Occupied Territories
Help Camps Breakerz of Gaza build a new home
For those of us internationals who care deeply about Palestine, it is hard to know just how to make a real difference. Probably the most significant way we can help is to change the foreign policy of our government (particularly if we are American). But while I keep trying on this front, I have come close to despair. I do sense some (too gradual for my taste) shifts in public opinion, but judging by all the political posturing at the AIPAC meeting this year, I feel fairly certain that the U.S. administration and -- especially -- Congress will be the last to change, and a loooong time from now.
Occupy Talks: Indigenous perspectives on the Occupy Movement
Jan 23 2012 - 7:00pm
Location
Beit Zatoun
612 Markham Street
Toronto , ON Canada
43° 39' 53.2584" N, 79° 24' 44.6868" W
See map: Google Maps
What does it mean to ‘Occupy already occupied lands?'. How does Occupy relate to 500 years of resistance on Turtle Island? Please join speakers Tom B.K. Goldtooth, Clayton Thomas-Muller and Leanne Simpson to explore and discuss these dynamics of the Occupy movement.
Tom B.K. Goldtooth is the Executive Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) and is a social change activist and environmental and economic justice leader.
Clayton Thomas-Muller of the Mathias Colomb Cree Nation is an activist for Indigenous rights and environmental justice.
Amira Hass: Getting the message to Israelis about what's normal
Normality has always figured in Jewish experience. For almost two millennia, living in exile among non-Jews seemed normal for religious reasons: Jews had somehow botched their relationship with their God and exile was the consequence. In His own good time, he'd eventually end it. Meanwhile, Jews lived among "the nations," fruitfully, painfully or both. There were occasional messianic eruptions involving attempts to return to the Holy Land; they were always treated by rabbinic authorities as heretical.
