Festival of Resistance

🍉FESTIVAL OF RESISTANCE🍉

From Scotland to Palestine 🇵🇸

#Freenge for Palestine is back in Edinburgh this August alongside the Festival of Resistance in Glasgow!

Events, organised by SPSC, in solidarity with the struggle for liberation and self-determination in Palestine, across the region and internationally. Calling for the end of the Zionist settler colony based on apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide.

Hear from defiant voices from the rubble: Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, Yemen
Music
Poetry
Food
Four Exhibitions
*The Israeali Army murder of Hind Rajab (aged 5)
*Palestinian prisoners
*300 Palestinian journalists murdered – (help us mount 255 of the photographs from  9am)
*The Palestinian ‘Nakba’  Catastrophe of 1948 and ongoing.

JOIN US! Be part of a collective that makes a difference.

By coming together we defend our rights to assemble, protest, and advocate for Palestinian rights! A FREE PALESTINE WILL FREE US ALL ✊🏽

Guest speakers, Political talks, Discussion & debate

10am OPENING
Mick Napier, SPSC founder member
Trump’s Defeat Means Disaster for Israel

11am
Craig Murray  Ex-British Ambassador, whistleblower, journalist

Mahmoud Zwareh Plalestinian Popular Committees
Zainab Al Saffar (Lebanon) Lebanese journalist
Hoziran Hussein (Iran)
Yemeni speaker (not yet confirmed)

12noon
Pauline Goldsmith, Belfast actress, theatre writer based in Glasgow
Lew Feral, street poet
Cat & Colin, Robert , Paul & Co.Protest in Harmony

1pm
Rabbi Haim Sofer  Born in Palestine to Iraqi parents
Rabbi Elhanan Beck “I am a seventh generation Palestininian”    “7th of October started in 1948”
Tickle McNicholl

2pm
Bernadette Collier, Lylah Hadi
Tatoo Dave, Wholesome Prison Blues Collective

3pm
Eirene Houston was recently in Cuba. She directs the annual Havana-Glasgow Film Festival
Shaun Moore, spoken word poet
Sev Ka

4pm
Huda Ammori, co-founder of Palestine Action + two more ‘terrorists’ – Andrew Thomson, Mick Napier
Lizzie Eldridge, Scottish PEN Vice-President on Defending Free Speech

5pm
Declan Welsh tbc
Amira Al Shanti, Palestinina singer, writer, film maker