repost from Sam Husseini at http://husseini.posterous.com/ Just after midnight I couldn’t sleep. Went out to get a bite to eat or maybe a glass of wine to help me sleep. See several CodePink people and others with the Gaza Freedom March, say they are going to the French embassy — they had put out an alert: “As [...]
Thursday, March 12, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 12, 2009 CONTACT: Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK co-founder, 018 9561919 or 972-059-706-4075 Tighe Barry, CODEPINK activist, 011-2019-4812932 (in Cairo) Jean Stevens, CODEPINK national media coordinator, 508-769-2138 (in U.S.) Nine members of international women’s delegation stay behind in Gaza A Palestinian delegate is detained at border, will attempt to cross again March 15 AL-ARISH, EGYPT – Nine members of [...]
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Here’s another update from Susan Adelman, in Gaza City now! The Egyptians blinked!! We were contacted by the Egyptian Red Crescent just before dinner on the 7th and told that they and the Palestinian Red Crescent would facilitate the transportation of our relief supplies from Egypt to Palestine. This was a BIG signal. They also mentioned [...]
Saturday, March 7, 2009
A 60-member aid delegation – including novelist Alice Walker, the parents of Rachel Corrie, Medea Benjamin and Ann Wright – is currently on its way to enter Gaza, the first delegation of its size and kind to attempt to enter Gaza since July 2007. Delegates — which include members of the Jewish and Muslim communities, [...]
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
I went to see (retired) Col. Ann Wright speak last night here in California on her recent trip to Gaza and the upcoming international aid delegation to Gaza in March — it was the first time I’ve had a chance to meet her, and of course it was so inspiring. The talk was held at [...]
Monday, December 28, 2009
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