Madison-Rafah Journal

Sun, 31 Oct 2004
From: Barbara Olson
Subject: Fwd: photos from Rafah
To: rafahsistercity@yahoo.com

Everyone: Ruba E. forwarded this from the Children's Parliament in Rafah. The text that accompanied the pictures is below.

Barb

Our activites in October:

Children of Mini Palestinian Parliament had a peaceful march to protest against killing of two schoolgirls in Rafah: Ghadeer Mokhamer (She was in her class in UN school) and Iman Al-Hamms (She was walking to her school when a spiteful soldier of Israeli Occupation Forces shot her by 24 bullets).

Waiting our last activities.

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7:00 pm
UW Campus
Rm. 3650 Humanities Bldg.

The Fourth World War will have its Madison premiere hosted by producers/directors Rick Rowley and Jacqueline Soohen. MRSCP is one of the co-sponsors of this showing.

Shot on the front lines of struggles spanning five continents, The Fourth World War is the untold story of people who resist being annihilated in the current global conflict. The film weaves together the images and voices of the war on the ground — in Mexico, Argentina, South Africa, Palestine, Korea, Seattle, Genoa and New York. The intensity and immediacy of its images are beyond anything the mainstream media can shoot, the intimacy and passion of its stories are beyond anything it can feel. Narrated by Tony Award winner Suheir Hammad and Singer Michael Franti of Spearhead, it is a radical story of hope and human connection in the face of a war that shatters and divides.

Richard Rowley and Jacqueline Soohen are New York-based filmmakers whose groundbreaking feature documentaries Zapatista (1998), Black and Gold (1999), and This is What Democracy Looks Like (2000) have won top honors at hundreds of film festivals worldwide. Established video journalists, they have reported from Argentina, Afghanistan, Iraq, Mexico, Ecuador, Brazil, East Timor, South Africa, and Palestine, where they were the only video team to break the 2002 siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.

Free and open to the public. For info call 262-9036.

Everyone:

A message regarding WYOU funding under attack AGAIN. WYOU has been wonderful, airing The Killing Zone and other Palestinian-related events. Please call or e-mail your alders.

Thanks
Barb O.

Barbara S wrote:

Folks,

Please consider taking a few minutes now to drop your alder a note on how you value cable access and want the city to keep funding it.

With the city budget under review, several alders have made threats on WYOU's funding. WYOU is a TREASURE for peace-lovers in Madison, and has aired the following documentaries this last year:

"Unprecedented" (about 2000 elections) "Uncovered: the Truth about the Iraq War" "Outfoxed"

and coming Tuesdays in November at 10pm, "Hijacking Catastrophe" with narrator Julian Bond.

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Addressing Mental Health Needs in Times of Crisis

Chicago, IL
Speakers: Rana Nashashibi and Siham Rashid

Monday, October 11 — 6pm
School of Social Service Administration
Rm W1, 969 E. 60th Street, Chicago
Co-sponsored by the Human Rights Program, University of Chicago

Tuesday, October 12 — 7 pm
DePaul University
Schmidt Acadmic Center Rm 154
2320 N. Kenmore, Chicago
Co-sponsored by DePaul Students for Justice in Palestine

Tour organized by the American Friends Service Committee, Chicago, 312-427-2533 x18. Endorsers include DePaul University Women and Gender Studies Program, Political Science Dept, International Studies Program, Activist Student Union, DePaul Students Against the War, United Muslims Moving Ahead.

Brief biographies of speakers:

Rana Nashashibi: Director, Palestinian Counseling Center, Jerusalem; Professor of Developmental Psychology and Counseling Theory, Birzeity University; Consultant to the Palestinian Ministry of Social Affairs and Ministry of Health; Board member, Palestinian Center for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Torture; Founding member of the Palestinian Women's Working Committees.

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