Speaker from the Strike at the Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair

 

Palestine: Responses to Occupation

It promises to be an informative and interesting discussion, and we hope you can attend.

At 11:15 am on Saturday, March 22nd in the auditorium

 

Rachel West is a mother and grandmother, born in South Africa, who with her family was involved in the anti-apartheid movement. She has worked at Rainbow Grocery Coop in San Francisco since 1985. With other workers and shoppers, she is spearheading a boycott of Israeli goods. She is also part of the Global Women’s Strike.

 

Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair

presented by

Bound Together Anarchist Collective Bookstore

Saturday, March 22 … 10 am - 6 pm

Sunday, March 23 … 11 am - 5 pm

at the SF County Fair Building in Golden Gate Park @ 9th Avenue and Lincoln Way. This event is free!

 

The County Fair Building is located just outside the main gate of the Strybing Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. In the main hall about 60 anarchist publishers, independent booksellers, independent media groups, artists and political groups will display their offerings. In the Auditorium, on both days, authors will speak and panel discussions will take place.

For more information and a complete schedule, visit the book fair website:

http://sfbookfair.wordpress.com or visit http://www.boundtogetherbooks.com

(book fair graphic by Hugh D’Andrade)

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This year the first panel discussion will be Palestine: Responses to Occupation

It promises to be an informative and interesting discussion, and we hope you can attend.

At 11:15 am on Saturday, March 22nd in the auditorium

 

Khalil Bendib (moderator) is an artist and cartoonist whose work is published in many US newspapers as well as in the The Black Commentator and various other online publications. His forthcoming book is titled Mission Accomplished: Wicked Cartoons by America’s Most Wanted Cartoonist. He lives in Berkeley, CA.

 

Panelists:

Nora Barrows-Friedman is the Senior Producer and co-host of Flashpoints, a daily investigative newsmagazine on Pacifica Radio. Since 2004, she has been reporting regularly from the occupied West Bank, the Gaza Strip and from inside historic Palestine (Israel) for Flashpoints and as a correspondent for Inter Press Service, a news agency based in Europe. While in Palestine, Nora is based in the Dheisheh refugee camp where she volunteers with the media committee at the Ibdaa Cultural Center, working with refugee youth in journalism and digital media arts. Nora is currently on the Board of Directors with the Research Journalism Initiative, an educational media exchange to build alternatives to the established corporate media’s spin on the Palestine issue in the United States. She is also a contributor to Left Turn Magazine and ElectronicIntifada.net. Nora is also a mother, a photographer and a musician. Her website is www.norabf.com, and she can be heard on www.flashpoints.net.

 

Susan Greene is an artist, activist and a psychologist. She teaches art, and has organized many community art projects locally in San Francisco. Her first trip to Palestine was in 1989. She has coordinated a 4-story mural as part of the Break the Silence project, painted by young people and artists from Dheisheh Refugee Camp.

 

Tom Pessah is an Israeli graduate sociology student at UC Berkeley. He has a BA in Sociology and in History, and an MA in Sociology, from Tel Aviv University. He has been a board member of the UC Berkeley chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine for two years. In 2006 Tom helped organize the annual day of remembrance for the Nakba on campus. He regularly attends Hillel’s Hebrew Hour, to teach people about Israeli culture and to help them practice their Hebrew.

 

Rachel West is a mother and grandmother, born in South Africa, who with her family was involved in the anti-apartheid movement. She has worked at Rainbow Grocery Coop in San Francisco since 1985. With other workers and shoppers, she is spearheading a boycott of Israeli goods. She is also part of the Global Women’s Strike.

 

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