http://wca2004.org Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:40:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en SS FREE GAZA & SS LIBERTY TO LEAVE GAZA PORT ON THURSDAY     FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  Date : 08-26-2008   (GAZA CITY, 26 August 2008) – The SS Free Gaza and SS Liberty will leave Gaza for Cyprus on Thursday morning at 9:00 am. Several Palestinian students who have been denied exit visas by ... http://wca2004.org/2008/07/124 "I will fight with all I have in me to see that Abir becomes the bridge that closes the gap between us, the bridge that allows Israelis and Palestinians to live in peace." Bassam Aramin The tragic death of ten-year-old Abir Aramin made headlines worldwide. Abir was only one of 922 ... http://wca2004.org/2007/09/6 Today the ladies slept in. I, however, was up at 6:30 am. My sleeps are deep, but I am unable to sleep late. When everyone had finished breakfast and checked out of the Retno, we boarded vans to Qalandia checkpoint. There we decided to walk through on the Palestinian line. A ... http://wca2004.org/2004/06/42 I have arrived in the Occupied Palestinian city of Ramallah unfortunately minus one of our beloved group, WCA (Women of a Certain Age). Several of us were held and interrogated at the Ben Gurion airport on arrival and released after several hours. Ann P. was detained and ordered deported. With ... http://wca2004.org/2004/06/45 Our training was put to the test! There was a demonstration in a-Ram, north of Jerusalem, where the Wall is being built. For the first time the town is coming together in peaceful protest. Our first real checkpoint experience: shadeless, ruble-strewn, rocky, merciless. Long lanes, like tollbooths for pedestrians. Hundreds ... http://wca2004.org/2004/06/44 Today was the opening day of Freedom Summer 2004. We had planned at last night’s meeting to leave the hotel by 9:30 to go into central Ramallah to find an internet café, to buy phones, and to pick up a lunch of falafel and shwarma. We knew we had to ... http://wca2004.org/2004/06/43 Today was a full day of training; intensive, informing, and empowering. Faris, Mohammed and Raji are adorable, well-informed, intelligent and dedicated young men who did a fabulous job training us. We certainly were a challenging group and they handled us superbly. We were consistently throwing things off schedule because of ... http://wca2004.org/2004/06/46 Training took place about 12 hours for 2 days in the Meeting Room of the Retno with three beautiful young Palestinian men. Here they were, confronted with 13 women, some of whom could be their grandmothers, and a noisier, more serious group we couldn’t be. We started with one, slim, ... http://wca2004.org/2004/06/47 Before going to training in Ramallah, we ventured out to roam the Christian and Arab quarters a bit, the bazaar area where there are no obvious tourists. Shopkeepers who have always hawked their wares now plead with the tourist, using their plight as manipulation to buy: “We are starving, the ... http://wca2004.org/2004/06/49 We set our alarms for 4:45 a.m., showered, dressed and went downstairs, a bit unhappy to leave the luxurious large bath towels, the heated bathroom floor and mirror, and the fabulous beds and coverlets. Stacey went to check us out thinking Carol might have ordered a Pay-Per-view movie (as she’d ... http://wca2004.org/2004/06/48