Monday April 21, 7pm
1400 Cathedral St. (at Mt. Royal Ave.)
Station Building, Main Auditiorium (Maryland Institue College of Art)

The Station Building is a large stone building with a tall clock tower, and is below street level.
It has its own driveway and parking lot.

The event is part of a national tour organized by the International Solidarity Movement (www.palsolidarity.org); Al-Awda, the Palestinian right of Return Coalition (www.al-awda.org); SUSTAIN (Stop US Tax Aid to Israel Now - (www.sustaincampaign.org); and Jews Against the Occupation (www.jewsagainsttheoccupation.org).

Locally, the event is sponsored and organized by the MICA and Baltimore chapters of SUSTAIN - Stop US Tax-Funded Aid to Israel Now. Our email is baltimoresustain-AT-yahoo.com.

MORE INFORMATION ON THE SPEAKERS:

Ora Wise - The daughter of a rabbi, Wise was born in Jerusalem. Her
political awakening came working in the West Bank with the Israeli peace
group Rabbis for Human Rights. Here in the US, she was one of the
organizers of this year?s National Student Conference in Solidarity with
Palestine, and helped start the Committee for Justice in Palestine while a
student at the University of Ohio in Columbus.

Nijmie Dzurinko: Dzurinko is a youth organizer and Arab-American activist
from Philadelphia who recently returned from three months in Palestine
working with the International Women's Peace Service (IWPS). She was
there to witness and document human rights abuses, nonviolently intervene
to protect human rights, and support nonviolent civil resistance to the
Israeli occupation.

Ellen O'Grady - North Carolina artist Ellen O'Grady, who lived and worked
in the West Bank and Gaza from 1989-1996, returned to the area last July
and August with the International Solidarity Movement in their Freedom
Summer Campaign. Ellen spent the majority of her time in the Nablus area,
assisting Palestinians in need of health care, removing roadblocks,
monitoring Israeli checkpoints and restriction of Palestinian travel,
listening to stories and painting portraits. She returned with compelling
eyewitness accounts of life under the Israeli siege of the West Bank and
Gaza Strip. O'Grady will share paintings and stories from her eight week
trip last summer to the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Also in the presentation will be eyewitness video footage, including
?Amandla Intifada? from Big Noise Tactical, a documentary filmmaking
collective. The video features Palestinian leaders including Mustafa
Barghouthi and Hanan Ashrawi, and front-line scenes from Jenin, Hebron,
and other cities. The video concludes with never-before seen footage of
the Israeli invasion of Jenin from the summer of 2002.

Gabriella Callender - Callender is a singer/songwriter/ revolutionary
from Queens, New York. She is musical director of the fierce and
brilliant women of color performance group Mahina Movement
(www.mahinamovement.org). Callender and Mahina have performed
throughout New York and across the US.

Seth Tobocman- During the summer of 2002, Seth Tobocman, a graphic artist
from Manhattan's Lower East Side, taught art to small children in a
village called Diribzia just outside of Ramallah, Palestine. Upon
returning to America he was faced with the difficult prospect of
explaining to his parents, life-long Zionists, just what he was doing in
Palestine. To help initiate the conversation he collected twenty pages
from his sketchbook of the trip and sent it to them. The drawings created
a starting point from which they could talk about their differing
political and religious beliefs concerning the Middle East. Those
drawings became a book, "Portraits for my Parents" from which Tobacman
will be performing. The book strips away the historical, religious and
political complications surrounding the situation in the Middle East. It
takes no sides, simply depicting the faces, clothes, and postures of the
inhabitants of this contested land. Seth Tobacman is the editor of the
radical underground comic World War 3 and has also published the books
"War in the Neighborhood" and "You Don't Have to Fuck People Over to
Survive".

For information or interviews about the "Voices of Justice" Tour,
contact Ora Wise (917) 224-8269.