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PSC Weekly Update – Thursday 14 May 2009
Actions 1. Demonstrate this Saturday 16 May 2. Birmingham education conference 11 July 3. PSC BDS Workshop 20 June News 1. Protests as Lieberman visits London 2. Lieberman’s party proposes to imprison anyone commemorating the Nakba 3. Pope calls for end to Israel’s siege on Gaza and for Palestinian ‘sovereign homeland’ 4.… Read the rest
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PSC Update 30 April 09
PSC Weekly Update Thursday 30 April Actions Stop Veolia running the London Cycle Hire scheme! Book your place now on coaches to 16 May demonstration Gaza 100 run for Gaza! News Gaza depends on tunnels for food, fuel, medicines Watch Seven Jewish Children online Israel’s secret plan for West Bank expansion Israel continues using Palestinians as human shields Israel’s imprisons more Palestinian children Visiting Daddy in Prison: A Palestinian Ordeal Israel harasses peace activists Actions 1.… Read the rest
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Remember Gaza… End the Siege now! – Free Palestine! National Demo May 16 2009
Remember Gaza… End the Siege now! – Free Palestine! National Demonstration 16 May London With a growing number of supporting organisations, listed in the e-flyer below, we want to ask all members and supporters to help mobilise for the national demonstration on May 16.… Read the rest
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Palestine Solidarity Campaign – Events Update: 7 April 09
PSC Events Update – Trade Union Conference in Liverpool 18 April – Remember Gaza – Free Palestine! National Demonstration 16 May – Sponsored Walk in Dartmoor 4 & 5 July – PSC Day Conference in Birmingham 11 July – Other upcoming events ================================== Palestine Solidarity Trade Union Conference Saturday 18 April Quaker Meeting House, School Lane, Liverpool L1 3BT Registration, stalls, photos 10.00 Conference 11.00 – 4.00 A crèche will be available.… Read the rest
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24 January 2009 – BBC/Gaza Rally. Tony Benn’s Speech outside the BBC
Embargo: 1.30 pm, Saturday 24 January 2009 Press Release THE RT HON TONY BENN SPEAKING AT A MEETING OUTSIDE THE BBC BROADCASTING HOUSE, PORTLAND PLACE, SAID THIS AFTERNOON [SAT JAN 24]: “The decision of the BBC to refuse to broadcast a national humanitarian appeal for Gaza, which has left aid agencies with a potential shortfall of millions of pounds in donations, is a betrayal of the obligation which it owes as a public service.… Read the rest
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2 February 09 Media Workers Against the War Rally. “Gaza – Failed by the Media”
RALLY: GAZA – FAILED BY THE MEDIA With speakers: Seumas Milne, The Guardian Sir Gerald Kaufman MP A Palestinian journalist (tbc) Jane Shallice, Stop the War Coalition Richard Horton, The Lancet Lauren Booth, Press TV Jeremy Dear, general secretary, NUJ Monday February 2 7pm Old Cinema lecture theatre Westminster University 309 Regent Street London W1B 2UW Nearest tube: Oxford Circus More info: info@mwaw.net… Read the rest
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23 January 2009 Fredi Kanoute and a goal for Gaza
A GOAL FOR GAZA Star footballer Fredi Kanoute, now playing in Spain but formerly of Tottenham Hotspur, celebrated scoring a goal last Saturday by lifting his shirt to reveal a T-shirt with the word Palestine blazoned across it. He was booked by the referee and fined 3000 Euros.… Read the rest
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23 January 2009 – Student Occupations for gaza
WAVE OF STUDENT OCCUPATIONS FOR GAZA There has been an extraordinary wave of student occupations in solidarity with Gaza in universities and colleges across Britain — in London, Oxford, Sussex, Warwick, Kingston and elsewhere. (See Guardian report here: http://tinyurl.com/d6r8u4) Among the students’ demands are a call for aid to be organised for Gaza and for colleges to disinvest in arm companies which supply Israel.… Read the rest
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17 January 2009 – UK Rallies this weekend
Saturday 17th January LONDON 2pm Rally in Trafalgar Square There will be a large rally in Trafalgar Square from 2.00pm followed by a dignified march to Downing Street by women and children. WALES 1pm Demonstration in Castle Square, Swansea City Centre meet at the end of the pedestrianised zone of oxford street and the top of wind street.… Read the rest
