[Peace-discuss] at HuffPo: Flotilla 3.0: Redeeming Obama's Palestine Speech With Gaza's Ark

[David Johnson]

Bob,

I think that is a GREAT idea !

I wish I could do more, but at this time I can only afford $ 20.00.
I commit $ 20.00 to the Ark for Gaza / Food Co-op campaign.

David Johnson

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Naiman" <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org>
To: "Carl G. Estabrook" <galliher at illinois.edu>
Cc: "Peace-discuss List" <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2013 5:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] at HuffPo: Flotilla 3.0: Redeeming Obama's 
Palestine Speech With Gaza's Ark


> That's certainly true. Of course, my main objective here was to
> promote interest in Gaza's Ark. Obama's speech was in the news, and
> people pay attention to what's in the news, so I was like: thing you
> are paying attention to because it was in the news, and why you should
> pay attention to Gaza's Ark instead.
>
> Incidentally, I have an idea for a way we could support Gaza's Ark in
> Champaign-Urbana.
>
> They're asking people to purchase Palestinian goods from Gaza which
> will go on the boat. The minimum order is $500.
>
> If you go to the webpage:
>
> http://www.gazaark.org/products/
>
> you see there are some choices. Some of them are things our local food
> coop could presumably sell, like "Pressed dates (ajwa)" and "Dates
> preserves (Makhtom)."
>
> It would certainly be wonderful if our local food co-op would place an 
> order.
>
> However, one has to accept that there's a good chance that the boat is
> not going to make it out; indeed, there's a good chance that it will
> be intercepted by the Israeli Navy and its cargo will be confiscated.
>
> So, I was thinking that a bunch of us could pass the hat and front the
> money to the food co-op to make the order. $500 divided among a
> sufficient group of us would be something we could carry.
>
> If the boat makes it out, the food coop gets to sell the stuff and pay
> us back. If the boat doesn't make it out, the people who fronted the
> money eat the $500 loss.
>
> The idea being: it's not going to cost the co-op anything in any
> event, so if there were anyone in the co-op who was against the idea
> on political grounds, they wouldn't have the issue of cost to hide
> behind.
>
> What do you think?
>
> On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Carl G. Estabrook
> <galliher at illinois.edu> wrote:
>> Even if Obama's speech was neither of those things, it is undoubtedly 
>> true that the initiative for justice is going
>> to have to come from somewhere else - not from the US government.
>>
>>
>> On Mar 24, 2013, at 3:40 PM, Robert Naiman <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Whether you see Obama's Palestine speech as a great motivational
>>> speech or a white flag of surrender, the practical consequences for
>>> the public are largely the same: the initiative for justice is going
>>> to have to come from somewhere else.
>>> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/flotilla-30-redeeming-oba_b_2944367.html
>>>
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