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DESCRIPTION:EVENT CANCELLED\n\n\nCol. Ann Wright will lead a discussion on the Gaza 
 Freedom Flotilla. \nFor more than five years the UN Conference on Trade and 
 Development (UNCTAD) has been warning the world that Gaza will become 
 uninhabitable by 2020 if the blockade does not end. \n\nThe U.S. campaign 
 is raising $45,000 as its part of the 12 nation international campaign that 
 will purchase boats and makes educational stops in 10 cities in the 
 Mediterranean before heading to Gaza.  All funds raised for the Forum 
 breakfast and all other donations will go to help the Freedom Flotilla.  
 \n\nSince 2008 35 boats have attempted to sail to Gaza, a Palestinian 
 territory under an illegal Israeli blockade since 2007. In 2008 two boats 
 managed to land in Gaza, but since then they have been intercepted by the 
 Israeli military. In 2010 Israeli forces boarded a flotilla ship, the Mavi 
 Marmara, killing 10 people on board including an American citizen & 
 wounding 50.\n\nThe 2020 flotilla will sail in May, 2020, the 10th 
 anniversary of the killings. This year the Flotilla will focus on the 
 children of Gaza and their physical and mental health. In the words of Ann 
 Wright: “The children of Gaza deserve the same rights as children in 
 every other country of the world. There are more than a million, more than 
 half the population of Gaza, and they are being deprived of the right to a 
 just future because of the illegal blockade and ongoing military attacks on 
 occupied Gaza by Israel, with the complicity of our country”. \n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/14/18829746.php
SUMMARY:CANCELLED: The Freedom Flotilla for Gaza Children, 2020
LOCATION:Unitarian Universalist Society of S.F.\n1187 Franklin St. @ Geary\nSan 
 Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/14/18829746.php
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