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What's Next Meeting  
Event submitted by Laura Tillem on Sunday, October 14, 2007 - 1:41am   
Start:
March 27, 2010 - 10:30am
Location:
Peace Center, 1407 N. Topeka
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 wars on Iraq and Afghanistan and work on other social justice issues. 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 meeti
 
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Report on trip to Gaza  
Event submitted by Laura Tillem on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 - 1:47pm   
Start:
February 23, 2010 - 6:00pm
Location:
Peace Center, 1407 N. Topeka
February Potluck



Tuesday, February 23, 2010 6:00pm

Peace Center 1407 N. Topeka



Maher Musleh and Rev. Michael Poage will speak about their recent trip to Gaza.
 
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Candlelight Vigil to Break the Siege on Gaza  
Event submitted by Laura Tillem on Wednesday, December 23, 2009 - 5:48pm   
Start:
December 31, 2009 - 7:00pm
Location:
Warren Plaza - 800 E. Second
Candlelight Vigil (please bring candles and/or flashlights)



Thursday, December 31, 2009 7:00 pm

Warren Plaza - 800 E. Second



Maher Musleh, Muslim Political Action Committee, and Rev. Michael Poage - Fairmount United Church of Christ, will be traveling to Cairo to join the Fellowship of Reconciliation, CodePink, and thousands of other peace & social justice people for the Break the Siege March on Gaza. Wichita Peace Activists will support the March with a New Year’s Eve candlelight vigil.
 
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End Military Aid to Israel  
Page submitted by Laura Tillem on Monday, April 6, 2009 - 10:52pm   
At a time when millions of people in the U.S. are being turned out of their homes due to foreclosures, why are we giving Israel $30 billion of tax-payer money to destroy Palestinian homes?

During its December 2008-January 2009 war on the occupied Gaza Strip, Israel killed more than 1,400 Palestinians, injured more than 5,000, and destroyed 4,000 buildings causing an estimated $2 billion in damage to civilian infrastructure. Meanwhile, Israel maintains its illegal blockade of the Gaza Strip, denying 1.5 million civilians their right to food, clean water, electricity, and other necessities of life.
 
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6 Years in Iraq - Speak Out Against the Wars  
Event submitted by Laura Tillem on Thursday, March 12, 2009 - 4:27pm   
Start:
March 20, 2009 - 6:30pm
Location:
Old Town Sq. East 2nd St. and Mead
Please Note: On some computers the time may show up incorrectly. The correct time is 5:30 PM.

Speak Out Against the Wars - Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine

Friday, March 20, 5:30-6:30 pm

Old Town Sq. (at the Warren), East 2nd St. and Mead

Join with other peacemakers and activists. Out of Afghanistan, no Permanent bases in Iraq, stop US military aid to Israel, end the siege of Gaza and spend the war money on universal healthcare.

sponsored by: Peace and Social Justice Center, Molly’s Brigade, WSU Peace and War Group, Muslim Public Affairs Council, WSU Young Democratic Socialists, Partners of Sacred Activism, a project of Independent Community Ministry Center and others.

 
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Who Profits: Exposing the Israeli Occupation Industry  
Page submitted by Laura Tillem on Sunday, January 25, 2009 - 4:35pm   
Who Profits: Exposing the Israeli Occupation Industry About the Project |Israeli and international corporations are directly involved in the occupation: in the construction of Israeli colonies and infrastructure in the occupied territories, in the settlements’ economy, in building walls and checkpoints, in the supply of specific equipment used in the control and repression of the civilian population under occupation. Israeli Palestinian Conflict 101  
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Suggestions for Action on Gaza  
Page submitted by Laura Tillem on Saturday, January 24, 2009 - 11:08pm   
1) Critical Contact and Situation Information (ACTION REQUESTED)

OVERALL ACTION REQUESTED:
1) Be sure and be polite when talking with Obama's and
Congressional offices.
2) Call your Representative and Senators (see Item 1 for
contact information), ask to speak to the foreign aid staffer, and
express concern about the previous and continuing economic blockades
of Gaza and the West Bank.
3) Emphasize the impact on children -- Palestinian, Israeli,
and others around the world.
4) Put together a list of local and state groups that support
 
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Film: Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land  
Event submitted by Laura Tillem on Saturday, January 24, 2009 - 8:39pm   
Start:
February 4, 2009 - 8:00pm
Location:
Peace Center, 1407 N. Topeka
Please Note: on some computers the time may show incorrectly. The correct time is 7:00 P.M.

Film: Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land

Wednesday, February 4, 2009 7:00 pm

Peace Center, 1407 N. Topeka

What do you know about settlements, occupation, or colonization of Palestinian lands? What do you know about daily life in occupied territories? If you are the average US news consumer, the answer might be not very much. How do we make sense of the conflict in Gaza when we have no context? The film Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land, looks at dehumanization of Palestinians in US news coverage.

 
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Henry Siegman on Israel's Lies  
Page submitted by Laura Tillem on Friday, January 23, 2009 - 2:01pm   

Israel's Lies

Henry Siegman

Western governments and most of the Western media have accepted a number of Israeli claims justifying the military assault on Gaza: that Hamas consistently violated the six-month truce that Israel observed and then refused to extend it; that Israel therefore had no choice but to destroy Hamas’s capacity to launch missiles into Israeli towns; that Hamas is a terrorist organisation, part of a global jihadi network; and that Israel has acted not only in its own defence but on behalf of an international struggle by Western democracies against this network.

 
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How Israel brought Gaza to the brink of humanitarian catastrophe  
Page submitted by Laura Tillem on Monday, January 12, 2009 - 12:37am   
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/07/gaza-israel-palestine

How Israel brought Gaza to the brink of humanitarian catastrophe

Oxford professor of international relations Avi Shlaim served in the Israeli army and has never questioned the state's legitimacy. But its merciless assault on Gaza has led him to devastating conclusions.

Wednesday 7 January 2009

The only way to make sense of Israel's senseless war in Gaza is through understanding the historical context. Establishing the state of Israel in May 1948 involved a monumental injustice to the Palestinians. British officials bitterly resented American partisanship on behalf of the infant state. On 2 June 1948, Sir John Troutbeck wrote to the foreign secretary, Ernest Bevin, that the Americans were responsible for the creation of a gangster state headed by "an utterly unscrupulous set of leaders". I used to think that this judgment was too harsh but Israel's vicious assault on the people of Gaza, and the Bush administration's complicity in this assault, have reopened the question.

 
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