Peacycle to Jerusalem
Stand Up for Justice - Cycle for Peace!
The niece of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is to brave checkpoints, soldiers and blistering sun to cycle across the Middle East from October 9.
Eight-year-old Alexandra Darby will be joined by her mother Lauren Booth and 15 other cyclists riding from Amman, Jordan, all the way to Jerusalem.
Her uncle Tony Blair, now Middle East Envoy for the Quartet, has so far made no comment on the planned trip.
Alexandra’s journey will be more than a brief sojourn in a comfortable Jerusalem hotel.
She will witness first-hand the devastating fallout of a 61-year conflict.
The Peace Envoy’s niece has taken 2 weeks off school to stay with families on unrecognised land whose homes are regularly threatened with demolition by the Israeli military.
She will visit refugee camps in Jordan, home to Palestinians forced from their land in 1948.
The group of cyclists will track the path of the eight-metre-high Separation Barrier as it snakes through the West Bank.
The fourteen-day cycle will take Alexandra through an historical and tragic landscape, finishing in Jerusalem, the epicentre of centuries-old conflicts.
For more information, including updates during the course of the ride, please email Peace Cycle Founder Laura Abraham (click on the link) or telephone: +44 (0)794 1056616 or George Rishmawi at: +970 599 180 872.
Notes:
The Peace Cycle is a British non-profit organisation that arranged two historic London to Jerusalem Bike Rides in 2004 and 2006, a ride from Amman to Jerusalem in 2008, and a ride to the European Parliament in Brussels in March 2009 where it handed a petition to MEPs signed by 20,000 EU citizens.
The 2009 Peace Cycle is raising funds for the Oyooni Mobile Health Clinic, which delivers specialised eye care to diabetes and glaucoma patients in the Occupied Palestinian Territories: www.oyooni.org
The Peace Cycle works in partnership with the Siraj Center for Holy Land Studies: www.sirajcenter.org
The aim of the Peace Cycle is to end the cycle of violence and begin a cycle of justice and peace in the Middle East.
oof _
guys _ how to say this without sounding ridiculous or mean spirited in some way?
i was just about to post this on my Facebook wall and promote it at ning too because it’s a truly wonderful story and i really would have liked the updates and would have kept everyone posted on Alexandra’s progress
all until i saw the contact email for the updates… at AOL.com
a BDS boycott target!!!
please please please _ it would take 5 minutes to create a new email address and maybe another 10 to change the source code for this page _
i hope you’ll do it and let me know as soon as you do because i REALLY would like to go further with my support but i can’t until the change of address happens : /
feel free to delete this post guys _ truly sorry i had to say it
and truly hope i hear from you about a change _ take care ; )
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