Jerusalem East Side Story Movie & Discussion Tuesday March 27th 7PM

 

 

 

 

 

 

MOVIE: Jerusalem, the East Side Story
TUESDAY March 27th 7PM
Stavros Lecture Hall, Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary
1000 Wildwood Ave (off NorthMain, at Wildwood & Mt. Vernon)
Columbia, SC 29203
Mohammad Alatar’s hour-long 2008 documentary describes the effects of Israeli control of Jerusalem for its Palestinian residents.  Followed by discussion, including how the Trump’s administration’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel hurts prospects for peace.

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

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Sponsored by the Carolina Peace Resource Center

Report Back from Palestine Wednesday Nov 15th 7PM at USC

 

 

 

 

 

 

Report Back from Palestine
WEDNESDAY Nov 15th 7PM
USC, School of Journalism and Mass Communications, Room 320, 800 Sumter St. Columbia, SC
Panel discussion featuring Edie Garwood, Amnesty International Country Specialist for Israel/OPT/Palestine, and Dr. James Thomas who served with Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) in Hebron in the Occupied Palestinian West Bank this past summer.
Free and open to the public.
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Part of USC’s International Education Week  #IEWUofSC
Sponsored by  Carolina Peace Resource Center and Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of South Carolina

Free Movie Occupation of the American Mind Thursday Nov 9th 7PM

MOVIE: Occupation of the American Mind
THURSDAY Nov 9th 7PM
Stavros Lecture Hall, Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary
1000 Wildwood Ave. (Wildwood & Mt. Vernon)
Columbia, SC 29203
Subtitled “Israel’s PR War in the United States”, this documentary takes an eye-opening look at why Israel’s policies towards Palestinians are accepted with US with little criticism.  Narrated by Roger Waters.
Followed by discussion with Josh Cooper of Jewish Voice for Peace.
Free and open to the public.
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PEACE FILM SERIES
Sponsored by
Carolina Peace Resource Center
Peace Studies, Lutheran Theological Seminary

 

Bill Attacking Free Speech on Palestine/Israel Now in SC Senate

SC State Rep. Alan Clemmons recently smeared the liberal Jewish peace group J Street as “anti-Semitic”, an extreme opinion that was widely panned.  But the SC House recently passed a bill sponsored Clemmons that would enshrine the same kind of smear tactics into SC law.  H.3643  invokes a controversial and vague State Department definition of anti-semitism to smear and  silence legitimate criticism of the state of Israel on campuses in South Carolina.  Language in the bill referencing a “What is Anti-Semitism Relative to Israel?” fact sheet is a direct attack on First Amendment protected political speech and intentionally blurs the line to conflate and equate legitimate viewpoints on Palestine/Israel with anti-Semitism, a backdoor form of censorship.  We’ve challenged the bill in both House and Senate subcommittees; both mostly ignored our concerns and rubber stamped the bill without discussion.  However, the bill was blocked in the last session by Senator Brad Hutto.  Now there is a rush now to get the bill passed with the new session in January of 2018.

TAKE ACTION: 

Columbia, Jan 8, 5 pm – Mideast Peace Committee Meeting

Hour-long organizing meeting on Palestine/Israel. With the recent UN Security Council vote condemning illegal Israeli settlements, and Trump’s evident rightward shift, it is time to get organized and vocal for peace based on justice for Palestinians and Israelis. Come early for the meeting, stay for the Carolina Peace potluck at 6PM afterwards:

ACTION ALERT: SC Legislators Tour Illegal Israeli Settlements, Sign the Petition

PROTEST SOUTH CAROLINA LEGISLATORS VISITING ILLEGAL ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS

Pro-settler tour of West Bank whitewashes system of apartheid

In December 2014, a delegation of twelve South Carolina state legislators traveled to Israel on a business promoting mission. They also visited illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank. State Representative Alan Clemmons (R-Horry County) led the group that visited the Israeli settlements of Efrat and Shomron at the behest of the right-wing settler group the YESHA Council.  Since returning, some legislators have misrepresented the situation in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian West Bank based on one-sided and very skewed impressions they received from visiting the Israeli settlements.

TAKE ACTION! SIGN THE PETITION asking SC Legislators to Recognize the Illegality of Israeli Settlements in the West Bank and Israel’s Apartheid Policies Toward Palestinians

 

 

CONTACT David at david@carolinapeace.org for more information and more opportunities to take action.

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Thu, Dec 11, 3pm – Ajamu Baraka Reports on African Heritage Delegation to Israel/Palestine

Mr. Ajamu Baraka is scheduled to present “Peoples in Resistance from Ferguson to Palestine: A Report Back” on Thursday, December 11, 2014 at 3pm at Paine College in the Gandy Richardson Lecture Hall located in the Haygood Holsey Building, Second Floor, Room 210. The event is free and open to the public.

If you are driving, enter through the security gate at Druid Park Ave. [updated Dec 10 11:50 am]

Mr. Baraka just returned from Palestine as a member of the “African Heritage” delegation which spent two weeks in Palestine between October 27 and early November. Join Ajamu Baraka as he shares his observations and experiences, including the attack on the delegation by the Israeli army in the village of Bil`in.

Sponsors include the Interfaith Peace Builders, Atlanta Public Sector Alliance, Moving the Center, WRFG 89.3 FM Atlanta, Black Agenda Report, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, the Georgia Green Party and the CSRA Peace Alliance in conjunction with The John Henrik Clarke Society. For more information contact M. Hutcherson PhD 706.821.8266 or Denice Traina 706.951.2413.

Israeli Forces Teargas African-American Interfaith Peace-Builders Delegation in Bil’in from Rebecca Pierce on Vimeo.

Read Mr. Baraka’s November 19, 2014 essay entitled Violence and Resistance in Palestine: An African-American Perspective on Israel-Palestine.

Spread the word!

• Download and print the flyer (jpg and pdf)
• RSVP & Share on Facebook
• Post a Twitter status update

Hummus Tasting, Wed, Oct 22, 6:15pm

Some companies which sell hummus in the United States are also supporters of human rights violations.

On Wednesday, October 22, come to the Augusta Main Library at 823 Telfair St at 6:15 pm to sample hummus prepared by local chefs and learn how to make it yourself.

At 6:30 pm, we screen the award-winning documentary “A World Not Ours,” the third film in the POV Series.

If you want to make hummus yourself and bring it to the event, contact us.

“My Name is Rachel Corrie” Plays in Columbia, Charleston & Charlotte

“My Name is Rachel Corrie” Play

SATURDAY Oct 25th, 7PM

Conundrum Music Hall

626 Meeting St. West Columbia, SC

Carolina Peace hosts the acclaimed one-person play “My Name is Rachel Corrie” starring Ashley Malloy.  Based on Corrie’s own writings, the play follows her maturing as a precocious and idealist adolescent through her finding her voice as a peace activist and traveling to Gaza.

 

Sliding Scale, $10-15 at door.

Advance tickets with reserve seating: $12. Use Paypal “Donate” button on right & include note ->

Proceeds benefit the Freedom Theatre in the West Bank. Watch the documentary Arna’s Children to learn about the Freedom Theatre.

RSVP/Share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/394204090726653/

 

Sponsored by the Carolina Peace Resource Center

 

ALSO PLAYING in Charleston & Charlotte, NC (CLICK READ MORE FOR DETAILS) with proceeds benefiting The Freedom Theatre

 

“My Name is Rachel Corrie”

SUNDAY Oct 26th, 2PM

International Longshoreman Association Hall, Auditorium

1142 Morrison Dr. Charleston, SC 29403

Sliding Scale, $10-15 at door.

Sponsored by Lowcountry Peace, a local chapter of the Carolina Peace Resource Center.

 

RSVP/Share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/701181786640866/

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“My Name is Rachel Corrie”

FRIDAY Oct 24th, 7PM [NEW TIME]

UNC-Charlotte, McKnight Hall

“Pay what you can” at the door.

Proceeds benefit the Freedom Theatre.

Sponsored by the Palestinian American Cultural Center

RSVP/Share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1550359358512248/

 

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Gaza Panel Discussion THURSDAY Oct 16th 7pm at USC

GAZA Panel Discussion

THURSDAY Oct 16th, 7PM

USC, Russell House (1400 Greene St) Room 315

 

Amnesty International at USC and the Carolina Peace Resource Center present a panel discussion on the recent Gaza/Israel bloodshed and the human rights and peace issues involved.

FEATURING

Edie Garwood, Amnesty International Country Specialist for Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories

David Matos, President of the Carolina Peace Resource Center, who traveled to Israel/Palestine in 2006 and 2009 with Interfaith Peacebuilders.

 

RSVP/Share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/840300806001042/

 

[RESCHEDULED to THURSDAY Oct 16th]