Albuquerque, NM Conference, September 28-29, 2012
September 28 & 29, 2012
Friends of Sabeel--North America
Albuquerque Conference
Episcopal Cathedral of St. John, 318 Silver, SW
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Justice: The Path to Peace in Palestine/Israel
Albuquerque Contact: Guida Leicester. Email: chandlermuf@yahoo.com
SPEAKERS
Ali Abunimah (plenary speaker)
Mark Braverman (plenary speaker)
Jeff Halper (plenary speaker)
Nadia Hijab (plenary speaker)
Naim Ateek (keynote speaker)
WORKSHOP PRESENTERS
Naim Ateek
Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb
Bekah Wolf
Elena Oritz
Gary Anderson (Water engineer)
Creativity for Peace
Miko Peled
Pamela Olson
Ziad Abbas, Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA)
Barbara Lubin, Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA)
Remi Kenazi, Poet
UNM Students for Justice in Palestine (UNM-SJP)
Albuquerque Hotels
Crowne Plaza (shuttle)
www.cpabq.com/
1901 University Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM 87102
(505) 884-2500
1-877-270-1393
Doubletree Hotel (within walking distance)
doubletree.hilton.com/Albuquerque
201 Marquette Avenue Northwest, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87102-2248
1-505-247-3344
Hyatt Hotel (within walking distance)
booking.com/HyattRegencyAlbuquerque
330 Tijeras Northwest, Albuquerque, NM 87102
1-800-992-2694
Hotel Blue (within walking distance)
hotelblue-albuquerque.hotelsone.com
717 Central Ave Nw, 87102 Albuquerque
1-866-430-2692
Information on hotel group discounts will be coming soon.
PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE
Friday, September 28
8:30 – 8:45 Invocation, Very Rev. J. Mark Goodman, Dean, St. John’s Cathedral
8:45 – 9:30 Interfaith panel, Dean Mark Goodman, Moderator
Rev. Naim Ateek
Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb
Muslim imam (yet to be selected)
9:30 – 10:30 Rev. Naim Ateek address – plenary session
10:45 – 11:45 Workshops
Miko Peled, on Zionism, Israeli dissidence
Elena Ortiz, Paradise Lost: the Transgenerational Legacies of Life Under Occupation: Native American and Palestinian Cultural Survival
Gary Anderson, on water in Gaza and U.S. Southwest
Pamela Olson and Iris Keltz, Retelling History Through Personal Narrative
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch, w/ entertainment (possibly Stephen Miller on guitar/singing)
1:00 – 2:00 Jeff Halper address – plenary session
2:15 – 3:15 Ali Abunimah address – plenary session
3:30 – 4:30 Workshops
Naim Ateek and Lynn Gottlieb, on anti-Zionism vs. anti-Semitism
Bekah Wolf, on nonviolent resistance & solidarity work in Palestine
Noura Erakat (tentative), on Palestinians and human rights law
Barbara Lubin (tentative), on activities of ME Children’s Alliance
4:45 – 5:30 Entertainment, Nave (Palestinian Debka dancers, or Abiquiu Mosque musical group, or Nahalat Shalom Rikud dancers/Klezmer band)
5:45 – 7:00 Dinner, w/ entertainment (one of above)
7:15 – 9:00 Keynote address - or - Film showing, TBA
Saturday, September 29
8:45 – 9:00 Invocation, Catholic priest Fr. Olona
9:00 – 10:00 Mark Braverman address, plenary session
10:15 – 11:15 Workshops
Ziad Abbas, on Palestinian refugees and right of return
Hebah Ahmed & Zayd Leseman, Humanizing the Other: A Workshop Combatting Islamophobia
Remi Kanazi, poetry reading and on cultural boycott of Israel
Open (possibly a leader from the U.S. Campaign to End the Occupation)
11:30 – 12:30 Nadia Hijab address, plenary session
12:45 – 1:45 Lunch, w/ entertainment (possibly one of three above)
2:00 – 3:00 Workshops
Creativity for Peace, on bringing Palestinian and Israeli girls together
Open (possibly a plenary speaker of a repeat of another workshop)
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3:15 – 4:45 Closing panel on future Palestinian strategy, Kathy Christison moderator
Naim Ateek, Jeff Halper, Ali Abunimah, Mark Braverman, Nadia Hijab, possibly Noura Erakat
Cornel West is a possible speaker on Saturday afternoon or evening. Confirmation and schedule pending.
Bishop Michael Vono, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of the Rio Grande, will speak or give an invocation somewhere on this day—possibly before or after Nadia Hijab address, before or after lunch, or before the closing panel
Albuquerque Contact: Guida Leicester. Email: chandlermuf@yahoo.com
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