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10:15 am Parallel Workshops Rebecca Vilkomerson Pursue Justice, Seek Peace! The American Jewish Community—Where to? Nadia Hijab Framing the Discourse Answering Questions, Taking Action US Campaign to the End Israeli Occupation Mobilizing for Action Palestine for Beginners Josh Ruebner A S ABEEL CONFERENCE Engaging Elected Officials for a Just Foreign Policy October 1-3, 2009 Maher Bitar and Zachary Wales Palestine Online—Wired for Justice (TBA) Nonviolence on the Ground: The West Bank
3:15 pm Parallel Workshops Mark Braverman , Rosemary Ruether Changing the Theological Discourse Bea Morris , Andrea Smith , Naim Ateek Peacebuilders is a series of embroideries made by fabric The Impact of Womanist and Third World Theologies on Global Politics artist Lee Porter . Each work focuses on ways in which Is- raelis, Palestinians and Americans are working for a just David Hosey A Tool Kit for Church Advocacy peace in the Holy Land. As individual works of art each piece Jeff Halper Thinking Out of the Box: Where to Go from Here. has a small impact, but when the entire body of work is seen Maher Bitar Who are Palestinians? Shiloh Baptist Church viewers become engaged in the hope that only peacebuilding Susan Wilder What are the churches doing? 1500 9 th Street, NW can offer. Lee is a co-founder of Sharing Jerusalem , a Wash- What should they be doing? Washington, DC ington, DC nonprofit organization and of Way to Jerusalem , a mission group of The Church of the Saviour. She was a WORKSHOPS : S ATURDAY , O CTOBER 3 “The arc of the moral universe is long development volunteer for a program helping twenty-nine 10:30 Parallel Workshops but bends towards justice.” Palestinians to become Level One trainers in the practice of Don Wagner Dispelling Christian Zionist Arguments Martin Luther King, Jr.’s practice of nonviolence. Lee’s work Ali Abunimah Prospect for Peace—One State or Two? —Martin Luther King has been shown in many exhibitions and collections, includ- David Wildman ing The Children’s Defense Fund, University of Virginia Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) , Sabeel is an ecumenical Medical Center, The Global Education Fund and World Hope A Justice-Based Strategy of Solidarity peace movement initiated International. Amjad Atallah by Palestinian Christians in What Can We Expect? Peace Plans 101 the Holy Land and based Peacebuilders will be on exhibit during the conference and Phyllis Bennis Lee will give a talk on Thursday, October 1 at 5pm. The Obama Administration and Prospects for Peace on the Gospel call to justice US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation and peace through nonviolence. The Sabeel Palestine for Beginners Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center 2:45 pm Parallel Workshops works to build understanding and relation- Rev. Graylan Scott Hagler ships among Christians and people of other Holy Scriptures as a Justification for Oppression and a Silencer to Outrage faiths in many countries and seeks to build a Naim Ateek , Gaby Habib , and Yvonne Haddad worldwide movement to end military occupa- Arab Christians: Past, Present, and Future tion in the Holy Land through advocacy of Don Wagner international law, human rights and a faith- Engaging with Evangelicals on Israel/Palestine Mike Daly Travel as Witness based call to peacemaking.
Noura Erakat Lobbying for Gaza and Beyond We invite you to learn more about Sabeel Jeff Halper Thinking Out of the Box: Where to Go from Here
—Lee Porter 9:00 am Lessons from the Civil Rights Movement, the 6:00 pm Opening Interfaith Service — conference. Rev. Wallace Charles Smith (invited), Rev. Intifada and the Anti-Apartheid Movement Naim Ateek, Imam Yahya Hindi, Rabbi Dr. Bernard Lafayette , Civil Rights Movement Brian Walt and Ms. Ruba Estephen, activist, co-founder of Student Nonviolent Zip: Cantor, Antiochian Orthodox Christian tradition Coordinating Committee, currently Distinguished Senior Scholar at Emory University in Atlanta. only** $70 Friday
7:10 pm Opening Plenary Dr. Mary King , Distinguished Scholar with The Dr. Richard Falk , UN Special Rapporteur American University Center for Global Peace, a on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories Rothermere American Institute Fellow, University of Oxford, UK, author of A Quiet Revolution Expiration Date: Date: Expiration FRIDAY , O CTOBER 2 Dr. Charles Villa-Vincensio , Senior Research Fellow, State:
8:00 am Bible Study —Rev. Dr. Derrick Harkins , Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (Cape Town),
currently Visiting Professor, Conflict Resolution REFERENCE
Senior Pastor of the Nineteenth Street $ :
Baptist Church, Washington DC Program, Georgetown University P 9:00 am Understanding the Present, Framing
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the Future MOUNT YOUR Jeff Halper , Coordinator of the Israeli
11:45 (Box Lunch) A Committee Against House Demolitions Three Women, Three Faiths, One Shared Vision
ORM Nadia Hijab , Senior Fellow, Institute for Jala Basil Andoni, Hekmat Bessisso-Naji rence-washington-dc-october-1-3-2009 OTAL Palestine Studies, Wash. DC F ELECT and Ruth El Raz T 10:15 am Parallel Workshops—see back panel ends of Sabeel, PO Box 9186, Portland, Oregon 97207 97207 Oregon 9186, Portland, Box Sabeel, PO of ends
--S $50 Student/low income fee income $50 Student/low 11:45 am (Box Lunch) Averting Further Tragedy 1:45 pm Panel ion. Registration fees do not cover the full cost of the of cost the full not do cover fees ion. Registration in Gaza Raising Voices of Conscience (if any) affiliation on Andrew Whitley , Director of the New York Dr. Rosemary R. Ruether Representative Office of UNRWA. Dr. Tyrone Pitts General Secretary, 14)* September (after $125 Registration
1:30 pm Panel The Progressive National Baptist Convention CHEDULE S The Exodus, the Promised Land and Jim Fine , Board Chairman, EGISTRATION Check / Checks payable to “Friends of Sabeel” of “Friends to payable Checks / Check R EE a Promised Peace: Are Religious Texts Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP) City:
Holding Back our Voices? Rev. Richard Toll , Chair, F Dr. Rosemary R. Ruether , theologian and Friends of Sabeel-North America scholar, visiting Professor of Feminist Theology 2:45 pm Parallel Workshops—see back panel at Claremont School of Theology and Clare mont Graduate University 4:00 pm Where do we go from here? Only*** $60 Saturday
Rev. Bea Morris , Womanist theologian, Phyllis Bennis , Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies UCC minister, Ph. D. candidate in Washington, DC, and author of Understanding the
Dr. Andrea Smith , assistant professor in the EGISTRATION Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Primer Department of Media and Cultural Studies R Additional contribution: $ $ contribution: Additional at the University of California, Riverside George Rishmawi , Coordinator of Siraj, Center for Holy MasterCard or Visa
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5:00 pm The Rev. Naim Ateek M 6:00 pm Dinner 14)* (by September $100 Pre-registration Rev. Naim Ateek , Sabeel, Jerusalem RESOURCES : A resource room offering books, DVDs 8:15 pm Najla Sa їd reading her play, Palestine and Palestinian handicrafts for sale will be open contribut tax-deductible additional an making consider Please AYMENT P clearly): (print Number Card Credit Name: Name: throughout the conference. There will also be Street: Email: Number(s)______Phone church &membership/Organizati local affiliation Religious information tables.