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Reminder:
Green Party Peace Action Committee in 3 days! Don't Miss
It!
GPAX Webinar Invitation Ethnic
Cleansing Past and Present: From Turtle
Island to Palestine
The Green Party Peace Action Committee
will present a webinar on October 14, Indigenous People’s Day, on the
topic of ethnic cleansing, relating the historical forced displacement
of native Americans to the current sufferings of Palestinians.
Speakers will discuss the history and practices of past ethnic
cleansing in the Americas and comparable contemporary activity in
Palestine.
Webinar
details: October 14, 7:30 PM ET, 6:30 CT, 5:30 MT,
4:30 PM PT You must pre-register for
the webinar HERE or click on the link below
Panelists:
Haig Hovaness, moderator, is a co-chair of Green
Party US Peace Action Committee (GPAX). He is a peace activist with a
professional background in information
technology. Larry
Littlegeorge is a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation.
He is knowledgeable about many aspects of the Native American
genocide, including the doctrine of discovery, displacements, disease,
and boarding schools. Larry is President of Alliance for Justice, Inc.
in Black River Falls, WI. Riley Richards,
pronouns She/They, is a 35-year-old stay at home parent based out of
Northeast Pennsylvania. She is an LGBT+ and trans liberation activist
as well as a socialist organizer. Memberships include Green Party US,
Democratic Socialists of America, NAACP, and Industrial Workers of the
World. Levi Rickert, a citizen
of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, is an award winning Native
American journalist, who founded Native News Online, one of the most
read daily Native American publications in the country. Rickert has
covered stories on dozens of Indian reservations, White House tribal
nations conferences, and congressional hearings in Washington, D.C. He
is the Editor and Publisher of Indian Country Today and author of
“Visions for a Better Indian Country.” Noura
Khouri is a Palestinian in the diaspora from the
Bay Area. She has worked for the past two decades as a human rights
activist, campaign strategist and a community organizer. Noura was
born in Michigan where her parents fled after the 1967 war. She has
lived in occupied Palestine and Egypt and is currently working
with Just World Books and Civility NOW. She recently returned from the
West Bank where she worked with the International Solidarity Movement
(ISM). GPAX invites you to join us to learn more about the
destructive practice of ethnic cleansing, which persists to the
present day in Palestine and is a major threat to world peace.
Missouri Green Party Outreach https://www.missourigreenparty.org/
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