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

[Randall Cotton]

On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 06:28:51PM -0500, Robert Naiman wrote:
> So that's $120. $380 to go.

Count me in - $50.
R

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On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 06:28:51PM -0500, Robert Naiman wrote:
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> To: David Johnson <dlj725 at hughes.net>
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> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] at HuffPo: Flotilla 3.0: Redeeming Obama's
> 	Palestine Speech With Gaza's Ark
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> 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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> >>
> >>
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