[van-announce] Reminder: Jeff Halper in Vancouver / Victoria

[Mike Krebs]

*please forward*

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GHETTOIZING PALESTINE – MASSACRING GAZA
A series of public forums from January 28th-30th
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=> Featuring JEFF HALPER of the Israeli Committee Against House
Demolitions (ICAHD.org)

Wednesday, January 28 – 7 p.m.
Unitarian Church, 49th & Oak St, Vancouver
Suggested donation $10, no-one turned away

Friday, January 30 – 5 p.m.
University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre ( Main Library), Room 182
Sponsored by Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR)
Suggested donation $10, no-one turned away

Friday, January 30 - 8 p.m.
Masjid Al-Salaam Mosque
5060 Canada Way (East of Sperling), Burnaby
Free Underground Parking
Donations appreciated

Jeff Halper is an activist with the Israeli Committee Against House
Demolitions (ICAHD.org) and a strong critic of Israel's policies towards
the Palestinians. "Israel is carrying out a massacre in Gaza" says Prof.
Halper. It "controls Gaza under a violent siege which violates
fundamental human rights and international law." He will discuss the
situation in both Gaza and the West Bank. Prof. Halper is the
co-ordinator of the Israeli Committee against House Demolitions (ICAHD).
He works extensively for peace and justice and in 2006, was nominated
for the Nobel peace prize. Jeff was part of the Free Gaza flotilla that
recently 'broke the siege" by taking supplies to Gaza. He was granted
honourary Palestinian citizenship. Prof. Halper's most recent book is
'An Israeli in Palestine.'

National cosponsors: Independent Jewish Voices - Canada
(IJV.blogspot.com - principal sponsor and coordinating organization),
Near East Cultural and Educational Foundation of Canada (NECEF.org -
receipt-issuing sponsor), Canadian Arab Federation (CAF.ca), Canadian
Auto Workers (CAW.org), Canadian Friends of Sabeel (Sabeel.ca), Canadian
Friends Service Committee (CFSC.quaker.ca), Canadian Union of Public
Employees-Ontarion: International Solidarity Committee (CUPE.on.ca),
Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW.ca), KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical
Justice Initiatives (kairoscanada.org), Not in Our Name - Jewish Voices
Opposing Zionism (NION.ca), Science for Peace (ScienceforPeace.ca),
Steelworkers Humanity Fund (USW.ca/program/content/humanity.php), United
Jewish People's Order (UJPO.org)

Metro Vancouver local cosponsors: Adala – Canadian Arab Justice
Committee (Adala.ca), Boycott Israeli Apartheid Campaign
(BoycottIsraeliApartheid.org), Canada-Palestine Association
(CPAvancouver.org), Canada-Palestine Support Network (CanPalNet.ca),
Jews for a Just Peace (JewsforaJustPeace.com), Canadian Jewish Outlook
Magazine (vcn.bc.ca/outlook), Masjid Alsalaam (bcmaburnaby.org - Burnaby
Mosque and Education Centre), Social Justice Committee of the Unitarian
Church of Vancouver (Vancouver.Unitarians.ca), Solidarity with
Palestinian Human Rights-UBC (SPHR.org), Vancouver Monthly Meeting of
the Religious Society of Friends (Quaker.ca), Voice of Palestine
(VoiceofPalestine.ca - Co-op Radio).

=>For further info: Sid Shniad, 604-314-5589, shniad at sfu.ca
=>For info on Victoria event (Sponsored by the Coalition Against Israeli
Apartheid, Victoria Jan 29 at Camosun College): George McFetridge,
geomcfet at gmail.com
=>For info on Jeff's other public engagements: Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta
604-444-4690, MaxineKL at shaw.ca