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

[Rohn Koester]

I'll pledge $50.

Rohn

On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Randall Cotton <recotton at earthlink.net>wrote:

> 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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> > From: Robert Naiman <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org>
> > To: David Johnson <dlj725 at hughes.net>
> > Cc: Peace-discuss List <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
> > Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] at HuffPo: Flotilla 3.0: Redeeming Obama's
> >       Palestine Speech With Gaza's Ark
> >
> > 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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