UNA-USA Dane County Events

Please join us for our first meeting of 2010

on Tuesday, January 12th at 7pm to hear

our Global Citizen of the Year Award winner:  Jennifer Loewenstein

Special Location: at the Friends Meeting House *
1704 Roberts Court (free parking in front or in the lot at the Monroe St. Associated bank, just around the corner)
*Note:  due to a scheduling conflict at the Capitol Lakes Retirement Center, this is a departure from our usual meeting place.

7:00 pm Announcements and Business:  Budget Approval and Nominations Committee Slate Approval.
7:20 pm  Featured Presentation:  Jennifer Loewenstein:  Gaza one year on: Operation Cast Lead and the Goldstone Report.  What's Next?

Jennifer Loewenstein, faculty associate, Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Wisconsin and freelance journalist.  She has lived and worked in Jerusalem, Gaza City and Beirut. She has visited Gaza repeatedly and spent five months working with the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights and writing for the Palestine Chronicle.  Most recently she worked at the University of Oxford's Refugee Studies Centre in England.  Jennifer visited Gaza this past September where she was part of the first Rachel Corrie Foundation delegation. Jennifer's topic will be on the Gaza Strip and the Goldstone Report. she will talk about some of the key organizations she visited and the major areas of destruction, a result of Israel's "Operation Cast Lead", along with the possible long-term outlook for Gaza.

UNRWA Map of Refugee Camps in Gaza