Globalizing Palestine: Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Jeff Halper at UC Berkeley
Thursday April 11, 5pm-8pm Lecture – 5 PM @ 315 Wheeler Hall, UC Berkeley. Reception – 7 PM @ 330 Wheeler Hall Dr. Jeff Halper is the co-founder of the Israeli Committee against House Demolitions, an anthropology professor, life long peace and justice activist and a Nobel Prize nominee. He’ll speak on “Globalizing Palestine:” Israel, […]
World-renowned political theorist, philosopher, historian, author and activist, MIT Professor Emeritus NOAM CHOMSKY
“Palestinian Hopes, Regional Turmoil” Wednesday, May 8, 7pm Paramount Theatre 2025 Broadway, downtown Oakland (near 19th Street Bart) and Special Guest, HOLLY NEAR & the PEACE BECOMES YOU band! $12 – $200 Tickets available NOW! Join and Share our Event Facebook Page! ALSO: RESERVE AD SPACE NOW IN MECA’S 25TH ANNIVERSARY NOAM CHOMSKY PROGRAM BOOK! […]
An Evening With Angela Davis
In Celebration of MECA’s 25th Anniversary…and In Commemoration of Palestinian Prisoners’ Day Wednesday, April 17, 7pm First Congregational Church of Berkeley 2345 Channing Way, at Dana (near downtown Berkeley BART) Introduced by Palestinian journalist from Deheishe Refugee Camp, Ziad Abbas, who will speak about Palestinian children prisoners
DAM Performing in Berkeley April 7th
DAM, the amazing Palestinian Hip Hop band is coming to BERKELEY on their US tour of their new album “Dabke on the Moon”! Don’t miss this opportunity to hear the first Palestinian hip hop crew perform live! Their poetic songs of resistance infuse traditional Arabic percussion rhythms and melodies with hip hop. Their work has […]
An Event Commemorating Palestinian Land Day
LAND IS LIFE: Communities Resisting Dispossession and Colonization Speakers, Drummers, Dabkeh & Poetry Speakers: Samera Esmeir Katie Joaquin Tony Gonzales & more… Saturday March 30th, 2013 6-8PM The Women’s Building 3543 18th Street San Francisco, CA
Film “Enemy Alien”: Parallels of Palestinian and Japanese American Struggles
“Enemy Alien”, a documentary by Konrad Aderer, is the Story of Farouk Abdel Muhti, a Palestinian activist’s fight for freedom which draws a Japanese American filmmaker into confrontation with detention regimes of past and present. Discussion after the film led by Masao Suzuki and Zahra Billo. Masao Suzuki, member of Nihonmachi Outreach Committee, Economics Professor […]
Where Should the Birds Fly by woman film-maker Fida Qishta
Monday March 18 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM New Parkway Theater 474 24th St, Oakland Tickets: $10 Brownpapertickets.com/events/346114 In honor of International Women’s Day and all of the women who strengthen, protect, defend and maintain our families, communities and movements for justice and liberation – join us for a Bay Area exclusive screening of Where […]