“Lift the siege of Gaza! Free Palestine!” young men are chanting as they slog through the muddy road and, noticing me holding out a plastic bag filled with square pink peace flags, crowd around to grab one. The prayer flags quickly pepper the march with soft pink hues and the endearing messages of peace from kids and their grandparents, moms and daughters from all over America contrast with the loud chants coming from the rear of a pickup truck equipped with mega speakers and the mostly male march. Other signs saying “Women Say Free Gaza” in English and Arabic and are also snatched up by the male marchers. But men carrying signs speaking for women is not enough and I can’t stop wondering, “Where are the women?”
After 13 months of compiling the Gaza Digest, I have decided that it’s time for me to stop. The annotated list below provides information on alternative news sources and advocacy groups that have been important resources for The Gaza Digest and for Palestine solidarity work. I hope you will find this list useful. RESOURCES ON [...]
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, [...]
From Jean Athey in Cairo: Gaza Freedom March Fifth Letter—January 1, 2010 Hedy Epstein, 85-year-old Holocaust survivor, has stolen our hearts. At four feet-ten, she is a giant. Her gentle smile lights up every room that she enters, and yet if you saw her on the street, you might not immediately sense her power. Unless [...]
The Gaza Freedom Marchers in Cairo received this message from the Youth of Gaza: Freedom dreamers in Gaza are awaiting the “candles of hope” outside One year after the Gaza massacre, it gladdens our heart to see all these supporters from around the world who regard us as their brothers and sisters, giving us enough [...]
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, March 1, 2010
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