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Speaking tour: Eyewitness in Palestine
From: Peace Movement Aotearoa
16 February 2007
Speaking tour: Eyewitness in Palestine
Christina Gibb, a Quaker from Dunedin, who has spent 10 months over the last three years in Hebron, Palestine, with Christian Peacemaker Teams will be speaking at public meetings in Opotiki, Gisborne, Wellington, Upper Hutt and Masterton from 20 to 26 February (see details below).
In Hebron, Christina was involved in activities including working with people from Israeli, Palestinian and international peace and human rights organisations; escorting Palestinian children to school; monitoring the behaviour of Israeli soldiers at checkpoints, invading homes and on patrol; documenting human rights abuses; visiting and supporting Palestinian families and communities; hosting international delegations; taking part in demonstrations against the separation wall and in support of freedom for political prisoners and freedom of movement for all Palestinians; and a lot more.
Reports from
Christina during her time in Hebron in 2005 and 2006 are
available at
http://www.converge.org.nz/pma/hebron.htm -
on this tour she will be speaking about what she witnessed
in Hebron and providing updated information from Christian
Peacemaker Teams there currently.
Public meeting details
* Opotiki - Tuesday, 20 February, at 7.30pm,
Opotiki College Library, St John Street. For more
information please contact email *
Gisborne - Wednesday, 21 February, at 7.30pm, Holy Trinity
Church Hall, corner Derby Street and Palmerston Road.
Organised by local Greens, for more information please
contact email * Wellington -
Thursday, 22 February, at 7pm, MacKenzie Room, St John's
Conference Centre, corner Willis and Dixon Streets.
Organised by Peace Movement Aotearoa and the Wellington
Palestine Group, for more information please contact email
* Upper Hutt - Friday, 23 February, at
7.30pm, St Hilda's Church Hall Common Room, Cruickshank
Road. Organised by local peace people including the
Catholic Peace and Justice Committee of St Joseph's Church,
for more information please contact email
* Masterton - Monday, 26
February, at 7.30pm, Reap House, 340 Queen Street. Organised
by local Quakers, for more information please contact email
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