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You can also go to PayPal.com, click on "send money" and fill in donate@freegaza.org, then enter the amount you are sending.
Finally, you can multiply your donation by organising a fundraising event (for which your local Palestine solidarity/peace/human rights group may be able to help you find a speaker or a film), or asking your organisation or church to donate a sum of money. We will be happy to contribute speakers whenever feasible.
For further information regarding donations and fundraising, contact Truegret@aol.com or Larudee@pacbell.net.
It may be possible for you to have one of the remaining places onboard the Break the Siege ship. However, if you have the option of entering Palestine through the Israeli controlled land or air borders, to do voluntary work there instead, we would ask you to consider this first. Israel's policy of blacklisting known human rights workers and similar international volunteers means there is a severe shortage of such people on the ground, and participating in the Break the Siege project may result in you being placed on this blacklist without you ever entering Palestine. Please see 'Volunteer in Palestine' at the bottom of this list for groups you can contact to work with.
If you are already refused entry, you think you might have skills we need on board, or you feel the above statement otherwise does not apply to you, please get in touch to enquire about places. Relevant experience and references will be vital. There may also be options for joining a future ship - let us know if you're interested.
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This may be the most vital work for the whole Break the Siege project, and if you would like to be involved in it, please do get in touch– wherever in the world you may be based!
Even one person can get a great amount of info out on the web, or someone without a computer is in a position to write to his/her local papers, and ring talk-back radio. You may also like to include a link to this website in your email signature.
Or perhaps you'd like to print and distribute one of our flyers in your locale. This would be another cucially helpful part you could play in aiding our impending voyage.
FLYERS FOR DOWNLOAD:
Free Gaza Flyer (English), PDF
Free Gaza Flyer (German), PDF
Free Gaza Flyer (Greek), PDF
Free Gaza Flyer (Italian), PDF
MEDIA ANNOUNCEMENTS:
English: Adobe PDF, 750 KB
Français: Adobe PDF, 750 KB
Italiano: Adobe PDF, 750 KB
Deutsch: Adobe PDF, 750 KB
Español: Adobe PDF, 750 KB |
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As with anything happening in Palestine, the safety of participants in the project will depend on the eyes of the international world being on us. Please contact us and sign up to receive email reports as we go, that you can then broadcast widely to your own contacts– see also 'Media & PR' above.
As with anything happening in Palestine, the safety of participants in the project will depend on the eyes of the international world being on us. Please sign up to receive email reports as we go, which you can then broadcast widely to your own contacts, via https://lists.riseup.net/www/subscribe/gazafriends - and see also 'Media & PR' above.
We would love to have these happen during Break the Siege. Contact your local Palestine solidarity/peace/human rights group to suggest one, or organise your own, invite your friends, press release it, and post your own coverage on the web (find sites you can post actions to all round the world at indymedia). You might find the following site useful for action planning, too– http://seedsforchange.org.uk/free/res#pract
Send aid to Gaza
and bug the hell out of the IDF, while you're at it...
This side of the event has yet to be organised (if you would like to help organise it, get in touch!) and is based on the fact that the Israeli government has said that aid for Gaza can be delivered by the IDF. Aid being delivered by the Occupying forces - this is obviously an unreliable and ridiculously complicated process to which simply letting Gaza receive its aid directly is the only sensible alternative.
It has been suggested that we ask people to "send a single soup can, or a single bottle of aspirin, etc" for the IDF to deliver to Gaza. Flooding the IDF with soup cans will help highlight the absurdity (and not just the brutality) of the blockade." |
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You can kick up a fuss about your country's treatment of Palestine, act to support your Members of Parliament who are raising the issue in the government, and lobby your own MP or MEP.
In the UK, Visit writetothem.com to find your representatives (at all levels) and their contact details.
Visit publicwhip.org and theyworkforyou.com to see what your MP has said in done in relation to Palestine. |
Palestinians, Israelis and internationals are taking nonviolent direct action together for the end of the Occupation. They need you too. These groups are a good beginning, and they will have links to others.
• International Womens Peace Service
• Christian Peacemaker Teams
• International Soldarity Movement
• The Tel Rumeida Project
• Palestine Solidarity Project
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