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Events

Footy for Palestine #BoycottPuma Day of Action

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This Saturday 10th September 12-2pm. Football tournament on the Boycott Puma Global Action Day of action, standing up for Palestinian football and standing against Puma’s sponsorship of the racist Israeli Football Association (IFA) and their racism towards Palestinians.
We’ll have teams including a team of Palestinians, the “Boycott Puma” team and a trophy for the winner! Come down and support or play as we demand the end of all ties between Puma and the IFA.

Entry is £3 please DM us on Instagram at @y.f.f.p to play!

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cd0h69Jqt1Z/

Everyone is welcome!

Join us at Stretford Sports Village, Talbot Centre on Saturday 10th September 2022 at 12pm!

After tournament – Convoy to performance by Lowkey at Elbit Arms Factory in Shenstone, Staffordshire, WS14 0DT

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The Big Ride for Palestine is Coming To Manchester

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On the Sunday 31st July the Big Ride For Palestine will see around 250 riders, cycle around a few neighbourhoods in south Manchester.

The ride will be arriving into Plattfield Park from 11.30 am for a final rally with speakers and spoken word poets in front of Plattfield Hall, that’ll finish by 2.00pm.

Com to the park for the rally – a joyous celebration of Palestinian activism. 

Please come along and experience this brilliant event.

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A Talk On The One State Solution by Jeff Halper, co-founder ICAHD

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A Talk On The One State Solution By Jeff Halper, Co-founder Of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) with Q&A

7.00 pm Wednesday 31st August 2022 – Tickets are free, donations are welcome.

Book your free tickets here: https://bit.ly/JeffHalperTalk

Friends’ Meeting House, 6 Mount Street Manchester, M2 5NS (Behind Central Library)

Jeff Halper is a member of the newly established One State Foundation with other prominent Palestinians and Israels who are creating a vision for a future one state solution for all its citizens. Jeff is educated as an anthropologist but mostly known as an an activist, lecturer and author of many books, his latest being, “Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine: Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and the Case for One Democratic State”
In 1997, Jeff was the co-founder of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions and he is still active for the organisation regularly giving tours informing people of the reality on the ground.

It’s a pleasure to have Jeff Halper back in Manchester, having always enjoyed his visits here, and he will once again give an update on the situation on the ground from his recent time in Palestine.

Join us at the Friends Meeting House with Jeff on Wednesday 31st August 2022 at 7.00 pm.

Reserve your place: https://bit.ly/JeffHalperTalk

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Join The #GMPFDivest Twitterstorm

This Friday, July 15th, The Management Panel and Advisory Panel of the Greater Manchester Pension Fund (GMFP) will be holding a virtual meeting.

Tweet #GMPFDivest on July 15th 2022, from 9.00 a.m. GMT, that they divest from companies that support the occupation of Palestine.

While the panel meetings will be running, we will be organising an online mobilisation to really drive home the message.

Our goal is to deliver messages to the GMPF Management Panel and Advisory Panel members so they know scheme members and council tax payers demand action.

Let’s use Twitter to make some noise for Palestine.

Tweet @ the GMPF Management Panel and Advisory Panel members

Tweet : Councillor Joan Grimshaw

Tweet : Councillor Paul Andrews

Tweet : Councillor Michele Barnes

Tweet : Councillor Abdul Jabbar

Tweet : Councillor  Denise Ward

Tweet : Councillor George Newton

Tweet : Alan Flatley GMB

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Scheme members and council tax payers are asking  

@GMPF_LGPS and @northernlgps follow @UNHumanRights advice and divest from companies that support the occupation of Palestine

#LGPSDivest

#GMPFDivest

#NorthernLGPSDivest

change.org/NorthernLGPSDivest 

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Kanafani Lives!

Youth Front for Palestine is answering the call put out by @palestinianyouthmovement and @samidounnetwork to host an event to mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the Palestinian revolutionary writer Ghassan Kanafani, who was killed alongside his niece by a car bomb in Beirut in 1972.

In honour of Kanafani’s belief in the power of art and culture, represented by his concept of “resistance literature”, we will be hosting a poetry evening on 7th July, from 6pm-8pm, at Friends’ Meeting House in central Manchester.

Beginning with a reading of some of Kanafani’s work, we will hear poems by various Palestinian writers as well as by figures from other progressive causes, such as Assata Shakur and Linton Kwesi Johnson. Comrade Kanafani was a true Palestinian patriot but he was also an internationalist who saw Palestinian liberation as being inextricably tied to the freedom of all oppressed people.

Let this evening also be a moment to champion young creatives! If any young person wishes to read their work at the event, please get in touch via our insta messages @y.f.f.p or feel free to come up and speak on the day!

This event is open to all youth but parents, guardians and other supporters are also welcome! Please arrive on time for a 6:15pm start.

Long Live Kanafani! Long Live Palestine!

#FreePalestine#ghassankanafani#poetry#poetrycommunity#endisraelioccupation#FreeThemAll#endadministrativedetention#manchester#manchesterart#manchesteroutforpalestine