You will find in your bulletin an event for Sunday, June 16 at the World's Fair Pavilion in Forest Park — a Palestine Heritage Festival. It would be good to attend. Please consider this opportunity to promote and enhance cultural exchange.
Recently, a movie was shown here at Parkway UCC. Kris and Tom McKenzie and eight others watched then discussed ‘How Are the Children?’. It is produced by a trusted source, National United Church of Christ.
The film contains cell phone video of Israeli juvenile detention centers with segments of long interrogations, interviews about beatings, cages, and cold. Children are often detained for months, cut off entirely from family. The Palestinians, in their homeland, are under Israeli military occupation. The middle of the night seizures of children from their family homes, followed by a cursory pass through military courts often for the crime of throwing a rock. Another common scene is school children being tear gassed. The extreme and constant military pressure has been called by the UN, slow genocide.
There is a house bill HR2407 entitled The Promoting Human Rights for Palestinian Children Living Under Israeli Military Occupation Act. This would prevent USA military aid from being used against these children.
Evil likes it when good people do nothing.
Please join me at the Palestinian Festival.
Connecting Across Cultures: Palestine Heritage Festival
Sun, Jun 16 | 12:00 pm
World's Fair Pavilion in Forest Park
1904 Concourse Dr.
Promote and enhance cultural exchange by joining a group of PUCCers attending a free in Forest Park—the Palestine Heritage Festival.
Mideast Peace is a complex issue. Making connections with people from all parts of our human family—having conversations, trying their foods, enjoying their music and dance—is not complicated at all.
Lynn Sableman
314-609-6918