Help us fundraise for the convoy to Gaza!
In just a few weeks, a Viva Palestina aid convoy, supported by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, will leave London and travel through Europe, Turkey, Syria and Egypt to reach Gaza.
We broke Israel's brutal and illegal blockade of Gaza in January and, with your help, we can break it again.
The Palestinians in Gaza need everything from baby milk formula, to feed desperately malnourished babies, to cement, to rebuild homes, schools and hospitals reduced to rubble during Operation Cast Lead. They also need the world's attention to remain focused on them and the inhuman siege that Israel has kept them under for the last four years - sending convoys to break the blockade is an effective way of doing this and showing Gaza's plight to the world.
You can help break the siege on Gaza
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign needs to raise £10,000 towards the cost of buying a PSC-sponsored vehicle and filling it with aid, as well as covering the cost of driving it to Gaza. Please help us reach our target. Donate today by sending a cheque, made payable to PSC, to PSC, BOX BM PSA, London, WC1N 3XX or by calling 020 7700 6192 to donate by card.
Please write ‘For Gaza aid convoy' on the back of your cheque, and let us know you're donating to the PSC aid vehicle when you call.
Thank you for working towards ending Gaza's siege.
Stand up for non-violent resistance
Write to William Hague - demand the UK puts pressure on Israel to overturn the conviction of Abdallah Abu Rahmah. The co-ordinator of the Bi'lin Popular Committee Against the Wall was convicted in an Israeli court of incitement and organising illegal demonstrations. Already imprisoned for eight months while the trial took place, Mr Abu Rahmah now faces a long prison sentence as Israel continues its crackdown on all forms of non-violent resistance against the Apartheid Wall.
Click here to email a model letter to William Hague
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Victory: Activists charged with blockading Israeli-owned beauty shop acquitted in court - Protest this saturday - Boycott Israel, Free Palestine
Four activists charged with aggravated trespass for blockading the Israeli-owned cosmetics shop, Ahava, in Covent Garden, London, in 2009, were today acquitted of all charges against them.
The four - Bruce Levy, Tom Ellis, Jo Crouch and Taherali Gulamhussein, all from London - had locked themselves to concrete-filled oil drums inside the shop, closing it down for a day each time in September and December 2009.
They appeared at Highbury Corner Magistrates Court, London, this week, and were acquitted this afternoon when the primary witness for the prosecution, Ahava's store manager, refused to attend court to testify, despite courts summons and threats of an arrest warrant.
Protes outside Ahava: Saturday 14 August 2010, 12-2pm, 39 Monmouth Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9DD
Read PSC's full press release here >>
For more information on Saturday's protest, and the international campaign against Ahava click here: http://tiny.cc/qjlqzFor more information on Ahava's stolen goods: http://www.stolenbeauty.org/
For more information about the campaign visit: http://freepalestinefortnightlydemo.wordpress.com/
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Ramadhan 2010: Check the label - Boycott Israeli Dates
Profitting from the occupation: Dates have been Israel's leading fruit export and account for about 15% of export from Israel into the EU. It is estimated that Israel produces over 10,000 tonnes of dates per year and the total income for Israel from dates in a year is approximately £80 million - and a vast majority of which are sold during Ramadhan.
Join PSC, Friends of Al-Aqsa and Zaytoun in their campaign to urge shoppers not to buy Israeli dates - and support Palestinian farmers by buying dates from Zaytoun. If you've organised leafleting please let us know - email: info@palestinecampaign.org.
View our new leaflet at: www.palestinecampaign.org/check-the-label-dates
Contact the PSC office to order the leaflets and where you can buy Palestinian dates >>
H&M is doing it again! BDS H&M call for international protests
H&M's establishment in Israel is continuing. A new men's department is opening in H&M's store in Haifa on the 18th of August and on the 26th of August they are opening their fourth store, this time in the Israeli city of Kfar Saba, despite worldwide criticism of Israel's continued ignorance of international law.
The "H&M - Don't buy into occupation" campaign will be organising actions in Sweden on the 18th and 26th of August to make customers aware of H&M's continued establishment in Israel. For more information on this call visit: http://bdshm.org/
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