This is a group of speakers touring the nation to bring information about Iraq and the Israeli/Palestinian situation. Check out their website at http://www.justicewheels.org/ to learn more.Michael Birmingham is from Dublin, Ireland, has spent most of the last 16 months in Iraq. He is a co-founder of the Irish Campaign to End the Sanctions on Iraq, a campaign comprised of Iraqi exiles and Irish anti-sanctions activists. He also co-founded the Irish Anti-war Movement, a broad-based organization opposed to war in Afghanistan and Iraq. Birmingham also managed a Dublin-based human rights advocacy service. Mazin Qumsiyeh (qumsiyeh.org) is a Palestinian American and an Associate Professor of Genetics at Yale University School of Medicine. He is author of the widely acclaimed book Sharing the Land of Canaan: Human Rights and the Israeli-Palestinian Struggle. He founder and president of the Holy Land Conservation Foundation. He is active in numerous other groups, including We Refuse to be Enemies (Jews, Christians, Muslims, others in dialogue and constructive work). He last visited with his family in the occupied West Bank in October 2003.
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lepp6841 (anonymous) says…
not sure if anyone would read something from an event from so long ago, but i was in the crowd at the university when a student brought in the student council. did anything ever come of that?