Jeff Halper’s featured presentation at the Resource Center for Nonviolence 2008 Annual Dinner and Program will be rebroadcast on Santa Cruz Community Television Channel #25 in the coming two weeks at the below times.

Halper is founder and coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (www.icahd.org), author of “An Israeli in Palestine: Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel,” and has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Peace. Halper talks about the prospects for a just reconciliation to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He begins with a sobering analysis of how Naomi Klein’s “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism” has been applied to the Middle East, one result of which is the Palestinian are perhaps the first people in history to be consciously and publicly rendered “as entirely surplus humanity,” the sole remaining purpose of which is as “guinea pigs” on which tactics and strategies of control can be tried out.

It plays several times on Channel 25 in the next few weeks as follows:

Please watch Jeff’s talk and let us know what you think. The program also includes presenting the “Drawing the Line Award” to Mubarak Awad of Nonviolence International, the local Iraq Veterans Against the War, and “SIN,” students working for immigrants’ right to education.

The Resource Center is joining with Barrios Unidos to build a new mixed-use community center at 1817 Soquel Avenue. 1817 Soquel Avenue will provide new meeting spaces and office and program space for both organizations, as well as housing for staff and interns, retired activists and others. This is a major undertaking for both organizations. A new web site will be posted in the next few days with background information and updated news about 1817 Soquel Avenue. Check it out: www.1817Soquel.org

The Resource Center for Nonviolence is hosting a series of informal conversations with local activists who have chosen nonviolence as a strategy for social change. You can relax in an informal setting with the opportunity to hear a good story and ask questions while munching on snacks. This Thursday, June 19th at 7:30, Louise and Joel Wallock will talk about the Conflict Resolution Series they created and taught in India. The talk will take place here, at the RCNV, 515 Broadway in Santa Cruz.

Resource Center for Nonviolence
ANNUAL DINNER AND PROGRAM
featuring JEFF HALPER
Friday, June 27, 2008
First Methodist Church,
250 California St., Santa Cruz

5:30p.m. Hors d’oeuvres and Silent Auction.

6:00p.m. Dinner served. 7:00p.m. Program
- Dinner Catered by Michael Hernandez - .
- Silent Auction -

General reservations:
$35-100 per person sliding scale for the Dinner and Program.
PROGRAM ONLY:$7-25 sliding scale

$250 - $1000 Sponsor: reserves a table for 8.
$100 - $235 “Host” reserved seating for 2 people
$50 “Supporter” reserved seating for one person;
(If you cannot attend: consider giving a scholarship for young people
or families.)

If possible, please make Reservations by June 20 by calling 831-423-1626. Send payment to: Resource Center for Nonviolence, 515
Broadway, Santa Cruz, CA 95060 or pay at the door.

Palestinian Human Rights Lawyer Jonathan Kuttab is unable to attend. We are pleased that JEFF HALPER will be our featured speaker. Jeff is an Israeli Professor of Anthropology, and has been a leading figure within the Israeli peace movement for over thirty years. He has been head of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) for the last ten years. Halper was nominated for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize by the American Friends Service Committee, and is author of “An Israeli in Palestine: Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel.”
There will not be tickets for this event– only reservations.
Please make reservations by June 20.

For more info: 831-423-1626.