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<P class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">For
Immediate Release <BR><BR>June 16, 2011 <BR> <BR></SPAN><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'" lang=EN-CA>Press Conference: Meet
the delegates who will be on the Canadian Boat to Gaza as they leave for
the Middle East</SPAN></B><BR>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"
lang=EN-CA><BR>Toronto: 11AM, Sunday June 19th at Pearson Airport,
Terminal 3, Air Transat departure area. <BR>Montreal: 3:30PM, Sunday June
19th at Trudeau Airport Departures Hall.<BR><I><BR></I></SPAN></B><I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'" lang=EN-CA>Freedom Flotilla II --
Stay Human</SPAN></I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"
lang=EN-CA> is about to set sail for Gaza, joined by the Canadian
ship <I>Tahrir</I> carrying civil society delegates and journalists
from a range of media organizations. The Canadians join an international
flotilla of over one thousand civilians protesting the siege of Gaza and
the intractable political impasse. <BR> <BR>The delegates on
board the Tahrir include politicians; Jewish, Muslim and Christian
Canadians; artists, peace and human rights activists; small business
owners; some of whom have taken part in previous flotillas. <BR>
<BR>Dylan Penner, steering committee member of Independent Jewish Voices
Canada (and also an organizer with the Canadian Boat to Gaza) and Vivienne
Porzsolt from Jews Against Occupation in Australia, will be joined by
Harmeet Singh Sooden, who was kidnapped in Iraq in 2005 and held for 4
months (along with Canadian James Loney while participating in an
international Christian Peacemaker Teams delegation), as well as Muhammed
Hamou from the London Muslim Mosque. <BR> <BR>Also on board the
Tahrir will be Former Chief of the Ardoch Algonquin First Nation and
professor of Indigenous Studies at Queen's University Robert Lovelace;
Canadian Voice of Women for Peace Co-Chair Lyn Adamson; Quebec Solidaire
representative Manon Massé; small business owner Sue Breeze from BC;
Toronto book publisher and children’s mental health activist Kate Wilson;
Toronto filmmaker John Greyson; and Mary Hughes-Thompson, co-founder of
the Free Gaza Movement who was on board the Free Gaza that broke the siege
of Gaza in August 2008, and was part of the support team for the first
Freedom Flotilla in May 2010. <BR> <BR>The Tahrir is honoured
to be joined by 4 delegates from Australia, 4 from Belgium, 5 from
Denmark, and one from Germany. <BR><B><BR><BR>The full list of delegates
can be found at <A href="http://www.tahrir.ca/"
target=_blank>www.tahrir.ca</A>. <BR><BR>Women Nobel laureates support the
flotilla in an open letter to Ban Ki-moon:<BR><A
href="http://www.nobelwomensinitiative.org/home/article/laureates-support-freedom-flotilla"
target=_blank>http://www.nobelwomensinitiative.org/home/article/laureates-support-freedom-flotilla</A>
<BR> </B></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><BR> <BR>-30-<BR><BR><B>CBG
spokes persons</B><BR><B>English:</B></SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Naomi
Binder Wall<B>: </B>(647) 242-8131<B> </B></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'" lang=EN-CA><A
href="mailto:naomi_b_w@hotmail.com">naomi_b_w@hotmail.com</A></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><BR>Ehab Lotayef: 514.941.9792 <A
href="http://compose/?to=lotayef@gmail.com"
target=_blank>lotayef@gmail.com</A><BR>Wendy Goldsmith: 519.619.6766 <A
href="http://compose/?to=wendygoldsmith21@gmail.com"
target=_blank>wendygoldsmith21@gmail.com</A>
<BR><B>French:</B><BR>Lorraine Guay: 514.278.1167 <A
href="http://compose/?to=lorraineguay@videotron.ca"
target=_blank>lorraineguay@videotron.ca</A><BR>Denis Kosseim: 514.923.5594
<A href="http://compose/?to=denis.tahrir@gmail.com"
target=_blank>denis.tahrir@gmail.com</A><BR><BR><B>To directly contact
some of the Canadians who will be on the boat<BR>English:</B></SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Robert
(Bob) Lovelace 613-374-5594<BR>Lyn Adamson 416-731-6605<BR>Harmeet Sooden
+64 21 023 16461<BR><B>French:</B><BR>Marie-Ève Rancourt:
514-258-0095<BR>Manon Massé: 514-655-4310</SPAN></P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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