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DESCRIPTION:Fundraiser for the Free Gaza Movement with Adam Shapiro, co-founder of the 
 International Solidarity Movement and documentarian Wednesday Sept 8, 2010 
 at the Quaker Meeting House, 225 Rooney St, \nSanta Cruz \n8 pm\nBy 
 donation\nInformation- Dorah Rosen, dorahbee@comcast.net, 831.427.0624\n 
 \nThe Resource Center for Nonviolence and the Palestine-Israel Action 
 Committee are sponsoring one of a series of nationwide fundraisers for the 
 US boat in the next Freedom Flotilla, scheduled to set sail for Gaza during 
 the fall of 2010. The US boat, christened “Audacity of Hope”, will join 
 in the first Free Gaza flotilla since the fatal Israeli commando attack on 
 a Free Gaza flotilla in May this year. The attack and capture of vessels 
 full of international activists, resulting in nine civilian fatalities, 
 took place in international waters.\n \nThe Audacity of Hope will carry 40 
 to 60 people as well as goods needed by the Gazans. Other vessels sponsored 
 by groups from Ireland, Scotland, India, Canada, and several Middle Eastern 
 countries are being prepared. The Free Gaza Movement and the flotilla’s 
 dozens of other endorsers plan to bring in humanitarian supplies as well as 
 raise awareness worldwide of the Gazans’ ongoing plight. The Gaza Strip 
 is arguably the most densely populated region on the planet and is 
 routinely referred to as an open-air prison due to the Israeli restrictions 
 on travel and access to the ocean.\n \nThe situation in Gaza remains dire. 
 Homes, clinics, schools and businesses destroyed in Operation Cast Lead 
 cannot be rebuilt as building materials, medical supplies and common 
 machinery are not coming into Gaza at anywhere near the rate needed to 
 rebuild after the devastation. Israel cut Palestinians’ fishing rights 
 from 20 miles out into the Mediterranean to 6 miles and then to 3. An 
 August 2010 report from the UN Office of Coordination of Humanitarian 
 Assistance calls for restoration of the original fishing limits as well as 
 an end to destruction of Gazan farms and wells, lifting travel restrictions 
 that prevent children from going to school and, of course, cessation of 
 opening fire on civilians. Even conservative estimates find that well over 
 50% of Gazans suffer from food insecurity and malnutrition.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/08/27/18656951.php
SUMMARY:Adam Shapiro on the Free Gaza Movement
LOCATION:Quaker Meeting House \n225 Rooney St\nSanta Cruz
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/08/27/18656951.php
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