Dear Friend,

In partnership with Al-Aqsa University in Gaza, the Free Gaza Movement (FG) is launching its "Right to Read" campaign which will use the FG boats to deliver textbooks and other educational supplies to universities throughout the occupied Gaza Strip.

This is not a charitable endeavor.  Rather it is an act of solidarity and resistance to Israel's choke-hold on Gaza and attempt to deny Palestinians education.  According to UNWRA, Israel's blockade restricts ink, paper, and other learning materials from entering into Gaza.

Our campaign invites individuals to join us at a person-to-person level by contributing one or more books to our shipment as an expression of resistance to the blockade.  This effort also allows institutions around the world to support Palestinians' right to education by donating new and used copies of textbooks to be delivered by the Free Gaza Movement to universities in the Gaza Strip.

We invite you to participate in this expression of resistance to the blockade.  Specifically, you can donate funds to purchase books (and/or help offset shipping costs to Cyprus) or you can send new and used books directly for inclusion on an upcoming voyage.  While all books are welcomed, we have already received a wish list from the universities in Gaza of books that are most in need.

To review the wish list and get more details on how to contribute to the "Right to Read" campaign, please visit <freegaza.org/right-to-read?lang=en>.  Our first shipment will be sent on FG's Summer of Hope July voyage to Gaza.

Education is a right -- a right that has been denied to Gaza's most precious resource, its young people.  Free Gaza is committed to breaking this siege.  We welcome people of goodwill, such as yourself, to join us in this campaign.

For more information:

Dina Kennedy: dkennedy@freegaza.org
Darlene Wallach: darlene@freegaza.org
www.freegaza.org