US Boat to Gaza in the New York Times, CLICK HERE.
"WE ARE UNARMED AND WE ARE SAILING"
For Immediate Release: May 31, 2011
On Anniversary of Mavi Marmara Killings, U.S. Boat to Gaza Announces Passenger List
New York, NY - May 31, 2011. Organizers of the U.S. Boat to Gaza announced today that they expect some 50 people will be aboard The Audacity of Hope when it joins the second "freedom flotilla" in late June to break the siege of Gaza.
The announcement came on the year's anniversary of the 2010 Israeli attack on unarmed passengers aboard the Mavi Marmara, killing nine, including an 18-year old U.S. citizen of Turkish descent.
Leslie Cagan, coordinator of the U.S. Boat to Gaza, said, "We are sailing-despite threats by the Israeli armed forces to use attack dogs and snipers against us-and despite frantic diplomatic pressure by the Israeli government to prevent other countries from allowing the flotilla to sail." She commented that while Egypt has just opened the Rafah border to Gaza, the maritime blockade and the Israeli siege of Gaza still exist.
...READ MORE>>>
A NEWLY RELEASED VIDEO
"TO GAZA WITH LOVE"
A Newly Released Video TO GAZA WITH LOVE
Featuring
Ali Abunimah, Kathleen Chalfant, Kathy Kelly, and Alice Walker
for the U.S. BOAT TO GAZA
UPDATE ON NYC BOAT EVENT
NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS ABOUT THE NYC BOAT EVENT
DJ K-SALAAM WILL BE THERE TO SPIN THE MUSIC DURING THE EVENING TO INSPIRE THE AUDACITY OF HOPE
SINGER/SONGWRITER HOLLY NEAR WILL JOIN US TO SING LIVE
BUY YOUR TICKETS NOW: CLICK HERE
A special guest, Dr. Ahmet Dogan, will be joining us for this event.
Dr. Dogan is the father of Furkan Dogan, the 19 year old Turkish American killed by Israeli forces on the Mavi Mamara, one of the boats in Freedom Flotilla I bound for Gaza last year.
Immediately after learning about the attack on the flotilla the organizing for the U.S. BOAT TO GAZA, THE AUDACITY OF HOPE began. Now it is a reality and soon we will sail.
Let us come together to hear Dr. Dogan speak about his son and honor Furkan Dogan's commitment to justice for Palestine and look forward to the launch of THE AUDACITY OF HOPE as we affirm our commitment to help end the siege of Gaza and free Palestine.
...READ MORE>>>
U.S. BOAT, THE AUDACITY OF HOPE, SET TO SAIL TO GAZA
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 13, 2011
PRESS CONTACT: FELICE GELMAN, (917) 912-2597
New York, May 13 -- The US Boat to Gaza campaign announced today that it will send a US flagged boat, The Audacity of Hope, to Gaza in late June as part of the International Freedom Flotilla II. The passengers on the boat, which will sail from a port in the Mediterranean, are US citizens from many different backgrounds, ages, and communities across the United States.
Flotilla organizer Jane Hirschmann said, "The Israeli blockade of Gaza is a clear violation of international human rights and maritime law. 1.5 million people in Gaza have been effectively imprisoned for five years. The blockade is maintained only with the support of the United States government. That is why it is imperative that it be confronted nonviolently by American citizens."
...READ MORE>>>
Why they go: Freedom riders then and now
By Hannah Schwarzschild
Fifty years ago next month, my father, then a 35-year-old refugee from Hitler’s Germany with a young wife and two small children at home, boarded a Trailways bus headed for Jackson, Mississippi.
Like the 427 other freedom riders who rode voluntarily into the terror that was the segregated South in May and June of 1961, my father set out to violate the illegal state laws that barred white-skinned people from sitting together with black-skinned people on public transit – laws that were vigorously enforced not only by police but also by the Ku Klux Klan and the White Citizens’ Council. Only weeks before, a mob of angry segregationists in Anniston, Alabama had attacked and set fire to a bus with dozens of black and white freedom riders trapped inside.
...READ MORE>>>
"This is the Freedom Ride of this era"
Fifty years ago, on May 4, 1961, the first bus of the Freedom Rides left Washington D.C. headed to New Orleans, with people committed to challenging segregation. The Freedom Rides were one of the sparks that contributed to a movement to dismantle a degrading system that violated human rights.
In an interview with organizers from The U.S. Boat to Gaza, Alice Walker, one of our nation's foremost contemporary writers and the first African-American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize, likened the planned Freedom Flotilla II to Gaza to the Freedom Rides by saying "this is the Freedom Ride of this era." In the U.S. the racist system of segregation was challenged; in South Africa the racist system of apartheid was challenged; in Palestine the racist system of occupation and apartheid, enforced by the Israeli government and supported by the U.S government, is being challenged and will come to an end.
...READ MORE>>>
A U.S. BOAT TO GAZA EVENT NOT TO BE MISSED
JOIN A SUNSET CRUISE IN NY HARBOR
WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 2011
THE MARCO POLO MARINA
23rd STREET & FDR DRIVE
BOARDING 6:30 pm · RETURNING 10:30 pm
NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS ABOUT THE NYC BOAT EVENT
DJ K-SALAAM WILL BE THERE TO SPIN THE MUSIC DURING THE EVENING TO INSPIRE THE AUDACITY OF HOPE
SINGER/SONGWRITER HOLLY NEAR WILL JOIN US TO SING LIVE
BUY YOUR TICKETS NOW AT USTOGAZA.ORG
Enjoy a bounty of Middle Eastern hors d'oeuvres, cash bar, inspiring music and great people.
...READ MORE>>>
CALLING ARTISTS/FILMMAKERS TO CREATE SHORT PROMOTIONAL VIDEOS
The U.S. Boat to Gaza - The Audacity of Hope - is calling on artists, animators and filmmakers to encourage you to develop and submit a short 1-5 minute video about The Audacity of Hope for mass distribution on Youtube and through our networks. Help us raise the profile of the U.S. Boat to Gaza in the coming months before we sail in June 2011 with the Freedom Flotilla II.
The Audacity of Hope is committed to carrying powerful voices from this country to the people of Gaza; those voices who are supporting this grassroots, human-rights mission which is working to help end the illegal U.S. supported Israeli naval blockade of Gaza. We need your creativity to increase our visibility throughout this country.
...READ MORE>>>
The passengers and crew of The Audacity of Hope can be found by clicking here. Please check back for updates. Thank you to all who applied to be part of this mission.
US Boat to Gaza in the New York Times, CLICK HERE.
"WE ARE UNARMED AND WE ARE SAILING"
For Immediate Release: May 31, 2011
On Anniversary of Mavi Marmara Killings, U.S. Boat to Gaza Announces Passenger List
New York, NY - May 31, 2011. Organizers of the U.S. Boat to Gaza announced today that they expect some 50 people will be aboard The Audacity of Hope when it joins the second "freedom flotilla" in late June to break the siege of Gaza.
The announcement came on the year's anniversary of the 2010 Israeli attack on unarmed passengers aboard the Mavi Marmara, killing nine, including an 18-year old U.S. citizen of Turkish descent.
Leslie Cagan, coordinator of the U.S. Boat to Gaza, said, "We are sailing-despite threats by the Israeli armed forces to use attack dogs and snipers against us-and despite frantic diplomatic pressure by the Israeli government to prevent other countries from allowing the flotilla to sail." She commented that while Egypt has just opened the Rafah border to Gaza, the maritime blockade and the Israeli siege of Gaza still exist.
...READ MORE>>>
A NEWLY RELEASED VIDEO
"TO GAZA WITH LOVE"
A Newly Released Video TO GAZA WITH LOVE
Featuring
Ali Abunimah, Kathleen Chalfant, Kathy Kelly, and Alice Walker
for the U.S. BOAT TO GAZA
UPDATE ON NYC BOAT EVENT
NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS ABOUT THE NYC BOAT EVENT
DJ K-SALAAM WILL BE THERE TO SPIN THE MUSIC DURING THE EVENING TO INSPIRE THE AUDACITY OF HOPE
SINGER/SONGWRITER HOLLY NEAR WILL JOIN US TO SING LIVE
BUY YOUR TICKETS NOW: CLICK HERE
A special guest, Dr. Ahmet Dogan, will be joining us for this event.
Dr. Dogan is the father of Furkan Dogan, the 19 year old Turkish American killed by Israeli forces on the Mavi Mamara, one of the boats in Freedom Flotilla I bound for Gaza last year.
Immediately after learning about the attack on the flotilla the organizing for the U.S. BOAT TO GAZA, THE AUDACITY OF HOPE began. Now it is a reality and soon we will sail.
Let us come together to hear Dr. Dogan speak about his son and honor Furkan Dogan's commitment to justice for Palestine and look forward to the launch of THE AUDACITY OF HOPE as we affirm our commitment to help end the siege of Gaza and free Palestine.
...READ MORE>>>
U.S. BOAT, THE AUDACITY OF HOPE, SET TO SAIL TO GAZA
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 13, 2011
PRESS CONTACT: FELICE GELMAN, (917) 912-2597
New York, May 13 -- The US Boat to Gaza campaign announced today that it will send a US flagged boat, The Audacity of Hope, to Gaza in late June as part of the International Freedom Flotilla II. The passengers on the boat, which will sail from a port in the Mediterranean, are US citizens from many different backgrounds, ages, and communities across the United States.
Flotilla organizer Jane Hirschmann said, "The Israeli blockade of Gaza is a clear violation of international human rights and maritime law. 1.5 million people in Gaza have been effectively imprisoned for five years. The blockade is maintained only with the support of the United States government. That is why it is imperative that it be confronted nonviolently by American citizens."
...READ MORE>>>
Why they go: Freedom riders then and now
By Hannah Schwarzschild
Fifty years ago next month, my father, then a 35-year-old refugee from Hitler’s Germany with a young wife and two small children at home, boarded a Trailways bus headed for Jackson, Mississippi.
Like the 427 other freedom riders who rode voluntarily into the terror that was the segregated South in May and June of 1961, my father set out to violate the illegal state laws that barred white-skinned people from sitting together with black-skinned people on public transit – laws that were vigorously enforced not only by police but also by the Ku Klux Klan and the White Citizens’ Council. Only weeks before, a mob of angry segregationists in Anniston, Alabama had attacked and set fire to a bus with dozens of black and white freedom riders trapped inside.
...READ MORE>>>
"This is the Freedom Ride of this era"
Fifty years ago, on May 4, 1961, the first bus of the Freedom Rides left Washington D.C. headed to New Orleans, with people committed to challenging segregation. The Freedom Rides were one of the sparks that contributed to a movement to dismantle a degrading system that violated human rights.
In an interview with organizers from The U.S. Boat to Gaza, Alice Walker, one of our nation's foremost contemporary writers and the first African-American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize, likened the planned Freedom Flotilla II to Gaza to the Freedom Rides by saying "this is the Freedom Ride of this era." In the U.S. the racist system of segregation was challenged; in South Africa the racist system of apartheid was challenged; in Palestine the racist system of occupation and apartheid, enforced by the Israeli government and supported by the U.S government, is being challenged and will come to an end.
...READ MORE>>>
A U.S. BOAT TO GAZA EVENT NOT TO BE MISSED
JOIN A SUNSET CRUISE IN NY HARBOR
WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 2011
THE MARCO POLO MARINA
23rd STREET & FDR DRIVE
BOARDING 6:30 pm · RETURNING 10:30 pm
NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS ABOUT THE NYC BOAT EVENT
DJ K-SALAAM WILL BE THERE TO SPIN THE MUSIC DURING THE EVENING TO INSPIRE THE AUDACITY OF HOPE
SINGER/SONGWRITER HOLLY NEAR WILL JOIN US TO SING LIVE
BUY YOUR TICKETS NOW AT USTOGAZA.ORG
Enjoy a bounty of Middle Eastern hors d'oeuvres, cash bar, inspiring music and great people.
...READ MORE>>>
CALLING ARTISTS/FILMMAKERS TO CREATE SHORT PROMOTIONAL VIDEOS
The U.S. Boat to Gaza - The Audacity of Hope - is calling on artists, animators and filmmakers to encourage you to develop and submit a short 1-5 minute video about The Audacity of Hope for mass distribution on Youtube and through our networks. Help us raise the profile of the U.S. Boat to Gaza in the coming months before we sail in June 2011 with the Freedom Flotilla II.
The Audacity of Hope is committed to carrying powerful voices from this country to the people of Gaza; those voices who are supporting this grassroots, human-rights mission which is working to help end the illegal U.S. supported Israeli naval blockade of Gaza. We need your creativity to increase our visibility throughout this country.
...READ MORE>>>
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