Urgent call out from Hastings PSC for march and demo Sat 13 April STOP THE GENOCIDE – MARCH ON GENERAL DYNAMICS

Date/Time
Date(s) - 13 Apr 2024
12:00 PM - 2:30 PM

We’re encouraging our members and supporters to go over to Hastings on Saturday to show solidarity with our sister branch and their march/demo focusing on the General Dynamics arms factory in the town. It would be great if lots of us join them. Details are here, and pasted below.

The travel advice from Hastings PSC is:

Outward travel – two options:

Option 1: Train to St Leonards Warrior Square (dep Btn 10.26am arr StLWS 11.32am), and then walk (approx 13 mins) to the assembly point in Clarence Rd. NB bus service from Warrior Square not good.

Option 2: Train to Hastings (dep Btn 10.26am arr Hastings 11.36am), and then catch bus to assembly point. The following buses run quite frequently: 99, 100, 101. Other buses are: 349 and 1066. Make sure the bus is heading west not east. The bus stop nearest the march start point is close to Caesar’s Palace Barbers and St Leonards Methodist Church.

The march itself to the General Dynamics factory looks like it’s just under 2 miles.

The plan after arriving at the factory is to “hold a rally featuring speakers, music and children’s activities. Plus mixed vegetarian meze prepared by Yaaze for a small contribution – all profits going to the Hastings Friends of Al Mawasi fundraiser.” Further details below.

Getting back to Brighton:

The walk back to town is 2.5+ miles. For a bus back to town, we’re advised to go to Hastings station (not Warrior Square), and then travel back to Brighton from Hastings station. From the rally, the 1066 bus and the 20 bus (Old Church Road stop) come back to Hastings Station. Trains back to Brighton every 30 mins.

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Call-out from Hastings & District PSC follows:

STOP THE GENOCIDE – MARCH ON GENERAL DYNAMICS

Saturday 13 April 12 noon

It has been six months.

Six months of death and destruction which most of us never imagined we would witness in our lifetimes.

Over 33,000 have been killed – of those 14,000 children.

Nothing and no one has been spared this campaign of annihilation.

Today, the bombs are still dropping and with the healthcare system destroyed every injury is a potential death sentence.

The Israeli army has ripped up the rules of war – every civilian is a legitimate target and everything that sustains life is obliterated.

Those who escape a violent death face a slow and torturous one from starvation.

Now Israel has set a date to invade Rafah, the so-called ‘safe’ zone where they instructed Palestinians to flee to and where 1.5 million starving and terrorized people now shelter in tents.

If this goes ahead as planned, the horrors we have witnessed so far in this genocide may soon be eclipsed by mass slaughter in Rafah.

All this is only possible because the West allows it, because countries like the UK are still arming Israel, because companies like General Dynamics supply the weapons and arms for the genocide.

This cannot be allowed to continue. We must come together to raise up our voices.

We cannot sit back and be passive bystanders in this genocide. We need everyone.

Join us this Saturday on our community-led march through Hastings, cosponsored by a host of local civil organizations, to state loudly and clearly: STOP THE GENOCIDE

The march will start at 12 noon at the Clarence Road (TN37 6SD) entrance to Alexandra Park (BUS AND TRAIN INFO BELOW) and take a road route to the Castleham Road General Dynamics site where we will hold a rally with children’s activities, speakers, music and food by Yaaze (vegetarian meze plates charged at £3 pp).

If you are unable to make the march please join us for the rally from 1.30pm.

Bring your placards, your voices, your friends, your family, neighbors and everyone you know to raise up our voices and demand an end to the genocide.

BUS AND TRAIN INFORMATION

Warrior Square Station. The walk to the march start point will take about 13 minutes.

Hastings Station. The following buses run quite frequently: 99, 100, 101. Other buses are: 349 and 1066. Make sure the bus is heading west not east. The bus stop nearest the march start point is close to Caesar’s Palace Barbers and St Leonards Methodist Church.

COMING BACK. The 1066 bus and the 20 bus (Old Church Road stop) come back to Hastings Station.

THE ROUTE MAP

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