Will be at the NY UN NGO conf. SOME DAYS STILL OPEN

[Adam Keller]

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FOR US ORGANIZATIONS (with excuses to all others who get this)
ESPECIALLY IN AND AROUND NEW YORK:

Adam Keller to attend UN Conference (13 and 14 Sept.) 

Has after the event some days open for invitations
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Dear friend

I got an invitation to participate in the UN International Conference of 
Civil Society in Support of the Palestinian People in New York, 13 and 14 
September. So this may be an opportunity to meet.

If you think you can arrange something in the period until September 26, 
please let me know in the coming days. I am interested to meet with big 
but also with small groups.

Sorry that the period is fixed, and that I couldn't approach you earlier
Still, I hope to hear from you soon,

Adam


A short biography

  		ADAM KELLER: ACTIVIST / JOURNALIST / REFUSNIK 

- Spokesperson of Gush Shalom, the Israeli Peace Bloc,  a  grassroots 
movement which has from its start opposed the occupation in all its 
manifestations - advocating the creation of a truly independent 
Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip with Jerusalem as 
capital of two states and the Green Line as  border of peace - enabling 
the strengthening of economic, social and cultural exchange.

- Editor of The Other Israel ("newsletter of the peace movement") since 
its foundation in 1983 - contributes regularly to the New Politics 
quarterly (New York) and in 1987 collected his observations and analyses 
in the book "Terrible Days - social divisions and political paradoxes in 
Israel" (Cypres, Amstelveen).

Born in Tel-Aviv (1955), Keller started out at a very young age to be the 
one who could overnight cover the whole of Tel-Aviv with peace graffiti. 

While studying history at Tel-Aviv University he got deeply involved in 
the politics of the student movements. From 1980-1983 Keller acted as 
spokesperson of the Shelly Peace Party and later of the Jewish-Arab 
Progressive List for Peace (1984-1988).  

Following the enactment, in October 1986, of a law forbidding Israelis 
from meeting with PLO representatives, Keller participated in the Israeli-
Palestinian Rumania Meeting, held in defiance of that law. 

In 1984 Keller was jailed for refusing to do military reserve service in 
Lebanon; in 1988 - for writing slogans on 117 army tanks, calling upon 
soldiers to refuse service in the Occupied Territories; and in 1990 - for 
altogether refusing further military service in protest against the 
shameless violation of Palestinian human rights. 

Recently he became involved in the Refusnik Parents Forum - being the 
father of Uri Ya'acobi who refused to serve in the army altogether, and 
was declared "unfit for military service" after seven prison terms.