Hastings and Rother Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Newsletter   14 November 2023
  In this newsletter:
  • Demand: Ceasefire Now! Wednesday 15 November
  • Palestine Action Rally Saturday 18 November
  • Hastings Borough Full Council meeting Wednesday 22 November
  • Stop arming Israel! Thursday 23 November
  • Benefit for Gaza Wednesday 6 December
  • MAP/Medical Aid for Palestinians

    DEMAND: CEASEFIRE NOW!   WEDNESDAY 15 NOVEMBER 12 NOON

    12.00 Noon - 2 pm   Hastings town centre

    On Wednesday MPs will vote on whether to call for a ceasefire in Palestine. A ceasefire is the bare minimum required to stop the slaughter. Demand that local MPs Sally-Ann Hart and Huw Merriman vote for a #CeasefireNow.. Please share our Facebook and Instagram event pages.

    EMAIL YOUR MP TO CALL FOR A CEASEFIRE NOW

    Write to your MP to vote for an immediate ceasefire at tomorrow's vote in the House of Commons:

    EMAIL YOUR MP


    PALESTINE ACTION RALLY  SATURDAY 18 NOVEMBER 12 NOON

    Hastings town centre
    STOP THE BOMBING - CEASEFIRE NOW!
    MEMORIAL FOR THE CHILDREN OF GAZA
    BOYCOTT PROTEST

  • Please bring children's shoes to represent the precious lives lost: 'Respect the dead - protect the young.'
  • We will be giving updates from the Al-Mawasi community in southern Gaza and the fundraiser to buy and install a solar panel.
  • After the rally we will be carrying out local boycott protests at businesses complicit in Israeli apartheid and occupation.
  • Please join us on Saturday 12 noon.
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    Hastings Borough Council Full Council meeting
    Wednesday 22 November 6.00 pm

    Action to be announced
    Muriel Matters House, Breeds Place, Hastings, East Sussex, TN34 3UY
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    Stop arming Israel!
    Thursday 23 November

    Protest against the General Dynamics arms factory in Hastings (details to be announced)
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    Benefit for Gaza

    Wednesday 6 December 7 pm
    Details to follow.
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    LATEST: from MAP/Medical Aid for Palestinians
    "Babies in the neonatal intensive care unit which MAP has supported over many years are beginning to die from lack of oxygen. More will die soon unless the power supply is restored."

    Article: Israel's war on hospitals must end.

    Photo left: Newborns are placed in bed after being taken off incubators in Gaza's Al Shifa Hospital,
    12 November.

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    Much of the 'information' in the corporate media is misleading

    Some useful sources: Middle East Eye.    Electronic Intifada.    Middle East Monitor.
    Mondoweiss.    Palestine Chronicle.    Al Mayadeen.    Mintpress.    The Grayzone.
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    Hastings and Rother PSC online membership and donations

    Becoming a member of Hastings and Rother 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 & Rother 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 & Rother PSC.
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    Recent Hastings and Rother PSC newsletters:

    10 November 2023
    1 November 2023
    26 October 2023

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