This are two of the speakers at The Rachel Corrie Foundation’s 2006 Peace Works Conference.

Jerry and Sis Levin are based in Palestine where they work for an authentic peacemaking environment, a condition they say “clearly does not exist.” The Levins promote nonviolent resistance and report about their first-hand experience with the Israeli occupation.

Jerry Levin works full time with Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) in Hebron and is the author of West BankDiary. He was the CNN Middle East Bureau Chief in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1984 when he was kidnapped by extremists and became the first of the “forgotten American hostages.” He escaped 11 ½ months later through efforts by Sis Levin and an interfaith team of Muslim, Jewish, and Christian friends in the U.S. and across the Middle East.

By Simone Sagovac — The Arab American News: Some 300 of the foremost experts and activists on Palestinian human rights gathered April 20-24 in Olympia, Washington, for a four-day event that aimed to educate and coordinate actions toward justice in Palestine.

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Deborah Koff-Chapin will be doing Interpretive Touch Drawing tonight during Arun Ghandi’s lecture. Through the immediacy of Touch Drawing, she will create a full series of images that express the content and feeling-tone of his talk. The drawings will be available for viewing at the conference. You will also be able to see them and order prints from her website www.touchdrawing.com. Click on ‘Conference Art’. Please allow a week for the images to be put online. A portion of proceeds will be donated to the Rachel Corrie Foundation.

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PALESTINE FOR BEGINNERS is a fast-moving guide to the roots of conflict, the key historical and current events, and the characters and motivations behind the ongoing crisis.

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Rachel Corrie was killed while nonviolently protecting the home of two Palestinian families in Gaza from demolition. In her honor and memory, the Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice will in April realize one of its dreams when it inaugurates Peace Works, an annual lecture/conference to provide a continuing forum for exploring the meaning and practice of justice and peace as they affect the social, economic, political, environmental, and spiritual aspects of people’s lives.

With a two-day conference, and special pre-conference activities and events, Peace Works 2006 will focus on the struggle in Palestine and Israel. Events in the Middle East are unfolding at a dizzying pace with confusion about what they mean and what can and should be done about them.