Keynote Address by Ms. Sahar Francis, Executive Director, Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association
PLZ RSVP-space is limited.
$10 requested donation to offset cost of event.
Thursday, May 9th, 4-6:00 pm:
Keynote Address: Ms. Sahar Francis, Human Rights Lawyer & Executive Director, Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association (Addameeer means Conscience in Arabic) http://www.addameer.org/
Friday, May 10th, 8:30am-6pm
08:30 – 09:00am coffee
09:00 – 09:30am Opening and welcome
09:30 – 11:00am Panel I: Global COINTELPRO: Then and Now!
11:00 – 11:15am Break
11:15 – 12:45pm Panel II: Immigration, Repression & Borders
12:45 – 2:00pm Lunch
02:00 – 3:30pm Panel III: Hunger Strikes-Strategies of Resistance-
3:30 – 3:45pm Break
3:45 – 5:45pm Final Plenary
Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/497296990336461/
Confirmed Speakers & Topics:
• Ziad Abbas, Middle East Children’s Alliance
Palestinian Children behind Bars and Palestinian Hunger Strike
• Fahd Ahmad, Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM)
National security & the profiling, criminalization and Entrapment of Arabs and Muslims
• Jessica Antonio*, Bayan USA
The Struggle of the Filipino People against Repression
• Hatem Bazian, UC-Berkeley & Zaytouna College
COINTELPRO, Islamophobia and Palestine
• Hamdiya Cooks-Abdullah, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
Experiences of Muslim Women Prisoners in US Jails
• Gregory Dobbins*, UC-Davis
H-Block/Armagh Hunger Strike and the Irish Struggle for Self-Determination
• Claude Marks, Freedom Archives
(US) COINTELPRO: History, Repression and Resistance
• Summer Hararah: Muslim Legal Fund of America
Guantanamo Hunger Strike
• Rachel Herzing, Critical Resistance
The Prison Industrial Complex & Community Accountability
• Alicia Jrapko, International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban 5
The Case of the Cuban 5: Struggle for Human Rights
• Manuel La Fontaine, All of Us or None
Surviving Violence Before, During and After Incarceration
• Pierre LaBossiere*, Haiti Action Committee
Repression and Resistance in Haiti
• Isaac Ontiveros, Critical Resistance
Pelican Bay Prisoners’ Resistance
• Denia Perez*, Eyes on Arizona Collective
Border Control, Immigration and Walls: From Mexico to Palestine
• Annie Paradise, California Coalition for Women Prisoners
Women Prisoners in US Jails
• Tamara Lea Spira, University of Oregon
Chile: Memories of Friends and Families of the Disappeared
• Jaime Veve, Puerto Rican Pro-Independence, Anti-war & Labor Activist
Puerto Rican Political Prisoners and the Struggle for Independence
• Azadeh Zohrabi, Pelican Bay Human Rights Movement
Pelican Bay Hunger Strike and Prisoners’ Human Rights
*Invited!
Sponsors (list in formation): Al-Awda: Palestinian Right to Return Coalition; All of Us or None; Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Initiative-SFSU; Arab Resource and Organizing Center; Black Student Union-SFSU; California Coalition for Women Prisoners; Center for Race and Gender, UC-Berkeley; Committee to Stop FBI Repression; Critical Resistance; Freedom Archives; Friends of Sabeel, Northern California; General Union of Palestinian Students-SFSU; International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network; Malcolm X Grassroots Movement; MeCHA-SFSU; Middle East Children’s Alliance; Muslim Student Association-SFSU; Muslim Women Student Association-SFSU; Race and Resistance Studies-SFSU; Richard Oakes Multicultural Center, Cesar Chavez Student Center; Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network; United States Palestinian Community Network; US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel; War Times/Tiempo de Guerras.
Endorsers (list in formation): American Friends Service Committee, San Francisco Office; Arab Cultural and Community Center; International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban 5; Muslim Identities and Cultures Group, UC-Berkeley; Palestinian Youth Movement.
SPACE IS LIMITED! Please RSVP by 5pm on Monday, May 7, 2013 to amedstaf@sfsu.edu. For more information, call (415) 405-2668 or email amedstaf@sfsu.edu or SFSUGUPS415@gmail.com
$10 donation is requested to offset the cost of the teach-in. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
To make a contribution, please write your check to “AMED-SFSU” and earmark it Prisoners’ teach-in. Please mail your check to:
Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Initiative (AMED)
College of Ethnic Studies
San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Ave, EP 425
San Francisco, CA 94132