[FlyingBrickAnnouncements] [Fwd: Gaza tour]

[Nathan Stickel]

I'd love to help! can i get a partner on it?


On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Ellen Crawford <crawfordee at vcu.edu> wrote:

> Anyone interested?
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> From: The Flying Brick Library <TheFlyingBrick at riseup.net>
> Date: Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 2:29 PM
> Subject: [Fwd: Gaza tour]
> To: crawfordee at vcu.edu
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> Subject: Gaza tour
> From:    "eva bartlett" <evabartlett at hotmail.com>
> Date:    Sat, February 1, 2014 6:26 pm
> To:      "theflyingbrick at riseup.net" <theflyingbrick at riseup.net>
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> Hi,
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> My friend/activist colleague Joe Catron suggested that I contact you.
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> I'm a Canadian activist and freelance journalist, and since Nov 2008, I've
> spent cumulatively 3 years in Gaza, volunteering with the International
> Solidarity Movement and documenting the various facets of life under
> siege. During the 2008/9 Israeli attacks, I accompanied Palestinian medics
> in Northern Gaza, documenting who the victims were, including victims of
> White Phosphorous attacks and other war crimes. A medic I worked with was
> killed by a flechette bomb fired directly as his ambulance (see here).  A
> media building I was in was shelled repeatedly (see here). Another medic I
> was accompanying came under Israeli sniper fire during "cease-fire hours"
> (see here).  My photos and some videos here, and archived posts from Dec
> 2008 and Jan 2009.
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> During the Nov 2012 attacks, I documented from a central Gaza Strip
> hospital (see here).
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> Our work in the ISM comprised accompanying farmers in the border regions,
> coming under heavy Israeli fire (see compilation video here and my blog
> posts and reporting here). Likewise, for a period we were able to
> accompany fishers at sea, coming under intense Israeli navy machine gun
> fire, water cannoning and shelling.
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> I wrote mainly for Inter Press Services, but also for the New
> Internationalist, various independent media, Russia Today and re-published
> on Al Jazeera.
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> In the past few months I've been giving talks on Gaza, in eastern Canada
> and Western Can and US.
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> I've also done talks in Ontario, this year and in years past.
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> In Feb, I will do another round of talks throughout the States.
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> Regarding my talk, it outlines the different Israeli policies on
> Palestinians in Gaza, including preventing farmers from farming and
> enforcing this restriction through lethal means, same for fishers, and
> the layered aspects of the blockade/siege on Gaza, including:
> electricity, exports, sanitation, water, medicines and medical care,
> education, and manufactured poverty. I also discuss the 2008/9 Israeli
> attacks on Gaza the Nov 2012 Israeli attacks on Gaza.
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> Recently, Gaza has entered one of the
> worst (Israeli siege-manufactured) humanitarian crises on earth. The
> Israeli war planes
> continue to bomb and kill civilians throughout Gaza, and Israel is
> threatening yet another war on Gaza
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> Here is some feedback from folks who have attended my talks:
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> http://ingaza.wordpress.com/gaza-presentation-reactions/
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> Attached are a bio, some examples of past event fliers, and some photos.
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> For your interest, a couple of articles on me:
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> http://northofvenice.wordpress.com/2010/06/12/eva-bartlett-head-first-towards-the-opposition/
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> http://www.paltelegraph.com/palestine/gaza-strip/4824-eva-bartlett-follows-in-the-footsteps-of-rachel-corrie.html
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> Thanks in advance if you can arrange an event or an interview which would
> help focus on the current situation in Gaza and bring more awareness to
> the greater public. I would be in the VA/MD area from around Feb 20, 21,
> 22, 23.  I likely have a radio int in Baltimore in the afternoon of the
> 21st, perhaps an evening event in Baltimore.  And maybe a speaking event
> on the 22 in Charlottesville--however, I don't know whether it would be
> aft or evening, so perhaps the could be one in Richmond on the same
> day...?  There may be an aft event at a Baltimore church, so also perhaps
> an evening Richmond event could work?
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> Finally, there is a very, very slight chance that I'll have dates in March
> open.  But that is only a new slight possibility, so I'd rather try for
> the Feb dates.
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> Thank you and hope we can work something out.
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> All the best,
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-- 
with love & rage,

Nathan
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