Stop the massacre
Gaza protests website - photos and news about the protests across the UK
Download the petition and ask for signatures at all these events:
Saturday 17 January
Day of actions around the country. Please revisit this website for updates, and please email details of events to info@palestinecampaign.org
LONDON
Central London Saturday 17 January central London. More details soon.
Footage from the 3rd January Demonstration including Annie Lennox, Ken Livingstone and Alexei Sayle :
ROUND THE CLOCK VIGIL OUTSIDE PARLIAMENT AGAINST ISRAEL'S ACTIONS IN GAZA, Parliament Square. Gaza vigil website. Monday 12 January please come to a special vigil at 4pm.
BIRMINGHAM
March and rally Saturday 17th January. Assembles 12 noon in Victoria Square, Birmingham (outside the Council House at top of New Street near the fountain). Called by PSC, Stop the War and the Muslim Association of Britain. Supported by Birmingham's Gaza Campaign Coordinating Committee.
BOLTON
Friday 16th January 8.00pm
Public Meeting on Palestine
Brian Iddon MP and Secretary of the All Parliamentary Committee on Palestine
Dr. Asad Khan, campaigner for Palestinian rights, freedom and health
The Socialist Club 16 Wood Street BL1 1DY
for moe info - pscbolton@yahoo.com
DURHAM
Vigil every weekday 1-2pm in Durham City Market Place with placards and petition-signing. Come and join us. See Durham PSC website http://www.durhampsc.org.uk/ for more details and events
EXETER
12.30 Sat 17th January
Join the march - assemble Odeon Cinema, Sidwell Street, Exeter
HEREFORD
Saturday 17th January 2009
STOP THE MASSACRE IN GAZA - DEMO
meet at 12.20 at Greyfriars Bridge car park (that's the small car park below the new bridge. you can park there, or at Sainsburies and walk over) 12.30 p.m. walk to town via Cathedral grounds & on to High Town bring relevant placards etc.
LANCASTER
11.30am Market Sq, Bring banners, candles, photos, "blood splattered" clothes to join die-in
LICHFIELD
SATURDAY 17 JANUARY
2.30 public meeting
"Gaza in Context"
Boley Park Community Centre Lichfield (next to the Co-op)
features Rev.Warren Bardsley a human rights observer reports back from Jerusalem
MANCHESTER
Vigil every day 5pm outside BBC Oxford road, Manchester.
Vigil to be held every night until Israel's criminal attacks cease.
SHEFFIELD
Friday 16th January
Palestinian monologues: Voices from Palestine
7.30 p.m. Library theatre, Sheffield city centre.
An emergency fund raiser, with all proceeds going towards the wheelchair appeal.
Saturday 31st January 12.30pm
PSC Day School
Quaker Meeting House, 10 St. James St, Sheffield,
Sheffield PSC has called a day school to discuss strategy and tactics of how to help the Palestinians. It will include workshops on such items as the academic boycott, the boycott of Israeli goods and others. Please come and invite anyone who supports the Palestinians.
http://www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk/ for details of all events.
STAFFORDSHIRE
MONDAY 19 JANUARY 12 NOON - DEMONSTRATION AT UAV ENGINES, Lynn Lane, Shenstone, Litchfield, WS140DT (the demo will be outside the industrial unit)
11.15 a.m. meet at Shenstone Railway station The factory is approximately 11 minutes walk from the station along Lynn Lane, heading out of town (take the first left after Birch Brook lane).
It has been reported that the company is building engines that are used in Israel's military drones which aid the attacks on Gaza. The demonstration will be calling for an end to arms sales to Israel and an end to Israeli violent repression of the Palestinian people. Transport will be leaving from the Sumac Centre in Nottingham (245 Gladstone Street, Forest Fields,NG7 6HX) at 9.30 a.m. for info or to offer to help with transport etc, Tel: 0798 374 3894. Bring banners,things to make noise,etc
http://amnesty.org.uk/news_details_p.asp?NewsID=18004
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/09/armstrade-gaza
http://www.elbitsystems.com/productsDetailsPage.asp?id=579
WALSALL
THURSDAY 15 JANUARY 7.30 P.M.
Public Meeting
Speakers:
Kamel Hawwash ( Palestine Solidarity Campaign)
Cllr Mohammed Arif (Conservative)
Cllr Mohammad Nazir (Labour)
Phil Bennion (Liberal Democrat)
Speaker from Friends of Al Aqsa (tbc)
Chris Nineham (Stop the War Coalition)
Venue : Palfrey Community Centre, Milton Street,Walsall
WORCESTER
SATURDAY 17 JANUARY
Vigil 1pm-5.p.m. The Guildhall, High St Worc Stalls, music, food petitions Bring family, friends & a candle
WOLVERHAMPTON
FRIDAY 16 JANUARY 4.30 P.M. SILENT VIGIL, Queens Square
Bring candles, wear black clothing, bring placards
*** Action alert ***
Write to your MP urging them to insist that Prime Minister Gordon Brown acts to ensure:
• An immediate end to Israel's military assault on Gaza
• An immediate end to the blockade and siege on Gaza
• An end to Israel's violations of international law
• An end to Israeli occupation
http://www.writetothem.com/
Please use the sample letter below:
January 2009
Dear
As you know the people of Gaza are being bombarded by a devastating onslaught from Israeli F16s, tanks and warships.
Nearly 400 people have been killed in three days and while we deplore the firing of rockets from Gaza into Israel this can in no way justify the systematic slaughter being conducted by Israel on a captive unarmed civilian population.
This slaughter follows almost two years of blockade which has prevented essential supplies of food, fuel and medicines from reaching the Palestinian people in Gaza and causing untold suffering.
I believe that the people of Britain are horrified by the current situation and would like to ask that you request the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, to say exactly what measures the government is taking to ensure an immediate end to the military attacks on Gaza and an immediate end to the siege as the first step in ensuring that international law is upheld in relation to the rights of the Palestinian people.
I would also like you to press the Foreign Secretary to take steps to ensure that the favourable status of Israel in the EU, including the EU trade agreement is removed immediately since it is a country which is violating international law and I do not wish my taxes to contribute to the economy of such a state.
Yours sincerely,
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