Title: Mohammed Khatib, resident and community activist from Bil’in, West Bank, Palestine
Location: RCNV 515 Broadway, Santa Cruz, CA
Description: Sunday March 7th at 7:30 p.m., at RCNV
Mohammed Khatib, resident and community activist from Bil’in, West Bank, Palestine, will be speaking at the Resource Center for Nonviolence on
Mohammed Khatib represents the Popular Committee of Bi’ilin that has organized weekly nonviolent demonstrations against “separation barrier” or “the Apartheid Wall” constructed by Israel that encroaches on his village’s and annexes nearly 60% of the orchards and fields to Israeli settlements nearby. Mohammed has been beaten and imprisoned as a result of his resistance.
You can find out more about Bil’in village here: http://www.bilin-village.org/english/discover-bilin/ and the campaign against the Apartheid Wall at www.bilin-ffj.org.
Mohammed’s visit to the area is sponsored by the Bay Area Chapter of Friends of Sabeel North America that is hosting a conference on Israel-Palestine to take place at the First Presbtyerian Church of San Anselmo (Marin County) on March 5 and 6.
Mohammed will be speaking in Santa Cruz, as part of the Center’s “Israel Apartheid Week” events.