This peacecast featured Palestinian and Israeli women of the Coalition for a Just Peace, reporting online to the FIRE studios in Costa Rica via telephone after the Women in Black Vigil that took place on the 5^th of October in Israel. The Coaliton of Women for Peace organized a mass vigil of Women in Black - Israel that took place at the Megiddo Junction. The vigil was the closing event of Bat Shalom's Sukkat Hashalom ["Tabernacle of Peace"] that included 3 days of dialogue, political education and discussions scheduled on: "One Year of Intifadah, One Moment Before War: Women Offer Alternatives".

This event was organized by Jewish and Palestinian women in the north of Israel who have been active together for many years in Bat Shalom in the struggle to end the occupation, against racism and discrimination in Israel, and for a just political solution to the Israeli Palestinian conflict.

Background: The Women´s PEACECASTS Project grew from several existing ideas and projects to rise to the occasion of the attack September 11 on the United States. From an initial core of participants, it is designed to expand outward and involve many and varied women in discussion across boundaries of nations, groups,
philosophies, and also languages. The final goal the project aims for is: Peace on Earth through realizing women's values.

Samira Houri	click here
Nabila Espanioli	click here

Vera Yordan	click here
Lily Traubman(in Spanish)	click here

Testimony of three generations of Palestinian women, presented by Palestinian Manar Faraj of Deheiseh Camp and Vivian Stronberg of MADRE in the USA at an NGO Global Tribunal at the U.N. World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerace, September, 2001: