Nov 7, 2025
By Miranda Pelletier Earlier this week, Kansas City enjoyed a special screening of the film “Gaza Is Our Home” by Monear Shaer, a documentary about the filmmaker’s own experiences visiting family in Gaza and losing loved ones to the genocide committed by the Israeli...
Oct 29, 2025
On Monday, Nov. 3, at 6pm, see the documentary “Gaza Is Our Home” at the Stray Cat Film Center, 1662 Broadway Blvd., KC MO 64108. Afterwards, the filmmaker Monear Shaer will explain why he says, “This is not the documentary I wanted to make.” The movie began as a...
Oct 13, 2025
KCMO-TV, Channel 5, has twice within a week asked PeaceWorks leaders for their views about forging peace in the Mideast. Today marked the beginning of the 20-step peace process, including the release of the last 20 hostages from Gaza and the arrival of humanitarian...
Aug 30, 2024
The Israeli government has received over 50,000 tons of weapons and military equipment from the U.S. since October 2023. As we’ve watched in horror, these weapons have been used to slaughter and displace tens of thousands of Palestinians, and to uphold a brutal siege...