By Joel Gulledge
| Title | Node: Created Time |
|---|---|
| The Best Tea in Palestine | May 29, 2007 |
| The Fear that Remains Constant | Dec 18, 2006 |
| A Week in At-Tuwani, South Hebron Hills | Dec 18, 2006 |
Joel Gulledge is a co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, and a member of Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) in Palestine. Joel grew up in Bruce, Mississippi, and was constantly active as a youth with the Southern Baptist Church until college. He is currently living in Chicago where he studies sociology.
Since 2004, Joel has spent a portion of each year in the occupied Palestinian territories. While in the West Bank, he helped harvest olives, planted olive trees in demolished groves, confronted military checkpoints, and spent time with ordinary families living an everyday human life under an inhuman military occupation. In 2008, he was attacked by an Israeli settler while escorting Palestinian children in At-Tuwani. Joel brings these stories of occupation, nonviolence and dignity in the face of humiliation and violence back to people here in the US.
Joel is founder of Tuwani.org, and has contributed articles to Common Dreams, the Clarion-Ledger, Electronic Intifada and The Peacemaker. He can be reached at
