Jeff Halper’s featured presentation at the Resource Center for Nonviolence 2008 Annual Dinner and Program will be rebroadcast on Santa Cruz Community Television Channel #25 in the coming two weeks at the below times.
Halper is founder and coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (www.icahd.org), author of “An Israeli in Palestine: Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel,” and has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Peace. Halper talks about the prospects for a just reconciliation to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He begins with a sobering analysis of how Naomi Klein’s “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism” has been applied to the Middle East, one result of which is the Palestinian are perhaps the first people in history to be consciously and publicly rendered “as entirely surplus humanity,” the sole remaining purpose of which is as “guinea pigs” on which tactics and strategies of control can be tried out.
It plays several times on Channel 25 in the next few weeks as follows:
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8/24/2008 at 9:00 AM
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Please watch Jeff’s talk and let us know what you think. The program also includes presenting the “Drawing the Line Award” to Mubarak Awad of Nonviolence International, the local Iraq Veterans Against the War, and “SIN,” students working for immigrants’ right to education.
This is a truly exceptional opportunity to visit the region at a critical moment in history and to learn about the ongoing conflict from a variety of perspectives, while meeting with and learning from locals working for a sustainable, just solution. You will visit various points of interest in the West Bank, Jerusalem and Israel, stay with Israeli and Palestinian families and have the opportunity to participate in ongoing nonviolent campaigns as well as witness the daily reality of people in the region.