Dear Council, My name is Usama Alshaibi. I am a professor at CU Boulder and a local filmmaker. I’ve been featured on Boulder Community Radio and Colorado Public Radio. I make films that deal with racism and bigotry against Arab Americans. My family is from Palestine and Iraq, and we […]
Read more →Dear Boulder City Council members: My name is Alexa Mehos, and I´m writing this letter on the eve of my 25th birthday from a tiny village in the northern tip of the Andes Mountains of Peru, where I´ve spent the last three months volunteering and travelling. I traveled in Israel […]
Read more →This letter comes in support of the request to make Nablus a sister city of Boulder. I first visited Nablus in 2010 when I was on a tour of Israel and Palestine. I immediately fell in love with the city because of the friendliness of its residents, the charm of […]
Read more →Dear council member, I’m emailing to encourage you to approve Nablus as Boulder’s 8th sister city. I am a senior at Shining Mountain Waldorf School and when I was 16 I had the opportunity to spend three weeks as a volunteer in Nablus. During that time, I mostly played soccer […]
Read more →To: Boulder City Council My name is Eliza Verena Norris and I was born and raised in Boulder, Colorado where my family lives. I am currently living in Washington D.C. where I have the privilege to work on behalf of global human rights. My interest in the Middle East arose […]
Read more →To Members of the City Council of Boulder: As a community about to decide on the issue of Nablus as a Sister City I am reminded of the of the Prime Minister of Norway’s statement after the terrorist attacks there in July of 2011 committing to protect the culture of openness […]
Read more →Dear City Council members: I am writing in support of making Nablus a Sister City of Boulder. Three years ago this request was rejected by the Council (for very poor reasons in my estimation). Since then, the advocates of the Nablus Sister City project have worked exceedingly hard to build […]
Read more →Dear Council, I hope you will support this proposal to formalize the sister city relations between Boulder and Nablus. I attended the Council meeting where this idea – of making Nablus a sister city of Boulder – a few years ago. I was disappointed by the council vote that time […]
Read more →Dear Members of City Council, The Boulder Branch of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom strongly urges you to approve the designation of Nablus as an official sister-city of Boulder. WILPF is a hundred-year-old organization working for peace and human rights around the world. We see the Nablus […]
Read more →Dear Friends, In early June 2015, I had the privilege of leading a pilgrimage to Palestine-Israel for 19 members of our First Presbyterian Church of Boulder. The focus of our trip was not only to see the “ancient stones” of the historic sites, but to have fellowship with what the […]
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