Benefit for Tristan Anderson

Sunday Sept. 13th, 2009
La Pena Cultural Center

3105 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley
(near the Ashby BART)

Doors open at 7:30pm
$5-$20 Sliding Scale

Dinner at the Long Haul at 7pm
(Long Haul is across the street)

Music with
Rebecca Riots
Funky Nixons
Phoenix

Spoken word with
Hillary, Cella,
Soul, Dee Allen,
Revolutionary
Poets Brigade


Art Auction!

Tristan is a local activist and photojournalist who was critically wounded by the Israeli Defense Forces during a
protest against Israel’s apartheid wall in the West Bank. We are raising money for his recuperation costs
six months to the day after the shooting.

Sponsored by: Friends of Tristan and Palestine (justicefortristan.org)
Info: 510 548-3113 International Solidarity Movement (norcalism.org)

Download event flyer -- Please forward!

 

Please continue your support for Tristan Anderson. More here.



On March 13, 2009, Tristan Anderson of Oakland, California was shot in the head by Israeli forces in the Palestinian village of Ni’lin.  After participating with the villagers in a nonviolent demonstration against the confiscation of their land, Tristan was taking pictures of Israeli soldiers and police attacking the demonstrators.  A high velocity long-range tear gas canister was illegally used at short range, crushing his forehead.  Israeli forces twice delayed his ambulance to a hospital where he is fighting for his life.
Demand Justice for Tristan and Palestine!

   Other actions you can do:

Call Representative Barbara Lee (202-225-2661) and Senators Dianne Feinstein (202-224-3841) and Barbara Boxer (202-224-3553).  Demand that Israel be held accountable for its attacks against US citizens like Tristan, Rachel Corrie and Brian Avery, and for killing thousands of Palestinian civilians with US weapons.  Demand an end to billions of US taxpayer dollars to Israel every year.


More info:  510-236-4250

Go here to make a donation for Tristan and his family.

 

 

 

Music Video - A Wish for Peace in Palestine

 

Some years ago, German bass legend Hellmut Hattler wrote an energetic song on the Israel/Palestine conflict, called "Assalamu Alaikum". During the Gaza war, filmmakers Damian Léman and Thierry Miguet decided to make a film about the song for YouTube. The concert film focusses on the apartheid wall, as one symbol of the conflict.

Interestingly, a Middle East expert of the US government judged the song as beeing "out of the peace business". Journalist Max Blumenthal loved it, and Arab-American comedian Dean Obeidallah said: "That is a great music video. It´s good when art challenges people!"

HATTLER live! Assalamu Alaikum
a concert film by Thierry Miguet & Damian Léman 2009
fast internet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrcJI3RxwZA&fmt=22
slow internet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrcJI3RxwZA





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