Video: Grassroots Advocacy Training & Lobby Day

Presentations during IFPB's First Grassroots Advocacy Training and Lobby Day
February 1 - 2, 2009 - Washington, DC

Interfaith Peace-Builders' first Grassroots Advocacy Training and Lobby Day brought nearly 200 people to Washington DC for a day of workshops on February 1, 2009. The following day, participants held more than 70 meetings with political respresentatives on capitol hill. Click here to read more about the event.

Congressional Briefing

The opening event of the Lobby Day was a Congressional Briefing. Titled Armed and Dangerous: Weapons Transfers to Israel During the Bush Administration, the briefing featured a presentation by Josh Ruebner, Grassroots Advocacy Coordinator at the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation; testimony by Amr Shurrab, whose brothers were killed by Israeli snipers during the 2009 invasion of the Gaza Strip; and Congressman Dennis Kicinich.

VIDEO 1: Armed and Dangerous: Weapons Transfers to Israel During the Bush Administration

 

VIDEO 2: Armed and Dangerous: Weapons Transfers to Israel During the Bush Administration

 

VIDEO 3: Armed and Dangerous: Weapons Transfers to Israel During the Bush Administration

Keynote Panel

The following video clips were taken by Grassroots Advocacy Training participants during the keynote panel on US Policy and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict:

VIDEO 1: Phyllis Bennis - Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and Steering Committee member of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation (part 1)

 

VIDEO 2: Phyllis Bennis - Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and Steering Committee member of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation (part 2)

 

VIDEO 3: Chris Toensing - Director of the Middle East Research and Information Project and Editor of Middle East Report

 

VIDEO 4: Will Youmans - Fellow at the Palestine Center, the educational program of the Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development

 

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