10/14: Women, Peace and Social Justice in Israel and Palestine

FACULTY FOR ISRAELI-PALSTINIAN PEACE PRESENT:
WOMEN, PEACE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE IN ISRAEL AND PALESTINE

Saturday October 14th 7pm
St. Boniface Church
741 Golden Gate Ave
between Jones x Leavenworth
2 blocks from Civic Center BART

The Speakers:
Safa Abu-Rabiah is a coordinator of the Bedouin
Women's Empowerment Program of the New Israeli
Fund and an activist with The Forum for
Co-Existence Between Jews and Arabs. Educated in a
Jewish high-school and in Beer-Sheva University,
the daughter of a Palestinian mother and a Bedouin
father, Safa will discuss the different aspects of
women's struggles in the Bedouin society and in
Israel in general as well as describe women's role in
the struggle for peace and reconciliation.

Hannah Safran,PhD, is a co-founder of Coalition of
Women for a Just Peace and an activist with
Women in Black. As a relentless peace and social
organizer in Israel and a scholar in women studies,
Hannah will discuss the Israeli society, joint
Israeli-Palestinian activism for reconciliation and peace,
and her work to promote womenís rights for Palestinian
and Israeli women.

Susan Greene, PhD, is an artist, activist and
clinical psychologist. She is a member of Jews for a
Free Palestine and a founding member of Break the
Silence Mural Project, a group of Jewish American
Women artists who, through community art projects
in Occupied Palestine, work to raise awareness and
critical thinking in the U.S. regarding Palestine and Israel.
She recently returned from 2 months in Palestine and
will share her efforts to empower youth through art.

$5-20 Sliding Scale, no one turned away

This event is co-sponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace
and International Solidarity Movement