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]
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
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
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
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