Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA: What better way to encourage peace than to open up
the Gaza Port so that Hamas can accelerate its already massive smuggling of
weapons.

That's "peace" as in "rest in peace".

#1: Group website:
" Backing our Effort
The Carter Center, www.cartercenter.org "
www.freegaza.org/index.php?language=EN&module=endorse

#2: Group press release:

For Immediate Release
Contact: The Free Gaza Movement
FriendsofGaza@gmail.com

Setting Sail on August 1, 2008 to Break the Siege of Gaza
www.freegaza.org/uploads/image_gallery/june2008.pdf

We will no longer wait for the United Nations to enforce over 65
resolutions against Israel, or for Israel to come forward and uphold the
rights of
Palestinians guaranteed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the
Fourth Geneva Convention. We choose, instead, to sail to Gaza in August and
declare our solidarity with the Palestinians.

Forty to seventy Palestinians, Israelis and Internationals from 15 countries
will sail to Gaza during the sixty-year anniversary of the Nakba - the
forcible
expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians from their lands to create
Israel -to
challenge Israeli control over the open-air prison called Gaza.

Israel says Gaza is no longer occupied; yet it denies Palestinians access to
jobs, travel, commerce, education, and medical care. Its military has turned
the
Gaza Strip into an open-air concentration camp controlled by land, sea and
air. In
the past year, the people of Gaza have barely had enough to eat, as Israel
withholds food and energy in an attempt to starve them into submission.

We choose nonviolent civil resistance against the unjust policies of
occupation to
show that everyone of conscience can participate in resisting injustice.

If you are media, please email us to reserve a place on the boat or boats;
we
intend to have satellite capabilities onboard; we will keep you posted on
dates
and locations over the next two months.

The Free Gaza Movement
405 Vista Heights Road
El Cerrito, CA 94530