Friday, April 26 event in Helena. Presentation by Alison Weir --"Beyond the Headlines - What Americans Need to Know about Israel/Palestine." Sponsored by the Helena Service for Peace and Justice / SERPAJ
Francis Kromkowski
Presentation by Alison Weir:
“Beyond the Headlines – What Americans Need to Know about Israel/Palestine”
Friday, April 26
at
Plymouth Congregational Church
400 S Oakes St – Corner of Oakes and Winne
Helena, MT 59601
5:30 Free supper (soup and bread) provided, with live music
6:00 pm Presentation by Alison Weir followed by Q&A
Free
Sponsored by:
If Americans Knew, http://www.ifamericaknew.org/, and
The Council for the National Interest, http://www.councilforthenationalinterest.org/, and
the Helena Service for Peace and Justice (Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HelenaSERPAJ)
Former journalist Alison Weir is executive director of If Americans Knew and president of the Council for the National Interest.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the world’s major sources of instability. Americans are directly connected to this conflict, and increasingly imperiled by its devastation.
It is the goal of If Americans Knew to provide full and accurate information on this critical issue, and on our power – and duty – to bring a resolution.
Weir has visited the Middle East many times, beginning with the West Bank and Gaza at the height of the second Palestinian intifada in 2001. Weir speaks widely in the U.S. and at international conferences, and has
written dozens of articles and essays. If Americans Knew has produced seven in-depth statistical studies of U.S. media coverage of Israel/Palestine.
Alison Weir writes and speak widely and is speaking in towns across Montana April 25 - May 1, in a tour organized by the Helena Service for Peace and Justice in cooperation with loc peace and justice organizations across Montana.
See the Montana schedule below and at http://www.ifamericaknew.org/about_us/events.html
Her articles have been included in a number of anthologies; she is a contributor to the Washington Report for Middle East Affairs, CounterPunch, The Link, and other publications. She has given briefings on Capitol Hill, presentations at the Asia Media Summit in Kuala Lumpur and at the Jerusalem Media Center Conference in the West Bank; and she has lectured at Harvard Law School, Yale, Stanford, Berkeley, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, the Naval Postgraduate Institute, Georgetown, and numerous other campuses and other venues.
Former U.S. Congressman Tom Campbell said:
“Ms. Weir presents a powerful, well documented view of the Middle East today. She is intelligent, careful, and critical. American policy makers would benefit greatly from hearing her first-hand observations and attempting to answer the questions she poses.”
A New York Times article about her presentation in Greenwich, CT reported: “When the speech ended, Ms. Weir was met with thunderous applause, and across the room there was a widespread sense of satisfaction that someone was saying what needed to be said.”
MORE ABOUT ALSION WEIR at http://ifamericansknew.org/about_us/alisonweir.htm
~ Frank Kromkowski, for the Helena Service for Peace and Justice/SERPAJ
406-443-0843/home. f.krom...@bresnan.net or Helena...@gmail.com. Facebook page (new): https://www.facebook.com/HelenaSERPAJ
Alison Weir schedule for Montana Speaking Tour: Full details at http://www.ifamericaknew.org/about_us/events.html
Thursday, 4/25 – Billings, MT
Friday, 4/26 – Helena, MT
Plymouth Congregational Church
400 S Oakes St.
Helena, MT. 59601
5:30 pm Free supper provided, with live music
6:00 pm Presentation by Alison Weir followed by Q&A
Saturday, 4/27 – Missoula, MT
Sunday, 4/28 – Hamilton, MT
Tuesday, 4/30 – Polson, MT
Wednesday May 1 – Butte, MT