This multi-generational conference will connect communities working to end occupation and war in the Middle East and assist those who work in this movement in sharing skills and fresh ideas to become more effective in organizing. Participants will educate each other and build skills to challenge injustice through political, media, and gender analysis, with new knowledge of our roles in the dynamics of the Middle East and US foreign policy. Through bridging communities and acknowledging differences, we intend to find new strategies to build a broader and more effective movement. Read the rest

October 18th, 7 p.m.
Minnaert Center for the Arts, SPSCC
2011 Mottman Road SW
(there will be signs directing you to the Center)
Olympia, WA, 98512
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Progressive speaker and actor MIKE FARRELL (B.J. Hunnicutt of M*A*S*H). will be speaking about his journey to actor and activist. Read the rest

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Arun Gandhi is the fifth grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, a social-political activist, and founder of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Non-Violence in Memphis, Tennessee.Born in 1934 in Durban, South Africa, Arun is the fifth grandson of India’s legendary leader, Mohandas K. “Mahatma” Gandhi. Growing up under the discriminatory apartheid laws of South Africa, he was beaten by “white” South Africans for being too black and “black” South Africans for being too white; so, Arun sought eye-for-an-eye justice. However, he learned from his parents and grandparents that justice does not mean revenge, it means transforming the opponent through love and suffering.

Grandfather taught Arun to understand nonviolence through understanding violence. “If we know how much passive violence we perpetrate against one another we will understand why there is so much physical violence plaguing societies and the world,” Gandhi said. Through daily lessons, Arun says, he learned about violence and about anger. Read the rest

This is one of the speakers at The Rachel Corrie Foundation’s 2006 Peace Works Conference. Go Here To see the main Peace Works Conference page.

Amira Hass is an Israeli author and journalist for the Israeli daily newspaper Ha’aretz who has lived in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. She was born in Jerusalem in 1956, the daughter of Yugoslavian-Jewish refugees. A journalist for the Hebrew daily Ha’aretz, she covers Gaza and the West Bank. She received the UPI’s International Award and the Sokolow Prize, Israel’s highest honor for journalists. For her work in Gaza, Hass was been nominated for the Robert F. Kennedy Award.

From 1993 to 1997, Amira Hass lived in Gaza and was the first Israeli journalist to stay the enclave so feared and despised by most Israelis that, in the Israeli idiom, “Go to Gaza” is another way to say “Go to hell.” Read the rest

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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. Read the rest

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Thank you to these generous supporters who have already joined us: Read the rest