Freedom and Justice for Palestine Conference
A Conference on the History and Future of the Palestinian Struggle
This conference was inspired as much by the new Intifada as by the failures of the Oslo "peace process". With the election of right-wing extremist Ariel Sharon as Israeli prime minister, "peace" through official channels seems all the more remote.
There is an urgent need for people in the US to learn the truth about the history and current state of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. What is this conflict really about? What will bring a just peace? The answers to these questions can form the basis of a new movement to stop US supp0rt for Israel and build solidarity with the struggle for Palestinian self-determination.
"And what does it mean to speak of peace if Israeli troops and settlements are still present in such large numbers?...Has the world been deluded, or has the rhetoric of peace been in essence a gigantic fraud?" - Edward Said
"If we thought that instead of 200 dead 2,000 dead would end this issue at once, then we would use much more force" -former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak
Freedom and Justice for Palestine Conference
Saturday March 31, 2001 12:00 - 9:00pm
Columbia Law School, 116th and Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY
For more information or to register please contact us at workshop_2001@hotmail.com
AGENDA
12:00pm - 1:30pm Oslo: Why the Peace Process failed
Salim Tammari , Phyllis Bennis, and Soud Dajani
1:30 - 2:30 Lunch Break
2:30 - 4:30 Lectures and Discussion
I Stealing Palestine: How Israel was Created/ Ahmed Shawki and Samir Awad
II Palestinian Diaspora: Right of Return/ Samera Esmeir and Susan Akram
III Why does the US support Israel?/ Dr. Naseer Aruri and Anthony Arnove
IV The Economic War and Media War on Palestine/ Lucy Mair and Roger Normand
V The Intifada Past and Present/ Seif Dana and Randa Jamal
5:30 - 6:30 Dinner /Organizing Palestinian Solidarity Committees
Snehal Shingavi on Divestment Campaigns/ Dr. Zahi Damuni Al-Awda/ Palestine Right to Return Coalition
7:00 - 9:00 Freedom and Justice in Palestine: Which Way Forward?
Dr. Naseer Aruri, Nadia Hijab, Ahmed Shawki, Salim Tammari, and Jews Against the Occupation
Susan Akram- Professor of International Law. Boston
Anthony Arnove - editor, Iraq Under Siege, South End Press and member of the International Socialist Organization
Dr. Naseer Aruri - Professor of Political Science, UMass at Dartmouth, author of the The Obstruction of Peace, The US, Israel and the Palestinians
Samir Awad - Political Science Graduate Student, Columbia University
Phyllis Bennis - Institute for Policy Studies, author of Calling the Shots: How Washington Dominates Today's UN
Dr. Seif Daana - Professor at DePaul, Sociology Department
Souad Dajani - Program coordinator, Middle East and Horn of Africa Grassroots International
Samera Esmeir - NYU Doctoral Candidate, Co-editor of the Review of Adalah, a legal center for the Palestinian minority in Israel.
Nadia Hijab - development consultant, author of Women Power: The Arab Debate on Women at Work
Randa Jamal - Al-Awda/Palestine Right to Return Coalition, Columbia University student
Lucy Mair - Center of Economic and Social Rights
Roger Normand - Center for Economic and Social Rights
Ahmed Shawki - editor, International Socialist Review
Snehal Sengavi - Students for Justice in Palestine at Berkeley, ISO
Salim Tammari - Director, Institute for Jerusalem Studies, Associate Professor of Sociology, Birzeit University
For more information or to register please write to: workshop_2001@hotmail.com
Registration Fee: - sliding scale
Sponsored by: Qanun, Columbia Law School North African and Middle Eastern Club
Organized by: Al-Awda, Palestine Right to Return Coalition, City College Arab/Muslim Club, Hunter College Palestinian Club, and the International Socialist Organization
Endorsed by : Arab-American Action Network, Center for Economic and Social Rights, Jews Against the Occupation, Vieques Support Campaign
