[van-announce] Update from Canadian Boat to Gaza

[Derrick O'Keefe]

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152 Thousand dollars & planning to 
sail March 30th

Congratulations and thanks! 

With 
your help, the Canadian Boat to Gaza campaign has surpassed the half-way mark in 
our fundraising goal. Our holiday appeal helped bring in about $18,000 over the 
last month, which puts us at over $152,000 – and counting!

We are 
proceeding towards our target sailing date with the Freedom Flotilla 2, set for 
March 30 (Land Day for Palestinians), with a dozen or more other national 
initiatives. To reach this goal by having a Canadian boat in the water ready to 
sail at that date, we need all of your continued support, for fundraising and 
for developing support in communities across the country. We are currently 
shopping for a boat, and hope to make a down payment on one soon, so continued 
donations from Canadians like you are absolutely vital to our ongoing campaign. 


If you are part of community groups, unions, faith communities or other 
organizations that could organize fundraisers support our campaign, please get 
in touch with us (at info at canadaboatgaza.org ); similarly, if you or your 
organizing would like to endorse our campaign, please contact us 
ASAP.

Help name the Canadian Boat: our call for suggestions will 
close this Friday, January 21. Please submit your suggestions at http://canadaboatgaza.org/cms/sites/cbg/en/suggest-name.aspx 


 Delegate Nominations Closing: While 
many of us across the country will be symbolically on board with this campaign, 
only a small number of us will actually be on board the boat. We will be 
carefully selecting those delegates who will be going to represent us all. To 
this end, DELEGATE NOMINATIONS for participants who are willing to go on the 
will be closing on January 28, using the webform here http://canadaboatgaza.org/cms/sites/cbg/en/take-action.aspx 


 Donate $100 or more and we will send you 
a free Canadian Boat to Gaza T-shirt!
http://canadaboatgaza.org/cms/sites/cbg/en/donations.aspx

For donations of $100 or more, we will 
mail you a t-shirt as a gift. For online donations, simply record the 
confirmation number and email it to us (info at canadaboatgaza.org) along with the size you want: 
S-M-L-XL-XXL and the name and address to post the t-shirt to. For donations by 
cheque or money order, instead of a confirmation number, send us in an email the 
name on the cheque or money order and its number.


Further reading: 

Remembering Cast Lead: Supporting the Canadian Boat to Gaza. 
by 
David Heap and Wendy Goldsmith
On the second anniversary of the brutal 
2008-2009 Cast Lead assault against the Palestinians of Gaza, we continue to 
work to end the illegal and inhumane siege. 
Read more: 
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/gazadelegation/2011/01/remembering-cast-lead-assault-supporting-canadian-boat-gaza