[IJAN Bay Area Announcements] Omar Barghouti lecture, Nov 3, SFSU

Please join us for this exciting event - Barghouti is one of the lead organizers of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) Movement!
- Bay Area IJAN

In celebration of the Palestinian Cultural Mural
the Cesar Chavez Student Center and the General Union of Palestinian Students invite you to

BDS: A Quest for Justice, Human Rights and Peace
Key Note Address by Omar Barghouti
Panel by Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi and Dr. Judith Butler

Tuesday November 3rd, 2009
6PM Jack Adams Hall, Cesar Chavez Student Center, San Francisco State University

6pm-7pm: light refreshments

7pm: Welcome Address by the Dean of College of Ethnic Studies at SFSU, Ken Monteiro.

7:10 pm: Opening address by Paloma Dudum-Maya of the Cesar Chavez Student Center Governing Board and General Union of Palestinian Students.

7:20 pm: An Introduction by community activist and scholar Dr. Jess Ghannam

7:30 pm: Keynote Address by Omar Barghouti (all the way from Palestine)

8:10 pm: Panel by Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi and Dr. Judith Butler,

8:45 pm: Question and Answer

Omar BARGHOUTI is a leading organizer in the international movement for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against the state of Israel. He is coming to the United States for a multi-city tour to build support for the growing and powerful international BDS movement. We urge you to attend and publicize the events and take this opportunity to learn more about the movement.

“To have a dialogue you have to have a certain minimal level of a common denominator based on a common vision for the ultimate solution based on equality and ending injustice. If you don't have that common denominator than it's negotiation between the stronger and weaker party and, as I've written elsewhere, you can't have a bridge between them but only a ladder where you go up or down not across ... I call this the master/slave type of coexistence ... A master and a slave can also reach an agreement where this is reality and you cannot challenge it and you make the best out of it. There is no war, no conflict, nobody is killing anybody, but a master remains a master and the slave remains a slave -- so this is not the kind of peace that we the oppressed are seeking -- the minimum is to have a just peace. Only with justice can we have a sustainable peace. So dialogue does not work -- it has not worked in reality and cannot work in principle. Boycotts have worked in reality and in principle so there is absolutely no reason why they cannot work, because Israel has total impunity given the official support it gets from the west in all fields (economic, cultural, academic and so on). Without raising the price of its oppression, it will never give up; it will never concede on any of our rights.” Omar Barghouti, http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10562.shtml

co-Sponsored by:

US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, General Union of Palestinian Students, Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Initiative, Al-Awda, Associated Students Women Center, National Council of Arab Americans, ANSWER, International Solidarity Movement, Jewish Voice for Peace, Middle East Children's Alliance, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, San Jose Justice for Palestinians, SF State College of Ethnic Studies, Arab Resource and Organizing Center, American Friends Service Committee, Bay Area Campaign to End Israeli Apartheid, Students for Justice in Palestine UCB, People of Color Alliance SFSU, US Palestinian Communities Network, Palestinian Youth Network

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