From Starhawk, originally posted on Starhawk’s Blog: We did it! Up until the moment we did, I didn’t quite believe we would, but we did! Went to bed last night thinking, “Yeah, Starhawk, you’ve done this a hundred times, yawn, nerves of steel, sleep like a baby,” and of course I hardly slept at all, [...]
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Reposted from Starhawk’s Blog GFM 4 12-29 Morning So, back to yesterday. I never made it over to the French Embassy, where the French contingent has been encamped, surrounded now by the Egyptian police and not allowed to leave although people have been allowed to pass in food and water. Our encampment in front of [...]
Monday, December 28, 2009
Still a bit dazed and confused from jetlag, I went down to the Lotus Hotel where Medea Benjamin and Ann Wright and many of the other organizers are staying. It is also peeling and seedy, and when people told me, “Thank you for putting your life on the line,” I didn’t quite imagine that the [...]
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Marryam Haleem, a delegate of our 65-member delegation to Gaza through Rafah, just sent this email from Gaza, describing the lapses in electricity and other services there. It gives a good glimpse of how it feels to try to connect to the outside world with not only a physical, border blockade, but a technological blockade [...]
Thursday, June 11, 2009
…to check out, by delegation Doug Tickner: http://gazasaga.wordpress.com/
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Sascha Bollag, one of the members of the delegation to Gaza through Israel, wrote this account of the experience. Check it out! Day 1 – 6 After a short legal briefing on ramifications of being arrested as a foreigner in Israel (“almost 100% likelihood of deportation, strong likelihood that restrictions will be placed on returning [...]
Saturday, January 2, 2010
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