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▪ Organizations - Most of the organizations listed are represented by individuals that CJME has hosted for public speaking events. Please support their work vigorously.

Local -
▪ Kansas City Iraq Task Force - working towards a humane policy towards Iraq
 ▪ PeaceWorks / Kansas City is dedicated to ending the use of military power to achieve peace objectives when viable alternatives are available.
▪ American Friends Service Committee / Kansas City - AFSC has frequently provided leadership in addressing global peace issues as they emerged and is currently providing leadership to oppose a preemptive war on Iraq and the establishment of a permanent war society.
▪ Kansans for a Just Peace in the Middle East (KJPME) is dedicated to promoting the cessation of human rights abuses in Israel and Palestine. For additional information e-mail KJPME@yahoo.com 

National -
▪ End the Occupation - The U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation is a diverse coalition of organizations and individuals focused on changing US policy towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in support of freedom from occupation and equal rights for all.
▪ The aim of Stop the Wall--U.S. is 1) to work and mobilize to stop the wall and its immediate and expected consequences to environmental and human rights, and 2) to shed light on the expanding stranglehold of the Occupation, marked by checkpoints, closures, siege, settlements, and the Wall.
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▪ The Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) is composed of women and men who recognize the essential unity of all creation and have joined together to explore the power of love and truth for resolving human conflict.
▪ Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) in Hebron - CPT has been in Hebron since 1995, witnessing to the need for peace in a violent and sometimes desperate situation. Despite years of negotiations between the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority, progress towards peace remains elusive. With the outbreak of the Al-Aqsa Intifada (uprising), violence in the streets of Hebron increased during the summer and fall of 2000. Amnesty International called the Israeli counterattacks with tanks and missiles "grossly excessive."
▪ International Women's Peace Service (IWPS) - IWPS-Palestine is an international team of women based in Haris, a village in the Salfit Governorate of Occupied Palestine's West Bank, which began for three continuous years from August 2002. IWPS-Palestine documents human rights abuses, nonviolently intervenes in abuses, and works with the media.

Global -
 ▪ Ta'ayush - Arab-Jewish partnership for Peace - Dr. Neve Gordon, Israeli peace activist and Ta'ayush member visited Kansas City and Lawrence in April, 2003. See archives for more on Dr. Gordon.
 ▪ Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) - ICAHD is a non-violent, direct-action group originally established to oppose and resist Israeli demolition of Palestinian houses in the Occupied Territories. As our activists gained direct knowledge of the brutalities of the Occupation, we expanded our resistance activities to other areas - land expropriation, settlement expansion, by-pass road construction, policies of "closure" and "separation," the wholesale uprooting of fruit and olive trees and more. The fierce repression of Palestinian efforts to "shake off" the Occupation following the latest Intifada has only added urgency to our efforts.
▪ Rebuilding Homes, a U.S. nonprofit organization, raises awareness and funds to rebuild Palestinian homes and Middle East peace through strategic Palestinian and Israeli cooperation. Rebuilding Homes supports Israeli and Palestinian non-governmental organizations that work together to rebuild demolished homes and schools in East Jerusalem, Gaza, the West Bank, and Israel.

Books, Media

 

  • Witness in Palestine documents Anna Baltzer’s photographs and writings during her five months working with the International Women’s Peace Service in the West Bank, documenting human rights abuses and supporting Palestinian and Israeli nonviolent resistance against the Occupation. Meet Munira, who has lost her freedom and land to the Wall that encages her home and family. Meet Hessa, whose village is separated from the nearest hospital by a checkpoint that is closed all night long. Author - Anna Baltzer

News & Information
▪ Ha'aretz -- on-line version of one of the largest Israeli daily newspapers
▪ Palestine Chronicle - independent Internet magazine
▪ United Nations Relief Web / Occupied Palestinian Territories
▪ Palestine Media Watch - PMWATCH was established in October of 2000 to promote fair and accurate coverage of the Israeli occupation of Palestine in the US mainstream media.

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