From: Susan Lamont <peacenik@PROTECTED>
Date: October 9, 2024 at 1:19:03 PM EDT
To: peacenik@PROTECTED, Vfp Nonukes <vfp-nonukes@PROTECTED>, vfp nuclear abolition <vfp-nawg@PROTECTED>, gpca-cc <gpca-cc@PROTECTED>, National Committee affairs discusion list <natlcomaffairs@PROTECTED>
Subject: [VFP NoNukes] Webinar invitation - Ethnic Cleansing Past and Present: From Turtle Island to Palestiner



I am a member of the Green Party Peace Action Committee (GPAX) and we have organized this webinar for Monday, Oct. 14th, which makes a comparison of the genocide in North America/Turtle Island and Palestine. We hope you'll join us.

GPAX Webinar Invitation
Ethnic Cleansing Past and Present:
From Turtle Island to Palestine

The Green Party Peace Action Committee will present a webinar on October 14, Indigenous People's Day, on the topic of ethnic cleansing, relating the historical forced displacement of native Americans to the current sufferings of Palestinians. Speakers will discuss the history and practices of past ethnic cleansing in the Americas and comparable contemporary activity in Palestine.
 

Webinar details:
 
October 14, 7:30 PM ET, 6:30 CT, 5:30 MT, 4:30 PM PT
 
You must pre-register for the webinar on the link below

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwofuirrzwiEtRSp3hQLPxkndx8l76s1PSK

 
Panelists:

Haig Hovaness, moderator, is a co-chair of Green Party US Peace Action Committee (GPAX). He is a peace activist with a professional background in information technology. 
 
Larry Littlegeorge is a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation. He is knowledgeable about many aspects of the Native American genocide, including the doctrine of discovery, displacements, disease, and boarding schools. Larry is President of Alliance for Justice, Inc. in Black River Falls, WI.  
 
Riley Richards, pronouns She/They, is a 35-year-old stay at home parent based out of Northeast Pennsylvania. She is an LGBT+ and trans liberation activist as well as a socialist organizer. Memberships include Green Party US, Democratic Socialists of America, NAACP, and Industrial Workers of the World.
 
Levi Rickart, a citizen of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, is an award winning Native American journalist, who founded Native News Online, one of the most read daily Native American publications in the country. Rickert has covered stories on dozens of Indian reservations, White House tribal nations conferences, and congressional hearings in Washington, D.C. He is the Editor and Publisher of Indian Country Today and author of "Visions for a Better Indian Country."

Noura Khouri is a diaspora Palestinian and currently resides on Ohlone land, or Oakland CA - and has worked for over the past two decades as a community organizer. Noura lived in Palestine and Egypt, where she witnessed the devastating impacts of US foreign policy on the region. She currently serves on the National Committee of Al-Awda, Palestine Right to Return Coalition - where she conspires to destroy walls and build bridges of solidarity at the intersections of labor, faith and social justice. Noura recently returned from doing accompaniment work in the occupied West Bank, with Faz3a (defendpalestine.org) and will be sharing about their work on the ground. 

 
GPAX invites you to join us to learn more about the destructive practice of ethnic cleansing, which persists to the present day in Palestine and is a major threat to world peace.

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