255,0,0)">Boston Anarchist Bookfair</b><font color="#ff0000">: </font><i>@2:45 -4:15 Simmons College, 300 The Fenway (website: <a href="http://www.bostonanarchistbookfair.org">http://www.bostonanarchistbookfair.org</a> and fb: </i></font><i><a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/376177205794290/?fref=ts">http://www.facebook.com/events/376177205794290/?fref=ts</a>)</i></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b>Sumday November:11</b><font color="#ff0000"> <b>First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church,</b> </font><i>@6:30pm 75 Great Rd, Bedford MA</i></span></div>
<div><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16px"><b>Monday, November 12</b> <font color="#ff0000"> </font><b style="color:rgb(255,0,0)">Harvard University </b></span><i><span style="font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16px">Emerson rm 305 @ 7pm (RSVP on facebook </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/166687383471192/?fref=ts">http://www.facebook.com/events/166687383471192/?fref=ts</a> )</i></font></div>
<div><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16px"><b>Tuesday, November 13</b>: <b style="color:rgb(255,0,0)">Boston University</b></span><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0);font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16px"> </span><i><span style="font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16px">College of Arts and Sciences Building rm 211 @ 7pm (RSVP on facebook </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/287242038042947/?fref=ts">http://www.facebook.com/events/287242038042947/?fref=ts</a>)</i></font></div>
<div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font><b>Wednesday, November 14</b></font><font><font color="#ff0000">: </font><b><font color="#ff0000">Brandeis University </font><i>Tba</i></b></font></span></div><div>
<br></div><div>(to co-sponsor an event, please respond to Ian at <a href="mailto:Ichinich@gmail.com">Ichinich@gmail.com</a>)</div><div><br></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-align:center">
<b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(0,153,0)">Iyad Burnat is head of the Bil’in Popular Committee and a leader in the West Bank village’s non-violent popular resistance movement. Since 2005 citizens of Bil’in have held weekly demonstrations against the building of the Israeli separation wall through the community’s agricultural lands, and the steady encroachment of illegal settlements. </span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(0,153,0)">The demonstrators are joined by Israeli and international peace activists, and have maintained a commitment to non-violent methods of resistance in spite of armed, military opposition by the IDF which has resulted in many injuries and some deaths.</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(0,153,0)">During his 2012-2013 American tour, Iyad will tell the stories of Bil’in and life in the occupied West Bank, and talk about strategies for non-violent popular resistance with a goal of peace and prosperity for all people.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-align:center"><a href="http://www.bilin-village.org/english/">http://www.bilin-village.org/english/</a></p>