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<font size="4"><font size="2"><font size="4"><b><font color="#009900"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Palestine</span>@MIT</font> presents<br></b></font></font><font color="#FF0000"><b>as part of <br>
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<font size="4">Wednesday April 13th</font></p></span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); "><font size="6">"Protecting the Human Right<br>to Water in Palestine"<br></font></span><font size="4">with Susan Koppelman </font></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; "></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><u><font>7pm</font><font>, Room 2-135<br><br></font></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-size: 16pt; "></span><br><span><span style="line-height: 14px; color: black; ">Susan Koppelman, a water rights advocate, joins us from Palestine, where she has been living for nearly five years and supporting the work of <i>LifeSource</i>, a Palestinian collective organizing to build a popular movement for Palestinian water rights. Koppelman will be discussing strategies of resistance and using the water situation to demonstrate the need for boycott, divestment and sanctions and direct action on the ground to hold Israel accountable to international law and human rights.</span></span><span><span style="line-height: 14px; color: black; "> </span></span><span style="line-height: 14px; color: black; "><br>
<br><span>The water situation is a great way to communicate the need for communities around the world to join together to end Israeli violations of Palestinians' human rights. The UN Human Rights Committee has found that Israel is violating Palestinians human right to water, but its suggestions for how Israel can comply with international human rights legislation that Israel has signed are non-binding. As global citizens in an increasingly interconnected world, we can use boycott, divestment and sanctions and direct action to hold Israel accountable to standards of international law and human rights that we have established to guide our interactions in the world.</span><br>
<br><span>Susan Koppelman is the direct descendant of early Jewish pioneers of Israel/colonizers of Palestine and the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor. She holds an MSW from the University of Washington, a graduate degree in International Development, and is currently training once a week to be a yoga teacher in Israel.<br>
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