Hastings and District Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Newsletter   18 April 2025
  In this newsletter:
  • This Saturday's information stall
  • Future activities during May
  • Report: Hastings MP refuses to condemn genocide - yet again!
  • Report: Protest at Genocide Profiteer General Dynamics

    SATURDAY'S INFORMATION STALL

    Saturday 19 April 12.00 noon until 2pm Hastings Town Centre. Please visit our information stall. All the usual information, BDS literature including the Don't Buy Apartheid campaign material, the East Sussex Pension Fund petition, plus keffiyehs, badges, boycott and General Dynamics 'Guilty of Genocide' stickers.

    MAY DAY: DAY OF COMMUNITY AND RESISTANCE AT L3HARRIS

    Thursday May 1st 8am - 4pm. L3Harris Arms Factory, Home Farm Road, Moulsecoomb BN1 9HU. Join us for a day of community and resistance! We have been working with StopL3Harris, Brighton and Hove PSC and a whole host of other community and grassroots groups to organise a day where we try to stop the production of L3Harris' weapons of death and misery! Please join if you can! More information: StopL3Harris (Instagram).

    MASS LOBBY OF PARLIAMENT FOR PALESTINE

    Wednesday 14th May. 2pm - 5pm. The PSC will be calling for sanctions to be implemented against Israel, including an end to all military cooperation and arms trade, and a ban on all other trade that aids or assists Israel in maintaining its illegal occupation.

    REGISTER TO JOIN THE LOBBY DAY

    NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION - NAKBA 77

    Saturday 17 May 12.00 Central London. This is the 77th anniversary of the 1948 Nakba. Demand the UK government take action to end the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their land. More details to follow.

    REPORT: HASTINGS MP REFUSES TO CONDEMN GENOCIDE - YET AGAIN!


    We had planned for a delegation to meet with MP Dollimore. This was after she published two statements calling for the increase in armaments funding, and for cuts to disabled people. We published an open letter signed by local groups representing more than a thousand people and 165 constituents including local councillors. First she refused, then she agreed, then she refused again!

    Eventually she agreed to talk with one of our group. "She had a well-prepared spiel that she delivered as a true career politician, speaking over the constituent she had agreed to speak with and failing to listen. She often side-stepped questions or refused to answer them." A report of the meeting with the MP that refuses to answer questions: Report here.

    REPORT: PROTEST AT GENOCIDE PROFITEER GENERAL DYNAMICS


    This was day 552 of Israel's genocide against Gaza. We were protesting at a company which is one of the biggest providers of the weapons of death to the Israeli military. This includes the MK-84 2,000 pound bombs that have been used against the civilian population. Thanks to everyone who came to support our protest which ended up as a very lively - and noisy - event. A short video of the protest: Facebook and Instagram.

    ONLINE WELLBEING SESSIONS

    Clinical hypnotherapist Chris Dindar is running 30 min relaxation sessions to help decompress, process our emotions, and find a moment of peace and deep relaxation amidst the chaos. Chris is offering his services for free, as a token of his solidarity, to help nurture the well-being of our local group and maintain our collective resolve.

    Please email Chris directly if interested in taking part. The sessions are the 1st and 3rd Friday of the month at 12 noon.

    BOOKS AVAILABLE AT OUR STALLS AND MEETINGS

     

     

     

    Now available at our stall, a number of great books to deepen our knowledge of the history of Palestine and Israel. We're grateful to Lee at Printed Matter in Hastings, for generously discounting the price for us in support of the work of PSC. Thanks to Kay Green for providing us with Marilyn Garson's Jewish not Zionist.

    PALESTINE - ISRAEL: FROM A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE

    Much of the 'information' in the corporate media is misleading. Here are 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.       Declassified UK.       The Hind Rajab Foundation.
    Rania Khalek.
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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:

    11 April 2025
    4 April 2025
    28 March 2025

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