Thursday, May 28, 2009
We go to the Pension Roma at 7:00pm to meet for the first time with the Code Pink delegation leadership and our fellow delegates. We gather in a small conference room barely able to contain all 60+ of us squatting on the floor and sitting on the windowsills. Everyone is in great good humor. We eat mezze and fruit and go around the room introducing ourselves. While there is much laughter and badinage, the meeting is well controlled by the CP leadership, in particular Medea Benjamin and Anne Wright. We are briefed on logistics and our chances of actually getting into Gaza – about 50/50. We are going in two buses plus a truck load of playground equipment. If the Egyptians won’t let us in we’re to camp at the Rafah crossing and set up the play equipment there for the delectation of the international press. T-shirts, buttons and cups are passed around. Then, as we will often experience, the group breaks into song.
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