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

[Robert Naiman]

Thank you, David. Like anything else, everybody does what they can.

I'm in for $100.

So that's $120. $380 to go.

On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 5:26 PM, David Johnson <dlj725 at hughes.net> wrote:
> 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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