Madison Rafah Journal

KNOW YOUR MADISONIAN: SUSAN BECKER

George Hesselberg, The Wisconsin State Journal, September 19, 2004

* Name: Susan Becker, born in Oxford, England. Her mother was evacuated to Oxford with all of the other pregnant women from London during the war. Her Scottish father and American mother moved to Selah, Wash., when she was a child. At age 35, because of diabetes, she received a kidney from her sister, Janet. She came to Madison for her dietician internship at the old University Hospital.

* Family: Husband and frequent co-volunteer, Radleigh.

* Age: 59.

* Occupation: Dietician, retired.

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Our News:

Children of the Mini Palestinian Parliament hold a night vigil to show support for a mass hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners being held by Israel, 22 August 2004 in the southern Gaza Strip refugee camp of Rafah. A significant proportion of the 8,000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails began an open-ended hunger strike for better conditions which Israel has been determined to break.

Mini Palestinian Parliament

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BRINGING THE OCCUPATION OF IRAQ AND PALESTINE TO MADISON

On September 20th and 24th, the Madison Area Peace Coalition and Madison-Rafah Sister City Project host the Wheels of Justice Tour. Rolling into town in a full-size, brightly decorated school bus, the tour brings eyewitness accounts from Iraq and Palestine to challenge and educate Americans about the repercussions of war and occupation, both on people abroad and at home.

Having seen and lived with war, terror and occupation in Iraq and Palestine, participants in the Wheels of Justice offer first-hand experience irrespective of partisan politics. The tour travels on a converted school bus that doubles as a mobile billboard and peace center. In the past three years, the bus has traveled more than fifty thousand miles to over four hundred locations throughout the United States. For additional information, visit www.justicewheels.org.

Locally, the tour includes stops at a number of Madison-area schools and colleges, such as MATC, Edgewood College, and East High School. In addition, a free public forum will occur:

Monday, September 20th, 7:00 pm
"From the Mouth of Madness: Deep Inside the Occupations of Iraq & Palestine"
with speakers, Michael Birmingham & Mazin Qumsiyeh
Rainbow Bookstore, 426 W. Gilman St., Madison, WI

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