{"id":12362,"date":"2009-12-31T12:29:05","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T18:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12362"},"modified":"2009-12-31T12:29:05","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T18:29:05","slug":"starhawk-gaza-freedom-march-a-day-of-preparation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12362","title":{"rendered":"Starhawk: Gaza Freedom March: A Day of Preparation"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Starhawk | Published: December 30, 2009<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

We\u2019ve moved from the Old to the New Testament\u2014from \u201cLet my people go\u201d to \u201cLeft Behind!\u201d Woke up this morning sure my choice to stay was the right one, but deeply regretting it anyway. Lisa, who was also offered a seat, and I were talking ourselves into good political reasons to justify why we could have gone, when she got a call. Code Pink and the Steering Committee of the Gaza Freedom March had just issued a statement saying that they\u2019d made a mistake, and that they were no longer supporting the busses going. The busses were loading a few blocks away, we were told the scene was chaotic and Lisa rushed down there to do damage control while I stayed to do the morning briefing <\/p>\n

By all accounts, the scene was a madhouse. People were weeping on the busses, others were crying \u201cShame! Shame!\u201d at those who boarded. Some were getting off the bus, then back on, then off again. Father Louis Vitale, the starwart priest from San Francisco who has been arrested hundreds of times doing civil disobedience actions, got on, got off, got on again, and finally got off for good. Lisa helped chill the situation out, and people ended by holding hands and remembering that we are in this for the same goals.<\/p>\n

The Gazan coordinators, who originally said, \u2018Come!\u201d were now saying \u201cDon\u2019t come\u2014it\u2019s too divisive. Stay together. Several delegations has pulled their representatives out. And I guess the crowning blow for Code Pink was when the Foreign Office released a statement that was not only counter to their agreement but an outright lie\u2014that the hundred on the busses were the only \u2018good\u2019\u2019 and truly peaceful demonstrators and that the Foreign Office had selected them. In the end, one bus went.<\/p>\n

[Read the report<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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