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GMPF Divest From Genocide!

Lobby The Pension Management Committee

Greater Manchester Pension Fund has over £700m invested in companies identified by the UN as complicit in Israel’s apartheid regime. It also invests in companies that provide the weapons used by Israel in Gaza.

If you are a member of the pension scheme , or if you pay council tax – then it’s your money and you should have a say in how it’s invested.

Join us outside the Pension Fund Management Committee Meeting 9am Friday 8th March at the GMPF offices, Guardsman Tony Downes House, 5, Manchester Rd, Droylesden M43 6SF and demand GMPF divest from genocide!

Events

TOM HURNDALL 18th MEMORIAL LECTURE 19 MARCH 2024

Tickets on Eventbrite

6.00-7.30

Tuesday 19 March

Lecture Theatre 2, Brooks Building,

Manchester Metropolitan University

Oxford Road, Manchester, M15 6GX

This year’s guest speaker: Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian

Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian is Chair in Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Global Chair in Law at Queen Mary University of London.

’The Culmination of Unchilding in Gaza’

The talk will focus on the centrality of death and the flesh in comprehending the barbarities of unchilding, arguing that the unchilded flesh in Gaza points to the failure of the discourse of humanism and children’s rights.

Tom Hurndall was a student at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU). He was fatally wounded by the Israeli Defence Forces while protecting Palestinian children in Gaza. He died on January 13th 2004.

Details about this lecture and previous lectures, and about a 20th anniversary commemorative event preceding this lecture, are at https://hurndallmemoriallecture.wordpress.com/ or at the Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture page on Facebook.

The book of Tom Hurndall lectures is available free online at https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0345

Tickets

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-culmination-of-unchilding-in-gaza-18th-tom-hurndall-memorial-lecture-tickets-837383505607

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Stop the Genocide on Gaza! Stop Israeli ethnic cleansing of Palestine!

Saturday 17 February, 12:00pm, Piccadilly

What more can be said about the situation in Gaza?
How many more photos and videos do we have to see?

This world has made Palestinians showcase their pain and suffering, and their maimed and murdered bodies, but it is still not enough.
While our lives go on, the people of Gaza are living an endless nightmare under Zionist brutality.

After destroying everything in their way, and shattering people’s entire homes and hopes, the Israeli military is now attacking Rafah, the so-called “safe zone” that is now sheltering millions of Palestinians inside tents.

People are asking “where are we supposed to go?” After 131 days of genocide, people are still asking this question, and the atrocities have still not ended!

Israel will not rest until it finishes its project: ethnically cleansing the Palestinians. Genocide has always been part and parcel of this ideology and strategy.

But Israel must know this: We too will not rest until we put an end to this monstrosity.

We too will not rest until Palestine is free!

The streets here have spoken: Manchester stands with Palestine. Manchester stands with the oppressed, and Manchester fights alongside those fighting for freedom in Palestine. Join the demonstration on Saturday, 17 February, 12:00pm, Piccadilly Gardens.

Bring flags, placards and plenty of noise.