Saturday 17 January 2026 - HDPSC AGM
HASTINGS TOWN CENTRE INFORMATION STALL
Saturday 6 December 12.00 noon until 2pm Town Centre (weather permitting). Please visit and support our weekly stall. Tickets for our art raffle Strokes of Solidarity will be on sale. All the usual information, petitions, stickers, keffiyehs, books and badges. Christmas cards with a Palestinian theme by local artist Marta Munoz are also on sale: all proceeds to Al-Mawasi.
BRIGHTON/HOVE: XMAS UNDER THE RUBBLE SOLIDARITY MARCH
Saturday 6 December 12.00 noon. Palmeira Square, Hove.
Try to get along the coast to support Brighton and Hove PSC's demonstration 'to show your continuing solidarity with Palestinians living through another Xmas of Israeli genocide and ethnic cleansing - across Gaza and the occupied West Bank.' 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. An aim of the meeting will be to look at the Palestinian struggle and support for it in a regional context.
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 and our Instagram page.
STOP ARMING ISRAEL
Protest at Genocide Profiteer General Dynamics
Wednesday 10 December 8am. General Dynamics, Castleham Road, Hastings TN38 9NJ.
We will be focussing on the children of Gaza, the children that the Israeli military has been killing for more than 2 years of its genocide. This will include the children that Israel has murdered during the last two months of its ceasefire violations. Many of these children that have been killed or maimed will be by General Dynamics' 2,000 pound bombs.
We will be highlighting the Schools Out for General Dynamics! campaign. We've already had two successes: two local schools have now refused General Dynamics to recruit in their schools.
And we will be continuing our call for Hastings Council to cancel its lease with the General Dynamics' Castleham Road site.
Please share our Facebook event page and our Instagram page.
GOAT LEDGE FUNDRAISER STALL
Saturday 13 December 11am - 3pm. Goat Ledge, Lower Prom, Warrior Square.
We will be selling brick a brac, Christmas cards with a Palestinian theme by local artist Marta Munoz and keffiyehs. Tickets for our art raffle Strokes of Solidarity will also be on sale. All money will go to our friends in Al-Mawasi.
HASTINGS AND DISTRICT PSC AGM
Saturday 17 January 2026 2-5pm. Stade Hall, Hastings, TN34 3FJ. 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.
*Single raffle tickets or strips of raffle tickets can be bought at our forthcoming stalls, meetings and fundraising events*
To buy online 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.
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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