GAZA: a Grass-roots Report
Ashland, 06.12.2009 00:00
GAZA: a Grass-roots Report
Lynn MacMichael, long-time peace and justice activist from the Bay Area, will present a first-hand report from Gaza on Wednesday December 9 at 7 pm in the Rogue River Room, Stevenson Union, at SOU.
She has just returned from spending about a month in the Middle East with the Interfaith Peace Builders. The group assisted Palestinians with the olive harvest, and planned to accompany children so they can go safely to their school outside of Hebron.
Lynn has made at least eight trips to the Middle East, including Israel/Palestine and Iraq, with various peace and justice groups in the past 20 years.
Biography: Lynn MacMichael
A Humanities and Philosophy Department faculty member since 1969, Lynn MacMichael has taught Classical and Eastern Humanities and introduced the African Studies program , the Asian Studies and Peace
Studies Programs at Diablo Valley College. She has served on department and division committees and the Faculty Senate Council.
After receiving her M.A. in history from Columbia University in 1960, she was a Fullbright Exchange Student at Mysore University in India in 1966 and a Fullbright recipient at Sophia University in Tokyo Japan in 1968. She traveled to North Africa during the Algerian War., to Cuba , Haiti and the Dominican Republic in the early 1960’s and, joined Operation Crossroads Africa in Zambia in 1963-64. She
participated in the Civil Rights Movement in the 60’s and
in the activities of the United Farm Workers Union in California’s Central Valley during the 1970’s and 80’s.
Lynn worked with the American Friends Service Committee during the Vietnam War and participated in the Carrier Project/Peace Navy in San
Fransisco Bay , and worked with the Committee of Responsibility, a group of doctors who brought war disabled children for treatment from Vietnam to the Bay Area. She traveled to China, Tibet and Burma in the 1980’s and was a member of the Witness for Peace team in Nicaragua during the Contra War.
In the mid-1990’s Lynn did sabbatical work for the college in Northern Ireland, Vietnam , Cambodia and Laos. First in 1989 and then in the early 1990’s she was part of the Witness for Peace
delegation and under the auspices of the Fellowship of
Reconciliation, she went to Israel/Palestine and Iraq.
She has made three more trips with the Fellowship to Israel /Palestine from 1998 until 2004, and she joined Voices in the Wilderness and returned to Iraq bringing medicine and toys to that
country just before this current war there. For the last three years she and her husband, Howard Weamer have been working with Youth Homes of Contra Costa County as mentors. They have also raised and trained three guide dogs for Canine Companions for Independence.
Lynn is currently working on the Crosses Project in the city of Lafayette. She and others have installed several thousand Crosses, Stars of David’s and Crescent to honor those U.S. forces who have
died in Iraq , on a hillside in the city of Lafayette. And
she has joined with several others the first Thursday of
each month for the “Die-Ins” at the Federal Building in
San Fransisco.
Co-sponsors of the event include Peace House, Citizens for Peace and Justice, Southern Oregon Greens, Ashland branch of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, KSKQ-FM, Collateral Repair Project, SOU Commuter Resource Center and Veterans Resource Office at SOU.
For more information call 482-8915.
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Photos from Gaza 07.12.2009 - 01:36 
Gaza prepares for Eid 
Gaza bakery 
Gaza prepares for Eid A new UNICEF report shows that Palestinian children fair much better than their Arab neighbors. Children in the disputed territories suffer less from stunted growth due to maternal and childhood undernutrition than others in the region. Palestinian Territories- 10% Lebanon - 11 Jordan - 12 Oman - 13 UAE - 17 Saudi Arabia - 20 Kuwait - 24 Iraq - 26 Syria - 28 Egypt - 29 Yemen – 58 An estimated 200 million children aged under five in the developing world suffer from stunted growth due to maternal and childhood malnutrition, according to the report. Yet JVP and its allied groups remain silent on the plight of the children of Yemen and Egypt and throughout the Arab world. Its as though only the Palestinian children counted to them. With approximately 10% of Palestininian children experiencing stunting between 2003-2008, the disputed territories are on equal footing with Turkey, Tuvalu and Bahrain, which at last glance, did not suffer from Israel's "brutal and genocidal" occupation. These photos from gaza appeared in last week's "Palestine today" Rob>  e-mail:: oodjob@yahoo.com
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Lynn MacMichael will be guest on KSKQ 09.12.2009 - 00:42 Lynn MacMichael will be the guest on The Weekly Lowdown this Wednesday at 9:30 AM on KSKQ LP 94.9 FM community radio... Listen Live in Ashland to 94.9 FM or streaming on the web at:  http://audio1.kskq.org:8080/studio.m3u
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