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Our current campaign is to save the kindergarten of Al Aqabah (our earliest project) and its village. When newcomers join this campaign, we would like to show them a web-based map of others in their congressional district who have registered and invite them into a discussion forum. People will be interacting with our staff, with those directly involved with the cause there on the ground, with other constituents who are concerned with the village, and possibly with others nationwide or worldwide who want to help develop a particular idea or aspect of the case. They’ll use a web interface that includes event management and constituent mapping in each congressional district to gain a sense of how we all fit together. We use “Contact Congress Teleconferences†to link constituents with the people directly involved and senior staffers for their senators and representatives. Below is a film we made in 2004 about Al Aqabah, when it seemed as if an "eastern wall" was the reason for the mass demolition order.
What else have you done in this area of work?
The Rebuilding Alliance is a Palo-Alto based nonprofit organization working to rebuild communities in conflict zones and make them safe. We began our work in 2003, helping Israelis and Palestinians work together to rebuild Palestinian homes and schools starting in East Jerusalem. In Gaza, we partnered with the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme, www.GCMHP.net, to rebuild a home for the family Rachel Corrie sought to protect. In the West Bank, we are now working to save one of our earliest projects, a kindergarten, and its village of Al Aqabah from demolition orders, asking elected officials to call the Israeli Embassy to urge a compromise. President Carter recently recognized our work on the CarterCenter.org website when we helped him link to NGO representatives in Gaza via video and web. We bring Israelis and Palestinians to the U.S. to tell their story directly to communities, Congress, and the State Dept.