Free Gaza Movement (FGM) participants have been invited by local antiwar and anti-Israel groups to speak at churches and other venues about Israel's "siege" of Gaza and FGM's attempts to challenge it.

For example, Paul Larudee, an FGM co-founder, gave several presentations in the Bay Area in November 2008. During his talks, Larudee has discussed the FGM Movement's inception, organizing and missions in great detail.

Describing the steps leading up to the first journey, Larudee told one audience that he had discussed the legality of the trip and the possible Hamas meeting with members of the U.S. State Department and Justice Department, noting that he was told it would be permissible so long as no material support to terrorist organizations was provided.  Additionally, he claimed that the Israeli government unsuccessfully attempted to pressure Greece to forbid sales of boats to FGM and Cyprus to stop the boats from sailing.  He also claimed that that Israel threatened to forbid Palestinians from leaving Gaza on the boats.

FGM participants received passports from the Palestinian Authority during their meeting with Hamas in August, according to Larudee, who also claimed that an immigration stamp for U.S. passports was created just for members of the group.

Additionally, Larudee has been discussing FGM's plans for the future.  He has said the group has discussed launching an organization based in London, using a hydrofoil to reduce travel time, launching a ferry service, and entering Gaza by air and landing at the now-defunct Gaza International Airport.  "We want to say 'Gaza is open for business!,'" Larudee reportedly stated during one talk in Sunnyvale, California. 

During a talk in Hayward, California, Larudee encouraged other groups to follow FGM's lead: "stop sending aid through Israel.  I've told the aid groups to do what we did and be totally transparent… Just take it into Gaza." 

FGM co-founder Mary Hughes-Thompson, and Ramzy Baroud, both participants on the group's August trip, spoke at a Ramadan fundraising dinner for Kinder USA, a children's charity, in September.

Similarly, Bill Dienst, an American doctor who also participated in the first FGM trip, spoke at a Rachel Corrie Foundation Peace Works conference in October titled "Dual Occupations: Sovereignty and Freedom from Iraq to Palestine," that was held in Olympia, Washington. (Rachel Corrie was an International Solidarity Movement (ISM) volunteer crushed to death in 2003 while trying to block demolition of a Palestinian home in Gaza by an Israeli army bulldozer).

The variety of groups that have organized and sponsored these speaking engagements demonstrates the range and intensity of support that FGM has received from movements on the broader left. These groups include Jewish Voice for Peace, a grassroots organization that regularly co-sponsors anti-Israel events, supports divestment and calls for an end to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem; the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker organization that frequently promotes anti-Israel efforts; and South Bay Mobilization, a San Jose-based antiwar group that has shown particular interest in promoting FGM.