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JOE CARR

Joe Carr is a 23-year-old peace and anti-oppression activist from Kansas City, Missouri. He graduated with a BA from the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington in 2004, having organized with direct-action movements such as Earth First, Food Not Bombs, and Arts in Activism. He spent January to April of 2003 coordinating for the International Solidarity Movement in Rafah, Palestine, and witnessed Israeli soldiers murder US peace activist Rachel Corrie, and British peace activist Tom Hurndall. In 2004 he worked with the Christian Peacemaker Teams in Al Khalil (Hebron), Palestine, in Baghdad, Iraq and in the US Palestinian Rights Movement. He is a performance artist, poet, and musician and uses art to help Americans identify with the Palestinian plight.

Joe Carr's talk includes major stories and events he witnessed working with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) in Rafah, the southern-most city of the Gaza Strip, Palestine, from January to  April 2003. He will also share stories of his work with a Christian Peacemaker Team in Hebron, starting in October 2004.

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