Fighting for Our Future
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Liat Weingart
As co-director of Jewish Voice for Peace, Liat has for the last three years led an international campaign against the US-based Caterpillar Corporation, which sells weaponized bulldozers to the Israeli army that demolish Palestinian homes. Soon after she was hired, Liat convinced the JVP board to make Caterpillar an organizational priority; she has subsequently spoken at Caterpillar's annual shareholder meeting, organized direct actions around the country, and mobilized other faith-based organizations, such as the Presbyterian Church USA and the World Council of Churches, to join the effort.
At a coalition meeting to strategize how to end the Israeli occupation, one of Liat's proposals drew an objection. "We can't do that;" said the objector, "that's impossible." "I am in the business of social change," Liat responded. "Nothing is impossible."