[CitizensTruth] "Stand Up to AIPAC"

[Jay Becker]

STAND-UP TO AIPAC FORUM 
SATURDAY OCTOBER 25, 2008 – 2:00-4:30 PM 
UIC STUDENT CENTER – ROOM 605 
750 S. Halsted, Chicago 
Free Admission 
Click here to download the forum flyer in .pdf format  
The
Stand-Up to AIPAC Forum is one in a series of events to protest the
AIPAC National Summit scheduled to take place in Chicago  on October
26-27 at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers. We will also sponsor
a rally beginning at 11 AM on October 27 at the Thompson Center atClark & Randolph, Chicago. At 12 PM following the rally we will march to the site of the AIPAC National Summit. 

The American Israeli Public Affairs Committee
(AIPAC) and related institutions (known as the “Israeli Lobby”) support
a dangerous status quo, including support of the over $3 billion a year
in U.S. military aid to Israel. We will examine its support for the worst of Israeli policies and for further U.S. military action in Iran. 

We are very honored to have James Abourezk, Allison Weir, and Ghada Talhami as speakers for this forum. 




James George Abourezk 



 
James
G. Abourezk was born in 1931 on the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation in
South Dakota, the youngest son of Lebanese immigrant parents. He
attended schools in Wood and in Mission, South Dakota , where his
parents owned general stores, then enlisted in the U.S. Navy at the age
of 17, following his graduation from high school, serving four years
during the Korean War period. 

He began practicing law in Rapid
City , South Dakota , during which time he ran for, and lost a
political race for South Dakota Attorney General. In 1970, he ran for
South Dakota 's Second District Congressional seat and won, serving one
term in Washington, D.C.., after which he ran for, and won, Senator
Karl Mundt's U.S. Senate seat. He served one term in the U.S. Senate
before voluntarily stepping down in 1979. 

In the U.S. House of
Representatives, Abourezk was a member of the Interior and the
Judiciary Committees. In the Senate, Abourezk served on the Energy
Committee, the Budget Committee, the Space and Aeronautics Committee,
and the Judiciary Committee. He created by legislation--and
chaired--the American Indian Policy Review Commission, which was a two
year study of American Indian policy that resulted in a series of broad
recommendations for change in policy. Creation of a full Senate Indian
Affairs Committee was one of the results of the Commission, a committee
which Abourezk chaired until he left the Senate. 

After
leaving the Senate, Abourezk in 1980 organized and chaired the American
Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, a nationwide civil rights
organization which worked to end discrimination and racism against
people of Arab descent. He served as its chairman for fifteen years,
stepping down in 1995. 

Abourezk has published two books,
Through Different Eyes, which is a debate in print on the
Palestinian-Israeli conflict, co-authored with Hyman Bookbinder, a
former spokesman for the American Jewish Committee; and Advise and
Dissent: Memoirs of South Dakota and the U.S. Senate. He has published
numerous newspaper opinion pieces and Law Review articles. He was an
adjunct professor of International Politics at the American University
in Washington , D.C. , and lectures at universities and other public
organizations, primarily on the Congress, on the Middle East , and on
American Indian Policy. 



 






  



 






Alison Weir 



 
Alison Weir is the founder of If Americans Knew.
She was a journalist off and on for many years. As a freelance
journalist, Weir went on an independent investigation to the
flashpoints in the West Bank and Gaza
rarely visited by American journalists. Since returning she has spoken
on Capitol Hill, to business leaders, at prestigious Washington D.C.
think tanks, and at a multitude of universities. 
Former Congressman Tom Campbell said of Weir: “Ms. Weir presents a powerful, well documented view of the Middle East
today. She is intelligent, careful, and critical. American policy
makers would benefit greatly from hearing her first-hand observations
and attempting to answer the questions she poses.” 
A New York Times
article about one of her speeches: “When the speech ended, Ms. Weir was
met with thunderous applause, and across the room there was a
widespread sense of satisfaction that someone was saying what needed to
be said.” 



 






Ghada Talhami 



 
   




Ghada Talhami
D.K. Pearsons Professor of Politics
Lake Forest College 

  



Areas of Expertise
Human Rights, Jerusalem, Palestine, Women

Dr. Talhami is the past editor of Arab Studies Quarterly, and the co-editor of four other publications. She was a Fulbright Scholar to Syria. She has authored more than 50 articles on various subjects as the Jerusalem question, the Palestine issue, Islam, women, Arab nationalism,
Zionist history, and Egyptian media. She has authored six books:
Palestine in the Egyptian Press, Suakin and Massawa under Egyptian
Rule, Palestine and the Egyptian National Identity, The Islamic
Mobilization of Women in Egypt, Syria and the Palestinians: The Clash
of Nationalisms, and Palestinian Refugees:
Pawns to Political Actors. Her latest book, Palestine in the Egyptian
Press: From al-Ahram to al-Ahali, will be published by Lexington Books.
She has received a Masters degree in US Foreign Policy from
 the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a Ph.D. in African History from University of Illinois-Chicago.  
 
 
  




Conference Site Vigil - Sheraton Hotel and Towers*
Sunday, October 26 - 12 Noon to 5:00 PM Sheraton Hotel & Towers, 301 East North Water Street (near Columbus Drive) 
*We
urge you to join the vigil for as long as you can on October 26. Jewish
Voice for Peace-Chicago also invites you to attend their weekly vigil
from 12 noon until 1 PM at Water Tower Park (Michigan and Pearson).
Immediately following their vigil, participants will march south to
join the vigil at the Sheraton Hotel & Towers. 



 






 
Stand-Up To AIPAC & the Israeli Lobby! 
Rally & March - Monday, October 27 
State of Illinois Building 
(Randolph & Clark streets, Chicago) 
11 AM- Rally, 12 PM- March

    Declare It Now! Wear Orange!
Impeach Bush & Cheney for War Crimes
& Crimes against Humanity!


__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around 
http://mail.yahoo.com 
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/citizenstruth/attachments/20081019/e6b332d4/attachment.htm>