[Imc-East.-Mediterr.] Playgrounds Gaza CodePink/CWJP Action tomorrow at Erez

[Angela Godfrey-Goldstein]

<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=U9R2sGVsMDlT6mxAGH3m
dnsuKvXXyz%2BE> For immediate release:

 

A Summer Camp in Gaza?

 

Playground for bombed Kindergartens and Checkpoint Circus 

 

Sunday 7th June, 10:00, Erez checkpoint

 

More than 750,000 children are incarcerated without a trial in Gaza - the
largest prison in the world.  It is forbidden to send toys and playground
equipment into Gaza.

 

The Israeli authorities define even paper and crayons a "Security Hazard".
In defiance of this obituary and cruel regulation, a delegation of Israeli
and American feminists, residents of neighboring towns, the clownish doctor
Patch Adams and the Israeli Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army (ICIRCA),
will travel on Sunday to the Erez Checkpoint. We will come to the sealed
crossing armed with Slides, Swings, Kites, Magic castles and similar deadly
weapons, in order to pass them through to the besieged and bombed
kindergartens in Gaza.

 

The action is organized by the Coalition of Women for Peace (Israel) and
Code Pink (USA). The Code Pink activists have already achieved the
construction of one kindergarten playground in Gaza, and staged a rally
during President Obama's speech in Cairo, demanding the president put his
money where his mouth is, and cut the US funding of the siege on Gaza. 

 

Patch Adams, the protagonist of the 1998 Robin Williams film, will stage a
border-line clown show deflating the ballooning cruelty and arrogance of the
siege and highlighting the absurdities robbing the children of Gaza of their
right to a life of safety, freedom, and laughter. The Clown Army will be
aiding and abetting.

 

Code Pink will attempt to traffic the playgrounds through the border.  If
apprehended by the Israeli army, insistent on denying the children of Gaza -
hundreds of whom have been killed and thousands orphaned in the long years
of siege -  the fundamental right of PLAY, the Playgrounds will be erected
on the
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Kindergartens for Gaza - Sunday, June 7, 
Erez Checkpoint, 10:00 am.

  

For details and interviews please contact:

Tamara Schreiber :    972 (0)527 912 972

Email:    tamaraz at gmail.com 

http://gaza.coalitionofwomen.org/

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