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		<title>Spirit of Humanity January 14</title>
		<description><![CDATA[January 14, 2009:
The last 45 minutes the Spirit of Humanity is surrounded by Israeli gunboats, 100 miles away of Gaza port, into international waters. The Israelis ask the boat return to Larnaca. The boat continues its trip towards Gaza port.
Monitor the Boat&#8217;s Progress
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Israeli citizens against the Gaza assault
January 1st, 2009
A former captain in the Israeli [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wca2004.org/2009/01/124</link>
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		<title>Abir&#8217;s Garden needs your help</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;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.&#8221; Bassam Aramin
The tragic death of ten-year-old Abir Aramin made headlines worldwide. Abir was only one of 922 child victims of the Israeli [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wca2004.org/2007/09/6</link>
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		<title>Day 5: Doreen&#8217;s Diary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 man carrying a child, who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wca2004.org/2004/06/42</link>
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		<title>Day 4: Gail&#8217;s Diary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 the support of the ISM [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wca2004.org/2004/06/45</link>
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		<title>Day 4: Anni&#8217;s Diary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 of people, the elderly, babies, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wca2004.org/2004/06/44</link>
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		<title>Day 4: Doreen&#8217;s Diary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 be back by 12 to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wca2004.org/2004/06/43</link>
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		<title>Day 3: Doreen&#8217;s Diary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 all of our questions. We [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wca2004.org/2004/06/46</link>
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		<title>Day 3: Anni&#8217;s Diary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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, intense, with raccoon eyes, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wca2004.org/2004/06/47</link>
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		<title>Day 2: Anni&#8217;s Diary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 Occupation is destroying us, you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wca2004.org/2004/06/49</link>
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		<title>Day 2: Doreen&#8217;s Diary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 said she might last night.) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wca2004.org/2004/06/48</link>
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