The following item is from the SEAC e-mail list. I apologize if this
is known to everyone. It would have been nice to have known about
this earlier, but in the no doubt unlikely event that Halper could
still make it to Vermont and that it would be practical to have him,
I'm sure it would be worthwhile.
Walter
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I have known Professor Jeff Halper, via mail and phone, for many years.
Then a couple of years ago Carole and I went to hear him at Brandeis
University in Waltham. MA. He is a dedicated peace activist and
an excellent speaker. He also appeared in a 30-second TV spot produced
and sponsored by Justice First Foundation last year. I'm delighted that
he will be in Connecticut and Rhode Island in March. The following
schedule is from Hassan Fouda. Rod
Please make every effort to attend some of the
events. More importantly, please invite all your contacts, neighbors,
co-workers, church/ synagogue, and mosque group etc. to attend.
The American Media does not give us realistic information on
Israel/Palestine. It is up to each of us to do our part.
Halper's biographical sketch is shown at the end for your information.
Thank you for your work for peace and justice
Hassan
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Lecture Tour in Connecticut and Rhode Island
Professor Jeff Halper
Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD)
March 5 to March 9, 2005
1. Saturday March 5, at 2:30 PM, AFSC Peace building Study Group,
Living Word Fellowship Farm, Voluntown, CT.
2. Saturday March 5, at 7 PM, Charter Oak Cultural Center, 21 Charter
Oak Avenue Hartford, CT
3. Sunday March 6 at 9 AM, First Congregational Church of Old Lyme, CT
4. Monday March 7 at 3:30 PM, Salve Regina University, Newport, RI
At about 5 PM (I think) Halper will be interviewed by Arlene
Violet on WHJJ (AM 920) in RI
5. Monday March 7 at 7 PM Newport (RI) Public Library
6. Tuesday March 8 at 2 PM, Marcus White Living Room, Central
Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT
7. Tuesday March 8 at 4 PM, Hartford Seminary Class, Hartford, CT
8. Tuesday March 8, at 7 PM, Westerly Public Library, 44 Broad Street,
Westerly, RI
9. Wednesday March 9 at 4 PM Wheaton College, Norton, MA
10. Wednesday March 9 at 7:30 PM, Watson Institute for International
Studies, Jukowsky Forum room Thayer St, Brown University, Providence,
RI
For more Information contact: H. Fouda ([ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]) 860-536-4640
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Jeff Halper Bio
Jeff Halper is the Coordinating Director of the Israeli Committee
Against House Demolitions (ICAHD). In that capacity, he has forged a
new mode of Israeli peace activity based on nonviolent direct action
and civil disobedience to the Israeli Occupation. Through its
resistance to the demolition of Palestinian homes and other
manifestations of the Occupation, including the rebuilding of
demolished homes as acts of political solidarity, ICAHD has developed a
relationship of trust and close cooperation with Palestinian
organizations. Believing that civil society and governmental forces
must be mobilized if a just peace is to emerge in Israel/Palestine,
Jeff also directs ICAHD's extensive program of international advocacy.
His popular book Obstacles to Peace is to be followed by a forthcoming
work: An Israeli in Palestine: Reframing the Israel-Palestine Conflict
(Pluto Press).
In addition to his three decades of involvement with the Israeli peace
movement since coming to Israel from the US, Jeff has been active on
issues of social justice within Israel and has written extensively on
Israeli society. A Professor of Anthropology who has taught at Haifa
and Ben Gurion Universities (as well as heading the international
Friends World College), he is the author of Between Redemption and
Revival: The Jewish Yishuv in Jerusalem in the Nineteenth Century
(Westview, 1991). For ten years, he worked in Jerusalem's inner-city
neighborhoods where he helped initiate the Ohel social protest movement
of working-class Mizrahi Jews. He has also served as the Chairman of
the Israeli Committee for Ethiopian Jews.
Defining himself as an "engaged anthropologist," Jeff believes that a
combination of resistance on the ground, a grounded analysis of the
conflict, advocacy among the Israeli public, campaigns to mobilize
international public opinion and joint efforts with solidarity groups
throughout the world will bring an end to the Occupation and a just a
sustainable peace to the region.
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Hassan Fouda
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