Please join us to support the People’s Hunger strike, ongoing since 9/4 to protest the forced starvation of Gaza and to demand leadership from our elected officials to stop military aid to Israel.

We will have talks from two leading experts on the famine in Gaza and the mental health toll of intergenerational trauma in Gaza, as well as ways that the international community can address both. Join us to sing some protest songs, learn about how you can take action, and have opportunity for discussion. 

Yipeng Ge is a primary care physician and public health practitioner based on the traditional, unceded, and unsurrendered territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg (also known as Ottawa, Canada). In his clinical practice, he works in family medicine practice and refugee health at a community health centre and also in Indigenous primary healthcare. He has worked on and studied the structural and colonial determinants of health in both the settler colonial contexts of so-called Canada and occupied Palestine.

Dr. Malak Rafia, Community Psychiatrist, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School - Organizing a global mental health response to the genocide in Gaza

This discussion will examine the psychological impacts of genocide on the communities that experience it, the role of intergenerational transmission of trauma, how communities cope with it, and how a global response can intervene and offer them support.

Program will begin at 7 pm on 9/13/25 at Theodore Parker Unitarian Church  

1859 Centre St. in West Roxbury.

Please RSVP; attendees are welcome, even if you do not RSVP.

Parking information available here: https://www.tparkerchurch.org/about/directions-and-parking/