As millions of people prepare to lavish their lovers with gifts, cards, flowers, etc for Valentine’s Day, here’s what you can do to add your own creative, peaceful twist to this frightfully commercial holiday. Send Obama a Valentine with a special message! Last year, this is what Valentine’s Day looked like in NYC. Kissing + [...]
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
(Originally published on CommonDreams.org) In a tent in front of Shifa hospital, the largest hospital in Gaza, a sign on the photo of a young child bleeding from wounds from the Israeli attack on Gaza read “Gaza Will Not Die.” Shifa hospital received hundreds of bodies of those killed and thousands of those wounded during [...]
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
(Retired) Col. Ann Wright gave an amazing interview to Laura Flanders on GRITtv this morning, describing her trip to Gaza last week with Medea Benjamin and LA activist Tighe Barry. She discusses waiting on the Egyptian border with engineers and doctors, meeting with aid groups there and witnessing the damage and the devastating effect of [...]
Monday, February 9, 2009
Today was, unfortunately, our last day in Gaza. When we entered, we were told that all foreigners who entered through the Egyptian side would have to leave Gaza by February 5. To get inside, we had to sign a statement agreeing to leave by that date. Since we all had many obligations to get back [...]
Monday, February 9, 2009
Medea Benjamin, Tighe Barry and I (retired Col. Ann Wright) arrived Jan. 29 in Cairo for a 10-day trip to Gaza, but only spent two days there before Egyptian authorities ordered all foreigners to leave by Feb. 5. But we called for an opening of the borders, were shown the Egyptian-Gazan underground tunnels, met with [...]
Friday, February 6, 2009
Ann Wright sent this brief update of the status of her, Medea and Tighe departure from Gaza and return to Cairo. We sadly left Gaza at 5 p.m. this afternoon as the Egyptians were closing the border tonight and if we didn’t leave, we had no idea when we might be able to get out. [...]
Friday, February 13, 2009
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