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

[Stuart Levy]

I agree - this is a fine idea.  Re getting buy-in from the coop, Karen 
says she can talk with Jacqueline Hannah about it.

But in any case I'm delighted to pledge another $100.

On 3/24/13 6:28 PM, Robert Naiman wrote:
> 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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