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Palestine Solidarity Campaign Actions
Vigil & Protest for Nakba Day – Sunday 15th May
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Piccadilly Gardens,
This year will be the 68th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba. Between 1947 and 1949 an estimated 750,000 Palestinians were forced from the homes into exile, the overwhelming majority never to return. Hundreds of Palestinian towns and villages were depopulated and destroyed.
To mark the remember the Nakba there will be a vigil from 12 noon to 2 pm on Sunday 15th May in Piccadilly Garden.
Manchester Palestine Action are organizing a camp in Piccadilly Gardens with speakers, a live link to Gaza and film showings over 14-15 May.
15th May 2016 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester City Centre, Manchester M1 1AF
Demonstrate against the “Stand with Israel” rally at the Palace Theatre
Assemble Palace Theatre 97 Oxford Street M1 6FT Manchester this Sunday 13th March at 12pm.
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Stand with the Palestinians against Israel’s brutal apartheid regime and military occupation. Tell the Palace theatre not to support a conference that glorifies Israeli war crimes – contact details below.
We’ll have speakers from Gaza, Palestinian music, and a lot of noise! Bring creativity, music, art, banners and lots of people!
We oppose all forms of racism – whether Islamophobia or Anti-Semitism. A rally showing such unanimous support for a state built on racism and ethnic cleansing of the indigenous Palestinians is an insult to justice and freedom anywhere.
Protest called jointly by: Manchester Jewish Action for Palestine, Passion for Palestine, Manchester Stop the War Coalition, Fight Racism Fight Imperialism, Manchester Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Manchester Palestine Action
There can be no “stand with Israel” while Palestinians are denied basic dignity and human rights, while Palestinian homes and lives are systematically destroyed, while Palestinian children are murdered, injured and imprisoned every day by the occupying Israeli army.
The event is attended by the Israeli ambassador and supported by the Israeli Prime Minister himself, Benjamin Netanyahu who according to all the major international human rights organisations is guilty of war crimes in Gaza and ethnic cleansing throughout Palestine. For this rally to call for peace is an offence to the thousands of Palestinian men, women and children murdered by Netanyahu in the last two years.
This is a non-violent demonstration. It is pro peace, justice and freedom. We demand equality for all, not a state comparable with Apartheid South Africa, as stated by Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu and former US president Jimmy Carter. Every single living breathing moment of a Palestinian life is suffocated by Israel’ s illegal occupation and blockade.
It is disgraceful that the organisers of this event were standing with Israel while their army bombed over 62 hospitals and clinics, 45 ambulances and 250 Palestinian schools in Gaza, where over 500 Palestinian children were killed in 50 days during the summer of 2014.
Said Archbishop Desmond Tutu on his visit to Palestine:
“I have witnessed the systemic humiliation of Palestinian men, women and children by members of the Israeli security forces. Their humiliation is familiar to all black South Africans who were corralled and harassed and insulted and assaulted by the security forces of the apartheid government…The same issues of inequality and injustice today motivate the divestment movement trying to end Israel’s decades-long occupation of Palestinian territory and the unfair and prejudicial treatment of the Palestinian people by the Israeli government ruling over them.”
“‘Those who turn a blind eye to injustice actually perpetuate injustice. If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”
Called by
Manchester Jewish Action for Palestine, Passion for Palestine, Manchester Stop the War Coalition, Manchester Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Manchester Palestine Action
PROTEST AGAINST THE COOP BANK CLOSURE OF PALESTINE SOLIDARITY ACCOUNTS
The Co-operative Bank has now closed the bank account of more than 20 organisation engaged in solidarity with Palestine including the national Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Friends of Al-Aqsa and the Sheffield Palestine Women’s Scholarship Fund.
Friends of Al-Aqsa (FOA) have called a number of protests outside branches of the Co-operative Bank including Manchester. More details from the FOA website . The Manchester picket take place on Friday 29th Jan (details below). There will also be pickets in Leicester, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Bradford and London on Saturday 16th Jan (11am-1pm). For more information including details of other pickets and protest activities see http://www.foa.org.uk/
Details
29th Jan 2016 4:00 pm – 6:00 pmCooperative Bank, 1 Balloon Street, Manchester
PROTEST: END THE ARMS TRADE WITH ISRAEL
SEASONAL GREETINGS for PALESTINE
Christmas Action for Calling for a Two-way Arms Embargo against Israel
Join us outside Barclay’s Bank on Market St, Manchester
12th Dec 2015 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Help bring peace to Palestine by telling the Government to
- Introduce a 2-way arms embargo against Israel
- Stop funding the Israeli drones made by Elbit
We will sing festive Christmas songs, with words specially for Israeli Elbit and the UK government, to highlight their part in the arms trade and their complicity in the repeated vicious attacks on Gaza and the maintenance of the armed occupation of Palestine.
Please bring posters, instruments and your voices!
More information from Sandy at sandybroadhurst@btinternet.com
Or phone on 07594596905
Manchester Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Details
12th Dec 2015 12:00 pm – 2:00 pmoutside Barclay’s Bank, Market Street, Manchester