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DESCRIPTION:Noura will speak about "From Occupation to Warfare: How Israel Expanded its 
 use of Force and Diminished Palestinian Resistance."\n\nWith Special Guest 
 Palestinian musician Yara Mubarak\n\nTickets: $10 low income, $15 general, 
 $25 supporter, $50 freedom fighter, $100 change-maker! Buy tickets now, 
 www.mecaforpeace.org.\n\nNOURA ERAKAT is a human rights attorney, activist, 
 and Assistant Professor at George Mason University. She is a Co-Founding 
 Editor of Jadaliyya, an ezine on the Middle East and an Editorial Committee 
 member of the Journal of Palestine Studies. While an undergraduate student 
 at UC Berkeley, Noura helped launch the first university divestment 
 campaign in 2001. Upon graduating from Berkeley Law School, she helped seed 
 BDS campaigns throughout the country as the National Organizer with the US 
 Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation.\n\nNoura has served as Legal 
 Counsel to a Congressional Subcommittee in the House of Representatives as 
 well as the Legal Advocacy Officer for the BADIL Resource Center for 
 Refugee and Residency Rights. Most recently, she released a short 
 multimedia documentary, Gaza In Context, that rehabilitates Israel's wars 
 on Gaza within a settler-colonial framework. She also produced the short 
 video, Black Palestinian Solidarity.  Currently Noura is writing a book 
 tentatively titled, Law as Politics in the Palestinian-Israel Conflict. 
 \n\nBenefit for the Middle East Children's Alliance, wheelchair 
 accessible.\n\n$10.00 - $100.00, sliding scale.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/10/25/18792680.php
SUMMARY:Palestinian-American human rights lawyer Noura Erakat!
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of OAKLAND\n2501 Harrison Street\nOakland, CA 
 94612
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/10/25/18792680.php
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