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Speaker Resources Gaza This list was compiled by the American Friends Service Committee’s Noura Erakat Program in . Speakers do not Human rights attorney and activist and adjunct profes- necessarily represent the views of AFSC. sor of international human rights law in the Middle East at Georgetown University. Advisor on Middle For more information call: 312-427-2533 East Affairs to Congressman and has Ali Abunimah served as Counsel for a Congressional Committee in Political Analyst and Co-founder, Electronic Intifada the House of Representatives. Email: [email protected] Contact: www.speakoutnow.org/userdata_display. php?modin=50&uid=194 Huwaida Arraf International Solidarity Movement and Free Gaza Movement. Huwaida has been on the Free Gaza Writer and Independent Scholar. For many years he boats to break the siege in 2008 & 2009. taught political theory and the - conflict. Email: [email protected] Went to Gaza in 2009 after the Dec/Jan assault. http://www.normanfinkelstein.com Omar Baddar Email: [email protected] Political Scientist & Human Rights Activist based in Washington, DC. Flaherty Email: [email protected] A union organizer and an editor of Left Turn Maga- www.omarbaddar.net/about.html zine. He is based in New Orleans and traveled to Gaza in 2009. Email: [email protected] Nora Barrows-Friedman Senior Producer/Co-host of Flashpoints, the inves- Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb tigative newsmagazine on the Pacifica Radio Net- Shomer Shalom Network for the Torah of Nonvio- work. Has worked in Palestine (including Gaza). lence, and Community of Living Traditions at Stony Email: [email protected] Point, New York. Lynn is an organizer of faith com- munity involvement in the Gaza Freedom March. Email: [email protected] Cofounder of both CODEPINK and the interna- tional human rights organization . Lead organizer for Gaza Freedom March. Co-founder of Voices in the Wilderness, she helped http://www.codepink4peace.org/article.php?id=51 form 70 delegations, from 1996 - 2003, that openly Email: [email protected] defied economic sanctions by bringing medicines to children and families in . In 2009 Kathy has vis- Cindy and Craig Corrie ited Gaza and , writing eyewitness accounts of Parents of Rachel Corrie, a volunteer killed in ’s impact on civilians. by an Israeli military bulldozer in 2003. Rachel http://vcnv.org/speaker-bio/kathy-kelly Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice, 203 East Voices for Creative Nonviolence Fourth Ave., Suite 307, Olympia, WA 98501. 1249 W Argyle Street #2, Chicago, IL 60640 Ph: 360-754-3998 Ph: 773- 878-3815 Email: [email protected] http://rachelcorriefoundation.org/ Joshua Ruebner Speakers on Gaza Continued... Advocacy Director, US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation; Expert on US Arms Sales to Israel. Jennifer Lowenstein Email: [email protected] Founder, Madison-Rafah Sister City Project; on Ph: 202-332-0994 Board of Israeli Committee Against House Demoli- tions; Professor of English, University of Skip Schiel Wisconsin, Madison Photographer and frequent visitor to Gaza. Email: [email protected] Contact info: 9 Sacramento St, Cambridge MA 02138-1843 USA Barbara Lubin and Ziad Abbas Email: [email protected] Middle East Children’s Alliance (Based in Berkeley, http://teeksaphoto.org http://skipschiel.wordpress. CA) MECA has programs based in Gaza. com Ph: 510-548-0542 Ph: 617-441-7756 (land line, preferred) [email protected] Ph: 617-230-6314 (cell/mobile) [email protected] Reem Salahi William Pierre Member, National Lawyer’s Guild Delegation to American Friends Service Committee, International Gaza, Feb 2009. Reem Salahi is a lawyer special- Programs. Youth Program located in Gaza. Based in izing in national security and civil rights. Philadelphia, PA Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phil Weiss Sara Roy Journalist and Blogger, , a news web- Senior Research Scholar and Associate of the site devoted to covering American foreign policy Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard Univer- in the Middle East, chiefly from a progressive Jew- sity. Trained as a political economist, Dr. Roy has ish perspective. Based in New York. Weiss went worked in the and since 1985 to Gaza in Spring 2009. conducting research primarily on the economic, http://mondoweiss.net/ social and political development of the Gaza Strip Email: [email protected] and on U.S. foreign aid to the region. Dr. Roy has written extensively on the Palestinian economy, par- ticularly in Gaza, and has documented its develop- ment over the last three decades. http://cmes.hmdc. harvard.edu/people/research-associates Email: [email protected] Ph: 617-496-9591

Rabbi Brant Rosen (Evanston, IL) and Rabbi Brian Walt (West Tisbury, MA) Project Coordinators, Jewish Fast for Gaza http://www.fastforgaza.net/ http://rabbibrant.com/

Eric Ruder Writes for the Socialist Worker. Went on Viva Pal- estina delegation to Gaza in Summer 2009. Lives in the Chicago area. Email: [email protected]