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Olive Oil from the Holy Land

Help bring peace and justice to the middle east by supporting fair trade practices, eating healthy and delicious food, and socializing with friends and neighbors! 

We invite you to an Olive Oil Gathering with American Friends Service Committee.

Ziyarat az Zeitoun ("Visiting the Olives") is an educational and advocacy project that highlights Palestinian culture and current political realities on the ground in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, where Palestinian farmers face the loss of access to their land and the uprooting of their trees due to the occupation.

Wafa Shami, middle east peace education coordinator for the AFSC’s Los Angeles office, will host olive oil gatherings in Portland October 10-12. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to learn about the situation of Palestinian farmers, sample fair-trade Palestinian olive oil, and purchase olive oil and soap for yourself or as a thoughful holiday gift.

Saturday, October 11
11:00 am, St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church, 1704 NE 43rd Ave.
4:00 pm, People’s Co-op, 3029 SE 21st. Ave.

Sunday, October 12
11:30 am, Grace Episcopal Church, 1535 NE 17th Ave.

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Exit Wounds: Combat Trauma and Trials of Homecoming

Photos of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans by Jim Lommasson.
Over two thousand photos by the soldiers taken while in country, including interviews and writing by the soldiers.

922 SE Ankeny Street
Portland, OR 97214
Thursday - Sunday, Noon - 6PM + By appointment.

The Myth of Return
Photographer Jim Lommasson will present a series of photographs and interviews with American veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. The soldiers speak the truth about war, their participation, and the effects on themselves and those caught in the crossfire.  This exhibit examines and raises questions about a generation of soldiers largely invisible to the American public.  The stories are profound and timeless. Returning soldiers have always had to process the real and transformative traumas of battle while integrating into a new civilian culture that lacks the clarity, meaning, and sense of ‘mission’ that war can provide. But how will these returning ‘silent warriors’ shape the social fabric into which they must now incorporate? With bodies and minds completely attuned to the violence and exigencies of war, what is the psychic space these young veterans inhabit after their tours? What happens when battle-bred virtues, such as a heroic disregard for one’s life and pain, become a liability or even contemptible in their new home? Exit Wounds looks at some of the trials of reintegration for this generation of invisible warriors and asks whether they do in fact get to ‘come home.’

 
More info about the exhibit.

Every Sunday.

Location: Estacada, Estacada City Hall, Hwy 224 and Main St.

Contact: Peter Hamer, phamer@cascadeaccess.com

When:                         Every Sunday, 1:00 PM           

            Where:                       At the totem pole on Hwy 30 in Scappose

    Contact: julane@opusnet.com 

Every Sunday.

Location: SE Taylor and SE 35th, East side of Sunnyside School

Organization: Peace Activists and Concerned Youth

Jeff Halper, Executive Director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions

Saturday, October 11 7:00 PM, doors open at 6:00

Westminster Presbyterian Church, Great Hall, 1624 NE Hancock, Portland

Jeff Halper, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize candidate, nominated with Palestinian intellectual and activist Ghassan Andoni by the American Friends Service Committee, is the executive director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), a grassroots activist NGO in Jerusalem resisting the Israeli occupation on the ground and one of the first Israeli peace groups to work inside the Occupied Palestinian Territories.  Halper was most recently in the news as the only Israeli Jew aboard the FREE GAZA boats that broke the Israeli blockade by sailing from Cyprus to the port at Gaza City in late August.  He was arrested by Israeli police when he returned via the Erez border crossing from Gaza into Israel.

In acts of political resistance, ICAHD works in coalition with a wide range of activist Israeli organizations including: Bat Shalom, Rabbis for Human Rights, Gush Shalom and the Alternative Information Center, as well as grassroots Palestinian groups such as the Land Defense Committee, the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committee (PARC) and the Palestinian Center for Rapprochement Between People.

A professor of Anthropology, Halper has written extensively on the Israeli occupation in periodicals such as The Journal of Palestinian Studies, Counterpunch, and Tikkun Magazine and has published Obstacles to Peace: A Re-framing of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict where he discusses at length and illustrates in detail what he calls “The Matrix Of Control.”  Halper joins other Israeli and U.S. activist groups in calling for an end to US economic and political support that underwrites the Israeli occupation and applauds President Carter’s courage for writing his new book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.  Halper’s latest book, An Israeli in Palestine: Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel, is just out from Pluto Press.

This program is co-sponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace (Portland Affiliate), KBOO Community Radio, Americans United for Palestinian Human Rights, Friends of Sabeel - North America, Portland Peaceful Response Coalition, American Jews for a Just Peace, Peace and Justice Works, Lutherans for Justice in the Holy Land - A Ministry of Central Lutheran Church, Al-Nakba Awareness Project of Eugene, Voices for Mid-East Justice, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, American Friends Service Committee, and others.

For more information, please call (503) 344-5078 or write to pprc@riseup.net 
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