Israeli massacres escalate – maintain our solidarity

SUNDAY 3rd AUGUST
Edinburgh
2.30pm, Assemble Top of Mound at the Wash
3-4pm, Line Princes St with placards, flags & names of dead
5pm, SPSC Emergency organising session, all welcome (venue TBC - email campaign@scottishpsc.org.uk or TXT 07931200361)

Glasgow   
11am-4pm, Freedom for Palestine! Flags for freedom at the cycle road race
Glasgow City Centre from Glasgow Green to Byres Rd
 
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SPSC WORKSHOPS – BDS, Solidarity in Action
Glasgow, Sunday 10th August, 12noon-4pm, Ahl Al Bayt Society, 25 Woodside Place, G3 7HQ
Kirkcaldy, Saturday 9th August, 3pm, Old Kirk, Kirk Wynd, KY1 1EH (hosted by SPSC and Fife Arab Society)
Edinburgh, date & venue to be confirmed – check at www.scottishpsc.org.uk, Edinburgh SPSC Facebook, email campaign@scottishpsc.org.uk, or text 07931200361
 
The workshop will focus on a number of targets for the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign and taking action. Will include:
- What is BDS and why is it important
- BDS targets, e.g. Kedem, Sainsbury's...
--- Why? What is their role in Israel's occupation, colonisation and apartheid?
--- What is the impact on Palestinian life?
--- How can we punish these companies / institutions for their involvement and complicity?
- Knowing and asserting our rights when we protest for Palestine
- Creative solidarity actions
 
Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign - Public meetings
 How Israel can defeated in Scotland
Monday 4th August, 7.30pm - GLASGOW, Renfield Centre, 260 Bath Street, G2 4HZ
Tues 5th August, 8pm – EDINBURGH, New Empire Bingo Club, 50 Nicolson St
Thurs 7th August, 7.30pm – DUNDEE, T9 Lecture Theatre, Tower Building
Fri 8th August, 7.30pm - STIRLING, venue to be confirmed
 
Speakers: Yvonne Ridley, Dr Esam Hijjawi, Mick Napier
British journalist YVONNE RIDLEY has made several documentary films on Palestine visiting the West Bank, Gaza and refugee camps in the region. She was presented with a Palestinian passport in 2008 and became a roving ambassador for Palestine after breaking the siege of Gaza by boat. The boats were the first to run the gauntlet of Israeli gunboats and successfully entered the port of Gaza, the first to do so in more than 40 years.
A founder member of Viva Palestina she also helped lead a convoy of ambulances across North Africa and into Gaza in 2009. Having moved to Scotland, she is now a member of the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
Dr ESAM HIJJAWI is an ophthalmologist practicing in Edinburgh. He was a leader of the Palestinian student movement in 1974-76 against the first illegal Israeli settlement in the West Bank at Serbastia, near Nablus.
During the First Intifada, Esam was a member of the Joint Leadership Council for the West Bank. He resigned from the PFLP in protest at the Oslo Accords. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the Association of Palestinian Communities in Scotland.  Esam survived an Israeli assassination attempt in 1990.
MICK NAPIER is a founder member of Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign. He has been illegally handcuffed and assaulted by police in both Israel and Scotland for Palestine solidarity activities. He and four other SPSC members defeated charges of 'racism' for protesting against Israeli musicians affiliated to the Israeli military. He is a contributing author, with Archbishop Atallah Hanna and others, to Generation Palestine: Voices of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement published last year. He is currently writing a book on effective Palestine solidarity campaigning to be finished when Israeli massacres allow.