Events

Join New York Neighbors for American Values

a coalition of labor, civic, and religious groups in support of inclusion and equality

Candlelight Vigil
Friday, September 10, 7:15 p.m.
Meet at the intersection of Church St. and Park Pl.

On the eve of the 9/11 anniversary, community members will join together in support of the American constitutional values of religious freedom, diversity, and equality, and the rights of Muslim Americans to build a community center at 51 Park Place.

Brooklyn For Peace presents:
Five Months in Gaza: Report from Behind the Prison Walls
 
Max Ajl, a veteran of the Gaza Freedom March of December 2009-January 2010, finally got into Gaza in March after being held for several weeks in Cairo. He will report on his five months in Gaza and answer questions about the political and humanitarian situation there, the flotilla, and what next steps solidarity activists can take to break the siege.
 

Center for Jewish History and Jewish Women's Archive present:
Remembering Grace Paley: A panel discussion, with excerpts from Lilly Rivlin's new film,  Grace Paley: Collected Shorts

Midnight on the Mavi Marmara: The Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and How It Changed the Course of the Israel/Palestine Conflict

Book Reading and Discussion with Moustafa Bayoumi (editor), Max Blumenthal, Arun Gupta, Rashid Khalidi, Alia Malek and Phil Weiss

at Alwan for the Arts, 16 Beaver Street (between Broad and Broadway), 4th floor,New York, NY 10004, (646) 732-3261

Free and Open to the Public

Village Voice film critic Jim Hoberman will be signing copies of his newly released classic, Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds, and will introduce the only Yiddish film made by the USSR, 1932's The Return of Nathan Becker at the Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street in Manhattan. 

6:00pm: Exhibition Tour 16 mm Postcards: Home Movies of American Jewish Visitors to 1930s Poland
6:30pm: Films and Discussion

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Beginning in 2003, the West Bank village of Budrus united to nonviolently protest the confiscation of village lands for the construction of Israel's separation wall.   The documentary, Budrus, tells the story of that protest.  With the support of activists from Israel and abroad, the villagers from Budrus succeeded in getting Israel to alter the route of the wall, saving most of their land.

Beginning in 2003, the West Bank village of Budrus united to nonviolently protest the confiscation of village lands for the construction of Israel's separation wall.   The documentary, Budrus, tells the story of that protest.  With the support of activists from Israel and abroad, the villagers from Budrus succeeded in getting Israel to alter the route of the wall, saving most of their land.

Beginning in 2003, the West Bank village of Budrus united to nonviolently protest the confiscation of village lands for the construction of Israel's separation wall.   The documentary, Budrus, tells the story of that protest.  With the support of activists from Israel and abroad, the villagers from Budrus succeeded in getting Israel to alter the route of the wall, saving most of their land.