For those in Louisville, this is basically mandatory

For those of you who don't already know, I did my senior thesis last year on human rights in Palestine. I examined creative nonviolent resistance to the Wall being constructed around the West Bank by Israelis to ghettoize the area and ruin Palestinians' lives, in violation of the UN Human Rights Declaration and international law.

Please please come to this if you can, as it is a topic very dear to me.

SEPARATE IS NEVER EQUAL: STORIES FROM SOUTH AFRICA AND PALESTINE
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 7:30 P.M.
UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE,CHAO AUDITORIUM in EKSTROM LIBRARY

Reverend Eddie Makue and Doctor Diana Buttu

World leaders including Nelson Mandela and Jimmy Carter have called for the world to recognize that the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has created a society strikingly similar to South Africa under apartheid. Diana Buttu will describe conditions on the West Bank and Gaza where four million Palestinians live on nonviable pieces of land, cut off from the outside world and from each other by a concrete wall and more than five hundred checkpoints. In contrast to the dire poverty of the Palestinian population, Israeli citizens consume most of the country's resources and move about freely on modern by-pass roads. Eddie Makue, from the South African Council of Churches, will describe the many parallels between the current situation on the West Bank and the former system of apartheid in South Africa ; where the majority of the population was concentrated in Bantu lands.

Diana Buttu holds a Law Degree from Queen's University in Kingston , Ontario and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. She was a legal advisor to the Palestinian Liberation Organization on negotiations with Israel.

Reverend Eddie Makue is the General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches. He has been an activist in the struggle for South African civil rights since 1982.

University of Louisville Sponsors:

Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, the Departments of Pan-African Studies, Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research, Women's and Gender Studies, Anthropology, Minor in Social Change, Commission on the Status of Women (COSW)--Women and Global Issues Committee, Office of Diversity and Outreach-College of Arts and Sciences, Muslim Student Association, Commission on Diversity and Racial Equality (CODRE)

Louisville Community Sponsors:

The United Nations Association, Committee for Peace in the Middle East, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Louisville Chapter, Committee for Israeli and Palestinian States, The Ramallah Club.