<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Occupied Palestine | فلسطين]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[occupiedpalestine]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/author/hajarhajar/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[PEDAL activists reach Turkey en route to Palestine &#8211;&nbsp;video]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<div id="divNewsDetail">
<div id="divNewsDatetime">Tue Jun 7, 2011 4:34PM</div>
<div id="divNewsByline">Jody Sabral, Press TV, Istanbul</div>
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<div id="divLead"><strong>Cycling for Palestinian rights, that&#8217;s the message these peace activists are spreading as they cycle thousands of miles across mountainous terrain. Their mission &#8220;to raise public awareness on the Palestinian issue&#8221;. We caught up with them in Istanbul. </strong></div>
<p>The twenty activists began their journey in the UK, their destination Palestine.</p>
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<p>Laura told me why the group had undertaken such a mission, which has now crossed fifteen countries.</p>
<p>The group has been engaging communities in debates that also pertain to their own struggle against oppression while holding up Palestine as an example of the most brutal type.</p>
<p>One activist shared a personal memory of a trip to Palestine in December 2008 around the time that the war on Gaza got underway. A war that left over 1400 people dead, mostly women and children. The trip had a profound and lasting affect on him, and kick-started his activism.</p>
<p>The website &#8220;one hundred days to Palestine&#8221; they told is now receiving up to 100,000 hits per month, making the campaign worth it they say.</p>
<p>They will rest in Turkey before heading south, the route has yet to be worked out but they are determined to complete it.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.presstv.ir/detail/183649.html">Source</a></p>
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