February 14, 2010
10am Forum
"The Gaza Freedom March,"
Lara and Dana Elborno, speaking
Sisters Lara and Dana Elborno will speak on the Gaza Freedom March (GFM) held in December of 2009, including the siege of Gaza that Israel and Egypt are active in creating and maintaining, the Gaza Freedom March generally, and the marchers' experience during the GFM. Lara and Dana are Palestinian-American, with family in Gaza. They traveled together in the Winter of 2009-2010 to Cairo, Egypt, with the Gaza Freedom March (a group of 1400 international activists calling for an end to the Israeli and Egyptian siege on Gaza). Members of the Gaza Freedom March were forcibly detained in hotels as well as violently forced into pens by Egyptian police and additional security forces. Lara Elborno is a University of Iowa alumni, and law student at Loyola University in Chicago. Dana Elborno is a journalism student in Chicago. Ron Chew will coordinate.
The Reverend Robinson, a vocal soloist at one of our "Celebrations of Life" earlier this year, returns to Third Church to reflect on racial equality and integration as she's experienced it in her Lutheran ministry. She'll use narratives from the Judeo-Christian tradition and her own history to assess how far we've come-and how far we have yet to go-to achieve the "Beloved Community" as prophesized by Dr, King.
