Palestinian Labor Activist Bay Area Tour

Assaf Advi From Workers Advice Center, Israel
July 29-August 6 2001 Bay Area Tour (Partial Schedule)

Assaf Advi is National Coordinator of the Workers Advice Center in Israel. This center is one of the most important organizations in defending Palestinian and Asian workers who face discrimination and racism in Israel. The web page of the Workers Advice Center is at http://www.odaction.org/wac
The following is the present list of activities while Assaf Advi is in the bay area.


Sunday July29th 10:00AM
Labor Breakfast sponsored by the Labor Video Project
Blue Muse Restaurant 409 Gough St. SF $20 Donation For Travel Requested (Does not include breakfast)
Please call and leave your reservation at (415)282-1908

Sunday July 29 2:00PM Screening of "Not In My Garden" (First Screening In The US)
A 50 minute documentary on Ramia and Carmiel in Israel by Video 49
La Pena Cultural Center 3105 Shattuck St. Berkeley
$7.00 Donation Requested http://www.laborfest.net
This film shows the conditions of lives of a working class and farming Palestinian village in Israel. The Galilean village of Ramia epitomizes the central conflict in Israel.
The latter proclaims itself to be a Jewish state, despite the awkward fact that a fifth of its citizens are Palestinian. Ramia, an Arab village, has existed since the British Mandate, but Israel refuses to recognize it and therefore to provide services and infrastructure. The Jewish high-tech city of Carmiel, founded in 1964, is now taking over the village's land. Assaf Advi, coordinator of the Workers Advice Center is in the film and will be at the screening for questions and discussion.
For Contact about the film
Video '48 - Contacts: Nir Nader Or Asma Agbariya
Tel:972-3-6839145 Fax: 972-3-6839148, Or Email alsabar [at] netvision.net.il

San Francisco Labor Council Breakfast For Assaf Advi
National Coordinator,
Workers Advice Center, Israel
Monday, July 30, 2001 8 AM (Free)
San Francisco Labor Council
1188 Franklin Street (at Geary Street) 2nd Floor
San Francisco
Assaf Advi
Join Workers Advice Center Coordinator Assaf Advi and
SF Labor Council Secretary Treasurer Walter Johnson In A Labor Breakfast
Assaf Advi is the coordinator of the Workers Advice Center (WAC) The Workers Advice Center (WAC) is working in Israel especially with Arab workers (Women Textile workers construction and Hotel workers) who suffer discrimination as workers and as Arabs. Their centers are located in Jaffa (near Tel Aviv) Haifa, Nazereth and Majd El Krum (near Acre) in Arab communities. WAC recently prepared a report on Arab Textile women workers who lost their work places because of Israeli companies integration into the globalization process. The breakfast is also sponsored by the Labor Video Project.
For more information on the meeting contact
The Labor Video Project at
415-282-1908 lvpsf [at] labornet.org
or
San Francisco Labor Council
Secretary Treasurer Walter Johnson at
(415)440-4809
For the Workers Advice Center Site Go to http://www.odaction.org/wac

Tuesday July 31, 2001 12:00 Noon KPFA 94.1 FM
Interview of Assaf Advi in the program "Living Room" With Chris Welch
Available on the web at http://www.kpfa.org

Tuesday July 31, 2000 7:00PM Screening of "Not In My Garden" with the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee 525 Valencia St. San Francisco followed by discussion with Assaf Advi
Donation Requested

Wednesday August 1, 2001 9:00 AM Radio program on KKUP 91.5 FM in San Jose, California with
Paul George and Fadi Saba