A Tale of Two Cities: Olympia Rafah Solidarity Mural Project

A Tale of Two Cities The Olympia-Rafah Solidarity Mural Project

A project of The Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice & Break the Silence Mural & Arts Project

A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities The Olympia-Rafah Solidarity Mural Project A project of The Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice & Break the Silence Mural & Arts Project A Tale of Two Cities is a 4,000 square foot interdisciplinary and multimedia project that represents the collective effort of over 150 artists, activists, and arts and social justice organizations from Olympia WA to the Bay Area, CA, across the USA to Europe, Central and South America to Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, Palestine.

A Tale of Two Cities is an embodiment of international solidarity and is comprised of a continuum of expression and modalities. The project argues that there are connections across diverse movements, distances, issues and struggles. The juxtaposition of seemingly disparate images and sound invites the viewers to see and make their own associations and relationships. Ultimately the project aims to build relationships, educate, inspire, and to be useful in organizing action. It honors those who have lost their lives striving for liberation, and makes more visible the efforts of some of the many organizations and individuals who dare to imagine a different world.

A Tale of Two Cities consists of two multi-disciplinary public art projects. The first, Olympia-Rafah Solidarity Mural Project (ORSMP) is expected to be the largest public art project highlighting international solidarity and the experiences of Palestinians living under Israeli occupation. ORSMP is located in Olympia, Washington, hometown of Rachel Corrie, who was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer while defending the home of a Palestinian family in Gaza. ORSMP tells a tale of two cities, Olympia and Rafah, linked through tragedy and resilience. It is the tale of people coming together across a wide range of borders, using advancements in technology to bridge physical and financial distance - including the artwork of Palestinians, who are forbidden to travel. The second project will be located in the Gaza Strip where Rachel was killed.

This project also aims to bring people together across movements and locations.

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THE MURAL'S INTERACTIVE AUDIO COMPONENTS Viewers can use a phone to dial 360.252.9779, then enter the extensions listed throughout this book to hear each image in the mural ‘speak’ with an introduction, description of the image and its meaning. Audio components include poetry, music, spoken word and analysis. This audio/visual programming is also available on the mural’s web site.

Using social networking systems all, of the groups and artists in the mural, their constituents and the general audience will be able to continue to build relationships and organize for progressive social change.

In process: Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and Geocaching technologies will be used to layer distant locations upon each other and provide alternative walking tours. The viewer will be able to tour downtown Olympia WA and view what they would see if they were walking down a street in Rafah in the Gaza Strip, or along the wall on US/Mexico border, challenging the way great distances and borders are experienced.

The Olympia-Rafah Solidarity Mural Project is FUNDED IN PART BY: The Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice, Break the Silence Mural Project, Middle East Children’s Alliance, Left Tilt Foundation, Peace Development Fund, & Individual donors and in-kind donations.

THANKS TO: This project has been a true community effort! It would not have been possible without the help and support of countless folks who donated time, funds, equipment, donated the wall, painted the wall, planned community events, brought us food, music and good vibes, printed materials, gave technical advice, documented the project, gave us counsel and hospitality, translated materials into Spanish and soon Arabic, and so much more!

Special thanks to: Hilary Hacker for designing and producing this booklet!

Freedom Archives, Sam Stoller and Kent Long for audio technology.

Scott Handelman for making 2010 possible.

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Table of contents Local organizations & individuals * Traducidos en EspaĂąol

800 Ceramic Leaves: Olympia Community and Youth............................................. 9

Facilitated by Holly Graham, Erin Genia and Alicia Martinson;

Produced by Marion Pollman Anna Eggleton & The Olympia Rafah Sister City Project......................................... 29 Black Student Union BSU, The Evergreen State College........................................... 10 Books to Prisoners*..................................................................................................... 11 Boots Brown & Family, Nisqually Valley................................................................... 11 BRICK, Building a Revolution by Increasing Community Knowledge (SPSCC)... 12 Bridges Not Walls*...................................................................................................... 12 Camp Quixote*............................................................................................................ 13 CCBLA, Center for Community Based Learning & Action (TESC)........................ 14 C.I.E.L.O Project, Centro Integral Educativo Latin@ de Olympia*........................ 14 CISPES, Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador............................ 15 Coffee Strong: GI Coffee House*................................................................................ 16 EGYHOP, Emma Goldman Youth & Homeless Outreach Project........................... 16 Fertile Ground Community Center............................................................................ 17 FRO, Free Radio Olympia 98.5FM............................................................................. 17 Gail Tremblay, Onandaga, Mi'kmaq Nations............................................................ 18 Gateways for Incarcerated Youth, Green Hill Native Culture Group (TESC)......... 18 GRuB, Garden Raised Bounty*.................................................................................. 19 H2Olympia.................................................................................................................. 19 Inmigrantes Unidos de Shelton*................................................................................ 20 International Trauma Treatment Program............................................................... 20 IVAW: Fort Lewis Chapter (Iraq Veterans Against the War).................................... 21 Justin C, Apartheid Wall, Occupation Wall, Separation Fence................................ 69 Katie Mark, Evergreen Student.................................................................................. 21 KOWA Radio 106.5FM............................................................................................... 22 MEChA, Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan* (TESC)............................... 22 Media Island International......................................................................................... 23

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Local organizations & Individuals continued

Mike Alewitz, The Resurrection of Wesley Everest................................................... 29

Centralia Union Mural Project Olympia Boycott, Divestment and Sanction Campaign........................................... 59 Olympia Fellowship of Reconciliation....................................................................... 23 OMJP, Olympia Movement for Justice & Peace*....................................................... 24 Pastors for Peace.......................................................................................................... 24 Port Militarization Resistance (PMR)*...................................................................... 25 POWER, Parents Organizing for Welfare & Economic Rights................................ 25 Quaker Olympia Friends Meeting (Quakers)............................................................ 26

African Great Lakes Initiative & Land for Tiller’s Freedom, India Robert Provasoli.......................................................................................................... 27 Safe Place Women’s Shelter*....................................................................................... 27 Stonewall Youth........................................................................................................... 28 Sustainable South Sound............................................................................................ 28 The Olympia Rafah Sister City Project and Anna Eggleton..................................... 29 The Rachel Corrie Foundation For Peace and Justice*............................................. 29 The Resurrection of Wesley Everest........................................................................... 30

Centralia Union Mural Project, Mike Alewitz Thurston-Santo Tomás Sister County Association................................................... 30 Tree: Designers - Carrie Ziegler with Darien Brown................................................ 31

Painters - Carrie Ziegler and Alicia Martinson Veterans for Peace: Rachel Corrie Chapter................................................................ 31 Will Hewitt.................................................................................................................. 32 Wobblies, Industrial Workers of the World............................................................... 32 Women in Black.......................................................................................................... 33 Works in Progress....................................................................................................... 33

National organizations & individuals Bay Area Campaign to End Israeli Apartheid........................................................... 60 Beehive Collective, ME............................................................................................... 34 Beverly Naidus, Vashon Island, WA........................................................................... 34 Birthright Unplugged, Bay Area & Palestine............................................................. 35 Break the Silence Mural & Arts Project, Bay Area, CA ............................................ 35

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Common Ground Relief, New Orleans, LA............................................................... 36 “El Salvador: I Want My People To Live,”................................................................... 36

Film by Adrian Carrasco Zanini and AIM-West.

Ellen O’Grady, South Carolina................................................................................... 37 Eric Drooker, Bay Area, CA........................................................................................ 37 Fayeq Oweis, USA & Palestine................................................................................... 38 Freedom Archives, San Francisco, CA....................................................................... 38 Gaden Shartse Monastery, Point Arena, CA and Tibet............................................. 39 HOMEY, Homies Organizing the Mission to Empower Youth................................ 39

San Francisco, CA Indigenous Youth Delegation to Palestine, Bay Area & locations across USA... 40 International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, USA & International.......................... 40 Jewish Voice for Peace, Seattle, WA............................................................................ 41 Joe Sacco, Portland, OR.............................................................................................. 41 John Halaka, San Diego, CA....................................................................................... 42 Leonard Peltier, Anishinabe, Dakota, and Lakota Nations...................................... 42

US Penitentiary, Lewisburg, PA Lisa Nessan, CA, Bi’lin Popular Committee, Palestine, Shai Pollack, Israel........... 67

Film: Bi’lin Habibti Middle East Children’s Alliance, Berkeley, CA.......................................................... 43 Nicole Ponsler, Pt. Arena, CA, Wave.......................................................................... 51 Nida Sinnokrot, New York, NY................................................................................... 43 Nipponzan Myohoji Buddhist Order, Bainbridge Island, WA................................. 44 Nouha Sinno, Los Angeles, CA................................................................................... 44 Palestinian Community Network, Multiple Locations Across USA........................ 45 Peter Schumann of Bread & Puppet Theater, VT...................................................... 45 Pomo Indians, Pt. Arena CA...................................................................................... 46 Precita Eyes Mural Arts Center, San Francisco, CA.................................................. 46 QUIT, Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism, San Francisco, CA......................... 47 Repo History, New York, NY....................................................................................... 47 Richard Castenada, San Francisco, CA...................................................................... 48 Rigo 23, USA & Portugal............................................................................................ 48 Sama Sama, San Francisco, CA & Indonesia............................................................. 67 Save Gaza Campaign and Palestine Solidarity Committee, Seattle, WA................. 49 Students for Justice in Palestine, University of WA, Seattle...................................... 49

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national organizations & Individuals continued

Valarie James, Tucson, AZ.......................................................................................... 50 Voices of Palestine, Seattle, WA.................................................................................. 50 Wave: Designed by Nicole Ponsler, Point Arena, CA................................................ 51

International organizations & Individuals African Great Lakes Initiative.................................................................................... 26

Land for Tiller’s Freedom, India; & Olympia Friends Meeting (Quakers) Anarchists Against the Wall, Israel............................................................................ 52 Anwer Yehia, Gaza, Palestine..................................................................................... 52 Art Wave, West Bank & ‘48 (Israel)........................................................................... 53 ASARO, Assembly of Revolutionary Artists of Oaxaca, Mexico............................. 53 Asia Aamer, West Bank, Palestine.............................................................................. 54 Baladna Association for Arab Youth and DAM, '48 (Israel)..................................... 54 Basel El Maquosy, Gaza, Palestine.............................................................................. 55 Bi’lin Popular Committee, Palestine, Shai Pollack, Israel........................................ 67

Film: Bi’lin Habibti; Photo Lisa Nessan Bogside Muralists, Derry, Ireland.............................................................................. 55 Breaking the Silence, Israel......................................................................................... 56 Butterfly Peace Garden, Batticaloa, Sri Lanka........................................................... 56 Chito, Chiapas, Mexico............................................................................................... 57 DAM and Baladna Youth Center '48 (Israel)............................................................. 54 Edward Said Conservatory of Music, West Bank, Palestine..................................... 57 Eman Mohummad, Gaza, Palestine........................................................................... 58 Free Gaza Campaign, International........................................................................... 58 Gaza Community Mental Health Programme, Gaza, Palestine............................... 59 Global Divestment Campaign.................................................................................... 59

Palestine Campaign for Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel,

Bay Area Campaign to End Israeli Apartheid and

Olympia Boycott, Divestment and Sanction Campaign Handala, Naji Al-Ali, Palestine................................................................................... 60 Hani Abu Amara, Gaza, Palestine.............................................................................. 60 IBDAA, Deheisheh Refugee Camp image by Jos Sances, West Bank, Palestine...... 61

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International organizations & Individuals continued

Ibrahim Burnat, West Bank, Palestine....................................................................... 61 ICHAD, Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, Israel & Palestine........... 62 Majed Shala and Palestine Youth Center, Gaza, Palestine............................ ............ 64 Land for Tiller’s Freedom, India................................................................................. 24

African Great Lakes Initiative & Olympia Friends Meeting (Quakers) Maschom Watch (Checkpoint Watch), Israel........................................................... 62 New Profile, Israel....................................................................................................... 63 One State, Osama Zafar and Tal Adler, Israel............................................................ 63 Palestine Youth Center and Majed Shala, Gaza, Palestine........................................ 64 Project Souarna, Wehdat Refugee Camp, Amman, Jordan...................................... 64 Qattan Foundation for the Child, Gaza, Palestine.................................................... 65 Rana Bishara, West Bank, Palestine........................................................................... 65 Ronen Edelman, Israel................................................................................................ 66 Sama Sama, San Francisco, CA & Indonesia............................................................. 66 Shai Pollack, Israel & Bi’lin Popular Committee, Palestine..................................... 67

Film: Bi’lin Habibti; Photo Lisa Nessan Shareef Sarhan, Gaza, Palestine.................................................................................. 67 Suliman Mansour, West Bank, Palestine.................................................................... 68 The Rachel Corrie Sports Initiative, Gaza, Palestine................................................. 68 Vera Tamari, West Bank, Palestine............................................................................. 69 Wall: apartheid wall, Occupation Wall, Separation Fence........................................ 69

Painted by, Justin Crawford Who Profits & Coalition of Women for Peace, Israel................................................ 70 Wishah, West Bank, Palestine..................................................................................... 70 Ziad Deeb, Gaza, Palestine......................................................................................... 71 Zochrot (Remembering), Israel.................................................................................. 71

Who We are

Past & Present - In Progress........................................................................................ 72

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Symbols Olive Tree: Designers - Carrie Ziegler with Darien Brown...................................... 31

Painters - Carrie Ziegler and Alicia Martinson Wall: Israel's Separation Barrier, Occupation Wall, Apartheid Wall....................... 70

Justin C. Wave: Nicole Ponsler.................................................................................................. 51

Audio Poets, Writers, Musicians, & Scholars IN PROGRESS Please check website for updates

To hear the audio for each image on the wall, please dial 360.252.9779 and the extension number (#xxx) listed with each entry throughout this booklet.

DAM, Hip Hop on #068, Baladna Youth Center and DAM Edward Said National Conservatory of Music; directed by Suhail Khoury on #095 Gail Tremblay, Poet on #077 John Berger; reading Ghassan Kanafani on #069, Break the Silence Mural Project and

excerpt from the Poem, "Mural" by Mahmoud Darwish on #117, John Halaka John Santos, Musician on #062, HOMIE Noam Chomsky (TBA) Tania Tamari Nasir, Soprano

Rima Taraz Nasir, Music, Lyrics and Piano; Palestine on #039, Vera Tamari.

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Local participants #116

800 Ceramic Leaves olympia community and youth, facilitated by holly graham, erin genia & Alicia Martinson, produced by marion pollman

As an artist, activist, and performer whose work is international and whose creations are usually directed to issues and causes, it was important to me to honor the work Cindy and Craig Corrie and the Corrie Foundation have done to achieve justice for Palestinians and right resolution for Rachel's death in Gaza. It was an honor to take tiles into the community and talk with young and old alike about the work, why it was happening, and what was envisioned for the wall itself. I continue my international work as an artist with other groups, and will do so as long as I live and love, through music, theatre, education, and visual art. ~ Holly Graham

Community Leaf Painting Dates

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2008 Spring Arts Walk 2008 Mothers Day @ Traditions 2008 YMCA Eco- Jam Conference June 13th, 2008 - Tiles painted at McLane Elementary School by 5th grade classes of teachers Steve Eggleston and Hilary Davis, facilitated by Librarian Nancy Hamilton.

June 25, 2008 - Tiles with members of the Olympia Storyteller's Guild at the Olympia Center.

July 4, 2008 - Fair Trade tile party at Holly Graham's house with friends from Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art. July 18-19, 2008 - Painted tiles at Traditions with many community members during Lake Fair.

July 20, 2008 - West-side Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Religious Education classes - tiles by children and members of the congregation.

July 23, 2008 - Downtown Olympia Timberland Regional Library - some staff and library patrons painted tiles.

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Community Leaf Painting Dates Continued July 27, 2008 - educational outreach and tile painting by youth and congregation of the Olympia Friends' Quaker Meeting.

August 1, 2008 - Mariah Art School, Olympia with students of Diane Gaile.

August 8-9, 2008 - Tile tabling at the Mural site with Boots Brown and members of the Nisqually tribe, a board member and the public.

August 15-16, 2008 - Tabling with tiles at the Mural site.

August 22-23, 2008 - Tiles at the Mural site.

August 30-31, 2008 - Harbor Days - table for tiles.

September 11, 2008 - Howard Keck's 4th Graders do tiles in class at Garfield Elementary School.

December 3, 2008 - Roosevelt Elementary School 4th graders in Julie Mikelson's room do tiles.

May 26, 2009 - Staff at Traditions paint tiles.

May 27, 2009 - Debra Neid's 3rd grade students paint tiles at Garfield Elementary. Candy Eggleton came to assist and provided internet information on Rachel and the issues for the kids as they finished tiles.

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Black student Union BSU, The Evergreen State College Olympia, WA The purpose of the Black Student Union (BSU) is to provide unity amongst those who identify with Black Peoples, while engaging the Evergreen community through cultural, educational, and entertaining activities.

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Books to prisoners

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www.btpolympia.org olympia, wa Books to Prisoners Olympia works to offset the dehumanizing effects of incarceration by sending quality used books free of charge to prisoners all over. We are entirely operated by volunteers, our library entirely stocked by donated books.

Libros a Presos Olympia trabaja para compensar los efectos deshumanizante del encarcelamiento a travĂŠs de los libros. Mandamos libros usados de calidad a los presos por todos lados sin cobrar.

Estamos totalmente mantenido por voluntarios y nuestro biblioteca esta lleno totalmente de libros que fueron donados.

Boots Brown & Family Nisqually, WA The Leaf represents Morning Star Ministries, Morning Start is the guiding star in the sky, first star you see at night. Bear Claws represent strength. The tree represents hope. The design was a family collaboration designed with his three kids; Danny,7; Pear, 8 and Savannah, 14.

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BRICK

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Building a Revolution by increasing community knowledge www.spsccbrick.org SPSCC, Olympia, WA We see the world’s many problems of inequality, war, violence, oppression, poverty, and injustice. We recognize the effects these immense social issues have on us as students and as people. We acknowledge our roles and responsibilities in confronting these problems. We affirm the active role we must play in their solution. We have hope in our power as students, citizens, and people to create a better world.

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Bridges not walls www.oly-wa/bridges Olympia, WA

Bridges Not Walls is a coalition of community members from the South Sound region of Washington State who have united to address issues of immigration in our community.

We believe immigrants, regardless of legal status, deserve to be treated with dignity. We seek to make our communities a place where the contributions of immigrants are valued and respected. We oppose the fear and intimidation created by immigration enforcement in our region, and therefore we work in solidarity with the immigrant communities in our area to promote human rights, economic rights, and civil rights for all people.

Puentes No Muros

Puentes No Muros es una coalición de la región South Sound del estado de Washington que nos hemos unido para atender a los asuntos relacionados con la inmigración en nuestra comunidad. Creemos que los inmigrantes independiente de su estatus dignidad. Buscamos que nuestra comunidad sea un lugar donde contribuciones de los inmigrantes sean valuadas y respetadas. Nos oponemos al miedo y la intimidación creada por las actividades de la policía migratoria en nuestra región. Por lo tanto, trabajamos en solidaridad con las comunidades inmigrantes de nuestra área para promover los derechos humanos, económicos y civiles de toda la gente.

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CAmp Quixote

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sites.google.com/site/campquixoteoly Olympia, WA The mission of Camp Quixote is to provide a safe, self-governing, and law-abiding tent community in which every resident has an equal voice in camp governance, and an equal obligation to contribute to the well-being of the Camp and the wider community.

The Mission of Panza is to support the selfgoverning community of Camp Quixote and to nurture the relationships and resources that can help its residents achieve their goals, and to promote affordable housing and effective services that help people overcome poverty.

The shared vision of Panza and Camp Quixote: Camp Quixote and Panza are a collaboration of faith communities, individuals and organizations that work together to sustain a safe, healthy tent community that provides dignity, opportunity, and personal growth for residents, volunteers and church hosts.

Camp Quixote

La misión de Camp Quixote es para mantener una comunidad de carpa que es seguro, autónomo, y respestuoso de la ley en cual cada residente tiene una voz igual en la administración del campo, y una obligación igual en contrubuir a la bienestar del Campo y del público en general.

La Misión de Panza es soportar a la comunidad autonomo de Camp Quixote y cultivar las relaciones y los recursos que puede ayudar a sus residentes a lograr sus metas, y promover viviendas alcanzables y servivcios efectivos que ayuden a la gente vencer de la pobreza.

La Visión Común de Camp Quixote y Panza Camp Quixote y Panza es una colaboracion de comunidades de fé, individuales y organizaciones que trabajan juntos para sostener una comunidad de carpas que está seguro y saludable y que mantenga la dignidad, oportunidad, y crecimiento personal para residentes, voluntarios, y la anfitriónes de la Iglesia.

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CCBLA center for community-based learning & Action www.evergree.edu/communitybasedlearning The evergreen state college olympia, wa The Center for Community-Based Learning and Action, established in 2004 is a Public Service Center at The Evergreen State College, which serves as a catalyst that connects students, faculty and community organizations working on a wide range of community issues.

CCBLA supports the partnership of academic programs, students, and faculty, with community organizations. We aim to meet mutually agreed upon community needs to strengthen and enhance student learning through critical engagement.

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C.I.E.L.O. Project Centro integral educativo latino de olympia www.oly-wa.us/cielo Olympia, WA The CIELO Project at Radio Ranch is a nonprofit, volunteer organization whose mission is to be a force for justice by serving the self-sufficiency and empowerment of the Latino and other underprivileged communities.

The purposes of CIELO Project at Radio Ranch are: Promote Cultural awareness and pride in the Latino heritage through educational and recreational activities; Strengthen Latino families and individuals by providing opportunities to gain needed skills and information; Link the Latino community with government and community-based groups that provide needed services; Decrease the existing isolation of Latinos by implementing programs that build a strong sense of community; Enhance selfesteem and competence in all youth; Be a model of an integrated community working toward the good of all its members.

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C.I.E.L.O Continued

Centro Integral Educativo Latino de Olympia

El Proyecto CIELO/Radio Ranch es una organización de voluntarios sin fines de lucro, cuya misión es ser una fuerza para la justicia al servicio de la auto-suficiencia y el empoderamiento de la comunidad Latina y de otras comunidades que carecen de privilegios.

Propósitos del Proyecto CIELO a Radio Ranch; Promover conciencia cultural y orgullo en el patrimonio latino mediante actividades educativas y de recreación; Fortalecer a familias e individuos latinos proporcionando oportunidades para adquirir las habilidades y la información que necesitan; Enlazar a la comunidad latina con grupos gubernamentales y comunitarios que proporcionan los servicios que necesitan; Disminuir el aislamiento existente de latinos mediante la implementación de programas que edifiquen un sólido sentido de comunidad.

Realzar la auto-estima y competencia de todos los jóvenes; Ser un modelo de comunidad integrada que trabaja para alcanzar el bienestar de todos sus miembros.

CISPES

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Committee in Solidarity with the people of el Salvador www.cispes.org We are a grass-roots organization dedicated to supporting the Salvadoran people’s struggle for self-determination and social and economic justice. The alternative that they are building --an alternative based upon democratic and socialist ideals--is an example to all people who seek a world free of domination and exploitation. We support that alternative because we believe that capitalism is a fundamentally unjust, oppressive and ecologically un-sustainable economic system. We join with poor and working people, immigrants and refugees in the struggle against neoliberalism-the current manifestation of capitalism imposed by the United States government and its state, institutional and corporate allies.

Neoliberal policies continue to produce enormous suffering and destabilization around the world. We focus our work on El Salvador because of the U.S. government’s continuing military, economic, and political intervention on behalf of U.S. corporate interests, and because of the Salvadoran people’s tenacious and inspiring struggle to build social justice.

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Coffee Strong: GI VOICE www.givoice.org/coffeestrong.org lakewood, wa Coffee Strong is a GI coffeehouse outside of Ft. Lewis, WA. We offer drop-in GI rights counseling as well as resources for free therapy, sexual assault advocacy, job mentoring, and host shows, movie screenings, and Iraq Veterans Against the War meetings. The space is also available for other radical groups.

Coffee Strong es un café G.I. (para militares) afuera de Ft. Lewis, WA. Ofrecemos conserjería ara los del militar también recursos para terapia gratis, intercesoría sobre el asalto sexual, tutoría sobre el trabajo, y mucho mas. Somos los anfitriones de muestras de películas, teatro, y juntas de Veteranos en Contra de la Guerra de Irak (IVAW). El espacio esta disponible para otros grupos radicales también.

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Egyhop Emma Goldman Youth and Homeless Outreach Project OLYMPIA, WA

The intention of this piece is to provide a permanent visual of what our group does every night. The style this piece was created in is very indicative of the organization it came out of- nothing fancy, bare bones as possible, and in an overall do-it-yourself attitude. I would like to thank Shannon O’Brian, Hazel Oak, and Lucy Peterson for their much needed help on the many stages of this project. I would also like to thank Long Hair David for starting this amazing organization, Tracy for being our backbone and our hardest worker, Bread and Roses and Dumpster Values for supporting us all these years, and every person that has ever volunteered with us, and kept our organization strong and running through its various phases.

And of course, I would like to thank all of Olympia’s youth and homeless street population for supporting us, trusting us, and allowing us to be part of your lives and giving us the opportunity to create a vibrant and unique community across class barriers. This piece is wholly dedicated to you, civil society and is modeled after the ultimately successful boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement against South African apartheid.

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Fertile Ground community center

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www.fertileground.org OLYMPIA, WA Since 2005, we've been serving the Olympia community as a non-profit. We exist to demonstrate sustainable technology and provide meeting space for creation, education and celebration. Our mission is to provide access to resources that enhance the life of the Olympia community. The site models organic gardening, composting, decorating and remodeling with recycled materials, while providing resources for wellness, entrepreneurship and activism.

We are always looking for partners and collaborators in the adventures of creating a sustainable city.

free radio olympia 98.5fm www.frolympia.org OLYMPIA, WA Free Radio Olympia is an unlicensed, direct action micro power radio station broadcasting at 100 watts on 98.5 FM in Olympia, Washington, Cascadia. We have been on the air since March 2001. FRO is committed to providing a service to the community by creating access to the airwaves and bringing unregulated, uncensored media to our listeners in the spirit of free speech and freedom of the press.

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GAIL TREMBLaY Onondaga, Mi'kmaq Nations OLYMPIA, WA Gail Tremblay teaches at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA. She is a member of the Onondaga and Mi'kmaq nations of upstate New York. Gail has been working in the visual arts community of the Pacific Northwest for over 20 years.

Her basketry combines traditional techniques of weaving and contemporary materials. Her woven film baskets have been acquired by museums and corporate collections throughout the United States, including the Portland Art Museum, the Hallie Ford Museum at Willamette University in Salem and Microsoft.

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GATEWAYS FOR INCARCERATED YOUTH Green Hill Native Culture Group The Evergreen State college Olympia, WA Gateways empowers incarcerated youth to create a positive future for themselves through youth driven cultural awareness and educational programming. Through strength-based academic and cultural programs, incarcerated youth have the skills and personal power they need to be successful upon their return to the community. The purpose of Gateways is to draw out, and respond to the needs and interests of incarcerated young men. Empowerment is achieved when these individuals recognize the knowledge base they already possess and build upon it. We believe that all youth have the potential to become valuable members of our society. Gateways promotes a deeper understanding and appreciation of all cultures as a way to combat the various forms of prejudice that are present in our society.

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GRUB

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GARDEN RAISED BOUNTY www.goodgrub.org OLYMPIA, WA Our acknowledgements: As a food-growing organization we give thanks to indigenous peoples worldwide who for thousands of years have been the stewards of the seeds that become the foods and medicines that nourish all of us. May our work honor the Squaxin Tribe, on whose land our farm now sits; Bonnie Turner, whose legacy of kind-hearted generosity allows this work to flourish; and all of the young people who share their energy, creativity and compassion with us year after year. This is an old story, this is a new story, this is the same story; different than before.

Thank you to all those who make our work possible!

H2OLYMPIA www.h2olympia.org OLYMPIA, WA H2Olympia is a grassroots community organization dedicated to ensuring public access to free-flowing Artesian well water in the Olympia area. Fresh, pure artesian water is a benefit to the community and has been a celebrated highlight of Olympia’s history since before the turn of the last century. One can still find free artesian well water at a few locations. Many throughout the community rely on this water as their primary source. However, the current well site at 4th and Jefferson can be capped at any time at the discretion of the owners of the property. Thus, access to this water is in peril until a permanent solution is established. A group of citizens has joined together to insist on a more permanent, responsible solution. That’s us. And maybe it would be you, too.

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INMIGRANTES UNIDOS DE SHELTON United Immigrants of Shelton SHELTON, WA

La misión de los Inmigrantes Unidos de Shelton es la de unir a la comunidad inmigrante para fomentar el apoyo mutuo y mejorar la calidad de vida de los inmigrantes de Shelton. A través de la educación, el conocimiento, las relaciones y el desarrollo de liderazgo trabajamos para que la comunidad inmigrantes aprenda cómo defender sus derechos y participar en la vida comunitaria. Construyendo alianzas, establecemos puentes de entendimiento y dialogo con la comunidad no inmigrante para hacer de Shelton un major lugar para que todos vivamos.

Inmigrantes Unidos de Shelton works to unite the immigrant community to foster mutual support and enhance the quality of life of immigrants in Shelton. Through education, knowledge, relationships and leadership development we work for the immigrant community to learn how to defend its rights and participate in community life. Building alliances, we establish bridges of understanding and dialogue with the non-immigrant community to make Shelton a better place for everybody to live.

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INTERNATIONAL Trauma TREATMENT PRoGRAM www.ittp.org OLYMPIA, WA

The International Trauma Treatment Program (ITTP) is a community-supported non-profit organization that trains practitioners to treat complex trauma inflicted by torture, war, and natural disasters. ITTP seeks to break these cycles and restore victims’ physical and psychological health through treatment and education.

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IVAW: Fort Lewis Chapter

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IRAQ VETERANS AGAINST THE WAR www.ivaw.org/fort-lewis Fort Lewis, WA Iraq Veterans Against the War was founded

by Iraq war veterans in July 2004 at the annual convention of Veterans for Peace (VFP) in Boston to give a voice to the large number of active duty service people and veterans who are against this war, but are under various pressures to remain silent.

IVAW’s strategy is to mobilize the military community to withdraw its support for the war and occupation in Iraq. Therefore, IVAW is leading the movement of veterans and GIs who are working to bring the troops home now.

KAiTE MARK EVERGREEN STUDENT Olympia, WA "I am a senior at the Evergreen State College focusing in United States History, Cultural Studies, and Labor Studies. I am a (mostly) self-taught artist who has been making art for the majority of my life. I was inspired to create “Solidarity Forever” after I saw the musician and activist M1 (of the hip hop duo dead prez) speak about social justice issues at the Evergreen State College. I made this piece for all of the people who are working together in order to eradicate oppression of all kinds throughout the world. My hope that people will continue working together in solidarity in order to create a world that is truly led for people and by people is expressed through this piece." ~Kaite Mark

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KOWA radio 106.5FM www.kowalp.org olympia wa KOWA 106.5 fm is a low-powered community radio station in the Olympia Washington area. KOWA-LP’s mission is to give voice to individuals, organizations and movements working for social justice, economic democracy, ecological sustainability and peace. We also play music.

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MEChA Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan The Evergreen State College Olympia, WA M.E.Ch.A works to educate and entertain the campus and surrounding area through a number of events. We work to promote higher education, cultura (culture) and historia (history) for our communities and people of color at large. M.E.Ch.A. was founded on the principles of self-determination for the liberation of our people.

We believe that political involvement and education is the avenue for change in our society. “La Union hace la fuerza.”

M.E.Ch.A. trabaja para educar y entretener el campus de la universidad y los lugares alrededor por una variedad de eventos. Trabajamos para promover educación avanzada, cultura y historia para nuestros comunidades y gente de color a lo grande. M.E.Ch.A. fue fundado sobre los principales de autodeterminación por la liberación de nuestra gente. Nosotros creemos que la participación de la política y educación es la avenida por un cambio en nuestra sociedad. “La Union hace la fuerza.”

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Media Island International

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www.mediaisland.org OLYMPIA, WA Media Island International is a resource and networking center for individuals, organizations, and movements working on Social Justice, Economic Democracy, Ecological Sustainability, and Peace.

We gather, evaluate, and distribute underpublished information on critical issues at strategic times.

We live in critical times. No longer can we avoid our responsibilities to each other and to the planet. The opportunity for the evolution of a more inclusive, ecological, and international civil society lies before us.

At Media Island International we believe individuals will take these steps when given access to the whole story.

Olympia Fellowship of reconciliation #079 www.olympiafor.org OLYMPIA, WA Since 1976 the Olympia Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) has been working in the greater Thurston County area and beyond to create peace, social justice and nonviolence locally and worldwide. We organize at the grassroots and carry out a variety of activities to inform and activate people.

Specifically, the Olympia FOR produces newsletters and TV programs, conducts weekly peace vigils, and sponsors speakers, workshops and other events.

We are part of our regional network, the Western Washington FOR, the national FOR, and the International FOR. Nationally and internationally, the FOR began at the very beginning of World War I and has opposed all wars from World War I onward.

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OLYMPIA MOVEMENT FOR JUSTICE & PEACE www.omjp.org olympia, wa Olympia Movement for Justice and Peace (OMJP) is a multi-issue group committed to building a society based on justice, equality and self-determination. Through popular education, direct action, and other forms of protest, Olympia Movement for Justice and Peace works to change the social and economic institutions at the root of oppression, toward a society organized to meet people’s needs in a sustainable environment.

El Movimiento para la Justicia y Paz de Olympia

El Movimiento Para la Justicia y Paz de Olympia es un grupo que trabaja varios asuntos y esta cometido a construir una sociedad basada en la justicia, igualdad y autodeterminación. A través de educación popular, acción directa, y otros medios de protesta, El Movimiento Para la Justicia y Paz de Olympia trabaja para cambiar las instituciones sociales y económicas en la raíz de la opresión, hacia una sociedad organizada para satisfacer necesidades de la gente en un ambiente sostenible.

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Pastors for Peace www.pastorsforpeace.org OLYMPIA, WA & Harlem, NY Pastors for Peace is a project of the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO), a national ecumenical agency based in Harlem. Since 1992, the group has educated US citizens about the immorality of current US policy toward Cuba.

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Port Militarization Resistance Olympia, WA The goal of Olympia Port Militarization Resistance is to end our community’s participation in imperialist wars and occupations abroad, including Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, by stopping the US Military’s use of the Port of Olympia.

Resistencia Contra la Militarización del Puerto de Olympia

La meta de La Resistencia Contra La Militarización del Puerto de Olympia es eliminar la participación de nuestra comunidad en guerras imperialistas y ocupación en el extranjero, incluyendo en Iraq, Afganistán y Pakistán, se lograra al ponerle un alto a al ejército de Los Estado Unidos el uso del Puerto de Olympia. civil society and is modeled after the ultimately successful boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement against South African apartheid.

POWER Parents Organizing for Welfare & Economic Rights www.oly-wa.us/power olympia, wa POWER is an organization of low-income parents and allies advocating for a strong social safety net while working toward a world where children and care giving are truly valued, and the devastation of poverty has been eradicated.

"As human beings, we have basic fundamental needs: food, clothing, and shelter to survive, education, love and opportunity to grow and thrive. The UN adopted a Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, which specified the right of all human beings to these basic necessities. The US has never ratified this declaration, but the UN Declaration became a rallying cry for welfare rights and other people's organizations around the world as the minimum standards for meeting human needs and rights, not simply for the benefit of individuals, but so individuals can contribute to functioning societies." -Jeannette Garceau, Board Member

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Quaker Olympia Friends Meeting

olyfriends.homestead.com Supports Land Tillers' Freedom & African Great Lakes Initiative in their ORSMP Image The mission of Olympia Friends Meeting is not expressed in words, but in actions.

We nurture not only community, but individuals, helping to expand their spiritual lives and to empower their witness. This report gives us an opportunity to assess our strengths and acknowledge challenges as we seek to be a channel of God’s will.

African Great Lakes Initiative www.aglifpt.org The African Great Lakes Initiative (AGLI) of the Friends Peace Teams strengthens, supports, and promotes peace activities at the grass-roots level in the Great Lakes region of Africa (Burundi, Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda). To this end, AGLI responds to requests from local religious and non-governmental organizations that focus on conflict management, peace building, trauma healing, and reconciliation. AGLI sponsors Peace Teams composed of members from local partners and the international community. We are a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization.

Land For Tillers’ Freedom www.lafti.net Land for Tillers’ Freedom, LAFTI, is a non-profit organization based out of India that is focused on changing the conditions of the Dalit Caste or India’s poorest of the poor. LAFTI works with the government and financial institutions to purchase land for Dalit families. Through farming, the land will provide them with a steady income. In addition to land distribution, LAFTI's other projects include: Housing construction, Youth programs, Adult vocational training, Disaster assistance, Domestic Animal distribution. LAFTI's work has brought them friends from all around the world. People from Italy, the U.K., America, Japan, and many other places have come together to support this wonderful work in India.

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Robert Provasoli

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Olympia, wa Robert Provasoli is an artist and chiropractor living in Olympia WA. His background in fine arts has always been ceramic structures and vessels. Last year he injured his shoulder and could not deal with large heavy structures and so turned to painting.

He dabbled for a while and then discovered he really likes portraits.

Safe Place Women's SHelter www.safeplaceolympia.org Olympia, WA SafePlace is the only advocacy agency and confidential shelter for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault in Thurston County. We are a private non-profit organization. Our sexual assault program is one of the oldest in the nation. A board of directors, a paid staff, and over 90 trained volunteers operate the agency. SafePlace was formed on October 9, 1981, by the merger of Rape Relief and the Women’s Shelter, two programs operated by the YWCA since 1973 and 1976, respectively.

SafePlace es la única agencia y refugio confidencial para sobrevivientes de la violencia casera y asalto sexual en el condado de Thurston. Somos un organización privado sin fines de lucro. Nuestro programa de asalto sexual es uno de los mas viejos en la nación. Una junta de directivos, empleados pagados, y mas que 90 voluntarios entrenados manejan la agencia. SafePlace fue formado el 9 de Octubre, 1981 a través de la unión de “Rape Relief” y el “Women’s Shelter” que eran dos programas manejado por el YWCA desde 1973 y 1976 respectivamente.

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Stonewall Youth www.stonewallyouth.org Olympia, WA Stonewall Youth is an organization of youth, activists, and allies that empowers lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, questioning, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQQIA) youth to speak for themselves, educate their communities, and support each other.

Vision: Stonewall Youth envisions a community in which all queer, gender variant, and gender non-conforming youth have a full spectrum of choices regarding their bodies, self-expression, and legal rights.

Stonewall Youth

Stonewall Youth es una organazaciรณn de la juventud, las activistas, y los aliados que da poder a la juventud queines son lesbiana, homosexual, transsexual, queer, preguntando, entersexual, y asexual para hablar por su mismo, educar sus comunidades, y suportarles. Stonewall Youth quiere una comunidad donde la juventud quienes son queer, tiene variaciรณn con su sexualidad, o no tiene una sexualidad que es confirmista, pude tener un amplio abanico de elecciones sobre sus cuerpos, manera de expresarse, y derechos legales.

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Sustainable South Sound www.oly-wa.us/SustainSouthSound Olympia, WA Our vision is a culture of sustainable community in South Puget Sound. Our mission is to lead the transformation to sustainable community through education, advocacy, action, and celebration.

Sustainable South Sound is a 501c-3 nonprofit. Sustainable South Sound is an organization formed by people motivated to create sustainable community in the South Sound Region.

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The Olympia Rafah Sister City

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Anna Eggleton Olympia, WA For the last three years, community members in Olympia, WA, and Rafah, Palestine, have been working together to create a lasting, sincere partnership to better foster understanding between people who have not traditionally had a chance to get to know one another. It is our belief that by forming such bonds between communities, misunderstandings can be overcome and distances and differences whether they be cultural, linguistic or political can be bridged. We believe these sorts of humanistic, people-to-people connections are vital to creating a world in which all people are treated with respect.

The Rachel Corrie Foundation

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rachelcorriefoundation.org Olympia, WA The Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice continues the work that Rachel Corrie began and hoped to accomplish, and carries out that work with her vision, spirit, and creative energy in mind. We conduct and support programs that foster connections between people, that build understanding, respect, and appreciation for differences, and that promote cooperation within and between local and global communities. The foundation encourages and supports grassroots efforts in pursuit of human rights and social, economic, and environmental justice, which we view as pre-requisites for world peace.

La Fundación de Rachel Corrie para Paz y Justicia continua el trabajo que Rachel Corrie empezó y esperaba a alcanzar, y hace el trabajo con su sueño, espíritu, y energia creativa en mente. Dirigimos y apoyamos programas que promueven conexiones entre personas que construyen comprensión, respeto, y reconocimiento para diferencias y que promueve cooperación dentro y entre comunidades locales y mundiales.

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The Resurrection of Wesley Everest Mike alewitz mural in Centrailia, WA Mike Alewitz was a political activist long before he became an artist. His art is an extension of his politics.

The internationally known muralist is in Centralia to paint a mural honoring Wesley Everest, an Industrial Workers of the World organizer killed by a mob following a 1919 Armistice Day clash between union members and American Legionnaires.

The larger-than-life painting will go on the side of the Centralia Square Antique Mall.

It depicts Everest rising from his grave with clenched fists raised above his head.

Alewtz says that the resurrection Wesley Everest represents the resurrection of labor.

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Thurston-Santo Tomas Sister County Association www.oly-wa.us/TSTSCA Olympia, WA & nicaragua Olympia’s sister city relationship with Santo Tomás, Chontales, Nicaragua, has its roots in the era of the Contra War in the 1980s.

It strives to engender peace and heal the effects of U.S. aggression and economic oppression through people-to-people exchanges and community development.

The Thurston-Santo Tomás Sister County Association collaborates with the Committee for Community Development (CDC) in Santo Tomás to help sustain multiple community projects: its intent is to support self-determination and self-sufficiency for the Nicaraguan people. Over the years there have been many delegations between our two communities: working, living, and sharing experience across distances of geography, language, and culture. This is a two-way relationship grounded in citizen diplomacy.

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Tree

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designers: Carrie Ziegler with Darien Brown Painters: Carrie Ziegler & Alicia martinson Olympia, WA The Israeli occupation has specifically targeted this plant due to its symbol of identity for Palestinians and its economic benefits. Since the second Intifada, more than half a million olive trees have been uprooted from Palestinian lands.

Palestinian resistance, or sumood, means Palestinians producing olive oil although the occupation limits their movement and forbids them from reaching their lands.

Sumood is Palestinians producing olive oil although the racist Apartheid Wall prevents farmers from harvesting their olives and uproots trees anywhere near it.

Veterans for Peace: Rachel Corrie Chapter

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www.vfp109rcc.org Olympia, wa We, having dutifully served our nation, do hereby affirm our greater responsibility to serve the cause of world peace. To this end we will work, with others, (a) Toward increasing public awareness of the costs of war, (b) To restrain our government from intervening, overtly and covertly, in the internal affairs of other nations, (c) To end the arms race and to reduce and eventually eliminate nuclear weapons, (d) To abolish war as an instrument of national policy, (e) To seek justice for veterans and victims of war, (f) To achieve these goals, members of Veterans For Peace pledge to use nonviolent means and to maintain an organization that is both democratic and open with the understanding that all members are trusted to act in the best interests of the group for the larger purpose of world peace. We urge all people who share this vision to join us.

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Will Hewitt Olympia, WA Will Hewitt was a friend of Rachel Corrie’s, worked with the International Solidarity Movement and was present when she was killed in Rafah in 2003.

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Wobblies Industrial Workers of the World www.iww.org Olympia, WA The IWW contends that all workers should be united as a class and that the wage system should be abolished.

They may be best known for the Wobbly Shop model of workplace democracy, in which workers elect recallable delegates, and other norms of grass-roots democracy (selfmanagement) are implemented.

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Women in Black

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www.womeninblack.org Olympia, WA Women in Black is a world-wide network of women committed to peace with justice and actively opposed to injustice, war, militarism and other forms of violence.

As women experiencing these things in different ways in different regions of the world, we support each other’s movements.

An important focus is challenging the militarist policies of our own governments.

We are not an organization, but a means of communicating and a formula for action.

Works in Progress www.olywip.org Olympia, WA Works In Progress is a free, volunteeroperated progressive community newspaper based in Olympia, Washington.

Our aim is to confront injustice and encourage a participatory democracy based on economic, social, and environmental justice. Works In Progress is dedicated to providing a voice for those most affected by the exclusionary and unfair practices that seek to silence the oppressed.

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Beehive Collective www.beehivecollective.org maine

This image was made for the II Encuentro Hemisferico Frente la Militarizacion in Honduras in October of 2010. (The 2nd Hemisferic Meeting against militarization).

The 1st meeting was held in Chiapas in 2003. International delegates came as well as grass-roots organizations from across Honduras. The location was La Esperanza and the insect in the graphic is an ‘esperancita’ a small katydid that lives in the region. Their staffs and head wraps are traditions of the Lenca people who are part of the ongoing struggle against military occupation and now also an important part of the struggle against the coup d’etat of June 2009.

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Beverly Naidus www.faculty.washington.edu/bnaidus vashon Island, WA Homeland Bodhisattva is part of a series of digital images entitled “Healing Deities.” This series was created as a form of visual meditation and healing, and explores how the resources within one individual can confront the environmental crisis, oppression and injustice. Homeland Bodhisattva is my response to the continuing abuse of the Palestinian peoples. This work was first created at the beginning of the Second Intifada (2000). As a person of Jewish heritage who is often filled with shame by the actions of the Israeli government, this work gave me a way to articulate my solidarity with a powerful, anonymous Palestinian woman who while witnessing the violence, claims a space for resistance to oppression and desires a peaceful resolution of the conflict. The title refers to the quest to return to a homeland and the notion that all human beings are in the process of becoming a “Buddha.”

The digital image was created with Painter, Photoshop and a Wacom tablet and stylus.

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Birthright Unplugged

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www.birthrightynplugged.org Bay Area, CA & Palestine Birthright Unplugged offers opportunities for people to gain knowledge through first-hand experiences and to use that knowledge to make positive change in the world. The organization began, in part, as a response to fully-funded, Jewish-only trips to Israel and as a rejection of the notion of a “birthright” for Jewish people to the land of Israel/Palestine. Israel has denied Palestinians the internationally recognized right of return for refugees, instead creating a “Law of Return” that extends citizenship benefits to any person of Jewish heritage, thereby excluding millions of Palestinians from living in the land in which they were born.

Break the Silence mural & arts project www.breakthesilencearts.org San Francisco, CA BTS works across movements- using culture to create alliances as well as perceptual ‘ruptures’ or ‘disturbances’ wherein people have the opportunity to see connections that they had not seen before, and to imagine new possibilities.

BTS works in partnership with a wide range of organizations, from mental health programs in Gaza, to environmental organizations, to organizations providing material aid, to those organizing nonviolent resistance. Our ultimate goal is to use culture as an organizing tool to bring people together across movements. Our cultural products are then used by activists and organizers in their work to touch and move people.

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Common Ground Relief www.commongroundrelief.org New Orleans, LA Common Ground Relief’s mission is to provide short term relief for victims of hurricane disasters in the gulf coast region, and long term support in rebuilding the communities affected in the New Orleans area. Common Ground Relief is a community-initiated volunteer organization offering assistance, mutual aid and support. The work gives hope to communities by working with them, providing for their immediate needs and emphasizes people working together to rebuild their lives in sustainable ways.

Common Ground Relief rose out of the immediate crisis created by Hurricane Katrina when tens of thousands of residents lost their homes, their possessions and their way of life. In the Lower Ninth Ward where approximately 14,000 people lived and 4,800 homes were located, this devastation represented the loss of a community where over 54% of the residents had lived for 25 years, and whose roots in the neighborhood had resulted in the highest percentage of African American home ownership of any city in the United States. The loss of these homes represented the disappearance of a families' major assets, economic livelihood and, as a result, their future.

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el salvador: i want my people to live Film by Adrian Carrasco Zanini and AIM-West www.lasmadresproject.org This 30-minute documentary follows the story of the FMLN victory in the 2009 Salvadoran presidential elections through interviews with voters, electoral officials, and members of the competing parties.

Seventeen years after laying down their weapons to become a peaceful political party, the former guerillas of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) won a resounding victory in March 2009 in El Salvador's national elections.

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Ellen O’Grady

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www.ellenogrady.com South Carolina Ellen O’Grady is a painter, author, and activist who uses art and conversation as tools to share information, break down barriers and create change. Her first book, Outside the Ark, is the culmination of almost eight years of living and working in the West Bank and Gaza. In OTA, O’Grady interweaves personal observation, reportage and illustration to offer an unsentimental narrative that illuminates life in Palestine. Following publication she brought the work to over 150 US audiences from New York to Oregon in a slide show/ storytelling presentation. O’Grady is currently working on her second book.

Eric drooker www.drooker.com Bay Area, CA Eric Drooker is a painter and graphic novelist, born and raised on Manhattan Island. He’s the award-winning author of Flood! A Novel in Pictures, and Blood Song: A Silent Ballad.

He designed the animation for a film to be released September 2010, Howl, based on the epic poem by Allen Ginsberg, who collaborated with Drooker on the book Illuminated Poems.

His paintings appear on covers of The New Yorker,and hang in numerous collections.

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Fayeq Oweis www.oweis.com USA & Palestine

Fayeq Oweis is an Arab American artist, educator, and linguist. He received his Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies with Concentration on Arabic and Islamic Studies focusing on Creative & Visual Arts from the Union Institute and University.

Oweis is currently teaching Arabic Language and Culture at Santa Clara University and has taught for over three years at San Francisco State University.

Oweis works on contemporary Islamic art and Arabic calligraphic compositions and has participated in a number of exhibits in California, Minnesota, Washington DC, and Florida. He designed the exterior entrance way murals and the calligraphy of the dome at the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. He also co-designed and directed the first Arabic/Islamic mural in San Francisco, and he was a lead artist for the Palestinian Cultural mural honoring Dr. Edward Said at San Francisco State University. Oweis is a board member of ZAWAYA, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting Arabic art and culture. He has written a number of articles and gave numerous presentations on Arab American Artists, Arabic Calligraphy, and Islamic art. He is the author of “Encyclopedia of Arab American Artists,� a book featuring 100 Arab American visual artists.

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Freedom Archives www.freedomarchives.org San Francisco, CA 8000 hours of audio and video recordings documenting social justice movements locally, nationally, and internationally from the 1960s to the present. The Archives features speeches of movement leaders and community activists, protests and demonstrations, cultural currents of rebellion and resistance. This oral history is in a searchable database.

You can download programs and clips. Internships and training programs are available.

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Gaden Shartse Monastery

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www.gadenshartsecf.org Point arena, CA & Tibet It was established in 2006 with the mission to help preserve and share the ancient Tibetan traditions and culture. Since the Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1950, much of this rare and ancient culture has been destroyed. We feel that this rich culture, once hidden and preserved behind the Himalayan Mountains, has much to offer the world at large. It is our mission to not only help preserve this precious culture, but to share its ancient wisdom with the people of the United States. To do this we have partnered with Gaden Shartse Monastery and Thubten Dhargye Ling Buddhist Center to help host the Sacred Earth and Healing Arts of Tibet tours here in the USA.

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homies organizing the mission to empower youth www.homeysf.org San Francisco, CA The mission of HOMEY remains to transform the lives of at-risk youth and community members in San Francisco, inspiring them to not only choose a path of education, selfsufficiency and non-violence, but to also strive towards stability in their physical, mental and emotional well-being. HOMEY fulfills its mission by providing participants with educational resources, leadership development, financial literacy, community organizing, critical thinking skills, and cultural affirmation.

HOMEY seeks to further the work of our social justice, youth-led organizing and continue the political-education and violence-prevention services we offer low income, Latino youth in San Franciscos Mission District and city-wide. The youth we serve are ages 13 to 24 and come from immigrant families, are immigrants themselves. Collectively, we defend our human rights and civil liberties by taking a stance on economic and environmental justice issues that affect us by using and leveraging tools such as the arts, media, community organizing and the reaffirmation of our cultural identity as Latinos and Indigenous people.

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Indigenous Youth Delegation to Palestine Bay Area, CA

“There are lots of connections between the indigenous communities in the United States and the Palestinian community: both the corporations and governments that have oppressed them and the strategies of resistance that they’ve used to fight back. Organizers from across the U.S. put together The Indigenous Youth Delegation to Palestine, which connected Native and immigrant youth from the U.S. with youth in Palestine. For now, we have noted the similarities between the Palestinian indigenous experience and ours in the United States and Mexico – the massive agricultural destruction; settler tactics; the burning of lands, wreckage and deaths that precede occupation; land disputes; court entanglement; settlements; people having to work in settlements because roads/walls have cut through their lands and intentionally destroyed communities, families, infrastructure, agriculture, businesses... "

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International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network www.ijsn.net usa & international

IJSN is a growing international network of Jews whose Jewish identities are not based on Zionism but on a plurality of histories and experiences. We share a commitment to participation in the legacy of struggles against colonization and imperialism. As such, we struggle against Zionism and its manifestation in the State of Israel’s historic and ongoing ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people and the confiscation of their land. This colonial project also dishonors the persecution, displacement and genocide of European Jews by using their memory to justify and perpetuate European authoritarianism and colonialism. It is responsible for the extensive displacement and alienation of Mizrahi Jews (Jews of Sephardi, Asian and African descent) from indigenous identities, languages, histories, cultures and homelands and attempts to reduce all of our diverse cultural, religious, ethnic and racial identities to one of national identity.

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Jewish Voice for Peace

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www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org Seattle, WA Jewish Voice for Peace members are inspired by Jewish tradition to work together for peace, social justice, equality, human rights, respect for international law, and a U.S. foreign policy based on these ideals.

JVP opposes anti-Jewish, anti-Muslim, and anti-Arab bigotry and oppression.

JVP seeks an end to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem; security and self-determination for Israelis and Palestinians; a just solution for Palestinian refugees based on principles established in international law; an end to violence against civilians; and peace and justice for all peoples of the Middle East.

Joe Sacco

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www.fantagraphics.com Portland, OR When it comes to the world of cartooning, Joe Sacco is considered a luminary.

Sacco, who is hailed as the creator of warreportage comics, is the author of such award-winning books as; Palestine and Safe Area Gorazde.

His latest work, Footnotes in Gaza, is an investigation into two little-known and long-forgotten massacres in 1956 in the southern Gaza Strip that left at least 500 Palestinians dead. It is a chilling look back at an unrecorded past and an exploration of how that past haunts and shapes the present – including the beginning of mass home demolitions in 2003 in Rafah.

Sacco navigates the fuzzy lines between memory, experience and visual interpretation almost seamlessly all while painting an intimate portrait of life under occupation and in spite of occupation' – a life not only of repression and anger but one full of humour and resilience.

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John Halaka www.johnhalaka.com San Diego, Ca I consider myself an activist artist whose creative work serves as a vehicle for meditation on personal, cultural and political concerns. I create allegorical images in my paintings and present personal narratives in my films, in order to raise questions, for myself as well as for the viewer, about some of the pressing issues of our time. Over the past couple of years, my creative work has expanded to include documentary filmmaking as one of the languages I employ to convey personal narratives about the construction, expression and perception of identity. The film projects that I am currently working on are a direct extension, albeit in a different medium, of the work I have produced throughout my career. For additional information about my documentary film projects please visit my other web site at sittingcrowproductions.com.

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Leonard Peltier www.freepeltier.org Anishinabe, Dakota and Lakota Nations, nd US Penitentiary, Lewisburg, PA An innocent man, Leonard Peltier was wrongfully convicted in 1977 and has served over 30 years in federal prison despite proof of his innocence, also despite proof that he was convicted on the basis of fabricated and suppressed evidence, as well as coerced testimony.

The United States Courts of Appeal have repeatedly acknowledged investigative and prosecutorial misconduct in this case but, by their decisions, have refused to take corrective action. A model prisoner, Leonard Peltier also has been denied fair consideration for parole and Executive Clemency. This is clearly an abuse of the legal standards of American justice.

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Middle East Children’s Alliance

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www.mecaforpeace.org Berkeley, Ca The Middle East Children's Alliance was founded by Barbara Lubin and Howard Levine in 1988 after Barbara returned from her first trip to Palestine and Israel at the beginning of the first Intifada. She had witnessed the grave injustice, poverty and violence of the Israeli occupation paid for with US tax dollars. Both she and Howard decided to speak out about what was happening to Palestinian children and also to raise money for projects in the West Bank and Gaza that would help make life a little bit better for the children.

For the first two years MECA led delegations of groups to Palestine, supported community food cooperatives run by women in the West Bank and Gaza, held educational events about Palestine, and organized demonstrations to end US support for Israel. We sent our first shipment, which included warm winter clothes and baby formula, to Palestine.

Nida Sinnokrot www.stationmuseum.com New York, NY Nida Sinnokrot is a Palestinian American artist who was born and grew up in Algeria. In 1980, his family left Algeria and settled in Austin, Texas. This move had an impact on Sinnokrot: “I found myself in Texas, removed from all the familiar sensations of North Africa, with only a dislocated sense of grammar to guide me. I missed the feeling of speaking and being understood in a personal and unique way” (Sinnokrot).

Sinnokrot works with film, installations, and sculptures that focus on the formation of identity for immigrants and refugees. He also explores “complex notions of time and place, in a phenomenological investigation of Diaspora consciousness.” As he states in his artist’s statement, Sinnokrot sees bipedal navigation through time and space as being fundamental to his being as is his heartbeat (Sinnokrot). In his work, Sinnokrot also addresses the issues of propaganda and surveillance in the media and how they portray foreign policy.

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Nipponzan Myohoji Buddhist order Bainbridge Island, WA Nipponzan Myohoji is known in the west for its Peace Pagodas (Stupas) in many locations around the world. It has also been known for many high profile peace pilgrimages undertaken by its followers.

One of the most prominent of these was the 1994-1995 pilgrimage from Auschwitz to Hiroshima by way of Bosnia, Iraq, Cambodia and other countries then experiencing the effects of war. That pilgrimage was known as The Interfaith Pilgrimage for Peace and Life.

"Civilization is neither having electric lights, nor manufacturing atomic bombs. It is not to kill human beings, not to destroy things, not to wage a war; it is to become mutually amiable and respectful. What constitutes its foundation is not the establishment of a judicial system but religious faith that seeks gentleness, peace, simplicity and uprightness." Most Venerable Nichidatsu Fujii.

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Nouha Sinno Los Angeles, CA/Palestine After she left her career as an interior designer, Nouha Sinno set off on a journey of self-discovery that began with a desire for free expression, unrestricted by any boundaries. She had always been taken by the enchanting concept of Arabic language as art, and as a result her work is a reflection of her years contemplating the visual beauty of Arabic culture, from Islamic tiles and geometry to architectural motifs and calligraphy. Her art pays tribute to her love for the language. “I am grateful,” she says, “for the rich legacy of beauty and elegance that is the Arabic alphabet.” This collection of her work reveals intricate lines and colors that coalesce into abstract rendition of Arabic words and their meaning. Her rich compositions speak of her memories as an Arab Muslim woman, born and raised in Beirut, Lebanon, where she graduated from the Lebanese University of Fine Art as an interior designer.

She worked as such in her country before she moved to Southern California in 1984, escaping the civil war there.

Nouha Sinno has participated in several group shows in Beirut, Bahrain, Seattle and Los Angeles.

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Palestinian Community Network

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palestineconference.org/wp Multiple locations across the us The US Palestinian Community Network is a Palestinian community-based network that grew from the first Palestinian Popular Conference that took place in Chicago on August 8-10, 2008, drawing 1000 members of the Palestinian community in the US together to empower our community, unify our voice, and affirm the right of Palestinians in the Shatat (exile) to participate fully in shaping our joint destiny.

Palestinian Youth Network www.pal-youth.org The Palestinian Youth Network (PYN) is an independent, nonpartisan alliance, founded by a group of young Palestinians scattered throughout the world as a result of the occupation of our homeland. Our belonging to Palestine, passion to preserve our Palestinian identity, and desire to contribute to the liberation of our land and people has driven us to build this network aimed at amplifying the voices of Palestinian youth and enhancing their role in building a better future for ourselves and our children. PYN is comprised of Palestinian youth between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five from over thirty three countries in Europe, the Arab world, North America, Central America and South America.

Peter Schumann of Bread & Puppet THeater www.breadandpuppet.org Vermont Peter Schumann views theatre, and all forms of art, as absolutely essential. In 1968, he described theatre (in its ideal form) this way: “Theatre is . . . like bread . . . like a necessity. Theatre is a form of religion. It is fun�

Peter Schumann is a fascinating character himself. His wide interests and his dedication to his art give him a strong basis for his often politically-oriented performances. He has made use of a variety of materials and types of puppets over the course of his career. His history in the United States has lasted over 30 years, during which time he has made repeated use of a number of images and characters.

Like Schumann himself, however, the puppets continue to change.

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Pomo Indians Point Arena, CA “Among our people, both men and women were basketmakers. Everything in our lifestyle was connected to those baskets.

Our lives were bound the way baskets were bound together.”

“The word ‘Pomo’ which some believe is derived from Poma, the name of a particular village, was given to us by anthropologists at the turn of the century.

Because of similarities of our basketry and culture, anthropologists conveniently saw us as one group. Actually, there are more than 70 different tribes within what is known as Pomo country. We originally had 7 different languages, but only 3 are still spoken. In terms of basketry, though, there is a commonality in our weaving — the shapes, materials, and techniques we use.” ~Susan Billy, Ukiah Pomo, Master Weaver, Teacher

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Precita Eyes Mural Arts Center www.precitaeyes.org San Francisco, CA As an inner city, community-based mural arts organization, Precita Eyes Mural Arts Association seeks to enrich and beautify urban environments and educate communities locally and internationally about the process and the history of public community mural art. We maintain a deep commitment to collaborating with the various communities we serve. Our dedication to collaboration guarantees that creative work produced is accessible, both physically and conceptually, to the people whose lives it impacts. We intend to bring art into the daily lives of people through a process which enables them to reflect their particular concerns, joys and triumphs.

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QUeers undermining israeli terrorism www.quitpalestine.org San Francisco, CA Like all people of conscience, we in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities are deeply concerned about the use of our tax dollars to support the violent, repressive and racist regime in Israel. Our money – nearly $8 million per day!– is funding the indiscriminate murder and wounding of Palestinian civilians, the destruction of Palestinian homes, the construction of exclusively Jewish settlements and the closure of the occupied territories, which threatens the health, safety and economic stability of the entire Palestinian population. As queers, we are part of an international movement for human rights that encompasses the movement for Palestinian liberation, and all other liberation movements.

We are also part of the growing international movement seeking active ways to express our solidarity with the people of Palestine.

Repo History www.repohistory.org New York, NY For the past ten years REPO history’s goal has been “To retrieve and relocate absent historical narratives at specific locations in the New York City area through countermonuments, actions, and events”. The work is informed by a multicultural re-reading of history which focuses on issues of race, gender, class and sexuality.

We believe that the arts are important to all aspects of society. The relationship between art, culture and society is often confused, vague and ambiguous. In the USA it has sparked the “Cultural Wars” of the 1980s and the early 1990s. Even today there are many members of the US Congress and Senate who want to abolish the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The arts will always be controversial. Societies change and the arts can be a powerful way of expressing these changes. However, the arts are essential for helping individuals find their place within society and for shaping a collective cultural identity.

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Richard Castenada www.richardcastaneda.com San Francisco, CA

Richard Castaneda’s work exhibits the uneasy tension of cultural identity, living within a paradoxical paradigm of what it is to be “Native American” in a pan-American landscape. His personal experiences as a Pima Indian roaming to and from his reservation and observing everything else in between, informs his art and cultural perspective. As a Native artist he is interested in an alternative perspective that divulges misconceived stereotypes that continue to homogenize Native American identity. Through his art he pairs together his positive and negative cultural experiences using a multitude of cynical, humorous, political and even good-natured subjectivity to evoke relevant dialogue and expand conscious cultural awareness. The central focal point of Richard’s explorative work is an intentional interplay between internal and external perspectives of Native American identity as a whole, and tries to address uncomfortable conflicts that divide cultural continuity. He is also at war with the sensationalism of the romanticized “noble savage”, and its dominance over the realities of contemporary Native life.

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Rigo 23 www.gallerypauleanglim.com Tommy Smith US/Portugal Rigo 23 has exhibited his work internationally for over 20 years, placing murals, paintings, sculptures, and tile work in public situations where viewers are encouraged to examine their relationship to their community, their role as unwitting advocates of public policy or their place on a planet occupied by many other living things. Rigo 23’s works live both as artworks and as thoughtful public interventions.

He has created installations for the Lyon Biennale and the Shenzhen/Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism/ Architecture. His sculpture of Tommie Smith and John Carlos was installed on the campus of San Jose State University in 2005.

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Save Gaza campaign & Palestine Solidarity committee

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www.palestineinformation.org Seattle, WA The Palestine Solidarity Committee — Seattle supports Palestinians in their struggle for the fundamental right of selfdetermination. PSC works for an end to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank (including East Jerusalem), the Gaza Strip, and the Golan Heights. We support the provision of full human rights to all Palestinians living as minorities or refugees anywhere in the world and the right of Palestinian refugees and their descendants to return to their homeland. We also support the right of the Palestinians themselves to determine the kind of state they will live in.

Students for Justice in Palestine www.students.washington.edu/sjpal University of Washington, Seattle Students for Justice in Palestine, University of Washington is a group of students dedicated to promoting the principles of justice, human rights, liberation, and self-determination for the Palestinian people. Our dedication to the rights of the Palestinian people stems from our belief of the equality of all people. We do not endorse any specific plan or solution to the problems of the area, including the Israeli occupation and apartheid system that has managed to dominate the region. We condemn the racism and discrimination underlying the policies and laws of the state of Israel, as we reject any form of hatred or discrimination against any religious, racial, or ethnic group. We work to educate the public through non-violent events, and we may co-sponsor any other event that is in accordance with our principles.

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Valarie James Las Madres Project www.lasmadresproject.org Tucson, AZ “I am compelled as an artist and more importantly as a resident of our borderlands, to make visible the hidden narratives that are unfolding todos los dias, every day in our backyard.”

The sculptural installation; The Mothers; Las Madres standing vigil is an artist's response to the human suffering and ongoing death of migrants coming across the Mexican/ American border in search of work in El Norte. Each Mother figure represents over 1000 men, women and children who have lost their lives crossing the desert. The sculptures are made from discarded migrant clothing reclaimed from the desert and then blended with Sonoran plant material. The sculpture’s distressed surfaces speak to the physical and psychological experience of the arduous journey and its effect on the people. The organic nature of the materials used to sculpt The Mothers; Las Madres also reflects the impact of this historical migration on the fragile surface of the desert environment itself.

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Voices of Palestine www.voicesofpalestine.org Seattle, WA

We work together on many events including fund raisers, demonstrations, public debates, educational seminars, and many other types of educational activities to bring awareness into the general public about the severity of the situation in Palestine and how we can help in bringing justice and peace to the Palestinians.

Through education and public awareness, Voices of Palestine will advocate for the Palestinian cause, its refugee problem, and fight the Zionisim movement’s drive to block the Palestinians from their rights. We believe that political participation and education will help resolve this problem. We will do everything within our means to bring this issue closer to the American public’s minds and help provide a platform for it to be discussed.

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Wave

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designed & Facilitated community paint day by nicole ponsler www.dialoguesinpublicart.blogspot.com Bringing Clean Water to the Children of Palestine.

There is a growing water crisis in Palestine that affects agriculture, industry, and the health of virtually every adult and child. In the Gaza Strip, poor sanitation and over-extraction have polluted the limited water supply.

In September 2009, the Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) launched the Maia Project (Arabic for “water”) to provide Palestinian children with clean, safe drinking water.

MECA is working in partnership with community organizations in Gaza to build water purification and desalination units in schools throughout the Gaza Strip.

They have provided clean water to 14 large UN schools in Palestinian refugee camps and to 13 kindergartens in refugee camps, towns, and villages.

Summer 2011 ORSMP will partner with MECA and Estria Foundation to paint the MAIA MURALS in Gaza at the water filter sites and a public wall in Gaza City and Rafah.

www.mecaforpeace.org/project/maia-project

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Anarchists Against the Wall www.awalls.org Israel Anarchists Against the Wall (AATW) is a direct action group that was established in 2003 in response to the construction of the wall Israel is building on Palestinian land in the Occupied West Bank. The group works in cooperation with Palestinians in a joint popular struggle against the occupation.

Since its formation, the group has participated in hundreds of demonstrations and direct actions against the wall specifically, and the occupation generally, all over the West Bank. All of AATW’s work in Palestine is coordinated through villages’ local popular committees and is essentially Palestinian led.

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Anwer Yehia Gaza Artist from Rafah, Gaza Strip. Member of Palestine Artists’ Union, Rafah Branch.

"Gaza is sad.. Inhabited by the dark .... killed by poverty ...

When the afternoon ended and hope died at the gates of the Erez crossing.

The ORSMP brings us the seeds of hope.

Thanks to all who wrote and drew the suffering of Gaza, who are with us through their ideas and dreams and colors.

Thanks to all of them." - Anwer Yehia

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Art Wave

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West Bank & 48' (Israel) The Ramallah based Mojat Fan (ArtWAVE) project, undertaken by a group of Palestinian artists from all over historic Palestine, celebrated a successful first workshop series and exhibition. A group of twenty emerging Palestinian artists gathered to forge connections, create collective work, and experiment with art as a context and form for communication across barriers. The group hosted a final street-art performance live simultaneously in Ramallah and Haifa, linked together by internet connection.

ArtWAVE was coordinated by Ayed Arafah of the International Academy of Art Palestine and Rosi Greenberg from Brown University. Ayed and Rosi developed the workshop based on their work with several organizations last summer and their assessment of what would benefit emerging artists in Palestine today. Unaffiliated with any one organization, the project was made possible through the generous support of the Art Academy, Brown, and many culture and arts organizations in Palestine.

ASARO Assembly of Revolutionary Artists of Oaxaca www.myspace.com/asaroaxaca Oaxaca, Mexico La Asamblea de Artistas Revolucionarios de Oaxaca, surge del llamado de la Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca APP0, para conformar APPOS en todos los frentes, con la finalidad de que se organicen todos los sectores para darle resistencia y unificar esta lucha en contra de la tiranía de un gobierno que representa los intereses de los ricos… En octubre del 2006 se convoca a la primera reunión a todos los colectivos artísticos, artistas independientes, artistas populares y creadores de diversas disciplinas artísticas.

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Asia Aamer West Bank, Palestine Asia Aamer is the daughter of Hani and Munira Aamer.

The Aamers are surrounded by the Occupation Wall or Apartheid Wall on four sides. Break the Silence Mural Project, Anarchists Against the Wall, Black Laundry, Flowers Against the Occupation and the Women’s Peace Service worked with the Aamer family and painted this mural. Asia is very interested in art and began attending art school in 2008. Asia was able to participate in the Olympia Rafah Solidarity Mural Project by sending a digital image, as travel is prohibitive due to expense and travel restrictions placed on Palestinians.

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& Dam www.dampalestine.com 48' (Israel) The Hip Hop Crew DAM at a show at Baladna Association for Arab Youth, in Haifa, Israel.

Da Arabian MC’s Suhell Nafar, Tamer Nafar, Mahmoud Jreri, DAM is the first and leading Palestinian Rap Group. It is composed of Tamer Nafar, 27, his younger brother Suhell, 23, and Mahmoud Jreri, 24. The group has been performing together since the late 90s. Tamer, who had been performing Rap since 1998 with his brother, was first contacted by Mahmoud Jreri. Mahmoud was writing his own lyrics so they quickly decided to join forces and the group was born in 1999.

All three members of the group were born and grew up in the slums of Lod, a mixed town of Arabs and Jews, 20 km from Jerusalem.

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Basel El Maquosy

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www.artwfg.ps Gaza, palestine Born in Gaza City in 1971, Plastic artist and freelance photographer.

Basel is a painter, photographer and video artist. He attended in 2000, 2001 and 2003 the summer Academy of Arts of Darat al Funun-Khalid Shoman Foundation in Jordan, run by Syrian-German artist Marwan Qassab-Bashi; and completed an arts course at the Gaza City YMCA in 1995. In 2003 he was awarded the Charles Asprey Award for Palestinian artists, was short listed for the A.M. Qattan Foundation’s Artist of the Year Award, and spent one month art residency in Bangalore – India. Maqousi participated in a number of local and international solo and group exhibitions, and teaches art at the Jabalya Rehabilitation Center for deaf and dumb children. General observer for the games program of the UNRWA summer camps 2007. Winner of the bronze prize for the best photo from the Union of Arab photographers – Europe, Germany 2008 Maqousi is a founder of “Windows from Gaza for Contemporary Art”

Bogside Muralists www.bogsideartists.com derry, Ireland Tom Kelly, his brother William, and Kevin Hasson are the three men who created and painted all of the twelve murals that form the internationally acclaimed The People’s Gallery. Their artwork represents the Bogside, its history, its spirit and its people; and many thousands of people come to Derry each year to hear the history of the ‘troubles’ and to see the celebrated street of murals in the Bogside. Painted from photographic material these are the most authentic renditions possible of the events depicted and acclaimed by many critics and writers as “art of the highest order”.

The murals of The People’s Gallery stretch in a line the entire length of Rossville Street in the Bogside area of Derry that experienced the worst of the troubles throughout the long conflict

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Breaking the silence www.shovrimshtika.org 48' (Israel)

Breaking the Silence is an organization of veteran Israeli soldiers that collects testimonies of soldiers who served in the Occupied Territories during the Second Intifadah. Soldiers who serve in the Territories are witness to, and participate in military actions which change them immensely. Cases of abuse towards Palestinians, looting, and destruction of property have been the norm for years, but are still excused as military necessities, or explained as extreme and unique cases.

Our testimonies portray a different and grim picture of questionable orders in many areas regarding Palestinian civilians.

These demonstrate the depth of corruption which is spreading in the Israeli military. While this reality which is known to Israeli soldiers and commanders exists in Israel’s back yard, Israeli society continues to turn a blind eye, and to deny that which happens in its name.

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Butterfflly Peace Garden www.thestupidschool.ca Batticaloa, Sri Lanka Since 1996 the Garden has provided a sanctuary in the Batticaloa war zone.

Recognized worldwide, it is a unique counseling and recreation center that provides psychological support to children traumatized by war.

Most of the children who come to the center suffer from post traumatic stress disorder, depression and anxiety. Many of these same children are missing limbs due to encounters with land mines. The counselors or “animators� at the garden offer children emotional healing, ethnic reconciliation with other children, and peace, probably for the first time in their young lives.

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Chito

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Chiapas, Mexico The EZLN, or Zapatistas, are an insurgent ‘military’ force largely based in the mountains of the Mexican southeast. Since 1994, when they entered international consciousness, they have been opposing the Mexican government, who the EZLN claims does not represent the wishes, needs and desires of the (largely indigenous) Zapatistas and their supporting communities. The Zapatistas have attempted to engage all of Mexico in a dialogue about what Mexico should be. They also asserted the right to self-determination in of 32 Autonomous Municipalities, encompassing 1111 villages that are under rebel control. The Mexican government has been waging a low intensity war (some say medium) against the Zapatistas and their support bases, carrying out a strategy of intimidation and terror.

Edward Said Conservatory of music ncm.birzeit.edu West Bank, Palestine In 1990 five Palestinian musicians and music teachers conducted a study on the status of music in Palestine. They concluded that there is an urgent need to establish a music school and to fill the huge gap in music education in the Palestinian society. It took the pioneering group three years of work to get things on the road. During that time the musicians approached Birzeit University to take the project under its umbrella.

Although not a university program yet, the project of opening a music school appealed to Birzeit University very much.

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Eman Mohummad www.lightstalkers.org/eman-mohammed Gaza, Palestine A Jordanian Palestinian photojournalist & reporter based in Gaza strip, Palestine. Has Covered Palestine and Israel since 2006.

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Free Gaza Campaign www.freegaza.org International

Since August 2008, the Free Gaza Movement has sailed from Cyprus to the Gaza Strip on several successful voyages, bringing in international witnesses to see first hand the devastating effects of Israeli violence against the Palestinian people. Ours are the first international boats to journey to Gaza since 1967.

We are Italian, Irish, Canadian, Greek, Tunisian, German, Australian, American, English, Scottish, Danish, Israeli, and Palestinian. We are of all ages and backgrounds. We have years of experience volunteering in Gaza and the West Bank at the invitation of Palestinians. But now, because of the increasing stranglehold of Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine, many of us find it almost impossible to enter Gaza, and an increasing number have been refused entry to Israel and the West Bank as well.

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Gaza Community Mental Health Programme

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www.gcmhp.net Gaza, Palestine OUR VISION A Palestinian society that respects human rights and in which people live in dignity, free of oppression, and feel that their wellbeing is promoted.

OUR MISSION To develop GCMHP as knowledge- based institution to enhance the capacity of the community in dealing with mental health problems based on the principles of justice, humanity, and respect for human rights.

Global Divestment Campaign

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Olympia Boycott, Divestment and Sanction Campaign Palestine Bay Area Campaign to End Israeli Apartheid www.baceia.org Global Boycott Divestment and Sanction Movement bdsmovement.net Palestine Campaign for Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel www.pacbi.org Olympia Boycott Divestment and Sanctions www.olympiabds.org

More Information and Image to Come.

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Handala Naji al-ali www.handala.org Palestine “The child Handala is my signature, everyone asks me about him wherever I go. I gave birth to this child in the Gulf and I presented him to the people. His name is Handala and he has promised the people that he will remain true to himself. I drew him as a child who is not beautiful; his hair is like the hair of a hedgehog who uses his thorns as a weapon. Handala is not a fat, happy, relaxed, or pampered child. He is barefooted like the refugee camp children, and he is an icon that protects me from making mistakes.

Even though he is rough, he smells of amber. His hands are clasped behind his back as a sign of rejection at a time when solutions are presented to us the American way.�

Handala was born ten years old, and he will always be ten years old. At that age, I left my homeland, and when he returns, Handala will still be ten, and then he will start growing up. The laws of nature do not apply to him. He is unique. Things will become normal again when the homeland returns.

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Hani Abu Amara Gaza, Palestine Artist from Rafah, Gaza Strip. Member of Palestine Artists’ Union, Rafah Branch.

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To Make Something Out of Nothing Image by Jos Sances, www.josart.net West Bank, Palestine The Ibdaa Cultural Center is a grassroots community-based project in the West Bank's Palestinian Dheisheh refugee camp. The name, "Ibdaa," is translated from Arabic as "creation" or "creative ability" - "To Make Something Out of Nothing." Since being founded in 1994, Ibdaa Cultural Center, with long-time partner the Middle East Children's Alliance, has served more than 1,200 children and youth annually and provides employment and income for more than 70 families in the refugee camp.

The mission of the Ibdaa Cultural Center is to create a positive atmosphere for children and youth in the refugee camp to assist them in developing competence, creativity and leadership skills through a range of social, cultural and educational activities.

Ibrahim Burnat West Bank, Palestine Detail of installation What you view in the clouds are the clouds To find yourself in the view of some pigeon I hold still over my homeland.

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ichad Israeli committee against house demolitions www.icahd.org Israel & Palestine ICAHD is a non-violent, direct-action organization established in 1997 to resist Israeli demolition of Palestinian houses in the Occupied Territories — 24,000 as of this writing and counting. As we gained knowledge of the brutalities of the Occupation, we expanded our resistance activities to other areas – land expropriation, settlement expansion, bypass road construction, policies of "closure" and "separation," the wholesale uprooting of fruit and olive trees, the Separation Barrier/Wall, the siege of Gaza and more.

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Maschom Watch check point watch www.machsomwatch.org/en Israel Machsom Watch, in existence since 2001, is an organization of peace activist Israeli women against the Israeli Occupation of the territories and the systematic repression of the Palestinian nation. We call for Palestinian freedom of movement within their own territory and for an end to the Occupation that destroys Palestinian society and inflicts grievous harm on Israeli society.

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New Proffiile

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www.newprofiffiile.org Israel Right Side of Leaf Image: Drawing: “Born Soldier” by Itzik Rennert.

Left Side of Leaf Image: Photograph: “Towards Tomorrow” by A. Ettinger.

New Profile is a young and visible organization, the outgrowth of our belief that there is a need to question the deepseated influence of militarism on Israeli society. The movement, comprised of feminist women, men and youth, is a volunteer grassroots organization. Our name, New Profile, reflects the long-range aim of our organization: to change the Profile of Israeli society from a militarized society of war and might, to an actively peacemaking community in which the rights of all its citizens are protected and promoted equally, and the human rights of all people residing inside and outside Israeli borders are respected.

One State

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Osama Zafar & Tal adler, www.onestate-embassy.net Israel Policies of Separations are global.

Administering fear, hatred and divisions has always been an effective means to ground unquestionable rule. Even in unified federations, states and nations, differences with other states or nations are highlighted.

As in other places, separation policies are the way to go in Israel & Palestine, however, an honest attempt to promote sustainable peace renders separation policies there absurd. In Israel & Palestine too much is already mixed. Arbitrarily drawn borders can reflect nothing of the cultural diversity of the place. Among the many ethnic, religious or cultural identity groups living there are Muslims from various backgrounds, Christians from different churches, nations and beliefs, Druze with different national affiliations, Bedouin from various tribes and origins, Samaritans, Adygs, Baha’is, Gypsies, Armenians, Palestinians with Jewish roots, Jews from Arab countries, Hassidic Jews with European roots, hundreds of thousands of international workers, Buddhists, Atheists, Pantheists and many, many more.

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Palestine Youth Center & Majed Shala www.artwfg.ps Gaza, Palestine Born in 1960 in Gaza, Shala graduated with a Master of Arts from Scranton University, USA in 2001. Shala’s work has been shown in a number of solo exhibitions, including Suwar min Gaza, in Beirut, Lebanon (2004) and Gaza Hanin il Makan, at the Arts and Crafts village in Gaza (2003). Between 2000 and 2001, he attended Jordan’s Daaret Al Funun academy. His international exhibitions have included the Middle East, USA, South Africa, Hungary, Brazil, Amman Jordan, and Qatar. Most recently he has participated in exhibitions in Italy and Norway and also with the United Nations. More Information for the Palestine Youth Center coming soon.

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Project Souarna projectsouarna.wordpress.com Wehdat Refugee Camp Amman, Jordan Project Souarna (Soo-War-Na) = Our Photos Project Souarna is a photography program designed to foster youth leadership and creativity. We conduct workshops for displaced youth living in and near al Wehdat refugee camp in Amman, Jordan.

The U.S. media continually portrays Arabs in the Middle East through one lens; therefore Project Souarna was founded to provide a different lens, one through the eye of a child in the region. Project Souarna focuses on photography because it is a tool that can be employed as a technical skill as well as an opportunity to draw attention to often neglected voices.

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Qattan Foundation for the child

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www.qattanfoundation.org/qcc/en Gaza, Palestine Most of Gaza’s children face extremely arduous and difficult circumstances that severely affect their daily lives, and often prevent them from pursuing any meaningful process of individual selfdevelopment. On a piece of land generously contributed by the city’s municipality, the Foundation thus began building the Qattan Centre for the Child in Gaza City, an independent children’s library and information centre aimed at improving the cultural, social, educational, recreational and psychological environment for a large section of the Gaza Strip’s child population, without social, physical, religious, sexual or racial discrimination.

Rana Bishara west bank, Palestine Rana Bishara was born in Tarsheha, the Galilee in 1971. After her BA in painting, women’s studies and philosophy at Haifa University, she received her MFA from Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia, USA. Rana Bishara’s body of work includes sculpture, installation, and performance art. Her artwork deals with issues such as the Palestinian Nakba, the Israeli occupation and a sustained critique of bias in the Western media’s depiction of the Palestinian struggle for liberation. She teaches visual art at the Honors College.

She has exhibited in the Middle East, Europe and the USA. Her work is in the collections of the National Gallery of Fine Arts and Darat Al Funun in Amman, Jordan; and the Art/Omi International Arts Centre, New York. She lives and works in Jerusalem.

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Ronen Edelman www.ronen.dvarim.com Israel

"Political acts are tolerated more if they are executed under the autonomy of art.

Art is very confusing for the authorities and therefore it is left alone. If you are out on the street and would decide for example to burn a trash can, and would stand around and then the police would come and say: 'What are you doing?' and you would say: 'Oh we are artists, we are doing art, and this is a metaphor for blah blah…' Then the police would probably say: 'Oh, you should ask for permission.' And you would start some negotiation and it probably would be okay, maybe you might have to pay a fine, but, there would be no violent interaction or conflict taking place. Yet, if you were to be doing exactly the same act and the police would ask you: 'What are you doing?' and you would just say: 'Oh we are demonstrating against blah blah…' You would probably be arrested on the spot and there would maybe even be violence involved. It just shows that art has this autonomy and its place in the structure of these liberal democracies we live in. It’s an understood agreement that we need artists, that we need these crazy people, but then they should stay in their autonomies together, in their galleries and their museums and within their own discussions, and with their own journals."

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Sama Sama San Francisco/indonesia

Sama-sama/Together is an international collaboration and exchange project between community arts organizations and artists from San Francisco, California and Yogyakarta, Indonesia. This project, co-sponsored by the Clarion Alley Mural Project (CAMP) and Intersection for the Arts, will feature the first murals to be created in San Francisco by Indonesian artists and the first major exhibition in the Bay Area to feature contemporary alternative work from Indonesia. Designed to foster understanding of contemporary art and culture between the two communities through the creation of new works, as well as through cross-cultural dialogue between participating artists and the public at large, this collaboration is especially timely given the great need for understanding and dialogue between Muslim and non-Muslim countries (Indonesia is the largest Muslim country in the world).

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Shai Pollack & bi'lin popular committee

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www.bilin-village.org/english Palestine Bil'in is a Palestinian village that is struggling to exist. It is fighting to safeguard its land, its olive trees, its resources... its liberty.

“Bil’in Habibti” is a documentary by Shai Pollack that documents Bi'lin's nonviolent struggle against the Israeli occupation and the building of the wall which has cost the village much land, resources and lives. ~www.claudiusfilms.com Photo: Lisa Nessan ~www.freckle.blogs.com “One thing we tend not to hear about is the widespread efforts of nonviolent resistance in Palestine,” noted American University Professor Joseph Groves. “There’s a question I commonly hear, and that is ‘Where is the Palestinian Gandhi?’ My response? They’re everywhere. Two of

Shareef Sarhan

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Gaza, Palestine We are a group of young plastic artists who connect through mutual ideas, one geographical entity and a constant love of art. And because we believe in team work, and mutual thinking to develop the creative movement of plastic arts, we always thrive to discover and explore the new and modern aspects of it to figure out how to use it to serve our ambition and talent. We try to do that through constant meetings, holding art affairs, exhibitions and galleries both locally and internationally, and workshops through which we communicate and present our thoughts.

We had many contributions locally and internationally so each one of us has his/her own unique and original vision which reflects our mutual culture, artistic understanding, and persistent attempts to communicate who we are and what we do to The Other.

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Suliman Mansour west Bank, Palestine

Suliman Mansour is one of the leading Palestinian artists. Born in the Palestinian village of Beir Zeit in 1947, Mansour is a co-founder of the Wasiti Art Center in Jerusalem (Now director of the Center). He is also a member of the “New Vision” artist group, which focuses on the use of local material in artwork. Mansour is a cartoonist, art instructor, and author of two books on Palestinian folklore. He won the ‘Nile award’ at the 1998 Cairo Biennial for his series of clay panels “I am Ismail”, and the Palestine Prize for the Visual arts in 1998.

His first one artist show opened in Ramalla, Palestine, during the Intifada in 1981 at Gallery79.

It only lasted four hours when suddenly the Israeli army closed both the show and the Gallery and later made it illegal to use red, green, white, and black – the colors of the Palestinian flag.

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THe Rachel corrie sports initiative Gaza, Palestine “Our playground, called the ‘Unity Youth’ playground, is not the only one in the area,” says Adnan Abu Sa’ud, co-founder of the Rachel Corrie Sports Initiative. “But what makes it distinct other than its location [near the Egyptian border where Israeli bulldozers had flattened neighborhoods of homes and effectively tried to maintain as a no-man's land] is that young people from different political colors come almost every day not to talk about politics but to practice sport with each other. Other playgrounds attract only those who are affiliated to a certain political line. As a matter of fact the daily activities as well as the annual tournament manifests a social and sportsmanship bond, so to speak, amongst the people of our community.”

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Vera Tamari

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West Bank, Palestine Vera Tamari was born in Jerusalem in 1945.

She studied fine arts in Beirut, ceramics in Florence, and completed her M.Phil in Islamic Art and Architecture in Oxford University. Since 1974 she has participated locally and internationally in shows with the League of Palestinian Artists, of which she is a member. She also participated in a number of group exhibits in Jordan, Stockholm, Sharjah (Biennial ’99) and the United States, where Tamari participated in “Forces of Change: Women Artists from the Arab world” exhibit in the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington D.C. in 1994. Solo exhibits include Palestine (at the Sakakini in 2000) and Jordan. Tamari is also a founding member of the “New Vision” artists group, which was established during the first Intifada, and of the Wasiti Art Center in Jerusalem. She is also a member of the Sakakini General Assembly. Tamari is currently a lecturer on Islamic Art and Architecture at Birzeit University.

Wall

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Apartheid wall, Occupation Wall, Separation Fence Painted by, Justin C. www.palestinemonitor.org

Currently, approximately 60% of the planned route has been constructed. Construction is ongoing in the districts of Qalqilya, Ramallah, Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Hebron. The Jordan Valley is almost completely isolated from the rest of the West Bank.

The Wall’s total length will be some 760 Km, which is twice the length of the 1949 Armistice Line (Green Line) between the West Bank and Israel. When completed, the Wall will de facto annex some 46% of the West Bank. Approximately 35,000 West Bank Palestinians will be located between the Wall and the Green Line (an area known as ‘no man’s land’). They require permits to live in their homes and can only leave their communities via a gate in the Wall.

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Who Proffiits & Coalition of women for Peace www.whoproffiits.org Israel

The Coalition of Women for Peace brings together independent women and 10 feminist peace organizations who work relentlessly for peace and justice. Founded in November 2000, after the outbreak of the Second Intifada, the Coalition today is a leading voice in the peace movement.

The Coalition is committed to the struggle to end the occupation; to the full involvement of women in peace negotiations; to an end to the excessive militarization of Israeli society; to equality, inclusion, and justice for Palestinian citizens of Israel; to equality and social justice for all inhabitants of Israel.

In addition to supporting the work of its member organizations, the Coalition carries out its own activities – mass rallies, campaigns and educational activity. It runs outreach and advocacy programs within Israeli society, and activities which involve solidarity and cooperation with Palestinian women in the occupied territories.

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wishah www.wishatroupe.com west Bank, Palestine Wishah is a dance group working towards presenting shows based on the artistic inheritance of music and songs of both Arab and Palestinian dimensions. Established in 2003 upon an initiative of Mohammad Ata and a group of enthusiastic amateur dancers who worked diligently to present dance in a new artistic frame.

Wishah holds the belief that dance is a form of spiritual and cultural education. The group seeks to preserve and enrich the cultural legacy as well as the beauty of life in Palestine.

In the past six years, the troupe has toured 45 times in other parts of the world performing for over 30,000 audience members.

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Ziad Deeb

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Gaza, Palestine Gaza artist, survivor finds power in paint.

From the entrance of the house, one can observe the whole tragedy. On 6 January 2009, an Israeli artillery shell landed in the front yard of the Deeb family home in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip. A large, wide hole in the ground and two missing walls are all that remain.

Sitting in his wheelchair in the corner, Ziad, 22, is the last survivor of the Deeb family. He lost both legs during the attack, and 10 relatives were killed including his father, grandmother, brothers, nieces and nephews.

Ziad chose a different and unlikely way to mourn. He was a graduate of Gaza’s College of Fine Arts when Israel’s winter invasion began. When it was over, he started drawing — on wood, on the walls of the city streets, in front of destroyed government buildings, and public squares.

Zochrot Remembering

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www.nakbainhebrew.org Israel Zochrot "Remembering" is a group of Israeli citizens working to raise awareness of the Nakba, the Palestinian catastrophe of 1948.

The Zionist collective memory exists in both our cultural and physical landscape, yet the heavy price paid by the Palestinians — in lives, in the destruction of hundreds of villages, and in the continuing plight of the Palestinian refugees — receives little public recognition.

Zochrot works to make the history of the Nakba accessible to the Israeli public so as to engage Jews and Palestinians in an open recounting of our painful common history. We hope that by bringing the Nakba into Hebrew, the language spoken by the Jewish majority in Israel, we can make a qualitative change in the political discourse of this region. Acknowledging the past is the first step in taking responsibility for its consequences. This must include equal rights for all the peoples of this land, including the right of Palestinians to return to their homes.

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who we are Current Steering Committee Susan Greene - Founder & Director

National and International Coordinator Alicia Martinson - Local Outreach Coordinator

Production Coordinator Josh Elliott - Organization Facilitator

Leaf Installation Coordinator Hilary Hacker - Publication Design & Photographer

Local Outreach & Event Coordinator

January 2007- present Spring 2008- present July 2009- present February 2010- present

People who have worked on the mural past and present Patricia Vazquez - Painter & Leaf Facilitator Tinashe Rusike - Branding & Graphics Andrea Robbins - Audio production Justin C. - Design Committee &Photographer

Designed and Painted the wall and splashing water Nicole Ponsler - Steering Committee

Designed and Painted the Wave

Community Paint Day facilitator Sarah Weiss Prime Time - Intern and Mural Production Sophie Gordon - Intern and Mural Production Elizabeth Antonio - Intern and Mural Production Jesse Meliza - Video Artist/ Documentarian Eric Sarai - Leaf production & Graphic Designer

Summer 2009- present Spring 2009- present Fall 2010 - present Spring 2009- Summer 2010 Winter 2009- Summer 2009

Spring 2009- Summer 2009 Spring 2009- Summer 2009 Spring 2009- Summer 2009 Summer 2009 Summer 2009

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Rain Wholey - Leaf Facilitator & Mural Production Summer 2009 Carlos Gemora - Mural Production Summer 2009 - May 2010 Anna Eggleton - Documentations & Archiving 2007 - Fall 2008 Candy Eggleton - Documentations & Archiving 2007 - Fall 2008 Ron Eggleton - Documentarian, Website & Photography 2007 - Fall 2008 Andrea Robbins - Phase 1 Core Committee Summer 2008 - Winter 2008

Outreach, Safety Coordinator & Audio Ashley Harrison - Phase 1 Core Committee

Administrator & PR Marion Pollman - Phase 1 Core Committee Summer 2008 - Winter 2008

Ceramics & Design Holly Gwinn Graham - Phase 1 Core Committee 2007- Fall 2008

Education Coordinator

Facilitator of Ceramic Leaves & Outreach Evan Welkin - Phase 1 Core Committee, Fundraising Summer 2008 Carrie Zeigler - Phase 1 Core Committee Summer 2008

Designed & Coordinated production of Olive tree Erin Genia - Phase 1 Core Committee

Design workshop facilitator & Outreach Sfira Madrone - Early stages of Mural planning

2007 - Spring 2008

Design workshop facilitator & Outreach Chris Allert - Phase 1 Core Committee 2007 - Summer 2008

Computer Programmer

Rochelle Gause - Located & Negotiated Mural Wall 2007

Communication & Outreach w/ Palestinian artists Serena Becker - RCF Liaison & Outreach Winter 2010- Spring 2010 Chris Corrente - Graphics 2010 Kent Long - Audio 2010 - Present Sam Stoller - Audio programming 2010 - Present

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The Rachel corrie foundation Board Members Cindy Corrie - RCF President & Phase 1 Core Committee, Administrator Craig Corrie - RCF Treasurer Dr. Therese Saliba - Secretary & Mural Project Liaison Donna Schumann - RCF Vice President Patty Mosqueda

Special Thanks to...

Audio Pharmacy Boots Brown City of Olympia Curtis Lumber David Suderberg and Pacific Sound and Stage Don't Stop Crew Eli Sterling and Procession of the Species Elliott Stoller Eugenio Alioto Groupo Quetzalcoatle de Olympia Jeff Bartone Larry and Mosqueda Lew Rents Lori Blewet Matt Heft Nizhoni Ellenwood Pit Kwiecinski Rebecca Pilcher Samba Olywa Simona Sharoni Teresa Mosqueda The Bread Peddler The Pasties The Royale Lounge Vince Ryland Whitney Faulkner Wood Chuck Works

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