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Virtual Delegations to Om Sleiman Farm: Eyewitness Palestine
2021-07-10 09:00 - 10:30, 2021-07-14 09:00 - 10:30, 2021-07-18 11:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Eyewiness Palestine, PO Box 73798, Washington, DC, 20056-3798, United States
Join us for a virtual tour of Om Sleiman Farm, where farming is a powerful form of resistance! As Yara states in a Vice article (2018), “we’re so dependent on the occupier—for the electricity, water, housing, food, movement, with the air almost. If we as Palestinians cannot produce our own food, build our own shelter, have our own energy—how can we get rid of this occupation?”
Your Guide, Yara!
Yara Dowani, from Jerusalem, is the co-founder and a farmer at Om Sleiman Farm-Bi’lin. Her journey started after joining a permaculture course in Palestine for two weeks. Afterwards, she took a trip to Spain for a year to volunteer and learn from different farms and projects and then came back to Palestine to join a research group to study wild perennial plants. In 2018, Yara became part of the Om Sleiman team and has been a part of it ever since. She is now on a journey to learn new topics, such as natural building and syntropic farming, to be able to implement new innovative projects at the farm.
(All tour times are listed in Eastern Time – USA)

REGISTER

Tuesday July 6 2:00pm – 3:3opm ET
Saturday, July 10, 12pm – 1:30pm ET
Wednesday, July 14, 12pm -1:30pm ET
Sunday, July 18, 2pm – 3:30pm ET

November Delegation to Palestine: Land & the Environment - Deadline to Apply
2021-08-01
Help Eyewitness Palestine respond to this request and join us in Palestine in November 2021! In order to move forward, we need to receive as many applications as possible by August 1st. Apply today!

Hear from Palestinian farmers and learn of the importance of agriculture to the economy, culture, and as a form of self-determination. Learn about threats to the environment, Israeli exploitation of natural resources, and the struggle of Palestinian communities to maintain access to land, their homes, water and other resources, all in the face of forced expulsion.
We will visit Om Sleiman Farm, Silwan, Sheikh Jarrah, and many other areas of Palestine. This delegation is also your opportunity to visit Palestine during the olive harvest season.

Please Apply by August 1st! We will reassess interest and viability to travel under Israeli regulation at this time. Without enough applicants, we cannot proceed!

Let’s show our partners in Palestine that we are willing to show up for them!
About the Delegation
This delegation is your opportunity to visit Palestine during the olive harvest season — a culturally rich and important time for collective resistance.
Hear from Palestinian farmers and learn of the importance of agriculture to the economy, culture, and as a form of self-determination. Learn about threats to the environment, Israeli exploitation of natural resources, and the struggle of Palestinian communities to maintain access to land, their homes, water and other resources, all in the face of forced expulsion.
As with all Eyewitness Palestine delegations, you will also meet additional Palestinian organizers and Israelis working in solidarity for peace with justice. The delegation will also visit many important historical sites.
Delegation Ground Costs: $3,000.00 – Scholarships Available (does not include international airfare)

Examining Health Care Under Occupation in Israel/Palestine: Ethical & Medical Realities
2021-08-01 16:00 - 17:00

Landback U: Palestine and Indigenous solidarity
2021-08-14 13:00 - 14:30
Join us to ground yourself in Palestinian history and resistance through stories and first hand accounts. Led by our own Sandra Tamari and Lenna Zahran Nasr of the Palestinian Youth Movement.
The Right of Return and the Right to Remain, that’s our demand and that’s what we’ll be discussing Saturday, August 14th for LANDBACK U’s session on Palestine & indigenous solidarity. LANDBACK U is a free, comprehensive, online learning platform to engage in political education and discussions on topics critical to the Indigenous movement to reclaim land and relationship to land.
We are grateful to our relatives at NDN Collective for hosting this session and for their unwavering solidarity.

From Bethlehem to Gaza: Palestinian Culinary Resilience & Liberation!
2021-08-16 15:00 - 17:00
Join Middle East Children’s Alliance & Just World Educational virtually for a summer meal prepared by Vivien Sansour and Laila El-Haddad, together in Laila’s garden. In this exclusive seasonal cooking demonstration, they will discuss resilience against both the physical and culinary partitions of the occupation – as well as its attempts to destroy diversity of food. In this moment of new imagining for Palestine, how can we create a plate that threads us together?
Sign up for this special webinar by making a donation below! Suggested donation of $10 per person.
Your tax-deductible gift will support MECA’s programs in Gaza.

BuildPalestine Online Summit
2021-10-01 - 2021-10-02
Date: October 1st &2nd
Location: Online
Cost: $30 donation requested – register now!

“Palestine is full of challenges, which means it is also full of opportunities. Let’s harness our collective power to build a better future for Palestine.”
– Lama Amr, Executive Director, BuildPalestine

Join us in the biggest gathering of the global Palestinian community to harness our collective power and build the future of Palestine together.
This year has been marked by a renewed sense of unity as Palestinians everywhere have risen up, with younger generations bringing new energy and creativity to this intergenerational struggle. In the face of a global pandemic, a failed political system, and the ongoing Occupation, our people continue to be resilient and find ways to make an impact.

Participants will join 60 speakers and panelists, in more than 20 virtual panels and workshops, with the goal of harnessing our collective power and momentum to take concrete steps towards social and political change that can ultimately fulfill our rights to freedom, justice, and equality. How can Palestinians in the Diaspora and allies support local changemakers at this critical time?

Join the 2021 BuildPalestine Summit, and register now!

The People's Inquiry on Gaza
2021-10-07 09:00 - 12:00
Join us for the kick-off of Gaza is Palestine with a virtual People’s Inquiry on Israel’s May Assault and ongoing blockade of Gaza Thursday, October 7 at 12 noon ET. Our guests include Mohammed El-Kurd, Malak Mattar, Rep. Rashida Tlaib and many others. Reserve your spot today.

Solidarity Town Hall: Imagining Decolonized Futures
2021-10-14 15:00 - 16:30
Online Livestream
FREE with RSVP
Join us for our annual Solidarity Town Hall program, an anchor discussion as part of AANM’s theme for Fall 2021 – Spring 2022: Istiqbal al Mustaqbal (Welcoming the Future). This year, the Town Hall is themed Imagining Decolonized Futures, highlighting futurist and sci-fi narratives as we imagine a world without colonial concepts. The Town Hall will feature keynote speaker: Anishinaabe academic and author Grace Dillon; and panelists: multidisciplinary Afrofuturist artist Bryce Detroit, Canadian and Anishinaabe filmmaker Lisa Jackson, and British Palestinian fiction writer Selma Dabbagh; with moderator Hina Baloch, leader of the Research & Analytics team at GM. This is a virtual event taking place via Zoom.

Smithsonian National Youth Summit: Gender Equity Through the Arab American Perspective
2021-10-28 06:30 - 08:30
Virtual event
FREE with RSVP
In partnership with the Smithsonian Institute, AANM is pleased to be a host of the National Youth Summit. The National Youth Summit hosts conversations about important events in America’s past that have relevance to the nation’s present and future. This year’s theme focuses on gender equity.
High school classrooms and students are invited to join us for an interactive conversation on what gender equity looks like through Arab American eyes. We aim to discuss the history of gender equity in the Arab world and among the Arab American community, the intersectionality of class, religion and generations play, and what the future of gender equity looks like.
Classrooms are welcome to join for a piece of program or stay until the end!
For questions, e-mail Dave Serio at dserio “at” accesscommunity.org

We Will Remain: Street Art as Resistance from San Francisco to Palestine
2021-10-29 11:00 - 12:30
Oftentimes, we see Palestinian resistance through protests, advocacy campaigns, and speeches.
But there is such a long and rich history of Palestinian resistance – and joy – through art – stitched flags on a thobe when Israel banned the Palestinian flag from flying during the Second Intifada, to songs, to vast murals on the apartheid wall.
From San Francisco to Palestine, artists are using public spaces to showcase their powerful artwork and messages of resistance. Learn from Palestinian artists about their work, challenges they face in creating these public art pieces, and why they choose this powerful form of expression.

Unlearn to Relearn: Shifting Attitudes for Arabs with Disabilities
2021-11-16 10:00 - 11:00
Nadwa (Public Conversation)
November 16, 2021

Virtual via Zoom

Disability? Disabled? Special Needs? What language and framework do/should we use in the Arab Community? Join us for a discussion on disability in the Arab/American community!
Historically and traditionally, people with disabilities across the globe have been systematically excluded and marginalized from all aspects of society. Although perspectives and attitudes about disability have changed in recent decades, people with disabilities of color continue to face systemic and cultural barriers that deprive this community of accessing quality education and resources that will enable them to become valued members of society. In particular, people with disabilities among Arab communities, by large, continue to face persistent and blatant oppression and barriers from living quality and humane lives. This webinar is the first of its kind. We will explicitly address long-term disability issues that have impacted Arab communities in the United States and the Middle East. The webinar aims to ignite new ways of thinking about disability and how all of us—both disabled and non-disabled alike—can begin to create a better society that promotes the basic principles of independence, respect and dignity for Arabs with physical, intellectual, and mental health disabilities.
Facilitators:

Adnan Alaboudi, International Disability Self Advocate, Jordan
Marina Salman, Access Living Chicago
Randa Abdelrahim, PhD Candidate Disability Studies, UIC

Real-time live captioning will be provided. For questions, additional information, and/or accessibility contact us at arabamcc@uic.edu
Event is co-organized by the Arab American Cultural Center and the Disability Cultural Center
Speaker bios:
Adnan Alaboudi is a person with disabilities (dual bottom amputation above and under the knee). Adnan is the Executive Director of the Landmines Survivors Network from 1999-2008 and a member of the Committee for Drafting of the International Convention on Human Rights with Disability in the United Nations. He is an activist and coach in the field of persons with disabilities and a professional sport in power games, table tennis, swimming and water skiing, and participating in global, Olympic, and Arab sports. Adnan is the coordinator of awareness and promotion programs in the Supreme Council for People with Disabilities in Jordan 2009 – 2017.
Marina Salman serves as the SOAR case manager for the Colbert Transition Program at Access Living Chicago where she helps individuals living in long-term care facilities reintegrate back into their communities after their recovery. She is also involved in numerous advocacy efforts that focus on the intersectionality of race and disability, which includes healthcare and criminal justice reform. Marina completed her Master’s in Counseling Psychology with a focus in Sport and Health Psychology from Adler University in Chicago. She is an Arab American woman with multiple disabilities who looks to empower Arabs with disabilities to live meaningful lives through the power of education and experience.
Randa Abdelrahim is a visiting research specialist at the department of disability and human development, University of Illinois Chicago and a PhD candidate of disability studies. As an Arab American immigrant, Randa is interested in examining contextual factors of disability across immigrants and minority groups. Her research focuses on how multiple personal and social factors such as gender, culture, race, and income contribute to disparities in accessing health care and disability services for people with disabilities and their caregivers. Her advocacy work includes supporting people with disabilities with a focus on those who identify as Arab. She is currently a member of the Disability and Immigration Taskforce of Illinois.

Virtual Delegations About Palestinian Political Prisoners w/ Eye Witness Palestine
2021-12-01
Join us for a virtual tour with Addameer (Arabic for conscience) Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, a Palestinian non-governmental, civil institution. Addameer works to support Palestinian political prisoners held in Israeli and Palestinian prisons and this tour will focus on the prison system Palestinians are subjected to and hearing directly from former political prisoners about their experiences.
(All tour times are listed in Eastern Time – USA)

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Palestinians Fight For Their Village: Virtual Brunch in Solidarity with Silwa
2021-12-05 10:00 - 12:00
DECEMBER 5, 2021 – DECEMBER 5, 2021
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Last summer, Palestinians and pro-Palestinian activists worldwide rose up to defend Silwan and other villages in East Jerusalem from Israeli bulldozers. Silwan is out of the headlines, but the battle rages on! Silwan is an example of creative resistance to Israeli efforts to destroy all Palestinian presence in the villages…

Human Rights in Palestine: An ongoing struggle for peace with justice
2021-12-08 06:00 - 09:00
We are working with the Rotary Peace Fellows Alumni to co-sponsor an important interactive webinar on the ongoing struggle for peace with justice in Palestine. We invite you to join us on Wednesday, December 8. You can register HERE!

As part of International Human Rights week, the Rotary Peace Fellows Alumni Asian group presents this insightful panel raising the voices and personal experience of Rotarians and Rotary Peace Fellows working for an end to occupation and peace with justice in Palestine/Israel, Wednesday, December 8 at 9:00 am EST, 4:00 pm CEST and MENA, 9:00 pm/21:00 Thailand time.
This interactive webinar will focus on a broad range of peace building and organizing for change including environmental justice in Western Asia as a key to peace and sustainability; importance of diversity and inclusion of Palestinian voices in media and technology for advocacy and change; peace building and nonviolent action initiatives involving Palestinian women, youth and refugee camp residents; and anti-militarism and nonviolent resistance to Israeli occupation and Palestinian oppression involving Israeli Jewish activists.
This will be a 90-minute program with time for comments and questions from participants and an announcement of the launch of a new independent Rotary Peace Fellow Alumni human rights action group and a statement of support for Palestinian human rights for the Rotary community to support and sign onto.
Moderator and Panelists:

Katherine Hughes-Fraitekh is a specialist in the Middle East in Palestine/Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Gulf States and Yemen. With more than 30 years’ experience in over 70 countries world-wide, Katherine is an expert for peacebuilding, confict transformation, human rights, and nonviolent action and organizing. She has held leadership positions in many human rights and peace and justice organizations including Peace Brigades International-USA, International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, and Solidarity 2020 and Beyond. She is also a board member of DAY-Africa, Kenya, and a Rotary Peace Fellow from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand.

Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh is founder and volunteer director of the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability (PIBS) at Bethlehem University. A 2020 laureate of the Paul K. Feyerabend Foundation award (which acknowledges and encourages remarkable accomplishments that represent a true source of inspiration), and the 2019 recipient of the Takreem award that honors Arab leading accomplishments (for environmental work). He has published numerous scientific papers, book chapters, and several books on topics ranging from cultural heritage to human rights to biodi- versity conservation to cancer. He serves on the board of a number of Palestinian youth and service organizations and oversees many projects related to sustainability of human and natural communi- ties. Qumsiyeh is a member of the Rotary Club of Bethlehem Palestine and the Organizing Committee of Solidarity 2020 and Beyond.
Reem Ghunaim, is a global citizen originally from Tulkarm, Palestine. She is a sought-after public speaker and consultant and is a Positive Peace Activator and a Global Peace Index Ambassador for the Institute for Economics and Peace. Reem started in Rotary as a Rotaractor in Ramallah, Palestine and later earned her master’s degree in City and Regional Planning and a certificate in International Peace and Confict Resolution through a Rotary Peace Fellowship at Duke-UNC Rotary Peace Center. As the immediate past Executive Director for the Rotary Action Group for Peace based in Portland, Oregon, Reem is the recipient of the 2021 Global Peace and Humanitarian Award that recognizes her transformative work and leadership. Reem is a Rotary Peace fellow from University of North Carolina and is currently leading her own company at the Founder Institute.
Suheir Freitekh is originally from Nablus and currently based in Ramallah, Palestine. She is strongly committed to peace and development exemplifed by her ongoing commitment to research and study in the eld as well as her work on peace initiatives and projects with INGOs (International Crisis Group and others) and with Palestinian NGO’s and government entities. Suheir earned a MA in Peace and Confict Resolution from a European University and is completing her second master’s degree in development and nonviolent organizing and action at the University of Haifa. She is currently a Rotary Peace Fellow at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, working on her social change initiative to empower women in Palestine through nontraditional careers and economic security.
Sahar Vardi is an Israeli anti-militarist and human rights activist from Jerusalem. Sahar led the Israel program for the American Friends Service Committee for ten years, where she founded the Database of Israeli military and Security Export (https://dimse.info/). Prior to this, Sahar worked with the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, ICAHD, founded by Jeff Halper and New Profle. Sahar was involved in a protective presence/accompaniment program in the South Hebron Hills in the West Bank and is involved in grassroots anti-occupation activism in Jerusalem and throughout the Palestinian West Bank. She is a Rotary Peace Fellow at the University of Bradford in the UK.

You can register HERE!

Restoring our Environment: The struggle to heal a land degraded by occupation and colonization with Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh, live from Palestine.
2022-01-29 10:00 - 14:00
Location: Online
Cost: Free! Sign up now
In this webinar, Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh will describe the catastrophic environmental impact of Israeli settler colonialism on the land of Palestine. He will also share how Palestinian civil society organizations are working to research, educate about and conserve Palestine’s natural world, culture and heritage in the face of the Israeli state’s human rights and environmental abuses. The talk will be followed by a Q&A.
This webinar will be held online, over Zoom. Register for the webinar here: bit.ly/DrMazin.
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/634736881307457

Innocent Until Proven Muslim: A Conversation with Author Maha Hilal (virtual)
2022-03-17 14:00 - 16:00
The Race and US Empire Working Group, the Arab American Cultural Center, and College of Education
invite you to a conversation with Maha Hilal, scholar, organizer, and author of Innocent Until Proven Muslim: Islamophobia, the War on Terror, and the Muslim Experience Since 9/11 (Broadleaf Book 2022)
Discussants:
Celine Qussiny is a Palestinian, Muslim community organizer with the Palestinian Youth
Movement, based out of Southern California.
Maryam Kashani is an Assistant Professor in Gender and Women’s Studies & Asian American
Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and author of the forthcoming book, Medina by the Bay (under contract with Duke University Press).
Zoom link: https://uic.zoom.us/j/86436477109?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 864 3647 7109
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Tribute to Gus Newport: Former Mayor of Berkeley, racial justice champion, former MECA Board Chair
2022-03-28 18:00 - 20:00
TRIBUTE TO GUS NEWPORT
Former Mayor of Berkeley, racial justice champion, former MECA Board Chair –
–Including MC and Special Guest: DANNY GLOVER–
Monday, MARCH 28 — In-Person & Virtual — 6pm PT / 9pm ET
Buy TICKETS! $25-100 sliding scale for in-person and virtual tickets!
or
Join the HOST COMMITTEE!
Facebook event – please RSVP & share!
Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse, 2020 Addison Street, Berkeley CA
5pm PT: hors d’oeuvres
6-8pm PT/ 9-11pm ET:
PROGRAM: Danny Glover, Angela Davis, Bernie Sanders, Holly Near & Natalia Zukerman, Palestinian Ensemble ASWAT, Barbara Lubin, Zeiad Abbas Shamrouch — and Gus Newport!
Proceeds benefit MECA’s programs for Palestinian children and refugees.

Palestine and the African American Struggle
2022-05-13 17:30 - 21:30 | Kane Hall – University of Washington, 4069 Spokane Ln 98105, Seattle, WA, 98105, United States
Hosted by the Middle Eastern Student Commission and the Black Student Commission on May 13th, 2022 from 5:30-9:30 PM in Kane 130.
We will be hosting a talk and panel with three influential speakers, two of which are the groundbreaking activists Linda Sarsour and Zellie Imani!

Linda Sarsour is an inspiring Palestinian Muslim American who strives for direct action and power building in communities of color. As the co-founder of multiple social justice platforms and a national chair of the Woemn’s March on Washington, Sarsour fights for intersectional racial justice while proudly honoring her ethnic and cultural heritage.

Zellie Imani is a community leader advocating for social change and political reform. As the leader of Black Lives Matter-Patterson, Zellie believes that through education, community building and direct action, together, residents can create the communities they want and deserve to live in.
Join us for a night of inspiring conversation, delicious food, cultural vendors, and dabke!

This event is open to the public.
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Nakba Rally In Seattle: Save the Date
2022-05-15 13:00 - 14:00
Save the Date for the Nakba
May 15 in Seattle at 1pm

Rage & Refuge: SCOTUS, Bodily Autonomy, and the War on Terror
2022-07-28 17:00 - 19:00
Join us for a conversation hosted by Vigilant Love, and jointed by
HEART, Palestinian Youth Movement, and For the Binat

Thursday, July 28, 2022
5 pm PDT // 8 pm EDT
Register at: bit.ly/RageRefuge
Have you felt alone in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision to overturn Roe and Casey and uphold Mississippi’s 15 week ban on abortion? Are you holding anxiety about the possible ripple effects for your people in your community’s bodily autonomy?
Vigilant Love is hosting a virtual, multi-layered event to share political analysis examining the relationships between the SCOTUS leaks, Zionism, the War on Terror, and gendered Islamophobia.

“Rage & Refuge: SCOTUS, Bodily Autonomy, and the War on Terror” hopes to be an intentional space for grieving and processing, and to build with values-aligned community members. We hope to see you on Thursday, July 28th from 5-6:30pm PT!
Our partners for this event are HEART (@hearttogrow), Palestinian Youth Movement (@palestinianyouthmovement), Palestinian Feminist Collective (@palestinianfeministcollective), and For the Binat (@forthebinat).
This is a free event, but we encourage donations for anyone that is able!
Register at bit.ly/RageRefuge or visit the link in our bio.

Gaza: Beautiful Resistance - Virtual Delegation to Palestine
2022-08-28 10:00 - 11:30, 2022-08-30 09:00 - 10:30, 2022-09-02 09:00 - 10:30
Gaza is often portrayed as a place of desperation and violence, due to decades of occupation, siege and ongoing brutal assaults. What is far less often portrayed is Gaza as a place of life, laughter, joy, and creativity. On this Virtual Delegation of the Gaza Strip, we will introduce you to beautiful resistance in the Gaza Strip. Through music, art, dancing and more, Palestinians in Gaza resist the dehumanization inherent in colonization.
Join us to meet Palestinians in Gaza who insist on expressing their full humanity and on waging life!
This Virtual Delegation is co-sponsored by Donkeysaddle Projects and Just Vision.
Tour Date Options:
August 28: 1:00-2:30pm ET
August 30: 12:00-1:30pm ET
September 2: 12:00-1:30pm ET
(All tour times are listed in Eastern Time – USA)

REGISTER TODAY!

BuildPalestine Summit 2022
2022-10-07 - 2022-10-08 | Virtual
Our partners at BuildPalestine are planning their third annual summit under the theme of “Designing for Unity”. You are invited to join an exciting 2-day virtual gathering of the global Palestinian community to design the future of Palestine.
What does it mean to be Palestinian today? Furthermore, in the midst of struggle, how do we not lose sight of the society that we aspire to build? How do we ensure that unity is a reflection of the rich diversity that is the Palestinian experience? Can we actively ‘design for unity’ in a way that crosses geographic, economic, and political divides within Palestine and beyond?
Join 65+ speakers in discussion panels, workshops, and special talks with influential speakers, and get to know Palestine’s most dynamic social entrepreneurs to inspire you to make a change.

Super UW: Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
2022-11-29 09:00 - 14:00 | UW – HUB, 4001 E Stevens Way NE, Seattle, WA, 98195, United States
Join SUPER-UW on Tuesday, November 29th for an exhibit on the state-backed repression of Palestine activists! This Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, SUPER UW will be in the HUB first floor study area from 9am until 2pm learning about the repression of Palestine activism and Palestinian activists, celebrating Palestinian resistance, and making it clear that we will continue to stand against Zionism and for a free and unified Palestine. Stay tuned for a statement from SUPER about the ADL terror-tagging us earlier this fall.Wear a keffiyeh and show up, or take a photo of you in your keffiyeh and tag us in it @super_uw! If you don’t have one, order an authentic Palestinian keffiyeh from Hirbawi, made in al-Khalil, Palestine!

Streaming: There is Field + panel discussion
2023-01-22 12:00 - 14:00 | Virtual
Amnesty International Puget Sound AIPS and Local Group AI-270 will be presentingThere Is A Field this Sunday, January 22, 2023 from 6-8pm PT. The film will be followed by a panel discussion moderated by Nada Elia, with Alicia Koustoulieris, Jesse Hagopian, and Jen Marlowe.
About the film:
In October 2000, a police officer shot and killed unarmed 17-year old Asel Asleh. His story is tragically familiar for Americans, but Asel was not killed in Ferguson, New York City, Atlanta, or Minneapolis. Asel was a Palestinian teenager who was murdered by Israeli police as he participated in a demonstration, calling for an end to the Israeli occupation and settler-colonization.
There Is A Field begins as a play about Asel’s life and his death, told from the perspective of his older sister, Nardin. Through Nardin’s struggle to cope with the murder of her brother, the play offers a uniquely personal lens for learning about intersecting systems of oppression, the root causes of state-sanctioned violence and structural racism. Learn more about the film.
About The Panelists:

Nada Elia PhD, (moderator) is a diaspora Palestinian scholar and activist who teaches in the American Cultural Studies program at Western Washington University WWU, and is the author of Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine.
Alicia Koutsoulieris, Amnesty International, USA country specialist for the Israel Occupied Territories – Palestinian Authority – IOPT-PA.
Jesse Hagopian is an educator, author, and part of the 2011 African Heritage Eyewitness Palestine delegation. Jesse’s African ancestors survived the middle passage and enslavement on plantations in Mississippi and Louisiana.
Jen Marlowe is the founder of Donkeysaddle Projects and director and producer of the documentary film There Is A Field.

The free event will take place on Sunday at 3pm ET/6pm PT. Follow this link to register.

Amnesty International Puget Sound AIPS and Local Group AI-270 will be presentingThere Is A Field this Sunday, January 22, 2023 from 6-8pm PT. The film will be followed by a panel discussion moderated by Nada Elia, with Alicia Koustoulieris, Jesse Hagopian, and Jen Marlowe.

Continuous Trauma and Social Devastation: Gaza and Washington leaders in discussion on social trauma and healing
2023-01-26 19:00 - 21:00 | St Marks Cathedral, 1245 Tenth Avenue East, Seattle, WA, 98102-4398, United States
The Gaza Strip’s visiting lead psychiatrist updates us in person on current conditions there with local leaders and audience questions and reflections on “glocal”social divisions building best ways forward together.

Trauma & Hope Tour “Continuous Trauma and Social Devastation – or Caring for ALL?"
2023-01-26 19:00 - 21:00 | St Marks Cathedral, 1245 Tenth Avenue East, Seattle, WA, 98102-4398, United States
FREE

The Rachel Corrie Foundation is honored to be one of multiple co-sponsors of this Seattle event featuring Dr. Yassar Abu-Jamei, who has led the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme – a leading Palestinian non-governmental organization providing mental health services to the Gaza Strip – for fifteen difficult years. During this time, those in Gaza have suffered daily from an international blockade, and continuing military threats and raids by the Israeli army.

The event, organized by the Massachusetts-based Gaza Mental Health Foundation, will also feature the following local leaders speaking about social and racial disparity globally and in Washington State:

Imraan Siddiqi, Executive Director, Council of American-Islamic Relations (Washington Chapter)
The Honorable Damon Shadid, Seattle Municipal Court judge
Dr. Jonathan Kanter, Director, Center for the Science of Social Connection (University of Washington)
Dr. Brian Baird, psychologist, and U.S. Congressman for 12 year

In person and also on zoom: register for zoom: http://bit.ly/3k1Aflv
