Sunday, August 7, 2011 9am Middle East in Focus, Host Don Bustany KPFK Radio, 90.7 FM
On Sunday morning, August 7th at 9 am on KPFK, 90.7 FM, Don Bustany will talk with Mary Hughes Thompson and Yonatan Shapira about Freedom Flotilla II. Mary, a co-founder of the Free Gaza Movement was on the Canadian boat, TAHRIR which was in a port in Crete, while Yonatan was a member of of the crew of the American boat, Audacity of Hope, that was docked in Athens. *Yonatan Shapira *was a captain in the Israeli Air Force and a Black-Hawk Pilot until 2003 when together with other pilots he initiated the pilotsÂ’ letter and refused to take part in the crimes of the occupation. Today he is a member of Boycott, a group of Israeli citizens who are actively supporting the Palestinian call for Boycott Divestment and Sanctions from within. In 2010 Yonatan was a member of the crew of the Jewish boat to Gaza that was intercepted by the Israeli Navy on its way to Gaza. *Mary Hughes Thompson *is a writer and human rights activist.. She has made six trips to the occupied Palestinian territories in the West Bank and was on the tiny boat, the Free Gaza when it sailed into Gaza port in August 2008. She went to Cairo with the Gaza Freedom March in 2009 and was a member of the media team in Cyprus for Freedom Flotilla I in May 2010. Mary also made a trip to Iraq with Christian Peacemakers Team in 2003. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
