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I'm on a ship in Istanbul with hundreds of other activists from thirty-two countries, going through intense training for when, or if, we sail to deliver aid to Gaza.

The GWU administration had given the students until 7 p.m. Thursday to vacate the yard. They refused and were continuing their protest on Friday, reports Joe Lauria. By Joe Lauria in Washington, D.C. Special to Consortium News Hundreds of students at George Washington University (GWU)

The flotilla waits to sail from Istanbul. Photo credit: Medea Benjamin By Medea Benjamin / CounterPunch The non-violence training to join the Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s ships to Gaza has been intense. As hundreds of us from 32 countries gathered in Istanbul, we were briefed about what we might encounter on this voyage. “We have to be ready for every possibility,” our trainers insisted. The best scenario, they said, is that our three ships–one carrying 5,500 tons of humanitarian aid and two

Türkiye is under pressure from the U.S. and Israel to block a flotilla from delivering aid and breaking the Gaza blockade, writes Medea Benjamin. By Medea Benjamin Peoples Dispatch The non-violence training to join the Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s ships to Gaza has been intense. As hundre