Today’s Political Repression: Conversations with Hatem Abudayyeh

Tuesday, February 15 · 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Location
Portland State University Smith Memorial Student Union Room 327

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OREGON JERICHO AND STUDENTS UNITED FOR PALESTINIAN EQUAL RIGHTS PRESENTS

Today’s Political Repression: Conversations with Hatem Abudayyeh

Portland State University
...Smith Memorial Student Union
Room 327
Tuesday February 15th 2011
6:30-8:30pm
*Event is free, open to the public and disability affirmative!

Hatem Abudayyeh is the Executive Director of the Arab American Action Network
(AAAN), a community based organization that helps empower Arab Americans and Arab
immigrants across Chicagoland through organizing, advocacy, social services, youth
development programming, and arts and culture. The son of Palestinian immigrants who
themselves were leaders in Chicago’s Arab community, Hatem was born in Chicago and
coached varsity basketball and baseball as an administrative assistant at Mather
High School before joining the AAAN. He is Vice President of the Board of Directors
of the Coalition of African, Arab, Asian, European, and Latino Immigrants of
Illinois (CAAAELII), is a founding Advisory Board member of the National Network for
Arab American Communities (NNAAC), and sits on the National Coordinating Committee
of the United States Palestine Community Network (USPCN). Abudayyeh writes and
speaks on issues related to the Arab community in Chicagoland and the U.S., as well
as foreign policy as it regards Palestine, Iraq, and the Arab World.

Co-sponsored by
Portland Coalition Opposing Political Repression, Committee to Connect the Dots,
Portland Central American Solidarity Committee, Oregon Progressive Party, Portland
International Socialist Organization, NW Student Coalition, stopfbi.net

Contact: pdxcopr@gmail.com