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slipslidingaway Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-10-10 01:02 PM
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Press conference with the UN at 4:00 p.m. today to introduce footage ...
from the Mavi Marmara that was smuggled out. Ann Wright mentioned the other day in her interview on Grit TV that although almost every picture and every piece of film had been confiscated, a few pieces had been smuggled out and will be surfacing.

Now will any "liberal" media allow the footage to be shown.

:shrug:

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/293201

"American filmmaker and peace activist Iara Lee managed to smuggle about an hour's worth of documentation of the Israeli raid on the Mavi Marmara back to the United States.

Lee will be releasing her footage Thursday during a press conference with the United Nations.
Smuggled out, the footage has never been seen before, but Lee gave the footage to Democracy Now for an exclusive that aired Thursday morning. Democracy Now showed portions of the footage while interviewing Lee about her experience. Lee had accompanied the flotilla aiming to break Israel's blockade of Gaza in order to document the peace mission.

The footage is chilling, and it will be shown in its entirety during the press conference...

...After Lee was released by Israel and back home in the United States, she wrote an opinion article that was published in the San Fransisco Chronicle, and posted on the Cultures of Resistance website. In that article, Lee said prior to setting sail to Gaza the aid ships had been inspected in Turkey by NATO and Turkey, and no weapons had been found..."





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LaurenG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-10-10 01:24 PM
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1. Now we're talking nt
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slipslidingaway Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-10-10 02:24 PM
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2. Guess we'll see if any stations pick it up??? n/t
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slipslidingaway Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-10-10 08:58 PM
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3. Wonder if this new footage was covered at all in the media. n/t
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slipslidingaway Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-10-10 10:51 PM
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4. More footage here, one thing that really stands out is the number...
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