[FlyingBrickAnnouncements] [Fwd: Gaza tour]

Sun Feb 9 22:20:23 UTC 2014

emailing her right now!

On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Ellen Crawford <crawfordee at vcu.edu> wrote:

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> Did anyone email eva bartlett back?
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> 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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>>> Katrina Hamilton
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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:
>>>
>>>> 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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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> The Flying Brick Library
>>>> Richmond, VA
>>>> theflyingbrick at riseup.net
>>>> http://flyingbrickrva.wordpress.com/
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>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> with love & rage,
>>>
>>> Nathan
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Nathan
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