Upcoming Events
Throughout
January/February Tuesday, January 24 Wednesday, January 25 Thursday, January 26
Sunday, January 29
Wednesday, February 1 Click here
to submit your events!
Events at the Pride Center
1048 Livingston Ave
North Brunswick, NJ
(Just across the city line from New Brunswick!)
Please see the
Pride Center Calendar for daily details!
First Meeting: Rutgers Against the War
9:15 PM
Scott Hall, Rm 219
College Avenue Campus, Rutgers-New Brunswick
Joiin Rutgers Against the War to plan counter-recruitment and other antiwar action in New Brunswick and on campus for the coming semester.
Important: Court Solidarity Needed for Counter Recruitment Protesters!
8:45 am
New Brunswick Municipal Court
25 Kirkpatrick Street
New Brunswick, NJ
Please come and pack the courtroom for the first hearing of the State v.
Thomas Howard and the State v. Rey Robles, for charges stemming from a
counter-recruitent demo!
It's really important to show depth of support from the community, for
the defendants and against torture and the war. Please dress respectably
and act respectfully (no booing in court). A short informational picket
is also planned...with hot coffee
Open Forum: Socialism in the 21st Century
7:00 PM
Rutgers Student Center, Room 411 B, College Ave Campus
The International Socialist Club of Rutgers University is hosting its
first event of the year, which is an open forum entitled “Socialism in the
21st Century.”
We will address such questions as: is socialism possible? what do we mean
by socialism? is socialism against human nature? how do socialists view
the war on Iraq?
For more info e-mail NBSocialist@gmail.com
New Jersey Solidarity General Interest Meeting
7:00 PM
West End Cafe
152 Easton Ave.
New Brunswick
If you've ever been involved, if you've never been to a meeting but would like to get more active, if you've always been active...
If you want to take a stand for Palestine in 2006....
Join us for our general meeting on Sunday, January 29, to plan our exciting events and activities for 2006, work to build Al-Awda newspaper, and strategize together on building support for the Palestinian struggle for liberation and return!
Your help is needed and wanted to make a difference, build the movement and make change!
All welcome!
For more information:
Phone - 973-954-2521
Email - info@newjerseysolidarity.org
Film Showing: Naji al-Ali: An Artist With Vision
7:00 PM
RU Women's center
Third Floor, Douglass College Center
100 George Street, Rutgers University
Documentary: 52 minutes, 1999. Directed by Kasim Abid.
The story of Naji al-Ali, the Palestinian cartoonist whose immortal character, Handala, a small refugee child, continues to symbolize and epitomize the determination, resourcefulness and steadfastness of the Palestinian people's struggle for return to and liberation of Palestine, is told in this remarkable and important film.
Emerging from humble beginnings in the refugee camps, for over 30 years he was an uncompromising critic of a regressive Arab political culture and of Western intervention in Arab affairs. Interviews with leading Arab journalists and poets, former jail mates, his wife and others give us insight to his unrelenting commitment to his people, and into his subtly satirical cartoons that stirred the hearts of millions of refugees. NAJI AL-ALI, AN ARTIST WITH VISION examines the forces that shaped Naji as an artist, as a human being, and shows how his experiences mirror those of other exiled Palestinians.
Known as the Palestinian Malcolm X, Naji is still the most popular artist in the Arab world, loved for his defense of the ordinary people, and for his criticism of repression and despotism. Paradoxically, strict censorship and widespread illiteracy in the Arab world helped Naji to achieve his remarkable success. His unrelenting cartoons exposed the brutality of the Israeli army and the hypocrisy of the PLO, earning him many powerful enemies. The turning point in Naji's story was the publication of his cartoon satirizing Egyptian journalist Rashida Muhran, Yasser Arafat's official biographer. Arafat was furious and Naji was forced to leave for London.
Despite some arrests by Scotland Yard and an investigation by MI5, the assassin's identity has never been revealed.