UCC PIN is one of the two co-sponsors for Voices from the Holy Land’s next Salon, this coming Sunday, October 20, 3 pm ET/noon PT, on the topic “The Past and the Present Tell US: Palestine’s Future Has to be Different!” The “prompts” for the Salon’s panel are two documentary films from the early 1980s which, as the promotional material describes, “provide visual evidence of the colonization, apartheid, and military systems Israel uses to maintain domination.” The panel will discuss the through line of issues over these decades: dispossession, intergenerational trauma, right of return, resistance, in the context of the present moment, considering the requisites for a just future.

Panelists are: Aline Batarseh: executive director and co-editor, Visualizing Palestine; Salim Tamari: senior fellow, Institute for Policy Studies and former director, Institute of Jerusalem Studies; Sami Awad: co-director of Nonviolence International, founder of Holy Land Trust; and Mitchell Plitnick (moderator): president, ReThinking Foreign Policy and co-author, Except for Palestine. UCC PIN steering committee member the Rev. Crystal Silva-McCormack will briefly describe UCC PIN’s mission and work at the beginning of the Salon.

To register for the Salon, go here. Registrants will receive links for viewing the documentaries in advance of the Salon and a link for the Salon itself, on Sunday the 20th.

Here is a section of the UCCPIN October 2024 E-Newsletter. To read the entire newsletter, follow this link: UCC PIN October 2024 E-News.