The children of Gaza are not forgotten

As an anniversary of the attack on the aid ship  Mavi Marmara has just passed, Bristol will be making sure that those still in need, the children of the beleaguered Gaza, are not forgotten, with a daytime event on Saturday 31st May, at the Palestine Museum Centre, Broad Street.

And the timetable?:

 from 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

3pm: Operation Cast Lead

3pm:   Introduction to Gaza
Short talk by an activist from Gaza (to be confirmed as this goes to press )
Film: The children of Operation Cast Lead...
Live Skype hook-up to Gaza
Candle commemoration for the Children of Operation cast Lead

4pm: Operation Sea Breeze

Introduction to the Freedom Flotilla and the Mavi Marmara
Talk by Cliff Hanley from the MMFilm: The aid volunteers of Operation Sea Breeze
Candle commemoration for the victims of Operation Sea Breeze

5pm: Introduction: British and US support for crime against humanity
Film: Propaganda and the murders on the Mavi Marmara
Book presentation
Conclusion: The children of Gaza will not be forgotten, and the truth will be told.

6pm: Palestinian food in the Arc Café and opportunity to buy the Zaytoun CIC Products Olive oil Date, Za`atar, Mafoutol , soap Kuffiyas and more.

bringing it all back...

 Activists on both sides of the divide have come together to reverse the burying of Palestine's history, using high-tech methods.A predominantly Israeli organisation called Zochrot produced a smartphone app and is running tours to highlight the issue of Arab villages lost in 1948. The Guardian has produced an interactive map highlighting this issue :
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/02/nakba-israel-palestine-zochrot-history

US diplomatic shift against Israeli / Zionist violence

In ordinary conversational language it doesn't sound so impressive, but the latest statement from Washington on the continuing violence and threats against non-Jewish Palestinians and their properties, which the state effectively supports by its inaction, represents a major diplomatic shift for the USA. For the first time, the State Department's 2013 Country Reports on Terrorism, published on 22nd April, included a reference to a growing wave of racist anti-Palestinian vandalism, euphemistically called "price tag" attacks. The report, citing citing UN and NGO data, said, "Attacks by extremist Israeli settlers against Palestinian residents, property, and places of worship in the West Bank continued and were largely unprosecuted." But Israel police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the incidents were far from the global terrorist threats mentioned in the report. "There's no comparison whatsoever between criminal incidents with nationalistic motives and terrorist-related incidents,"Hate crime culprits are terrorists, says public security
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