Month: March 2015
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Sponsored Walk in Aid of Palestine Women’s Scholarship Fund Sunday 10th May
Read More: Sponsored Walk in Aid of Palestine Women’s Scholarship Fund Sunday 10th May‘Join Saddleworth Palestine Women’s Scholarship Fund on Sunday 10th May and walk the width of the Gaza Strip! Of course, we won’t be walking in Gaza but we will be doing a 6.5 mile sponsored walk from Marsden to Uppermill. 6.5 miles is roughly the width of the Gaza Strip.
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Trafford Council Dumps Veolia after 20 years!
Read More: Trafford Council Dumps Veolia after 20 years!Veolia have lost their lucrative contract for environmental services with Trafford Council worth approaching 3 million per year (233,667 per month). See MEN report below Members of the Manchester PSC branch living in Trafford lobbied councillor’s over the past 4 years calling for Trafford to exclude Veolia from the tendering process for the renewal. Whilst…
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General Election Hustings on Palestine
Read More: General Election Hustings on Palestine7pm, Thursday 19th March 2015 Friends Meeting House, 6 Mount Street, Manchester, M2 5NS (behind the Central Library). Manchester PSC invited representatives from various political parties, standing in either the General or Council Elections, to come and explain how they would support Palestinian human rights if elected in May. After Israel’s attacks on Gaza last…
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Tom Hurndall Tenth Memorial Lecture – Dismantling Racism and Colonialism
Read More: Tom Hurndall Tenth Memorial Lecture – Dismantling Racism and ColonialismSpeaker: Rania Masri Associate Director of the Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship at the American University of Beirut Title: Dismantling Racism and Colonialism Wednesday 4 March 2015, 6.00-8.00 Lecture Theatre C0.14, John Dalton Building, Manchester Metropolitan University, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 “The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign has become a powerful, global,…
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Warmth amongst the rubble: A dispatch from Zeitoun 🕊️
Dr. Mona El-Farra shares an update on your GMFP donations reaching families refusing to leave their demolished homes… To remain on your land when everything around you has been levelled is an act of unimaginable courage. This week, through your steadfast support and donations to GMFP, Dr. Mona El-Farra (Director of Gaza Projects for the…
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Direct from Gaza this morning…
Khaled from the Palestinian Amputee Football Association (PAFA) has sent these moving photos to show exactly how your support is changing lives. The recent donations from Greater Manchester Friends of Palestine (GMFP) have been put straight to work: They wanted to send a huge “Thank You” back to everyone in Manchester for standing with them.…
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We are all marching together in unity for Palestine
Thanks for invitation on behalf of Jewish Action for Palestine (Manchester) and JVL – (“L” now for Liberation NOT Labour!). Brothers, sisters, – Life is Precious. The life of our mothers. The life of our fathers. The life of our sons. The life of our daughters… each life is precious. We all share this human…