FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 2015 at Peters Business Building 191 3:30-5:00 p.m. Dr. Richard Falk will speak on “The Question of Apartheid and the Palestinian Struggle to End the Occupation.”. Dr. Falk is professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University, as well as at UC Santa Barbara. He is the author or co-author of 20 books and the editor or co-editor of another 20 volumes. In 2008, Dr. Falk was appointed by the UN Human Rights Council to a six-year term as a UN Special Rapporteur on “the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.”
FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 2015 at Peters Education Center Auditorium in the Student Recreation Center Building 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Cineculture will show the film Omar, an award-winning Palestinian film directed by Hany Abu-Assad. Discussant: Richard Falk, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories. A young Palestinian freedom fighter agrees to work as an informant after he’s tricked into an admission of guilt by association in the wake of an Israeli soldier’s killing. Parking is relaxed after 4 p.m.
