"My Name is Rachel Corrie," - Supporting The Palestinians at the UN

Hi.  I was unable to put two, wonderful cultural activities on the same page, so will send notice of a broad exhibit of Chicano art, separately.  -Ed

 

 

From: estee chandler [mailto:losangeles@jewishvoiceforpeace.org]
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 9:51 PM
Subject: My Name is Rachel Corrie & Supporting The Palestinians at the UN

 

JVP-LA and Friends,

I hope you are all doing well during these long hot days of summer.  A couple of announcements...

 

A Great Theater Opportunity - Thursdays, Sept. 1, 8, 15 & 22 - My Name Is Rachel Corrie - Theatricum Botanicum - Topanga Canyon

 

My Name Is Rachel Corrie
From the Writings of Rachel Corrie
Edited by Alan Rickman and Katherine Viner 
Directed by Susan Angelo

The S. Mark Taper Foundation Pavilion September 1, 8, 15, and 22.  General Admission: $12 + ($2 service fee) On March 16, 2003, Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old American, was killed in Gaza as she was trying to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian home. Theatricum Botanicum inaugurates its second performance space, the S. Mark Taper Foundation Pavilion, with a one-woman play composed from Rachel Corrie's journals, letters and emails. Susan Angelo directs Samara Frame as the young activist who left her home and school in Olympia, Washington to work in the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Since its premiere in 2005 at London’s Royal Court Theatre, this theater piece has been surrounded by both controversy and impassioned proponents, and has raised an unprecedented call to support political work and the difficult discourse it creates.

 

For tickets, go to:

    http://www.theatricum.com/seasoncal.htm

 

Scroll down to your date of interest 

 click on "Rachel 8pm"  

 

The Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice was established by members of Rachel’s family and community to continue the kind of work that she began and hoped to accomplish:

http://rachelcorriefoundation.org/

 

The Rachel Corrie Foundation Call to Action: Don’t Reward Caterpillar

Despite a long history of complicity in human rights abuses and violations of international law, Caterpillar Inc. has been selected to receive the National Building Museum’s Henry C. Turner Prize for Innovation in Construction Technology.  This prize, to be awarded in Washington DC on September 14, is given annually to recognize “an invention, an innovative methodology, and/or exceptional leadership by an individual or team of individuals in construction technology.”  Sadly, in Palestine and around the world, Caterpillar and its bulldozers have become a symbol of the Israeli occupation and of destruction – rather than one of innovative building and construction appropriate to the National Building Museum and the Henry C. Turner prize.

Act Here:

http://rachelcorriefoundation.org/blog/2011/08/24/call-to-action-dont-reward-caterpillar

 

JVP-LA Call to Action! - Demonstration to Support Palestinians at the UN - Friday Sept. 16th - 4pm - 7pm

                                                             Call on US Government NOT to use their VETO

 

     WHAT:            Demonstration to Support Palestinians at U.N. in Face of U.S. Veto

     WHEN:            Friday evening, September 16, 4-7 PM

     WHERE:          Westwood Federal Building (Wilshire just west of 405 Fwy)

     SPONSORS:     JVP-LA, LA Jews for Peace and CODEPINK-LA     (more coming)

 

We support the Palestinian people’s struggle to fulfill their aspirations and secure their internationally recognized rights to freedom, national self-determination, justice, and equality.  To this end, the Palestinian bid for U.N. membership will go forward this September.  The PLO – Palestinian Authority submitted a formal request for U.N. membership to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon last week.  See below for the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) Delegation to the U.S. fact sheet describing their goals. 

Even if Palestine was admitted as a member of the United Nations, that would not change facts on the ground or the lives of ordinary Palestinian people – the occupation will continue.  Nevertheless, we believe the campaign for Palestinian statehood prompts an important global conversation about the fundamental Palestinian right to self-determination, and the United States’ and Israel’s ongoing role in thwarting that right

We call on the United States government not to veto the Palestine bid for recognition on the 1967 borders, nor the Palestinian bid for U.N. membership.  This is what many Palestinian people want; it is incumbent on freedom-loving Americans to support those Palestinians.  Palestinian recognition and U.N. membership will help bring stability to the region; it will be good for all the region‘s peoples as well as being good for Americans.

Organizations are invited to join in sponsoring this event.  To sponsor write to: info@LAJewsforPeace.org

Contact:  Jeff at info@LAJewsforPeace  or call 562-694-1637

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For more background see the JVP Statement drafted by Dr. Joel Beinin, a long-time JVP member who is the Donald J. Maclachlan Professor of Middle Eastern History at Stanford University Here:

http://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/blog/jewish-voice-for-peace-and-un-recognition-of-palestinian-statehood#1

 

Also  very helpful is this FAQ developed by the US Campaign to End the Occupation:

http://www.endtheoccupation.org/article.php?id=3022

 

Peace and HOPE,
~estee chandler
JVP-LA Organizer

 

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