Eyewitness: Gaza Freedom Flotilla Attack

Just Back From The Gaza Freedom Flotilla
Ann Wright, Retired Army Colonel and former US Diplomat presents:

The Truth About the Attack at Sea

 "People were thrown on the deck. Windows were blown out. Flash bangs were used. One of our journalists was hit with something of an electric shock. … One of the women was hit in the face, in the nose, with one of the liquid-filled balls. They were very excessively rough, excessively forceful… They weren’t stopping us at all. We were already dead in the water, and yet all of this force was used on us." - Ann Wright, Democracy Now, June 3, 2010

Ann Wright, a retired US Army colonel, spent twenty-nine years in the military and later served as a high-ranking diplomat in the US State Department. In 2001, she helped oversee the opening of the US mission in Afghanistan. In 2003, she resigned her post at the State Department to protest the war in Iraq. Ms. Wright was a passenger on the Challenger 1, one of the six boats in the Gaza flotilla that was raided by Israeli commandos on May 31. She was deported to Turkey.

Community dinner at 6pm; Talk at 7pm.  Suggested donation $10; no one turned away.

Sponsors: American-Arab Anti Discrimination Committee MA (ADC-MA); The Palestine Task Force for United for Justice with Peace (UJP); CODEPINK; Friends of Sabeel New England; Boston Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions; Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights (BCPR.org); Palestinian Cultural Center for Peace 

Other events featuring Ann Wright: 

Friday, June 18, 2010, 7:00 pm  • First Universalist Church of Essex • 57 Main St • Essex 
 
Saturday, June 19, 2010, 2:00 pm • UJP Strategy Conference •  Cambridge Friends Meeting Center • 5 Longfellow Park • Cambridge 
 
Saturday, June 19, 2010, 6:00 pm   • Palestinian Cultural Center for Peace • 41 Quint Ave • Allston 
 
Sunday, June 20, 2010, 6:30 pm  • Blessed Sacrament Church • 551 Pleasant St • Phelan Center • Worcester