| New on the website | October 8, 2007, JVP E-Newsletter - We're making news
- In defense of academic freedom
- JVP's HaHRP delegation ready to go
- Defending a mural
- Peace rally and book readings
Making News
Your letters about Tutu are making the news! Read the Jerusalem Post. Listen to a live conversation with JVP's Mitchell Plitnick and Steven Walt about the Israel Lobby this Wednesday, Oct 10, 10-11 am PST on KALW-FM. Also read JVP's Cecilie Surasky's recently op-ed in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Dissenting at your own risk.
Chicago, Oct 12: In Defense of Academic Freedom
2:00 pm - 7:00 pm, Rockefeller Chapel, University of Chicago, 5850 S. Woodlawn Ave., Chicago.
 What is the nature of the assault on academic freedom by organizations mobilized to suppress criticism of Israel's policies? This one-day symposium features targeted scholars affected by controversy within academia and the publishing industry. Chair: Tariq Ali (Verso Books). Participants: Akeel Bilgrami (Columbia University),Noam Chomsky (MIT, emeritus), Tony Judt (Remarque Institute, NYU), John Mearsheimer (University of Chicago), Neve Gordon (Ben Gurion University), Norman Finkelstein (formerly DePaul University) and Mehrene Larudee (DePaul University).
Co-sponsored by JVP-Chicago, DePaul Academic Freedom Committee, and others. More info: info@academicfreedomchicago.org JVP's Health and Human Rights Delegation Ready to Go!
We send specialized delegations to Palestine consisting of medical and human rights workers, journalists, labor organizers and others. Our team will leave October20. If you are not going, you can follow the progress on their work in this blog: http://blog.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/?page_id=6
JVP Bay Area defends a SF mural expressing solidarity withPalestinians
 The Mission District mural, created by the H.O.M.E.Y. Collective and entitled "Solidarity-Breaking Down Barriers" included a depiction of Palestinians breaking through the Israeli wall, along with many related images. Other imagery included the barrier on the US Mexico border,and images of various liberation struggles. Muralism is a long tradition in the Mission District. The mural was funded through the San Francisco Arts Commission, and the funding for the mural was held up after complaints from the Jewish Community Relations Council and the Anti-Defamation League. You can read more about the controversy and see a picture at the Muzzlewatch blog, here. HOMEY agreed to revise the mural and the final version has now been approved. Several JVP-Bay Area members spoke at an Arts Commission hearing on Sept. 19 and delivered a letter supporting HOMEYand the mural.
Massachussets, Oct 11 and 14: Broken Promises, Broken Dreams
 Two reading and discussion sessions with JVP member Alice Rothchild, who co-organized the JVP Health and Human Rights Project, and is the author of Broken Promises, Broken Dreams.
• Western Mass, Oct 11 in the evening. (For more info stephaniealevin@hotmail.com)
• South Hadley, Oct 14, 1 pm, Gamble Auditorium, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass. (For more info odysseynews@aol.com) Boston, Oct 26: Tearing Down Walls, Building Bridges
3:00 - 4:30pm, Copley Square, across the street from Old South Church, Boston
Join a peace rally organized by JVP-Boston and other local peace groups with the Sabeel conference. All the conference are asked to wear clerical attire.
Seattle, Oct 29: The Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism
7:30 pm, Elliott Bay Bookstore, 101 South Main Street, Seattle.
 A reading by JVP Advisory Board Member Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz. Her engaging and eye-opening book examines the historical and contemporary views on Jews and whiteness as well as the complexities of African/Jewish relations, the racial mix and disparate voices of the Jewish community, contemporary Jewish anti-racist and multicultural models, and the diasporic state of Jewish life in the United States.
Co-sponsored by JVP-Seattle and the African American/Jewish Coalition for Justice.
More info: http://www.elliottbaybook.com/events/oct07/kaye.jsp
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Archbishop Tutu barred from speaking--Take action!
St. in St. Paul, Minnesota cancelled an appearance by Archbishop Desmond Tutu because of his criticism of Israeli human rights violations. Tell the university to let Tutu speak! Do Not Withhold Electricity, Water, and Goods from the People of Gaza!
Send a letter of protest condemning the decision of the Israeli government to begin withholding electricity, water and goods from the Gaza Strip. These actions are inhumane and illegal under international law. Academic Freedom at DePaul: Finkelstein Reaches Settlement, Larudee Still Needs Our Support
Profesor Finkelstein has agreed to resign from DePaul. The denial of tenure Mehrene Larudee must be reversed. Please write an urgent letter of protest to the DePaul's University. Miss our last print newsletter? Download it now in PDF format. Donate to JVP now
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