To date, no entry into Gaza

This is a link (hopefully) to Starhawk's blog - the most recent post I could find, posted almost 2 hours ago (its 8:09 pm ET now). So far, although she notes that the French delegates held their embassy through the night, they have not been allowed entry. CodePink, one of the sponsors of the march, is pretty good at getting in so all is not lost yet, but still.



For those of you who do not know Starhawk, she's a Jewish woman, about my age, whose real name, coincidentally, is Miriam. I don't know the story of her name change but she has been an activist for a very long time (notwithstanding the fact that if she is my age, she must be about 35 :)). She has spent the last few years, in part, training activists around the world in response to globalization and recently published a book well worth the read on, among other things, the struggle and meaning of violent and nonviolent actions. Her book is called "Webs of Power."

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This morning on the bus I finished reading the packet for our trip. There are articles that are written by several of the activists, authors, journalists, etc. with whom we are meeting. They are fairly short in length and well worth the read. I will post each as we hear the speaker but to get started, the next post is the article by one of the founders of our project, Dr. Alice Rothchild. Dr. Rothchild is an ob/gyn in Boston (the link is no longer available). She goes on this trip every year, seeing patients with the Palestinian Medical Relief Society and the Physicians for human rights. Dr. Rothchild has also written a book, on the bibliography I sent out with the email, entitled "Broken Promises, Broken Dreams." Its a beautiful story about a Jewish woman's struggle with Israeli treatment of Palestinians, with what she hears from the Israelis with whom she speaks, and of her trips.

This article is called "Avigdor's Ascent," and is about Avigdor Leiberman, PM Netanyahu's foreign minister and talks about Jaffa.