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Interfaith Peace-Builders, Nonviolence International and the American University Council on Middle Eastern Studies invite you to join our guest from Israel/Palestine for a unique event:
A Joint Struggle
Anti-Apartheid and Nonviolence in Palestine/Israel
Film Screening:
Bil'in Habibti
Award winning film chronicling the nonviolent struggle of Bil'in village
And presentation by:
Mansour Mansour and Shai Carmeli Pollack
March 6, 2008
5:30 - 7:30 PM
Busboys and Poets Restaurant
2021 14th Street NW, Washington DC
$5 - $25 suggested donation
(Proceeds benefit legal aid for Palestinian and Israeli nonviolent activists)
Speaker Bios:
Mansour Mansour is a Palestinian from Biddo, a member of Northwest Jerusalem Popular Committee, the Biddo Popular Committee and Director of Biddo Community Development. He conducts weekly workshops with youth and adults promoting nonviolence as a means to resist occupation. He is also a coordinator and non-violent trainer with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM).
Shai Carmeli Pollack is an Israeli director, screenwriter, and cinematographer. His film, Bil'in Habibti won the Wolgin Award for Full-length Documentary Film at the Jerusalem International Film Festival in 2006 and honorable Mention at Rotterdam Film Festival in 2007. He made the film as an Israeli activist working in solidarity with Palestinians struggling against the occupation.
Sponsored by Interfaith Peace-Builders, Nonviolence International and the American University Council on Middle East Studies. For more about Mansour and Shai's work and speaking tour see www.stopapartheid.org.
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UPCOMING DELEGATIONS TO ISRAEL/PALESTINE
Legacies of 1948: 60 Years of Searching for Justice
A Delegation to Israel/Palestine
July 26 - August 9, 2008
Join Interfaith Peace-Builders and the American Friends Service Committee to travel to Israel/Palestine this summer. Your participation as an eyewitness to the situation will enrich your understanding of the conflict and empower your work back in the United States.
2008 marks the 60th anniversary of both the founding of the state of Israel and Al Nakba - the Palestinian term for "the Catastrophe" of 1948 when 750,000 Palestinians were forced to flee their homes in what is now Israel. This delegation, co-sponsored with the American Friends Service Committee, will focus on this dual narrative and the pivotal role of 1948 in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The trip will feature meetings with Palestinians and Israelis who lived through the events of 1948 and witnessed its impact on history and identity. The group will tour Palestinian refugee camps, where the descendents of the original 750,000 have grown to more than 5 million, and the ruins of Palestinian villages within Israel which testify to the displacement. Meetings will also be held with Palestinian and Israeli activists, historians, and public figures who will share perspectives on the past 60 years and consider prospects for historical justice.
DELEGATION CO-LEADERS:
Miryam Rashid is the Program Director of the Middle East Program at the American Friends Service Committee in Chicago. She completed an MA in Middle East Studies from the University of Chicago in 1998. Miryam lived in the occupied West Bank for five years and was involved with Palestinian-Israeli peace negotiations from 1998 to 2000. Her research and educational work at non-governmental organizations in Washington and Chicago has focused on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and US policy in the region. Miryam last co-led an American Friends Service Committee and Interfaith Peace-Builders delegation to Palestine and Israel in November 2006.
Michael F. Brown is Communications Manager at the Institute for Middle East Understanding. Previously, he was a Fellow at the Palestine Center, Executive Director of Partners for Peace, and Washington Correspondent for Middle East International. Michael lived and worked in the Gaza Strip off and on between 1993 and 2000, with the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights. He also spent weekends away from Gaza working with the Christian Peacemakers Team in Hebron. Michael has served on the Board of Interfaith Peace-Builders since its establishment.
DEADLINE TO APPLY: Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until April 7, 2008. Apply early to reserve and lock in lower airfares. Download the application as a Word file or a PDF file (see below for cost and other information).
Investing in Peace: Models for Addressing an Ongoing Occupation and the Question of Apartheid
A Delegation to Israel/Palestine
July 26 - August 9, 2008
Join Interfaith Peace-Builders and the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation to travel to Israel/Palestine this summer. Your participation as an eyewitness to the situation will enrich your understanding of the conflict and empower your work back in the United States.
World leaders and Civil Society Groups have increasingly termed Israel's domination of the Palestinian territories as a form of Apartheid. This delegation will examine the structural segregation of Israeli and Palestinian space and the physical separation of the two peoples.
You will also explore methods proposed by Israeli, Palestinian and international peacemakers to challenge the Israeli occupation. Meetings will address the ongoing debate surrounding boycott and divestment from companies which support the occupation. Additional meetings will explore opportunities for investment in projects which promote peace and cooperation between Israelis and Palestinians.
DELEGATION CO-LEADERS:
Felicia Eaves is a Steering Committee Member of the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. Felicia also serves as Chair of Black Voices for Peace in Washington, DC. Black Voices for Peace is a national network of activists, organizers and ordinary people from communities who work for freedom, justice, respect for human rights, and peace in their neighborhoods, throughout the nation and around the world. Felicia has been a dedicated social and environmental justice activist for nearly 20 years. She previously worked for the Environmental Heath Coalition, a San Diego based Environmental Justice organization and is a founding Board Member of the National Black Environmental Justice Network, a national preventive health and environmental/economic justice network in 33 states and the District of Columbia.
Jacob Pace joined Interfaith Peace-Builders in 2007 as Assistant Director. He previously worked with Partners for Peace and the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation in Washington, DC. He graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz where he worked with the Resource Center for Nonviolence. Jake spent more than a year in Israel/Palestine between 2003 and 2005 working with the Applied Research Institute of Jerusalem in Bethlehem and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights in the Gaza Strip where he researched human rights issues and Israeli settlement policies.
DEADLINE TO APPLY: Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until June 9, 2008. Apply early to reserve and lock in lower airfares. Download the application as a Word file or a PDF file.
MORE INFORMATION:
WHAT DO IFPB DELEGATIONS COST?
The cost of $1950 covers 14 days of hotel and home stay accommodations, breakfasts and dinners, local transportation, guides, speaker/event fees, and basic tips and gratuities. The cost does not include domestic and international airfares.
Interfaith Peace-Builders would like to provide financial support for low-income activists who cannot afford the full cost of the delegation.
If you cannot attend, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to the costs of a low-income delegate at www.ifpbdel.org/donation (please mark "scholarship fund" in the comment box).
WHAT ARE DELEGATIONS LIKE?
Interfaith Peace-Builders has taken 25 delegations and over 300 people to Israel/Palestine. Many of our delegations have a specific focus. We also offer the following standard programming on all delegations. You will:
- Travel in the West Bank and Israel with experienced delegation leaders and professional local guides
- See how the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and the current cycle of violence affect Palestinians and Israelis
- Learn from Palestinians about their nonviolent resistance to the occupation
- Meet Israeli peace activists and learn about their work for a just end to the occupation
- Explore how the Separation Wall impacts Palestinian communities and livelihoods
- Examine the US role in the conflict
- Dialogue with Israelis and Palestinians who have various cultural, religious, and political perspectives
- Stay in Palestinian and/or Israeli homes for 1 – 3 nights
- Visit selected religious and cultural sites
- Attend one-day pre-departure orientation in Washington DC
- Engage your local media with IFPB's unique follow-up program
- Receive expert support for your work in your local community after your return home
HOW CAN YOU LEARN MORE?
To learn more about the standard components of all delegations, click here. Get the information on upcoming delegations, read reports about our work, learn about education efforts, and get an application by joining our low-volume mailing list. Send an email with "subscribe" in the subject line to office@ifpb.org.
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
Interfaith Peace-Builders
1326 9th St., NW
Washington, DC 20001phone: 202.244.0821
fax: 202.232.0143
office@ifpb.org
www.ifpb.org
Click here to apply today.