Friday, April 29: Dance to the Music & Support Chicago Peace Activist Traveling to Palestine

Heartland Cafe, 7000 N. Glenwood Avenue, Chicago, 773-465-8005

Start time: 9:30 PM, $7.00 Suggested Donation

On April 29, 2005 the Heartland Cafe will host a fundraising concert for a local peace activist traveling to Palestine this summer. The Heartland is a longtime supporter of activism in Chicago and a great place to relax with friends or get out to dance. The bands will include The Dirty Blue, Eshu, and Bird Names. If the good cause and good music are not enough to get you out of your house, the event will also have a silent auction with such homemade goodies as knitted arm-warmers.

The activist will be traveling with the International Women's Peace Service (IWPS). IWPS-Palestine documents human rights abuses, nonviolently intervenes in abuses, and works with the media. They work closely with grassroots movements in Palestine and Israel, includes joining demonstrations and opposition to the Apartheid Wall, helping remove roadblocks, and accompanying ambulances and Palestinians while they farm.

If you cannot attend but would like to donate funds to the female activist or have any questions please email circle (at) riseup.net. Donations can also be sent to: ISM-Chicago, ATTN: IWPS, P.O. Box 60622 (please make checks payable to ISM-Chicago)

IWPS-Palestine is an international team of women based in Haris (a village in the Salfit Governorate of the West Bank) who provide international accompaniment to Palestinian civilians, document and nonviolently intervene in human rights abuses, support acts of nonviolent resistance to end the brutal and illegal military Occupation and oppose the Apartheid Wall.