[Peace-discuss] Join Chomsky & Alice Walker in Challenging the Israeli Blockade of Gaza

[Robert Naiman]

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Date: Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 12:06 PM
Subject: Join Noam Chomsky & Alice Walker in Challenging the Israeli
Blockade of Gaza
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Dear Robert,

For nearly seven years, Gaza has been under siege. Its 1.8 million
inhabitants have been denied their rights to move and trade freely. Farmers
are blocked from farming their land. Fishermen have their lives threatened
and their property confiscated. And, crucially, Palestinian producers have
been blocked from exporting their goods. Gaza's economy has been
devastated.

In the short run, aid is necessary but, in the long run, aid not the
answer. Freedom is the answer. That's why we've been working on Gaza's Ark,
an international initiative to challenge the blockade politically by
exporting Palestinian goods through the port of Gaza.

Gaza's Ark is a refurbished fishing boat that will soon sail from Gaza
carrying Palestinian export goods. Like other boats that have attempted to
break the blockade, Gaza's Ark will face the danger of interception by
Israeli forces. That's why we need your help today.

*The UN and world governments have it in their power to ensure safe passage
of Gaza's Ark and an end to the siege. Prominent human rights activists
from around the world are initiating the call—will you join them?*

Here's what you can do:

   1. *Sign the petition.* Join world-renowned human rights activists such
   as Noam Chomsky, Mairead Maguire, and Alice Walker in signing Gaza's Ark's
   petition calling upon the UN to take action to end the siege of Gaza.
   *http://www.gazaark.org/2014/04/26/petition-to-the-un/*<http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?key=-1&url_num=2&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gazaark.org%2F2014%2F04%2F26%2Fpetition-to-the-un%2F>
   2. *Participate in our Twitter Storm Monday, April 28 at 4pm Eastern
   (3pm Central, 1pm Pacific.) *The objective of a Twitter Storm is create
   a sudden burst of activity on a particular hashtag to get the topic
   trending and raise awareness. Participants should attempt to tweet once
   every minute for up to an hour. Participate for however long you like—but
   be sure to be there for the beginning! We'll send the hashtag tomorrow
   about half an hour before the storm begins. Sample tweets will be available
   at the following link at that time:
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   3. *Join our Thunderclap promoting the petition.* Thunderclap allows
   large groups of people to blast social media all at once with one
   resounding message. Our Thunderclap will go out at the start of our Twitter
   Storm. All you have to do to participate is visit the link, select which
   social media you'd like to post to, authorize the Thunderclap app to post
   on your behalf this one time, and that's it! Thunderclap won't retain your
   information and will only post to your account once for this campaign.
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Hope to see you Monday on Twitter!

Thank you for all you do to help end the siege of Gaza,

Megan Iorio, Chelsea Mozen and Robert Naiman
Just Foreign Policy

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