Traverse For Peace makes first trip to Palestine/Israel
Traverse for Peace is a peace and justice collective formed in December of 2002 in the Traverse area to prepare individuals and groups for domestic and international peace team direct actions. All travellers with Traverse for Peace have undergone non-violence training under the auspices of the Michigan Peace Team.
Their first group trip to Palestine/Israel occurred in October and November 2003. Some of them had been to Palestine/Israel several times for nonviolent interventions. For others, this was their first. However, they all agree that grassroots peace efforts work. Several of the team will be speaking in Traverse City, December 1, 2003.
Would you like to know if there is hope for peace in the Middle East? Is the “Road Map” leading to peace for ordinary Palestinian and Israeli people? The main goal in this fall 2003 trip was to video and record interviews of ordinary Palestinians and Israelis. They feel the corporate media fails to provide a view beyond the violence and the posturing of politicians. The team videoed ordinary people and asked these questions such as these: “Has there been any change?”; “How do you feel about the fence or wall?”; “Is it a security fence or an apartheid wall?” and “What do you want to say to the people of the United States?”
Rebecca Glotlelty, the videographer on the trip, will be producing a video from over 35 hous of tape she shot while there. Contact Tom Shea at (231) 946-3693 or shea@traverse.com to arrange for members of the group speak in your community or for showing the video after it is edited for viewing, sometime early in 2004.
A photo of the delegation, a log and photos from the trip are on the web site, <TraversePeaceAlerts.org/tfp>.