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“The Spring Gala”

“The Spring Gala”

When

03/12/2015    
7:00 pm

Where

Rutgers University
126 College Ave, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 08901

Event Type

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NEW JERSEY

The Palestine Children’s Relief Fund would like to invite you to its annual Spring Gala!

Thursday, March 12th at the Rutgers Student Center MPR Room (CAC)
Doors Open at 7pm, where you will be greeted with cocktail hour.
Event will start promptly at 8pm. Come early to get the best seats!

The Spring Gala aims to raise money for kids in the Middle East, where PCRF provides them with much needed medical treatment and humanitarian relief. Also, raise awareness about PCRF’s mission by bringing together great minds and performers of our time.

There will be live music.
Dinner will be served (Halal).

SPEAKERS:
Naima Shalhoub
Songstress – performer – educator – postcolonial rebel

Cornel West
1st of America’s most provocative intellectuals, philosopher, author, & activist. He is known as a champion for racial justice through the traditions of the black Church, progressive politics, & Jazz. He endorsed BDS, and supported Ethnic Studies at the University of Arizona

Dr. Khaled AbuGhazaleh
Chicago surgeon, head of the Medical Advisory Committee, and PCRF member who led a team to treat dozens of children with facial deformities in Gaza’s Shifa Hospital

Noura Erakat
Palestinian American legal scholar, human rights attorney. She is an activist and writer, as well as a specialist in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, refugee law, humanitarian law, national security law, and social justice.

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Tickets are $10 (Students) and $25 (Non students)

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Sponsored by RUSA & The Center for Middle Eastern Studies

All proceeds from the event will go the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund. PCRF is a nonprofit and non political, tax exempt organization.

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