Report Back on trip to GAZA
Speakers: Susan Johnson & Emma Grigore
When: Wednesday, July 29
Time: 1:00 PM and again @ 7:00 PM
Place: Saxby's Coffee Shop, Community Room
22 North Main Street
Doylestown, PA
As a members of an ad hoc delegation from PA, NY and NY and a letter of invitation from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, Ms Johnson and Ms Grigore traveled to Gaza in May 2009. The delegation was requested to focus on the children of Gaza; with emphasis on impacts the children experience as result of the December 2008-January 2009 invasion and bombardment by Israeli forces and the siege placed against Gaza in 2005 and strengthened in 2007.
Through photos and first hand accounts, the presentation documents conditions in Gaza. Destruction is devastating and wide spread; thousands of people remain homeless, the majority being children. The siege against Gaza has created shortages of goods (food, clothing, medicines) needed on a daily basis. The inability to import construction materials has made re-building impossible. Palestinians are not allowed to leave or enter Gaza.
Susan Johnson has been a resident of Doylestown PA for 18 years. In 2004 she traveled to the West Bank with Women of a Certain Age; which proved to be a life changing experience. Since that time she has become an active advocate for Palestinian rights.
Emma Grigore lives in Elkins Park PA having previously lived in Warminster, PA. She graduated from Moravian College and is currently active with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, the Peace Alliance and Students for a Democratic Society.
For additional information: 215-262-0042
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Bless you! You are part of the great awakening of the American public. Finally we are looking at the reality of the situation there.
ReplyDeleteYou just can't declare millions of people the "wrong religion," confiscate their homes and strip them of citizenship or make them second-class citizens. Why? It causes conflict, in perpetuity. Now we have come to the point where these people are under mass incarceration in places like Gaza and Qalqiliya. Prison for the people of the wrong religion. Thank you for getting the word out, and bless you.
-American for justice