The Gaza Flotilla

Published: April 10, 2017, 10 a.m.

Iowans for Palestine and Veterans for Peace Chapter 161 present Colonel Ann Wright, who discusses her latest attempt to break the Israeli siege on Gaza.

Ann Wright served 29 years in the US Army and retired as a Colonel, then serving as a US diplomat for 16 years in US Embassies in Nicaragua, Grenada, Somalia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Sierra Leone, Micronesia, Afghanistan and Mongolia. She resigned from the US government in March, 2003 in opposition to the war on Iraq. Since her resignation, she has traveled to Gaza seven times, and was an organizer for the 2016 Women's Boats to Gaza, serving as a boat leader.

For more information about The Flotilla Coalition and Women's Boat to Gaza, please visit www.freedomflotilla.org.