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WHAT: Book talk by author of Palestine, Israel and U.S. Empire
WHO: Richard Becker
WHEN: Sunday, April 11, 2010 -- 2:00 p.m.
WHERE: King's Books, 218 St. Helens Ave., Tacoma, WA
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Richard Becker is a noted writer and commentator on Middle East affairs. He has been a featured speaker at political forums and conferences in the United States and across the world.
Becker has visited the Middle East on numerous occasions. He led fact-finding delegations to Palestine in 2000 and 2002, delivering medicine to Palestinian hospitals. Becker helped produce the video "Palestine Fights for Freedom" (2002) based on his experiences.
In January 2000, Becker was co-leader of the Iraq Sanctions Challenge, which delivered $2 million of medicine to Iraq. He first traveled to Iraq in 1994 with a fact-finding delegation headed by former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark. Becker co-authored the book The Children Are Dying (1996) about the effects of sanctions on the Iraqi people. He contributed to the anthology Challenge to Genocide: Let Iraq Live (1999). Becker co-produced the award-winning video "Genocide by Sanctions" (1998).
Most recently, in December 2005, he participated in an international conference in Syria about Palestinian refugees and the right of return.
Becker is the Western Regional Coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism). ANSWER has organized mass protests of hundreds of thousands of people against the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine from mid-2002 to the present. He is a regular contributor to Liberation newspaper and PSLweb.org.
Here is a synopsis of the book:
Palestine, Israel and the U.S. Empire provides a sharp analysis of historic and current events in the struggle for Palestine from the division of the Middle East by Western powers and the Zionist settler movement, to the founding of Israel and its regional role as a watchdog for U.S. interests, to present-day conflicts and the prospects for a just resolution. The narrative is firmly rooted in the politics of Palestinian liberation. Here is a neccesary contribution to the heroic efforts of the Palestinian people to achieve justice in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.
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