Friday 17 June 2011

WFPSC - upcoming things to do, from Sat 18 June 2011

Hello everyone!

1) Sat 18 June - weekly stall
2) Fri 08 July - AGM and social
3) Sat 09 July - PSC national's one-day Summer Conference
4) OneWorld's single "Freedom For Palestine": pre-order it today!
5) Veolia's rubbish: bin it!
6) Ramadan: don't buy Israeli medjoul dates!
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1) THIS WEEK'S STALL
Saturday 18 June - Walthamstow Town Square, nearish the big screen!
11am-2pm
Please volunteer! Can you spare an hour or two on Saturday? We need you to help with our stall. It's one of our most important and productive activities. Contact wfpsc@yahoo.com

2) WFPSC ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Friday 08 July - Hornbeam Centre, 458 Hoe St, Walthamstow, E17 9AH
AGM 7pm-8.15pm (upstairs) followed by
Social 8.30pm till late (downstairs) at the "Open Mic" night!

AGM Agenda:
i) Apologies
ii) Minutes of last AGM
iii) Reports from Chair, Treasurer and other Officers
iv) Elections
v) Dates for next year's branch meetings and AGM
vi) Any other business

3) PSC SUMMER CONFERENCE
Saturday 09 July - University of London Union (ULU), Malet Street, WC1E 7HY
10am-5pm
Represent your organisation at this important coordinating conference. To attend, please register by emailing info@palestinecampaign.org with the following details: Name, Organisation you represent, Mobile phone number, Email address

4) PRE-ORDER THE PALESTINE SONG!
Support the "Freedom for Palestine" single by pre-ordering it today!
Download it right now for £1.29 from iTunes (http://tinyurl.com/3bbp4g8or) or HMV digital (http://tinyurl.com/5u3t227). Features singers Maxi Jazz (Faithless), Dave Randall (Slovo/Faithless), LSK, the Durban Gospel Choir, Jamie Catt (1 Giant Leap) and musicians from around the world. Official release date is 03 July, but it needs radio airplay before that, especially on the BBC that has already censored lyrics that feature the word "Palestine", so phone your local radio station and get them to play it! It's a HUGE campaign: be part of it - http://www.waronwant.org/freedomoneworld/

5) BIN VEOLIA!
Veolia, the French conglomerate that is bidding for a stake in our borough's fuel-from-waste services (which is a massive multimillion pound, up-to-35 year contract) is the focus of a long-running international campaign to curb its activities due to its well-documented involvement in Israeli apartheid practices daily damaging thousands of Palestinians' lives in the West Bank and Jerusalem. We don't want Veolia anywhere near our borough! If you are as concerned as us, contact Lorty Philips (novag@hotmail.co.uk) to join the North London wide No2VeoliaActionGroup campaign. Please volunteer for our Waltham Forest's local "No2Veolia" working group by emailing us (wfpsc@yahoo.com) and finally, sign this petition: http://www.change.org/petitions/say-no-to-veolia-in-north-london

6) THIS RAMADAN - DON'T BUY THE WRONG PALM DATES!
This Ramadan, which takes place in August, make sure your friends and family are eating ethical palm dates. Whatever you do, don't help Israeli apartheid against the Palestinians! So, read the 'country of origin' label on the box. If it says ANY of the following, it's trouble: "West Bank" "Israel" "Jordan Valley", and it will be contributing to the oppression and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. If none of the hundreds of other international palm dates available catch your fancy, buy real Palestinian dates produced by Zaytoun and distributed locally through us at WFPSC - wfpsc@yahoo.com.

For the range of other Palestine events and interesting ways to get involved all around London and beyond, keep your eye on our "walthamforestpsc" Facebook page, or Twitter @wfpsclondon!

Waltham Forest Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Patrons: Neil Gerrard, Jean Lambert MEP, Prof Nur Masalha
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Post: WFPSC c/o Hornbeam Centre, 458 Hoe St, Walthamstow, E17 9AH
Email: wfpsc@yahoo.com


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