
ON MARCH 9, 2010, A SINGLE FILE SILENT PROCESSION OF 700 PEOPLE ENCIRCLED THE WALDORF ASTORIA IN NEW YORK CITY. ORGANIZED BY A COALITION OF 25 PEACE AND PALESTINE SOLIDARITY GROUPS, GRASSROOTS, COMMUNITY AND RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS AND ENDORSED BY 6 ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN GOUPS, THEY PROTESTED THE FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES WHO WERE HOLDING A FUNDRAISING GALA INSIDE THE WALDORF HONORING LT GENERAL GABI ASHKANAZI. EARLIER THE SAME DAY A STAGED READING OF THE GOLDSTONE REPORT,THE UN FACT FINDING MISSION ON THE GAZA CONFLICT WAS HELD ACROSS THE STREET. GROUPS THAT SPONSORED AND ENDORSED THE PROTEST PROCESSION INCLUDE ART (Activist Response Team), Adalah-NY, American Jews for a Just Peace, Brooklyn For Peace, Center for Immigrant Families, Codepink, Committee for Open Discussion of Zionism, Gaza Freedom March, Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions-USA, Jewish Voice For Peace, Jews Say No!, Judson Church, Middle East Crisis Response, National Lawyers Guild - NY Chapter, NYC Anti-War Coalition, New York Collective of Radical Educators, Post Road, Progressive Democrats of America, Regeneración Childcare NYC, WESPAC Foundation, Women In Black Union Square, Women of a Certain Age, Woodstock Veterans For Peace, Veterans for Peace, Delaware Valley Veterans For America, Bilin Popular Committee, Friends of Freedom and Justice - Bil'in, Coalition of Women for Peace, Boycott! Supporting the Palestinian Call for BDS From Within, New Profile, Anarchists Against the Wall
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