Hastings and District Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Newsletter   25 April 2025
  In this newsletter:
  • This Saturday - Barclays Day of Action
  • Launch of School's Out for 'Genocide' Dynamics
  • Future activities during May
  • Report: Freedom For All Passover

    NATIONAL BOYCOTT BARCLAYS DAY OF ACTION

    Saturday 26 April 11am - 1pm. Barclays Bank, 207-208 Queens Road, Hastings TN34 1QP.


    Saturday will be the national Boycott Barclays Day of Action. Our protest will be one of 20+ at towns and cities throughout the UK.

    Barclays Bank holds more than £1.9 billion in shares, and provides over £5.8 billion in loans and underwriting to 9 companies whose weapons, components, and military technology are being used in Israel's genocidal attacks on Palestinians. This includes £100 million invested in General Dynamics, which produces the Mk-84 2,000 pound bombs used by Israel to destroy Gaza, and Elbit Systems, which produces weaponised drones used against Gaza.

    Please share: Facebook and Instagram.

    SCHOOL'S OUT FOR 'GENOCIDE' DYNAMICS


    On Tuesday we launched the campaign 'Schools Out for Genocide Dynamics.' The arms company that supplies the Israeli military with 2,000 pound bombs, has been touring careers fairs at schools and colleges in East Sussex. So far we've heard that the company has visited Rye College, Bexhill College, Robertsbridge Community College, Hastings Academy and Claverham Community College.

    We've found that the Careers East Sussex volunteer enterprise advisor for Claverham is an employee of the arms company. Not surprisingly then that Claverham proudly advertises General Dynamics as a link company to the school, having 'good working relationships' with them and promoting work experience and careers with the company.

    This is the template email to headteachers to make clear your feelings. More information at: the Hastings Online Times, Skwawbox, our Facebook article, and our Instagram artcle.

    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 Embankment tube, 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. Catch the 10.31 Hastings train to London. If you would like to go but need help towards the cost of a ticket, contact us directly. We match donors with marchers.

    REPORT: FREEDOM FOR ALL PASSOVER

    Thanks to everyone who came to the special 'Freedom for all' Passover evening organised by Hastings Jews for Justice and thanks to the team that worked so hard to make the event a success.

    The 'Freedom for All' seder was started last year by an international coalition of Jews, calling for collective liberation, an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestine and declaring solidarity with the Palestinian people "not in spite of our Judaism, but because of it."

    The evening was a great success, with tickets sold out weeks beforehand, and to top it all, £600 was raised for Hastings Friends of Al-Mawasi. More information about the evening at the Hastings Jews for Justice website and an article in the Hastings Observer.

    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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