Building Unity Democracy Tour!
Interfaith Peace Working Group is glad to Co-Sponsor this 20 week Tour! Catch them on the road if you can!
Catch the Tour!
Starting with Juneteenth, we will be on the road every weekend for 20 straight weekends! When you can, please join us on the tour! Here is a link to our emerging schedule:
Salah Sarsour
We are elated by Salah’s release! Thank you to all the partners who have worked tirelessly for this moment, and every single one of you who took action for his freedom.
Salah still faces an immigration hearing next Wednesday, June 24th, and so we invite you to attend our MPower Hour that day. Together, we will take the most strategic actions to keep the pressure on and to ensure that Salah’s freedom today is permanent.
RSVP for the MPower Hour on June 24, 3 pm ET.
I hope to see you there!
In solidarity,
Linda Sarsour and the team at MPower Action
MECA bike ride announcement 2026
Madison’s 2026 Big Ride for Palestine: a fundraiser for Middle East Children's Alliance
July 19, 10am-2:pm, leaving from Olin Park in Madison.
Contact: Cassandra, madisontogaza@gmail.com, 608 445-0357
Madison area cyclists of all ages and abilities are invited to participate in Madison's 2026 Middle East Children’s Alliance Big Ride for Palestine, July 19, presented by Madison-Rafah Sister City Project and Palestine Partners.
This ride is for everyone! Regardless of your age, your bike, and your level of biking energy, this ride is for you!
Riders will gather at 10 for a brief sendoff at the east end of the park, then ride along the Wingra Creek bike path to Midland Park, a distance of about 2.5 miles, where riders will have an option of taking a break, or continuing on for a 3.5 mile loop around the zoo. Riders will then return to Olin Park together. Bike decorations, watermelon and ice water will be available at Olin Park, and participants are encouraged to wear Kuffiyas and decorate bikes in solidarity with the children of Palestine and Lebanon.
Registration is now open and Madison area riders can visit Madison’s team page at https://tinyurl.com/MadisonRide4Palestine
to view a ride map and register to ride with the Madison team, or donate to the Madison team’s fundraising efforts.
Participants have until July 15 to register and receive a Ride for Palestine shirt but are encouraged to register now and build support for their personal ride among friends, family and colleagues to make this year’s event a success in this time of desperate need in Gaza.
The July 19 event at Olin Park is free and open to the public and anyone is welcome to join the ride or cheer on Madison's team.
The event is presented by Madison-Rafah Sister City Project and Palestine Partners and co-sponsored by Madison Jewish Voice for Peace, Madison Mennonite Action, WORT FM Community Radio, Wisconsin Bail Out the People Movement, Veterans for Peace Madison ~ Clarence Kailin, Chapter 25, Madison Area Democratic Socialists of America, Madison for a World BEYOND War, Families for Justice Dane County, Students for Justice in Palestine, Madison, trans* intergenerationalmutual aid project, Wisconsin Interfaith Peace Working Group
MECA works to protect the lives, rights, and well-being of children in Palestine and refugee camps in Lebanon. After over 77 years of ethnic cleansing, displacement, and attacks on their lives and livelihoods, Palestinians remain steadfast on their land and fiercely committed to the cause of freedom and liberation. This Ride for Return is an act of solidarity with Palestinian communities as they struggle to protect their children’s lives and their culture from erasure.
As Israel's bombardment of Gaza and Lebanon, and blockade of Gaza continue, our support is needed more urgently than ever. All funds raised by the Ride will go to MECA’s relief work in Palestine and Lebanon. Learn more about MECA at https://www.mecaforpeace.org.
Madison-Rafah Sister City Project is a local volunteer organization committed to standing with the people of Gaza and Palestine as they struggle to remain in their homeland despite Israel’s decades long settler-colonial occupation of the West Bank and brutal blockade and Genocide in Gaza.
Facebook event at: https://www.facebook.com/share/189NsF4YKb/
Sign up to volunteer at the ride at https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0B4FACAC28A6FAC16-64196429-madisons