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Divest! Launch Event: Mon Oct 27, 7-9pm, OISE Auditorium</B><BR><BR>UofT
Graduate students! Your tuition dollars are being invested in companies which
benefit from Israel's violations of international law and human rights abuses in
the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Come to a Divestment Campaign Launch Event
on Oct. 27th from 7-9pm in the OISE Auditorium (252 Bloor St. W) to learn more
and sign the petition.<BR><BR>A panel of four divestment activists from the
U.S., Canada, and Palestine will discuss the importance pressuring UofT to
divest.<BR><BR><I>Dr. Nahida Gordon</I> is professor emeritus at Case Western
Reserve University. She is a Palestinian American who was born in Jerusalem
before 1948 and she is a Presbyterian and a member of the steering committee of
the Israel/Palestine Mission Network in the Presbyterian Church
(U.S.A.).<BR><BR><I>Hazem Jamjoum</I> is a doctoral student in History and
Middle Eastern Studies at New York University. He was the Communications Officer
of the Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Residency & Refugee Rights (<A
href="http://www.badil.org" target=_blank>http://www.badil.org</A>) in
Bethlehem, Palestine and the editor of its quarterly English language
publication al-Majdal. He was also one of the founding organizers of the
Coalition against Israeli Apartheid (<A href="http://caiaweb.org"
target=_blank>http://caiaweb.org</A>), in Toronto where he hosted Toronto's only
Arab community radio show KanYaMaKan on CKLN 88.1fm, and sang with Jawqet
El-Sheikh Imam, a Toronto tribute band to one of the 20th century's great artist
revolutionaries.<BR><BR><I>Shourideh C. Molavi</I> is a fifth-year PhD candidate
at York University, in Toronto, Canada. For the past ten years she has worked
with numerous civil society groups of the Palestinian community in Gaza City,
Nablus, Jerusalem, Haifa, Ramallah and Bethlehem. Much of this work has been
with the Palestinian citizens of Israel and Haifa-based NGOs, including Mada al
Carmel: Arab Center for Applied Social Research and Adalah: Legal Centre for
Arab Minority Rights.<BR><BR><I>Haider Eid</I> is an Associate Prof. of
Literature and Cultural studies at Al-Aqsa university in Gaza, Palestine. He is
also a member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott
of Israel and a human rights activist.<BR><BR>This event is hosted by the
University of Toronto Graduate Students’ Union (UTGSU) Boycott, Divestment, and
Sanctions (BDS) Ad Hoc Committee.<BR><BR><B>Go to <A
href="http://UofTDivest.com" target=_blank>UofTDivest.com</A> for more
information about the divestment campaign and to read the brief . Questions?
Email: <A href="mailto:divest@utgsu.ca"
target=_blank>divest@utgsu.ca</A>.</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>