Schedule of four events Skip Schiel is presenting at the US Social Forum in Detroit, June 22 – 26, 2010

Dear friends and colleagues in the struggle,

I hope you can attend or might circulate my schedule of the four events I’m presenting at the US Social Forum in Detroit, June 22 – 26. General information here

The Hydropolitics of Palestine/Israel, a slide show

Gaza City outflow pipe debris

A slide show-workshop using water as a dramatic mirror of power relationships in Palestine/Israel, while exploring connections with the global water crisis and suggested responses.

Jun 24 2010 – 3:30pm

UAW Building: 1032

Photography as a tool for political transformation, a workshop

Teaching photography in Gaza

Using examples, we’ll examine principles for making and using photographs intended to foster political transformation.

Jun 25 2010 – 3:30pm

Woodward Academy: C-1

Tracing the Jordan River, a slide show

Jordan River valley at Beit Shean

About exploring from one of the headwaters of the Jordan, the Banias River flowing from Mt Hermon in the Galilee, to where the much-abused river disappears before Jericho. With an examination of the Sea of Galilee, especially the region of the major share of Christ’s ministry, and the kibbutzim, Israeli settlements intended to reclaim land and define the contours of the future Israeli nation.

Time & place to be announced, check the US Social Forum website

Gaza is Home to One & One-half Million Human Beings: How Do They Live? a photo exhibition

Gaza City, 2009

Photos from the most recent journey, August 2009, and earlier visits, featuring ordinary life lived under extraordinary conditions, with some relevant history.

Time & place to be announced, check the US Social Forum website

Thanks and I hope to see some of you there.

PS, I’ll also be attending the preceding Allied Media Conference and The First National Jewish Anti Zionist Gathering.