
Category: Meetings
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PUBLIC MEETING WITH DAVID SHEEN
Read More: PUBLIC MEETING WITH DAVID SHEENDavid Sheen is an Israeli-Canadian independent journalist and film maker, who has uncovered and produced ground-breaking works revealing the extent of racism in Israel towards Palestinians. Sheen began blogging when he first moved to Israel in 1999 and later went on to work as a reporter and editor at the Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz. His…
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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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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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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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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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