Save the date: Israel/Palestine: The Conversation Continues
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- Published on Sunday, 12 April 2015 10:00
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Save the date: Monday, April 27th 7-9:30pm at Cadboro Bay United Church You will have the opportunity to meet 2 people who are committed to sharing their learning about the human rights situation is Israel/Palestine. The next best thing to actually going to that part of the world and experiencing the reality yourself!
Some background information about our speakers... Amos Gvirtz, a long-time Israeli... peace activist on a spring tour of Canada and US, will speak to the conflict in Palestine and Israel. A founding member of the Israeli Committee Against Housing Demolitions and other Israeli peace groups, Amos has developed an international audience with his Don’t Say We Did Not Know weekly emails about unpublicized incidents, events, and government actions affecting the Palestinian and Bedouin communities in Israel and Palestine. Currently he is active in supporting the rights of the Bedouin in the Negev as a member of the Israeli Co-Existence Forum. Ron Pond, an active member and licensed lay worship leader of the Whitehorse United Church in Yukon, was appointed by The United Church of Canada to serve as an ecumenical accompanier in the World Council of Churches’ Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI). He served in Group 53, from August to October 2014, in the South Hebron Hills placement. Ron was born and raised in Fredericton, New Brunswick He left to join the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 1966. While in the RCMP, he served at various locations throughout the Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, and the Yukon. He and his family have lived happily in Whitehorse for over 30 years, where Ron has played an active role in more than 30 organizations including running a soup kitchen and serving on the executive for the Yukon Canadian Mental Health Association.
The World Council of Churches’ Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI)
is an initiative under the WCC’s Ecumenical Campaign to End the Illegal Occupation of Palestine: Support a Just Peace in the Middle East. Its mission is to accompany churches in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories in their non-violent actions and concerted advocacy efforts to end the occupation and support a just peace in the Middle East. Participants of the programme monitor and report violations of human rights and international humanitarian law, support acts of non-violent resistance alongside local Christian and Muslim Palestinians and Israeli peace activists, offer protection through non-violent presence, engage in public policy advocacy and, in general, stand in solidarity with the churches and all those struggling against the occupation. --
CAIA Active Members Committee
