This is the story told by an installation at the Burlington, Vermont Art Hop – weekend of September 11-13, 2015.

The South End Art attracts over 30,000 visitors to artist’s studios and local businesses that become exhibition sites for the more than 500 participating artists.

Artwork by Michelle Sayles in collaboration with Jen BergerSponsored by Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel www.vtjp.org

A series of 8 panels tells one woman’s story of military occupation and oppression over 8 decades.

1948 – The al-Nakba – A land divided

1958 – We shall return

1968 – Military Occupation

1978 – Life under occupation

1988 – Settlements grow like a cancer

1998 – Where is the ‘Peace Process’?

2008 – New life – Under occupation

2018 – A vision of the future

The wall means nothing to the birds – will we see the land and the sky again become one continuum?

Link to video of the Art Hop installation by Danny Weiss

https://vimeo.com/140005404

with commentary by the artist Michelle Sayles

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Performance of Cantastoria about Ben & Jerry’s in Palestine for the people waiting in line for ‘free’ ice cream. (Performance by Mark Hage )

The Ben & Jerry’s ‘free’ ice cream truck located across the street from the ‘comic strip’ art installation.

Ben & Jerry’s is targeted for boycott, because ice cream made by its Israeli franchise is sold in illegal settlements in Palestine.

9-1-1EMERGENCY!

Houses demolished…Children imprisoned, shot, and killed…

Farmland and orchards poisoned, uprooted, destroyed…Schools, hospitals, ambulances targeted and bombed…

And now it’s time for the soldiers to relax…

Israeli occupation forces enjoying Ben & Jerry’s ice cream(From Ben & Jerry’s Israel Facebook Page)

Turn over for more information …

…and for Israeli Jewish settlers to stop off at the supermarket to pick up some Ben & Jerry’s ice cream

WHATS WRONG WITH THESE PICTURES?

Tell Ben & Jerry’s: Stop doing business in illegal, Jewish-only settlements in

Occupied Palestine!

E-mail B&J CEO Jostein Solheim: www.vtjp.org/icecream/petitionBJ.html.

Boycott Ben & Jerry’s until they bring their Israeli practices in line with their guiding belief “in support of peace-building efforts, and to celebrate peace-building efforts around the world.”Learn more & get involved: www.vtjp.org/icecream.

Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel (www.vtjp.org)

The two sides of a leaflet handed to people waiting for ‘free’ cones at the Ben & Jerry’s truck, opposite the ‘comic strip’ art installation