Month: August 2015
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Meeting with Iyad Burnat Cancelled – Showing of “5 Broken Cameras” Friday 11th September
Read More: Meeting with Iyad Burnat Cancelled – Showing of “5 Broken Cameras” Friday 11th SeptemberOn Friday 11th September Manchester PSC were holding a meeting with Bi’lin protest leader Iyad Burnat. He is the co-ordinator of the Popular Committee in Bil’in, a small farming village 7 miles west of Ramallah in Palestine’s occupied West Bank. For over 10 years the Popular Committee have organised weekly demonstrations against Israel’s illegal ‘Apartheid…
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Book Launch: ‘The Drone Eats With Me’ and ‘The Book Of Gaza’ by Atef Abu Saif
Read More: Book Launch: ‘The Drone Eats With Me’ and ‘The Book Of Gaza’ by Atef Abu Saif4th Sep 2015 7:00 pm Chapter One Bookshop, 19 Lever Street, Manchester M1 1BY Palestinian author Atef Abu Saif will be reading from his two most recent books at Chapter One bookshop (a new bookshop in the northern quarter on the corner of Dale Street and Lever Street) From the Comma Press website
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Public Meeting: Iyad Burnat – Resisting Israeli Occupation
Read More: Public Meeting: Iyad Burnat – Resisting Israeli OccupationIyad Burnat is the co-ordinator of the Popular Committee in Bil’in, a small farming village 7 miles west of Ramallah in Palestine’s occupied West Bank. For over 10 years Iyad and the Popular Committee have organised weekly demonstrations against Israel’s illegal ‘Apartheid Wall’ that has taken their farmland, olive trees and livelihood. Iyad will describe…
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Palestine – A People Betrayed
Read More: Palestine – A People Betrayed20th Aug 2015 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm @ Friends Meeting House Presenter: Kathy Brooks From the birth of political Zionism in the late 19th century to the current time, successive world powers have betrayed the Palestinian people. Examining the events of the first half of the last century Kathy details how decisions taken by Britain, the…
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Warmth amongst the rubble: A dispatch from Zeitoun 🕊️
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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…