ABOUT US
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The International Coalition to
End the Illegal Siege of Gaza formed after Israel's
22-day assault on Gaza in winter 2008-09.We are a diverse coalition
that represents all faiths (and no faith) and is focused on
human rights in conformance with international law.
To mark the fact that is has been one year since the Israeli
attack, the coalition is mobilizing an international contingent
for a nonviolent march alongside the people of Gaza on Dec.
31, to end the illegal blockade.
The coalition conceives this march as part of a broader strategy
to end the Israeli occupation by targeting nonviolently its
flagrant violations of international law from the house demolitions
and settlements to the curfews and torture.
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Gaza Freedom March Coordinating Committee
(CC)
This committee is charged with making strategic and policy
decisions related to the march.
- Medea Benjamin is cofounder of Global
Exchange and CODEPINK: Women for Peace, and has helped organized
five trips to Gaza since February 2009.
- Felice Gelman works on Palestine issues
with WESPAC Foundation. She is on the board of the Friends
of the Jenin Freedom Theatre, and recently organized a New
York area delegation to Gaza.
- Mirene Ghossein has served on various
human rights and cultural organizations in both Lebanon
and the U.S. She is a member of Adalah (Arabic for Justice)
NY, the Middle East Committee of WESPAC Foundation and Alwan
for the Arts.
- Abdeen Jabara is a Michigan-born lawyer
and former president of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination
Committee (1986-1990).
- Dina Kennedy is a member of American
Palestinian Women's Association and a U.S. coordinator for
Free Gaza.
- Ehab Lotayef is a Montreal-based writer
and engineer, and a veteran activist in the struggle for
Palestinian rights.
- Nancy Murray is president of the Gaza
Mental Health Foundation and a long time activist for civil
and human rights
- Oruba Rabie is a Palestinian-American
graduate student at New Jersey Institute of Technology and
a writer for the "Arab Voice" newspaper.
- Ann Wright is a retired U.S. Army Colonel,
former U.S. diplomat who resigned in opposition to the Iraq
war and co-leader in 2009 of three CODEPINK delegations
to Gaza and one delegation to the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
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Gaza Freedom March Liaison Committee
(LC)
This committee consists of the chairpersons of the various
working committees.
- Max Ajl is a writer, graduate student
in political science and member of the Israel-Palestine
Committee of Brooklyn for Peace. He is co-chair of the Media
Outreach Committee.
- Ali Glenesk is a fourth-year
UC Berkeley student concentrating in Arabic and global poverty
and was a lead organizer of the May 2009 40-person student
delegation to Gaza. She is the contact person for the Gaza
Freedom March Student Coordinating Committee (SCC).
- Ali Mallah is vice president of the Canadian
Arab Federation in Ontario, a member of the steering committee
of the Canadian Peace Alliance, and a founding member of
Trade Unionists Against War and the Coalition to Stop War.
Ali is the contact person for the North American Muslim/Arab
Community Outreach Committee.
- Nadia Hijab is a syndicated columnist,
author, public speaker and media commentator. She has served
as co-chair of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation
and is a past president of the Association of Arab American
University Graduates.
- Mark Johnson, PhD, is
executive director of the Fellowship of Reconciliation/USA.
He is co-chair of the march's Interfaith Outreach Committee.
- Sayel Kayed is a Palestinian-American
and an active member of American Muslims for Palestine.
He helped organize the last Viva Palestina convoy to Gaza,
July 2009. He is chair of the Arab-American Outreach Committee.
- Dave Kunes is a communications
associate at the national office of Peace Action. He is
chair of the Internet Outreach Committee.
- Gael Murphy is co-chair
of the legislative committee of United for Peace and Justice
and a cofounder of CODEPINK. Murphy is the contact person
for the Elected Officials Outreach Committee.
- Pam Rasmussen is on
the steering committee of Peace Action Montgomery and was
an International Solidarity Movement volunteer in the West
Bank. Rasmussen is the contact person for the Peace and
Justice Outreach Committee.
- Sandra Ruch is the Canadian coordinator
for the march. She lives in Toronto and is the administrative
coordinator for the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace, on
the steering committee of Independent Jewish Voices and
Gaza coordinator for CODEPINK Toronto.
- Ziyaad Lunat is the
contact person for the European Outreach Committee. He is
an activist for Palestine and a former BBC journalist. He
was the head of the Palestine Society at the London School
of Economics and Political Science. He can be contacted
at z.lunat@gmail.com.
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