On Jan. 25, 2008, at 10 AM, a press conference was held at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Its purpose was “to launch a campaign to end the Israeli siege and blockade of Gaza,” according to a press release from the Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation (MAS Freedom). Speaking at the press conference, inter alia, were Art Laffin, Organizer, Catholic Worker Community, Washington, D.C. and Ibrahim Abdil-Mul’id Ramey, MAS Freedom Civil and Human Rights Director. Later in the day, at 4 PM, a rally and demonstration is scheduled in front of the Embassy of Israel, in Washington, D.C. For background on the press conference and on the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Israeli Occupied Gaza, please see:
http://masnet.org and http://answer.pephost.org/site/News2?abbr=ANS_&page=NewsArticle&id=8767 and
http://endtheoccupation.org/article.php?id=1493 and
http://www.wrmea.com/ and
http://www.ameu.org/index.asp and
http://www.pchrgaza.org/ and
http://rafah.virtualactivism.net/news/todaymain.htm
