[FlyingBrickAnnouncements] [Fwd: Gaza tour]

Sat Feb 8 22:57:29 UTC 2014

Did anyone email eva bartlett back?

On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 7:18 PM, Mara Hyman <marahyman at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Sounds awesome, don't really have time to help out but looks like you &
> katie got it :)
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> On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Katrina Hamilton <
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>> yeah count me in to organize. Nathan you want me to bottom line with you?
>> this is awesome.
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>> On Feb 7, 2014, at 3:53 PM, Nathan Stickel <incoherentnickle at gmail.com>
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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:
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>>> 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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>>>
>>> ---------------------------- Original Message
>>> ----------------------------
>>> 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>
>>>
>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> My friend/activist colleague Joe Catron suggested that I contact you.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> During the Nov 2012 attacks, I documented from a central Gaza Strip
>>> hospital (see here).
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> In the past few months I've been giving talks on Gaza, in eastern Canada
>>> and Western Can and US.
>>>
>>> I've also done talks in Ontario, this year and in years past.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Here is some feedback from folks who have attended my talks:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> http://ingaza.wordpress.com/gaza-presentation-reactions/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Attached are a bio, some examples of past event fliers, and some photos.
>>>
>>> For your interest, a couple of articles on me:
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Thank you and hope we can work something out.
>>>
>>> All the best,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Eva
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>> --
>> with love & rage,
>>
>> Nathan
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