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Date/Time
Date(s) - 02/01/2017
7:00 pm

Location
Yale University Sudler Hall in William L. Harkness Hall on Cross Campus

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• Speakers and Forums

On February 1, JVP New Haven will be partnering with Tree of Life to present a program “No Child Behind Bars: Living Resistance from the US to Palestine.”  The presentation will feature Ahed Tamimi*, a charismatic and articulate 15 year old from the West Bank Palestinian village of Nabi Saleh, who will discuss the brutal injustices to which she and others her age are subjected on a continuing daily basis.  Ahed will be joined by Amanda Weatherspoon, a Unitarian Universalist minister and Black liberation activist from the Bay Area, whose ministry is centered on collective liberation and cross-movement solidarity between oppressed people.  Nadya Tannous, a writer and organizer who has researched the detention of Palestinian minors since 2013, will join the two to provide additional insight into the realities Palestinian minors face within the Israeli detention system.  

In addition to discussing the life of Palestinian children under Israeli occupation, the presentation will show how the struggle for human rights in Palestine is inextricably linked with the struggle for Civil and Human Rights here in the U.S. 

* Ahed, who was originally to appear in person, has been denied a travel visa by the U.S. State Department, so arrangements are being made to have her speak about the situation on the ground and share her story by video.

This presentation is part of a three week, 18 city US tour organized by Friends of Sabeel (FOSNA).  FOSNA is part of Sabeel, a movement initiated by Palestinian Christians, which promotes theological, moral and legal principles for peace in the Holy Land. 

For more information contact Nina Stein: newhaven@jvp.org