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**Media Release: Cosatu president to speak at PSC meeting on the one-state solution**
// Issued by the Palestine Solidarity Committee// // 17 June 2005 // Cosatu president, Comrade Willie Madisha will speak on a recent visit of his to Palestine, comparing and contrasting the genocide against the Palestinian people to living under apartheid. Madisha will be sharing a platform with three other speakers, including Professor Virginia Tilley, who has just published a book on the Palestinian question called "The One State Solution".

The public meeting will be hosted by the Palestine Solidarity Committee and will be be held at the **Workers' Library, Newtown, tomorrow, Saturday 18th June at 3pm.** // Speakers:// Willie Madisha, Cosatu President - Reflections on a visit to Palestine.**
 * Fatima Gabru, PSC - The World Bank and the Apartheid Wall.**
 * Prof. Virginia Tilley - Facing the One-State Solution.**
 * Virginia Setshedi - An Open Letter to Wolfowitz.**

Limited copies of Prof. Tilley's book will be available.

//The Speakers: //
 * Cosatu President, Cde. Madisha, attended a conference in Ramallah, Palestine late last year. The conference was convened by the Teacher Creativity Centre and titled ' Education, Globalisation and Social Change'.
 * Prof. Tilley is Associate Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Her book 'The One-State Solution: A Breakthrough for Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Deadlock' has just been published by the University of Michigan Press. New York University's Tony Judt calls it: "A clear, trenchant book on a topic of enormous importance. . . . Overall this is a courageous plunge into boiling waters. If it helps propel forward a debate that has hardly begun in this country it will have performed a signal scholarly and political function."
 * Cde. Gabru, a member of the PSC, recently returned from Palestine. She stayed with villagers resisting the construction of the Apartheid Wall and monitored various human rights abuses.

Please note that Professor Tilley is also available for media interviews.

//**For more information or for interviews, call:**//
 * Salim - 082 802 5936**
 * Na'eem - 084 574 2674**