CPWJ Encourages Participation
in the Following 2006 Events

Durham: “Strategizing Palestine Solidarity” Workshop at the Southeast Social Forum
Saturday, June 17: 11:45 am—1:00pm
NC Central University: Walker Physical Education Complex (off Alston Ave. Durham)

 The Southeast Social Forum, in Durham NC, is an important gathering leading up to the first-ever US Social Forum in Atlanta in June 2007.  Come to share, analyze, strategize, and build around the impact of violence and war at home and abroad.  The Forum is a weekend full of events, including panels and workshops on a wide range of topics, music and cultural events, and spaces to meet and share with activists engaged in similar struggles. 

 Atlanta Palestine Solidarity is organizing a workshop on “Strategizing Palestine Solidarity” on Saturday at 11:45.  The workshop aims to address issues of how to link the occupations of Palestine and Iraq with immigrant justice and how to maintain a commitment to justice in Israel/Palestine while showing solidarity with those working in the immigrant justice movement.  For more information please email: aps@atlanta4palestine.org

 For registration and more information on the Forum please visit: www.ussocialforum.org

Please advise mloupwj@nc.rr.com if you plan to attend.

Carrboro: “Bethlehem Blues”
Sunday, June 18: 11:00-12:30
Carrboro Arts Center (300 G East Main St. Carrboro)

 Richard Wark presents impressions from his recent study tour to Palestine and Israel, sponsored by the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions. Wark will address the impact of the wall and occupation on the everyday lives of people living in the region, as well as the larger-scale implications for moving toward a more peaceful world.  Presented by the North Carolina Society for Ethical Culture.  The following Sunday, June 25, same time and place, there will be further discussion of the topic.

Chapel Hill: Coalition for Peace with Justice Program at Carolina Meadows
Thursday, June 22: 7:30pm
Carolina Meadows Club Center Board Room, Whippoorwill Lane, Chapel Hill (off Mt. Carmel Church Rd.)

For directions visit: http://carolinameadows.org/c_us/m_a_directions.html

 The agenda will include:

Pictures and report from Henry Landsberger on his recent trip to Israel and Palestine, highlighting Hebron and the Hope Flowers school, a West Bank school dedicated to nonviolence and democracy; an update on the current humanitarian and political crisis in Palestine and what can be done, with some attention to Senate Bill 2370, the Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act and the new unfounded house resolution about Palestinian Christians, as well as an overview of Morally Responsible Investing within Christian and Jewish communities.

Refreshments will be provided.

For more information contact: jferster@unity.ncsu.edu or (919) 929-6648
  

Raleigh: Summer Forum: “The Land”: Reflecting on the role of The Holy Land in the lives of people of all faiths.
Sunday, June 25: 9:30 am
West Raleigh Presbyterian Church
27 Horne Street, Raleigh, NC 27607
Information: (919) 828-5468, ext. 10 or www.wrpc.org

 Sunday, June 25: MARY LOU LEISER SMITH, longtime educator and Middle East peace activist, is the Coordinating Director of the Coalition for Peace with Justice, an interfaith, intercultural organization based in the Triangle area. As the Southeast representative for Friends of Sabeel, Mary Lou has extensive experience working with Christian Palestinian peacemakers. Mary Lou will present The Christian Ministry of Sabeel in the Holy Land: An overview of the peace movement initiated by Palestinian Christians in the Holy Land based on the Gospel’s call to justice and peace through nonviolence.

 July and August Programs to be announced.