Monday, June 4, 2007

FORTY YEARS TOO LONG

A Weekend of Events to End the Israeli Occupation
JUNE 8th, 9th, and 10th

A broad group of organizations concerned with peace and justice in the Middle East will mark forty years of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands. Weekend events will include theater, visual art, performances, discussions and films.

FRIDAY NIGHT
  • THE OCCUPATION ON FILM:
Seattle Central Community College
Student Activity Center - 1718 Broadway Room 208
6:30 PM -- 8:30 PM

Documentary films and discussion
Personal Narratives: Accounts of the Effects of Occupation

* Dying to Live 2002. 10 minutes.
Producer/Director Amineh Ayyad, member of Friends of Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS)
* In the Spider's Web 2004. 47 min.
Produced by Al-Haq, Palestinian human rights organization. Directed by Hanna Musleh.
* Films will be preceded and followed by short presentations by Amineh Ayyad, and a facilitated discussion/Q&A together with Erin Wade of the
Palestine Solidarity Committee.

SATURDAY EVENTS
  • THE OCCUPATION GAME
Cal Anderson Park
12:00 PM. to 6:00 PM

An outdoor living gameboard with a self-guided all-directions-at-once journey into day-by-day life in military occupation.

Over 80 different board squares present a set of rules which -- like the rules of a military occupation -- may work or may not. Dice will be supplied, or bring your own.
For more information: theatersquad@aol.com

ANTIGONE'S NATION
Cal Anderson Park
2:00 PM. to 3:00 PM

The Theater Squad presents an outdoor voice-and-image theater performance
adapted from Sophocles; Antigone, exploring the conflict between security, stability, rebellion and freedom. For all of time, I will never be that living person who stood by silent
and did not a thing, did not a thing. Directed by Robert Leigh from an adaptation by local playwright Edward Mast and featuring several local actors, musicians and movement artists.
For more information: theatersquad@aol.com
  • ENDING THE OCCUPATION:
Central Lutheran Church by Cal Anderson Park
1710 11th Ave
3:00 PM

More activities and panel discussions are scheduled to take place on Sunday as well.

ALSO, DON'T MISS:

  • ACTIVISTS FOR A BETTER WORLD
Saturday, June 2 at 4:00 p.m.
Newberry Books, 561 NE Ravenna Blvd
Ed Mast will speak on the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Human Rights Perspective. What are the obstacles to equal rights? What are the possibilities?

Ed Mast is a poet, playwright and activist who has traveled many times to Occupied Palestine with the International Solidarity Movement.
For information contact: J. Glenn Evans, Program Director
http://www.poetswest.com
  • Presentation by the Rev. Dr. Naim Ateek
Wednesday, June 6, at 7p.m.
609 8th Ave, Seattle
The Rev. Dr. Naim Ateek will speak on the topic:
"JUNE 6, 1967--WILL THE OCCUPATION EVER END?"

Dr. Ateek will speak about the current state of Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories, which began in 1967, and what steps are needed to end the occupation and bring a lasting peace to the Holy Land.

Dr. Ateek is a Palestinian Episcopal priest and theologian, who founded and directs Sabeel, an ecumenical peace and justice educational and advocacy center in Jerusalem. This free public event is sponsored by the Bishop's Committee on Peace and Justice in Israel / Palestine and Friends of Sabeel-North America.
  • Radio broadcast: POETSWEST AT KSER 90.7 FM
Friday June 8 at 4:30 PM

A special program of Palestinian poetry read by local actors and writers. www.kser.org.

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