Update from Hedy Sunday 3 July 2011

Dear All,

I am forwarding to you an overview of what is happening here and I add some additional information regarding yesterday's events.  I suggested in one of our many meetings that a fast or hunger strike might be considered.  Several people started a fast across from the U.S. Embassy.  I offered to be one of those fasting, but in deference to several asking me not to do so, I "complied." 

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Tweets from Hedy On The Audacity of Hope

With  great joy we left Parama pier. Under bright blue sky we traveled 33min in calm waters when CoastGuard arrived #flotilla2

I'm below deck surrounded by a doctor and a nurse and wonderful other people. Our spirits are high. I'm calm, unafraid, hopeful.

Our wonderful captain negotiated with them. We were in a holding pattern for probably 3 hours when the commandos arrived with drawn weapons.

 

 

Holocaust Survivor Sails to the Gaza Strip by Carlos Restrepo

http://universitycity.patch.com/articles/holocaust-survivor-sails-to-the-gaza...

 

Hedy Epstein, an 86-year-old Holocaust survivor, is having trouble packing her luggage. First, she packed too many clothes to fit in her suitcase, but then again she doesn't know for how long she will leave. Epstein has traveled several times throughout her life, first from Germany, escaping Adolf Hitler, to England. Then to New York and eventually St. Louis. This time, she is trying to travel light, for a boat trip to the Gaza Strip.

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Twitter List

Hedy has reported this morning that she has little time for computers, as usual, and that there is continued hope that the US Boat to Gaza will be disembarking soon.  I've compiled a Twitter List for following Freedom Flotilla 2, consisting of passengers on the US Boat to Gaza who have Twitter accounts, as well as the main Twitter feeds for the US Boat and other English-tweeting boats in the flotilla.  The list compiles the latest tweets from these flotilla participants in one place.  Here is a link to the list: http://twitter.com/#!/wtquick/freedomflotilla2   If you know of other twitter feeds by actual flotilla participants, please let me know so I can add them to the list.

Of course, there are other valuable sources of information about the flotilla on Twitter.  A couple of my favorites are the European Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza (http://twitter.com/#!/ECESG), and Ali Abunimah (http://twitter.com/#!/avinunu).

Bill

Hedy's Update for Sunday 26 June

Dear All,

For latest information go to witnessgaza.com    On Tuesday at 5 P.M. Pacific time go to 90.1 KPFA Flashpoint.

I/we are still ladies (& gentlemen) in waiting for the acropolis to let us go. Sometime today we will have to move from the Stanley Hotel to another hotel, name unknown at this time.  Despite all this, our spirits are still high & a bit frustrated. 

Some of us are taking turns, spending the night on the boat.   

Hang in there, as we do here.

Hedy