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Subject: Upcoming Social Justice events about Colombia and Palestine
American Friends Service Committee Connecticut
In This Issue: May 31 2007
. June 3 and 4 : A Colombian Peacemaker speaks
. June 10 and 11: Mobilization in Washington D.C. Against the Israeli Occupation of Palestine
June 3 and 4 : A Colombian Peacemaker speaks
Alba Luz Arrieta Cabrales is a Colombian human rights activist. In two upcoming Connecticut events she will speak about her experiences in the Alternatives to Violence program in Colombia, her work in peacemaking, human rights, trauma healing, and how faith has led her to seek new ways of dealing with old problems.
Sunday, June 3, 2007 at 7:00 PM
Unitarian Universalist Society: East
153 West Vernon St. Manchester, CT 06042
Contact: Mike Winterfield (860) 232-5528 or mikewinterfield at comcast.net
Monday, June 4, 2007 at 7:00 PM
Storrs Friends Meetinghouse
57 Hunting Lodge Rd. Storrs, CT 06248
Contact: Anna Andrews (860) 742-1231 or annaandrews at comcast.net
Background innformation:
Alba Luz Arrieta Cabrales is a Presbyterian woman, an educator and a theologian. She is a very active woman in her church Iglesia Presbiteriana San Bernabé, in Bogotá, Colombia, as a Christian education teacher, facilitator of workshops and as a preacher.
Alba is also the board president of The Ecumenical National Network of Women for Peace, an ecumenical institution whose main work is referred to women and families displaced by the social conflict armed in the north coast of Colombia.
She worked with the Mennonite church in Justapaz, a Christian Center for Peace, Justice and Non-violent Actions, where she was the coordinator of Teaching Training Material on Peace building and Conflict Resolution. In Justapaz she received training on Alternatives to Violence, (a non-violence program held by a Quaker North American team). She facilitates workshops on these three areas: Conflict resolution, Alternatives to violence and Gender and Bible, to church women leaders, ecumenical groups and displaced women and men.
She is the National Correspondent of the WCC Ecumenical Scholarships Committee in Colombia and is also a board member (for Latin America) of Dignity International, an international institution whose main work is on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR).
Alba studied Modern Languages at La Salle University in Bogotá, Colombia, and Theology in Mexico and Costa Rica, at the Latin American Biblical Seminary, today Latin American Biblical University. She is also a postgraduate on Human Development and Values and started studies on Research and Curriculum. In 2005 she participated as a team investigator in a research about The social action of evangelical Christian churches in Colombia during the years 1995-2005, a research approved by the Evangelical Confederation of Christian Churches in Colombia.
As an active member of the Presbyterian Church in Colombia for many years, she has participated in several consultations in the US : Peacemaking Program, Louisville, KY,1996; Mission to the US Program: A year with Latin Americans, Appleton, WI, 1996; Presbyterian Women Gathering: A cloud of witnesses around the world, Louisville, KY, 1997; Global Village Conference, Des Moines, IOWA, 1997; Workshop on Economic Justice, Stony Point Center, New York, NY, 1997; International Women Meeting, Stony Point Center, New York, NY, 1997; Conferences on Mission, Seattle, WA, Houston, TX, Falls Church, VA, 1999.
On the other side, she has also participated on consultations held by the WARC as follows: Women and men in partnership in God's Mission, Caracas, Venezuela, 1995; Consultation on Gospel and Cultures, Tana Toraja, Indonesia, 1996; Women Conference and General Council of Reformed Churches Break the chains of injustice, Debrecen, Hungary, 1997.
She has also attended seminars and training courses like: Course Practitioners of Peace, Oslo, Norway, 2001 and Training Course on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Alcochete, Portugal, 2003 and 2004.
Alba has been Moderator of the Central Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church of Colombia and at present she is an Elder with pastoral functions in her church in Bogotá. She is divorced and has three sons and four grandchildren. Her main personal task as theologian, educator and workshop facilitator is continuing working on peacemaking, gender justice and human rights, subjects in which she has got some expertness.
June 10 and 11: Mobilization in Washington D.C. Against the Israeli Occupation of Palestine
On June 10 and 11 the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation is organizing a mobilization to mark the 40th anniversary of Israel's illegal military occupation of the Palestinian West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem
Please join the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation and United for Peace and Justice in Washington, DC, June 10-11, 2007 for a protest, teach-in, and lobby day. AFSC nationally is endorsing the event and AFSC-CT encourages people to attend this important mobilization.
The Middle East Crisis Committee is organizing a bus from Connecticut to attend the weekend's events. Bus tickets may by purchased from MECC in the following ways:
$50 tickets online by going to http://www.thestruggle.org. You can pay by credit card. Pay Pal handles the secure transaction. Your personal and credit card information is safe.
You may also pay by check and mail it in. Please note that Monday June 4th is last day to get your check in. Make it payable to "MECC" and mail to MECC, Box 3626, Woodbridge, CT 06525. Include your name, phone and email. Otherwise call us at 203-934-2761.
There are some reduced price and even some free tickets. You must reserve a ticket. Get to Long Wharf by 11:30 p.m. on Sat. June 9th. The bus will meet us in the parking area that is in back of the La Quinta Inn (formerly the Fairfield Inn), 400 Sargeant Drive, New Haven. The parking area is to the right of the restaurant Brazzi's. People have left cars overnight for demos there without any problems.
Highlight: Some of the speakers at the rally include Mazin Qumsiyeh and Cindy and Craig Corrie from Rachel Corrie's family. The full list is here http://www.endtheoccupation.org/article.php?id=1391
Here is the schedule of events: http://www.endtheoccupation.org/article.php?id=1351
Full details about the rally at:
http://www.endtheoccupation.org/article.php?list=type&type=162
www.endtheoccupation.org
American Friends Service Committee
Connecticut Area Office
56 Arbor Street, Suite 213
Hartford, CT 06106
Phone: 860.523.1534
Fax: 860.523.1705
Email: connecticut at afsc.org Visit AFSC CT Online
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