Plus local activities: Zumba Zumbathon, Rye stall, Meeting: Workers taking action for Palestine, Meeting: Palestine and Iran: How are they Linked?.........
ZOOM CALL WITH AL-MAWASI
THURSDAY 20 NOVEMBER 1.30PM
Please join our Zoom call this Thursday 20 November at 1.30pm with our friends in Al Mawasi. These zoom calls are the best way to hear directly what is happening on the ground at the moment, and we know they value people coming to listen and showing our friendship and solidarity.
This will be a chance to find out the latest from Al-Mawasi, the situation since the 'ceasefire,' including how the recent rain and gales have affected the area. The images above are from Al-Mawasi from last Saturday.
Register in advance for this meeting. Register. here.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
DEFEND THE RIGHT TO PROTEST STALL
Saturday 22 November 12noon-2pm. Butler's Gap, George Street, Hastings.
Join us on Saturday for a Defend the Right to Protest stall at Butler's Gap in George Street.
The government has passed a succession of anti-protest laws, including the absurd ban on Palestine Action, which is due to be challenged by judicial review in the courts next week. This comes after months of challenge from the streets with massive UK-wide protests to Lift the Ban organised by Defend our Juries. Over 2,000 people have been arrested under Section 13 of the Terrorism Act for protesting this ban, including more than a dozen from Hastings.
There will be a reading of the names of children killed by Israel during the genocide, and a solidarity circle for a Lift the Ban protest.
We will also be highlighting the government's plans to bring forward extreme legislation to stop repeat protests, in a clear attack on our democratic rights. The government is now clearly trying to attack our movement for Palestinian rights to shield itself and Israel from accountability. We will be collecting signatures to encourage the two local MPs to sign the Early Day Motion in Parliament to defend our right to protest. If you can't make Saturday's protest, please sign the PSC's online petition to your MP
WRITE TO YOUR MP: DEFEND THE RIGHT TO PROTEST
STROKES OF SOLIDARITY
ART RAFFLE FOR PALESTINE
We are thrilled to present a collection of original works by artists from Palestine, the UK and from across the world to raise urgently needed funds for Gaza. All proceeds of the raffle will go directly to the Resilience Committee in Al-Mawasi helping to provide food for displaced families, educational resources for children, materials for makeshift housing and a community bakery.
To buy tickets please check out our website. We will be updating the page with new artworks each week in the lead up to the event. Strokes of Solidarity.
NO HASTINGS TOWN CENTRE INFORMATION STALL THIS SATURDAY
We will be back next Saturday as usual (weather permitting).
WORKERS ORGANISING AGAINST GENOCIDE
Saturday 22 November 10am to 5pm in London. "From factories to universities, workers across the UK are getting organised to stop UK complicity with Israel's genocide against the Palestinian people. Join us Saturday 22nd November to take part in our Trade Union Organising Conference in solidarity with the Palestinian people as we strategise to step up solidarity across our sectors." More information.
Friday 28 November 2 - 4pm. The cobbles at the top of Conduit Hill, where it meets the High Street. Please come and support our stall at Rye. All the usual information, petitions, stickers plus keffiyehs, books,and badges.
NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION FOR PALESTINE
Saturday 29 November 12.00 noon. Park Lane to Whitehall.
There is no ceasefire anywhere in Palestine. Israel continues to bomb, terrorise and deprive Gaza's exhausted and traumatised population while advancing its campaign to ethnically cleanse East Jerusalem and the West Bank. The UK government remains wholly complict in the apartheid and genocide while trying to sell us the idea that there is 'peace.' More information. Catch
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10.31 Hastings train to London (no engineering works at the time of writing.). If you would like help with the train fare or would like to donate a fare, please contact us We match donors with
marchers.
Sunday 30 November 9.30-11.30am at the Y Centre St Pauls Road, TN37 6RS. £6 entrance.
Join the Sunday morning dance marathon to help raise funds for a family in Gaza that one of our members has become quite close to over the last year or so. She hopes to enable the family to purchase food, water and winter items after being displaced 7 times in that short time.
Everyone is encouraged to join in - please bring your family and friends. There's no requirement to dance for the full two hours - you can have a rest and put your feet up if you want! More information.
WORKERS TAKING ACTION FOR PALESTINE
Organising Meeting. Wednesday 3 December 7.30pm. Isabel Blackman Centre, Winding Street.
Across the world workers are taking action against Israel's genocide in Gaza. Dock workers and airline workers have refused to load weapons bound for Israel. Millions took part in protest strikes across Italy and beyond, when Israel captured the Gaza flotilla of boats carrying aid to Palestinians.
Here in the UK we have also seen inspiring actions by workers. Bar staff in Glasgow successfully forced their employers at the Stand Comedy Club and the Glasgow Film Theatre to stop selling all products from the BDS boycott list by threatening a 'service boycott' - workers just refusing to serve these products. The union called it the 'serve solidarity' campaign and have now won support for the boycott in numerous other companies.
From shops and pubs, to schools and hospitals, workers have the power to take direct action in solidarity with the people of Gaza - the illegal occupation relies on funding and support from all over the world and we can play a part in cutting off that support. Come along to this special organising meeting about Palestine Solidarity at Work hosted by the Hastings branch of Unite the Union with the Hastings and District Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Everyone is welcome.
MEETING: PALESTINE AND IRAN: HOW ARE THEY LINKED?
Sunday 7 December 3pm. White Rock Hotel, Hastings TN34 1JU. An opportunity to understand why Iran is the only major country in the area that gives support to the Palestinian struggle for liberation. We will have a panel of two speakers based in the UK and a live link to Tehran. More information to follow.
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
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