From: news-service@milligazette.biglist.com
Subject: PRESS CONFERENCE: Meet the First Ever Indian Activists to Enter Gaza (Palestine)
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 08:00:05 -0500
ASIAN PEOPLE'S SOLIDARITY FOR PALESTINEASIAN PEOPLE'S SOLIDARITY FOR PALESTINE -- INDIA LIFELINE TO GAZA
MEET THE FIRST EVER INDIAN ACTIVISTS TO ENTER GAZA
Venue: Press Club of India, Raisina Road, New Delhi (Near Metro Station Central Secretariat)
Time: 2.45 pm Date: Monday, January 10, 2011
Participants in the Caravan were from: Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Malayasia, Pakistan, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, UK
Chased by Israeli warships and warplanes in the Mediterranean Sea... held hostage in a cargo ship off Egypt without passports.. the amazing story of grit and determination of more than a 120 activists from 17 Asian countries, over 50 of them from India alone, who entered Gaza (Palestine) last week after a historic month-long 8,000-km bus-ride through Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon and Egypt.
With them, they took life-saving medical equipment, food items, clothes and other aid worth $1 million, weighing 170 tons, for the people of Gaza who continue to suffer unspeakable hardship for nearly five years under the illegal blockade imposed by the Israeli-US regimes.
Through its journey, the caravan was greeted by tens of thousands of people and their leaders that included, among others, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmednijad in Tehran, Hamas chief Khalid Mishal in Damascus and Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya in Gaza.
You are cordially invited to meet the delegates at the press conference and share their experience through personal testimonies, as well as their rich collection of videos and photographs that documented the historic journey.
The activists included a diverse range of representation from the civil society -- Magsaysay Award-winner social activist Sandeep Pandey, West Asian expert and peace activist Feroze Mithiborwala, Gandhian activist Suresh Khairnar, trade union leader Ashim Roy, noted journalist Ajit Sahi, student activists from Vidyarthi Bharati in Mumbai, and students from JNU and Jamia Millia. The Indian delegates hailed from UP, Punjab, Kerala, Maharashtra, Delhi, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Jharkhand, among others.
Dr SQR ILYAS, Spokesperson, All India Muslim Personal Law BoardDr ZAFARUL ISLAM KHAN, Editor, The Milli Gazette
FEROZE MITHIBORWALA, President, Awami Bharat
ANIL CHAUDHARY, President, Insaaf
KISHOR JAGTAP, Vice-President, Awami Bharat
GAUHAR IQBAL, President, Palestine Solidarity Forum
BIRAJ PATNAIK, Right to Food Activist with Supreme Court commission
Dr TASLEEM RAHMANI, President, Muslim Political Council of India
ASLAM KHAN, Vice-President, AISA
SHEHEEN, Solidarity Youth Movement
BISHRUDDEN SHARQI, ex-President, Students Islamic Organisation
BADAR KHAN, Student, Jamia Millia Islamia
KHUSHBOO KUMARI, Student, JNU
MOHAMMAD IRFAN, Gen. Secy., Subjects Assoc., Nelson M. Centre, JMI
SALEEL CHEMBAYIL, Student, Jamia Millia Islamia
POOJA BADEKAR, President, Vidyarthi Bharati
ARIF KAPADIA, President, Marathi Bharati
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From:
FEROZE MITHIBORWALA
National President, BHARAT BACHAO ANDOLAN (Mumbai) Mobile: 98208-97517 ; email: feroze.moses777##gmail.com
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