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o       Multi-generational

o       Journalists, Scholars, Educators, Peace Organizers, Iraq veterans, Combatants for Peace, Community Leaders & Learners connecting to end Occupation and War. 

o       Panel Discussions, Workshops and Cultural Events for Bridging Communities, Acknowledging Differences, and Building Broader and more Effective Peace & Justice Coalitions

o       Presentations & Discussion on U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East, Women and War, Personal Witness of Occupation, Peace Curriculum for K-12 Teachers, Art and Media Activism, Organizing with Veterans and Military Families, Work in Faith-based Communities

o       Clock hours available for K-12 Teachers

 

 

Friday, 7:30 PM, the Washington Center for the Performing Arts  – Keynote: The Presidential Elections & the Future of the Middle East

 

o       Phyllis Bennis - Author & Fellow at Institute of Policy Studies, Washington DC & the Transnational Institute, Amsterdam

o       Response: Mayor Haj Sami Sadiq Subaih – from al Aqabah village in the West Bank & Dahlia Wasfi, M.D., Iraqi-American activist

o       Zoriah Miller Photos from the Middle East“Life in Conflict”

o       Cindy & Craig Corrie – a Retrospective

o       Tickets at the Washington Center box office (360)753-8586 and www.washingtoncenter.org

 

Saturday, 8 PM,  downtown at Cherry Loft – Film: Slingshot Hip Hop, Spoken Word, Dance Party

o       “A film that braids together the stories of young Palestinians as they discover Hip Hop and employ it as a tool to surmount divisions imposed on them by occupation and poverty; this is the story of youth crossing the borders that separate them.”

o       Dance Party with D.J. Dalya Perez

o       Spoken Word

o       $5-10 donation; free with conference attendance on Saturday

o       Upstairs at the corner of Cherry & Legion in downtown Olympia

 

Sunday, 1 PM,  Olympia-Rafah Mural Site  – Conference Finale, Mural Celebration, Conference & Community Group Photo for Rafah!

o       Food, music, mural tile design

o       Group photo of Community Members and Conference Attendees – a greeting for our sister city in Rafah, Gaza

o       At the wall of the Labor Temple Building, 119 Capitol Way, Corner of Capitol and State

 

 

Peace Works is Co-sponsored by the Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice

 and (Re) Imagining the Middle East, a program at The Evergreen State College.

Supporters include: The Olympia Fellowship of Reconciliation, Veterans for Peace Chapter 109,

Olympia-Rafah Sister City Project, the West Seattle Neighbors for Peace and Justice, and Compass Rose
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