Saturday::An eyewitness account-Ann Wright talks about the Gaza Freedom Flotilla
Katherine Hanna
Dear friends,
Please join us this Saturday to listen to one of the activists who just came back from the Gaza Freedom Flotilla which was attacked by Israeli forces.
Ann Wright, retired Army Colonel and former US Diplomat presents:
The Truth About the Attack at Sea
6 PM Saturday June 19th
Palestinian Cultural Center for Peace
41 Quint Avenue
Allston, Massachusetts
$10 Suggested donation; Community dinner included
"People were thrown on the deck. Windows were blown out.
Flash bangs were used. One of our journalists was hit with something of an
electric shock. … One of the women was hit in the face, in the nose, with one
of the liquid-filled balls. They were very excessively rough, excessively
forceful… They weren’t stopping us at all. We were already dead in the water,
and yet all of this force was used on us. "
- Ann Wright, Democracy Now, June 3, 2010
Ann Wright, a retired US Army colonel, spent twenty-nine years in the military and later served as a high-ranking diplomat in the US State Department. In 2001, she helped oversee the opening of the US mission in Afghanistan. In 2003, she resigned her post at the State Department to protest the war in Iraq. Ms. Wright was a passenger on the Challenger 1, one of the six boats in the Gaza flotilla that was raided by Israeli commandos on May 31. She was deported to Turkey.
Sponsors: American-Arab Anti Discrimination Committee MA (ADC-MA); The Palestine Task Force for United for Justice with Peace (UJP); CODEPINK; Friends of Sabeel New England; Boston Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions; Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights (BCPR.org); Palestinian Cultural Center for Peace; The Palestinian House of New England;
Jewish Voice for Peace Boston (JVP-Boston); Jewish Women for Justice in Israel/Palestine (JWJIP); Pax Christi Metrowest; Natick Peace Vigil; Gaza Mental Health Foundation.