<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS;" class="">T</span><font size="4" style="font-family: ComicSansMS;" class="">he Keep Hope Alive is a series of evenings programmed by and hosted at the Carrot Common 348 Danforth Avenue. It is basically a follow up of the Beit Zatoun evening. Guest speakers are Canadians from a variety of backgrounds and careers who have taken a stand in a public and active way on the question of peace or conflict in Israel / Palestine (IP). At some point realized that the question of peace in Israel / Palestine is key to global justice, international law and to peace in the world and had courage to speak out publicly or to become active on the issue.<br class=""><br class="">Courtesy of David Walsh, we have four such evenings hosted by presenters with strong background knowledge of the issue but come from different perspectives.<br class=""><br class="">I will be hosting the first night on Friday, <b class="">Feb 2, at 7:15 pm. T</b>he remaining 3 months will be on the last Thursday. Robert Massoud will be hosting February 29. </font><div class=""><font size="4" style="font-family: ComicSansMS;" class=""><br class="">I will be previewing my new book 2014:The Year Zionism Died<br class=""></font><span style="font-family: ComicSansMS; font-size: large;" class="">Max 50 people at the live event. It will also be zoomed.</span><br style="font-family: ComicSansMS;" class=""><font size="4" style="font-family: ComicSansMS;" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="4" style="font-family: ComicSansMS;" class="">Ted Schmidt<br class="">former editor Catholic New Times</font><div style="font-family: ComicSansMS;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><a href="mailto:jtschmidt@bell.net" class="">jtschmidt@bell.net</a></font></div></div></body></html>