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DESCRIPTION:Please bring signs and/or Palestinian Flags, or just come!\n\nIn the 
 meantime, please stay informed (http://ustogazawest.org)\n\nPrint, copy and 
 distribute this flyer 
 tomorrow:\n\nhttp://www.endtheoccupation.org/downloads/flotilla.pdf\n\n\nAnother 
 contingent is the Free Palestine Movement on a different 
 ship.\nhttp://www.freepalestinemovement.org/home.html\n(Sign up for email 
 newsletter at bottom of page)\n\nFree Palestine Movement News\nJuly 4, 
 2011\n\nFPM to set sail this week?\n\nSeveral members of FPM had planned to 
 join the US Boat to Gaza activists in a hunger strike outside the US 
 Embassy in Athens today, but in the early morning hours here there are 
 reports that this action was broken up by the authorities with activists 
 detained and released last night. The action was part of several, demanding 
 that the US and Greek governments release John Klusmire, captain of The 
 Audacity of Hope, and allow the entire flotilla to sail. We will plan to 
 act with Greeks, internationals, and our friends from the US Boat as the 
 day continues on these matters. \n\nFPM is hopeful that we will set sail 
 for Gaza on our ship sometime this week - more updates as information 
 becomes available.  \n\n \nOpen letter to Gov. Rick Perry on the flotilla 
 from a survivor of the USS Liberty attack\nby Joe Meadors\n\nGovernor 
 Perry, \n\nI am one of the Americans waiting in Athens for the Freedom 
 Flotilla to get underway in our effort to deliver humanitarian supplies to 
 the people of Gaza. I was also on the Flotilla last year and was aboard the 
 USS Liberty when the ship was attacked by Israel on June 8, 1967... read 
 more>>  \n\n \nEnd the Israeli Occupation of Greece \nby Paul 
 Larudee\n\n\nOn June 2, 2010, the Greek government sent one of its C-130 
 transport aircraft to bring thirty-one of its citizens from Tel Aviv back 
 to Greece. It also carried three French and one American. I was the 
 American. We had all been attacked and taken prisoner by Israeli forces in 
 international waters as we tried to sail to the coast of Gaza, an ordinary 
 act in any other part of the Mediterranean, but denied to Palestinians. 
 \n\nIt was a great honor to be invited by my Greek colleagues to be part of 
 their evacuation. An even greater one was the extraordinary reception given 
 to me by the Greek people upon my arrival in Greece. \n\nA year earlier, I 
 met George Papandreou, when his party was in opposition and running for 
 election. I was one of the founders of, and a participant in, the 
 successful project to sail two small Greek boats to Gaza in 2008, which is 
 the subject of the documentary film Gaza, we are Coming, and he wanted to 
 show his support. \n\n  Later, I was present at the home of Greek friends 
 in Kifissia when Papandreou’s PASOK party won in the elections. We all 
 had high hopes. \n\nI'm sorry to say that the Greece that I knew then is 
 not the Greece of today. Although its people are still the same courageous, 
 independent defenders of freedom and democracy at home and on behalf of 
 their brothers and sisters in Palestine, its government appears to have 
 lost its way. \n\nAs I write, Greek forces and officials – in violation 
 of Greek law – are preventing boats of the 2011 Gaza Freedom Flotilla 
 from continuing the tradition of traveling to Gaza in friendship and 
 solidarity with the Palestinian people.  \n\n\nThey have even jailed an 
 American captain, John Klusmire, who sailed one of the two first boats into 
 Gaza in 2008, for trying to sail a one of the boats in the Flotilla. \n\nOf 
 course, we all know the reasons for this. No one believes that Prime 
 Minister Papandreou happily supports the violation of Palestinian human 
 rights. However, he is under great pressure from Israel, the United States 
 and the European community to comply with Israeli instructions. \n\nThis 
 brings great sorrow to me. Although my own country, the United States, 
 bears most of the responsibility for supporting Israeli abuse of 
 Palestinians, until now Greece has been a beacon of courage in defending 
 their rights. Indeed, Greeks have acted on the principle that “injustice 
 anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” (Martin Luther King, Jr.). 
 When we sail to Gaza we not only defend Palestinian sovereignty over their 
 waters, but our right to use them, at Palestinian invitation, and our right 
 to invite them to sail from Gaza into our waters. The Israeli blockade 
 therefore violates our rights, as well. \n\nMore obviously, the Israeli 
 occupation of Palestine has now been extended to Greece, where it seems 
 that if Israel tells the Greek government to jump, they will ask, “How 
 high?” This is not the Greece that I know, although I will always be in 
 solidarity with all Greeks who demand independence and control over their 
 own destiny. It is often said that we are all Palestinians, but this is 
 true for Greeks even more than other peoples. And it is why the time has 
 come to end the Israeli occupation of Greece. \n\nPaul Larudee is a 
 founding member of the Free Palestine Movement.  \n \nHelp us continue our 
 work!\n\n  \n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/07/03/18683715.php
SUMMARY:Protest @ Israeli Consulate - Let the "Be Human" Aid Flotilla to Gaza Sail
LOCATION:Israeli Consulate\n\n456 Montgomery Street, San Francisco\nbetween 
 Sacramento and California\nMontgomery St BART 
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