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2025 NH Peace Action Education Fund Annual Event
Start: Sunday, October 5, 2025•01:30 PM
Location: Derryfield Restaurant•625 Mammoth Rd, Manchester, NH 03104 US
This event is accessible
Host Contact Info: 603-228-0559
NH Peace Action is excited to welcome special guest speaker Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh.
Eco-sumud: Ecocide and Resistance in Palestine
War is not only human violence - it is climate violence. Direct conflict and its use of modern weapons, pre-conflict military activities (preparation for wars), and post-conflict issues (like scarred landscape or left-over munitions) severely harm biodiversity and ecosystems. We can see all of these tragic impacts in the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Nevertheless, a significant 
movement for environmental justice and sustainability is growing even under the very difficult conditions of occupation and colonization. People are working at the grassroots level to build popular institutions that enhance and promote sustainable natural and human communities in the context of a larger anti-colonial struggle. Environmental struggles are an integral part of the struggle for freedom and justice in Palestine as elsewhere.
Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh is the founder and director of the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability, Bethlehem University, Bethlehem, Palestine and a professor and researcher at Bethlehem and Birzeit Universities. He previously served on the faculties of the University of Tennessee, Duke University, and Yale University until he and his wife returned to Palestine in 2008 where they now have “joyful participation in the sorrows of this world” for the sustainability of nature and human communities.
You can read more about the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability (PIBS) and the Palestine Museum of Natural History (PMNH) HERE.
There will be ample opportunity for discussion and Q&A via Zoom for both in-person attendees and Zoom attendees.
Tickets are $50 each for in-person, $25 each to attend the program via Zoom. As always, there is a student/fixed income option. (Please consider donating a ticket for someone who needs it)
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Doors open and Registration begins at 1:30. Dr. Qumsieh will join us via Zoom promptly at 2 pm.