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Delegation Newsletter
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Articles
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Joyce Ravitz, Visit to Gaza was an assault on sense of
justice, in The Villager
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Jane Adas, CodePink Delegations Visit Gaza, Hear Eyewitness Accounts of
Israeli Assault,
in The Washington Report on Middle
East Affairs, August, 2009
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Tom Suarez, in Toufic Haddad's Carter's Conscience in the Gaza "Animal
Cage", The Faster Times, 20 June, 2009
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Joyce Ravitz, in The Morning Call, Visit Gaza to discover the truth in the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict
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Susan Johnson, in The Intelligencer, Local resident offers the view from
Palestine (by K Willcoxon)
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Reaching the US public
2009
"Report-Backs" -- how delegation members are bringing what
we learned directly to our communities
at Pace University,
Pleasantville, New York
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Sept
30 - Felice Gelman, Ceil Lavan, and Thomas Suarez spoke to students & public,
and Daniel Strum showed and commented on two of his video documentaries.
University article
at the Brecht Forum, New
York (videos)
● July 24 -
Sammer Aboelala
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Felice Gelman -
Philip Weiss -
Medea Benjamin
Jane Adas
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August 6 - Participated in a panel with Manijeh Saba, Helen
Schiff, Rick Congress, and Sarah (last name unknown) in Highland Park, NJ to an
audience of 75.
Felice Gelman
● June 14 -
Upper Westchester Muslim Society, Thornwood, NY - 30
people
● June 26 -
House party, Nyack, NY - 10 people
● July 14 -
Meeting organized by a coalition of Palestine justice
activists, NY - 200 people
Susan Johnson
● April 7, 2010 Rembrandt"s,
Philadelphia (12 people)
● May 2, 2010 Doylestown Presbyterian Church (15 people)
● May 5, 2010 Downers Grove IL St Episcopal
Church (55 people)
● May 6, 2010 Des Moines
Iowa American Friends Service Committee (20 people)
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May 7, 2010 Ames Iowa, Ames friends Meeting, (16 people)
● May 10 2010 Cedar Rapids Iowa, United Nations Association, Johnson
County (55 people)
● July 9 -
Saxby's Coffee Shop Community Room, Doylestown, PA general
public, most came because they read article in newspaper. attendance: 28
● July 13 -
with Joyce Ravitz and Emma Grigore, spoke at LEPOCO, the
Lehigh Pocono Committee of Concern, to a group of about 30 people. At 49, this
is one of the oldest grass roots peace groups in the country.
● July 21 -
New York, Upper West Side, to Women of a Certain Age, they
traveled to the West Bank together in 2004, attendance: 12
● July 29 -
Saxby's Doylestown PA two report backs @ 1:00 and @ 7:00
● August 2 - Unitarian Universalists, as part of their weekly service, usually 25-30 attend.
● August 20 - Imperial Hotel, Galway,
Ireland. Attendance 65-70 people.
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● December 1 - met with US Congressman Patrick Murphy
Ceil Lavan
● July 25 -
I had a conference call this week with Dominican sisters
from various parts of the U.S. who organize the Dominican Order's work for
social justice in different parts of the country and who have committed
themselves to work on Palestine Solidarity. One of the women in California who
organizes the Western Dominican justice work told us that she is planning to ask
the "justice promoters" (whatDominicans call coordinators of social justice) of
the different Dominican congregations in the West to read one of the "stories"
from our Delegation Newsletter in preparation for their next meeting. Each one
will then tell the story to the group as an introduction to the topic of
Palestine at their meeting. She thinks that our telling our stories is an very
effective way to bring more awareness to the situation in Gaza.
● July 18 -
Women in Black - Palestine Solidarity Vigils Westchester,
NY had our first women in black vigil on July 18th at Tibbetts Brook Park in
Yonkers, NY. Thirteen women and men participated in the vigil, held signs and
passed out information on the truth about Gaza. We hope to have monthly vigils
in Westchester County to bring awareness to the need for an End of Siege of Gaza
and the Occupation of Palestine.
Joyce Ravitz
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September 20 - spoke at a small Mennonite Church in Alpha,
NJ. today about Gaza. There were about 20 people there. She showed slides and
videos before the service and gave the sermon with more slides as part of the
service
● September 9 -
Deborah Glick, NY State Representative
● August 26 -
Charlie Dent, PA Representative
● August 13 -
Brian Kavenaugh, NY State Representative
● July 15 -
Rosie Mendez, NYC City Council member
Samples of posters from VivaGaza events (click to enlarge)
Joyce Ravitz
& Emma Grigore |
Jane Adas
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Commentary
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The
Fire Hasn’t Ceased Ayla Jay Schoenwald
● Come to Gaza
Jane Adas
● Palestine
Agricultural Relief Committees Terry Rogers
● Hamas?
Tom Suarez
● The Destruction
from the Attacks of Dec 2008 - Jan 2009 Joyce Ravitz
● How easy is it
to get to Gaza? Felice Gelman
● Effects of the
Gaza Blockade Gloria Bletter
● The “Big
Dreams” of the Palestine Youth Committee Ayla Jay Schoenwald
● The Tunnels of
Gaza Philip Weiss
● IDF still
shooting at Gazans Ceil Lavan
● The Siege,
from Tunnels to Generators Sammer Aboelala
● The War and the
Children Susan Johnson
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Blogs
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Philip Weiss
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Felice Gelman
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Susan Johnson
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Amy Schoenwald
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Interviews
(print)
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Joyce Ravitz, Express Times, 8 June, 2009
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Susan Johnson, Blog for
Change, 9 July, 20099
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Interviews
(audio)
● Felice Gelman, WBAI,
27 May, 2009
● Felice Gelman, WBAI,
7 June 2009
● Jane Adas, WBAI,
8
June, 2009
● Felice Gelman, radio program on WVKR Poughkeepsie (Vassar College radio), 25
June, 2009 (no audio archive)
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Videos
● Daniel Strum,
The story of the Abu Halima Family in Beit Lahiya, Gaza
● Daniel Strum, Asha
Abed Rabbo
● Daniel Strum, Shatha
Abu Rijela
● Daniel Strum, The
Abed Rabbo area of Jabaliya, Gaza
● Daniel Strum,
Meeting with John Ging, UNRWA, May 29, 2009
● Amy Schoenwald,
What We Turn To
● (Tom S)
Fun at the
Qattan Centre for the Child
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Photos
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Amy Schoenwald
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Tom Suarez
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Susan Johnson
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Felice Gelman
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Daniel Strum
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Joyce Ravitz
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Jane Adas
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Sammer Aboelela (Facebook)
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Sammer Aboelela (Picasa)
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Creative Responses
● No Safe Sky
poem by Gloria Bletter
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Links to Links
● Resources &
Information: the Occupation, Palestine, West Bank, Gaza
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PalestineJornal
● GazaConference
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Video,
Eye on the
Border
(2009)
Funded by the Culture and Free Thought Association, and Christian Aid, by Yamen
Qudeih, Tarek Radwan, Sami Qudeih, & Rasha Qudeih, with the assistance of The
Assembly of the National Center for Rural Development, and the International
Solidarity Movement
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Videos
from International Solidarity
Movement
(thanks to Jenny Linnel in Gaza)
Farming in Gaza
● Al
Faraheen, 7 May, 2009
● Al
Faraheen, 8 April, 2009
● Al
Faraheen, 18 Feb 2009
● Al
Faraheen, 12 Feb, 2009
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Farming Under Fire
Fishing in Gaza
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Fisherman Rafik Abu Rayala, 14 Feb, 2009
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Spray of Bullets, 27 Jan, 2009
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Fishing Throughout the "Ceasefire", 23 Oct 2008
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Gazan Territorial Waters, 22 Oct, 2008
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Fishing, 18 Oct, 2008
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Fishing Under Fire, 4 Oct, 2008
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Fishing, 5 Oct, 2008
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Water Cannon, 17 Sept, 2008
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Fishing, 16 Sept, 2008
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Gazan Territorial Waters, 1 Sept, 2008
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Leaden Sunset
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Israeli attack on Fisherman
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