Wednesday, April 1 4:45 PM - 6:15 PM
On-Campus Event - — Masonic 123
Human rights lawyer and USF alumnus Thomas Becker will share his experience as a legal observer on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla this past October and their attempt to provide food and medical aid to besieged Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Becker and his crewmates were kidnapped by Israeli forces in international waters and taken to Israel, where he was detained and tortured.
Sponsored by the USF Politics Department, Middle Eastern Studies, and the USF Institute for Nonviolence and Social Justice.
All are welcome!
Noted human rights attorney Thomas Becker, a graduate of University of San Francisco and of Harvard Law School, is coming to USF for a three-day residency March 31-April 2. Becker served as chief counsel in a landmark federal case against a former Bolivian president for war crimes and has served as a Clinical Instructor at Harvard, Columbia, and other law schools. He has conducted human rights work around the world, investigating torture and extrajudicial killings of Adivasis in India and Sahrawis in Western Sahara; documenting war crimes in Lebanon and Nagorno-Karabakh; examining land rights in South Africa and Palestine; exposing death squads in Honduras and Colombia; and serving as a nonviolent bodyguard for the Zapatista guerrillas in Mexico. His writings have been featured in major publications worldwide.