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PEACE ACTIVIST FROM PALESTINE LEADS WORKSHOP IN MAY

Kansas City, Missouri – 4/20/24

Doctor Mubarak Awad from Jerusalem and Spencer Graves, president of Friends of Community Media will lead a workshop on the role of the media in peace and standing up for Palestinians.  The event will be from 2-4 PM, on Saturday, May 4th at All-Souls  Unitarian Universalist Church, 4501 Walnut in Kansas City, with a Q&A session followed by a reception.  Dr. Awad will also speak at the 9:30 All-Souls forum on Sunday, May 5 to be broadcast later on community radio station KKFI 90.1 FM.

Mubarak is Palestinian, born in Jerusalem in 1943. He has a PhD in psychology and has US citizenship. In 1983 he founded the Palestinian Centre for the Study of Nonviolence in Jerusalem. He was expelled by Israel in 1988 for organizing nonviolent civil disobedience in the First Intifada.  He then founded Nonviolence International, advocating for active nonviolence and nonviolent campaigns worldwide.

Friends of Community Media is a Kansas City non-profit organization with a goal of promoting community-based media.  It also assists local groups to create independent media, influence existing media, and promote diverse media ownership.

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Contact Spencer Graves (408) 655-4567

More information on this event and on Spencer Graves may be found at this link:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w2jA8KWMSSI0MIjcKAByCAJhvTjlAAykQxr6pZeAgb4/edit

Photo of Mubarak Awad

4/20/24 – Information is also available at the PeaceWorks Kansas City Website:

https://peaceworkskc.org/standing-up-for-palestinians-the-role-of-the-media/