NEW YORK — To coincide with Pres. Obama’s landmark speech to the Arab world Thursday in Cairo, 12 Jewish-Americans will attempt to enter war-torn Gaza on June 5 through the Israeli border as part of a 32-member peace delegation to call on the U.S. administration to push Israel to end its 21-month blockade on Gaza. [...]
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Sandra Ruch, a member of the 68-member delegation to Gaza that just this morning entered the war-torn region through the Rafah checkpoint, sent us this piece documenting her experience, describing events on May 30. Enjoy!
Thursday, May 28, 2009
WHAT: Departure (press conference) of American delegation to Gaza, to pressure Obama, Israel to end blockade WHEN: 9 a.m., Friday, May 29 WHERE: Outside the Saudi Arabian Airlines office, Qasr Nile St., Cairo
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Rich Moniak is a member of CODEPINK’s delegation to Gaza traveling through the Israeli border, set to depart in nine days. He’ll be posting updates to his blog, http://to-honor-a-rainbow.blogspot.com, and I wanted to post his most recent here. Would love to hear your thoughts! Here we are all gathered in what seems to be the [...]
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
I’m in Cairo now with retired Col. Ann Wright and fellow activist Tighe Barry with some great news to report. The day started out with a 3 a.m. call from one of our delegations in Al Arish saying that secret police had contacted them at 2 p.m. to intimidate them and say they would not [...]
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
We just received word that the CODEPINK Canadian nine-member delegation and the 30-member student delegation is on its way through into Gaza, after being stuck at the Rafah border for several days! Check out this story in The Toronto Star today, reporting from Jerusalem: Nine Canadian peace activists were again barred from entering the Gaza [...]
Monday, June 1, 2009
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