FFIPP: Working in Solidarity for a Complete End of Occupation and Just Peace
FFIPP-Five Colleges, Amherst, Massachusetts
Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace Five-Colleges
The Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace, FFIPP, Five Colleges intends
to educate the five colleges community about the conflict in
Israel-Palestine and about the efforts of Palestinians, Israelis and
internationals who work together in solidarity, to end completely the
occupation and promote a just peace in Palestine/Israel and the region.
Community Service opportunities for 5-Colleges students
Internship in FFIPP-USA in Amherst, MA
5-Colleges Work Study students are welcome
FFIPP-I Summer Internship in Palestine/Israel: Applications accepted
For more information call FFIPP 5-Colleges office in Amherst, 413-256-0349 x 15
or Contact us
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Spring 2008 Events
Join in Celebrating FFIPP’s 6th Anniversary
Six Years of Education and Activism for Human Rights, Justice and Peace in Palestine/Israel and the Middle East
With Special Guests Rima Essa, Palestinian Filmmaker & Esti Tsal, Israeli Photographer
Program:
Endless Checkpoints Photo Exhibit by Esti Tsal
Ashes, excerpts from film by Rima Essa
A Joint Vision: Through the Lens of Women Activists
Discussion & Dialogue With Rima and Esti
FFIPP Student Interns' Reflections on 2007 Summer Experience in
Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories
Music & Food
6:00 PM Sunday, March 30
Northampton Center for the Arts
Suggested Donation:
$15 individuals/$25 couples/ $5 students
Rima and Esti at the Five Colleges:
(free and open to the public)
At UMASS
Monday, March 31, 7-9 PM, Herter Hall 301
At Smith College
Tuesday, April 1st. 4:30pm, Nielson Browsing Room
Fall 2007 Events
FFIPP Campus Speaking Tour:Leaders of the Non-Violent Struggle in Bilin against the Wall and Settlements
RATEB ABU RHMA, a lecturer at Al-Quds Open University and member of the popular committee against the wall in Bilin, and KOBI SNITZ,
a lecturer at Bar Ilan University and member of Anarchists Against the
Wall will tour campuses in the United States together to discuss the
joint Palestinian, Israeli and international, non-violent efforts to
resist the construction of settlements and the Israeli separation wall
in the West Bank village of Bilin.
Thursday, Oct 18: UMASS Amherst
Thursday, Nov 1: Hampshire College
FFIPP Women for Equality and Peace Campus Speaking Tour
HANNAH SAFRAN, a lecturer at Emek-Yisrael College, founder of
Women in Black, past coordinator of Isha L'Isha, the Haifa feminist
center, and a member of the Coalition of Women for Just Peace in Israel.
OLA SHTEWEE, legal department coordinator for the
Palestinian-Israeli feminist group Kayan will jointly talk about common
efforts of Israeli and Palestinian women to establish a just peace in
Palestine-Israel.
Thursday, November 29, Smith College.
Seelye Room 106, 4:30-6 PM
Friday, November 30, Hampshire College.
main lecture at Frnaklin Pearson Hall at 4:30 PM
Spring 2007 Program
Film Series at UMass : all showings are in Goessmann 20 at 7 PM
* Tues. Feb. 20 - "Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land"
A documentary analyzing media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. How balanced is it?
DICUSSION with director and Umass professor SUT JHALLY
Flyer.
* Tues. Mar. 6 - "Bil'in Habibti"
A 2006 documentary by Israeli filmmaker Shai Carmeli Pollak. Over a
year and a half, Pollak follows the peaceful, joint demonstrations of
Israelis, Palestinians and internationals in the West Bank town of
Bil'in. Here, as in many places throughout the occupied territories,
Israel is building a 24 foot tall separation wall that cuts through
Palestinian villages, illegally taking large tracts of land for
Israel's control.
DISCUSSION with AMY KENT, a student at UMASS who spent the last summer in the West Bank as a FFIPP intern.
* On Friday, March 30th, the first critical mass of 2007 in the five colleges will
converge at the Bank of America at 12 noon in downtown Amherst, where the Women
in Black hold weekly vigils.
This critical mass will be in solidarity with a bike race through checkpoints in
the occupied territories that will happen on Friday, March 23rd. Because most
students will be away for spring break, we are scheduling this event for one
week later.
Bicyclists will leave simultaneously from Hampshire college and UMASS at
approximately 11:30am and converge in Amherst to continue on from there.
* Tues. Apr. 17 - "Frontiers of Fears and Dreams"...
Filmed by
Palestinian director Mai Masri. Follows two Palestinian girls, one in
Lebanon, one in Bethlehem -- both orphans, as they exchange e-mails
about life in a refugee camp.
DISCUSSION with ZIAD ABBAS, director of the Ibdaa Cultural Center in Duheisheh Refugee Camp, Bethlehem.
* Tues. May 1 - "Arna's Children"
Israeli director Juliano Mer
Khamis tells the story of the Freedom Theater in Jenin (West Bank).
Originally founded by his mother Arna, its purpose is to provide
creative outlets for Palestinian children. How does art survive under
military occupation and war? What happens when it is taken away? A look
at the great crisis Palestinian children face.
Fall 2006 Program
October 23, 2006: Combatants for Peace at Smith College. Nielson Browsing Room at 7:30 pm
<more information on this national speaking tour>
October 24, 2006: Judith Butler, member of the board of
directors of FFIPP-USA, will deliver the ninth annual Eqbal Ahmad
Lecture at Hampshire College on October 24. The lecture, "Universality
and its Paradoxes: Hidden Histories of Post-Zionism", will be held on
October 24 at 4 p.m. at Robert Crown Center.
Information.
November 13-17, 2006: Teach-In : Alternatives to Wars in the Middle East, UMASS, Amherst.
The UMass Anti-War Coalition, Palestine Action Coalition and
Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace have organized a week of
educational events as part of the Week Against the Occupations.
Speakers:
Sulaiman Khatib (Former member of Fatah and co-founder of Combatants
for Peace), Noam Bahat (Israeli highschool refusnik & member of
Anarchists Against the Wall), Roi Etinger (former Israeli army officer
and member of Combatants for Peace), Speaker from Iraqi Veterans
against the war, Sut Jhally (producer Peace, Propaganda and the
Promised Land, professor Communications Dept, Umass) , Romain Beaucher
(French Palestine solidarity activist, member of La Brassée),
Dr. Arang Keshavarzian (Connecticut College), Dr. Anita Dancs (National
Priorities Project), Dr. Mary Wilson (UMASS Amherst), Safia Albaiti
(Muslim Student Association, Umass), Sarah Matari (Palestine Solidarity
Activist, Smith College), Elvis Mendez (SGA, Umass), Amy Kent
(Volunteer to Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace), Charles Peterson
(Anti-war Coalition)
More information.
