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
Last week and this coming week are full of news about war criminals. Last week Obama met in a closed door meeting with human rights advocates to try to co-opt them into approving his shocking plan to extend Bush’s Military Commissions. Someone leaked the contents of the meeting to Michael Isikoff, whom Rachel Maddow interviews [...]
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
WASHINGTON – To coincide with Pres. Obama’s landmark speech to the Arab world next week in Egypt, more than 150 people will attempt to enter war-torn Gaza this week through the blockaded Egyptian and Israeli borders in five separate civilian delegations. Organized under the umbrella of the peace group CODEPINK, the delegations — the largest [...]
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 [...]
Sunday, May 31, 2009
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