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A Conference for Teens (Ages 13-18)

The Massachusetts Peer Leadership Institute is a statewide conference for peer leaders* to connect with each other and to build skills. The workshops offered will address the topics/issues that young people are working on. In addition, peer leaders will meet and connect with other peer leaders and learn best practices from each other.

* A peer leader is a young person who is committed to building leadership skills and works to make the community a better place by doing advocacy work, building networks, leading workshops, mobilizing youth and striving towards positive change.

WEBSITE: http://www.youthworkcentral.org/other-projects/peer-leadership-institute.html

Ann Wright

Husam Zomlot

Jeff Klein

The deadly Israeli attack May 30 on a humanitarian flotilla delivering aid to blockaded Gaza has aroused the condemnation of the world, further isolated Israel's intransigent regime, and challenged the U.S. to review its Middle East policy lest it, too, face isolation. There is a new situation and new opportunities to build the movement to end the siege of Gaza and US support for the occupation of Palestine.   Three speakers will lead off our discussion:

• Ann Wright was a passenger on the Challenger 1, one of the six boats in the Gaza flotilla that was raided by Israeli commandos on May 31, and will give us an eyewitness report.   She is a retired U.S. army colonel who also served as a State Department diplomat.  She resigned her State Department post in 2003 to protest the war in Iraq.  (After the conference Saturday night, Ann will also give an in-depth presentation at the Palestinian Cultural Center - NOT on Friday night as previously posted).