{"article":{"id":86148,"heading":"North American Palestine Conference at Rutgers!","author":"NJS","created":"2003-10-03 14:47:12","modified":"2003-10-03 14:47:12","last_modified":"Fri, 03 Oct 2003 21:47:12","article":"<p>October 10-12, 2003 - Rutgers University - New Brunswick, NJ <br><br> NORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE ON THE PALESTINE SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT <br><br> Despite all attacks - from Zionist forces, from University administration, from the State and the Governor - the Rutgers conference on Palestine, the Third North American Conference on the Palestine Solidarity Movement, is CONTINUING ON and GOING STRONG!! <br><br> ** So far, we have over 1100 letters to the Rutgers administration written in support of the conference, 467 registered participants, 178 organizational endorsers, 1253 individual endorsers of the conference and many more still going on, and an exciting and growing schedule of workshops and speakers ** <br><br> (Please see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.divestmentconference.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.divestmentconference.com\/<\/a> for more specifics!) <br><br> REGISTER AND ENDORSE! <br><br> The conference IS taking place on October 10-12, 2003! Make your travel plans now - book your plane, train and bus tickets, reserve your hotels and plan to be at Rutgers University for the Third North American Conference of the Palestine Solidarity Movement! <br><br> Now is the time - JOIN US! <br><br> Register, endorse and learn more online at: <br>  <br> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.divestmentconference.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.divestmentconference.com\/<\/a> <br><br> REGISTER NOW ONLINE: <br>  <br> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.njsolidarity.org\/dconfregister.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.njsolidarity.org\/dconfregister.htm<\/a> <br><br> ENDORSE NOW ONLINE: <br>  <br> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.njsolidarity.org\/conference\/confendorse.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.njsolidarity.org\/conference\/confendorse.html<\/a> <br>  <br> Email registration: <a href=\"mailto:registration@njsolidarity.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">registration@njsolidarity.org<\/a> <br>  <br> Email endorsements: <a href=\"mailto:endorse@njsolidarity.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">endorse@njsolidarity.org<\/a> <br><br> DONATE NOW ONLINE: <br>  <br> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.njsolidarity.org\/confdonate.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.njsolidarity.org\/confdonate.html<\/a> <br><br> WRITE TO RUTGERS HERE: <br>  <br> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.divestmentconference.com\/emailrutgers.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.divestmentconference.com\/emailrutgers.html<\/a> <br><br> Show your organizational support and endorse the conference! Sign on to be there and participate in an exciting, important moment in our movement - uniting the solidarity movement, expressing our solidarity as it is desperately needed with the Palestinian people, and uniting our struggles with those of the Palestinian people - for justice and liberation, against oppression and exploitation. <br><br> RALLY! SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11! <br><br> As part of the conference, as a demonstration of solidarity with the Palestinian people, an expression of our denied rights to be heard, and a clear confrontation for justice and liberation against the Zionist forces who support slaughter, terror and eradication of the Palestinian people, we will hold a MASS RALLY at Rutgers University on Saturday, October 11! <br><br> Saturday, October 11 <br>  <br> 5:00 PM <br>  <br> College Avenue <br>  <br> Rutgers University <br>  <br> New Brunswick, New Jersey <br><br> We will have numerous speakers and contingents from the conference and around the region! Bring your buses, vans and cars to join our voices together for justice in Palestine, in the US and around the world! <br><br> DONATE TO THE CONFERENCE! <br><br> Your support is enabling our conference to continue to grow! Due to theseries of attacks suffered by the conference, we need your support now more than ever. Please, help make the conference a strong success and donate! Donate online at: <br>  <br> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.njsolidarity.org\/confdonate.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.njsolidarity.org\/confdonate.html<\/a> <br>  <br> or make checks out to \"New Jersey Solidarity\" and send to: <br><br> New Jersey Solidarity <br>  <br> SAC Box 52 <br>  <br> 613 George Street <br>  <br> New Brunswick, NJ 08901 <br><br> HOUSING AND LOGISTICS <br>  <br> There are many local hotels in New Brunswick and the surrounding areas, as well as students willing to share their living quarters with traveling activists! For assistance with housing and hotels, please contact our housing coordinator at <a href=\"mailto:housing@njsolidarity.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">housing@njsolidarity.org<\/a> ! <br><br> HOTELS <br>  <br> If you are looking to stay at a hotel, please reserve at the: <br>  <br> North Brunswick Ramada Inn! <br><br> Ramada Inn <br>  <br> 999 US Route 1 South <br>  <br> North Brunswick, NJ 08902 United States of America <br>  <br> Phone: 732-246-3737 Fax: 732-448-9670 <br>  <br> Mention \"NJS\" to get the group rate!! <br><br> Other local hotels include: <br>  <br> Motel 6 on Rte 18\/East Brunswick: (732) 390-4545 <br>  <br> Hilton East Brunswick: (732)-828-2000 <br><br> CALL FOR PAPERS <br>  <br> The Third North American Conference of the Palestine Solidarity Movementseeks papers, documents and other written materials that memorialize historical and present experience in building Palestine solidarity and divestment movements. We welcome materials about research, experience in setting up student groups and campaigns, developing divestment calls, amd outreaching to others. <br><br> We welcome papers with a historical focus, overviews of current movementsand situations, and documents looking toward the future. These papers will be distributed at the conference, at Rutgers University on October 10-12, 2003, and beyond, published together as a record and a guide to movement-building. All SJP chapters and individuals are invited to submit papers and documents. <br><br> Please submit these papers and documents before September 27, 2003 to Snehal Shingavi at <a href=\"mailto:justiceinpalestine@hotmail.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">justiceinpalestine@hotmail.com<\/a>. <br><br> We'll see you, at Rutgers University, on October 10-12, 2003!! <br><br> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.divestmentconference.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.divestmentconference.com<\/a> <br><br> Organizational Endorsers <br>  <br> A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition  <br>  <br> ActionLA <br>  <br> Ad-Hoc Nepal Solidarity Committee <br>  <br> Al-Awda Los Angeles <br>  <br> Al-Awda NY\/NJ <br>  <br> Al-Awda Orange County <br>  <br> Al-Awda San Diego <br>  <br> Al-Awda, San Francisco Area <br>  <br> Al-Bireh Palestine Society - California <br>  <br> All-African People's Revolutionary Party <br>  <br> American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee - Fresno Chapter <br>  <br> American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee - Greater Sacramento Area Chapter <br>  <br> American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee - Los Angeles\/Orange County Chapter <br>  <br> American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee - San Francisco Bay Area Chapter <br>  <br> Americans for a Just Peace in the Middle East <br>  <br> Americans for Social Justice <br>  <br> Amnesty International of Park Falls, WI <br>  <br> Ann Arbor Coalition Against the War <br>  <br> ANSWER Coalition, Boston <br>  <br> ANSWER Coalition, Los Angeles <br>  <br> ANSWER Coalition, Orange County <br>  <br> ANSWER Coalition, SF Bay Area <br>  <br> ANSWER Coalition, Western Mass <br>  <br> Arab American Caucus of the California Democratic Party <br>  <br> Arab American Press Guild <br>  <br> Arise Bookstore Collective <br>  <br> Arise for Social Justice <br>  <br> Augusta Coalition for Peace and Justice <br>  <br> Bay Area United Against War <br>  <br> Bayan International - U.S.A. <br>  <br> Bayan International - Los Angeles Chapter <br>  <br> Bridgewater State College R.E.A.P.S. Restoring Environmental And Political <br>  <br> Brisbane Free the Five Committee <br>  <br> Bus Riders Union\/Labor Community Strategy Center <br>  <br> Campus Greens at The Ohio State University <br>  <br> Casa las Amricas <br>  <br> Central New Jersey Coalition for Peace and Justice <br>  <br> Chicago Coalition Against War and Racism <br>  <br> Christians and Muslims Establishing Peace <br>  <br> Citizens for Fair Legislation <br>  <br> Colorado Campaign for Middle East Peace <br>  <br> Colorado Palestine Solidarity Campaign <br>  <br> Committee for Justice to Defend the LA8 <br>  <br> Committee for the Release of Farouk Abdel-Muhti <br>  <br> Committee to Defend Palestinian Human Rights <br>  <br> Communist Party, USA's, Frederick Douglass Club <br>  <br> Communist Party of Argentina <br>  <br> Conscious Roots (San Francisco) <br>  <br> CUNY4All <br>  <br> Dallas Peace Center <br>  <br> Deir Yassin Society of New York <br>  <br> Dream Dancer Design <br>  <br> Egyptian American Professional Society <br>  <br> Ever Reviled Records <br>  <br> First Nations North &amp; South <br>  <br> For a Better World <br>  <br> Forum of Indian Leftists <br>  <br> Free Palestine Alliance - USA <br>  <br> Grandmothers for Peace International <br>  <br> Green Party of Dallas County <br>  <br> Hawaii Solidarity Committee <br>  <br> INCITE! Women of Color against Violence <br>  <br> Indigenous Student Alliance at Occidental College in Los Angeles, <br>  <br> California <br>  <br> International Action Center <br>  <br> Int'l League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS-US) <br>  <br> International Socialist Organization, USA <br>  <br> IranDokht <br>  <br> Islamic Association for Palestine <br>  <br> Islamic Center of NYU <br>  <br> Jews for a Free Palestine <br>  <br> Just Peace: An Action Group for Justice in the Middle East <br>  <br> Kabataang maka-Bayan (KmB) <br>  <br> Korea Truth Commission <br>  <br> La Raza Unida Party <br>  <br> LAGAI -- Queer Insurrection (SF Bay Area) <br>  <br> March For Justice <br>  <br> Marin Center for Peace and Justice <br>  <br> Marshall Action for Peaceful Solutions - Marshall University <br>  <br> Maui EARTHDAY Collective <br>  <br> Mexican American Education Foundation <br>  <br> Mideast:Just Peace <br>  <br> Minnesotan's for a United Ireland <br>  <br> Minority eXperience Network <br>  <br> Modesto Committee for Peace in the Middle East, California <br>  <br> Morton County Citizens for Repsonsible Government <br>  <br> Movement In Motion Arts Collective <br>  <br> Movimento Democratico Pela Anistia <br>  <br> Muslim Student Association - National <br>  <br> Muslim Student Association at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County <br>  <br> (UMBC) <br>  <br> Muslim Student Association - Sacramento <br>  <br> Muslim Student Association - San Francisco State University <br>  <br> National Committee to Free the Five Cuban Political Prisoners - Los <br>  <br> Angeles <br>  <br> National Lawyers Guild - Los Angeles <br>  <br> National Lawyers Guild - University of Texas School of Law <br>  <br> New England Committee to Defend Palestine <br>  <br> New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine <br>  <br> New School Aikido <br>  <br> New York Committee to Defend Palestine <br>  <br> New Zealand Peace Council <br>  <br> Not in Our Name Mxico <br>  <br> NYC Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition <br>  <br> Orange County Peace and Freedom Party <br>  <br> Orange County Veterans for Peace <br>  <br> Palestine Action at Union Square <br>  <br> Palestine Aid Society <br>  <br> Palestine Children's Welfare Fund <br>  <br> Palestine Solidarity Committee of South Africa <br>  <br> Palestine Solidarity Group - Chicago <br>  <br> Palestine Solidarity Group - Vancouver B.C. Canada <br>  <br> Palestinian American Congress <br>  <br> Palestinian American Women Association of Southern California <br>  <br> Palestinian - Canadian Student Society - University of Calgary, Canada <br>  <br> Palestinian Council for Justice and Peace - Ramallah, Palestine <br>  <br> Palestinian National Association for Youth - Gaza <br>  <br> Partido Comunista do Brasil <br>  <br> Peace Action - Sacramento Area, California <br>  <br> Peace and Justice Alliance (Central Washington University) <br>  <br> Peace and Justice Center of Sonoma County <br>  <br> Peace and Justice Network of San Joaquin County <br>  <br> PeaceNoWar <br>  <br> Philippine Peasant Support Network (PESANTE) <br>  <br> Pittsburgh Palestine Solidarity Committee <br>  <br> PoetsWesth <br>  <br> Progress Acadamic Group - An-Najah University, Nablus, Palestine <br>  <br> Proyecto Common Touch <br>  <br> Public Intellectuals for Social and Spare Change <br>  <br> Queers For Peace And Justice <br>  <br> Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism (QUIT!) (SF Bay Area) <br>  <br> Reform Party USA - Action Group <br>  <br> Revolution Youth <br>  <br> Rutgers Acts for Peace &amp; Justice <br>  <br> Rutgers Pakistan Student Association <br>  <br> Rutgers University Queens Chorale <br>  <br> Sacred Roots <br>  <br> SNAFU - the Support Network for an Armed Forces Union <br>  <br> SOA Watch West San Jose <br>  <br> Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights - Concordia <br>  <br> St. Pete for Peace <br>  <br> Stony Brook Coalition Against War <br>  <br> Students for Corporate Responsibility - University of Wisconsin - <br>  <br> Milwaukee <br>  <br> Students for Justice - San Jose State University <br>  <br> Students for Justice in Palestine, California State Univ. Sacramento <br>  <br> Students for Justice in Palestine, Sacramento <br>  <br> Students for Justice in Palestine, UC Berkeley <br>  <br> Students for Justice in Palestine, UC Davis <br>  <br> Students for Justice in Palestine, University of Illinois-Chicago <br>  <br> Students for Social Justice <br>  <br> Students Movement for Justice <br>  <br> South Jersey Earth First! <br>  <br> Suburban Outreach <br>  <br> Sudanese American Society <br>  <br> SUSTAIN - Northwest Suburban - Chicago area <br>  <br> SUSTAIN, St. Louis <br>  <br> Third World Forum <br>  <br> Third World Majority <br>  <br> UC Berkeley Arab Student Union <br>  <br> Unitarian Universalist Society of Sacramento <br>  <br> usQueers <br>  <br> Utahns for a Just Peace in the Holy Land <br>  <br> We The People United <br>  <br> Weekly East West Link &amp; Urdu Times <br>  <br> Women Against War <br>  <br> Women of All Red Nations <br>  <br> Youth Solidarity Summer<\/p>\n","contact":"info@njsolidarity.org","link":"http:\/\/www.divestmentconference.com","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Despite all attacks - from Zionist forces, from University administration, from the State and the Governor - the Rutgers conference on Palestine, the Third North American Conference on the Palestine Solidarity Movement, is CONTINUING ON and GOING STRONG!!  October 10-12, 2003.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2003\/10\/86148.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}