02-12-2009
3rdParty in Antwerp - final programme 09-010
We just finalised our programme of meetings for the first of 3 years of meetings with delegations of Israeli and Palestinian peace and human rights activists in schools and neighbourhood associations in the city of Antwerp:
3dePARTIJ - definitief programma 09-010
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28-09-2009
3dePartij in Knack
Het weekblad Knack engageerde zich om gedurende 3 jaren het programma van 3dePartij in Antwerpen op de voet te volgen.
Zij zullen dit doen via achtergrondartiekels die telkens gepubliceerd worden een week voor de aankomst van een delegatie vredesactivisten in Antwerpen.
Het eerste artiekel over 3dePartij en over Physicians for Human Rights (de delegatie die op 5 en 6 oktober in Antwerpen is), komt nu woensdag 30 september in Knack (pagina 14).
Physicians for Human Rights Israel on internet
The first delegation of peace activists invited in the 3rdParty programme in Antwerp (October 5 and 6th, 2009), is the Israeli antenna of Physicians for Human Rights.
You can find detailed information on their work on the Physicians for Human Rights website.
One can also find them on YouTube.
28-08-2009
start programme 3rdParty
We will on 5 and 6th October 2009 start our 3-year programme of inviting every 2 months peace activists and freedom fighters from Israel and Palestine to schools and associations in the city of Antwerp.
The first delegations we are inviting to Antwerp, are:
doctors - 5-6 October: Physicians for Human Rights Israel (public encounter: evening 6th October at Toneelhuis)
mothers - 14-15 december: Machsomwatch (public encounter: evening 15th December at Monty)
fighters - 8-9 February 2010: Combatants for Peace (public encounter: evening 9th February at Monty)
07-08-2009
3rdPARTY (3dePARTIJ) almost ready to take off
3rdPARTY is a private initiative of 5 people: Karin Heremans (director Atheneum Antwerpen), Mohammed Filali (islam-teacher Atheneum Antwerpen), Rik Coolsaet (professor University of Brussels), Simone Susskind (peace and human rights activist) and Lukas Pairon (director music ensemble Ictus and ong Music Fund).
We expect to be able to start our 3-year initiative with the invitation of a first delegation to Antwerp of Israeli and Palestinian peace activists the first days of October 2009.
Knack, the main Flemish magazine, decided to follow up during the full 3 year programme on all these meetings by publishing articles on the peace activists invited to Antwerp.
13-04-2009
"3rdPARTY" is starting in September
"3rdPARTY" is starting in September
I am really happy to hear that thanks to financial support from the Province of Antwerp, the private project "3rdPARTY" (a 3-year project around Palestinian and Israeli peace-activists) can be started in Antwerp from this Autumn on.
It is a private initiative which I am taking together with Rik Coolsaet, Karin Heremans and Mohammed Filali.
"3rdPARTY" (in Dutch: "3dePARTIJ") is a 3-year programme in 3 parts:
1. every 2 months a meeting with peace activists from Israel and Palestine: during 3 days they will meet in the city of Antwerp with schools, associations and finally also in public at one of the 2 theatres (Toneelhuis / Monty), to share their hopes, aspirations and difficulties. a well-read Flemish magazine will each time cover these meetings (5 per year, 15 in 3 years).
2. from the Summer of 2010 on, we will organise 3 years in a row a 10-day trip to Israel and Palestine for a group of about 10 youngsters who just finished highschool (18-20 year olds).
3. we will create a fund to give support to peace activists' projects in the Middle East.
This private initiative wants to show that there are some very curageous people working for peace, against all odds and against the opinion of many around them, and that we as "third party" - outside of the conflict region - can be of help by making friends with them, presenting their work and giving support to some of their projects.
As soon as we get firm confirmation about the budgets, the peace activists invited from September on will soon be contacted and the full programme of this initiative announced here and elsewhere.