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SUMMARY:2nd Annual Ride for Palestine
DESCRIPTION:Date: Sunday July 16\, 2023\nTime: 9am – 3pm \nLocation: MECA 1101 8th St\, Berkeley\, CA\nCost: $25-$50 \nThe Ride for Palestine is an annual fundraiser to support the Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA’s). The Ride for Palestine is an 11-mile scenic route with beautiful views of the San Francisco Bay. Bring the entire family along for the Ride! It is designed to be enjoyable for cyclists of all ages and skill levels. \nSign up to Ride now\, before it’s too late! \nThe Ride will be followed by a celebration that includes delicious food\, music\, activities for all age levels\, and so much more. Not riding\, but still want to join us for the post-Ride celebration? You can purchase tickets for the celebration here. \nAfter 75 years of ethnic cleansing\, displacement\, and attacks on their lives and livelihoods\, Palestinians remain steadfast on their land and fiercely committed to the cause of freedom. \nMECA’s first annual Ride for Palestine was a huge success. Riders raised more than $50\,000 to support MECA’s projects. This year our goal is $75\,000 in honor of 75 years since the 1948 Nakba that began the expulsion and dispossession of Palestinians. \nRiding is an act of solidarity with Palestinian communities as they struggle to protect their children\, educate them\, and strengthen their spirits. \n \nMore info available at RideforPalestine.com. Have any questions? Reach out to info@rideforpalestine.com \nFor updates follow\, like and share the Ride’s Facebook\, Instagram\, Twitter\, and Tiktok \nRide for solidarity. Ride for Palestinian children. Ride for fun and community. \nide for fun and community.
URL:https://www.mecaforpeace.org/event/2nd-annual-ride-for-palestine/
LOCATION:Middle East Children’s Alliance\, 1101 8th Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94710\, United States
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SUMMARY:CANCELED Oakland\, CA: Direct from Palestine! Jamal Juma' on the Ongoing Nakba
DESCRIPTION:We’re sad to announce that this event has been cancelled due to unforeseen logistical issues.
URL:https://www.mecaforpeace.org/event/oakland-ca-direct-from-palestine-jamal-juma-on-the-ongoing-nakba/
LOCATION:Oakstop\, 1736 Franklin Street\, Oakland\, CA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230513T140000
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Protest for Palestine In Commemoration of 75th Nakba
DESCRIPTION:Join us in San Francisco to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Nakba. Nakba Day commemorates the ongoing displacement and dispossession of Palestinians as a result of zionism and its collaborators. Generation after generation\, Palestinians continue to resist Israeli military occupation\, colonialism\, exile\, and ethnic cleansing. Wear your keffiyehs and bring your flags! We call on the Bay Area community and all supporters of the Palestinian cause to show up and send a clear message – the Bay Area says NO to Zionism! After 75 years\, no matter where we are\, we will continue to uplift our people’s demands for return and liberation!
URL:https://www.mecaforpeace.org/event/bay-area-protest-for-palestine-in-commemoration-of-75th-nakba/
LOCATION:518 Valencia\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230430T200000
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SUMMARY:SF: Voices of Palestinian Resistance: Commemorating 75 Years of Nakba
DESCRIPTION:The Middle East Children’s Alliance presents\nVoices of Palestinian Resistance:\nCommemorating 75 Years of Nakba\nFeaturing:\nSpecial Introduction by Dr. ANGELA DAVIS\nIn person: RASHIDA TLAIB\, Congresswoman from Michigan\nand\nOriginal video interviews with Palestinian refugees about their history and dreams\nSunday\, April 30\, 2023 6 PM\nSydney Goldstein Theater\, San Francisco (near Civic Center BART)\nBuy tickets!\nFacebook event – RSVP & share! \nA benefit for the children of Palestine \nRASHIDA TLAIB\n“A mother working for justice for all.”\nRashida Tlaib is a well-known progressive warrior\, proud daughter of Palestinian immigrant parents\, and mother of two children. The name Rashida means “righteous” in Arabic. Rashida made history by becoming the first woman of Palestinian descent to become a Congressperson and the first Muslim woman to ever serve in the Michigan Legislature. \nTICKETS: $30\, $50\, $70\, $100\nOrder tickets from www.cityboxoffice.com\, 415-392-4400.\nAll seats are reserved. Sorry\, no refunds. \nGroup rates available – please contact MECA for info meca@mecaforpeace.org\, 510-548-0542 \nNote: Disability seating is available (2 seats together) in the Orchestra.\nOrder today–we expect this event to sell out!
URL:https://www.mecaforpeace.org/event/sf-voices-of-palestinian-resistance-commemorating-75-years-of-nakba/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Berkeley\, CA: 19th Palestinian Holiday Crafts Bazaar
DESCRIPTION:Join MECA & Joining Hands for our 19th annual Palestinian Holiday Crafts Bazaar!\nOne Day Only! Stunning gifts directly from Palestinian craftspeople — your purchase aids Palestinian children and their families. \nBrowse the award-winning olive oil\, olive wood products\, embroidery\, pottery\, rugs\, jewelry\, cookbooks\, children’s toys\, much more from Palestinian artisans\, cooperatives\, and farmers! \nDate: Saturday\, November 19th\nTime: 10am-6pm\nLocation: MECA office\, 1101 8th Street\, Berkeley (inside)\nCost: Free! \nRSVP & share the event on Facebook! \nWheelchair accessible\, Masks Required \nNot in the Bay Area? Check out our online store www.ShopPalestine.org
URL:https://www.mecaforpeace.org/event/berkeley-ca-19th-palestinian-holiday-crafts-bazaar/
LOCATION:Middle East Children’s Alliance\, 1101 8th Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94710\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221029T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221029T123000
DTSTAMP:20260426T150134
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Book Celebration! “You Can Be the Last Leaf" by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Readings and Conversation with Maya Abu Al-Hayyat & Special Guest Deema Shehabi\n“You Can Be the Last Leaf: Selected Poems” by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat directs the Palestine Writing Workshop. She’ll read poems & be in conversation with poet Deema Shehabi \n\n\n\nSATURDAY\, OCTOBER 29\, 11am PT / 2pm ET\nRegister now! $10 donation\, benefit for the Palestine Writing Workshop \nFacebook event – RSVP & share! \n \nMaya Abu Al-Hayyat directs the Palestine Writing Workshop\, an institution that encourages reading in Palestinian communities through creative writing projects and storytelling with children and teachers. \nMaya has published four collections of poems\, four novels\, and numerous children’s stories\, including The Blue Pool of Questions. She contributed to and wrote a foreword for A Bird Is Not a Stone: An Anthology of Contemporary Palestinian Poetry\, and she is an editor of The Book of Ramallah. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books\, Cordite Poetry Review\, The Guardian\, and Literary Hub; she lives in Jerusalem and works in Ramallah. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nDeema K. Shehabi is the author of Thirteen Departures From the Moon and co-editor with Beau Beausoleil of Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here \, for which she received the Northern California Book Award’s NCBR Recognition Award. She co-authored Diaspo/Renga with Marilyn Hacker and won the 2018 Nazim Hikmet poetry competition . Her work has also appeared in Literary Imagination\, the Kenyon Review\, Literary Hub\, Poetry London\, and Crab Orchard\, and has been translated into French\, Farsi\, and Arabic; she has been nominated for the Pushcart prize several times. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPRAISE FOR “You Can Be The Last Leaf”\n“The Palestinian poet’s U.S. debut gathers two decades of her intimate testimony about private life in a public war zone\, where ‘those who win by killing fewer children / are losers.’”—New York Times \n“Al-Hayyat’s latest devastating and courageous collection captures the precarious everyday lives of Palestinians with enormous empathy and glistening clarity . . . The vivid translations by Fady Joudah will jostle readers into discomfort and pin Al-Hayyat’s stunning voice into their ears.”—Booklist \n“Abu Al-Hayyat explores the broader political and geographic aspects of Palestinian life under colonial rule while at the same time interweaving the quotidian aspects of life and loss in such settings. Within these frictions of exterior trauma and private contemplations\, large constraints and small freedoms\, these poems soar.”—Chicago Review of Books \nBuy a copy of “You Can Be the Last Leaf” from MECA’s online store! \nTickets $10\, Benefit for the Palestine Writing Workshop\nRegister now! www.mecaforpeace.org/lastleaf\nFor info: meca@mecaforpeace.org\, 510-548-0542 \nCosponsored by SacramentoBethlehem Sister City
URL:https://www.mecaforpeace.org/event/virtual-poetry-book-celebration-you-can-be-the-last-leaf-by-maya-abu-al-hayyat/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220717T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220717T150000
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SUMMARY:Berkeley\, CA: Ride for Palestine
DESCRIPTION:The Middle East Children’s Alliance’s (MECA’s) First Annual Ride for Palestine\, on July 17\, 2022\, will be a day of fun\, solidarity\, and celebration to raise money for children in Palestine. \nThe 11-mile scenic Ride for Palestine is designed to be enjoyable for cyclists of all skill levels. \nThe post-Ride celebration will include delicious Palestinian food\, music\, and more. \nRide for Palestine is a fundraiser for MECA’s work to protect the lives\, rights and\, well-being of children in Palestine and the refugee camps in Lebanon. By signing up for the Ride for Palestine\, you are committing to raise funds for Palestinian children. This is what makes our inaugural Ride for Palestine so special. \nLearn more about the Ride for Palestine including how to sign up and get involved at: www.rideforpalestine.com\nIf you are in the UK\, please check out our sister ride\, The Big Ride for Palestine \n 
URL:https://www.mecaforpeace.org/event/berkeley-ca-ride-for-palestine/
LOCATION:Middle East Children’s Alliance\, 1101 8th Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94710\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220708T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220708T210000
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED TO JULY 8: Cookbook Release! ARABIYYA: Recipes from the Life of an Arab in Diaspora
DESCRIPTION:With author and chef REEM ASSIL\, celebrate the warmth and welcoming spirit of Arab food and hospitality while supporting fabulous causes!\nJoin celebrity chef and author REEM ASSIL at the release of her new book ARABIYYA: Recipes from the life of an Arab in Diaspora [A Cookbook] \nMusic by DJ Emancipation and small bites provided by Reem’s — celebrate the warmth and welcoming spirit of Arab food. \nNOTE: this event is postponed to FRIDAY\, JULY 8th\, 6-9pm!\nSorry for any inconvenience; date change is because Reem has Covid — but July 8th is also her birthday\, so cause for a double celebration!\nBuy tickets!\n$35 Event Supporter Ticket Price– includes food and entertainment!\n$65 Event Champion Ticket Price– ALSO includes your very own signed copy of Reem’s book!\n\nEvent is at Restore Oakland: 1419 34th Avenue\, #203\, enter on International Avenue. https://restoreoakland.org/\nWe encourage you to take public transportation as parking is limited. \nNOTE: Proof of vaccination required for admission to event \nCash bar with beer and wine for purchase will be available\, soft drinks\, entertainment! \nIf you already have Reem’s book\, please bring it for her to sign! \n \nREEM ASSIL is a two-time James Beard Award semifinalist for Best Chef: West; a James Beard Award finalist for OutstandingChef; and the owner of Reem’s California\, a bakery with locations in Oakland and San Francisco. Reem was also the opening chef for Dyafa\, an Arab fine-dining restaurant that was awarded a coveted Michelin Bib Gourmand in its first year. She has established herself at the intersection of food\, Arab Culture\, and social justice. \nARABIYYA is a collection of 100+ bright\, bold recipes influenced by the vibrant flavors and convivial culture of the Arab world. Alongside the tempting recipes\, Reem takes readers on a journey through her Palestinian and Syrian roots\, sharing stories of the power of Arab communities to turn hardship into brilliant\, nourishing meals and any occasion into a celebratory feast. There is also food for thought about what it takes to create a more equitable society. Reem’s glorious dishes draw in readers and customers\, but it is her infectious warmth that keeps them at the table. \nONE OF FOOD52’S MOST ANTICIPATED COOKBOOKS OF 2022 \n“This is what a cookbook should be: passion\, politics\, and personality are woven through the fabulous recipes.”—Ruth Reichl\, author of Save Me the Plums \n“A dazzling cookbook filled with mouthwatering recipes and moving stories that take you to the very heart of Arab culture and the migrant experience. Reem’s cooking and storytelling is an inspiration.”—Yasmin Khan\, author of Ripe Figs and Zaitoun \nFacebook event – please RSVP & share! \nEvent hosted by Middle East Children’s Alliance\, cosponsored by Arab Resource & Organizing Center. \nPhoto Credit: Laura Aburamadan
URL:https://www.mecaforpeace.org/event/cookbook-release-arabiyya-recipes-from-the-life-of-an-arab-in-diaspora/
LOCATION:Restore Oakland\, 1419 34th Avenue\, #203\, Oakland\, CA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220328T180000
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SUMMARY:Berkeley\, CA & Virtual: Tribute to Gus Newport with Danny Glover
DESCRIPTION:TRIBUTE TO GUS NEWPORT\nFormer Mayor of Berkeley\, racial justice champion\, former MECA Board Chair –\n–Including MC and Special Guest: DANNY GLOVER–\nMonday\, MARCH 28 — In-Person & Virtual — 6pm PT / 9pm ET\nBuy TICKETS! $25-100 sliding scale for in-person and virtual tickets!\nor\nJoin the HOST COMMITTEE! \nFacebook event – please RSVP & share! \nFreight & Salvage Coffeehouse\, 2020 Addison Street\, Berkeley CA\n5pm PT: hors d’oeuvres\n6-8pm PT/ 9-11pm ET: \nPROGRAM: Danny Glover\, Angela Davis\, Bernie Sanders\, Holly Near & Natalia Zukerman\, Palestinian Ensemble ASWAT\, Barbara Lubin\, Zeiad Abbas Shamrouch — and Gus Newport! \nProceeds benefit MECA’s programs for Palestinian children and refugees. \n \nGus Newport is a Berkeley legend\, grassroots organizer\, and “champion of the people.” With roots in the Civil Rights Movement\, he was mentored by Malcolm X and helped found the Organization of African American Unity. Gus also served on the UN Committee Against Apartheid\, the Committee on the Question of Palestine\, and was an honorary member of the African National Congress. \nGus also: \n\ntraveled to war zones in solidarity with the people of El Salvador\nheaded the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative in Boston\, creating a national model for a neighborhood run “by and for the people”\nwas one of the first U.S. mayors to ride in a Gay Freedom Day parade (1979 in San Francisco).\nhelped oversee the rebuilding of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina\nmentored young activists\nserved on the faculty of UC Berkeley\, MIT and Yale\ncampaigned for Bernie Sanders\nserves on the National Council of Elders\, an organization of key social justice activists over 65\nreceived the 2019 Khalil Gibran Spirit of Humanity Award\, from the Arab American Institute Foundation\n\n“Everybody tells me I have to slow down. I tell them death will have to catch me – I am not going to sit and wait for him!” – Gus Newport \nBuy TICKETS Here ($25-100 sliding scale) or join the HOST COMMITTEE ($500 for two tickets plus other benefits)! \nYou can also mail a check for tickets ($25 – $500)\, and put “Gus Tickets” in the memo line. Be sure to include your phone number and email address. Mail to:\nMECA\n1101 8th Street\nBerkeley CA 94710 \nSorry\, no refunds. \nRead “Gus Newport: In It for the Long Haul” to learn more about Gus and his incredible contributions to movements for justice \nNotes: All ticket-holders will receive a private link to the virtual event.\nIn mid-March we will ask you to let us know if you plan to attend in person\, so that we can plan accordingly\, but you are free to change your mind and just attend virtually. \nFor those attending in person: Currently the Freight & Salvage requires everyone to bring personal ID plus proof of vaccination and booster\, and to wear N95\, KN95\, KF94 or surgical mask. Anyone wearing a cloth mask only will be supplied with a surgical mask to wear under it. Bandanas or gaiters are not acceptable. Sorry but no exceptions to the above. \nThe Freight & Salvage is wheelchair accessible. \nQuestions?: penny@mecaforpeace.org\, 510-548-0542\, x313 \nCredit for Gus & Danny photo: Andrew Bohan
URL:https://www.mecaforpeace.org/event/berkeley-ca-virtual-tribute-to-gus-newport/
LOCATION:Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse\, 2020 Addison St\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
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SUMMARY:Palestinians Fight For Their Village: Virtual Brunch in Solidarity with Silwan
DESCRIPTION:Last summer\, Palestinians and pro-Palestinian activists worldwide rose up to defend Silwan and other villages in East Jerusalem from Israeli bulldozers. Silwan is out of the headlines\, but the battle rages on! \nSilwan is an example of creative resistance to Israeli efforts to destroy all Palestinian presence in the villages surrounding Jerusalem’s Old City. The community\, while struggling with the impact of the Covid pandemic\, faces the constant arrests of Silwani children\, house thefts and demolitions\, the imminent destruction of whole neighborhoods—and the use of the City of David National Park as an archeological weapon for conquest. \nJawad Siyam\, founder of the Wadi Hilweh Information Center and Madaa Creative Center for Children\, has been at the center of Silwani resistance. We’re honored to be able to share his perspective and news about the current situation. \nJody Sokolower\, co-coordinator of MECA’s Teach Palestine Project\, is the author of Determined to Stay: Palestinian Youth Fight for Their Village. Determined to Stay is filled with voices of Silwani youth and their families that illuminate the connections between Israeli’s role in Palestine and racism faced by youth in the United States. Jody will share some of those stories and discuss ways her book can be a tool for building understanding and solidarity. \nSilwani community leader Jawad Siyam on how the village is fighting current attacks from Israeli forces and settlers. \nJody Sokolower shares the stories\, fears and dreams of Silwani youth from her book Determined to Stay: Palestinian Youth Fight for Their Village. \nCome join us to learn more about Silwan and how you can stand in solidarity! \n 
URL:https://www.mecaforpeace.org/event/20701/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211024T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211024T170000
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SUMMARY:Palestinian Holiday Crafts Mini Bazaar
DESCRIPTION:We’re thrilled to let you know that our 18th Palestinian Holiday Crafts Bazaar is returning\, after last year’s hiatus due to COVID. \nOne Day Only: SUNDAY\, OCTOBER 24\, Noon – 5pm \nIMPORTANT UPDATE:\nDue to predictions of rain and wind this weekend\, we’re moving our Palestinian Crafts Bazaar this Sunday INDOORS!\nIt’s the same place and time: Sunday\, October 24\, noon-5pm at MECA office\, 1101 8th Street in Berkeley\nWe do need to require proof of vaccination (City of Berkeley requirement) — and please wear your mask.\nWe have brand new shipments of beautiful crafts — perfect for holiday gifts\, or for you to keep. Every purchase benefits Palestinian children and their families\, plus it’s wheelchair accessible. Sponsored by MECA & Joining Hands. \nA remarkable display of items from Palestine — very special for gifts\, or for you! Award-winning Olive Oil\, Pottery\, Olive Wood Products\, Embroidery\, Shawls & Scarves\, Olive Oil Soap & Palestinian Dead Sea Products\, Keffiyehs\, Children’s Toys\, Clothing\, Jewelry\, Kitchenware\n& Cookbooks\, Rugs\, Books. \nFacebook event: please RSVP & share!\nBring friends and family!\nwww.mecaforpeace.org\, 510-548-0542 \n?
URL:https://www.mecaforpeace.org/event/palestinian-holiday-crafts-mini-bazaar/
LOCATION:Middle East Children’s Alliance\, 1101 8th Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94710\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210826T170000
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SUMMARY:Mona Hajjar Halaby Book Launch!
DESCRIPTION:“In My Mother’s Footsteps: A Palestinian Refugee Returns Home”\nVirtual Event — Thursday\, August 26: 5-6:30pm PT / 8-9:30pm ET\nFREE\, Register Now! www.mecaforpeace.org/MonaHalaby\nJoin Middle East Children’s Alliance to celebrate the release of Mona Hajjar Halaby’s new book! Mona is a long-time friend and supporter of MECA and a member of Joining Hands\, the group of Bay Area women who founded the annual Palestinian crafts bazaar and co-organize it with us each year. \nMONA HAJJAR HALABY is a Palestinian-American educator\, writer and social history buff\, who lives in California\, USA. She is the author of In My Mother’s Footsteps: A Palestinian Refugee Returns Home\, which interweaves the story of her mother’s life and her own sabbatical year teaching conflict resolution in Ramallah. She has created a Facebook page focused on photographs of Jerusalem during the first half of the twentieth century\, entitled “British Mandate Jerusalemites Photo Library\,” and has also collaborated on the interactive documentary www.jerusalemwearehere.com. \n  \nIn My Mother’s Footsteps is a moving and heart-rending journey of a daughter discovering her roots and recovering her mother’s beloved past. It’s also an intimate and tender account of daily life for Palestinians as never seen before. Letters from her mother make this a memoir of two voices; the inspirational resilience of the Palestinians shines through. \nOrder your copy today! \n\n“‘Refugees are like seeds that scatter in the wind\, and land in different soils that become their reluctant homes’ my mother once told me. As a small child\, I looked up at my mother and clutched her hand. The puffiness of her palm reminded me of a loaf of warm pita bread\, and when she laced her fingers into mine like a pretzel\, I felt safe. I would have walked with her to the ends of the earth.” \nFrom Goodreads Reviewers:\n“A beautifully written story told with honesty and passion…It will jerk those tears right out of your head…Surely one of the best books of 2021.” \n“Informative\, powerful\, moving…Her descriptions of the places she visits in Palestine are exceptionally evocative…I felt transported to the streets of Jerusalem and Ramallah\, almost as if I was walking alongside her…[She] summarizes the outcome of her journey: ‘Unbeknownst to me\, in the process of recovering from my mother her beloved past\, I had found it for myself.'”
URL:https://www.mecaforpeace.org/event/mona-hajjar-halaby-book-launch/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210816T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210816T170000
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SUMMARY:From Bethlehem to Gaza: Palestinian Culinary Resilience & Liberation!
DESCRIPTION:With Laila El-Haddad and Vivien Sansour\n\nMonday\, August 16\, 3-5pm PT – 6-8pm ET\n$10 Donation\, Register Now! www.mecaforpeace.org/BethlehemGaza\nJoin Middle East Children’s Alliance & Just World Educational virtually for a summer meal prepared by Laila El-Haddad\, with virtual assistance from her dear friend Vivien Sansour. In this exclusive seasonal cooking demonstration\, they will discuss resilience against both the physical and culinary partitions of the occupation – as well as its attempts to destroy diversity of food. In this moment of new imagining for Palestine\, how can we create a plate that threads us together? \nAnd celebrating the 3rd edition of Laila El-Haddad’s book\, The Gaza Kitchen: A Palestinian Culinary Journey! \nBenefit for MECA programs in Gaza \nLAILA EL-HADDAD is co-author of The Gaza Kitchen: A Palestinian Culinary Journey. \nA Palestinian American journalist\, food justice advocate and public speaker\, Laila is the author of a number of books and co-editor of Gaza Unsilenced (2015). Through her work as a writer\, storyteller\, and culinary documentarian\, she provides much-needed insight into the Palestinian experience. Born in Kuwait to Gaza-Palestinian parents\, Laila currently lives with her family in Maryland. \n  \nVIVIEN SANSOUR  is an artist\, storyteller\, researcher\,  conservationist and founder of the Palestinian Heirloom Seed Library. A culinary historian and enthusiastic cook\, Vivien brings threatened varieties “back to the dinner table to become part of our living culture rather than a relic of the past.” She uses image\, sketch\, film\, soil\, seeds\, and plants to enliven old cultural tales in contemporary presentations and to advocate for seed conservation and the protection of agro-biodiversity as a cultural/political act. Born in Jerusalem\, Vivien lives in Bethlehem\, Palestine and Los Angeles\, USA. \n  \nRegister Now! $10 donation\, www.mecaforpeace.org/BethlehemGaza \n  \nCelebrating The Gaza Kitchen\, 3rd Edition! \nLaila El-Haddad and Maggie Schmitt’s ethnographic cookbook\, The Gaza Kitchen\, blazed a trail that other Palestinian cookbooks then followed. Together\, they have established Palestinian cuisine as a distinguished part of the world’s cultural heritage. The Gaza Kitchen has been lauded for the clarity and accuracy of its recipes—and for the deep humanism of the authors’ approach\, in which the joyous faces and families of Gaza’s cooks and food vendors share equal space with the recipes. This 3rd Edition includes new recipes\, a new Introduction\, and updates from Laila’s 2019 trip to Gaza. \nNot just a superb cookbook\, a collection of vital recipes from a delicious yet often overlooked cuisine\, but an argument for understanding. A classic of world food.\n-ANTHONY BOURDAIN \nThe best cookbooks inspire you to be a better chef. This one can make you a better person…Part anthropology\, part history\, part politics\, part biography\, part geography\, and always passionately intelligent\, this is gastronomic writing at its finest.\n-RAJ PATEL \nBuy your copy of The Gaza Kitchen from MECA’s online store!
URL:https://www.mecaforpeace.org/event/from-bethlehem-to-gaza-palestinian-culinary-resilience-liberation/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210523T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210523T120000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Launch for Silwan! "Determined to Stay: Palestinian Youth Fight for Their Village"
DESCRIPTION:MECA is thrilled to invite you to this special event focusing on Silwan\, East Jerusalem! MECA staff member Jody Sokolower is the author of the soon to be released Determined to Stay: Palestinian Youth Fight for Their Village. Join Jody and Sahar Abbasi\, from MECA’s partner center in Silwan\, for this virtual event celebrating the book! \nFree!  Register now: www.mecaforpeace.org/DeterminedToStay\nSilwan is a Palestinian village just outside the ancient walls of Jerusalem’s Old City. Determined to Stay is the moving story of its people in the face of occupation. As Silwani youth and community members share their lives with us\, their village becomes a doorway to Palestinian history and current reality. Written with young people in mind\, Determined to Stay draws deep connections between the lives of youth in the US and Palestine—from criminalization\, forced relocation and buried histories to hip-hop as resistance. \n \n  \nAuthor Jody Sokolower will read from Determined to Stay \n  \n  \n \n  \nWith Sahar Abbasi\, live from Silwan\, Palestine\, talking about the current situation \n  \n  \n  \nFacebook event – please share \nAbout the Book\nDETERMINED TO STAY: Palestinian Youth Fight for Their Village \nby Jody Sokolower; Introduction by Nick Estes \nSilwan is a Palestinian village just outside the ancient walls of Jerusalem’s Old City. Determined to Stay is the moving story of its people in the face of occupation. As Silwani youth and community members share their lives with us\, their village becomes a doorway to Palestinian history and current reality. Written with young people in mind\, Determined to Stay draws deep connections between the lives of youth in the US and Palestine—from criminalization\, forced relocation and buried histories to hip-hop as resistance. \nJody Sokolower is co-coordinator of the Teach Palestine Project at the Middle East Children’s Alliance. Formerly managing editor of Rethinking Schools\, Jody is a teacher educator who has taught middle and high school social studies and English. She was lead editor of Rethinking Sexism\, Gender and Sexuality and editor of Teaching about the Wars in the Middle East. \nNick Estes is co-founder of Red Nation and author of Our History is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline\, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance. \n“Determined to Stay” is a must-read book for all ages that stands to fill a critical gap in US standard curricula.\n— Noura Erakat\, author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine \nLinking the histories of settler colonialism in Palestine and the US\, Sokolower uses testimonios to humanize the complex and interconnected stories of resistance\, building a platform for solidarity across continents.\n— Anita Fernández\, director\, Xicanx Institute for Teaching and Organizing \nAn urgent book about the impact of Israel’s occupation on Palestinian youth.\n—Kirkus Starred Review \n“What is life like for you?” Jody Sokolower asks the children and young people of the Palestinian village of Silwan. Her extraordinary book tells their stories . . . and she brings the stories home\, documenting the parallel histories in which Israeli efforts to destroy Palestinian lives and seize their land are met with the same generations of resistance as US efforts to eliminate the Indigenous people of this land.\n—Phyllis Bennis\, author of Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict \nPublisher: Interlink\, co-published with Middle East Children’s Alliance \nOrder your copy directly from MECA’s online store today!
URL:https://www.mecaforpeace.org/event/virtual-book-launch-for-silwan-determined-to-stay-palestinian-youth-fight-for-their-village/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210522T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210522T150000
DTSTAMP:20260426T150134
CREATED:20210521T140250Z
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SUMMARY:SF\, CA: Resistance Until Liberation Protest
DESCRIPTION:Join MECA at this protest supporting Palestinian liberation! \n11 am\n16th & Mission St\, SF\nMarch to Civic Center\n\n1 pm Rally\nCivic center\, SF\n\nSPONSORED BY:\nNorCal Islamic Council\nArab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC)\nAmerican Muslims for Palestine\, Bay Area\nIslamophobia Studies Center\nJewish Voice for Peace – Bay Area\nPalestinian Youth Movement\nInternational Jewish Anti-Zionist Network\nAl-Awda\nUS Palestinian Community Network\nAnswer Coalition\nWWP\nICNA Council for Social Justice\nMiddle Eastern Children’s Alliance\nQUIT!\nCODEPINK-SF\n  \nFacebook event
URL:https://www.mecaforpeace.org/event/sf-ca-resistance-until-liberation-protest/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210515T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210515T170000
DTSTAMP:20260426T150134
CREATED:20210511T091351Z
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SUMMARY:San Francisco Protest for Palestine
DESCRIPTION:Saturday May 15th in San Francisco \n2pm: PROTEST at 16th & Valencia \nFB event Page – please share! \nAs we approach the anniversary of the Nakba\, the colonization of Palestine and forced expulsion of Palestinians continues. Though this is apparent across Palestine\, it is most clear in the heart of Jerusalem\, Palestine’s capitol: in the village of Sheikh Jarrah\, in Silwan\, in Batan Al Hawa\, where Palestinian families are being threatened with imminent expulsion from their homes by the Israeli regime\, Zionist militias and its colonial settlers. \nIn addition to showing up to the streets to uplift the demands of our families back home\, this year we want to also acknowledge the housing evictions and ongoing gentrification of San Francisco’s Mission neighborhood\, where we are holding our rally this year. The Mission has forever been a pillar for Palestinian migrants and especially among the immigrant and black and latinx communities. A place of robust and rich history\, culture\, and connections\, it does not go unnoticed that black and brown communities and the poor are constantly pushed out of their homes to make way for big profit and expansion. We ask our siblings to join us in the streets as we defend our homeland in Palestine and join together in the streets of San Francisco. \nAs we mark 73 years of Nakba\, we also celebrate 73 years of international resistance and struggle for liberation. \nWe are following Covid precautions with an emphasis on social distancing and masks. Sanitizer and extra masks will be available\, so please come join us and help one another stay safe! \nOrganized by the San Francisco Bay Area Palestine Action Network (AROC\, PYM\, Al-Awda\, USPCN\, GUPS\, JVP\, IJAN\, MECA\, ANSWER\, NorCal Friends of Sabeel\, QUIT\, WWP). Endorsed by the Northern California Islamic Council\, and the ICNA Council for Social Justice.
URL:https://www.mecaforpeace.org/event/san-francisco-protest-for-palestine/
LOCATION:16th & Valencia\, 16th & Valencia\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210424T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210424T133000
DTSTAMP:20260426T150134
CREATED:20210318T094104Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Noam Chomsky in conversation with Noura Erakat
DESCRIPTION:Join MECA to hear the legendary NOAM CHOMSKY in conversation with Palestinian-American author/ human rights attorney Noura Erakat! \nRegister HERE! www.mecaforpeace.org/chomsky \n \n  \nNOAM CHOMSKY is professor\, social critic\, political activist\, historian\, and ground-breaking linguist\, as well as author of over 150 books. One of the most influential public intellectuals in the world\, he’s an unapologetic critic of US foreign policy\, global capitalism and corporate mass media. Currently he teaches linguistics at the University of Arizona\, and he is Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. \nHis most recent books include Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet (2020) and Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance (2021). Chomsky is a founding member of MECA’s Advisory Board. \n  \nNOURA ERAKAT is author of the award-winning Justice for Some: Law As Politics in the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press\, 2019)\, as well as a human rights attorney and Assistant Professor at Rutgers University. She is also a Co-Founding Editor of Jadaliyya e-zine and an Editorial Committee member of the Journal of Palestine Studies. Erakat released a pedagogical project on the Gaza Strip & Palestine\, including the documentary\, “Gaza In Context\,” that rehabilitates Israel’s wars on Gaza within a settler-colonial framework; she also produced the short video\, “Black Palestinian Solidarity.” Currently she’s a Visiting Fellow in the Religion\, Conflict\, and Peace Initiative at Harvard Divinity School. \n$15 suggested donation per person\nRegister HERE! www.mecaforpeace.org/chomsky\nFacebook event – please RSVP & share!\nBenefit for Palestine & Lebanon \nCosponsored by Norcal Friends of Sabeel\, Jadaliyya\, Jewish Voice for Peace/Bay Area
URL:https://www.mecaforpeace.org/event/virtual-event-noam-chomsky-in-conversation-with-noura-erakat/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210221T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210221T133000
DTSTAMP:20260426T150134
CREATED:20210213T091437Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210213T091553Z
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SUMMARY:Palestine on a Plate: Joudie Kalla in conversation with Reem Assil
DESCRIPTION:Only $10 donation\, REGISTER NOW! \nJoin the Middle East Children’s Alliance in this unique opportunity to hear nationally-acclaimed chef/activist REEM ASSIL interview bestselling cookbook author/chef JOUDIE KALLA – a benefit for sending food parcels to Palestine & Lebanon\, in response to the COVID-19 crisis. You’ll also get to see a short video of each of them cooking! \nJoudie Kalla is the author of bestselling books Palestine on a Plate: Memories from My Mother’s Kitchen and Baladi: A Celebration of Food from Land and Sea. Working as a chef for over 23 years\, she also runs cooking classes\, catering events\, regular sold-out supper clubs\, hosts Palestine-themed dinners for charity\, and consults on food projects. \nReem Assil is owner of Reem’s California\, a nationally acclaimed restaurant\, inspired by Arab street corner bakeries and the vibrant communities that surround them. Previously a community and labor organizer\, Reem sits at the intersection of her three passions: food\, community\, and social justice. She uses food to invoke the central virtue of her Arab culture\, hospitality\, to build strong\, resilient\, and connected community. \nREGISTER TODAY!\nSpace is Limited \nThis event is a benefit for food parcels for Palestine & Lebanon\, in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
URL:https://www.mecaforpeace.org/event/palestine-on-a-plate-joudie-kalla-in-conversation-with-reem-assil/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210113T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210113T193000
DTSTAMP:20260426T150134
CREATED:20201212T075255Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Screening "This is Not a Movie: Robert Fisk and the Politics of Truth"
DESCRIPTION:A special tribute screening to the late Robert Fisk\, hosted by the Middle East Children’s Alliance and the Arab Film & Media Institute. Robert Fisk died on October 30\, 2020\, in Ireland at the age of 74. \nFollowed by a Q & A with filmmaker Yung Chang! \nMore info: This is Not a Movie: Robert Fisk and the Politics of Truth | Arab Cinema ReImagined \n \nNOTE: After this content becomes available January 13th at 5:00 pm PST\, you’ll have 4 days 6 hours to start watching. Once you begin\, you’ll have 24 hours to finish watching the film. The January 13th at 5:00 pm live stream can be viewed anytime until January 17th at 11:45 pm. \n? \nABOUT THE FILM:\nFor more than 40 years\, journalist Robert Fisk has reported on some of the most violent and divisive conflicts in the world. \nYung Chang’s This Is Not a Movie captures Fisk in action—feet on the ground\, notebook in hand\, as he travels into landscapes devastated by war\, ferreting out the facts and firing reports back home to reach an audience of millions. \n“Chang uses Fisk to weave a tale about the nature of modern journalism.”\n–Cineuropa \n“In response to the idea that journalism is or should be ‘objective\,’ Fisk said\, “I always say that reporters should be neutral and unbiased on the side of those who suffer. If you were covering the 18th-century slave trade\, you would not give equal space to the slave-ship captain. … At the Sabra and Shatila massacre in Beirut in 1982\, I did not give equal time to the Israeli army who watched the killings and whose Lebanese allies committed the atrocity.” \n***Apologies\, but this showing is only authorized to be viewed in the USA.*** \n\nFacebook event\nAnd to whet your appetite\, check out this conversation between Robert Fisk and filmmaker Yung Chang\, about the role of journalism\, from the Toronto International Film Festival\, September 2019. \nCosponsored by Norcal Friends of Sabeel and Jewish Voice for Peace- Bay Area
URL:https://www.mecaforpeace.org/event/virtual-screening-this-is-not-a-movie-robert-fisk-and-the-politics-of-truth/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201122T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201122T140000
DTSTAMP:20260426T150134
CREATED:20201028T090722Z
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SUMMARY:Webinar: Ilan Pappe & Diana Buttu
DESCRIPTION:What Next for Palestine?\nJoin MECA for this special live webinar!\nSign up now www.mecaforpeace.org/pappe\nBy November 22\, who knows what will be happening in the world — given the US elections\, Covid\, upheaval and uprisings worldwide. Don’t miss this chance to hear from two brilliant and compelling activist/scholars about the effects on Palestine and what we can do. Join us! \n \nILAN PAPPE\, Ph.D.\, directs the European Center of Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter in the U.K. He is an Israeli historian and activist\, the son of German Jewish parents who fled Nazi persecution in the 1930s. Pappe has published 15 books\, including the groundbreaking The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2006)\, which debunks the myth that the Palestinian population left of their own accord. He documents that part of Israel’s founding ideology was the forcible removal of the indigenous population: between 1947- 1949\, over 400 Palestinian villages were destroyed\, civilians were massacred\, and approximately one million men\, women\, and children were expelled from their homes at gunpoint. Called “Israel’s bravest historian” by journalist John Pilger\, Pappe left Israel in 2008 after finding it it “increasingly difficult” to live there with his “unwelcome views and convictions\,” including his support of economic\, political and academic boycotts of Israel. \nDIANA BUTTU is a Canadian-Palestinian human rights attorney. In 2000\, she moved to the occupied West Bank where she served as a legal advisor to the Palestinian negotiating team and later to the Palestinian president. She was part of the team that assisted in the successful litigation of the Wall before the International Court of Justice. Buttu resigned from her post in 2005 but remains a frequent commentator on Middle East politics and human rights\, with op-eds and appearances in media outlets such as the NYT\, CNN\, BBC\, Aljazeera\, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. Buttu is the recipient of the Stelle Solidariete Italian prize for her human rights work; she was the Eleanor Roosevelt Fellow at Harvard Law School\, holding an appointment with the Kennedy School and Law School at the same time. In a 2018 opinion piece in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz\, Buttu stated\, “It is repugnant that the world demands that Palestinians negotiate their freedom\, while Israel continues to steal Palestinian land.” \nSpace Limited\, REGISTER NOW! $10 suggested donation\nwww.mecaforpeace.org/pappe \nFacebook event – please share! \nBenefit for Palestine & Lebanon \nCosponsored by Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC)\, NorCal Friends of Sabeel\, Jewish Voice for Peace – Bay Area and more!
URL:https://www.mecaforpeace.org/event/pappebuttu/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200922T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200922T190000
DTSTAMP:20260426T150134
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SUMMARY:ONLINE EVENT: Naomi Shihab Nye & Friends: Poetry for Palestine!
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, September 22: 5pm PT/8pm ET\nSign up for this special online event now! \nNAOMI SHIHAB NYE is a multiple-award-winning poet\, songwriter\, and novelist\, the daughter of a Palestinian refugee. She says a visit to her grandmother in the West Bank village of Sinjil was a life-changing experience. Known for her warm and celebratory tone\, her poems “often pull gold from the ordinary” and “convey a delicate sense of moral concern and a necessary sense of urgency”; she has published or contributed to over 30 volumes. Naomi’s book 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East (2002) was a finalist for the National Book Award — and in 2019 she was named the Poetry Foundation’s Young People’s Poet Laureate. \n  \nSpace limited\, REGISTER NOW! $10 donation\, www.mecaforpeace.org/poetry \nwith:\nElmaz Abinader is a Lebanese-American poet\, playwright\, novelist\, and performer. Her poetry collection This House\, My Bones was the Editor’s Selection 2014 from Willow Books. She has a memoir: Children of the Roojme\, A Family’s Journey from Lebanon\, and a book of poetry\, In the Country of My Dreams. Elmaz is co-founder of The Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation (VONA/Voices)\, and she teaches at Mills College. www.elmazabinader.com \n  \n \n\nDeema Shehabi is a Kuwaiti-born poet\, writer and editor; of Palestinian heritage\, her mother was from Gaza and her father from Jerusalem. She is author of Thirteen Departures from the Moon\, co-editor with Beau Beausoleil of Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here\, and co-author with Marilyn Hacker of Diaspo/Renga\, about the 2014 Israeli bombing of Gaza. Deema is also winner of the Nazim Hikmet Poetry Prize in 2018. \n  \n \n\nDennis Bernstein taught in NYC public schools before becoming an award-winning investigative journalist and essayist. He is also executive producer / host of Flashpoints\, syndicated on Pacifica Radio. His most recent poetry book\, Five Oceans in a Teaspoon\, won the 2020 IPPY Global Gold Medal for Poetry\,\nfiveoceansinateaspoon.com \nA Benefit for Palestine & Lebanon \nFacebook event – please share!
URL:https://www.mecaforpeace.org/event/online-event-naomi-shihab-nye-friends-poetry-for-palestine/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200913T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200913T130000
DTSTAMP:20260426T150134
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SUMMARY:Justice for Palestine & Black America
DESCRIPTION:Event Registration: https://uic.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEqdOiopz4iHdwJxP4ThxNeCAoRm_EvFzKm \nDonate to the Civic Coalition for Palestinian Rights in Jerusalem: https://rb.gy/h2lsm5 \nFor info: coordinators@arabjewishpartnership.org
URL:https://www.mecaforpeace.org/event/justice-for-palestine-black-america/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200828T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200828T113000
DTSTAMP:20260426T150134
CREATED:20200814T062715Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200816T183735Z
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SUMMARY:Abolition and Liberation: A conversation with Angela Davis and Jamal Juma'
DESCRIPTION:Register at  \nJoin us for an international discussion of the connections between Black Lives Matter calls to defund the police and abolish the prison industrial complex\, and Palestinian calls to tear down all apartheid walls and free Palestine. \nOur speakers bring years of on-the-ground experience and strategic thinking to the conversation. Angela Davis has been an activist and liberatory scholar since the 1960s. Her 2003 book Are Prisons Obsolete? laid the strategic groundwork for the current abolition movement\, as did the first Critical Resistance Conference\, which she co-organized in 1998. \nShe will be joined\, from Palestine\, by Jamal Juma’\, a leading grassroots organizer since Palestine’s First Intifada in 1987. A founding member of the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees\, Palestine National BDS Committee\, Palestinian Association for Cultural Exchange\, and Palestinian Environmental NGO Network\, Juma’ is coordinator of the Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign and Stop the Wall. \nKristian Davis Bailey\, who will be moderating their conversation\, is a co-founder of Black for Palestine and a co-author of the 2015 Black Solidarity with Palestine Statement signed by more than 1\,000 Black activists. He was a member of Black Youth. \nThere has never been a more critical time for this thought-provoking and inspiring conversation. Please join us as we sharpen our understanding of these critical issues and build our capacity for effective resistance!
URL:https://www.mecaforpeace.org/event/abolition-and-liberation-a-conversation-with-angela-davis-and-jamal-juma/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200821T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200821T123000
DTSTAMP:20260426T150134
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SUMMARY:Free Webinar: Live from Beirut\, Lebanon
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Rania Masri & Dr. Olfat Mahmoud\nThe Explosion\, Pandemic\, & Political/Economic Crisis\nFRIDAY\, AUGUST 21: 11am PT/ 2pm ET\nRegister now: www.mecaforpeace.org/BeirutWebinar \n \nWhat will the future be – for the Lebanese people\, and the Palestinian & Syrian refugees? Hear from these two extraordinary activist / experts and ask your own questions! \nDR. RANIA MASRI is a long-time political activist\, committed to issues of justice in the Arab region. She joined the “Citizens in a State” (mmfidawla.org) political party in 2016 to change the status quo in Lebanon through direct political action\, and to build direct relations between the state and its citizens governed by rights and responsibilities\, rather than by a relationship of clients via sectarian affiliations. \nIn 2017 she was elected President of the party’s Delegate Council. Currently\, Dr. Masri teaches at the Lebanese American University LAU. Her academic publications focus on environmental sustainability and social movements — as well as boycott and liberation for Palestine. She can be reached directly at @rania_masri and at facebook.com/rania.masri. \nDR. OLFAT MAHMOUD is a Palestinian refugee born in Lebanon\, whose life mission is to fulfill the dream of her parents and grandparents: to return to their hometown “Tarshiha” in Palestine. After working as a nurse for the Palestinian Red Crescent Society\, she joined the Faculty of Human Sciences at Beirut Arab University where she studied Psychology and Women’s Studies\, and then earned a PhD in Positive Psychology and Personality. Currently she is both an instructor at Beirut Arab University and the General Director of the Palestinian NGO Woman’s Humanitarian Organization. \nDr. Mahmoud has also published academic studies and is an activist for Palestinian and women’s rights. Her book “Tears for Tarshiha” is her first step on the road to return to her village “Tarshiha”. In 2015\, she was selected to represent the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon at the UN celebration of the foundation of UNRWA in New York. \nSpace limited\, REGISTER NOW!\nwww.mecaforpeace.org/BeirutWebinar\nFacebook event – please share!
URL:https://www.mecaforpeace.org/event/free-webinar-live-from-beirut-lebanon/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200730T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200730T120000
DTSTAMP:20260426T150134
CREATED:20200726T205544Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200729T170031Z
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR Impact of Annexation: Voices from Palestine
DESCRIPTION:What does Israel’s planned annexation of 33% of the West Bank mean for Palestinians and for the international solidarity movement for Palestinian rights? \nJoin MECA for this important virtual event! Two leading voices in Palestine will share analysis\, visual presentations\, and stories from Palestinian communities on the ground. \nJamal Juma‘ is the coordinator of the Stop the Wall Campaign. He organizes against Israeli apartheid locally and internationally and recently worked on a set of maps outlining Israel’s annexation plans and the Palestinian communities that will be impacted.He contributed to the founding of the grassroots National Committee for Boycott\, Divestment\, and Sanctions (BDS) in 2005 and is a member of the secretariat of the Committee on behalf of STW. In 2013\, he helped establish the Land Defense Coalition (LDC)\, an umbrella working to enhance coordination and cooperation between grassroots movements\, initiatives\, and organizations and expand the popular grassroots base. \nDiana Buttu is a Ramallah-based analyst and lawyer specializing in negotiations\, international law and international human rights law. She was also part of the Palestinian negotiating team that assisted in the successful litigation of the Wall before the International Court of Justice. She frequently provides analysis and commentary on Palestine for international news media outlets such as Al Jazeera\, CNN and BBC. \n\nQ&A will follow talks by Jamal and Diana!\nFREE with registration required. Limited spaces available. \nRegister at www.mecaforpeace.org/annexation \nOR watch the livestream on MECA’s Facebook page \nCosponsored by AROC – Arab Resource & Organizing Center\, Friends of Sabeel North America (FOSNA)\, Jewish Voice for Peace – Bay Area\, Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism (QUIT!)\, ArtForces\, ANSWER Coalition – SF\, NorCal Sabeel\, Al-Awda – SF\, Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM)\, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN)\, US Palestinian Community Network – CA (USCPN-CA)
URL:https://www.mecaforpeace.org/event/webinar-impact-of-annexation-voices-from-palestine/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200720T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200720T200000
DTSTAMP:20260426T150134
CREATED:20200717T065505Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200717T070336Z
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SUMMARY:ONLINE EVENT: Eugene "Gus" Newport: A conversation on struggle\, legacy\, and resistance
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Webinar and a conversation with Eugene “Gus” Newport\, the former Mayor of Berkeley\, CA (1979-1986)\, a towering figure in the Bay Area\, nationally and internationally. Importantly and in the past 60 plus years\, former Mayor Newport has been connected\, both actively and by lending his name\, to every civil and human rights struggle\, from his days in the 1960s with Malcolm X to the current struggle to bring an end to police brutality. \nMECA is proud to have Gus as the chair of our board. \nRegister now for this online discussion!
URL:https://www.mecaforpeace.org/event/online-event-eugene-gus-newport-a-conversation-on-struggle-legacy-and-resistance/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200321T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200321T220000
DTSTAMP:20260426T150134
CREATED:20191218T180026Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200307T195512Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELED: San Francisco\, CA\, Noam Chomsky on “What Hope for Palestine–and Beyond? The World After 2020”
DESCRIPTION:Dear Friend\, \nUnfortunately\, I’m so sorry to let you know that that the Middle East Children’s Alliance and I have decided that\, due to concerns about the Corona virus\, we have decided to cancel the public talk I was planning to give in San Francisco on March 21st. I still hope to find a way at some point to share my thoughts with you about “What Hope for Palestine – And Beyond? The World After 2020.” \nIn the meantime\, I have a special request for people who have already purchased tickets. \nI’ve been pleased—and in fact honored—to lend what support I can to MECA since it’s origins more than thirty years ago. They do powerful courageous work of enormous significance for children under occupation and under military attack. \nThe March event was intended to raise $40\,000\, so that MECA can support the basic needs of Palestinian children and refugees in Syria. Additionally we have just learned that there is a State of Emergency in Palestine due to the virus. \nSo\, I’m asking now if you would be willing to donate your ticket purchase? If so\, there’s nothing else you need to do! \nIf that’s not possible\, I understand. To get a full or partial refund of your ticket\, contact City Box Office no later than 4pm on March 21\, 2020: orders@cityboxoffice.com\, or call 415-392-4400. \nThank you for your understanding during these uncertain and trying times. We are all in this together. \n \nSincerely\,\nNoam Chomsky\nMECA Founding Advisor and Supporter \n  \n  \n_____________________________________________________ \nCANCELED\nBack by Popular Demand: NOAM CHOMSKY\nSpeaking on “What Hope for Palestine–and Beyond?\nThe World After 2020”\nIntroduced by DANIEL ELLSBERG\nFeaturing musical performance by Naima Shalhoub & Excentrik\nSATURDAY\, MARCH 21\, 7:30pm\nSidney Goldstein Theatre\n275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\n(Formerly the Nourse\, near Civic Center BART) \nFacebook event \nTICKETS\n \n$29\, $49\, $69\, $99 — Available from City Box Office online or by phone 415-392-4400.\nAll seats are reserved. Sorry\, no refunds. \n$250 Tickets: Apologies from MECA. The $250 tickets with the reception are SOLD OUT. \nQuestions? Call 510-548-0542 or email Penny@mecaforpeace.org \nNote: The Balcony and Loge are not wheelchair accessible and there are no elevators. For those who use wheelchairs or scooters\, disability seating is available (2 seats together) in the Orchestra; contact City Box Office for these seats: http://www.CityBoxOffice.com/NoamChomsky\, 415-392-4400. \nProfessor NOAM CHOMSKY is one of the most influential public intellectuals in the world today. An outspoken U.S. political activist\, social critic\, philosopher\, and historian – and a ground-breaking linguist – he is Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and currently teaches at the University of Arizona. The most recent of his 100+ books is “Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth and Power.” Noam Chomsky is one of the most cited scholars in modern history and is a founding member of MECA’s Advisory Board. \nDaniel Ellsberg is a world renowned whistle-blower who leaked “The Pentagon Papers\,” which was instrumental in strengthening opposition to the Vietnam War. \nNaima Shalhoub and Tarik “Excentrik” Kazaleh \nNaima Shalhoub and Excentrik – Naima Shalhoub and Tarik Kazaleh – are Oakland-based Arab American musicians who draw upon their Arab music traditions and American soul. \nA Benefit for the Children of Palestine\, wheelchair accessible\, cosponsored by KPFA \nwww.mecaforpeace.org\, 510-548-0542
URL:https://www.mecaforpeace.org/event/san-francisco-ca-noam-chomsky-on-what-hope-for-palestine-and-beyond-the-world-after-2020/
LOCATION:Sidney Goldstein Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200125T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200125T170000
DTSTAMP:20260426T150134
CREATED:20191223T184001Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200117T185114Z
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SUMMARY:SF\, CA: Decolonize Your Food!
DESCRIPTION:SOLD OUT\nMuseum of the African Diaspora Chef-in-Residence\, Bryant Terry and Middle East Children’s Alliance presents \nDecolonize Your Food\nFrom Turtle Island to Palestine\, an afternoon of food and conversation about food sovereignty with food justice activists\nFeaturing world-class chefs\nLaila El-Haddad\, Reem Assil\, Bryant Terry\, and Shakirah Simley\nWhile food has long been a tool of oppression\, food sovereignty is a powerful organizing concept to create a sustainable\, culturally appropriate food supply for historically marginalized communities. Join us for a panel with Laila El-Haddad\, Reem Assil\, and Shakira Simley\, food justice activists who have been active in advancing the conversation about the power of food in the struggles for justice in the United States\, Palestine\, and beyond. The conversation will be followed by a reception with a sampling of exquisite Palestinian cuisine prepared by Reem’s. \nWe apologize but this event is SOLD OUT. We will be livestreaming the event for those who are unable to attend – details posted soon.
URL:https://www.mecaforpeace.org/event/sf-ca-decolonize-your-food-an-afternoon-of-food-conversation-about-food-justice/
LOCATION:Museum of the African Diaspora\, 685 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191213T200000
DTSTAMP:20260426T150134
CREATED:20191125T174639Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191125T174639Z
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SUMMARY:SF\, CA: Cairo Cabaret benefit for MECA
DESCRIPTION:Cairo Cabaret:\nCelebrating Live Arabic Music and Improvisational Dance\nin the Heart of San Francisco\nFacebook event \nMany thanks to the artists for making the December Cairo Cabaret a benefit for MECA! \nImprovisational dance to live Arabic music is an integral part of any Middle Eastern arts and cultures. Unfortunately\, this is a dying art. The mission of Cairo Cabaret is to keep alive and celebrate these unique and vanishing art forms by supporting events that include live Arabic music and improvisational dance\, educating audiences of the beauty of these cultural experiences\, and deepening ones connection with these rare art forms. In a climate of intolerance and division\, Cairo Cabaret shine a light on artists promoting Middle Eastern cultures by showcasing live Arabic music and dance performances. \nCairo Cabaret features dancers who have dedicated their lives to the pursuit of Middle Eastern dances and cultures. These dancers are from the Salimpour School of Dance which teaches numerous forms of Middle Eastern dances and emphasizes technique\, musicality\, and a deep cultural study. Arabic music will be performed by the Georges Lammam Ensemble which has long-standing history of performing classical Arabic music in the San Francisco Bay Area and the Middle East. \n 
URL:https://www.mecaforpeace.org/event/sf-ca-cairo-cabaret-benefit-for-meca/
LOCATION:El Valenciano\, 1153 Valencia Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191207T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191208T150000
DTSTAMP:20260426T150134
CREATED:20191104T190942Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191205T041816Z
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SUMMARY:Berkeley\, CA: Palestinian Holiday Crafts Bazaar
DESCRIPTION:Two days only!\nSaturday\, December 7\, 10am-5pm\nSunday\, December 8\, 11am-3pm\nFacebook event \nA unique display of items from Palestine: award-winning Olive Oil\, Pottery\, Olive Wood Products\, Embroidery\, Shawls & Scarves\, Olive Oil Soap & Palestinian Dead Sea Products\, Keffiyehs\, Children’s Toys & Clothing\, Jewelry\, Kitchenware & Cookbooks\, Rugs and Books – plus delicious Arabic food. Bring friends and family! \nYour purchase aids Palestinian children & their families \nSponsored by Joining Hands and Middle East Children’s Alliance \nWheelchair accessible \nJoin us for these special events at the bazaar! \nSaturday\, December 7:\n11am-1pm: Henna by Henna Garden Events & Entertainment\n1pm: Storytime with Wafa Shami\, Author of Children Storybooks “Olive Harvest in Palestine” & “Easter in Ramallah”\n1pm-3pm: Book Signing by Jeff Haas of “The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther” \nSunday\, December 8:\n11am – 3pm: Calligraphy Demonstration with Mo Sati\n12pm – 2 pm Book Signing by Blanche Araj Shaheen of “Feast in the Middle East: A Personal Journey of Family and Cuisine” \nKids Corner with childcare available Saturday and Sunday 12-3pm so your kids can play while you shop!
URL:https://www.mecaforpeace.org/event/berkeley-ca-palestinian-holiday-crafts-bazaar/
LOCATION:Middle East Children’s Alliance\, 1101 8th Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94710\, United States
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