[WCUSP] Fwd: Re: Portland - Stop the siege of Gaza

[yvonne simmons]

--- yvonne simmons <roweenayvonne at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 09:44:32 -0800 (PST)
> From: yvonne simmons <roweenayvonne at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Portland -  Stop the siege of Gaza
> To: Gila Svirsky <gsvirsky at netvision.net.il>,
> roweenayvonne at yahoo.com
> 
> Dear Gila, Our events happen on Dec. 1st Friday
> WIB vigil Opposite the Federal Building at SW 3rd
> and
> SW Madison from 12noon to 1pm
> Friday Dec 1st PPRC co host's WIB and WILPF  "Stop
> the
> siege of Gaza" 5pm to 7pm march and rally.
> I hope this info is OK Yvonne.
> --- Gila Svirsky <gsvirsky at netvision.net.il> wrote:
> 
> > Dear Yvonne,
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Thanks so much for the update about the WIB/WILPF
> > activities.  Sounds great!
> > That's the 74th city we know about!!
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > If you have the exact time and place of this
> > activity, we could post that on
> > the special website we created for the campaign. 
> > Can you email that to us?
> > If not, we can still just make the announcement
> that
> > you gave below.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > Gila
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > ___________________
> > 
> > Gila Svirsky
> > 
> > http://www.GilaSvirsky.com
> > 
> > Coalition of Women for Peace
> > 
> > http://www.coalitionofwomen.org
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >   _____  
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > 
> > From: "yvonne simmons" <roweenayvonne at yahoo.com>
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Dear Lieve and Gila, Portland Oregon, USA is
> having
> > a WIB, WILPF vigil,
> > small march and rally and signature gathering
> around
> > for letter for US
> > Congress people on 1st and 2nd of December We are
> > encourouging other WILPF
> > branches around the US to do likewiswe.
> > 
> > In SOlidarity, 
> > 
> > Yvonne Simmons. 
> > 
> > WIB, WILPF.
> > 
> > 
> > Also US WILPF has a national campaign in its
> second
> > of 3 years named WCUSP,
> > "Women challenge US policy, Building peace on
> > justice in the Middle East"
> > working on the Israel/Palestine tragedy
> > specifically. My birthday was 20th
> > September and I was 60 years old too. It surprises
> > me that the older I get
> > that my body ages but not my mind.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > 
> > From: Elahe Amani <mailto:elahe4peace at yahoo.com>  
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Dear 
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > A news story about the campaign has been published
> > in Zanestan ( her land
> > magazine ) a feminist journal in Iran.  
> > 
> >  <http://herlandmag.net/news/06,11,25,03,09,42/>
> > http://herlandmag.net/news/06,11,25,03,09,42/
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Thanks for keeping us posted.  I have been doing a
> > great deal of publicity
> > work on this campaign.  I feel it is so important
> to
> > highlight the women
> > peace movement.  A movement that is crossing the
> > religious boundaries as it
> > should and address issues as violence against
> women
> > and human rights of
> > women living in Gaza.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > On another note, I will be speaking at the Iranian
> > Progressive women
> > Conference in Germany which will be held in
> > Frankfort the last weekend of
> > January.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > The topic of my talk is Seeing the world through
> the
> > young women eyes and
> > the role of young women in women's movement.  The
> > exact title of my talk is
> > " Young Women Leaders, The Key to Strength and
> > sustainability of Women
> > Organizations".  I wish we were able to connect
> > while I am in Germany.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Peace,
> > 
> > Elahe
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Women in Black Leuven:
> >
>
http://snellings.telenet.be/womeninblackleuven/index_english.htm
> > 
> > "Another world is not only possible, she is on her
> > way. On a quiet day, I
> > can hear her breathing. " Arundhati Roy, Porto
> > Alegre, Brazil, January 27,
> > 2003
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 
>  
>
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