WEDNESDAY MAY 25
7:30 p.m. Veterans Memorial Hall, 846 North Front Street, Santa Cruz, $5-20 sliding scale donation (no one turned away for lack of funds)
Israeli Robi Damelin’s 28 year-old son David was killed by a Palestinian sniper three years ago in the West Bank. Palestinian Nadwa Sarandah’s sister Naila was stabbed to death by a Jewish settler on the streets of East Jerusalem. Both are determined to transform their loss and grief into hope for a peaceful future between their two peoples. They are living examples of the possibility of reconciliation. Their nationwide speaking tour is organized by the Parents Circle, the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s Interfaith Peace-Builders in Washington, DC, and the Resource Center for Nonviolence in Santa Cruz.
Local events are cosponsored by Colleges 9 & 10, the Sulha Way Peace Project, SC Tikkun Community, Church & Society Commission of the United Methodist Church of Santa Cruz, Committee for Justice in Palestine/UCSC, UCSC Women’s Center, CIGRS, GIIP, Center for Justice Tolerance & Conmmunity, University Religious Council
From Loss to Hope: Israeli & Palestinian Women Work for Reconciliation
Date Edited: 21 May 2005 12:03:32 PM
7:30 p.m. Veterans Memorial Hall, 846 North Front Street, Santa Cruz, $5-20 sliding scale donation (no one turned away for lack of funds)
Israeli Robi Damelin’s 28 year-old son David was killed by a Palestinian sniper three years ago in the West Bank. Palestinian Nadwa Sarandah’s sister Naila was stabbed to death by a Jewish settler on the streets of East Jerusalem. Both are determined to transform their loss and grief into hope for a peaceful future between their two peoples. They are living examples of the possibility of reconciliation. Their nationwide speaking tour is organized by the Parents Circle, the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s Interfaith Peace-Builders in Washington, DC, and the Resource Center for Nonviolence in Santa Cruz.
Local events are cosponsored by Colleges 9 & 10, the Sulha Way Peace Project, SC Tikkun Community, Church & Society Commission of the United Methodist Church of Santa Cruz, Committee for Justice in Palestine/UCSC, UCSC Women’s Center, CIGRS, GIIP, Center for Justice Tolerance & Conmmunity, University Religious Council
For more information: (831) 423-1626 or www.rcnv.org/rcnv/calendar/index.htm
or www.forusa.org/programs/ipb/speakingtour.html.
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