Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Could you put yourself on the line like Hedy for peace?

clipped from www.indypendent.org

Gaza Freedom March: ‘You Have to Put Your Own Life On the Line,’ An Interview with Hedy Epstein

By Judith Mahoney Pasternak

Hedy Epstein. Photo by Ellen Davidson
CAIRO, December 28—At 85, Hedy Epstein is one of the oldest of the Gaza Freedom Marchers. She may also be the only Holocaust survivor among them.

This morning, Epstein began a hunger strike to up the ante for the Egyptian government’sattempts to prevent delegates from around the world from participating in the march. We spoke during the protest at U.N. headquarters in Cairo, as the Freedom Marchers demanded that theUnited Nations intervene to allow to march to proceed to Gaza.

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