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Occupy Greensboro at New Garden Friends Meeting

NGFM First Day Forum

Presentation to members of New Garden Friends Meeting.

AFSC members and other volunteers took part in an Occupy Greensboro presentation last week at New Garden Friends Meeting. The presentation, a part of New Garden Friends’ “First Day Forum,” was coordinated by Susan Ikenberry, an active member of the Greensboro community. Susan brought in Ann Lennon, our AFSC Area Coordinator, John Wright and Bobbie Sonner, Occupy Greensboro activists, and Chandlee White, another Occupy Greensboro supporter and participant.

Refusing to Be Enemies: An Evening with Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta

Refusing 2 B Enemies cover

cover of book

Anthology of Palestinian and Israel nonviolence activists

Monday, June 6, 2011 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Presentation followed by discussion with author, on her interview-based study of more than 100 Israel and Palestinian nonviolent activists, their strategies and challenges in pursuing a just peace.  Copies will be available.

Sponsored by AFSC and BFUU-Social Justice Committee.  Wheelchair accessible.  Donations appreciated.

Living on the Edge: An Eyewitness Account of Village Life under Occupation

Wednesday, May 12, 2010 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm

 

64 year-old former journalist Sharen Green speaks about her experience as a human rights monitor in Palestine last summer as part of a World Council of Churches program. Green tells the story of life in Jayyous, a once wealthy Palestinian village which has been reduced to poverty by a military occupation that gets more draconian by the day.

 

Contact Information: 

Miryam at (312) 427-2533 x 18

Email: 

East Jerusalem and the Politics of Occupation

From:
Occupational realities
AFSC Middle East Resource Series
Middle East Task Force
Winter 2004

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