Hastings and District Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Newsletter   12 March 2024
 
HASTINGS VS GENOCIDE DYNAMICS DAY OF PROTEST
WEDNESDAY 13 MARCH 8 AM - 5 PM

General Dynamics, 100 Castleham Road, Hastings, TN38 9NJ

  • As a community please take this opportunity to let General Dynamics know that we do not agree to be complicit with an arms dealer in our town supporting genocide in Gaza.

  • Come before work or after the school run. Drop down on your lunch break. Come over after school or college. Help your children make their own signs. Bring food and hot drinks to share. Bring chalk to leave your own message. Print out a poem to read. Stream your favourite anti-war song on our sound system. If you can't stand for long bring a camping chair. If its raining bring an umbrella but still come.

  • Be part of this peaceful and determined community response to a vile crime being perpetrated in our midst.

  • We will be on the path outside the company, but just by maintaining this presence General Dynamics will know that they are being held accountable for continuing to knowingly support a regime committing genocide.

  • US-owned Genocide Dynamics makes all the MK-80 bombs that are being dropped on Gaza right now. It provides weapon systems and maintenance services to Israel's fleet of F-35 fighter jets which are used to target the hospitals, schools, mosques, churches and UN buildings in Gaza - using these same "bunker buster" MK-80 bombs.

  • The Hastings sites make systems for fighter jets and equipment for ground vehicles sold to Israel.

  • The company is playing a key role in the ongoing genocide and these sites in the heart of our community make us unwitting accomplices.

    More information: Facebook event page.  Instagram,  Twitter/X.   Please share widely.


    THIS SATURDAY'S INFORMATION STALL

    12.00 noon until 2pm Town Centre Please visit our stall. It's important to have a presence in the town with our Stop Genocide, Ceasefire Now! and BDS banners, placards, leaflets, Boycott stickers, Free Palestine badges and other information.

    APARTHEID, ARMS AND ACTIVISM
    with ANDREW FEINSTEIN

    Wednesday 27 March 7 pm at the White Rock Hotel.

    We are pleased to welcome Andrew Feinstein to speak in Hastings. Andrew is a former African National Congress member of the South African Parliament from 1994 till 2001. Now based in the UK, Andrew is the Executive Director of Shadow World which investigates corruption, militarism and the global arms trade.
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    PALESTINE - ISRAEL: FROM A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE

    Much of the 'information' in the corporate media is misleading. Some useful sources:
    Middle East Eye.    Electronic Intifada.    Al Jazeera.    Middle East Monitor.
    Mondoweiss.    Palestine Chronicle.    Al Mayadeen.    Mintpress.    The Grayzone.
    The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor.       Jonathan Cook.
    The Cradle.       MediaLens.
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    Hastings and District PSC online membership and donations

    Becoming a member of Hastings and District 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. If you would rather not use Paypal, you can pay directly to our bank: please contact us for the details. Or alternatively pay at one of our events.

    The work of Hastings and District PSC could not continue without the 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 and District PSC.
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    Recent Hastings and District PSC newsletters:

    8 March 2024
    28 February 2024
    22 February 2024

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