>From: Helaine Tsiona Alon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: hilary martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: two events at uvm on thurs >Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:25:06 -0400 > >hey hillary! thought that this would be something that would interest >people in >your circles... >thanks! >helaine > > >1) State, Soil and Separation: A Bedouin and Jewish Story >2) Women and Activism: A Common Thread Around the Globe > >*** > >1) >Thursday, April 28, 2005 >2:00pm, Billings Marsh Lounge - > >State, Soil and Separation: A Bedouin and Jewish Story > >A talk by Devorah Brous, >UVM Alum (class of 1994) and founder of BUSTAN, a partnership of Jewish and >Arab >eco-builders, architects, academics, and farmers promoting social and >environmental justice and fair allocation of resources in Israel/Palestine. >This organization cultivates sustainable models to effect change by >combining >advocacy and in-depth political analysis with strategic action. BUSTAN >utilizes >the principles of permaculture and non-violent direct action across ethnic >divides. > >She will discuss "Development" and the impact of "Making the Desert Bloom" >in >the context of the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. > >The Negev, the southern region of Israel populated by Bedouin and Jews, is >plagued by divisions: there is a fierce demographic war with Jewish >settlers >relocating to the area, a public health crisis from rampant industrial >expansion, and disproportionately high rates of unemployment, crime, and >drug >abuse. Beyond camels, coffee, and carpets, Israel’s exoticized Bedouin >minority has been divided by geopolitics and tribalism, and is striving to >withstand the forceful currents of urbanization and modernization. Under >the >auspices of development, state-land use, stringent planning and zoning, and >selective resource allocation, Jews and Arabs in the Negev are deeply >divided. > >for more info: www.bustan.org > >Devorah Brous, a UVM alum (Class of '94) is founder and director of BUSTAN. >An >American-Israeli, she has spent the past 11 years catalyzing projects and >campaigns in Israel and the Occupied Territories to promote social and >environmental justice. Devorah holds masters degrees in Israel Studies and >Peace/Conflict Studies, with a concentration in conflict resolution. Her >thesis >involved actively researching Israeli/Palestinian land claims, as well as >the >political and strategic impact of environmental policy in the region. She >has >successfully managed building and planting actions for ICAHD, and >Rebuilding >Alliance. Serves as Israeli coordinator of Compassionate Listening Project >and >is a board member of Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD). >Devorah has authored numerous articles, essays, and poems about the I/P >conflict. > >Sponsored by: Area and International Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, >Hillel, >WOmen and Gender Studies, the Women's Center, the Psychology Department, >Alumni >Relations, Campus Progressives > >**** > >2) Women in Activism: Common Threads Around the Globe > > WATERMAN MEMORIAL LOUNGE, University of Vermont > (corner of College and So. Prospect) > > Thursday April 28, 6-8pm > > free and open to the public > > for info call Global Justice Ecology Project 482-2689 > >Join four activist women representing struggles for justice around the >globe for >a discussion about what it means to be women involved in activism in the US >and >around the world. > >Njoki Njeroge Njehu, Executive Director, 50 Years is Enough US >Network for Economic Justice > >Njoki is a Kenyan national who worked with women's groups and the >Greenbelt Movement in Kenya for over a decade. She grew up learning >from the work of Kenyan women, especially her mother, Lilian Njehű, a >grassroots and community activist. Before joining the 50 Years Is >Enough Network she worked at Greenpeace International for three years >focusing on the international toxic trade and on biodiversity and >oceans issues. She joined the 50 Years Is Enough Network in July 1996 >and was named director in October 1998. She presents on economic >justice issues all over the world. > >She serves on the board of the Quixote Center, Jobs with Justice and >Global Justice Ecology Project. She is a founding member of the >International Coordinating Council of the World Social Forum and the >Africa Social Forum. > >Devorah Brous , UVM Alum, Founder and Director, BUSTAN >http://www.bustan.org > >An American-Israeli, Devorah has spent the past 12 years catalyzing >buiding and restorative development projects in Israel and occupied >Palestine to promote social and environmental justice. Devorah holds >masters degrees in Israel Studies and Peace/Conflict Studies, with a >concentration in conflict resolution. Her thesis involved actively >researching Israeli-Palestinian land claims, as well as the political >and strategic impact of environmental policy in the region. > >BUSTAN is a partnership of Jewish and Arab eco-builders, architects, >academics, and farmers promoting social and environmental justice and >fair allocation of resources in Israel/Palestine. It cultivates >sustainable models to effect change by combining advocacy and >in-depth political analysis with strategic action and utilizes the >principles of permaculture and non-violent direct action across >ethnic divides. > >Lesley Adams, Outreach Coordinator, Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center > >Lesley directs the outreach programs of the Klamath-Siskiyou >Wildlands Center (KS Wild). KS Wild works to protect and restore the >outstanding biological diversity of the Klamath-Siskiyou and south >Cascadian Ecoregions of southwest Oregon and northwest California. >Through its campaign work, KS Wild strives to protect wild areas and >vital biological diversity. > >Lesley is also a Board member of the Ashland-based Lomakatsi >Restoration Project and the Vermont-based Global Justice Ecology >Project. > >Anne Petermann, Co-Director, Global Justice Ecology Project > >Anne Petermann co-founded Native Forest Network's Eastern North >American Resource Center in 1993, coordinating it until 2003. > >She is currently the co-director of Global Justice Ecology Project. >She also coordinates the organization's Genetically Engineered Trees >Program. She co-wrote and edited a 24 page report on GE trees in >July, 2001. She also facilitates an international alliance of >organizations working to ban the genetic engineering of trees. > >In 2004 she presented the GE trees issue at the United Nations Forum >on Forests in Geneva, Switzerland and the UN Framework Convention on >Climate Change in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In October, 2004 she >presented at international meetings on Carbon Trade, Industrial Tree >Plantations and GE Trees in Durban, South Africa, and is a founding >member of The Durban Group. > >In 2000, she won the Wild Nature Award for Environmental Activist of the >Year. > > >*Sponsored by the Women and Gender Studies Program, Students for Peace and >Global Justice, Campus Progressives and The International Socialist >Organization* >-- > >-- >speak up for fair trade rules >make your voice heard! >join THE BIG NOISE today www.maketradefair.org >www.oxfamamerica.org _________________________________________________________________ Is your PC infected? 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