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EVENTS IN BRIEF 16th October CJPP Dinner with Sara Roy More about Sara Roy More about the dinner... Dinner booking form 6pm Fri 3 Oct, Celebrating the life of Mahmoud Darwish More... 6pm Tue 7 Oct, Book launch with Randa Abdel-Fattah More... 12 noon Sat 11 Oct, Film screening "Lebanon Burning" More... :::::: :::::: :::::: :::::: :::::: :::::: :::::: :::::: :::::: :::::: :::::: ![]() Gaza expert in Sydney
:::::: :::::: :::::: :::::: :::::: :::::: :::::: :::::: :::::: :::::: :::::: Dr Sara Roy & the de-development of Gaza We are fortunate to have Dr Sara Roy, a political economist from Harvard University coming to Sydney after she delivers the Edward Said Memorial Lecture in Adelaide. There will be several opportunities to hear her speak in Sydney but only at the CJPP dinner will you be able to meet her. Edward Said said of her book Failing Peace: Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict that "No one has reported more accurately and scrupulously on the economic devastation attendant on the Oslo process... Her notion of de-development is a brilliant one." More... CJPP regrets that the visit to Sydney ![]() Olympic Palestine Back in June, even our ABC could see that things were not easy for the Palestinian team preparing for the Olympics. More... Palestine's olympic team consists of consists of two runners and two swimmers. Pictures... Image by Abonoon
Source: DesertPeace A witty and ironic view comes from Sayed Kashua, writing in Haaretz,In
a general way, I know about Tibet, human rights and ceramics that break
too easily. But I agree that a country that conquers another nation,
uses military force to rob a person of his freedom, tramples human and
civil rights, punishes entire populations and detains them without
blinking an eye, discriminates against its inhabitants on religious
grounds, arrests leaders of another nation and assassinates them and
scatters their demonstrations with live fire - that is a country which
definitely ought to be boycotted. Complete article...
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years after al-Nakba, with the Palestinian refugees representing the
longest-running refugee situation in modern history, the Question of
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In Sydney, the Coalition for Justice & Peace in Palestine joins communities around the world in remembering Al-Nakba. :::::: :::::: :::::: :::::: ::::::
Sign the international petition to end the siege of Gaza :::::: :::::: :::::: :::::: :::::: ![]() Fair Trade Palestine Olive oil, honey, za'atar, almonds and more, all from Palestine, all fair trade, available in from CJPP or from fairtrade.palestine.net.au ![]() Click on the picture to go to fairtrade.palestine.net.au or send them an email info@fairtrade.palestine.net.au |