Palestine: Voices of Resistance Public Meeting, Newcastle, 7th March 2009
FRFI North East | 03.02.2009 00:55 | Anti-racism | Palestine | Social Struggles
Advance notice of an important meeting on Palestine coming up in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, more publicity to follow:
PUBLIC MEETING
Palestine: Voices of Resistance
Saturday 7th March, 2-6pm
Royal Station Hotel, Newcastle (next to Central Station)
An afternoon of speeches, discussion, information and in-depth debate on the situation in Palestine following Israel's attack on Gaza and the history of Palestine and Zionism. With Palestinian activists and eyewitness accounts including:
Manal Masala, Palestinian human rights activist, researcher, and regular contributor to the newspaper Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! Manal's work has included research into Israeli state racism including land and planning policies. Her current research concerns the historical development of class relations in Palestine
Iyad AlAgha from Gaza, currently studying for a PhD at Durham University
Rocky Al-Samarrai, International Solidarity Movement activist and eyewitness in Hebron, West Bank, in March 2008
Mona Zeidan, Palestinian musician, speaking about Israel's attacks on Palestinian national culture and cultural resistance
All welcome, wheelchair access available.
Organised by the Revolutionary Communist Group and its newspaper, Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism!
Palestine: Voices of Resistance
Saturday 7th March, 2-6pm
Royal Station Hotel, Newcastle (next to Central Station)
An afternoon of speeches, discussion, information and in-depth debate on the situation in Palestine following Israel's attack on Gaza and the history of Palestine and Zionism. With Palestinian activists and eyewitness accounts including:
Manal Masala, Palestinian human rights activist, researcher, and regular contributor to the newspaper Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! Manal's work has included research into Israeli state racism including land and planning policies. Her current research concerns the historical development of class relations in Palestine
Iyad AlAgha from Gaza, currently studying for a PhD at Durham University
Rocky Al-Samarrai, International Solidarity Movement activist and eyewitness in Hebron, West Bank, in March 2008
Mona Zeidan, Palestinian musician, speaking about Israel's attacks on Palestinian national culture and cultural resistance
All welcome, wheelchair access available.
Organised by the Revolutionary Communist Group and its newspaper, Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism!
FRFI North East
e-mail:
frfinortheast@googlemail.com
Homepage:
http://www.revolutionarycommunist.org
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good intention
03.02.2009 03:38
bur has it been approved by the psc newcastle or north east or where ever the local psc group is up there
is there a psc speaker is there a stw speaker these are 2 main spekers we need to have for this meeting to run properly
it needs to be run under the nanner of the psc
the psc works in solidarty with palestine
we are the only group focused on palestine
but good intenton but u realt need to ask the psc first before doing a meeting like this cause we need to do publicity get a psc speaker maybe ask stop the war to speak
we should all work under the banner of the psc as 1 we move fowars
i personly would like to come
friends of the psc