Friday 5th July
Time: 7:00pm
Venue: Worship room, St. Franci Chaplaincy, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston campus

Palestine Solidarity Campaign are proud to welcome Nawal Slemiah, founder and director of Women in Hebron. Women in Hebron are a womens-based cooperative in Idna, a neighbouring village in Hebron, Palestine who have become an important source of income, education and empowerment to local women in the area.

Known for their authentic Palestinian embroidery goods, Women in Hebron have become a means of honoring the role of women in Palestinian society, expressing steadfastness in the face of the military occupation in Palestine, and a means of strengthening the community.

Join us for an evening with Nawal discussing the Israeli occupation in Hebron, Palestine, the importance of cultural resistance and the role women play in Palestinian activism.

Kashmir & Palestine

Saturday 29th June 6 pm

179-187 Anderton Road,Sparkbrook,Bham B11 1ND

Speakers Manal Tamrizi (Palestinian from Gaza),

Nazir Qureshi World Kashmir Freedom movement

Jan Myrdal (author of Red Star over India) and activist from Sweden

For more details visit www.westmidspsc.org or ring 07837215861

Or email pscwm@yahoo.co.uk

Kashmir & Palestine have been under occupation since 1948.

Prof. Manuel Hassassain
Palestinian Ambassador to the UK

&

Dr. Marwan Darweish
Centre for Peace and Reconciliation
Studies, Coventry University

Date: Tuesday 30th April 2013
Time: 7pm to 8:40pm
Location: Square One, TheHub,
Jordan Well
Chair: Prof. Kamel Hawwash
Vice Chair of Palestine Solidarity Campaign

Support the Palestinian hunger strikers

Monday, 15 April 2013

      Wherever you are/Birmingham

West Midlands Student’s for justice in Palestine movement invites you to show support and solidarity for the Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike. We are hoping to partake in 3 consecutive days of fasting to show our solidarity and raise awareness. These Palestinian brothers and sisters are quite literally fighting with their lives against Israeli imprisonment. It is all they have left. Please show your support.

Dates: 15th, 16th and 17th April 2013
Time: 10 hours of abstaining from food and drink, each day.

The third day (17TH APRIL) will be a flashmob opening of fast together in Birmingham town centre, as well as a vigil to commemorate their efforts. EVERYONE BRING A DISH.
http://www.facebook.com/events/424069127686004/

Minimum sponsorship amount is £10 per participant.

Here’s how to do it:
STEP ONE
Register your interest in partaking in the sponsored fasting by letting us know at sponsoredfasting2013@gmail.com
STEP TWO
Once we have received your message, we will send you a sponsorship form. With this sponsorship form, you can collect details of those who are willing to sponsor you, how long they want to sponsor you for and how much they would like to sponsor to you, and ensure that funds are raised from them.
STEP THREE
The fasting can begin! We have suggested ten hours, but feel free to be flexible if that makes you more comfortable.
STEP FOUR
The final day of fasting will be on Wednesday 17th April, where we will gather the funds that have been raised collectively for the Palestine Medical Relief Society and break the fast collectively thorough a “flashmob iftar” before the vigil begins.

All money raised will go towards Palestinian Medical Relief Society (http://www.pmrs.ps/) to aid Palestinian’s whose health has been adversely affected by the hunger strikes.

Wednesday, 17 April 2013 18:00 Outside Waterstones High Street Birmingham city centre

The West Midlands Palestinian Solidarity Campaign and West Midlands Students for Justice in Palestine are calling for a solidarity demonstration in Birmingham to express support for the historic struggle taking place inside Israeli jails. Palestinian political prisoners incarcerated in Israeli jails have embarked on a historic hunger strike to demand fair treatment and an end to administrative detention by the Israeli authorities. Israel uses this policy to detain Palestinians without charge of trial, which has been described as “a violation of the principles and standards of due process and fair trial practiced in all democracies. This is what you teach young lawyers. Israel ignores this. It brings administrative detention orders to a military court that follow military law. The evidence is secret. The court rubber-stamps the order. It is arbitrary detention” says Shawan Jabarin, recently-appointed commissioner to the International Commission of Jurists.

A Palestinian rights organization profiled Sunday eight political prisoners from the occupied West Bank currently on hunger strike. Six of the hunger strikers are protesting Israeli administrative detention orders against them. Prisoner support group Addameer provided information about the hunger strikers in a 10 March statement.

Samer al-Barq, 38 years old, from the town of Jayyous near Qalqilia started an open hunger strike on 27 February to protest the 24 February renewal of a three-month administrative detention order. This is al-Barq’s third hunger strike in the past two years.

Ayman Sharawna, 36 years old, from Dura, near Hebron had been released in the October 2011 prisoner exchange deal.

Sharawna started his hunger strike on 1 July 2012 to protest being rearrested by Israel under Article 186 of Military Order 1651, which allows a special military commission to “cancel the early release.”

Samer al-Issawi, 33 years old, from Issawiya, Jerusalem was also released as part of the October 2011 prisoner exchange deal.

Following his rearrest on 7 July 2012, Issawi has been on intermittent hunger strike for over 200 days to protest his arbitrary rearrest. Younis al-Hroub, 31 years old, from Hebron has been on hunger strike for 22 days to protest his administrative detention.
Muhammad Ahmad an-Najjar from Hebron has been on hunger strike for 152 days which he announced on 26 February to protest his administrative detention.

Zakariyah al-Heeh, 26 years old, from Hebron has been detained since 26 November 2012. He has been on hunger strike for 14 days.

Ibrahim Al-Sheikh Khalil from Jericho has been on hunger strike for 12 days since he announced his strike on 27 February 2013 to protest his administrative detention. He is currently in Ofer Prison in the occupied West Bank .

http://www.facebook.com/events/430394027050556/

And WOLVERHAMPTON PALESTINE SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN have organised:

A PUBLIC MEETING: Friday 19^th April Refreshments from 7.15pm. Starts 7.30pm

St Andrews Church Hall, Avion Centre, Whitmore Reans, Wolverhampton

“The Palestinian Political Prisoners”

SPEAKERS: Ismail Patel Friends of Al Aqsa and Betty Hunter, President Palestine Solidarity Campaign

Come to the meeting to find out what you can do to support the Palestinian people.

wolvespsc@yahoo.co.uk
http://www.palestinecampaign.org/

Monday April 15th, Tuesday April 16th and Wednesday April 17th- 10-hour fast in solidarity
with Palestinian hunger-strikers to raise funds for the Palestinian
Medical Relief Society
See on facebook
https://www.facebook.com/events/430394027050556/?fref=ts

Wednesday 17th, 6pm- Prisoners on hunger-strike vigil, Waterstones near
the Bullring, City Center
Visit the Faceobook for more details
https://www.facebook.com/events/424069127686004/?fref=ts

Thursday 25th, 3pm- Letter-writing for Palestinian prisoners, University
of Birmingham Edgbaston campus, room yet to be confirmed.

Friday 26th, 6pm- Skype chat about the hunger-strikes with Palestinians
supporting them, and possibly with Samer Issawi, Birmingham City
University, room yet to be confirmed.