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Feb-28-2011 02:26

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Events and Protests this Week Support World Peace

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Join fellow Oregon and SW Washington residents who support Palestine.

Courtesy: UN

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - A number of world solidarity events will be held this week in Portland. Tuesday will see the screening of Battle of Algiers, on Wednesday there will be a Teach-in to Keep Public Education Public!

Friday the powerful, award winning documentary: Occupation 101 will be shown. Saturday will see the We Are One: A Peaceful protest in Solidarity with the people of Libya. On Sunday, Protest! The Annual Oregon AIPAC Event will raise awareness over the group that Israel's right wing policies of occupation, settlement expansion, and apartheid most closely depends on in the US.

Screening of Battle of Algiers
Time: Tuesday, March 1 at 7:00 p.m.
Location: The Variant 4810 NE Garfield Ave

In light of the wave of popular uprisings against authoritarian rule across the Arab world the BMedia Collective along with Oregon Jerico will be hosting a special screening of the Battle of Algiers as the next installment of our Cine Club film series. Directed by Gillo Pontecorvo in 1966 The Battle of Algiers is a semi-fictionalized account of the Arab uprising against French colonial rule in the 1950s and 60s dubbed the Algerian War.

To accompany the feature film BMedia will show two of our recent shorts on the Egyptian uprising. We also will be holding a community discussion in conjunction with several co-sponsoring organizations on what the wave of popular revolt across the Arab world means globally and locally.

Sponsored by BMedia Collective, Oregon Jerico, and Students United for Palestinian Equal Rights

Teach-in to Keep Public Education Public!
Portland State University Native American Center (710 S.W. Jackson St.)
March 2nd 5-7pm

Worried about the increasing cost of public university tuition? Want to know more about Senate Bill 242, restructuring and how it will affect higher education? Come, listen and discuss these issues affecting our community. There will be a panel discussion about how PSU students and faculty are organizing around these issues. It's our future let's make sure we have a say in it!

Panelist: Barbara Dudley- Political Science Professor
Marcia Klotz- English Professor
Zaki Bucharest- current Economics Major
Andrea Townsend-Community Activist

Free Food for Thought Cafe coffee and tea
Sponsored by: Portland Committee to Defend Education & PSU American Association of University Professors
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Award Winning Documentary: Occupation 101
Time: Friday, March 4th 5-7pm
Location: Portland State University, Smith Memorial Student Union Room 294

Enjoy free Pizza and a thought-provoking and powerful documentary film on the current and historical root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Unlike any other film ever produced on the conflict -- 'Occupation 101' presents a comprehensive analysis of the facts and hidden truths surrounding the never ending controversy and dispels many of its long-perceived myths and misconceptions.

Watch Trailer Below
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuoKwAHmJo4

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Hosted by SUPER

We Are One: A Peaceful protest in Solidarity with the people of Libya
Time: Saturday, March 5 · 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Location: Pioneer Courthouse Square
701 SW Sixth Avenue
Portland, OR

Today we will fill Pioneer Square to show our sisters, brothers, family, friends in Libya and all of the Middle East and North Africa that we stand strong with them in their fight for democracy, dignity and human rights.

This is a peaceful protest to show our support. It is our duty as Americans living abroad to get the word out! The voice of the young generation is ESPECIALLY important.

~~~~~~~~~ Come out and show your support on Saturday March 5th from 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm ~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Protest! The Annual Oregon AIPAC Event

Time: 4-6pm

Date: Sunday, March 6th, 2011

Location: Mittleman Jewish Community Center

6651 SW Capitol Highway, Portland, Oregon 97219

Contact: Peter Miller, pmiller@auphr.org

Please join Americans United for Palestinian Human Rights (AUPHR) and other groups for our annual protest of the Oregon American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) community dinner.

AIPAC is the largest and most powerful hard-line pro-Israel lobby organization in the United States and serves to tie U.S. and Oregon politicians closer to Israel's right wing policies of occupation, settlement expansion, and apartheid. Many local, state and federal politicians from across Oregon attend this event, which typically lays out AIPAC's political strategy for the coming year and serves to garner support and build community for AIPAC and Israel while ignoring injustice.

In part because of AIPAC, U.S. politicians are unwilling to take a courageous stand against Israel's policies and unwilling to hold Israel accountable for virtually any human rights violations. It is time for citizens to stand up and say "No to AIPAC, no to apartheid, and no to our politicians' complicity with Israeli human rights violations!"

AUPHR is providing many signs that say "Stop Funding Israeli Occupation and Apartheid" and ask that protesters dress in black attire. Help us send a unified message!

Sponsored by Americans United for Palestinian Human Rights. Visit our web site at http://www.auphr.org

Following is a list of last year's attendees of the annual AIPAC event in Oregon on April 25, 2010. Please consider contacting your politicians and ask them not to attend this year's event. The names were announced by the AIPAC hosts at the podium. Akiva Tor, Ron Wyden, Earl Blumenauer, and Kurt Schrader all gave speeches at the event.

Kurt Schrader stated during his speech that, "If I want to learn about the Middle East, I know who to go to, I go to AIPAC."

Kulongoski in a speech to AIPAC in 2006 said that "Even in these partisan times, support for AIPAC is an article of faith for both political parties. This is as it should be . . ."

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Wael Elasady is the Co-founder of SUPER; and owner of: www.liberalarab.com