[IPSM] MONTREAL Launch of PEACE UNDER FIRE: the International Solidarity Movement - FRIDAY OCTOBER 15th

[Stefan Christoff]

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Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 22:08:57 -0700 (PDT)
From: ISM Montreal <ism-montreal at resist.ca>


MONTREAL Launch of PEACE UNDER FIRE:
Palestine / Israel and the International Solidarity Movement

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FRIDAY OCTOBER 15th, Doors 7pm, $3
Cafe Esperanza, 5490 St. Laurent
(corner of St-Viateur, metro Laurier)
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Join us for the Montreal launch of Peace Under Fire a recently published
book which documents the work of the International Solidarity Movement
(ISM). This event will feature live music from Sam Shalabi, a film
screening and presentations from ISM activists, including a live reading
from Peace Under Fire by Radhika Sainath an ISM activist based in New York
City and one of the book editors.

Peace Under Fire documents the work of the ISM in Palestine through
previously published news articles on the movement, first-hand accounts
drawn from web-logs and diaries as they happened. The ISM is a
Palestinian-led movement of Palestinian and International activists
working to raise awareness of the struggle for Palestinian freedom and an
end to Israeli occupation.

Info: Contact the International Solidarity Movement --- Montreal
ism-montreal at resist.ca / http://www.palsolidarity.org

Co-Sponsored by:
SPHR - Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights
PAJU - Palestinian & Jewish Unity

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Performances & Presentations Include:
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Radhika Sainath: Radhika is an editor and contributor to Peace Under Fire
and organizer with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) based in
New York. Radhika spent a year coordinating ISM efforts in the northern
West Bank in support of Palestinian nonviolent resistance to Israel's West
Bank wall. In December 2003, after testifying in a lawsuit against the
State of Israel, Radhika was followed by undercover Israeli police,
abducted in downtown Tel Aviv, imprisoned and placed under house arrest.

A live performance from Sam Shalabi: One of the most recognized musicians
in Montreal's blossoming independent music scene, Sam Shalabi's
compositions mix traditional Arabic music with modern improvisational
sounds. Recently Sam scored the music for the CBC documentary film "Being
Osama", which documents the lives of six Montrealers named Osama post
September 11th. This performance will be solo on the Oud.

Danielle Sara Frank will be projecting "Sunset over Qalqiliya", a film
which documents the effects of the Apartheid Wall on the Palestinian city
of Qalqiliya.

Helga Mankovitz: Helga is an Jewish grandmother with a life long interest
in social justice. Last summer she completed her second visit to Palestine
as a volunteer with the ISM. During her 7 week stay in Palestine, she
traveled throughout the West Bank and to an Palestinian community within
1948 Palestine, learning a great deal about the extent of the apartheid
practices of the Israeli state throughout Palestine.

Eileen Young: Eileen is a long-time social activist who works as a
representative for a progressive Canadian publisher. She lives in
Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue and is an artist. In June 2004 she travelled to
Palestine with a group of older women, who were all volunteers with the
International Solidarity Movement's Freedom Summer 2004.

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