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NICARAGUA'S HISTORIC & ONGOING SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINE WEBINAR

Join FFIPP co-founder Yoav Elinevsky, Executive Director of the Middle East Children’s Alliance Zeiad Abbas Shamrouch from Dscheisha Camp, and international development economist Coleen Littlejohn for this webinar on Sunday, May 19th; where they will discuss the on-going genocide in Gaza and the meaning of Nicaragua's charge before the International Court of justice, that Germany is violating the Genocide Convention by supplying Israel with weapons, and enabling it to continue with the genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank.  

Noon Pacific time / 1 pm Nicaragua / 8 pm Greenwich UK/ 9 pm Paris

Speakers:

Zeiad Abbas Shamrouch is the Executive Director of the Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA),  a nonprofit humanitarian aid organization based in Berkeley, California, which supports children and families in Palestine, Iraq and Lebanon. He is a Palestinian refugee from Dheisheh Refugee Camp in the West Bank. He is the co-founder of the Ibdaa Cultural Center in Dheisheh. Zeiad is also a filmmaker, journalist and educator who has worked with Palestinian and international media and has participated in the production of several documentary films.

Yoav Elinevsky is a peace activist, a native of Jerusalem and  a community college professor emeritus of mathematics from Massachusetts.   He is the co-founder of FFIPP, an international network of faculty and students that organizes internships for college students in the occupied West Bank as well as delegations of faculty and students to the West Bank and Gaza since 2002.

Coleen Littlejohn, a Managua resident since 1980, is an international development economist.  She has worked for a wide range of organizations such as Catholic Relief Services, the International Reconstruction Fund (FIR),  Nicaragua Network, CAPRI (a local development NGO she founded in 1988), Save the Children Canada  (Managua and Toronto) and the World Bank in Nicaragua, Liberia, West Africa and in Washington, DC.

This event is hosted by Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition, which has a new website:  NicaSolidarity.com

Register here: bit.ly/NicaMay19 

Earlier Event: 26 November
Radio Palestina - Spettacolo Teatrale