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Weekly PSC News Update

Lobby, meetings, reports and articles

jeudi 6 novembre 2008

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Lobby of Parliament 19 Nov followed by a Meeting 7pm : “Palestinian Rights : Time for Government Action”

Article : Britain to crack down on exports from Israeli settlements
DCI Pal Report : Under Attack : Settler Violence against Palestinian Children in the Occupied Territory

Ask your MP to sign the Free Gaza EDM

- Upcoming events in the UK

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Lobby of Parliament - ’Justice for Palestinians’

2-6pm on Wednesday 19 November 2008

Ensure that your MP hears your views – please contact them straight away and ask to meet them on the afternoon of 19 November.

Followed by a meeting at 7pm - Committee Room 10 in the House of Commons.

A lobby of parliament is being organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, the Council for Arab-British Understanding and Jews for Justice for Palestinians on Wednesday 19 November to mark the UN international day of solidarity with the Palestinian people. Previous lobbies of parliament have attracted a significant level of support from solidarity organisations, faith groups, trade unions and other groups. This broad support is very important in demonstrating to MPs and the British government the wide range of organisations calling for peace and justice.

This year the lobby theme will be ’Justice for Palestinians’, and will take place from 2-6pm on Wednesday 19 November.

The lobby of parliament will call on the British government to implement international law and press for :

an end to the blockade on Gaza.
Israel to end its occupation.
the dismantling of Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
respect for Palestinian sovereignty.
the suspension of the EU-Israel trade agreement.

Ensure that your MP hears your views – please contact them straight away and ask to meet them on the afternoon of 19 November.

If you don’t know who your MP is, please go to www.theyworkforyou.com

Make sure to let us know at the PSC office when you have made an appointment

Please help publicise this lobby as widely as possible. New leaflets are being printed – please contact the office for copies..

If you require any further information please don’t hesitate to contact info@palestinecampaign.org or wattg@caabu.org.

The Lobby of Parliament is organised by :

CAABU – JFJFP - PSC

The Lobby of Parliament is supported by :

The following Trade Unions : ASLEF, BECTU, CWU, FBU, GMB, PCS, RMT, UNISON, UNITE and Action Palestine, Amos Trust, Association of the Palestinian Community in the UK, Britain Palestine Twinning Network, British Committee for Universities in Palestine, Christian Peacemaker Teams UK, Friends of Al-Aqsa, Friends of Birzeit University, Friends of Sabeel UK, The Green Party, Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions UK, Let Palestinians Study Campaign, Midlands Palestinian Community Association, Muslim Council of Britain, National Association of British Arabs, Palestinian Forum in Britain, Palestinian Return Centre, Pax Christi, Stop the War Coalition, War on Want.

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Meeting After the Lobby of Parliament for Palestine

Palestinian Rights : Time for Government Action

Wednesday 19 November

7pm, Committee Room 10

House of Commons, Parliament, London

This meeting is hosted by Jeremy Corbyn MP

Speakers include :

Prof Manuel Hassassian, Palestinian Ambassador to the UK

Richard Burden MP

Crispin Blunt MP

Sarah Teather MP

George Galloway MP

Alison Shepherd, UNISON, Chair of International Committee

Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari, General Secretary of the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB)

Ramy Abdu, Palestinian Student from Gaza

Lauren Booth, Journalist and Broadcaster

Daniel Machover, co-founder Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights

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Britain to crack down on exports from Israeli settlements
Britain is taking the lead in pressing the EU to curb imports from Israeli producers in the occupied West Bank as a practical step towards halting the steady increase in the construction of Jewish settlements.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/britain-to-crack-down-on-exports-from-israeli-settlements-986854.html

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DCI Pal Report : Under Attack : Settler Violence against Palestinian Children in the Occupied Territory

[RAMALLAH, 5 November 2008] - Today, Defence for Children International–Palestine Section (DCI/PS) released a report that documents the troubling extent of settler attacks perpetrated against Palestinian children in the Occupied Territory.

http://www.dci-pal.org/english/publ/display.cfm?DocId=869&CategoryId=8

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Please ask you MP to sign EDM 2347 - Free Gaza by Jeremy Corbyn

For more information : http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=36727&SESSION=891

And http://www.palestinecampaign.org/index7b.asp?m_id=1&l1_id=2&l2_id=14&Content_ID=259

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UPCOMING EVENTS

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Memorial Service for Peggie Preston 1923 – 2007

11.30am

Saturday November 8th at St Martin-in-the-fields,

Trafalgar Square London