Gaza Freedom Flotilla Attack - A Report from Survivors 1 of 9

Ann Wright and Joe Meadors were passengers on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla that was carrying humanitarian aid for the people of Gaza and was attacked by Israeli forces on Monday, May 31st in international waters killing 9 civilians and wounding dozens of others. They will be speaking on their experience as passengers aboard the Flotilla and on their work as activists.

Wright is a retired Army colonel who in 2003 resigned from the State Department in direct protest of the war in Iraq. Since her resignation she has continued to speak out against the war in Iraq and occupation of Palestine and co-authored Dissent, Voices of Conscience. (More on Ann Wright- http://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/pgs/portraits/ann_wright.php

Meadors is a retired U.S. Navy signalman who also was on the USS Liberty when it was attacked by Israel in 1967, leaving 34 dead and 173 wounded and the only attack of its kind in US naval history not to be investigated by the US government.( Democracy Now interview w/ Meadors- http://www.democracynow.org/2010/6/4/43_years_after_surviving_israeli_attack

When: 5pm Sunday, July 11th, 2010
Where: MEZ 1.306, UT Campus
(Map- http://www.utexas.edu/maps/main/buildings/mez.html)

Sponsored by Palestine Solidarity Committee http://UTPalestine.org and Code Pink http://CodePinkAustin.com

Audio recorded by Allan Campbell from 91.7 FM KOOP Radio
http://www.koop.org/?page=schedule&section=peopleunited

A ZGraphix production.
http://zgraphix.org
Produced by Jeff Zavala.

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• attack
• report
• survivors
• uss liberty
• joe meadors
• Ann Wright
• War Crimes
• witness
• Activism
• israeli war crimes

[WorkingAgainstWalls]

Huge thanks to CodePinkAustin, and the PSC (Palestine Solidarity Committee) of UT-Austin for arranging this.... I love Ann's shirt too, which is available at the PalestineOnlineStore.

Another thanks to ZGraphix for creating this video-series, I love it!

[Palestine1Country]

This is great, I like these two activists, I wish I could be on the next flotilla!

[Atlantagamer132]

the israelis had painball guns for whatever it was and pistols for self defence u stupid bitches