Webinar: Ethnic Cleansing Past and Present: From Turtle Island to Palestine

Haig Hovaness, moderator, is a co-chair of Green Party US Peace Action Committee (GPAX). He is a peace activist with a professional background in information technology.Larry Littlegeorge is a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation. He is knowledgeable about many aspects of the Native American genocide, including the doctrine of discovery, displacements, disease, and boarding schools. Larry is President of Alliance for Justice, Inc. in Black River Falls, WI.

Riley Richards, pronouns She/They, is a 35-year-old stay at home parent based out of Northeast Pennsylvania. She is an LGBT+ and trans liberation activist as well as a socialist organizer. Memberships include Green Party US, Democratic Socialists of America, NAACP, and Industrial Workers of the World.

Levi Rickart, a citizen of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, is an award winning Native American journalist, who founded Native News Online, one of the most read daily Native American publications in the country. Rickert has covered stories on dozens of Indian reservations, White House tribal nations conferences, and congressional hearings in Washington, D.C. He is the Editor and Publisher of Indian Country Today and author of “Visions for a Better Indian Country.”

Noura Khouri is a Palestinian in the diaspora from the Bay Area. She has worked for the past two decades as a human rights activist, campaign strategist and a community organizer. Noura was born in Michigan where her parents fled after the 1967 war. She has lived in occupied Palestine and Egypt and is currently working with Just World Books and Civility NOW. She recently returned from the West Bank where she worked with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM).

GPAX invites you to join us to learn more about the destructive practice of ethnic cleansing, which persists to the present day in Palestine and is a major threat to world peace.