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Feb 24 (Iron
Wall)
Shulamit
Decktor was born in South Africa, and grew up there and in Israel. Her
family moved to Israel and settled there in 1955 - her brother
and sister and their children all live in Israel. In 1963, at
the age of 20, she was a "selective objector/resister" to
the Israeli military draft. She came to the United States in
the mid-1960’s to attend graduate school, and has been
US-based ever since. She has made her home in Seattle since the
mid-1980's. For the past fourteen years, she has worked as a
health management consultant to Native American Tribes in the
Pacific Northwest and elsewhere. Shulamit has been actively engaged
in issues concerning peace and justice in the Middle East since
1968, following a trip to Israel to visit her family in the aftermath
of the 1967 war and the Israeli Occupation of the West Bank and
Gaza. She has been active in these efforts through a number of
organizations, including (currently) in Jewish Voice for Peace,
and as a Jewish activist in Fellowship of Reconciliation. She
also serves as FOR representative to Jobs With Justice. She has
a 26-year-old son, and lives in an apartment with not enough
bookshelves.
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Feb
26, Monday (Dreaming of Tibet)
Debi
Goldman is Developement
Officer for the Tibetan Nuns Project, a grassroots organization building
nunneries and providing support for several hundred Tibetan nuns in
exile in India. Her work also focuses on refugee education.
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Feb
27, Tuesday (Who Shot My Brother)
Shirley
Osterhaus, an educator/activist in the
community, teaches and coordinates the World Issues Forums at
Fairhaven College. She is also on the committee that organizes
the Bellingham Human Rights Film Festival.
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Friday,
March 2 (Granita de Arena)
Larry Estrada is
Director of American Cultural Studies and Associate Professor at Fairhaven
College, Western Washington University. His recent research and work
includes the issues of immigration patterns between Mexico and the
United States as well as the socio-cultural implications of public
policy related to indigenous folk healing and curanderismo in Mexico.
Dr. Estrada has served as mayor of the City of Fort Collins, Colorado,
and as Chair of the Washington State Commission on Hispanic Affairs.
He presently holds the position of President of the National Association
for Ethnic Studies.
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Saturday, March
3 (Iraq for Sale
and Ground Truth)
Benjamin Marx is a former U.S. Army officer and veteran
of two combat tours to
Iraq and the Global War on Terror. During his final
assignment he commanded a convoy security company providing armed security
escort within Iraq's
Sunni Triangle to soldiers and civilian contractors
of the Coalition Forces. His unit conducted hundreds of combat missions,
covering thousands
of miles on the roads of Iraq. He is a native of Bellingham,
WA and attended Seattle University prior to accepting a commission
in the
U.S. Army.
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