BTW, for those of you following or trying to get updates on the Gaza march, latest word is that the Egyptian government (which kept changing its mind about whether or not to let the 1300 plus marchers in to Gaza), has now placed some of the marchers on house arrest. I have now opened a "twitter" account to try to follow what is happening there. Some of my group is going to go to the Israeli/Gaza border to show solidarity, although they will not be allowed to enter Gaza (which remains sealed off from the world, at the expense of more Palestinian lives).
For those of you who do not know about the Gaza march, it is being organized as a nonviolent demonstration to commemorate the year anniversary of the Israeli military action in Gaza in which numerous Palestinian civilians were killed. The last count was that over 1300 people from all over the world were traveling to Cairo to march to Gaza through the Egyptian border. Over the last month, the organizers had to turn applicants away. Notorious participants include poet/author Alice Walker, 85 y.o. Holocaust survivor Hedy Epstein, Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb, Starhawk and Ann Wright, retired US army colonel. The website for the march is at http://www.gazafreedommarch.org/article.php?id=5022.
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