401 Peace Alert! GOLDSTONE, GAZA AND ACCOUNTABILITY FOR OPERATION CAST LEAD

Peace Alert! GOLDSTONE, GAZA AND ACCOUNTABILITY FOR OPERATION CAST LEAD Featuring ADAM HOROWITZ & ALI ABUNIMAH WHEN: Tuesday, April 26 · 6:30pm - 9:00pm WHERE: University of Chicago, Kent 1071020 E. 58th St. Chicago, IL ---- With Judge Richard Goldstone’s recent public statements making wavesinternationally, discussion of the Goldstone Report is more timely than ever.  Editor Adam Horowitz and contributor Ali Abunimah will discuss their new book, “The Goldstone Report: The Legacy of the Landmark Investigation of the Gaza Conflict.” In this valuable and timely new book, editors Adam Horowitz, Lizzy Ratner and Philip Weiss offer an edited version of the report along with a broad selection of essays from leading experts, activists and journalists who provide commentary on the legal issues raised, the controversy over the report and the attacks on Judge Goldstone. It also provides often unheard transcripts of testimony to the investigative commission and views from Palestinians in Gaza who lived through the attack. Adam Horowitz is co-editor of Mondoweiss and co-author of “The Goldstone Report: The Legacy of the Landmark Investigation of the Gaza Conflict”. Ali Abunimah is a journalist, co-founder of the Electronic Intifada, author of “One Country,” and contributor to “The Goldstone Report” (Nation Books). This event is free and open to the public.      http://afsc.org/category/topic/goldstone Sponsored by American Friends Service Committee and Students for Justice in Palestine at University of Chicago For further information, please email Sami at skk@uchicago.edu or Miryam atmrashid@afsc.org or 312-427-2533 ---- Also, The International Studies programs at UIC and DePaul University present a joint student research conference, Friday, April 29 on "States and Violence/Violence and the State" WHEN: Friday, April 29 WHERE: Institute for the Humanities lower level Stevenson Hall  (701 S. Morgan, UIC) Opening Speaker 9am - Adam Horowitz - Researcher "Findings and Controversy of the Goldstone Report and Accountability for Operation Cast Lead" Undergraduate Student Research Panel 10 - 11 Graduate Student research Panel 1 - 2 Keynote Speaker 3:15pm - Asef Bayat - Professor of Sociology and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign "Understanding Arab Revolutions" Free and open to the public.   This email is distributed as a community service by the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC).  637 S. Dearborn St, 3rd Flr Chicago, IL 60605 United States Listings do not necessarily reflect official endorsement by AFSC. Unsubscribe from this mailing. Opt-out of all mailings from this office.