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URL:https://palestinecampaign.org/events/psc-conference-trade-unions-build
 ing-solidarity-with-palestine/
SUMMARY:PSC Conference: Trade Unions Building Solidarity with Palestine 
DESCRIPTION:Trade Unions Building Solidarity with Palestine \nA conference
  for trade unionists to escalate their solidarity actions with the Palesti
 nian people\, against genocide and apartheid \n\nDate: Saturday 19th Octo
 ber\, 10am \n\n London  \n\nSpeakers:\n\nNadia Habash\, President of t
 he Palestinian Engineers’ Syndicate \n\nDr Samia Al-Botmeh\, Palestini
 an academic at the economics department at Birzeit University\, and BDS ac
 tivist\n\nRiya Al-Sanah\, Palestinian researcher and organiser with the Wo
 rkers in Palestine initiative \n\nFran Heathcote\, General Secretary PCS\
 n\nJeremy Corbyn MP\n\nPhil Clarke\, President NEU  \n\nLiz Wheatley\, Ch
 air International Committee UNISON  \n\nDooley Harte\, Pension Official U
 CU\n\nBen Jamal\, Director PSC\n\nLouise Regan\, Chair PSC &amp\; NEU EC\n
 \nPalestinian society is currently facing its most horrific challenge. Isr
 ael's genocidal assault has killed many tens of thousands and displaced mo
 re than 85% of Gaza's population since October. Across their homeland and 
 in exile\, Palestinians are subjected to a system of oppression that is re
 cognised internationally as meeting the legal definition of the crime of a
 partheid.\n\nTrade union members have been at the forefront of the fight b
 ack against the increasingly genocidal actions of the state of Israel. Inc
 luding the tens of thousands who have joined the huge national protest in 
 London and around the country\, leading actions of all kinds\, including i
 n their workplace and in their local areas\, demanding an end to British s
 tate\, corporate and institutional complicity in Israel’s crimes.\n\nWe 
 need to continue the fight and it is our duty as trade unionists and act
 ivists in the UK to escalate our solidarity\, for freedom\, equality and j
 ustice for the Palestinian people.\n\nThis conference will hear from key P
 alestinian voices\, as well as leaders of the UK trade union movement\, on
  what we need to do next in solidarity with Palestine. This includes stepp
 ing up the divestment campaigns targeting all institutions complicit with 
 Israel’s crimes. There also needs to be renewed focus on the fightback a
 gainst normalisation\, to challenge the attempts to sidetrack the core sol
 idarity work against Israel’s genocidal assault. And just as importantly
  we need to continue to engage and highlight the ongoing campaigns\, takin
 g place in all unions\, to create the space and offer resources to support
  activists relentlessly championing justice\, equality and freedom for the
  Palestinian people in their unions.\n\nWe need to stand strong and united
 \, against genocide and apartheid\, for justice and peace in Palestine.\n\
 n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\n\nThe conference will include panel sessions on P
 alestinian workers bearing the weight of genocide and apartheid and the ne
 xt steps for the trade union movement.\n\nAnd here will be seminar session
 s discussing the following topics:\n– Divest for Palestine – Focus on 
 Divestment campaings as part of BDS\n- Defending Palestinian Rights: Solid
 arity – Not Normalisation and Apartheid\n- Organising for Palestine in y
 our Trade Union – What you can do in your TU to continue to push for a f
 ree Palestine\n\nRegistration is now closed. Please contact us for enquiri
 es: martial.kurtz@palestinecampaign.org\n\nSolidarity
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