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Vow to Take a Stand in your community!
Make history happen! Get involved in Olympia's LGBT community. ERW and Lambda
Legal are planning Vow To Take A Stand, an event for coalition building,
education, advocacy, and getting people excited about Equality Day in Olympia,
to be held February 26th. Learn how you can move equality forward in your area.
This event will also be held in the following cities: Vancouver, Tacoma, Seattle, and Spokane.
When: 12:00p.m.
Thursday, February 1, 2007
Where: First Christian Church
701 Franklin St., Olympia, WA 98501
Susan Greene, renowned Bay Area community mural artist and clinical psychologist will speak about her twenty years of experience with collaborative community based mural projects that re-inscribe walls in Occupied Palestine. Greene’s talk will focus particularly on murals that were painted in 2005 on the walls of the Rachel Corrie Children and Youth Cultural Center in the city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip.
Greene is one of four Jewish American female artists who in 1989 formed Break the Silence Mural Project (BTS) and traveled to the West Bank city of Ramallah to paint community murals with Palestinian community members and artists. Upon returning,they presented their work and reflections to high school, university, and community audiences across the United States including at the San Francisco Art Institute, Art Institute of Chicago, and the Alternative Museum in New York. The group produced an award winning video that aired on cable TV networks and in film festivals. In San Francisco’s Mission District, a traditional haven for refugees the world over, Break the Silence painted a mural about the occupation of Palestine and the Palestinian right to a homeland, making connections with issues of “home.” Break the Silence artists have returned to the West Bank and Gaza numerous times to facilitate community mural projects, conduct arts workshops, and create sculpture in refugee camps in Bethlehem, Ramallah, Nablus, Beit Hanoun and Rafah.
The VFP109 show for the month of February contains information on The National Convention of Veterans for Peace held during August, 2006 in Seattle, WA; including the veterans bike ride for peace & sustainability and a speech by Lt. Ehren Watada regarding his decision to refuse to participate in the illegal invasion and continuing occupation of Iraq by the U.S.
This program airs on Thursdays at 8am and Fridays at 10pm throught the month of February.
