{news} [Fwd: Executive Committee Endorsement of event]

[Elizabeth M. Brancato]

The GP of CT Executive Committee has approved endorsing this event.  
Three of the four members of the E.C. agreed and one did not respond.  
Announcement of this action will also take place at the next SCC 
meeting, March 29, 2005 when the Executive Committee makes it's report.

Elizabeth Brancato

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Contacts:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Liz Aaronsohn 860-229-0705
22 February 2005

Lucy Rosenblatt 860-236-9992

Hassan Fouda 860-536-4640







Israeli Professor to speak in Hartford



Dr. Jeff Halper, the coordinating director of the Israeli Committee Against
House Demolitions (ICAHD), will be the featured speaker of a program called
``In Search of Peace and Justice in Palestine/Israel: Realities on the
Ground; Where to Go from Here."



The program will take place on Saturday, March 5, at 7 p.m. at the Charter
Oak Cultural Center, 21 Charter Oak Avenue, Hartford, CT 06106. The 
event is
free and open to the public.



Halper has forged through ICAHD a new mode of Israeli peace activity based
on nonviolent direct action and civil disobedience to the Israeli
Occupation. ICAHD's main direct action began through resistance to the
demolition of Palestinian homes in the Occupied Territories, and rebuilding
demolished homes as acts of political solidarity.



Believing that civil society and governmental forces must be mobilized if a
just peace is to emerge in Israel/Palestine, Halper also directs ICAHD's
extensive program of international advocacy.  He is the author of Between
Redemption and Revival: The Jewish Yishuv in Jerusalem in the Nineteenth
Century, published in 1991. His recent popular book Obstacles to Peace 
is to
be followed by a forthcoming work from Pluto Press, called An Israeli in
Palestine: Reframing the Israel-Palestine Conflict.

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Halper is a professor of anthropology who has taught at Haifa and Ben 
Gurion
universities. He moved to Israel from America in 1973.  He and his wife 
have
three children.

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This event is co-sponsored by We Refuse to Be Enemies (Jews, Muslims and
Christians in Coalition for Peace);  The Palestine Right To Return 
Coalition
(www.al-awda.org), The American Friends Service (www.afsc.org), and Council
for National Interest (www.cnionline.org).