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Nov.29: UN Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People (fwd)
Kim Elliott writes:
From kelliott Fri Nov 14 12:05:44 1997
From: Kim Elliott <kelliott>
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Subject: Nov.29: UN Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
To: nhashemi (Nader Hashemi)
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 12:05:27 -0500 (EST)
Cc: kelliott (Kim Elliott)
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United Nations Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. Speakers
Forum, Live Music, Cultural Exhibit, Film Screenings. Speakers will
include Chris Giannou (War Surgeon with the Red Cross, Land Mines expert),
Nahla Abdo (Palestinian feminist and scholar), Ismail Zayed (Dalhousie
University) and Peyton Lyon (Carleton University, Dept. of Political
Science). 1 to 6pm, Saturday, November 29th. University of Ottawa,
Unicentre, MontPetit Room 201. Free admission. For information please call
237-8274.
RALLY in support of United Nations Day of Solidarity with Palestinian
People. Join in solidarity! Parliament Hill, 11am, November 29th, 1997.
For info. call CEPAL (Canadian Educational Exchange with Palestinians),
tel: 237-8274, or e- mail cepal@cyberus.ca
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CEPAL invites you to join with us on the
United Nations Day of Solidarity with
the Palestinian People !
November 29, 1997
Schedule of events
11:00 - 11:45 Rally - Gather on Parliament Hill
March to Ottawa University
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch at Ottawa University (hosted by Glebe Cafi)
Displays (Information on Human Rights and Palestinians),
Music, Books, Cultural Crafts, etc7
Unique opportunity to meet activists
1:00 - 1:15 Speakers Forum Opening
1:15 - 1:45 Prof. Nahla Abdo, Professor of Sociology at Carleton
University "Palestinians After Oslo: New Forms of
Struggle And Old Kinds of Trouble"
1:45 - 2:15 John Minnery & Nader Hashemi, Volunteers, CEPAL
Exchange Program 1997 "Among the Dispossessed: Palestinian
Refugees of Bourjal-Barajneh Camp, Lebanon"
2:15 - 2:30 Break
2:30 - 3:00 Dr. Peyton Lyon, Dept of Political Science, Carleton
University "Impact of international policy
on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict
3:00 - 3:15 Poetry Reading
3:15 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:00 Dr. Ismail Zayed, Professor, Faculty of Medicine,
Dalhousie University "Isreal, Ethnic Cleansing and the
Dispossession of the Palestinians"
4:00 - 4:30 Special Video Presentation - Canada Park
4:30 - 5:00 Cultural Presentations
5:00 - 6:00 Keynote Speaker: order-of-Canada recipient Dr. Chris
Giannou, War Surgeon with the International Committee
of the Red Cross, in Ottawa for the signing of the
Treaty to Ban Anti-Personnel Landmines
"Eliminating human rights injustices"
For further information call: (613) 237-8274 (Ottawa)
(514) 485-2388 (Montreal)
or e-mail cepal@cyberus.ca
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* "Home is a moral boundary, not a physical space." *
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* Chris Giannou *
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