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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">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 <a rel="nofollow" title="Protest the 2008 AIPAC National Summit in Chicago 10/26-10/27" target="_blank" href="http://caapweb.org/id28.html"><span style="color: black;">rally</span></a> beginning at 11 AM on <span style="border-bottom: medium none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1224469435_2">October 27</span> at the Thompson Center atClark & Randolph, <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1224469435_3">Chicago</span>. At 12 PM following the rally we will march to the site of the AIPAC National Summit.</span></strong><span style="color: black;"></span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"><br><strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">The American <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1224469435_4">Israeli Public Affairs Committee</span>
(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 <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1224469435_5">Israel</span>. We will examine its support for the worst of Israeli policies and for further U.S. military action in <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1224469435_6">Iran</span>.</span></strong></span></b><span style="color: black;"></span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black;"><br></span><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">We are very honored to have <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1224469435_7">James Abourezk</span>, Allison Weir, and Ghada Talhami as speakers for this forum.</span></strong><span style="color: black;"></span>
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<h3 style="margin: 12pt 0in 3pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">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. <br><br>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. <br><br>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. <br><br>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. <br><br>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
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"><a rel="nofollow" title="http://www.alisonweir.org/" target="_blank" href="http://www.alisonweir.org/"><span style="color: black;">Alison Weir</span></a> is the founder of <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.ifamericansknew.org/"><span style="color: black;">If Americans Knew</span></a>.
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 <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1224469435_9">West Bank and Gaza</span>
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.</span></strong><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"></span></b>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">Former <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1224469435_10">Congressman Tom Campbell</span> said of Weir: “Ms. Weir presents a powerful, well documented view of the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1224469435_11">Middle East</span>
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.”</span></strong><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"></span></b>
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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.”</span></strong><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"></span></b></p></td></tr>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Ghada Talhami<br>D.K. Pearsons Professor of Politics<br><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1224469435_12">Lake Forest College</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></b></p></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><br>Areas of Expertise<br>Human Rights, Jerusalem, Palestine, Women<br><br>Dr. Talhami is the past editor of <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1224469435_13">Arab Studies Quarterly</span>, and the co-editor of four other publications. She was a Fulbright Scholar to <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1224469435_14">Syria</span>. She has authored more than 50 articles on various subjects as the Jerusalem question, the Palestine issue, Islam, women, <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1224469435_15">Arab nationalism</span>,
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 <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1224469435_16">Palestinian Refugees</span>:
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 <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1224469435_17">Foreign Policy</span> from
the <span style="border-bottom: medium none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1224469435_18">University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee</span> and a Ph.D. in African History from University of Illinois-Chicago.</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></b></p></td></tr></tbody></table>
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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.</span></i></b></p></td></tr>
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