Globalizing Palestine: Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Jeff Halper at UC Berkeley
Thursday April 11, 5pm-8pm Lecture – 5 PM @ 315 Wheeler Hall, UC Berkeley. Reception – 7 PM @ 330 Wheeler Hall Dr. Jeff Halper is the co-founder of the Israeli Committee against House Demolitions, an anthropology professor, life long peace and justice activist and a Nobel Prize nominee. He’ll speak on “Globalizing Palestine:” Israel, […]
Is the Custodian of Absentee Property Awaiting the Absentees?
by Paul Larudee / April 8th, 2013 cus·to·di·an (kəs-ˈtō-dē-ən) n. 1. One who has charge of something: caretaker – The Heritage Illustrated Dictionary of the English Language, International Edition, 1973 The office of Ronen Baruch, the current Custodian of Absentee Property for Israel, is in an ancient Arab home at 8 Yoel Salomon Street in […]
World-renowned political theorist, philosopher, historian, author and activist, MIT Professor Emeritus NOAM CHOMSKY
“Palestinian Hopes, Regional Turmoil” Wednesday, May 8, 7pm Paramount Theatre 2025 Broadway, downtown Oakland (near 19th Street Bart) and Special Guest, HOLLY NEAR & the PEACE BECOMES YOU band! $12 – $200 Tickets available NOW! Join and Share our Event Facebook Page! ALSO: RESERVE AD SPACE NOW IN MECA’S 25TH ANNIVERSARY NOAM CHOMSKY PROGRAM BOOK! […]
An Evening With Angela Davis
In Celebration of MECA’s 25th Anniversary…and In Commemoration of Palestinian Prisoners’ Day Wednesday, April 17, 7pm First Congregational Church of Berkeley 2345 Channing Way, at Dana (near downtown Berkeley BART) Introduced by Palestinian journalist from Deheishe Refugee Camp, Ziad Abbas, who will speak about Palestinian children prisoners
Israel set to shell out ‘tens of millions’ in compensation for Turkey flotilla deaths
By Zvi Barel (Haaretz) In the wake of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s apology Friday to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan over the deaths of nine Turkish activists aboard the 2010 Gaza flotilla, the two countries have set the wheels in motion to pay compensation over the deaths, with Israel set to pay out as […]
DAM Performing in Berkeley April 7th
DAM, the amazing Palestinian Hip Hop band is coming to BERKELEY on their US tour of their new album “Dabke on the Moon”! Don’t miss this opportunity to hear the first Palestinian hip hop crew perform live! Their poetic songs of resistance infuse traditional Arabic percussion rhythms and melodies with hip hop. Their work has […]