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Faculty For Israeli-Palestinian Peace, FFIPP, Bulletin, Fall 2008
Dear friends of FFIPP,
We would like to inform you about our upcoming winter programs and the successful programs we have organized last summer.
Please invite your students and colleagues to join our winter programs and be part of the FFIPP community of activists for freedom, justice and peace. Thank you.
FFIPP Winter Educational Tour to Palestine/Israel, December 28, 2008 - January 8, 2009
For faculty, educators, students and peace activists
The program will be similar to the 2008 summer educational tour, it will likely includes: Meetings with Palestinian and Israeli Peace activists, community leaders, local faculty and students, a tour of settlements around Jerusalem, a tour of Jafa, visits to Ramallah and Bilin, to the Applied, Research Institute of Jerusalem, the Alternative Information Center, Dheisheh refugee camp and the Ibdaa center, a meeting with the Arab Association for Human Rights in Nazareth, visit to Kibbutz Lohamei HaGetaot and to the remains of the 48 village al-Ghabisiyya.
Price: Program fee: $1000. The program fee does not cover airfare, accommodations and food.
FFIPP will arrange transportation in Israel/Palestine, meetings, and assist in making hotel reservations.
To reserve your space in the tour, a non-refundable deposit of $200 is required – this deposit will be applied to your program fee. Please pay by check, paid to ffipp-usa, P.O.Box 2091, Amherst MA 01004 or via the Donate button. For more information, call FFIPP-USA, 413-256-0349 or email us at: info@ffipp.org
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New: Alternative Winter Break for College students in Palestine/Israel, December 28, 2008 - January 6, 2009
Make a week last a lifetime by involving yourself in service for human rights and social justice.
This winter FFIPP is organizing a 10 days educational program that includes one week of volunteer work on a community project in Nablus, the occupied Palestinian territories, and 3 days of intensive orientation, at the beginning of the program, that includes visits to Jerusalem, Haifa, Tel-Aviv, and the Galilee.
Program fee: $2050 = 1494 EUR.
What's not included in the program fee?
* International airfare and airport taxes
* Domestic and international phone calls.
FFIPP can help in organizing fund raising activities for interested participants.
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FFIPP's Programs in Palestine/Israel, Summer 2008
* Educational tour for faculty and high school teachers.
* Internship program for 61 students form 16 countries. Students worked as volunteers in places such as: Freedom Theatre, Jenin; The Center for Humanistic Education, The Ghetto Fighters' House, Kibbutz Lohamei HaGetaot; Ibdaa Center, Dheisheh Refugee Camp; The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Jerusalem; Kayan Feminist Organization, Haifa; Rabbis for Human Rights, Jerusalem; The Latin patriarchate society of St Yves Catholic Human Rights Center for Resources and Development, Jerusalem; The Palestinian Initiative for the promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy (MIFTAH), Ramallah; Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), Jerusalem; Al Quds University Human Rights Clinic, Jerusalem; Isha L'Isha, Feminist Organization, Haifa; Kav LaOved, an organization committed to the defense of foreign workers rights, Tel-Aviv; Project Hope, Nablus.
* An international conference in Al-Quds University in Abu-Dis, speakers included:
Eyad el-Sarraj, President of FFIPP-International, Founder and Director of Gaza Community Mental Health Program.
Eyal Weizman, University of London.
Saleh Abdel Jawad, Professor of Political Science, Birzeit University.
Salim Tamari, director of the Institute for Jerusalem Studies, Board Member of FFIPP, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Birzeit University.
Phyllis Bennis, Institute of Policy Studies.
Sari Bashi, Director of Gisha.
Eric Rouleau, former bureau editor of Middle East for Le Monde, former France Ambassador to Morocco, and Tunisia.
Richard Falk, FFIPP Advisory Board, Professor Emeritus at Princeton University, Visiting Distinguished Professor in Global and International Studies at the University of California.
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