[van-announce] August 15: NEGOTIATIONS IN PALESTINE: What do they mean? Why are they happening?

[Charlotte Kates]

*NEGOTIATIONS IN PALESTINE: What do they mean? Why are they happening?*
*Presentation and Discussion*
*Thursday, August 15, 2013*
*7:00 pm*
*Room 1530, SFU Harbour Centre*
*515 W. Hastings St, Vancouver*
*Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/201894786643479/*

News reports are coming in about the resumption of negotiations between
Palestinian Authority leadership and the Israeli government, at the behest
of US Secretary of State, John Kerry, in Washington, DC. Do these
negotiations offer new hope for peace for Palestinians, suffering from
siege, settlement building and ongoing human rights violations - or are
they just the latest step in an ongoing project to deny fundamental
Palestinian rights and protect Israeli occupation and apartheid?

Palestinians have taken to the streets to protest the negotiations (
http://samidoun.ca/2013/07/pa-police-attack-and-arrest-demonstrators-against-negotiations-with-occupation/),
and issued numerous statements of condemnation (
http://bit.ly/NoToNegotiations ) - so why are Palestinian leaders
travelling to Washington, DC to meet with Tzipi Livni, who presided over
the infamous Operation Cast Lead assault on Gaza in 2008-2009?

We have also heard about Palestinian prisoners being released because of
these negotiations. What has been the history of Palestinian prisoner
releases and the relationship of negotiations to the mass imprisonment of
thousands of Palestinians?

Come to discuss all of these things and more with Palestinian activist and
writer Khaled Barakat on Thursday, May 15. While John Baird is asking for a
seat at the negotiations table - what can people here do to support real
justice?

Sponsored by Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, Boycott
Israeli Apartheid Campaign
Questions? samidoun at samidoun.ca
Web: http://samidoun.ca/

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Charlotte L. Kates     charlotte.kates at gmail.com