Steve Fake, U.S. Boat to Gaza Passenger
Channel: USBOATTOGAZA
Date: 2011-06-22

Passenger Steve Fake talks about why he is going aboard the US Boat to Gaza with the Stay Human Flotilla at the end of the month.

Bio: Steve Fake is coauthor of The Scramble For Africa: Darfur -- Intervention and the USA, (2009). He has written extensively on foreign policy and been active in organizing around social justice issues for many years. In 2007, he participated in a program of international peace observation and accompaniment in an autonomous indigenous community in Chiapas, Mexico through the Fray Bartolome Center for Human Rights. He is a member of the Industrial Workers of the World, Amnesty International USA, and Workers Solidarity Alliance."I feel compelled to contribute to the Freedom Flotilla II as a means of mitigating the destructive violence perpetuated by the tax dollars of U.S. citizens. For many years, U.S. government policy has been the principal road block to peace between Israelis and Palestinians. It is a moral imperative for Americans to aid in the work of projects like Gaza-bound vessel, The Audacity of Hope. For me, the principal attraction of the Free Gaza Movement is its demonstrated effectiveness at dramatizing the unjust policies of the Israeli government towards the Palestinian people. The first Freedom Flotilla proved to be a highly efficacious tool for raising global awareness about the U.S.-Israeli siege on Gaza and the IDF's willingness to perpetrate violence upon unarmed civilians."