Friends & Allies,

I share with you these upcoming events.  I have heard Robyn and Sa'ed speak before and they are not to missed.

The Nakba commemoration is a poignant remembering of the displacement of 750,00 Palestinians from 1947-1949.  This displacement is continuing today in Gaza.

Please put these on your calendars.

See you there,

Jenny Hartley

UPCOMING EVENTS

May 6, 2024 -- Organizing After Carleton: My Path to the Minneapolis Permanent Ceasefire Resolution in Gaza

• Minneapolis City Council Member Robin Wonsley – Carleton ‘13
• 6:00pm -- the Chapel -- Carleton College

CM Wonsley currently works as a Minneapolis city council member representing Ward 2, the eastern part of Minneapolis. She will be speaking about her life in organizing and public service, including her involvement with the passing of the Minneapolis City Council resolution in “Support of Permanent Ceasefire and Preventing Loss of Human Life in the Middle East.”

This event is sponsored by Gender, Women's & Sexuality Studies, the Chaplain's Office, and the Division of Inclusion, Equity, and Community.

For more information:  https://www.carleton.edu/calendar/?eId=upSN

May 8, 2024 -- On Faith, Peace, & Justice: Reflections of a Queer Palestinian Quaker  

• Dr. Sa'ed Atshan
• 4:45pm -- the Chapel -- Carleton College

This is a public lecture by an internationally recognized scholar of Palestinian politics and society. Dr. Sa'ed Atshan is Chair of the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies and Associate Professor of Anthropology at Swarthmore College. 

This event is sponsored by Religion, Middle East Studies, Political Science, Gender Women's & Sexuality Studies, and Sociology & Anthropology, and The Division of Inclusion, Equity & Community -- Carleton College.

For more information:  On Faith, Peace, & Justice: Reflections of a Queer Palestinian Quaker - Events - Carleton College

May 11, 2024 – Nakba Commemoration & Mothers March --Bridge Square – Northfield

1:00pm           Nakba Commemoration

The Nakba is the expulsion of over 750,000 Palestinians from their homes and land, and the destruction of Palestinian society during the creation of the State of Israel – a destruction that continues today – the ongoing Nakba.

We cannot hope to understand the present turmoil in Palestine/Israel – let alone achieve a just peace for all those who live there -without knowing  where and how this world-shaking conflict began: with the ethnic cleansing of indigenous people from their homeland.

2:30pm           Mothers March

For everyone, not just mothers: Walking in solidarity with Palestinian Mothers, especially those in Gaza who have had to walk many miles in recent months.

• Sponsored by Northfielders for Justice in Palestine/Israel
• For more information:
•             Website:         Northfielders for Justice in Palestine/Israel
•             Email:              info.njpmn@gmail.com