Spring Peace Team 2004

Spring Peace Team 2004

The Michigan Peace Team's Spring Team has arrived safely in Jerusalem! Over the next 2 weeks they will be attending the Sabeel Conference on the threat of Christian Zionism, attend the release of Mordechai Vanunu (an Israeli peace activist imprisoned for 17 years for exposing Israel's nuclear weapons program) and helping to lay the ground work for MPT's summer team. Below is a brief introduction to each of our peacemakers along with updates sent by them from Jerusalem.

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Hassan N., a Palestinian-American, is Director of Citizens for Palestinian Human Rights in Dearborn, Michigan and a member of the Michigan Peace Team's Team Deployment Committee. He was born in East Jerusalem where his family resided until 1948 when they were expelled by Zionist forces.

Kim R is a mother of four and an English and Religion teacher at Holy Redeemer High School in southwest Detroit. In addition to working with the Michigan Peace Team, Kim is on the state board of Michigan Pax Christi and is involved with the Catholic Peace Fellowship. She also edits On the Edge, the Detroit Catholic Worker newspaper. Kim represents Michigan Peace Team and the Detroit Catholic Worker as part of the Detroit Area Peace with Justice Network and is involved in Women in Black. This is her first team deployment with the Michigan Peace Team and she hopes it will not be her last.

Barbara Bis in her 45th year as an IHM sister. She's happy to be traveling back to Jerusalem where she spent Holy Week and Easter last year as well. Because she's finishing her sabbatical year, she felt she had more time to prepare for this trip and a sense of some places to visit "on the ground." Before leaving she commented,"When all of us agreed to participate in the Sabeel conference and represent MPT, Israel had not informed us of its planned and outrageous attack on Sheikh Ahmad Yassim. The climate has heated up once more."