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Prospects for Peace and Justice in Israel & Palestine

Boston Review and Standing Together—one of the largest grassroots people’s movements in Israel working to bring together Jews and Arabs—welcome Sally Abed, Noam Chomsky, Alon-lee Green, Congressman Jim McGovern and Dr. James Zogby, President of the Arab-American Institute, for a panel discussion on the prospects for peace and justice in Israel and Palestine. This event will be moderated by Omar Dahi.
Panelists:
  • Noam Chomsky is an educator and linguist. He joined the University of Arizona in fall 2017, after several decades at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  • Jim McGovern is a member of the U.S. House, representing Massachusetts’ second Congressional District.
  • Omar Dahi is an associate professor of economics at Hampshire College and research associate at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
  • Alon-lee Green is one of the founding members of Standing Together, an elected member of the national leadership, and is currently acting as the national co-director, alongside Rula Daood.
  • Sally Abed is a member of the elected national leadership and currently acting as the resource development and relations coordinator at Standing Together.
  • Dr. James Zogby is the founder and president of the Arab American Institute (AAI), a Washington, D.C.-based organization which serves as the political and policy research arm of the Arab American community.
Register here.
Sponsors: PERI Institute (U Mass. Amherst), Boston Review and Standing Together.

JFMF Press Conference: Crisis at the Northern Border

The crisis at the southern border has turned into the crisis at the northern border due to the federal policies of the Biden administration.
ICE has been releasing immigrants en masse from the Batavia Federal Detention Center, mainly from Central America and Haiti at the southern border, in a process that further traumatizes them and makes it harder for them to reunite with their families.
An estimated 100 immigrants have been left at a gas station in Batavia this past month alone, with their belongings in onion bags and limited access to resources.
This Thursday, December 9th at 1:30pm, JFMF will host a press conference to raise awareness about the crisis at the northern border.
For those unable to attend in person, there will be a Facebook livestream. You’re encouraged to watch and share on your social media in show of solidarity.
Please consider a donation to JFMF for direct support to restore dignity to the immigrants at Batavia: https://www.gofundme.com/f/justice-for-migrant-families-fundraising

 

Talking Peace taping: Yemen Can’t Wait

Tune into this week’s taping of Talking Peace with the WNYPC! Hour two features:

#YemenCantWait! With Aisha Jumaan, Executive Director of Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation; Jehan Hakim, Chair of the Yemeni Alliance Committee; Muna Munassar, Access (Lackawanna, WNY); Deidra EmEl, Executive Director of the WNY Peace Center; and Vicki Ross, WNYPC Human Rights & Peace Education Chair, and Consultant for the Interfaith Peace Network.

Discussion topics:

    • Yemen’s humanitarian disaster under blockade
    • US arms sale(s) to and enabling of Saudi war crimes (challenged in Senate incl by Sen Schumer)
    • need to press our elected reps to stop US arming and enabling
    • ways to support and get involved