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 Sanctuary Festival 2022
Sunday 26 June 12 - 7pm Hastings Museum and Art Gallery
Organised by Hastings Community of Sanctuary, hosted by Hastings Museum & Art Gallery and raising funds for Hastings Supports Refugees, "the festival celebrates the power of community, of creativity and of hope. The event comes at the end of Refugee Week, a UK-wide festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees and people seeking sanctuary." We will have a stall at the event - please come and say hello. The full Sanctuary Festival programme. Facebook event page.
Book tickets for the Sanctuary Festival Comedy Special on Saturday 25 June 7 - 10pm.
More information.
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Information stalls
This Saturday, 25 June, our stall will run later than usual, from 1 until 3. In the town centre near Millets.
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A Look Inside Gaza Ghetto with Dr Shahd Abusalama
After we viewed the film Gaza Ghetto, Shahd gave an account of growing up in the Jabaliya refugee camp under Israeli siege, suffering frequent aerial bombardments. We heard Shahd's moving testimony of how the ongoing occupation and violence affects every child growing up in Gaza. Thanks to everyone who came to the meeting.
The Hastings Online Times has published a report of the meeting. The article really does the meeting justice. Highly recommended. Article here.
 
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 Hastings Friends of Al-MawasiGoat Ledge Does Gaza
Al-Mawasi Day at the Goat Ledge cafe in St Leonards on Thursday June 30th
This event is getting a lot of attention on social media. Throughout the day Goat Ledge will be selling a dish made from an Al Mawasi recipe and will be making a donation to Hastings Friends of Al-Mawasi for each dish sold. Frank Moon will be playing the Oud, a traditional Arabic instrument, from 5pm. There will be a stall from 3pm run by members of Hastings Friends of Al-Mawasi who will provide information about Al-Mawasi and about twinning activities such as online English language tuition. We'll also be able to show you how to write your name in Arabic.
Please share the Facebook event widely.
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 Israeli Apartheid: Reality & Resistance
Saturday 2 July 3pm
White Rock Hotel, Hastings
Garry Ettle, Amnesty International Country Coordinator for Israel/Palestine, will present the findings of AI's major new study which concludes that Israel is an Apartheid state, while SOAS Palestine Society President Yara Derbas will speak about the realities of apartheid on the ground and the resistance to apartheid.
This is the first joint meeting between Hastings and Rye PSC and Amnesty International Kent and East Sussex Network. Please share our Facebook event widely.
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Israeli Police Patrol in Hackney
Less than a week after Israeli police violently attacked mourners at the funeral of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, Hackney police proudly announced that "today we were delighted to welcome a delegation from Israeli police.......The delegation went out on patrol" with a local policing team
Hackney Palestine Solidarity Campaign has organised a campaign to demand that Hackney police ends this cooperation. Please support and sign. Petition here.
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15 years of Israel's illegal occupation and blockade of Gaza
This month the blockade of Gaza reaches a grim milestone of 15 years. Gaza is regarded as "the biggest open air prison in the world." While the blockade has devastated Gaza, the present action by Israel represents an intensification of decades of escalating Israeli policies that has made closure a way of life in Gaza. This graphic by Visualizing Palestine shows how the shutdown of Gaza goes back decades. Visualizing Palestine.
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Masafer Yatta, a community of 2,500 Palestinians facing imminent expulsion by the Israeli army
On 4 May the Israeli Supreme Court issued a ruling permitting the Israeli army to displace Palestinians from Masafer Yatta and classify it as a military training area for the army in which the Palestinians have no right to live. Two demolition operations have already been carried out by the Israeli military. This article in the Middle East Eye gives a useful background showing the determination of the people of Masafer Yatta to resist Israeli ethnic cleansing. The ancient Palestinian village fighting for survival .
The latest PSC newsletter has an article about Masafer Yatta which shows how companies such as JCB are complicit in the destruction of local villages. PSC June newsletter.
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United Nations: the IDF (Israel Defence Forces) shot journalist Shireen Abu Akleh
"We find that the shots that killed Abu Akleh came from Israeli security forces," UN Human Rights Office spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani told reporters in Geneva. "It is deeply disturbing that Israeli authorities have not conducted a criminal investigation." Article here.
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 More news:
Ramzy Baroud: Palestine's New Resistance Model - How The Past Year Redefined The Struggle For Freedom: Article here.
Ken Loach and other Victims of Owen Jones' Guardian pro-Israel smears: Article here.
Palestinians protest high cost of living amid PA paralysis: Article here.
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Information stalls
We now have a range of keffiyehs from Hirbawi in Hebron, Palestinian flag umbrellas and a supply of T-shirts. In addition of course we have pamphlets, leaflets and publications about Palestine and apartheid Israel, also Free Palestine badges and Boycott Apartheid stickers. Sometimes we even have music! Please pay us a visit. We're always happy to have members and supporters to visit or stay and help. Every Saturday 12.00 noon until 2 pm (weather permitting) in the town centre near Millets.
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 Hastings and Rye PSC online membership and donations
Becoming a member of Hastings and Rye PSC is an important way of supporting our work.The annual subscription is £10 waged, £5 unwaged. We now have an online membership payment form. It can also be used to renew membership. The work of Hastings & Rye Palestine Solidarity could not continue without the generous donations from members of the public. If you would like to support our work without becoming a member please visit our shop page here and see the right hand column: Donate to Hastings & Rye PSC.
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Recent Hastings and Rye PSC newsletters:
10 June 2022
21 May 2022
13 May 2022
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