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GALA 2025
UPCOMING GALA: South Africa for Palestine
REV. EDWIN ARRISON & SOUTH AFRICAN “VOLMOED YOUTH DRUMMERS”
Sunday, November 10, 3:30-7:00pm
Orchard Ridge Country Club
4531 Lower Huntington Rd, Fort Wayne, IN 46809
Make your single registration or benefactor level registrations online (click here for online donations) or send a check to the address below...
Indiana Center for Middle East Peace
P.O. Box 12005
Fort Wayne, IN 46862
memo line: Gala 2024
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Individual Registration $85
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2 Registrations $300
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4 Registrations (2 Gala Guests) $600
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8 Registrations (6 Gala Guests) $1,000
South African Anglican priests Rev. Edwin Arrison and Rev. Rene August were close friends of, partners and veteran anti-apartheid activists with the late Nobel Peace Prize winner, Archbishop Desmond Tutu (lovingly known as "Arch"). They give lectures around the world on the Arch's philosophy of "ubuntu," "I am because we are," a sense of mutuality, reconciliation with justice, unity, and community.
Edwin was ICMEP’s 2022 Gala speaker and Champion of Justice Award recipient. He is the leader of Kairos South Africa, is a consultant and partner with Kairos Palestine, an organizer of the May 2024 Global Anti-Apartheid Conference on Palestine, with 30 nations present, and led the first international delegation to Palestine after October 7.
Rene is a reconciliation trainer with Cape Town’s The Warehouse, working with church leaders in some of the poorest countries in the world as they seek to respond to the issues of poverty, injustice, and division.
South Africa has led global support for Palestine, most recently in its court case at the International Criminal Court. Edwin and Rene are leaders of the Volmoed Youth Drummers, young women and men who make drums, perform in schools, hospitals, community organizations, etc. In the rebuilding of post-apartheid South Africa, from their country’s most impoverished of townships, these young women and men are empowered, deal with issues of ongoing racism, youth unemployment, and create community.
Check out the Volmoed Youth Drumming Project Website
Indiana Center for Middle East Peace (ICMEP) is an independent non-sectarian center dedicated to educating for peace, justice, and inter-cultural understanding locally and globally.
On our 20th anniversary, we invest in Palestine’s future!
In the midst of apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and genocide, in our 20th anniversary year, 2025, we “invest in Palestine.”
In addition to your regular giving to sustain our programs in NE Indiana, we invite you to contribute to one or more of the following three initiatives.
Our goal is to raise 20,000 in calendar year 2025 for each of the following.
- HEAL Palestine’s medical, surgical, educational, and humanitarian work with the children and youth of Gaza;
- Supporting our Palestinian Mission Partners in Bethlehem, Nablus, and Bil’in;
- A Scholarship Fund to take our next generation of ICMEP leaders to Palestine.
Upcoming ICMEP Events
MILITARISM AT HOME AND ABROAD
US Domestic and Foreign Policy and its Implications in the Middle East
In the US, censoring the arts and humanities, anti-science including unhealthy healthcare information, humanitarian government agencies decimated, environmental protections discarded, government agents murdering its own citizens, the Epstein files, and most of all, a war on truth, Orwell’s prediction come true – threatening journalists, shuttering the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, rewriting history, lies masking as truth, don’t believe your own eyes.
And overseas, Ongoing genocide in Gaza, 37 humanitarian organizations banned from providing relief in Gaza, increased ethnic cleansing throughout the West Bank, criminally supported by the US government. Violation of a sovereign Venezuela, kidnapping its leader. Threatening Iran, Greenland, Colombia, Mexico.
Join Indiana Center for Middle East Peace for this wide-ranging, three-part series as Executive Director, Michael Spath, interviews a line-up of eminent political analysts: Matt Duss, Josh Paul, and Josh Ruebner.
Matt Duss – Wednesday, February 4, 1:00pm EST
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Josh Paul – Wednesday, February 11, 12:00pm EST
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Josh Ruebner – Wednesday, February 25, 1:30pm EST
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Events
Events
Join us to Rally for Palestine FIRST and THIRD Tuesday each month
Join us the FIRST and THIRD Tuesday each month 5-6pm at the Allen County Courthouse
715 S Calhoun St, Fort Wayne, IN 46802
Come, bear witness, stand in solidarity with Palestine. We are grateful for your continued support.
“Ceasefire now. Human rights now. Free Palestine now. Free Gaza now.
Never again means never again for everybody.”
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