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LOOK WHO'S GOING!
Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb
Shomer Shalom Network
| Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb, Shomer Shalom Network We invite people of faith to come together as a distinct affinity group walking with The Gaza Freedom March. As people of faith, we walk in prayer and pilgrimage to visit the Palestinians of Gaza and to call for open borders. Because the borders are closed, one third of the Palestinian children of Gaza walk amidst the rubble of war without shoes on their feet. Each person that walks with the Interfaith Gaza Satyagraha will carry an extra pair of shoes. As people of faith we believe we are commanded to love each other with radical love. As people of faith, we hear the cry of suffering and are called to respond in ways that affirm our common humanity. As people of faith we affirm the right of all people live without fear of violence. Open the borders. May peace and restorative justice be realized quickly in our day. |
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Wendy Goldsmith
| Wendy Goldsmith Wendy has been a social worker in London, Ontario for the past twenty years, working with children, families, newcomers, survivors of abuse, and women's groups. She is committed to promoting peace and social justice in the hopes that her three beautiful children will never have to suffer from the devastating effects of war. | 
David Heap
| David Heap David Heap is a parent of two and a life-long peace and social justice activist. A UWO faculty member (French & linguistics), he is particularly interested in connecting with academics and students at the universities in Gaza. He hopes to help foster people-to-people links which build solidarity with Palestine.
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Peige Desjarlais
| Peige Desjarlais Peige Desjarlais is a third-year political science student at the University of Western Ontario. She travelled to Gaza in May 2009.
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Ehab Lotayef
| Ehab Lotayef Ehab is an Information Technology engineer at McGill University in Montreal. He is also a photographer, poet, and activist, serving as the Vice President of the Canadian Arab Federation. He has been to the Gaza Strip and the West Bank many times, and will be joining the delegation in Gaza this December.
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Helga Mankovitz
| Helga Mankovitz Helga is a retired computer programmer from Kingston, Ontario. After the Israeli invasion in Jenin in 2002 she became aware of the need for volunteers to monitor the situation in the occupied territories, to give moral support to the increasingly isolated Palestinians, to learn and to tell their stories back home and to advocate for an end to the occupation. She went to the West Bank in 2003, 2004 and 2007. Now she is joining the Gaza Freedom March hoping to hasten the end of the blockade. | |
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