CJME Events and Activities Archive

This section documents the history of events and activities hoted by CJME. Since 2003 more Kansas City area residents have become active in supporting cause of peace between Israel and Palestine. A growing number of community members have attended talks and responded to coordinated actions. Visit the VOLUNTEER page on ways you can get involved!

2004 - For information about events in 2004
2003 - For information about events in 2003

2008

• January - March - Doug Whitmore visits Palestinian Territories as part of three-month Ecumenical Accompaniment - Read from his Journal Update #4  - All of the incidents below take place in territory declared by international law to belong to the Palestinians.

2007

• September 21-24 - Anna Baltzer spoke to six different groups in the Kansas City area as part of her nationwide speaking tour. She presented "Life in Occupied Palestine: Eyewitness Stories and Photos" from her recent travels in the Palestinian Territories. She spoke to a group of 80 people at Broadway United Methodist Church on Friday, 9/21 and 85 people at First United Methodist Church in Blue Springs on Sunday, 9/23. She spoke to smaller groups at New Song Disciples Faith Community in Liberty, the Solidarity Center in Lawerence, Avila University and William Jewell College.

•  August 6 - Mideast film series starts up at Broadway United Methodist Church with screening of "Occupation 101," a 90-minute documentary about the history and current events of the Palestine-Israel conflict. The film series continued with screenings on October 1 and November 5.

2006

• Oct 20-21 - Sabeel Conference Report
• August 12 - Rally for Ceasefire in Lebanon/Gaza
• July 23 - Rally for Justice in Lebanon/Gaza
• June 14 - Vigil on Caterpillar Sales to Israel
• May 4 - Anna Baltzer: Witness in Palestine

2005

• Christmas in Bethlehem (2005)

• Mubarak Awad in KC (Oct 16-17)
• Outside the Ark (Oct 13)

• Bereaved Families (May 19-21)

• Caterpillar Campaign (April 13)

• CJME and Village Presbyterian Church - "Voices of New Hope: Prospects for Peace in Israel and Palestine" (Jan-Feb 2005)
• 3/12: Mahdi Bray, a distinguished civil and human rights activist and executive director of the Muslim American Society (MAS) Freedom Foundation in Washington, DC, spoke to about 40 people at the "Need to Struggle for Justice and Peace" seminar at the KC Islamic Center. Speaking on the same seminar panel were representatives of three Kansas City area peace organizations - Nancy Carry, KC Iraq Task Force; Ira Harritt, American Friends Service Committee; and Matt Quinn, Citizens for Justice in the Middle East. During Mahdi Bray's talk he said the time has come that the "tears of Palestinian women are the same as tears of Israeli women," referring the sorrow of both sides on the effects of the violence. He cautioned that Muslims and others interested in peace and justice need to "speak truth to power" and that our silence lends support to those causing injustice.