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What's Next Meeting |
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Event submitted by Laura Tillem on Sunday, October 14, 2007 - 12:41am |
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PLEASE NOTE: On some computers the time of the event may be shown incorrectly. The correct time is 10:30 AM.
What's Next Action group meeting: the all volunteer heart of our efforts to end the war on Irag. We meet the second and fourth Saturdays at 10:30 a.m. (With occasional other 10:30 Saturday meetings). Join in and help us move forward our Depleted Uranium Bill, Counter-Recruiting, War Tax Protest, USD 259 Opt-Out Follow-through, and other activities.
We meet on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of each month, with occasional meetings on other Saturdays. |
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Iran · Iraq · Israel/Palestine
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A Night for Palestine |
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Event submitted by Laura Tillem on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 11:46pm |
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Award winning film Occupation 101
Sponsored by MECA (the Middle Eastern Cultural Association) at Wichita State University.
7:00- 8:00pm Film Viewing (Occupation 101)
8:00- 9:00pm Panel
Open to Everyone. Entry is FREE.
Refreshments will be provided |
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Israel/Palestine
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Wheels of Justice in Wichita |
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Event submitted by Laura Tillem on Thursday, April 3, 2008 - 2:42pm |
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PLEASE NOTE THE TIME FOR THIS EVENT IS 6:30 PM. A bug in our website software causes this to show up incorrectly on some computers.
The Wheels of Justice tour is coming to Wichita next week. They will be speaking at a potluck dinner at the Peace Center at 6:30. The presentation will be at 7:00.
The main speaker is Gene Stoltzfus:
Until 2004, he was the Director of the Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT),
a program of Brethren, Mennonite and Friends churches and other
affiliated organizations that places teams in high conflict zones like
Haiti, Hebron (West Bank), Iraq, Colombia, and Mexico In addition CPT
violence reduction projects have been developed in urban North
America, with Native people on the highly conflicted border between
Mexico and the United States. CPT includes 40 trained full time
peacemaker corps members twelve staff people and nearly 150 reservists
(persons trained to work in CPT settings for up to three months each
year) who emphasize human rights protection, nonviolent action,
peacemaking campaigns and documentation. |
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Iraq · Israel/Palestine
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Book Discussion - The Lemon Tree |
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Event submitted by Laura Tillem on Sunday, February 10, 2008 - 8:13pm |
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PLEASE NOTE THE TIME FOR THIS EVENT IS 7 PM. The time may show up incorrectly on some computers.
The Peace Center community is invited to attend a book discussion group at the peace house. We are reading the Lemon Tree, by Sandy Tolan. The next discussion will be held May 7, 2008, at 7 PM.
Here is the book description:
The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East, by Sandy Tolan.
Publishers Weekly has this review:
The title of this moving, well-crafted book refers to a tree in the backyard of a home in Ramla, Israel. The home is currently owned by Dalia, a Jewish woman whose family of Holocaust survivors emigrated from Bulgaria. |
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Israel/Palestine
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More US supplied weapons in the Middle East |
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Story submitted by Horace Santry on Thursday, August 9, 2007 - 1:14pm |
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In late July 2007, the Bush Administration announced that it would be increasing military aid to Israel 25% to $30 billion, would be guaranteeing $13 billion in military aid to Egypt and would sell $20 billion to the Gulf states, primarily Saudi Arabia, all over the next ten years. The Middle East is lacking for many things, but the one thing that every Middle Eastern country is awash in is weapons. This is a time for the United States to be promoting diplomacy, not more violence.
US law states that military aid is only to be used for defense, and is not to be provided to countries which engage in a "consistent pattern of gross violations of internationally recognized human rights." None of the recipient countries, including Israel, meet this standard.
Feel free to express your opinion to your elected officials….
US President George W Bush, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W.
Washington, DC 20500
Switchboard: 202-456-1414
Fax: 202-456-2461
president@whitehouse.gov
US Vice-President Dick Cheney, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W.
Washington, DC 20500
Switchboard: 202-456-1414
Fax: 202-456-2461
vice.president@whitehouse.gov
US Senator Pat Roberts
Military and Legislative Assistant, Chris Arnold
109 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-4774
Fax: 202-224-3514
http://roberts.senate.gov
Wichita Office, 155 N. Market, Suite 120, Wichita, KS 67202
Phone: 316-263-0416
Fax: 316-263-0273
US Senator Sam Brownback
Foreign Affairs Adviser Hannah Royal
303 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-6521
Fax: 202-228-1265
Wichita Office, 245 N. Waco, Wichita, KS 67202
Phone: 316-264-8066
Fax: 316-264-9078
http://brownback.senate.gov
US Representative, 4th District Kansas, Todd Tiahrt
Legislative Adviser Jim Richardson
2441 Rayburn Bldg, Washington, DC 20515
Phone: 202-225-6216
Fax: 202-225-3489
www.house.gov/tiahrt
Wichita Office, 155 N. Market, Suite 400, Wichita, KS 67202
Phone: 316-262-8992
Fax: 316-262-5309 |
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Economy · Israel/Palestine · United States
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What's Next/Iraq Action meeting |
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Event submitted by Horace Santry on Wednesday, December 22, 2004 - 4:00pm |
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IRAQ/WHAT’S NEXT ACTION GROUP, Join us to plan expressions of opposition to the Iraq War. Peace House, 1407 N. Topeka, 11:00 a.m.
It is time to consider ways to express our opposition to the war in the future. A “What's Next Iraq” meeting is scheduled for Saturday December 18 at 11:00 am.
The future will require continued support for those that stand up and say “No War”. Use this time to regroup, to see new ways to deliver our message and to renew our dedication.
Thank you all – |
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Iraq · Israel/Palestine
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International Court of Justice Declares Israeli Wall Illegal |
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Story submitted by Horace Santry on Monday, July 19, 2004 - 12:00am |
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The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague, despite intense pressure from Israel, the US and EU Governments, confirms what Palestinians and the world have known since the beginning of its planning and construction - THE WALL IS ILLEGAL! Statement by Israeli Peace and Human Rights Organizations On The Construction Of The Wall In Occupied Palestinian Territory January 25, 2004 We, the undersigned Israeli peace and human rights organizations, wish to make our views known to the International Court of Justice concerning the Wall currently under construction by the Israeli government in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. As Israeli citizens, we are troubled that the position of the Israeli government regarding this Wall does not reflect our views, nor does it necessarily reflect the views of the Israeli public. We represent a significant segment of the population in Israel who object to construction of this Wall, and we call upon the Court to demand that it be dismantled, for the reasons that follow. The construction and location of the Wall are in grave breach of international humanitarian law as articulated inter alia by the Fourth Geneva Convention. The Wall is actually a complex system of walls and electronic fences that surround and isolate tens of thousands of Palestinians who are innocent of all wrongdoing. While Israel clearly has the responsibility to defend its citizens against terrorist and other attacks, we hold that the Wall although presented to the public as a security measure in actuality constitutes a political border that defines the Bantustan-like state that Israel is planning for the Palestinians in the West Bank. This is evident from the route of the Wall which, by surrounding Areas A and B, creates "cantons" (as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has referred to them) in which the Palestinians will be confined. Indeed, the Wall reaches deep into Palestinian territory in order to encompass "settlement blocs," thus extending the Israeli civilian and military presence far inside Palestinian territory. This route clearly reveals that the Wall is designed to serve political, not security, objectives. It will unilaterally define a boundary that ensures Israeli control of the entire region between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River. Israel argues "military necessity" in its defense of the Wall. International humanitarian law, however, mandates proportionality between military necessity and the well-being of the civilian population under occupation. The Fourth Geneva Convention obligates the occupying power to respect and ensure the fundamental rights of the civilian population to personal security, dignity, a livelihood, freedom of movement, and access to property, education and medical care all irreparably harmed by the route and scale of the Wall, as well as the constraints on movement that it entails. Despite the serious repercussions of its construction, no study was undertaken by the Israeli government to survey the impact of the Wall on the civilian Palestinian population. In addition, the Fourth Geneva Convention prohibits an Occupying Power from making its occupation permanent. The erection of a $2-3 billion system of massive barriers, walls, electronic fences, security roads, roadblocks, checkpoints, and military installations constitutes such permanent presence, especially when taking into account the dramatic alteration in land use, demography, induced population transfer, and other irreversible changes in Palestinian life emanating from the presence of the Wall.We the undersigned have approached the Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs with our request to include this statement in the materials presented to the Court. It is our contention, based upon incontrovertible evidence, that the Wall in its present route constitutes a severe violation of fundamental human rights, serves political rather than security ends, and throws up a major obstacle to a just and sustainable peace between the Israeli and Palestinian peoples. We say to the Israeli government and to the Court as one: Not in our name. Justice requires not only condemnation of the Wall, but its immediate dismantling. For a Just Peace,The Alternative Information Center (A joint Israeli-Palestinian organization)Bat Shalom The Coalition of Women for a Just Peace The Fifth Mother Gush Shalom The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD)MachsomWatch New Profile Noga Rabbis for Human Rights Tandi Women in Black Yesh Gvul |
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How Did We Get Here - History of the Middle East Conflict |
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Story submitted by Horace Santry on Monday, May 31, 2004 - 12:00am |
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How Did We Get Here? A History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
The peace center has this video lecture series from A Jewish Voice For Peace available for borrowing. The lectures were given in the fall of 2002. Call the peace center at 263-5886. The answers you need about a history that affects us all. An 8-lecture series for the general public featuring five of the country's top Middle East history scholars. This series is an unprecedented collaboration between Arab, Jewish, and other professors.
http://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resources/articles/lecture_series.html |
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Israel/Palestine
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Emergency in Gaza - from an Israeli peace activist |
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Page submitted by Laura Tillem on Tuesday, May 18, 2004 - 8:39pm |
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Friends,
We need your help.
There is an emergency situation right now in the Gaza Strip and the town of Rafah, in particular, with scenes that bring to mind Israel's invasion of Jenin and Nablus in the spring of 2002. So far today, 18 Palestinians were killed, but the action continues. Last weekend, 116 homes were destroyed, making over a thousand people homeless (www.btselem.org). Hundreds more are slated for destruction. Amira Hass, filing dramatic daily reports from inside Rafah, describes the scenes of people grabbing their children and whatever comes to hand and fleeing their homes, anticipating the entry of the bulldozer-tanks (www.haaretzdaily.com). Even Yossi Sarid from the Yahad Party (formerly called Meretz), normally a staunch defender of the IDF, described actions in Rafah as "war crimes". My friend In'am called me from Gaza trembling with fear, and reported that the Palestinian news broadcaster broke down in tears as he spoke. |
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