Sat., Mar. 8 - Panel: Winning Justice for Palestine; & Women Leaders Honor Rasmea Odeh
joe iosbaker
Join us
for a panel addressing the Middle East Peace Process and the BDS
Movement, followed by a dinner for Rasmea Odeh
Saturday, March 8th
4:00 to 6:00 pm
Trinity Episcopal Church
125 E. 26th Street, Chicago
The Peace Process in Palestine and the Boycott Divestment Sanctions BDS) Movement
Panel Speakers:
Rama Kased – National Coordinating Committee Member, U.S. Palestinian Community Network - SF
Tarek Khalil – American Muslims for Palestine
Leila Abdelrazaq – National & DePaul Students for Justice in Palestine
Bill Chambers – Palestine Solidarity Group
Leila Taha – USPCN Chicago
Followed by
International Women's Day (IWD) Dinner Honoring Rasmea Yousef Odeh: A fundraiser
6:00 - 8:00 pm
$20 donation, $5 for students and the unemployed. No one turned away for lack of funds! Food from Haifa Café.
Rasmea, Associate Director of the Arab American Action Network (AAAN), has made it her life's work to serve and help empower Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim families. She was arrested in October, 2013 by agents from the Department of Homeland Security and charged with a crime based on answers she gave on a 20-year-old immigration application. She is the victim of another politically-motivated witch-hunt by federal law enforcement in their campaign to intimidate intimidation Palestinian community and solidarity activists.
Celebrate IWD and women’s struggles with Rasmea and leading Chicago organizers Sarah Chambers of Chicago Teachers Union, Nesreen Hasan of Arab American Action Network, Lulu Martinez of Immigrant Youth Justice League, Kait McIntyre of Anti-War Committee, Nadine Naber of UIC, Delores Phillips of UE, and more.
Sponsors:
American Friends
Service Committee
American Muslims for Palestine
Anti-War Committee
Coalition to Protect
People's Rights
Committee Against Political Repression
Committee for a Just
Peace in Israel & Palestine
Committee to Stop FBI Repression
Iraq Veterans Against the War
Palestine Solidarity
Group – Chicago
Students for a Democratic Society – College of DuPage
Students for Justice
in Palestine - UIC
U.S. Palestinian Community Network
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