“Courageous women” to speak at GRALTA event
The GRALTA Foundation is partnering with the Tree of Life Educational Fund to present “Courageous Women” at the Lincoln Public Library on Tuesday, Oct. 24 at 1:30 p.m. There is no charge, and light refreshments will be served. Speakers are Fayrouz Sharqawi, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, and Madonna Thunder Hawk, a member of the Oohenumpa band of the Cheyenne River Sioux tribe. Sharqawi is the advocacy coordinator at Grassroots Jerusalem, a platform for Palestinian community-based mobilization, leadership, and advocacy in occupied Jerusalem. Thunder Hawk has a long history of grassroots activism prior to her formative work for Lakota People’s Law Project as a tribal liaison. She is co-founder of Women of All Red Nations as well as the Black Hills Alliance, which prevented uranium mining in the Black Hills.
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