Thursday, March 04, 2004

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Event: Israeli Peace Activist Ruth Hiller

What are the intersections of feminism and anti-militarization?

How are these lenses used to understand Israel/Palestine?

How are some Israelis responding to the political situation?

www.newprofile.org

presenting:

***** The Courage to Refuse *****

RUTH HILLER

* Israeli Peace Activist...
* Founder of New Profile, Feminist Israeli Peace Group...
* Mother of 3 sons refusing to serve in Occupied Territories in
Palestine...
* Here to receive Courage of Conscience Award from Peace Abbey...

...will be speaking at Harvard!!!!!

SUNDAY MARCH 7th
Time: 3:00pm
Location: Science Center Lecture Hall D
(see map below for directions)

Sponsored by:
The Harvard Society of Arab Students
The Harvard Initiative for Peace and Justice
The Palestinian Solidarity Committee
The Progressive Jewish Alliance

Sunday, February 29, 2004

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Events: Harvard Social Forum

The Harvard Social Forum:
A Campus-Wide Gathering of the Forces of Change

Friday March 12 ----> Saturday March 13
(afternoon) (all day)


- Involved in social justice work?
- Frustrated by a lack of communication among campus groups?
- Want to understand the interconnectedness of the issues we fight for?

Register for the Harvard Social Forum!

Co-sponsored by:

Asian American Association
Association of Black Harvard Women
BGLTSA
Black Men's Forum
Black Student Association PAC
Campaign for Campus Liberty
Coalition against Sexual Violence
College Democrats
Environmental Action Committee
First-Year Urban Program
Harvard Fair Trade Initiative
Harvard Initiative for Peace and Justice
Harvard Progressive Advocacy Group
Perspective
Progressive Student Labor Movement
RAZA
Socialist Alternative
Students for Choice
Students for Humane and Responsible Economics


More on the HSF:

We believe that if we can unite as activists for change, we can create a
coalition of organizations and resources regardless of the different
campaigns we work on, and on Friday March 12 through Saturday March 13,
students from dozens of groups across the campus will have the chance to
do that.

We have planned a two-day retreat intended to educate ourselves about
the broader systems we challenge as well as create a more in-depth
understanding of our individual campaigns and how we can encourage
collaboration between groups. We will learn about the history of
activism at Harvard, evaluate strategies for campaign development, and
work toward the beginnings of a coalition of multi-issue organizers.
Workshops will include focus on issues such as Class, Race, Gender,
Inequality and Repression, War, Empire and Non-Violent Resistance, and
Democracy and Freedom.

Though our goals for the retreat and coalition building are primarily
centered on making change at Harvard, our intentions stretch far beyond
campus activism. Our status as students in one of the most privileged
environments in the world threatens to suffocate our knowledge of the
world around us. You don't need to look far to see the realities of a
world that is colored by segregation, actively building upon the prison
and military industries, and concerning itself less with freedom and
justice. We live in a place where repression and violence against poor
people, women, and people of color takes place without serious
repercussions. And we stand witness to the post-911 policies that
continue to threaten civil liberties. The overarching goal, therefore,
of educating ourselves and uniting for political empowerment is to
better prepare graduates of Harvard to work for social change in a world
of brutal injustices. If you are interested in being a part of this
empowerment, be sure to save the date-March 12-13 will be an opportunity
to address these kinds of questions.

Friday, February 27, 2004

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Events: HUMAN RIGHTS EVENTS BULLETIN MARCH 1-12, 2004

Monday, March 1, 2004

4:00-5:00p.m. “Report from Iraq: Blinded by the Sunlight
Matthew Mcallester
U.S. Foreign Policy Seminar, WCFIA, Mezzanine Room 11
UN Bureau Chief for New York Newsday, Matthew Mcallester won a Pulitzer in
1997 for his coverage of the TWA 800 crash, and he subsequently covered and
wrote a book about the war in Kosovo. While reporting from Baghdad during
the 2003 war he was kidnapped and incarcerated in Iraq’s most feared
prison. His new book about human rights conditions in Iraq before, during,
and after that war, titled Blinded by the Sunlight, is soon to be published
by Harper Collins.

Tuesday, March 2, 2004

4:15 p.m. "What's in a Scarf? The Current Debate on LaГЇcitГ© in France."
Nicolas Weill, journalist, Le Monde. Cabot Room, CES

Wednesday, March 3, 2004

12:30 p.m. "When States Fail."
Robert I. Rotberg, director, Program on Intrastate Conflict, Belfer Center,
contributing author and editor, "When States Fail: Causes and
Consequences."
Belfer Center, Room 150, Littauer Building, KSG

4:15 p.m. "Judging the Past: Uses and Abuses of History at the Yugoslav War
Crimes Tribunal."
Robert Donia, Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of
Michigan.
Cabot Room, Center for European Studies

4:15 p.m."The Myth of the 'Democratic Deficit' in the European Union."
Andy Moravcsik, European Union Program, Harvard University
Garden Room, Center for European Studies

6:00 p.m. THE FOG OF WAR: ELEVEN LESSONS FROM THE LIFE OF ROBERT S.
McNAMARA
A Public Address By:
ROBERT McNAMARA
U.S. Secretary of Defense for President Kennedy and President Johnson
(1961 through 1968); Author, In Retrospect: The Tragedies and Lessons of Vietnam JFK Jr. Forum, Kennedy School of Government

Thursday, March 4, 2004

4:00p.m. "Why the United States Is Targeted by Terrorism." (Radcliffe
Institute) Martha Crenshaw, Wesleyan University, editor, Terrorism in
Context. Cronkhite Living Room, 6 Ash St.

4:30p.m. "Pushing Boundaries in Rural Egypt: Girls Empowerment Through
Literacy, Sports, Health, and Social Legitimacy."
Martha Brady, Gender, Family and Development Program, The Population
Council
Center for Population and Development Studies, 9 Bow St

5:15p.m. "Gender, State, & Religion."
Hanna Herzog, Tel Aviv University
Women's Studies in Religion Program
Sperry Room, Andover Hall, Harvard Divinity School
Reception will follow in the Braun Room. Free and open to the public.

Friday, March 5, 2004

2:00 – 4:00p.m. “Paying the Human Costs of War: Combat Casualties and
Public Support for the Iraq War”
Peter D. Feaver
Professor of Political Science and Public Policy Director, Triangle
Institute for Security Studies, Duke University
Olin Institute Seminar
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Bowie-Vernon Room (room 228)

3:00p.m."Estimating the Cost of Achieving the Millenium Development Goals:
The Limits of Expert Knowledge."
Sanjay Reddy, Barnard College, Columbia University
Center for Population and Development Studies, 9 Bow St.

Monday, March 8, 2004

4:00p.m. "Gender, Economic Development and Women's Human Rights."
Susan Moller Okin, Stanford University, Radcliffe Institute.
Living room, Cronkhite Graduate Center, 6 Ash St. Radcliffe Institute
For more information, visit http://www.radcliffe.edu/events.

5:00p.m. "Human Rights and the Terrorist Threat."
David Blunkett, British Home Secretary. Ames Courtroom, Harvard Law School
Sponsored by the University Committee on Human Rights Studies.. For more
information, visit http:///www.humanrights.harvard.edu/calendar

Tuesday, March 9, 2004

12:00p.m."Pluralism in the Arab World: A Critique of the Arab Human
Development Report."
Niloofar Haeri, Johns Hopkins University, author.
Center for Middle Eastern Studies 4th floor seminar room, 1430 Mass. Ave.

Wednesday, March 10, 2004

12:30p.m."Challenges Ahead for the Young Democracy in South Africa."
H.E. Barbara Masekela, South African ambassador to the U.S.
Fainsod Room, 3rd floor, Littauer Building, Kennedy School of Government
Co-sponsored by the Program on Intrastate Conflict, the Africa Caucus, the
Project on Justice, and the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. Coffee and
cookies will be served.
For more information, e-mail elisa_pepe@harvard.edu.

Thursday, March 11, 2004

4:00p.m."The Tension Between the War on Terrorism and Civil Liberties."
(Radcliffe Institute) Mary Jo White, former U.S. attorney, Southern
District of New York, prosecutor, 1993 World Trade Center bombings. Living
room, Cronkhite Graduate Center, 6 Ash St. For more information, call (617)
495-8600 or visit http://www.radcliffe.edu/events.

4:00p.m."The Use and Misuse of Human Rights to Justify the War in Iraq: A
Debate"
Kenneth Roth, Human Rights Watch, and
Michael Ignatieff, Carr Professor of Human Rights Practice
Land Lecture Hall, 4th Floor, Belfer Building, Kennedy School of Government

Mr. Roth is the Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, a post he has
held since 1993. The largest US-based international human rights
organization, Human Rights Watch investigates, reports on, and seeks to
curb human rights abuses in some 70 countries. From 1987 to 1993, Mr. Roth
served as Deputy Director of the organization. Previously, he was a federal
prosecutor for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New
York and the Iran-Contra investigation in Washington. He also worked in
private practice as a litigator.

Michael Ignatieff is the Director and Carr Professor of Human Rights
Practice and Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. His
academic publications include Wealth and Virtue: The Shaping of Political
Economy in the Scottish Enlightenment; The Needs of Strangers: An Essay on
the Philosophy of Human Needs; The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the
Modern Conscience; Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond; The Rights Revolution;
Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry, and Isaiah Berlin: A Life. His
nonacademic work includes The Russian Album, A Family Memoir, which won
Canada's Governor General Award and the Heinemann Prize of Britain's Royal
Society of Literature in 1998, and Scar Tissue, short-listed for the Booker
Prize in 1993. Ignatieff holds a PhD in history from Harvard University.

Friday, March 12, 2004

12:00p.m. "The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America’s
Military"
Dana Priest, The Washington Post
Malkin Penthouse, Littauer Building, Kennedy School
Sponsored by the Shorenstein Center, WAPPP, and the Carr Center's Project
on the Means of Intervention.

Dana Priest is a Journalist for the Washington Post, where she has worked
for 14 years on a variety of beats, including a position as Assistant
Foreign Editor. Since 1995, she has written about the U.S. military, first
as the Washington Post's Pentagon correspondent and now as an investigative
reporter. Ms. Priest has written extensively about the nation's four
regional commanders-in-chief, the Army's peacekeeping missions in Bosnia
and Kosovo, women in the military, and the Defense Department's programs to
rebuild the militaries of Central Europe. She was a guest scholar at the US
Institute of Peace and a recent recipient of the MacArthur Foundation
Research and Writing Grant. She is the author of The Mission: Waging War
and Keeping Peace with America's Military, a book about the military's
expanding influence over American foreign policy and its implications for
civil-military relations. She has also been a participant in the Carr
Center's Project on the Means of Intervention Workshop Series.

Thursday, February 26, 2004

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Event: Student report-back from Iraq

Student report-back from Iraq
March 1st
7:00 PM, Science Center Hall A

KHURY PETERSEN-SMITH visited Iraq at the beginning of January as part of a
peace delegation organized by United for Peace and Justice, Global Exchange and Occupation Watch. A member of the Campus Antiwar Network, Khury spent a week in Baghdad, where he talked to families whose loved ones have been detained or killed in the U.S. occupation--as well as students, professors, labor leaders, doctors, lawyers, U.S. soldiers and others.

Amidst the lies that the U.S. is putting forth, from the links with Al-Qaeda, or Weapons of Mass Destruction, or that war and occupation were for “liberation,” the exact opposite is true. 70% unemployment exists, while Baghdad is crumbling from the devastating bombing and 12 years of sanctions. Khury said “Instead of reconstruction, this is what people in Baghdad see every day: incredible destruction.” Indeed, cluster bombs, used to kill and maim as many people as possible, were used in highly populated areas.

Understanding the United States motives in the region and the consequences on
regular people, Khury gives a compelling first-hand account of why the U.S. should end the occupation. He said “The problem is that the U.S. occupation places obstacles in their way at every turn, and these confront Iraqis every day. People who have tried to avoid conflict, or who have given the U.S. the benefit of the doubt, feel betrayed and confronted by the occupiers on a daily basis.”

With this unique perspective of being able to travel Iraq in early 2004 and talk with actual people whose voices are not being heard, Khury sheds light into dark areas not explored by the U.S. media.

As Khury said in a recent interview: “It’s important that the world know there are people in the US- the country that prosecuted the war - actually opposed it. Opposed to because of humanitarian reasons, understanding how catastrophic it is, for Iraqis. But also opposed to it because for us, this war is not in our interest. I was proud to tell Iraqis that people in the US against the occupation are doing what we can, where we are, to put pressure on the government to end it.” (Interview with Sunny Miller, Traprock Peace Center)

Thursday, February 26, 2004

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Event: The Persistence of the Palestinian Question

Justice for Palestine (Harvard Law School) present:
Professor Joseph Massad on "The Persistence of the Palestinian Question".

Wednesday March 10th, 7pm

Austin East, Harvard Law School.

Joseph Massad teaches Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History at
Columbia University. He is author of Colonial Effects: The Making of
Modern Jordan (Columbia University Press, 2001) and Desiring Arabs
(Harvard University, forthcoming). He is currently working on a book of
essays on Zionism and Palestinian nationalism entitled The Persistence of
the Palestinian Question.

His lecture, "The Persistence of the Palestinian Question" will explore
the connections between the Jewish Question and the Palestinian Question,
from the inception of the Zionist movement to the present day. Massad
argues that resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conundrum depends
principally on an understanding of these connections and the global
context within which they exist.