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An estimated Twenty-seven ships to set sail for Gaza from multiple ports to break Israel’s siege on the enclave.

This will be activist Greta Thunberg’s second mission, having been taken captive by Israel earlier this year when her ship and fellow crew members were sprayed with illicit chemicals and boarded unlawfully in international waters. The Handala and her crew also suffered a similar fate earlier this summer.

Dozens of people gathered on Saturday at the port of Barcelona where a flotilla will set sail for Gaza on Sunday. Swedish activist Greta Thunberg is hoping to break… the naval blockade imposed by Israel along the coast of the Gaza Strip since 2007... (AP video and production by Hernan Munoz)

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The Global Sumud Flotilla

The Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza: Everything you need to know

Largest flotilla for Gaza hopes to pressure Israel to end blockade

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[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It takes just one brave soul

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Let not just make it sbout Greta, she is great but other volunteers are also as valuable

[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Zero coverage on Chris Smalls from the corporate media. Dude was literally tortured by the IOF.

I respect Greta. Don't get me wrong. It's actually amazing that someone that came from a wealthy family did not just end up being another shitlib telling us to stop using plastic straws to save the planet.

It's a testament to her moral compass that it lead her to be radicalized.

If the liberals avoid talking about you and the conservatives hate you then you're doing something right.

But Smalls has always been ignored by the Liberals (unless they could use him as a winning point after the fact). Greta was meant to be a symbol of the liberals form of climate change inaction (but she didn't play ball and was largely dropped). They can't avoid talking about her as easily because the conservatives hate her.

Conservatives hate Smalls but they largely just don't know who he is. So the liberals can ignore him more easily.

[–] unconsequential@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 days ago

Absolutely. The media bias is terrible.

I believe the Freedom Flotilla site posted an interview he did with ABC News where he was able to briefly recounts the horrific racism and assault he endured at the hands of the Israelis. Thanks for raising his name again. More people need to hear what he experienced.

Anyone who hasn’t seen it should go give it a watch and a listen.

Edit: to add to your expanded post. I agree Smalls is largely ignored by liberal media but I think his action and involvement reaches to others that Greta can’t. Greta is also selectively called upon when it suits their bias. We need everyone. He took on extra inherit risks and he deserves every bit of credit and validation for that fact. And I think he’s exposed more Israeli lies about how “tolerant” and “progressive” they are socially. Completely ignoring they have massive problems with racism and homophobia in their ranks and society.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago
[–] floo@retrolemmy.com 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

It's not her ships. She is just one of msny couragous volunteers