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DESCRIPTION:Dear San Francisco friends,\n\nMy wonderful student, Philip Rizk, was 
 abducted Friday night by Egyptian state security forces because of his 
 peaceful activities in solidarity with the people of Palestine. Philip is 
 someone who is deeply committed to peace, and who has worked tirelessly his 
 whole life toward that goal. He lived in Gaza as a reporter, neighbor and 
 friend for several years, and just recently completed a documentary about 
 non-violent forms of resistance to the occupation there. He is one of those 
 rare souls who studies anthropology not out of any sort of academic 
 ambition whatsoever, but out of a deep and abiding desire to use 
 anthropological tools (like ethnographic film) to end suffering. He is 
 passionate about his dream to bring back to Egypt (where he is from) and 
 the Middle East the legacy of tolerance and diversity that for so many 
 centuries defined this region. Sadly, his peaceful activities were 
 significantly threatening to the Egyptian government--which has colluded 
 with the Israeli state to prevent aid from reaching Gazans and refused to 
 open the Rafah border crossing--for it to respond with violence. Please 
 come out on Thursday, Philip's 27th birthday, to demand his immediate 
 release. It is incumbent on us to act; after all, it is US tax dollars that 
 fund Egypt's dictatorship and the neighboring apartheid regime that Philip 
 has so courageously dedicated himself to ending.\n\nThank you,\nAdrienne 
 Pine\n\nFor details, please see the New York Times article 
 (http://tiny.cc/bWT1k) and the website: http://freephiliprizk.org\n\nIf you 
 can't make it to the event, you can still contact the Consul General, Dr. 
 Hesham Elnakib, at (415) 346-9700\n\nDirections:\nBy bike: from dowtown & 
 the Mission, take your favorite route to North Beach (Embarcadero, Columbus 
 or Van Ness), then left on Bay St., continue straight past Fort Mason, veer 
 right on Cervantes and make a hard left at Beach/Mallorca; from the Haight, 
 take Steiner over Pacific Heights, jog right to Mallorca at Chestnut; from 
 Richmond/Sunset, take Arguello Blvd through the Presidio to Lombard Gate, 
 jog left/North to Chestnut, left on Mallorca.\n\nBy transit:\ntake Muni 
 Rte. 22 to Fillmore/Beach stop and walk a block West to Mallorca, then turn 
 left; or take Muni Rte. 30 to Chestnut/Mallorca stop and walk two blocks 
 north (toward the ocean).\n\nBy car:\nTake Hwy 101 (from North or South) to 
 intersection with Fillmore St. Turn north on Fillmore, left on Chestnut and 
 right on Mallorca. Parking available in the center divide of Fillmore or at 
 the public lot at the Marina.\n\nBy helicopter:\nN 37.803562°, W 
 122.439282°\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/02/10/18569372.php
SUMMARY:Free Philip Rizk
LOCATION:Egyptian Consulate\n276 Mallorca Way\nSan Francisco, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/02/10/18569372.php
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