The stage at the Second Annual Bil'in Conference on Nonviolent Popular Joint Struggle

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Guest Speaker Luisa Morgantini

Guest speaker and Nobel Peace Prize winner Mairead Corrigan McGuire

Speaker Feryal Abu Haikal

Speakers Jeff Halper and Mohammad Khatib

MPT Long-Term Team Member Loretta

Press Conference

A nonviolent protest against the Wall is planned.

Demonstration in Bil'in

Long-distance protester

Protester climbs tower

Protest erupts in violence

Medics arrive to help the injured

For all the details on this conference, please visit http://www.bilin-village.org/conference2007/

This teacher works tirelessly to promote creative, nonviolent protests against the Aparthied Fence that is cutting through his village of Bil'in.

Luisa Morgantini is an Italian Member of the European Parliment. She is a leading member of the Italian peace movement and a co-founder of the anti-war organization Women in Black.

McGuire received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 for her heroic work in Northern Ireland, where peace after terror became a reality. She participated in a non-violent protest after speaking when soldiers of the Israeli army opened fire. McGuire was felled by a rubber-coated steel bullet. Undeterred, she pressed the case for human rights under a tree while waiting for the ambulance to arrive.

Feryal Abu Haikal, the headmistress of the

Cordoba School in Hebron. The mother of 11 children has been exposed to violence for the past 37 years. Her family’s house is surrounded by agricultural land and situated on a hilltop. Yet, a year ago they had to cover the windows with burglar bars. The bars were put up not to protect from thieves but because of the stones thrown by settlers from the Tel Rumeida settlement.

Jeff Halper is the Coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) and a professor of anthropology at Ben Gurion University. He has forged a new mode of Israeli peace activity based on non-violent direct action.

Mohammed Khatib is a leading member of Bil'in's Popular Committee Against the Wall and the secretary of its village council. Read his article, "A West Bank village opts for peaceful protest to broach the Wall", at http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/233676_arab24.html

With some of the boys from the village of Bil'in.

Held near the Aparthied Fence that is illegally confiscating portions of Bil'in.

The Israeli military arrive in force to quell the nonviolent protest.

Some of the many soldiers present to squelch the protest.

The man in the center travelled all the way from Puerto Rico to witness what is happening in the West Bank and Gaza.

The visiter from Puerto Rico climbed this tower to hoist a small Palestinian flag over land that legally belongs to the Palestinians.

As is customary, the Israeli Defense Forces lob tear gas & sound bombs, and shoot rubber-coated steel bullets to break up the nonviolent protest against the Wall.

The wounded are treated in the field: their price for vocally confronting the Aparthied Wall.