Saturday, November 10, 2012

An interfaith dialogue addressing civil rights violations against Muslims

From: Pat & Jeff Warner [mailto:PatnJeff@keyway.net]
Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2012 8:50 AM
To: Ed Pearl
Subject: Suggestion to post

Please post the below announcement for the Interfaith Discussion on Islamophobia scheduled for tomorrow

best jeff

Pat & Jeff Warner
562-694-1637
La Habra Heights, CA 90631

TOMORROW, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 3 pm,

CULVER-PALMS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH on Sepulveda near Culver Blvd.

WHAT: ISLAMOPHOBIA; First in a Series

An interfaith dialogue addressing civil rights violations against Muslims

in our communities & across the nation.

Speakers: Reverend James Lawson

Rabbi Haim Beliak (by video link)

Imam Muhammad Faqih

Moderator: Estee Chandler

WHEN: TOMORROW, SUNDAY, November 11, 3 PM

WHERE: Culver-Palms United Methodist Church, 4464 Sepulveda Blvd, Culver City

Off 405 at Culver, south on Sepulveda. Parking behind Church.

ENTRY: $10; $5 students; no one turned away

Refreshment will be served.

INFORMATION: info@LAJewsforPeace.org or LosAngeles@JewishVoiceforPeace.org

FLYER: attached and at http://www.lajewsforpeace.org/images/IslamophobiaFlyer.pdf

We are living in troubled times. Some our neighbors are being scapegoated and demonized by a nation-wide, loosely organized campaign of Islamophobia. This is just the most recent episode of in America of fear of “the other.”

This event brings together a panel of distinguished community leaders to examine cultural, theological, and political perspectives of Islamophobia. The speakers will deconstruct the most persistent myths about Islam and Muslims, and examine the role Islamophobia continues to play in justifying war abroad and political repression at home.

In a way, this event will examine the very fabric of American society that Islamophobia threatens to destroy. This event will start to expose the demagoguery that promotes the irrational fear that is Islamophobia.

Issues that will be discussed include:

What do we know about the political, spiritual and psychological keys that are played to elicit Islamophobia?
What is the damage to our constitutional freedoms and to the inclusive society we have strived for?
What kinds of social healing and cooperation are required in order to move forward?

Speaker’s Bios

Rabbi Haim Dov Beliak is the Executive Director of Beit Polska, the Progressive Jewish Community's umbrella organization in Poland. He served as chaplain and adjunct professor at The Claremont Colleges for 17 years. He is a co-founder ofJewsOnFirst.org, a leading source on the "Christian Right" including their role in fanning Islamophobia in American Society.
Imam Muhammad Faqih holds a degree in Islamic Studies from the Institute of Islamic and Arabic Sciences in Fairfax, VA. He served as an Imam in Laurel, MD and in San Diego, CA. Currently, Imam Faqih is the resident Imam of the Islamic Institute of Orange County in Anaheim.
Reverend James Lawson is an architect of the American Civil Rights Movement, whom Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called "the leading theorist and strategist of nonviolence in the world." He has been a leader and educator in peace & justice issues for over 50 years for innumerable organizations including ICUJP, CLUE, the ACLU, the NAACP, and the World Council of Churches.

This talk is part of the Progressive Conversations on Israel/Palestine and US Foreign Policy in the Middle East, a monthly series presented by LA Jews for Peace, Friends of Sabeel-Los Angeles, and Jewish Voice for Peace-Los Angeles, in association with Levantine Cultural Center. The Islamophobia series is also sponsored by the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California, the United Methodists’ Holy Land Task Force, the Interfaith Communities United for Justice & Peace, and the American Friends Service Committee. KPFK, 90.7 FM, is the media sponsor.

Jeff Warner
LA Jews for Peace
www.LAJewsforPeace.org

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In a Benefit Concert for FolkWorks

July 17th at 2 PM

at the

Tropico de Nopal Gallery, in Los Angeles,
1665 Beverly Boulevard, East of Alvarado.

Swing Riots is an LA Jazz Gypsy Balkan Klezmer Folk ensemble with six versatile fully digitized members who recreate the brilliant music of two-finger Belgian Gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt— quite a feat, in that it takes them only sixty fingers to accomplish what Django did with two. Perhaps that’s why the word genius is so often found within two syllables of Reinhardt’s legendary name.

But if you close your eyes, it hardly matters; you can drift back in time to the sweltering erotic nights of Paris’s Left Bank in the 1930s, when Reinhardt was remaking the landscape of modern Jazz, and having to relearn the guitar after suffering major burns in a 1928 fire that changed his life and modern music forever. Without the use of the third and fourth fingers on his left hand he played everything with just the two he had—and that proved to be enough.

The Swing Riots perform an irreverent gumbo of Gypsy & Creole Jazz, Klezmer & Romanian Horas, Parisian Musette & the occasional wild card thrown in for good measure. The SwingRiots are comprised of 6 core members who have played for decades in everything from Balkan dance bands to traditionalSwing groups including: Bill Marks: Guitar & Voice; Pat Mac Swyney: Mando-Guitar, Tenor Banjo, Mandolin, Cornet, Ney, Harmonica & Voice; Linda Kodaira: Violin; Nick Casillas: Clarinet & Soprano Sax;Ben Getting: Upright Bass.

Ed Pearl has done a bit of his own reshaping of the musical landscape of Los Angeles, as the creator of the legendary folk music club The Ash Grove in 1958, and had Django Reinhardt not passed away in 1953, he would surely have graced the Ash Grove stage as well, along with Muddy Waters, Bill Monroe, the New Lost City Ramblers, The Greenbriar Boys, Phil Ochs, Mance Libscomb, Lightning Hopkins, Flatt and Scruggs, Mississippi John Hurt, Jackie DeShannon and Ry Cooder.

Now Ed has embarked on a new venture, catching up with lost time as it were, and will present Swing Riots in his new summer concert series sponsored by Ash Grove Music (www.ashgrovemusic.com).

It will be a doubly special event, since it is a benefit concert for FolkWorks, LA’s free and only folk music magazine, now in its tenth year of continuous publication, covering the waterfront of LA’s sometimes bewildering variety of folk related solo performers, dance and instrumental groups and festivals, as well as national touring artists that come through town.

FolkWorks (www.folkworks.org) was just honored this past May with the Topanga Banjo-Fiddle Contest Music Legend Award for 2011, and needs the influx of funds from this extraordinary concert to keep the presses rolling, as it tries valiantly to beat the odds that have made magazine publishing a quixotic and oft-times heroic endeavor.

So support the Ash Grove, support FolkWorks, and enjoy an unparalleled afternoon of world music from the Lost Generation that these wonderful Los Angeles musicians have rediscovered, mastered and made their own. For this musical experience of a lifetime Swing Riots will be joined by vocal duet Jess Basta & Christine Tavares, formerly of VOCO in a variety of Yiddish and early jazz standards. Don’t you dare miss it!
--Ross Altman

Ed Pearl

Saturday, November 10, 2012

An interfaith dialogue addressing civil rights violations against Muslims

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