[FlyingBrickAnnouncements] [Fwd: Gaza tour]

Fri Feb 7 20:57:59 UTC 2014

yeah count me in to organize. Nathan you want me to bottom line with you? this is awesome. 

Katrina Hamilton

On Feb 7, 2014, at 3:53 PM, Nathan Stickel <incoherentnickle at gmail.com> wrote:

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> I'd love to help! can i get a partner on it?
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> On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Ellen Crawford <crawfordee at vcu.edu> wrote:
>> Anyone interested?
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>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> 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.
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 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/
>> 
>> 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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>> Eva
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> Nathan
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