Sponsored Community Events
Paying the Price for Peace
S. Brian Wilson
Author of Blood on the Tracks and subject of the documentary film, Paying the Price for Peace, Brian is a Vietnam veteran whose deeply disturbing experiences there led him to fully committed anti-imperial activism against US-supported atrocities supporting the Contras attempting to overthrow the socialist government of Daniel Ortego in 1980s Nicaragua. US military supplies were being shipped to the Contras from the Concord Naval Weapons Station in Oakland, CA. Brian joined a group blocking these supply trains with their bodies to cause delay and attract press attention. On his first mission with this group the train refused to stop and severed his lower legs.
Paying the Price for Peace was shown, followed by a presentation and discussion with Brian.
September 21, 2016
Campbell Senior Center, Eugene
Dr. Steven Salaita
Co-sponsored by an academic department at the University of Oregon, Dr. Salaita discussed the cancellation of his contract by the University of Illinois for a tenured faculty position following his tweets condemning Israel for its 2014 "Protective Edge" assault on Gaza that killed over 2,100 Palestinians and devastated their infrastructure, including residential housing, schools, mosques and clinics, reducing their already densely crowded and blockaded territory by some 40%.
April 10, 2015
EMU Walnut Room, University of Oregon
"Refusing to be Enemies"
Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta
An author and seven-year Jerusalem resident, Maxine distinguished between the "co-existence" promoted by "liberal Zionists" and non-violent "co-resistance" to the occupation between Palestinians, internationals, and Israelis of conscience, using as examples the International Solidarity Movement, ICAHD and BDS.
March 7, 2015
Wesley Center, University of Oregon
"The War Around Us"
Two Al Jazeera broadcast journalists trapped in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead were the only outside reporters witnessing and documenting the events. This documentary film is narrated by the reporters with their footage of the Israeli assault that killed over 1,400 people with widespread destruction of Gaza's crucial infrastructure including sewage treatment, the electrical grid, schools, hospitals and public safety facilities.
Feb. 13, 2015
Growers Market, Eugene
Exploring the right to Peace: Palestine & the BDS Movement
Nada Elia, Ph.D.
Recognizing U.N. designation of 2014 as the year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, we co-sponsored this presentation with Occupy Eugene as a contribution to Eugene's United Nations Peace Week. Drawing upon her personal experience and perspective as a Palestinian native, author, professor and former war journalist, Dr. Elia described Israel's ethnic cleansing, dispossession, occupation, blockade, and relentless violence against the Palestinian people.
Sept. 19, 2014
Campbell Senior Center, Eugene
An Evening with Alison Weir
Discussion by If Americans Knew director and President of the Council for the National Interest of her new book, Against our Better Judgment, which reports "the hidden history of how the U.S. was used to create Israel."
June 5, 2014
Downtown Athletic Club, 10th & Willamette, Eugene
Alison, a former news editor, described how her quest for truth began upon discovery that the U.S. public has been consistently misled by our media. The event was well attended with standing room only and a lively Q&A.
"Slingshot Hip-Hop"
Engaging, award-winning documentary of young Palestinian hip-hop artists from within Israel (the '48 population), the West Bank and Gaza (the '67 populations).
October 22, 2013
UO Willamette Hall 110.
These young adult artists meet for the first time although growing up only miles from each other and bond excitedly through their shared art form and common resilience and spirit of resistance to Israeli oppression.
"Roadmap to Apartheid"
Multiple award-winning documentary film & discussion, co-directed by Israeli Eron Davidson & South African Ana Nogueira, Narrated by Alice Walker
July 18, 2013
Cozmic, 8th & Charnelton, Eugene
This film compares Apartheid South Africa with the Israeli occupation, using many juxtaposed images and interviews with victims of both systems.
Israeli Racism & the BDS Movement
Skype presentation at UO "Social Justice, Real Justice" conference
Robin Kelly, Ph.D., UCLA Professor of History and National Board Member, US Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
February 15, 2013
EMU, University of Oregon
As a Black American, Dr. Kelly has experiened racism and following a visit to Israel/Palestine as a USACBI board member he described how Israeli racism "is the worst I've ever seen."
Freedom Sailors: An Extraordinary Story of Courage and Determination
Greta Berlin, Co-founder, Free Gaza Movement & Co-editor and contributor, Freedom Sailors
October 15, 2012
Cozmic, 8th & Charnelton, Eugene
Greta describes the development and first voyage of the Free Gaza boatlift project and a new Gaza Ark project to challenge the Israeli blockade with an outgoing commerical vessel.
Occupy Peace (co-sponsored with CodePink)
Harris Hall, Eugene
July 1, 2012
In her presentation and TV interview, Medea discussed her new book exposing and opposing drone surveillance, assassinations and remote warfare, as well as CodePink's demonstrations against the political power of AIPAC at two national conventions.
Who Profits from the Israeli Occupation?
Dalit Baum, Ph.D., Israeli Feminist, contributor to The Case for Sanctions Against Israel, co-founder of www.whoprofits.org
Willamette 100, University of Oregon
April 17, 2012
Dr. Baum discussed the need for the BDS campaign against Israel and its methods, with special emphasis on the moral and economic power of divestment and their website that identifies corporate targets for divestment, in particular Caterpillar, Motorola and Hewlitt-Packard.
Report from multiple trips to Gaza
Kit Kitredge
Eugene Public Library
December 8, 2011
Kit is a CodePink activist who was aboard the recent Freedom Waves Canadian boat intercepted by Israeli naval forces in international waters and was imprisoned by Israel for three days. She presented slides and accounts of this and her June 2010 experiences aboard The Audacity of Hope boat to Gaza, three other visits to Gaza, and her eyewitness account from Tahrir Square in Cairo in January 2011.
Gaza Update
Nuha Masri
Willamette Hall 100, University of Oregon
October 29, 2011
Nuha is a Palestinian-American UC Berkeley student born and raised for 10 years under Israeli occupation in Jerusalem reporting on her service as a UNESCO intern in Gaza and experience in the January 2010 Gaza Freedom March where she was among those selected for entry into Gaza.
Al-Nakba Commemoration
Harris Hall, Eugene
7 pm, May 4, 2011
Showing of historic Nakba footage and 50' documentary film, Reel Bad Arabs.
The films were followed by discussion with Palestinians Chris Bargout and Kamal Hasan whose families were ethnically cleansed from Ramle and Haifa in 1948.
Breakthrough: Transforming Fear into Compassion
Richard Forer, author of above-titled book
Lawrence Hall 128, University of Oregon
7 pm, March 10, 2011
A Jewish-American ex-AIPAC supporter, Richard shares his journey from a "righteous" defender of Israel who adamantly resisted examination of the evidence, through an "awakening" as he discovered irrefutable facts incompatible with his previously conditioned "Jewish identity," to an activist for Palestinian human rights, described in his newly released book of the above title.
Belonging, a documentary film by Tariq Nasir
Dr. Ibrahim Soudy
Knight Library Browsing Room, University of Oregon
7 pm, December 9, 2010
The film traces the filmmaker's displaced family over two generations, including historic footage.
Dr. Soudy speaks on the role of international civil society in securing Palestinian human rights.
Missing Headlines: Stories of Life in Palestine
Emily Schick, International Solidarity Movement activist
Harris Hall, Eugene
7 pm, October 13, 2010
Emily shares her observations and slides from five months in the West Bank and East Jerusalem coordinating ISM media and working with Palestinians facing dispossession and attack.
Update Gaza
Gerri & Bob Haynes, palliative care nurse & cardiologist husband/wife team
Harris Hall, Eugene
7 pm, July 22, 2010
Gerri & Bob just returned from leading a medical delegation to Gaza and described their findings and interactions with the people of Gaza, emphasizing their continuous stress and its effects, including slide show of post-Cast Lead conditions.
Report from the West Bank
Peter Chabarek, local activist
Unitarian Universalist Church, 477 E. 40th, Eugene
7 pm, June 8, 2010
Second presentation by Peter of his slide show with discussion of the occupation and Palestinian non-violent resistance from his recent tour of the West Bank with Global Exchange.
A Nakba and Apartheid that Dare Not Speak their Names
Saree Makdisi, UCLA professor of English literature and author,
Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation
Kamal Hasan, Palestinian refugee whose family was expelled from Haifa
during the Nakba
Waddah Sofan, wheelchair-bound Palestinian shot in the back at age 19 by the IDF
Saed Bannoura, wheelchair-bound Palestinian shot in his village
by Israeli death squad
Lawrence Hall, University of Oregon, Eugene
7 pm, May 22, 2010
Nakba commemoration with Nakba photo exhibit, filmed interviews with Nakba survivors, 1950 BBC documentary film on the refugees, keynote address by Dr. Makdisi, and panel discussion with dispossessed and IDF-disabled Palestinian residents of Oregon.
Report from the West Bank
Peter Chabarek, local activist
Eugene, March 17, 2010
Rachel Corrie commemoration with slide show and discussion of the occupation and Palestinian non-violent resistance from his recent tour of the West Bank with Global Exchange, a San Francisco-based human rights organization
The One-State Solution
Ali Abunimah, Author, One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse and Co-founder, The Electronic Intifada
Lawrence Hall, University of Oregon, Eugene
1 pm, March 5, 2010
Counteracted Israeli hasbara propaganda and support for the Bantustan "2-state solution" and presented 1-state model.
One Year After Gaza
Rebecca Tumposky, U.S. Chapter Organizer, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network
Monadel Herzollah, U.S. Palestinian Community Network; Founder & President, Arab American Union Members Council
Eugene, February 25, 2010
Portland, February 26, 2010
Corvallis, February 27, 2010
Presented Jewish alternative to Zionism based in social justice and solidarity with Palestinian demands for human rights.
Palestinian Prisoners in Israel
Ala Jaradat of Addameer, Palestinian Prisoner Support and Human Rights organization
Portland State University, Portland
November 20, 2009
Described the thousands of Palestinians imprisoned by Israel through arrest or administrative detention, routinely tortured, and denied due process rights.
Eyewitness Gaza
Darlene and Donna Wallach, Jewish anti-Zionist social justice advocates who challenged the Israeli blockade aboard the first FreeGaza boalift in August 2008 and remained through December 2008 to re-establish the ISM in Gaza
Harris Hall, Eugene, May 27, 2009
Film footage of life in Gaza, including Israeli Navy attacking Gazan fishermen.
Film: The Land Speaks Arabic
Chris Bargout, son of a Nakba survivor of the Lydda massacre and Ramle expulsion in July 1948
Harris Hall, Eugene, May 13, 2009
Nakba commemoration featuring film on Zionist history preceding the Nakba, followed by discussion.
Gaza War Crimes Investigation
Attorney Tom Nelson, Member, National Lawyers Guild delegation to Gaza to investigate evidence of Israeli war crimes during Operation Cast Lead
Harris Hall, Eugene, May 4, 2009
Description, slide presentation and discussion
Film: Occupation 101
Alison Weir, Founder & Director of If Americans Knew
Commemoration of the death of ISM worker Rachel Corrie by IDF bulldozer in March 2003
Harris Hall, Eugene
March 16, 2009
Film on Israeli occupation followed by presentation by Ms Weir.
Palestine: From Apartheid to Warehousing
Jeff Halper, Co-Founder and Director, Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions
United Lutheran Church, Eugene, October 11, 2008
Presentation relating Israel’s Gaza strategy of deliberately "warehousing" an unwanted population to "shock doctrine" principles described by Naomi Klein to serve "disaster capitalism."
The Palestine/Iraq Nexus
Mazin Qumsiyeh, author, Sharing the Land of Canaan and Popular Resistance in Palestine
Harris Hall, Eugene, March 3, 2008
University of Oregon, Eugene, March 4, 2008
Touring with Wheels of Justice, Mazin's presentations connected Israel with the attack on Iraq and the common theme of Arab demonization.
Distorted Reporting in the U.S. Press
Alison Weir, Founder & Director of If Americans Knew
University of Oregon, 2007
Graphic presentation of data comparing reporting accuracy of Israeli and Palestinian deaths in the NY Times, Oregonian and San Francisco Chronicle.
The Israel Lobby
Jeff Blankfort, Bay Area print and broadcast journalist
University of Oregon
May, 2006
Discussion of the power of the Lobby and denial of this by prominent "progressive" figures who avoid debating this with Mr. Blankfort, and its decisive influence in the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
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