Saturday 25 July 2015 Today at the Clocktower we mounted a really visual and effective display commemorating victims of last year’s attacks on Gaza.The names of hundreds of men, women and children, showing the day they died, were displayed on long strips of paper mounted on the Clock Tower. Tellingly, we didn’t have enough space …
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Monday 6th July 2015Shenstone, Tamworth & Broadstairs (UK) + Melbourne in Australia! Several of our members took part in demos at Elbit Systems factories around the UK last Monday, helping to shut down all three of them to mark the one-year anniversary of Israel’s brutal assault on Gaza and to draw attention to the continuing …
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As part of the National Day of Action against Sainsburys, BHPSC members and supporters took to the streets on Saturday for a rolling picket of central Brighton, to protest Sainsburys continuing refusal to adhere to their own ethical trading policy and to cease selling produce from the illegally occupied West Bank. Accompanied by an …
Please note that the crowdfunding appeal for this project is now closed, but do contact us at contact@brightonpsc.org if you’d like to contribute. Thanks to the many people who donated and enabled us to exceed our target! Help us bring four children to the UK from the Gaza Music School to play at a …
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Friday 15th May 2015Brighton activists join campaigners around the world for the annual rememberance of the Palestinians’ catastrophe Nakba Day Commemoration ‘End the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine’ Activists in Brighton took to the streets today on a global day of solidarity marking 67 years since the Palestinian Nakba or ‘catastrophe’, in 1948, when the State …
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13th May 2015 Brighton & Hove Trades Union Council today voted unanimously to support the boycott of Hewlett-Packard (HP), in an expression of solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for justice and self-determination. Representatives of local trade union branches will propose to their branches that they adopt a motion committing the branch to a range of …
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