OneVoice in Focus: November 2006

Civic Outreach – Jenin Women Unite Under OneVoice Banner

In Jenin this week more than 60 women attended a OneVoice workshop, many of them already involved with local NGOs. Participants discussed different non-violent approaches, the OneVoice principles and how they can be involved with its 2007 campaigns. Today there will be another meeting in a village near Ramallah to promote the campaign and get further commitments.

OneVoice Israel Targets Local Campuses

This October, OneVoice Israel’s team was out recruiting at college campuses in an effort to build local chapters, raise awareness and find new recruits to the leadership program amongst some of Israel’s most powerful student bodies. OneVoice stalls were present in Tel Aviv University and Tel Aviv Academic College, Netanya College, Herzeliyah Inter-Disciplinary center and Rishon LeZion College.

For pictures click here, here and here.

Youth Leadership Training

This month advanced training seminars for activists from across the West Bank were held, focusing on the concepts of civil society, mobilization, lobbying and advocacy, how to launch mobilization campaigns, skills in organizing and conducting public meetings and communication skills.

OneVoice Israel meanwhile, conducted another recruitment session in Jerusalem – where many eager participants were welcomed onto the Leadership Program. For pictures click here and here.

With the OneVoice Mandate finalized and ready to be printed and distributed, a number of meetings have been held across the Region to agree upon a specific techniques and guidelines in regards of dealing with people, solving problems, answering questions and documenting feedback as youth leaders prepare to roll-out the mandate.

OneVoice in the Public Eye

At the November 11th memorial event for President Arafat, OneVoice Palestine distributing a statement called every citizen to express their role in ending the conflict. 50,000 flyers and tens of signs and banners were distributed urging people to express their commitment to end the conflict. At the 11th Annual memorial for Yitzak Rabin, meanwhile, OneVoice Israel activists took the opportunity to reach out into that community that still believed in Rabin’s mission and offered those their in commemoration an opportunity to be part of the implementation of that mission.  Two dozen OneVoice activists signed up hundreds of new members. Click here to download a slide show featuring pictures of OneVoice’s outreach (it may take a short while to load, just hit ‘save to disk’ and then ‘ok’ when the message pops up and it’ll be on your computer waiting to be viewed).

Comments

[Uschi Samawi]

This is the first time I have heard about your organization and I think it is the best idea anyone has come up with in ages. I live in Jordan and travel frequently to the OT and Gaza and I know that the overwhelming majority of Palestinians are no terrorists and just want to live in peace. And I have also friends in Israel who feel the same.
This is the right way to go, forget about the corrupt leaderships on both sides, get the PEOPLE to speak out! Thank you.