Media
MPT
photo documentations of the situations and actions at home and abroad
Fall Harvest Peace Team 2004
click for [ Fall Harvest ] pictures Harvesting is the process of gathering crops off the fields. On smaller farms with minimal mechanization, harvesting is the most labour-intensive activity of the growing season. On large, mechanized farms, harvesting utilizes the most expensive and sophisticated types of farm machinery, like the combine harvester. Harvest timing is critical, and involves a degree of risk and gambling, requiring an important decision each year, for each crop, that balances the likely weather conditions...
Surda
click for [ Surda ] pictures 2003 Summer Peace Team confronts the IDF in Surda, and are tear gassed and physically dragged away....
Nablus Tank Blocking
Nablus also (rarely) spelled Nabulus (Arabic نابلس; Hebrew שכם, Shechem) is a major city (pop. 300,000) in the West Bank, about 63 kilometers north of Jerusalem. Its residents are mainly Arab Palestinians. Nearby are the locations of several holy sites of Islam, Christianity and Judaism. It was founded in CE 72 as a Roman city named Flavia Neapolis ("New city of the imperator Flavius"), about 2 kilometers east of the site of the Biblical city of Shechem. With the...
Lansing Rallies
Lansing Progressive Alliance (LPA) also called Lansing Public Alliance and Lansing Public Announcement is a community project consisting of a loose network of autonomous Progressivism organizations who by and large, tend to follow a liberal/leftist or sometimes libertarian political ideology and reside in Lansing, Michigan....
Candle Light March on Jerusalem
Jerusalem (Modern Hebrew: Yerushaláyim, Biblical and trad. Sephardi Hebrew: , Arabic: القدس al-Quds, see also names of Jerusalem) is an ancient Middle Eastern city of key importance to the religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. It is also known by some as the City of David and Zion. With today's population of 681,000, it is a richly heterogeneous city, representing a wide range of national, religious, and socioeconomic groups. The section called the "Old City" is surrounded by walls...
Training
The global peace movement refers to a sense of common purpose among organizations that seek to end wars and minimize inter-human violence, usually through pacifism, non-violent resistance, diplomacy, boycott, moral purchasing and demonstrating. The movement includes several international organizations, but more often describes a loose affiliation of activists and political interests that rally around a shared purpose. (Also see Anti-war) The movement often tends to be a loose, reactive and event-driven collaboration between groups with motivations as diverse as...
