West Midlands Palestine Solidarity Campaign, on Saturday the 1st of June 2013 between 2 and 4 pm will be picketing the Birmingham City Centre Sainsbury. We will be demanding that Sainsbury should not stock any product from the settlements.
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West Midlands Palestine Solidarity Campaign had invited Saeed Amireh a young Palestinian from the West Bank for a get together with some of the inner city youth groups in Birmingham for Saturday the 16th February 2013. Alas, Saeed would be unable to come to Birmingham because the UK Consulate has refused him Visa. Despite UK refusing Saeed entry to UK the youth groups will still be meeting on Saturday the 16th February 2013. The meeting will hear Kamel Hawash, a Palestinian living in Birmingham. We will also have a Skype link with individuals living in the West Bank. They will share with young people in Birmingham the experiences of Palestinians living as refugees or under occupation. Details at http://westmidspsc.org/boycott/?p=553
Following is the Press Release issued by the West Midlands Palestine Solidarity Campaign issued on the British Consulate denying Saeed entry to UK.
Sep 1
31st August 2012
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01mg6pv/Newsnight_Scotland_30_08_2012/ (13 minutes into the clip is report on the Protest against the Dance group funded by Israeli government)
250 people, possibly more, protested loudly and vigorously outside the Edinburgh Playhouse last night on the first of three nights of demonstrations against Israeli State-funded Batsheva Dance Company, partners in the Israeli Government’s Brand Israel programme to alter the widespread perception of Israel as a brutal, occupying power. Read the rest of this entry »
This is a revue by two young former ecumenical accompaniers/human rights observers Penny Stone and Karen Chalk: ‘countless accounts of occupation distilled into an hour of story song and image’. Catch a glimpse of the struggle and humour of village life under Israeli occupation. Their presentation played to packed audiences at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe with rave reviews.
The George Hotel, Bird Street, Lichfield WS13 6PR
Admission £5 on the door. Don’t miss it! Come early to get a seat!
Walsall Kobar Friendship Association invites you to a public meeting at which visitors from Kobar, north of Ramallah in the Palestinian West Bank, who are visiting Walsall for 10 days, will give presentations. Afaf Fahal annglish teacher in Kobar Primary School, Sabreen Abed a treatment and rehabilitation worker and Nazmeen Khideja who has recently visited the West Bank, will give presentations followed by questions.
Walsall Kobar Friendship Association supports the development of friendship & twinning links between and Kobar, a small town north of Ramallah in the West Bank.
Venue : The Crossing, St Pauls, Walsall WS1 1DA. The Crossing is next to Walsall bus station, 5 minutes walk
from Walsall rail station. Parking in Intown Row and Whittimere Street is 5 minutes walk from the venue. Maps;http://en.parkopedia.co.uk/parking/walsall/
Over 20 supporters of Palestinian rights joined the lobby of West Midlands Police Authority (WMPA) on Thursday 12th July 2012 to protest against G4S, one of the companies bidding to run policing services due its support for Israel’s continued occupation of Palestine in breach of international law.
In the West Midlands G4S is on a shortlist of 6 companies bidding for the privatisation of Policing services. The Business Partnering for Policing programme is a lucrative £1.5bn contract to privatise a wide range of policing services, including core police functions such as crime investigation and custody.
Prior to the meeting West Midlands Palestine Solidarity Campaign wrote to Bishop Webley, Chair of the Police Authority asking WMPA to remove G4S from its preferred list of bidders for the Business Partnering for Policing contract and setting out the details of G4S complicity with the occupation. Read the rest of this entry »
Join the lobby against the privatisation of the West Midlands Police force starting at 10 AM Thursday the the 12th July 2012, WEST MIDLANDS POLICE BUILDING. LLOYD HOUSE. BIRMINGHAM. The lobby aims to prevent the West Midlands being policed by G4S who are complicit in the building and maintaining of infrastructure that supports Israeli apartheid and the systematic oppression of Palestinians. Bring your Palestinian flags, scarves and banners
For further details Click the link The case against G4S, preferred bidder for BPP