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DESCRIPTION:Amnesty International, Global Exchange, the American Friends Service 
 Committee, and Jewish Voice for Peace present a FREE lecture/presentation 
 by Anna Baltzer.\n\nAnna Baltzer is a 28-year-old Jewish American Columbia 
 graduate, Fulbright scholar, and author of Witness in Palestine: A Jewish 
 Woman in the Occupied Territories. She is a three-time volunteer with the 
 International Women's Peace Service, where she documented human rights 
 abuses in the West Bank.\n\nAnna's presentations are personal, moving and 
 educational. During a talk in a church in Minneapolis on January 23, anna 
 said, "This week, our country celebrated Martin Luther King Day and the 
 official end to segregation and racial discrimination in this country. As 
 we celebrate certain historic advances, we mustn't forget that these 
 policies are far from over in this country, and that as we struggle against 
 one injustice we are perpetuating another system of discrimination and 
 segregation on the other side of the world in Occupied Palestine, a land 
 where there are separate roads, schools, hospitals, neighborhoods, and 
 legal systems, access to which depends on one's ethnicity or 
 religion."\n\nOther points she may highlight in her talk:\n\n"Over the past 
 five years, close to 20,000 Palestinians have been made homeless and 
 thousands of others have lost their livelihood as the Israeli army has 
 destroyed over 4,000 homes, vast areas of agricultural land and hundreds of 
 other properties" [Amnesty International].\n\nRoughly 40% of the adult 
 Palestinian male population has spent time in Israeli detention [Nelson 
 Mandela].\n\nThe proposed Wall will separate 34.4% of Palestinians from 
 each other or their land, and Israel will annex approximately 15% of the 
 West Bank, including 60-80% of the region's most fertile land and water 
 resources [UN OCHA].\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/02/04/18477040.php
SUMMARY:Anna Baltzer's Life in Occupied Palestine: Eyewitness Stories & Photos
LOCATION:Amnesty International-S.F. Office\n1663 Mission St. #604\nSan Francisco, CA 
 94103\n\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/02/04/18477040.php
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