Book launch, G4S protest and supermarket event Edinburgh SPSC Branch Newsletter : June 2014Welcome to the June newsletter of the Edinburgh branch of the Scottish Palestine Solidarity CampaignThis is a very busy month for our BDS campaigning, come along and show your support for the Palestinians.Here are upcoming events this month…………………………………………………………..Tuesday 3rd June – 6.00pm: ‘A Bird is Not a…
The Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement to economically pressure the Israeli state to adhere to international law has been gaining traction since its inception in July 2005. From individual to organisational boycotts, divestment by universities and pension funds, there are an increasing number of successes. While companies complicit in human rights violations – such…
Arab Palestinians in the Holy Land – Shared Struggle & Resistance Speakers: Rev Loren McGrail – St Andrew’s Scots Church Jerusalem & Mohamed Moutaly, a political refugee living in the USA, unable to get a visa to travel here Sunday 25th May Kirkcaldy 6.00pm St Clair Hall , 258 St Clair St. KY1 2DB Monday…
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A Bird is not a Stone: Palestinian poetry in translation 3 June 2014 at 18:00 Looking Glass Books 3 Porters Walk, EH3 9GG Edinburgh, United Kingdom Contemporary Palestinian poetry translated into English, Scots, Gaelic and Shetlandic A Bird is not a Stone is a collection of contemporary Palestinian poetry in Arabic, translated…
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SPSC Protest at Wood Group’s AGM in Aberdeen: 10am, Wednesday May 14thJoin us on May the 14th in Aberdeen to challenge Wood Group’s ongoing complicity in Israel’s occupation and dispossession of Palestinians.Wood Group is an Aberdeen-based company that has recently built a massive power station in Israel that will provide 8% of Israel’s electricity. Amongst…
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Join us this Saturday on the May Day March and Rally, plus take part in the Sainsburys campaign. Come to our branch meeting this Thursday to find out more.Edinburgh SPSC Branch Newsletter : May 2014Welcome to this late-spring newsletter from the Edinburgh branch of the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign.We have a very busy start…