Dorothy Zellner, a veteran of the Civil Rights movement in America will be addressing Jewish Voices for a Just Peace (JVJP), tonight, Tuesday 23^rd September in Johannesburg. She founded the organisation ‘Jews Say No!’ and is a founding board member of Friends of the Jenin Freedom Theatre. Dorothy is also a volunteer for Jewish Voices for Peace (JVP) in New York. She will be discussing Shifts in American Jewry, What the Occupation Means for Organising and General Issues on Palestine-Israel.

Media is invited to attend and report

About Dorothy Zellner:
Dorothy M. Zellner is a veteran of the U.S. civil rights movement and was a staff member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee from 1962 to 1967. She worked with Julian Bond in
SNCC’s Communications Department in Atlanta, ran the Northeast Regional Office of SNCC, and also worked in Danville, Virginia. She spent the 1964 Freedom Summer in Greenwood, Mississippi.
After spending 20 years in the South, she returned to her hometown, New York City, where
she was a long-time staff member at the Center for Constitutional Rights and then at the City
University of New York (CUNY) School of Law. She is one of the six editors of the award winning
book Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC (University
of Illinois, 2010) and runs a small family foundation. As a Jewish activist against the Israeli
occupation of Palestine, she is a founding member of Jews Say No!, a volunteer with Jewish
Voice for Peace, and a founding Board member of the Friends of the Jenin Freedom Theatre.

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