ATTENTION: Twin Cities Activists Departing to Gaza in days with Freedom FlotillaLive Zoom TOMORROW with updates!
Live Freedom Flotilla Update from Nonviolence International
Host: Mubarak Awad, from the US
Co-Host, Sami Awad from Bethlehem, Palestine
Time: Apr 20, 2024, 2pm Eastern Time, 1pm Central Time (US and Canada), 9pm Istanbul Time
Join us to hear a live update from Istanbul on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla which is leaving in a few days to break the siege of Gaza with humanitarian aid! Join us with speakers such as Medea Benjamin, Ann Wright and others who will be speaking from Istanbul before they get on the boats to go to Gaza.
Interview clips with Coleen Rowley of WAMM and Barry Riesch of Veterans for Palestine Chapter 27:
The Katie Halper Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNmIDR3szeA
Barry Riesch begins discussion on Vets for Peace and the Flotilla at 53:30
CONTEXT: Coleen Rowley of Apple Valley, who is a member of @wamm_mn Women Against Military Madness, and Barry Riesch of St. Paul, who is a member of @veteransforpeace, (bios below) are scheduled to leave the Twin Cities on Wednesday, April 17 to travel to the Mediterranean to join the International Freedom Flotilla this spring. This civilian aid mission will set sail in late April bringing life-saving aid to the people of Gaza to challenge Israel’s unlawful and murderous siege.
The flotilla consists of multiple ships carrying over 5,500 tons of urgently needed food and medicine for the Palestinian people who are being deliberately starved and experiencing disease and death. Rowley and Riesch will be among several hundred participants on this non-violent mission. With multiple aid groups suspending their operations in Gaza after Israel’s latest murder of aid workers, the flotilla’s mission is more critical than ever.
You can find information on the Freedom Flotilla Coalition at: https://freedomflotilla.org/
If you want to help out please call your Senators and Congress members and ask them to demand that Israel respect international law and allow the flotilla to enter Gaza to distribute aid without delay, disruption or harm, and protect their rights, security, and safety during this humanitarian aid mission.
