Jeff Halper

10/15/2008 - 7:00pm
10/15/2008 - 9:00pm
Wednesday, October 15   BOULDER  Jeff Halper will speak on Israeli resistance to the occupation of Palestinian land.  Halper is an Israeli-American Anthropologist, author, lecturer, political activist, and co-founder and Coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD). In 1997, Halper co-founded ICAHD to challenge and resist the Israeli policy of demolishing Palestinian homes, and to organize Israelis, Palestinians and international volunteers to jointly rebuild demolished Palestinian homes. He has created a new mode of Israeli peace activity based on nonviolent direct action and civil disobedience to the Israeli Occupation authorities. 7 p.m. Place to be announced.