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photo: Jon Elmer, 2005

ISRAEL'S DISENGAGEMENT: A view from Gaza


After six months in the Middle East, photojournalist Jon Elmer will be discussing the Gaza 'disengagement' and the shifting dynamics of the Israel-Palestine conflict with photography and original reportage from on the ground in the Gaza Strip, West Bank and Jerusalem.


Upcoming dates

[updated regularly]

27 September in Vancouver
            Topic: Panel - Gaza and Lebanon
            UBC - Student Union Building rm 216
            12:30pm - 2:30pm  [map]

1 October in Duncan, Vancouver Island
            Topic: Canada's aggressive foreign policy
            Town Hall meeting - 1:30pm

[inquiries email: jon at fromoccupiedpalestine dot org]

Some past dates include...

28 July in Vancouver, BC
            Topic: Panel - Gaza and Lebanon
            SFU Harbour Centre - downtown  [map]
            515 West Hastings Street at Seymour - 6pm

23 July in Victoria, BC - radio interview
            Topic: Gaza and Lebanon
            CFAX AM 1070 - commercial talk radio
            6:05 - 6:30pm - listen live online

22 July in Victoria
            Topic: The seige on Gaza
            University of Victoria
            Matthews/McQueen Theatre - David F Strong Building
            DSBC103 - 5pm  [map]

21 July in Victoria
            Topic: Canada's aggressive foreign policy in Afghanistan [with Anthony Fenton]
            University of Victoria
            Matthews/McQueen Theatre - David F Strong Building
            DSBC103  - 7:30pm  [map]

20 July in Victoria - radio interview
            Topic: Canadian foreign policy and the Middle East
            CFAX AM 1070 - commercial talk radio
            4:05 - 4:30pm - listen live online

14 March in California - radio interview
            Flashpoints on KPFA in Berkeley, CA - 5pm pacific
            Topic: Ahmed Sa'adat arrested in Jericho prison raid
            download the audio: archived at Pacifica radio [begins approx 16 minutes in]

11 March in Vancouver, BC - radio interview
            CFRO 102.7 FM
            Redeye on Co-op Radio - 9:15 am
            Topic: Bil'in and the Palestinian struggle against the barrier
            download the audio: archived at A-infos radio project

9 March in Burnaby, BC
            Simon Fraser University
            "The children of Palestine"
            Maggie Benston Centre
            MBC 2294-6 at 3:30pm  [map]

4 March in Vancouver, BC
            Spartacus Bookstore
            319 West Hastings - 8pm
            read more about Spartacus - CBC: "The politics and paperbacks: Eulogy for Spartacus Books"

2 March in Victoria, British Columbia
            University of Victoria
            UVSS Armed With Understanding Lecture Series
            David Lam Auditorium - 7:30pm


Children of Palestine                    
Postcard front:        web version  |  download
Postcard back:        web version  |  download
Exhibition poster:     web version  |  download

February - Month-long photography exhibition

            in Toronto at Tinto Coffee House
            Children of Palestine 2003, 2005
            Images from the West Bank and Gaza Strip
            89 Roncevalles, just north of Queen Street
            open daily 10am - 8pm [map]

28 February in Calgary, Alberta
             The 'Old Y', Common Room
             223 12th Avenue SW - 7pm

23 February in Winnipeg, Manitoba
            Mondragon Bookstore and Coffeehouse
            91 Albert Street - 7pm
            Event poster by G7:   web version |  download
            read more about Mondragon
                Listen to G7 Radio Episode 2 with  Jon, Chris and Derek

21 February in Thunder Bay, Ontario
            Lakehead University
            Lower Lecture Theatre
            UC 0050 - 7pm

20 February in Thunder Bay, Ontario
            Waverley Resource Library
            285 Red River Road - 7pm

16 February in Kingston, Ontario
            Queen's University
            Stirling Hall C - 7:30pm  [map]
            read article: Queen's Journal

15 February in Toronto
            University of Toronto
            Israeli Apartheid Week
            "Apartheid in the West Bank and Gaza"
            a panel with Adam Hanieh
            FitzGerald Building Rm. 103
            150 College Street - 8pm  [map]

13 February in Guelph, Ontario
            University of Guelph
            MacKinnon Building
            Room 227 - 7pm   [map]

9 February in Toronto
            Children of Palestine:
            Images from the West Bank and Gaza Strip 2003, 2005
            Opening reception with the photographer
            Tinto - 89 Roncesvalles just north of Queen
             6:30 - 10pm   [map]

6 February in Hamilton, Ontario
            McMaster University
            Health Sciences Centre
            Room 1A6 - 6pm

30 January -- radio interview
            CFUV FM 101.9 in Victoria, BC   
            Topic: Hamas election win
            5:30pm pacific; 8:30pm eastern
            listen live online:  click here

25 January in Scarborough, Ontario
            University of Toronto, Scarborough
            Student Centre, SL283  [map]

24 January in London, Ontario
            University of Western Ontario
            Somerville House [map]
            Room 3317 - 6:30pm

19 January in Hamilton, Ontario
            McMaster University            
            Health Sciences Building
            Room 1A6 - 6pm [map]
15 December 2005 in Halifax, Nova Scotia
"Photographing the Israel-Palestine Conflict"
One World Cafe
2412 Agricola Street at West - 6pm
13 December 2005 in Fredericton, New Brunswick
The Underground Cafe
732 Charlotte Street - 7pm
13 December 2005 - "Flashpoints" interview
KPFA FM 94.1 in Berkeley, California
Topic: The Gaza Strip - 5:30pm pacific
Pacifica Radio: [archived]
3 December 2005 in Halifax, Nova Scotia
Students Coalition Against War 
North Street and Agricola
Slideshow - 10pm
1 December 2005 in Halifax, Nova Scotia
Dalhousie University, Ondaatje Auditorium
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences building - 8pm
29 November 2005 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Marquette University
Alumni Ballroom - 8pm
28 November 2005 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Marquette University
Soup and substance lecture series
"Lost childhood: growing up under occupation"
Henke Lounge, Alumni Hall - Noon
24 November 2005 in Mississauga, Ontario
University of Toronto Mississauga
Presentation Room, Student Centre at 6pm
Read review in UTM Medium
see also: 2004 speaking tour

Lecture posters

Poster:   web version  |  download  [design by G7]

Selected portfolio

The Journal of Palestine Studies vol XXXV no 3 (Spring 2006), pp. 191-193
"Good night Battle of Britain, Good morning Gaza" [Documents and source material]

The Progressive vol 70 no 4 (April 2006): pp. 31-34
"Interview: Hanan Ashrawi"

Flashpoints, 13 December 2005
audio: [archived here]

Briarpatch Magazine vol 34 no 8 (December 2005): pp. 12-15
"Good night Battle of Britain, Good morning, Gaza"

Z Magazine vol 18 no 12 (December 2005): pp. 45-46
"An historic development, but not peace"

The NewStandard, 14 October 2005
"'Disengagement' affords some relief for Gaza fishing enclave"

The NewStandard, 2 October 2005
"Air raids terrorize Gaza residents, target key infrastructure"

This Magazine vol 39 no 12 (September-October 2005): pp. 11
"A new kind of war"

Photoessay: A struggle in pictures

The NewStandard,
19 August 2005
"Protest, grief as barrier separates Palestinian village from farms"

The NewStandard
, 16 August 2005
"New settlement puts pressure on Jerusalem Palestinians"

and more


 
Contact
jon at fromoccupiedpalestine dot org