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Follow Us on Twitter30 Mar, CANBERRA: Public Meeting – Global Day of Action – Sarah Dowse, Michael Shaik March 13, 2010
Public Meeting – Global Day of Action for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israeli apartheid
WHEN: Tuesday 30 March 2010 at 6.30pm
WHERE: Johnson Auditorium, Pilgrim House, Northbourne Avenue (just north of Jolimont Centre), Civic
SPEAKERS:
Sara Dowse is a prize-winning author and women’s rights activist. Sara has spoken out strongly against the Israeli attacks on Gaza in 2009 and is one of the Jewish petitioners renouncing the right of return for Jewish Australians to return to Israel. Sara was a member of the Women’s Liberation Movement and the Women’s Electoral Lobby-ACT. She was the inaugural head of the Women’s Affairs Section of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet (which become the Office of the Status of Women).
TOPIC: “A family journey”
Michael Shaik is the Public Advocate for Australians for Palestine, a Melbourne-based organization that advocates for a just solution to the
Israel/Palestine conflict. He is a graduate from the Australian National University with a Masters degree in Strategic Studies and an Honours degree in Political Science. In 2000 he was awarded an Australian Service Medal for his work as a Civilian Peace Monitor in Bougainville.
TOPIC: “Is this apartheid?”
CONTACT:
Australians for Justice and Peace in Palestine (AJPP)
PO Box 619, WODEN, ACT , 2606.
ph. 0417 269 984
www.ajpp.canberra.net.au
Thank You.
