Seventy years of Palestinian occupation and suffering

We passed out over 200 flyers to a receptive crowd at the Hudson Farmers' Market. People stopped to talk about Palestine, and not a negative word was said. We have been doing farmers' markets for at least six years, and they get less and less stressful. Maybe now is the time for educating people about the seventy years of Palestinian occupation and suffering, all supported and paid for by the US.

Lisa Fithian talks about her book: "Shut It Down"

Lisa Fithian in Rhinebeck Oct. 5

-Saturday, October 5 from 6:00-7:30 pm. Talk and Book Signing by Lisa Fithian, author of “Shut It Down: Stories from a Fierce, Loving Resistance” at Oblong Books & Music, 6422 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck. Described by Mother Jones as “the nation’s best-known protest consultant,” Lisa Fithian has helped organize countless uprisings including the Battle of Seattle in 1999, defending communities after Hurricane Katrina, Occupy Wall Street, Standing Rock, and Ferguson. Cosponsored by: AJ Williams-Myers African Roots Center, Dutchess County Progressive Action Alliance, End the New Jim Crow ENJAN, Freedom Flotilla Coalition, Hudson Valley BDS, Jewish Voice for Peace-HV, La Voz con Mariel Fiori, Middle East Crisis Response, Rise Up Kingston, Veterans For Peace-Catskill Mountains, We Will Not Be Silent, and Women in Black-New Paltz. Contact: mecr@mideastcrisis.org or 845 876-7906

https://www.facebook.com/events/437911416813363/

https://www.oblongbooks.com/events/shut-it-down-lisa-fithian 

Monday, September 16, 2019

Lisa Fithian in Kingston Oct. 4

-Friday, October 4 from 6:30-8:00 pm. Talk and Book Signing by Lisa Fithian, author of “Shut It Down: Stories from a Fierce, Loving Resistance” at the A.J. Williams-Myers African Roots Center, 43 Gill St., Kingston. Described by Mother Jones as “the nation’s best-known protest consultant,” Lisa Fithian has helped organize countless uprisings including the Battle of Seattle in 1999, defending communities after Hurricane Katrina, Occupy Wall Street, Standing Rock, and Ferguson. Cosponsored by: Dutchess County Progressive Action Alliance, End the New Jim Crow ENJAN, Freedom Flotilla Coalition, Hudson Valley BDS, Jewish Voice for Peace-HV, La Voz con Mariel Fiori, Middle East Crisis Response, Rise Up Kingston, Veterans For Peace-Catskill Mountains, We Will Not Be Silent, and Women in Black-New Paltz. Contact: mecr@mideastcrisis.org or 845 876-7906

https://www.facebook.com/events/2367011703520724/

Help us spread the word by printing out and posting an event flyer

The event is free. Seating is limited. Register at http://bit.ly/Fithian.

Lisa gave a great talk, and read a part of her book that covered the Gaza Freedom March, a trip that several of us in the audience had participated in. The action was the shutting down of Tahrir Square, and several hundred of us had done the action with Lisa. 

The event in Rhinebeck was poorly attended. Possibly we should have held one book signing rather than two. Also, Rhinebeck is not known for its activism.