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Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Glenn Frankel speaks on “Facts on the Ground: A Hard Look at Myths and Realities behind the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,” a candid discussion of the forces at work on both sides that sustain the conflict. Frankel, the director of the University of Texas School of Journalism, retired from the Washington Post after a 27-year career as a foreign correspondent and domestic news reporter and editor. He covered some of the most momentous events of the modern era, including the uprising against the apartheid regime in South Africa, the Arab-Israeli conflict, the first and second Gulf Wars, and the political and economic transformation of Europe. Frankel is the author of Beyond the Promised Land: Jews and Arabs on the Hard Road to a New Israel and Rivonia’s Children: Three Families and the Cost of Conscience in White South Africa. He won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1989 for his “sensitive and balanced reporting from Israel and the Middle East.” The event was sponsored by the Austin Chapter of J Street http://jstreet.org/. For more information, contact Charlotte McCann at charmccann@gmail.com. Date: 8/16/2012 Location: 5604 Manor, 5604 Manor Road, Austin, 78723 - http://5604manor.org Video produced for Austin Indymedia by Jeff Zavala. A ZGraphix/Austin Indymedia production. http://zgraphix.org

Dr. Norman Finkelstein is a renowned American Jewish professor, political scientist, activist, and author who has worked on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict for over three decades. Dr. Finkelstein received his doctorate in 1988 from the Department of Politics at Princeton University and has written six books about the Israel-Palestine conflict. He has held faculty positions at Brooklyn College, Rutgers University, Hunter College, New York University and more recently DePaul University. For many years he taught political theory and the Israel-Palestine conflict and currently writes and lectures. Dr. Finkelstein remains one of the most passionate, well informed, and eloquent speakers about the Israel-Palestine conflict. His talk will focus on the background and context of the struggle and his perspective on its future. This event is sponsored by the Society for Islamic Awareness (SIA), Amnesty International, Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC), and the International Socialist Organization (ISO). March 28, 2012 Produced by ZGraphix.org Filmed & Edited by Grace Alfar

OCCUPY COMES TO CAMPUS! Learn more about how the university tries to silence student voices, and how that just makes us louder! The fight for democracy and ethnic studies continues! __Reading Materials for Context__ Students protest budget reductions for ethnic studies: http://www.statesman.com/news/local/ut-students-protest-proposed-budget-... Budget numbers archive: http://thestudentsspeak.com/documentsarchive.html Recent camping ban: http://www.dailytexanonline.com/news/2012/01/24/students-dismayed-over-c... Camping ban (from handbook): http://www.utexas.edu/policies/hoppm/02.A.08.html Produced for Austin Indymedia by Jeff Zavala. This is a zgraphix production. http://zgraphix.org

This interview with James Galbraith on History, War & the Economics of Empire is very insightful and offers the viewer an understanding of the mechanics behind the United States of America and how it operates on the global stage. James Galbraith holds the Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations and Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. To learn more please visit: http://DemocracyorEmpire.org This is a zgraphix production. Produced by Jeff Zavala. http://zgraphix.org