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Thread #94132   Message #3217266
Posted By: Dorothy Parshall
02-Sep-11 - 05:29 PM
Thread Name: BS: An optimistic voice for peace in Israel
Subject: RE: BS: An optimistic voice for peace in Israel
If you google Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta you will find her book Refusing to Be Enemies: Palestinian and Israeli Nonviolent Resistance to the Israeli Occupation.

"Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta's new book offers us a compelling invitation to consider non-violent activism as a path to peaceful resolution in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In a series of interviews, essays and commentaries, and with contributions from notable peace activists such as Ghassan Andoni, Ursula Franklin, Jeff Halper, Starhawk and others, she explores many forms of creative non-violence and its powerful effects."

She gave a compelling talk at the book launch in Montreal a few months ago. It is mostly on line also,