PUBLIC MEETING

BHARAT BACHAO ANDOLAN

"FOR A NATIONAL STRUGGLE AGAINST IMPERIALISM & ZIONISM"

PUBLIC MEETING

'FREEDOM TO PALESTINE' * 'END SIEGE OF GAZA'
'BOYCOTT ISRAEL'

:CHIEF GUEST:
HUWAIDA ARRAF (PALESTINIAN CHRISTIAN)
LEADER OF THE 'FREE GAZA BOAT MOVEMENT'

:SPEAKERS:
YUSUF MUCHALA, BASHARATH SHIKOH, ANAND PATWARDHAN,
PRATIMA JOSHI, VIVEK MONTEIRO & FEROZE MITHIBORWALA

VENUE: ISLAM GYMKHANA, NEW MARINE LINES STN., MUMBAI.
DATE: 27TH SEPTEMBER '09 / TIME: 6 - 9pm

:ORGANIZERS:
SARFARAZ ARZU, ASLAM GHAZI, KISHORE JAGTAP, ASIF KHAN, AVINASH KAMBLE,
YAVAR KAZI, MUNAWWAR AZAD, GHAZALA AZAD, ARIF KAPADIA & JYOTI BADEKAR


Sayeed Khan, Varsha V V, Arif Kapadia, Chetna Birje (Awami Bharat), Rehan Ansari, Kazim Malik (Jamaat-i-Islami-Hind), Dinu Randive (Senior Journalist), Sudhir Dhawale, Shyam Sonar (Republican Panther), Maulana Milli Rehman (All India Milli Council), (National Minorities Federation), Jagdish Nagarkar, Mulniwasi Mala (Phule-Ambedkari Vichar Manch), Madhav Wagh, Dattatreya Dalvi (OBC Parishad), Amol Madame (Republican People of India), (Marathi Bharti), Mehmood Parvez Ansari (NEEDS), Pooja Badekar, Tejasvini Bhonkar (Vidyarthi Bharti), Shadab Sheikh (Muslim Intellectual Forum), Valjibhai Virash (Gujrati Intellectual Forum), Harshavardhan Vartak (Hindu Vikasini), Vilas Gaikwad (Jhunzaar - Republican Students Organization), Christian Panther (Tito Eapen) & Aarti Balekar, Nilesh Pokade (Yuva Sarkar)

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JAI HIND !!! JAI BHARAT !!
FOR A SOUTH ASIAN UNION !!
ONE ASIA - UNITED ASIA !!
INQUILAB ZINDABAD !!
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Huwaida Araf who is one of the architects of the 'Free Gaza Boat Movement' & is arriving India on a week long visit.




Huwaida a Palestinian Christian, was one of the initiators and organizers of a delegation of American lawyers to Gaza in February 2009, and co-authored the report on their findings, "Onslaught: Israel's Attack on Gaza and the Rule of Law."




She also created history when in July 2009, she & a team of international Palestine solidarity activists traveled to Gaza on a ship as part of what she termed as 'Free Gaza Boat Movement'. She was accompanied by twenty-one human rights and solidarity workers representing eleven different countries. The passengers included Nobel laureate Mairead Maguire and former U.S. congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. The ship also carried three tons of medical aid, children's toys, and rehabilitation and reconstruction kits for twenty family homes.




Huwaida & her colleagues are planning the next trip to Gaza and as a natural corollary, we intend to have at least two prominent Indians, preferably Parliamentarians, on board the Free Gaza Boat along with Nobel Prize Winners, Prominent International Human Rights Figures, Journalists, Senators & Congressmen from the US, EU, South America, Africa and other countries.




We will be discussing the state of the Palestine-Israel process as well as the brutal & inhuman conditions that the Palestinian nation has to bear under the Israeli occupation.


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