Pam began traveling to Palestine in 2007, and recently returned from a six-month sojourn as a freelance writer and social media instructor for citizen journalists in Gaza Palestine.
The first videos featured on their website were shot in Gaza in January-March of 2011, at the height of the Arab Spring. The next filming trip is planned for January/February 2012, and will begin in the refugee camps of Lebanon, Syria and Jordan.
Pam explained, " The main reason why my business partner and I called our latest venture the Palestinian Gandhi Project is that this is the language used by everyone else" [we] respond with pictures and videos...[about] what we mean by "Gandhian.'" [1]
Meet Pam and Keren:
Pam Bailey and Keren Batiyov by Pam Bailey and Keren Batiyov
I met the other co-founder of the Palestinian Gandhi Project on the second Saturday in September 2007, in Arlington, Virginia, at George Mason University. We both were attending the 6th annual US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation of Palestine.
During a small group break out session, we were asked our organizational affiliations, and Keren Batiyov replied, "I am an organization of one and I am here as a free radical."
She later explained, "I associate Free Radicals-in the political sense-with Anarchism and a rejection of hierarchy and establishment authority. As a free radical I choose to work with groups whose goals are justice and peace."
Keren
also introduced me to the writings of Jewish Liberation Theologian, Marc Ellis.
"Marc Ellis coined the term "Constantinian Judaism' and is a Jewish Liberation
Theologian -- what he thinks and writes is drawn from the prophets -- in other
words, the prophetic tradition of Judaism -- the tradition that says that you
stand for and with the oppressed, whoever and wherever they are. What Christian
Liberation Theology says that Jesus taught -- a preferential option for the poor
and oppressed, Jewish Liberation Theology draw the same teaching from the
prophets."
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