GAZA FREEDOM MARCH: 150 people signed up in Paris 30Oct09 October 30, 2009
Gaza Freedom March
In less than a month, in France alone, 150 people are already signed up to participate in the March, which will begin on 27 December, a year after the beginning of Gaza bombings last winter, and will end on 2 January 2010. (Fly to Cairo, then bus to the frontier at Rafah for entry into the Gaza Strip.)
A broad spectrum of people including Mgr. Jacques Gaillot, the musical group Ministère des Affaires Populaires, Alima Boumediene-Thiery (MP), Omar Slaouti (NPA candidate for the European elections), Chris Den Hond (reporter), Israeli anarchists , will be participating.
Francois René Quercy, an astro-physicist from Toulouse has written: I am an astro-physicist of the Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées in Toulouse, I was also an expert for the United Nations on Middle Eastern Space Science. My objective in going to Gaza is also to visit a young fellow astrophysicist, Dr. Suleiman Barakat, whose house in Gaza had been destroyed by a targeted bomb during the Israeli invasion, and whose 10 year old son was killed during the bombings. I have just presented a project concerning the astronomic clock of Gaza (5th century) and I sent him the document to show that we do not forget him. Thank you for your initiative.
At Nanterre (in the Paris region) the asssociation “Entraide”, with the help of the Imam of Aubervilliers, has collected 5000 Euros in gifts, last Sunday, to allow 5 young people to participate in the March and to bring over half the sum collected to families in Gaza
Departure to Cairo is being organized in a number of French cities such as Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Nice and Lille. Our Belgian collegues have already organized a group of some 40 people. And our Italian friends have booked 100 seats on a flight.
The more numerous we are, the more the message of the refusal of the barbarism will be heard throughout the world.
The more numerous we are, the more the population of the Gaza Strip will be able to continue to resist, comforted in the knowledge that the sense of fraternity and justice has not disappeared from the world.
It is still time to sign up or to aid others to participate in this March. All the information is available here.
Yours,
CAP-JPO-EuroPalestine
English translation (by Jonathan Daitch)
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