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THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONDED FOR NOVEMBER...THANK YOU FOR UNDERSTANDING.SPHR Ryerson and The Free Gaza movement presents: Fundraiser to FREE GAZA: boats, courts, and the battle for accountability with Canadian author NAOMI KLEIN and Free Gaza Activist EWA JASIEWICZ. Cost: 10$ Entry
Date: Friday, October 16that
Time: 7:00 P.M
Location: Ryerson University, KHE 321 A (340 Church Street East)
Directions: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=111992646214613502924.000474f85c9059b547ca3&ll=43.65966,-79.384246&spn=0.007731,0.01929&z=16?Enter either through the Library Building, going up the stairs to the third floor turn left into Kerr Hall or through the Quad area, into Kerr Hall East Websites:
www.freegaza.org/
http://www.naomiklein.org/ http://www.sphr.org/ For further information about this event and media attendance, email
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Naomi Klein Biography Naomi Klein is a Canadian journalist and a writer forThe Nationand The Guardian.In 2000, she wrote No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies, which has turned into an international phenomenon along with winning both the Canadian National Business Book Award and the French Prix Médiations. In 2002, she published Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate, a collection of many of her previous works. She released The Takein 2004, a documentary directed by herself and her husband, Avi Lewis, about the plight of unemployed workers in Argentina. Klein also worked on another book that was released in the fall of 2007 titled The Shock Doctrine: Rise of Disaster Capitalism. In light of the Gaza Warin January 2009, Klein made the case for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions(BDS) campaign to boycott Israel, arguing that "the best strategy to end the increasingly bloody occupation is for Israel to become the target of the kind of global movement that put an end to apartheid in South Africa." Ewa Jasiewicz Biography Ewa Jasiewicz is an experienced journalist, community and union organizer, and solidarity worker. She is currently the project coordinator for the Free GazaMovement, and one of the only internationaljournalists on the ground in Gaza.Her articles have appeared in The Independent, The Guardian, Le Monde Diplomatique, Red Pepper, Left Turn, and Z Net, among others. She worked with the ISM in Palestine, and with Voices in the Wilderness in Iraq. She speaks conversational Arabic. |
