The Ongoing Nakba Speakers from BADIL and Zochrot will discuss the “Ongoing Nakba” affecting Palestinians in Palestine and in the diaspora. Presentations will provide a historical overview of the Nakba (“catastrophe” in Arabic) and the practicalities of the Right of Return for refugees. The audience will have time to consider integrating the Nakba and the Right […]
Please join us for a wonderful evening of Persian love songs, along with a conversation with exhibiting Iranian-American Artist Nazanin Hedayat Monroe: Saturday March 21, 2015 at 8pmCrossing Borders in Performance IV: Monika Jalili - Twentieth Century Persian Folk and Popular Music: And Conversation with Exhibiting Artist Nazanin Hedayat MonroeArtsWestchester31 Mamaroneck AvenueWhite Plains, NY […]
BE IN PHILADELPHIA ON WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 2015, THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BOMBING OF THE MOVE ORGANIZATION IN WHICH 11 MOVE MEMBERS WERE KILLED. DEMAND THAT THE MOVE 9 BE RELEASED. Building toward that in New York City— FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 6–9 PM RIVERSIDE CHURCH 91 CLAREMONT AVENUE, ROOM 9T FILM SHOWING of […]
Join us this Monday, March 30th for a climate-insider double headliner: “On Climate Science and Coverage – What three decades have taught us.” Michael Oppenheimer, a veteran climate scientist, and Andrew Revkin, a longtime climate journalist, take questions from each other and the audience, exploring their learning curves, frustrations and hopes as each confronts his […]
Screening and Discussion with Filmmaker Lia Tarachansky Monday, March 30th, at 6:30pm Mapleton Conference Center Good Counsel Campus (next to Pace Law) 52 North Broadway White Plains, NY 10603.* In By the Side of the Road, former West Bank settler Lia Tarachansky examines Israelis’ collective amnesia regarding the fateful events of 1948 when the State of […]
My Name is Rachel Corrie will run for 10 performances at Culture Project’s Lynn Redgrave Theater. The play is taken from the writings of Rachel Corrie and edited by Alan Rickman and Katharine Viner. Performances will be April 2-5 and April 9-12, 2015. Friday April 10, Rachel Corrie’s birthday, will be a special benefit for the Rachel Corrie Foundation. […]
Friday at 5:45pm Saudi Arabian Consul General, NYC, 2nd Avenue between 46th and 47th Streets https://facebook.com/events/412344995601995/ Anyone who wants to hold up a sign that says something to the effect of "please stop dropping bombs out of airplanes onto the land and the people of Yemen", or any similar message, let's just meet up and […]