Tag: Gaza

  • Fishing Under Fire Report 2009

    Fishing Under Fire 5 January 2010 Since the declaration of the “ceasefire”(18/1/2009), till the end of the year: 1 fisherman have been assassinated by the Israeli Navy at least 7 fishermen have been injured by gunfire (and at least another one sustained burns after shelling) in the sea, while another fisherman was reported by several…

  • Sailing into trouble: “To Gaza with Love” reviewed

    Asa Winstanley | The Electronic Intifada 4 January 2010 To Gaza with Love is a documentary by Aki Nawaz for Iran’s English-language channel Press TV. It is an account of the first boats that successfully broke the siege of Gaza in August 2008. The filmmakers traveled to the Gaza Strip with the Free Gaza Movement,…

  • Fanning the Flames of Freedom from Cairo to Gaza and Beyond

    Emily Ratner | Dissident Voice January 3 2010 “The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class–it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of freedom.” –Anna Julia Cooper, page 27, my US passport The Gaza Freedom March announced the Cairo Declaration to End…