Eye Witness Report from Gaza
Jessica Campbell, OSU student activist, will show Power Point photos of the destruction in Gaza from Israel's 2008-2009 attack. Lady Ashton of the EU recently visited as well and described the destruction as "a man-made catastrophe worse than Haiti." Please come see for yourselves. Event is free, open to public.
Jessica was part of the Gaza Freedom March in Dec. 2008-Jan. 2009, which had 1400 participants. Most of them were detained in Egypt and not allowed to visit the Gaza Strip.
Jessica and some 89 others were allowed to get into Gaza with the school supplies they bought in Egypt from funds donated by US peace activists in Albany and Corvallis.
Gaza's children lost their notebooks, pencils, textbooks, and other school supplies, as well as some of their schools, clean drinking water, 24-hour electricity, and adequate sewage treatment because of the Israeli bombs. When the children go to the beach, they must swim in water contaminated with inadequately-treated sewage at four times the World Health Organization maximum levels.
Join us on Tuesday, April 20 at 6:30pm at the Albany Public Library to hear Jessica's accounts of the repression in Cairo, the role the United States played in dismantling the Gaza Freedom March, and the whirlwind 48 hours she spent in Gaza distributing aid alongside Palestinians.
Read another Report from Gaza