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Hastings and District Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Newsletter 28 November 2025
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In this newsletter:
Tomorrow Saturday 29 November - Demonstration for Palestine in London
Tomorrow's Hastings town centre stall 12 noon
Sunday 30 November 9.30-11.30am - Zumba Zumbathon!
Wednesday 3 December 7.30pm - Workers Taking Action for Palestine
Sunday 7 December 3pm - Meeting: Palestine and Iran: How are they Linked?
Report from last week's video call with Al-Mawasi
Plus more local solidarity actions: next General Dynamics protest, bric-a-brac stall for Al-Mawasi, Our art raffle Strokes of Solidarity, 2026 HDPSC AGM.......
NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION FOR PALESTINE
Note: The assembly point has been changed
Saturday 29 November 12.00 noon. Hyde Park Corner (Piccadilly) 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
the
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.
HASTINGS TOWN CENTRE INFORMATION STALL
Saturday 29 November 12.00 noon until 2pm Town Centre (weather permitting). For those who can't get to Saturday's London demonstration, please visit and support our weekly stall. All the usual information, petitions, stickers, keffiyehs, books and badges. Christmas cards with a Palestinian theme by local artist Marta Munoz are on sale at our stalls and meetings; all proceeds to Al-Mawasi.
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! There will be cakes for sale and a raffle. More information.
WORKERS TAKING ACTION FOR PALESTINE
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.
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. More information.
MEETING: PALESTINE AND IRAN: HOW ARE THEY LINKED?
Sunday 7 December 3pm. White Rock Hotel, Hastings TN34 1JU.
A chance to find out why Palestine's struggle for freedom has been a fundamental pillar of Iran's foreign policy. This will be an opportunity to gain an understanding of the Iranian government, society and the geopolitical consequences of its support for Palestine.
Speakers: Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi is an Iranian legal scholar who is a former associate research scholar at Yale Law School where she was deputy director of the Law and Political Economy Project from 2023 to 2025. Helyeh will speaking remotely from Tehran.
Louis Allday. Writer, historian and the founding editor of Liberated Text.
Irfan Chowdhury, researcher and author. Irfan has articles published in DeclassifiedUK, Mondoweiss and Middle East Monitor.
Please share our Facebook event page.
Protest at General Dynamics. Wednesday 10 December 8.00am. General Dynamics, 100 Castleham Road, Hastings TN38 9NJ
Bric-a-brac Fundraising Stall for Al-Mawasi. Saturday 13 December 11am-3pm. Goat Ledge, St Leonards TN37 6FA
Hastings and District PSC AGM. Saturday 17 January 2026 2-5pm. We will review the year's work and take steps to decide our aims and strategies for 2026. We will also be joined remotely by Palestine Chronicle Editor Ramzy Baroud and Gaza Genocide survivor and writer Fares Abulebda. All HDPSC members welcome. More information.
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.
'WE HEAR ABOUT AID BUT WE DON'T SEE ANY - NOTHING REACHES US.'
At last Thursday's Zoom call with Al Mawasi.we found that with the onset of a harsh winter, conditions there are desperate, but there is no evidence of aid making it through to the coastal enclave. Whatever story is being told in mainstream media, reports on the ground paint an entirely different picture.
The day before they thought the war was returning as four rockets struck Al Mawasi, hitting the building which once housed UNWRA workers and which now hosts displaced people, killing three and injuring many more. For a full report of our meeting: Hastings Friends of Al-Mawasi (Facebook).
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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