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.
Sponsors: PERI Institute (U Mass. Amherst), Boston Review and Standing Together.
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:
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- 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
Tune in to the WNYPC FB Live for a taping of Talking Peace you don’t want to miss!
Featuring the Afghanistan Crisis with Kathy Kelly, Ban Killer Drones, World Beyond War; Ladaisha Williams, a WNY Emerging Leader, doing Afghan refugee support through Urban League Young Professionals Program; 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: Afghanistan’s humanitarian crisis – including direct experience of fall of Kabul, escape of Basir Bita, Afghan humanitarian and refugee; US role (20 years occupation, current freeze on Afghan money supply); ways to support and get involved, including both locally and generally; need to press our elected reps (Congress, President, Sec. Blinken) to free Afghan Central Bank’s funds; give humanitarian relief; reduce Pentagon budget
#ImmigrantRefugeeJustice #ResistMilitarism #EconomicJustice
