Tag: Global Actions
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BBC: Diary – Challenging Gaza blockade
To view original reports, published by the BBC, click here Activists from the California-based Free Gaza Movement are planning to sail from Cyprus to Gaza in defiance of an Israeli blockade of the territory. The BBC’s Rachid Sekkai will be on board and sends his first diary entry. About 45 people are here in the…
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The Guardian: Cherie Blair’s sister joins battle to break Gaza blockade
By Rachel Williams To view original article, published by The Guardian on the 5th August, click here A group of activists including Tony Blair’s sister-in-law Lauren Booth plans to break Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip by sailing into the Palestinian territory. Some 46 campaigners, among them several Britons, a Holocaust survivor and an 81-year-old…
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Free Gaza: Can unarmed seaborne civilians break the siege of Gaza?
A press conference at The Journalists’ House, Nicosia At RIK / CBC Avenue 12, Nicosia Monday, 4th August, 2008 at 10.00 a.m. [Camera crews to come early, please, for set up] Inaugurating The Free Gaza Movement Sailing to Gaza DESTINATION: GAZA PORT In August, unarmed Palestinians, Israelis and internationals will sail directly to Gaza without…
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Give ‘Free Gaza Movement’ thumbs up!
By Debbie Menon Edward Said reminded the world shortly before his death in 2003 that it is easier for the West to demonise the Palestinian – through ‘the vicious media and government campaign against Arab society, culture, history and mentality’ – than actually attempt to humanize what they don’t fully understand. The Gaza imprisonment in…
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The National: West Bank construction challenged
By Brendan Howley To view original article, published by The National on 21st July, click here In an inventive legal action, two lawyers for the West Bank Palestinian village of Bi’ilin have filed a civil statement of claim against a pair of Jewish-owned Canadian construction companies building condominiums in the village for Israeli settlers. Damages…