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THE PALESTINIAN DAY OF THE LAND - California

To rally and march to stop the israeli war against the Palestinian people. And to end the israeli occupation.

For info call:

• ADC: (714) 636-1232
• CAIR: (714) 776-1847 or (213) 487-2368
  

See flyer: http://www.cair-california.org/announce/palestinerally.htm

THE AD-HOC COMMITTEE TO STOP THE ISRAELI WAR AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF PALESTINE

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THE PALESTINIAN DAY OF THE LAND - Washington DC

NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION IN SUPPORT OF PALESTINIAN RIGHTS

End the Occupation, End the Violence

Please join us to demand that the Bush Administration be actively
engaged in the full implementation of International Law and
UN Resolutions calling for an end of the Israeli Occupation
and self-determination for the Palestinian people.

Busloads of people are coming from states around the country, including Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey. Come and add your voice!  Signs will be available, but you are urged to make and bring some of your own. 

For information contact AMJ:
Tel: (202)423-6889
Email: amj@amjerusalem.org

Coalition of lots of human rights groups.

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Active Observer Delegation to Palestine

From 29 March - 10 April 2002 a PSC delegation will be joining the International Solidarity Campaign (ISC) who will be coordinating two weeks of direct nonviolent actions designed to expose and confront the human rights abuses by the Israeli Occupying Forces in the West Bank, Palestine.

Concerned people from Britain who are committed to justice are being asked to bring their energy, commitment, hope and action to support the Palestinian struggle for freedom.

International support has proven to be very effective in the last year . When international demonstrators stand together with Palestinian demonstrators the Israeli military has difficulty using its regular tactic of shooting live ammunition at the crowds. As the terror and violence of the occupation increases on a daily basis it is essential that more internationals come and show their solidarity with the Palestinian people and help support nonviolent means of bringing down the occupation.

If you are interested in joining the PSC delegation - email info@palestinecampaign.org or call 020 7700 6192

Please join us – the presence of internationals will give heart and support to the very important nonviolent resistance to the illegal occupation of Palestine

PSC

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Palestinians: Terrorists or Terrorised

Speakers:

Dr Swee Chai Ang FRCS [witness of Sabra & Shatila massacres]

Dr Ghada Karmi [vice-Chair Association of Palestinian Community UK, expert on Palestinian history & politics]

Gill Kaffash [PSC London recently returned from International Solidarity Movement trip to Occupied Palestine]

All welcome

Charitable donations to Disabled Centre, Rashidiyah Refugee camp Lebanon

For more information contact the PSC office on 020 7700 6192

PSC

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Human Rights and Anti Terrorism:
Seven Years of Injustice for Samar and Jawad

SPEAKERS:

Gareth Pierce - Samar and Jawad's lawyer
David Shayler - Whistleblower ex MI5 Agent
Dr Ghada Karmi - Vice-Chair, CAABU
Mark Littlewood - Liberty
Suresh Grover - National Civil Rights Movement

Campaign for Freedom and Justice for Samar and Jawad

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Stop the Palestinian Holocaust

 The Palestinian Return Centre (PRC)  & Friends of al Aqsa will be staging a mass picket opposite 10 Downing Street.

Purpose:

• To demonstrate support and solidarity with the Palestinian people
  

• To demand immediate and meaningful intervention by the elected British Government

Enquiries:
PRC
100a Crown House
North Circular Road
London
NW10 7PN

Tel: 0208 453 0919

E-Mail: info@prc.org.uk

Friends of Al Aqsa: 07711 823524

Palestinian Return Centre & Friends of al Aqsa

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POSTPONED TO 21st MARCH - SEE ABOVE

Palestinians: Terrorists or Terrorised

Speakers:

Dr Swee Chai Ang FRCS [witness of Sabra & Shatila massacres]

Dr Ghada Karmi [vice-Chair Association of Palestinian Community UK, expert on Palestinian history & politics]

Gill Kaffash [PSC London recently returned from International Solidarity Movement trip to Occupied Palestine]

All welcome

Charitable donations to Disabled Centre, Rashidiyah Refugee camp Lebanon

For more information contact the PSC office on 020 7700 6192

PSC

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Launch of BIG Campaign in Scotland

BIG Campaign [Boycott Israeli Goods] Launch in Scotland

You need to register in advance with:
Emilie Wilson, coordinator of BIG Campaign in Scotland
email: emilie@assilem.waitrose.com

PSC

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Launch of Scottish Parlimentary Group on Palestine

Scottish Parliament Cross Party Group on Palestine.

You need to register in advance with:
Ross Campbell
email: rossinjoppa@aol.com

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LECTURE : Israeli youth refuses to join army that "takes
part in acts of oppression against the Palestinian people"

19-year-old Israeli concientious objector visits University of Toronto on speaking tour - Local Toronto video artist contextualizes resistance with images of recent protests in Israel.

Nineteen-year-old Matan Kaminer will be addressing a Toronto audience at the University of Toronto about his decision to join a growing group of Israeli concientious objectors who have stated they will not serve in the Occupied Territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

Kaminer is among 62 high school senior students who addressed a letter in September of 2001 to Israeli PM Ariel Sharon expressing their refusal to take part in the execution of Israeli Defence Force policies in the Occupied Territories. Referring to themselves as "youths who grew up and were brought up in Israel," the group states that they will "refuse to take part in acts of oppression against the Palestinian people."

Widely termed the "Senior Students' Letter" in the Israeli media, the students' petition to Sharon is part of a growing Concientious Objectors' movement in Israel. In January, 53 soldiers placed an advertisement in the popular Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz stating that although they were willing to serve in the army, they would not fight in the Occupied Territories.

The soldiers outlined their objections to the Occupation, concluding:

"We will not continue to fight beyond the Green Line [Israel's pre-'67 border] for the purpose of dominating, expelling, starving and humiliating an entire people." Since then, the number of signers of the refusal letter has grown to nearly 300.

Kaminer will discuss both his personal experiences as an Israeli teenager about to be called up to serve in the Israeli Defence Forces and the role of the Senior Students' Letter in the broader peace movement in Israel.

Kaminer's military service has been postponed by one year while he volunteers in a non-profit organization promoting dialogue between Jewish and Arab youth. Next year, Kaminer has stated he will refuse to be drafted, an action that could result in imprisonment. To date, Israel has jailed over 600 reserve soldiers, with at least 2,500 reservists who have gone absent without leave.

Also on the bill for March 12th is B. H. Yael, Associate Professor at the Ontario College of Art and Design. She will be screening footage she took of specific actions that occurred in the last days of 2001, contextualizing Kaminer's refusal within a larger atmosphere of opposition to the Occupation, both domestic and international. Documentation includes images of marches organized by groups such as Women in Black, of Settler occupied Hebron and of actions and protests supported by Internationals.

This event is sponsored and supported by Jewish Youth Against The Occupation, Coalition for a Just Peace in Palestine and Israel, Jewish Women's Committee to End the Occupation, Near East Cultural & Educational Foundation, Science for Peace, Arab Students Association at U of T, Yosher (Jewish Network for Social Justice), Peace and Social Action Committee of Toronto Friends Meeting, Hart House Interfaith Dialogue Committee, Canadian Friends of Sabeel, Campaign to Defend Palestine, Coalition against War and Racism. In Montreal, Kaminer's visit is sponsored by the May Anti-War Conference, Solidarity with Palestinian Human Rights, Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Palestinian and Jewish Unity, and Jewish Alliance Against the Occupation.

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Palestinian Blood on British Hands

Speakers: George Galloway MP, Neil Sammonds (PSC), and speakers from Amnesty International, Campaign Against the Arms Trade, and the Centre for the Advancement of Arab- British Understanding

Britain is still selling arms to Israel, and components which are being used in weapons systems against Palestinian civilians. Britain still buys arms from Israel and is in the process of buying the Gill-Spike Anti-tank Missile which has been used against Palestinian civilian areas.

Come to help campaign against this bloody, immoral trade

For more information contact the PSC office on 020 7700 6192 or email: embargo@palestinecampaign.org

PSC

Islamic Centre, 140 Maida Vale,
London, W9.

Nearest Tube: Kilburn Park
Nearest Train: Kilburn High Road

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The Invisible War: Depleted Uranium and the Politics of Radiation

An exclusive screening of a film documentary on the effects of depleted uranium after its use by the American forces  against the Iraqis in the Gulf War.

Further Information contact :
Tel. 020 7604 5507 --5500

Islamic Centre

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Discrimination Against Palestinian Arab Children

PSC London branch invites you to a public meeting with
Zama Coursen-Neff,

Author of "Second Class - Discrimination Against Palestinian Arab Children in Israel's Schools"

This book by Zama Coursen-Neff is published by Human Rights Watch and based on information gathered in Israel in November 2000 by Zama Coursen-Neff and Yodon Thonden, both counsel to the Children's Rights Division of Human Rights Watch

All welcome to join us for this talk and discussion!

This meeting is co-sponsored by Westminster, Camden and East London NUT branches

For further information email: london@palestinecampaign.org

PSC London branch

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Teach - In : War on Terrorism

Speakers include:

• Bruce Kent (CND)
• Milan Rai (Author, "Chomsky's Politics")
• John Norris (Green Party)
• Dr. Siddiqui (Muslim Parliament)
• Mike Baker (human rights lawyer)
• Kalpana Wilson (South Asia Solidarity Group)
• Pritam Singh (economist)
• Khadijah Elshayyal (Young Muslims UK)
• Alex Higgins (UCL student who's been to Iraq)
• Ian Burchill (historian)
• Daya Thussu (lecturer in media, Goldsmiths')
• Jim Footner (Campaign Against the Arms Trade)
• Simon Crab (Media Workers Against War)
• Hassan Mahamdallie (Writer)
• Guy Jobbins (UCL academic)

Sessions:

• War and the environment
• India and Pakistan
• Geopolitics and the arms trade
• Civil rights
• The anti-war movement - past and present
• Iraq
• Censorship and the media
• Islam
  

* Download leaflet

UCL Stop the War Coalition

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Live QA with Ayatullah Fadlullah (Lebanon)

Live on the Internet: Questions & Answers in English with Ayatullah al-Udma as-Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Fadlullah.

Instructions:

1) Download and install free program Paltalk from http://www.paltalk.com

2) Click on 'Groups' then enter 'Islam' section

3) Enter the room called 'QA with Sayyid Fadlullah'

You can type your questions in english and then listen for it to be translated into arabic and then hear the Sayyid reply in arabic and then listen for the translation back in to english.

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National Anti-War Demonstration

Demonstrate – Stop Bush and Blair’s War!
* Stop the US torture of prisoner
* Hands off Somalia and Iraq
* Stop the bombing now

The Stop the War Coalition has called another national demonstration to show Bush and Blair we will not allow civil liberties to be trampled on in the name of a war on the poorest countries in the world.

* Download leaflet

Stop the War Coalition

St Peter's Hall
Precinct Centre
Oxford Road
Manchester
[near to Manchester University, a few minutes from the new Swimming Pool]

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Film: Leila: The Orange Tree

Ms Mansour herself will introduce the film and will later take part in an open forum following the showing together with her producer/husband and other guests.

The film, which was first shown to much acclaim at the Palestine at the Pictures festival at the ICA last September, takes a detailed look at the historic events in the Middle East of 1970 in which the famous Palestinian freedom fighter Leila Khalid and the PFLP took a leading role; it includes recent footage of the friendly welcome she received in the British Parliament on her return to London some thirty years later and reveals for the first time many important and unusual aspects of the affair.

Tickets for the film show are priced at 2.50 pounds (unwaged), 5.00 pounds (waged) and 10.00 pounds (donations).

PSC Manchester,
Friends of Palestine UMIST,
Friends of Palestine - University of Manchester