TEA for Palestine: Truth, Education, Action
Date/Time
Date(s) - 05/06/2023
2:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Location
Uptown Body and Fender
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Cost:
60 USD
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https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tea-for-palestine-truth-education-action-tickets-573266675057?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
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Palestine Studies Program at U.C. Berkeley and Pal Trek
OAKLAND, CA
Palestinians in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza continue to live under an increasingly horrifying Israeli apartheid regime. This TEA for Palestine: Truth, Education, Action is a fundraising event to support future leaders in the U.S. who will mobilize their talents on behalf of Palestinian rights. The SF Bay Area premier Arab music ensemble, ASWAT, will be playing and there will be delicious refreshments. Please join us! If you can’t join us, please consider making a donation. All expenses associated with this event are donated.
All funds collected are tax exempt and will be directed to the new Palestine Studies Program at U.C. Berkeley and to Pal Trek.
The Palestine Studies Program has been launched after two years of preparation. It is a groundbreaking effort, and organizers are now raising funds and preparing for its first course offerings under the Department of Ethnic Studies. It aims to:
• Build an academic program promoting the history, narratives, and experiences of Palestinians, within the scope of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies.
• Provide scholarships for BA, MA, and PhD students.
• Sponsor faculty exchanges for teachers in Palestinian universities.
• Support research, teaching, and programming related to Palestinian studies.
• Foster the study of Palestinian groups in local, national, and global contexts.
• Support library collections on Palestine.
Pal Trek, an organization founded at Harvard in 2018, aspires to highlight Palestinian experience and offset the dominant Israeli narrative in U.S. politics and media by partially subsidizing the cost of impactful trips to Palestine for students in fields such as law and business. So far, 2,000 graduate students from eight elite universities have gone on Pal Treks. The goal is to expand the program to most universities in the U.S.
This event is hosted by NorCal Sabeel. Current co-sponsors include: Middle East Children Alliance (MECA), Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) Bay Area, American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) Bay Area, Friends of Wadi Foquin, The Islamophobia Studies Center, & Arab Cultural and Community Center (ACCC).
Please promote the event to your contacts and via social media.
