I know it's early but this Sunday at 9:30 a.m., there will be a number of good speakers at Busboys and Poets in Washington to talk about Gaza and the Goldstone Report. Notably Phyllis Bennis of Institute for Policy Studies and Laila El-Haddad, new author and a contributor to this Goldstone book. I'm going to be there, too, and we are also hoping for a report from a friend who has just returned from Gaza.
Here's the event, 14th and V in DC.
THE GOLDSTONE REPORT: The Legacy of the Landmark Investigation of the Gaza Conflict (Nation Books; January 11, 2011). “Accountability or impunity; the legacy of the Gaza Conflict and the Goldstone Report” Join the following panelists in discussion: * Laila El-Haddad, journalist, blogger, and contributor to The Goldstone Report: The Legacy of the Landmark Investigation of the Gaza Conflict * Phyllis Bennis, Director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies * Philip Weiss, editor of The Goldstone Report Confirmed cosponsors: US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation Interfaith Peace Builders
This Peace Cafe event is free and open to the public.
also Sunday
“Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land”: Film & Discussion
Sunday, January 23rd 2011 12:30 p.m.
Santa Monica, CA
The film, produced by the Media Education Foundation, depicts the bias of U.S. media coverage of the Israeli occupation of Gaza and the West Bank. Discussion will be led by a representative of the Israel Divestment Campaign, the first effort in the U.S. to appeal to voters to hold Israel accountable for violations of international law and human rights. Hosted by the church’s Peace & Social Justice Committee of its Faith In Action Commission.
Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Santa Monica
1260 18th St., Santa Monica, CA 90404 (corner of 18th & Arizona)
Contact: office@uusm.org 310-829-5436
link to endtheoccupation.org
link to uusm.org
Will they be discussing what some say was the real reason for OP Cast Lead, the oil and gas deposits off the Gaza coast? Israeli interests already lay claim to the total deposits area, sixty percent of which is in Gaza territorial waters.
Israel has a history of owning and/or claiming all natural resources–not a good reason for hankering for a Palestine state. Water, land, and sea, and even which air Palestinians breathe: link to mycatbirdseat.com
I live two blocks away, see you there, Phil.
For those of you who can’t make it, here’s a reasonable substitute: link to youtube.com