ETHICAL BANKING The Co-operative Bank has closed the bank accounts of more than 25 community groups campaigning for human rights. Yes, the so-called ‘ethical’ Co-op Bank has closed the accounts of more than 25 Palestine-related groups, including national PSC, the Boycott Israel Network, Friends of Al Aqsa, and a number of local PSC branches. …
Two musicians called IBEYI are playing in Tel Aviv at the end of November. They are on tour and will be in Brighton on 2nd November. We have sent this letter to them, asking them to meet us and put in the case of why they shouldn’t play in Tel Aviv. People involved in the …
Local PSC member Charlotte Perkins is a regional distributor for Hadeel, a certified fair trade shop based in Edinburgh that sources goods primarily from the West Bank and Gaza. ‘Hadeel’ (which means the cooing of a dove in Arabic) supports many small producer groups – particularly women – in places across Palestine such as Beit …
Sunday 6 September 2015Cardiff On a glorious sunny afternoon, a coachload of us from Brighton, Worthing, Portsmouth and Southampton joined about 2000 protesters from around the UK in the hours before the start of the Wales v. Israel EURO2016 qualifying match in Cardiff to call for Israel to be suspended from UEFA and FIFA until …
“Remember Gaza”“Stop Arming Israel”“Boycott Barclays” Our day of rememberance and protestSaturday 29 August 2015 To mark the one-year anniversary of the 50-day assault on the people of Gaza last summer, we held a protest and a memorial procession through the city. For more reports and photos visit Michaela’s Demotix pages And click here to …
The number of signatures has now exceeded the target of 100,000!But please sign the petition if you haven’t signed already.The UK parliament is now ‘obliged’ to debate the issue, so we need to apply even more pressure. ALSO: You can read the government’s ‘response’ to the petition by clicking through to the petition website using …