Event Details

Date/Time: 

Dec 19 2010 7:30pm - 9:30pm

Price: 

Free to the public, donations welcome

Where: 

Levantine Cultural Center
5998 W. Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90035
one block east of Crescent Heights
street parking

water politics in the Holy Land...Progressive Conversations on Israel, Palestine and U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East, the new monthly lecture series, presents Susan Koppelman, a water justice advocate, who joins us from Palestine, where she has been living for four years and supporting the work of LifeSource, a Palestinian collective organizing to build a popular movement for water justice. Koppelman will be speaking about strategies of resistance and using the water situation to talk about the need for boycott, divestment and sanctions and direct action on the ground to hold Israel accountable to international law and human rights. This talk in the Progressive Conversations series is organized and cosponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace-LA and LA Jews for Peace, and cosponsored by Muslims for Progressive Values-USA and the Progressive Democrats of America-LA.

Arava Institute for Environmental Studies: located in Israel's southern desert near EilatThe Arava Institute for Environmental Studies is an environmental teaching and research program in the Middle East, preparing future Arab and Jewish leaders to cooperatively solve the region's environmental challenges. Located in the heart of Israel's Arava desert, near the southern town of Eilat, the Arava Institute is a unique oasis of environmental education, research, and international cooperation.

Levantine Cultural Center supported a Los Angeles fundraiser for the Arava Institute in November 2007 called “Comedy Without Borders,” featuring the cast of Comedy Central's The Sarah Silverman Program at USC. The evening featured uncensored standup comedy of five cast members and special guest comedians.