
Month: October 2015
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PUBLIC MEETING: 10 YEARS OF BDS – SPEAKER: MICHAEL DEAS (BNC).
Read More: PUBLIC MEETING: 10 YEARS OF BDS – SPEAKER: MICHAEL DEAS (BNC).Michael Deas is the coordinator in Europe with the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), the Palestinian civil society coalition that acts as the Palestinian reference of the movement for boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel until it complies with international law. In 2005, Palestinian civil society issued a call for a…
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Saddleworth Palestine Women’s Scholarship Fund Event
Read More: Saddleworth Palestine Women’s Scholarship Fund EventThanks to everyone who was able to support our amazing fundraising event on 11th October . Over 70 people came to the event and heard a moving and powerful presentation by Dr Mona El-Farra from Gaza. Her description of life under occupation and of the resilience shown by Palestinians spoke to us all. We were also…
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Emergency Vigil & Protest Against The Israeli Occupation
Read More: Emergency Vigil & Protest Against The Israeli OccupationSaturday 17th October 12 till 3pm Manchester Piccadilly Gardens Palestinians are living under a brutal military occupation. Israeli soldiers are firing live bullets at unarmed protesters and executing Palestinians in the street. Israeli mobs are marching through the streets of Jerusalem chanting “death to Arabs”. Israeli police have sealed off Palestinian areas of Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa…
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BOOK LAUNCH: JEFF HALPER ‘WAR AGAINST THE PEOPLE’
Read More: BOOK LAUNCH: JEFF HALPER ‘WAR AGAINST THE PEOPLE’’Nobel Peace Prize Nominee, Jeff Halper is the head of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD). He is the author of An Israeli in Palestine (Pluto, 2008) and Obstacles to Peace (ICAHD, 2015) Book synopsis: Modern warfare has a new form. The days of international combat are fading. So how do major world powers maintain control over their people…
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Higher Education under Occupation
Read More: Higher Education under OccupationSpeaker: Mike Cushman from the British Committee for Universities of Palestine (BRICUP) Details: 19:00, Thursday 15th October 2015, Friends Meeting House, 6 Mount Street, Manchester, M2 5NS (behind the Central Library). Mike Cushman has recently returned from a visit to Palestine with a cross European delegation of Academic Boycott activists. The delegation visited six Palestinian universities to find out…
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