Zohar Chamberlain Regev, Shabnam Mayet, and Wendy Goldsmith talk about the Women's Boat to Gaza camp

Program Title: Women in solidarity with Palestine: The Women's Boat to Gaza
Description: A key campaign by international solidarity organizers in response to the Israeli siege of Gaza, is the Freedom Flotilla Coalition. For the most part, the Flotilla's ships since 2010 have been stopped by the Israeli military, which on at least one occasion killed multiple nonviolent activists who were involved.

The latest initiative in the Freedom Flotilla campaign was launched this week in honour of International Women's Day. Networks of women in countries around the world, in tight consultation with women's organizations in Palestine, are collaborating to send a Women's Boat to Gaza, most likely in the fall of 2016. They aim to challenge the siege, to contribute to the growing global awareness of and opposition to the occupation, and to highlite the important role played by women struggles of all kinds.

Host(s): Scott Neigh
Featured Speakers/Guests: Zohar Chamberlain Regev is an Israeli citizen who has lived in Spain for the last 10 years, and who has participated in the coordination of the Spanish component of the Freedom Flotilla work since 2012. Currently, she coordinates the Women's Boat to Gaza Steering Committee. Shabnam Mayet is a South African human rights lawyer and a member of the Muslim Lawyers Association, and she is currently co-ordinating the South African Women's Boat to Gaza campaign. And Wendy Goldsmith has been a steering committee member for the Canadian Boat to Gaza campaign since 2010 and she is one of the Canadian representatives at the Freedom Flotilla Coalition and the Women's Boat to Gaza campaign.

Credits: Hosted and produced by Scott Neigh

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