Michiana Voices for Middle East Peace
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Help us provide a platform for folks to tell their own stories with their own voices, voices not commonly heard in the mainstream.
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What We Do
We want to connect in order to grow our capacity for resiliency, little by little turning a divided world into one of empathy and curiosity. Learning about ourselves and each other is where we start.
Our Mission
Michiana Voices for Middle East Peace exists to create venues that amplify the voices and experience of the Palestinian people through education, connection, and action in our local communities in order to create a just and liberated world for all.
Photo: Palestinian Journalist Motaz Azaiza
What’s with all the watermelons?
Perhaps you’ve been seeing watermelons everywhere, from clothes to pins to stickers to social media. Do people just really like the tasty fruit? Maybe. And there’s a deeper story to tell.
Gaza and the West Bank were banned from displaying the Palestinian Flag in 1967. In the 1980s the watermelon became a way for Palestinians to show resistance against their oppression.
Why watermelon specifically? Simple. The colors in the Palestinian flag are red, black, white and green. Red fruit. Black seeds. White and green rind. It was, and is, a way to show solidarity while avoiding censorship.