29 Nov '08: Non-violent Direct Action for Palestine & against War
Speakers:
Colm Bryce, Raytheon 9 Campaign
Chris Boycott, Brighton PSC Agrexco Campaign
On August 9, 2006, during the Israeli invasion of lebanon in 2006, nine members of the Derry Anti-War Coalition destroyed the computer mainframe of the local Raytheon bomb-making plant, and barricaded themselves in the building with office furniture for eight hours. A Belfast jury unanimously judged the £300,000 damage was justified since Israel was using Raytheon bombs to commit war crimes against the people of Lebanon.
The jury's decision should bring joy to the heart of all those who are determined to oppose the merchants of death, based here in the UK, who arm the ethnic cleansing regime in Tel Aviv. Another jury has supported citizens who took action against the glaring crimes of the Israeli or British Governments.
This day conference/workshops will discuss non-violent direct action as a means of campaigning and the implications of the 'Raytheon 9' case, as well as the equally inspiring Brighton PSC campaign against the Israeli Agricultural Export Company (Agrexco).
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17 Jan '09: Trade Union Solidarity with Palestine
Palestinian trade unions are asking their Scottish counterparts to join the growing world-wide campaign of boycott of Israeli state-supported institutions. Speakers in Edinburgh:
Manawel Abdel Al will speak on behalf of the Palestine General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU)
Salim Vally of South Africa is a founder member of COSATU and a spokesperson for the Anti-War Coalition and Palestine Solidarity Committee
Katherine Nastovski was the Chair of the International Solidarity Committee of Ontario CUPE (Canadian Union of Public Employees) when this key Canadian union body committed to boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel.
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25 Jan '09: Resistance to Genocide & Ethnic Cleansing; from 1940s Europe to the Middle East today
(This event is a non-Zionist component of Holocaust Memorial Week)
Speakers:
Liliane Kaczerginski , International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network & daughter of Schmerke Kaczerginski, prominent anti-Nazi resistance fighter in WWII Lithuania
Azzam Tamimi, Palestinian academic and prominent member of the Stop the War Coalition and the Institute of Islamic Thought in London
Donnie Gluckstein, (Edinburgh only) author of The Nazis, Capitalism and the Working Class
Mick Napier, (Glasgow only) Chair of the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign
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Register for any of these events by emailing: campaign@scottishpsc.org.uk
Some of the highlights of the Edinburgh Independent & Radical Bookfair
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MARK THOMAS opens the 12th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
29/10/2008 19:00
Brian Klug, Richard Kuper, and Daphna Baram, contributors to A Time to Speak Out Independent Jewish Voices on the Middle East
31/10/2008 19:45
Haifa Zangana, author of Women on a Journey: Between Baghdad and London, reads from her work and discusses ways in which politics has influenced her fiction
31/10/2008 18:45
Haifa Zangana speaks on another of her works, City of Widows: An Iraqi Woman's Account of War and Resistance
1/11/2008 12:30