Lauren Anzaldo
Lauren Anzaldo has traveled twice to Occupied Palestine. She spent two months summer 2003 living and working in Jenin (West Bank). There she taught English as a second language to elementary school students at a summer camp and to employees of Physicians Without Borders. She also volunteered with the International Solidarity Movement, a Palestinian-led movement of Palestinian and international activists committed to resisting the Israeli occupation of Palestine and to raising worldwide awareness about the conflict . After returning to her home town of Pensacola, Florida, Lauren Anzaldo co-founded the Florida Palestine Solidarity Network.
Lauren Anzaldo returned to Palestine in May 2004 as part of a weeklong Florida youth delegation. There she has visited and talked with residents of Qalqilyah, Hebron, Ramallah, Bethlehem and Jerusalem and has witnessed the devastating, compound impact of Israeli settlements and the Apartheid Wall in those areas. Lauren has also met with members of the brave Palestinian, Israeli and international nonviolent resistance movement to the Wall in the village of Biddu.
This is Lauren Anzaldo’s second Wheels tour.