WFPSC protests outside Walthamstow HSBC Bank, 17 March’18

Please see the video of our singing protest outside Walthamstow HSBC against Bank's involvement in financing Israel's military.

Singing for Palestine: HSBC protest, 17March'18

Waltham Forest Palestine Solidarity Campaign (WFPSC)

Singing for Palestine


Join us and demand that HSBC stops financing Israel’s arms industry

Tomorrow, Saturday 17 March ‘18
11.00-13.00

Meet outside HSBC Bank’s Walthamstow branch, 192 Hoe Street, E17 4QN

See you there!



I HEAR MUSIC
(adapted from “Crater Boys” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjvjsqN9x6U)

1st CHORUS
I hear music, I hear music
Whoaoa-oah FREE PALESTINE
I hear music, I hear music
Whoaoa-oah FREE PALESTINE
Israel’s arms-and-tanks
Are paid from BRI-TISH banks
Of the HSBC, the HSBC, of the H—S-B-C kind. (SHAME on---H-S-B-C!)
I hear music, I hear music
Whoa-oah FREE PALESTINE
VERSE (solo)
Mr Settler Man, why do you steal our land?
Why don’t you get back, get back, get back from Pale-stine!
You steal our nation, with your occupation
Though it’s ours, it’s ours, it’s ours, ours, it’s ours
Not your promised land
2st CHORUS
I hear music, I hear music
Whoaoa-oah FREE PALESTINE
Israel’s arms-and-tanks
Are paid from BRI-TISH banks
Of the HSBC, the HSBC, of the H—S-B-C kind. (SHAME on---H-S-B-C!)
I hear music, I hear music
Whoa-oah FREE PALESTINE

VERSE (solo)
You steal our water
Arrest our daughter (FREE AHED NOW!!)
We’ll make you get back, get back, get back from Pale-stine
With your Wall and fencing, for your ethnic cleansing
You want to drive us out, just to drive us out
From our promised land.
3st CHORUS
I hear music, I hear music
Whoaoa-oah FREE PALESTINE
Israel’s arms-and-tanks
Are paid from BRI-TISH banks
Of the HSBC, the HSBC, of the H—S-B-C kind. (SHAME on---H-S-B-C!)
I hear music, I hear music
Whoa-oah FREE PALESTINE
SOLO
VERSE (everybody)
Just like birds of a feather, we got to stick together
And spread our love, our love and justice for Palestine
Repeat: And spread our love, our love and justice for Pale-stine
Whooa, FREE PALESTINE
Whoa, shame on H-SBC
Whoa, FREE PALESTINE

Whoaaaaaa, SHAME on H-SBC

END

You can find more about HSBC Bank's involvement in financing Israel's military here https://www.palestinecampaign.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/HSBC-ActionCards-Online.pdf

Pictures from our vigil last night in Walthamstow

Balfour Declaration centenary - 69 years of Israel's illegal and brutal occupation of Palestine - 1500 Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike for over a month.


Time to acknowledge, apologise and act!



Join us and work with us on achieving justice and human rights for the Palestinians.

Join WFPSC vigil tonight 6.30 in Walthamstow Town Square

Tonight we will remember:
- 100 years of the fateful Balfour Declaration which promised Palestinian land to the Zionist movement.

- 69 years of the Nakba (Catastrophe) when up to 750,000 Palestinians were forcibly expelled from their homes during the creation of the state of Israel.

- 1500 palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails on hunger strike for more that 30 days demanding their rights and protesting against mistreatment, occupation and dispossession of Palestinian people.
Show your solidarity!

Find out more on
https://www.palestinecampaign.org/campaigns/balfour2nakba/
https://www.palestinecampaign.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/Nakba-Factsheet-2017.pdf
https://www.palestinecampaign.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/Palestinian-Prisoners-PSC-Factsheet-0517.pdf
https://www.palestinecampaign.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/hunger-strikers-leaflet-A4.pdf

Visit our Palestine Solidarity stall in Walthamstow

Tomorrow, Saturday 13 May ’17, we will devote our stall to Balfour Declaration and 69 anniversary of dispossession of the Palestinians.

We now have new Palestine Solidarity Campaign info materials on the Balfour Declaration and British involvement in Palestine, which we will be handing out.

History cannot be unlived but injustices have to be acknowledged and apologies made.

This year marks a centenary of British Foreign Minster Arthur Balfour’s promise of a homeland for the Jewish people in Palestine, which materialised on 15 May 1948 depriving Palestinians of their homeland.

Palestinians called this a Nakba, (Catastrophe) which resulted in the mass ethnic cleansing, violence and decades of occupation of Palestinian people.

Come and have a chat about these important issues which impact on the world we live in to this day.

Demand justice and equal rights for Palestinians

See you there.

Palestine stall on Saturday 22nd April in E10

You will find us with our Palestine stall near the Leyton tube in the shopping area between the TK Max and the Poundland, tomorrow, Saturday the 22nd April.

Come between 11.30 -14.00 for a chat, to pick up your leaflets and stock up on Palestinian produce.

Looking forward to see you there!

Cork Conference highlight - Jeff Handmaker, Ronnen Ben-Arie & Mazen Masri

Cork Conference highlight - Mutaz Qafisheh, Leah Tsemel & Hatem Bazian

Cork Conference highlight - Blake Alcott & Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian

Cork Conference highlights - Ardi Imseis, MiaTamurin & Oren Ben-Dor

Cork Conference highlights - Geoffrey Alderman & Yakov Rabkin

Cork Conference highlights - Salman Abu-Sitta & Catriona Drew

Cork Conference highlights - Ghada Karmi & Richard Falk

Cork Conference highlights : Yoella Har-Shefi & Robert Wintemute

Cork Conference highlights by A. Simons

Cork conference report

A report about the Cork conference will appear soon.

Visit our Palestine stall tomorrow, Matalan, High Str E11

Waltham Forest Palestine Solidarity Campaign (WFPSC) activists will run a stall with Palestine infomation and publicity and produce by Palestinian farmers, tomorrow, Saturday the 25th, 12.00 -14.00, outside Matalan in High Street Leytonstone.

The weather forecast looks promissing, so come and join us for a chat about Palestine, our Boycott, Divestment and Sancton (BDS) campaigns and to sign petition against Hewlett Packard (HP) and a letter to your MP asking them to intervene on behalf on hundreds of Palestinian children in Israeli military jails.

Hope to see you there!
Free Palestine

See us at our Walthamstow stall tomorrow, Sat 11 March, 11.30-14.00

Dear friends and Palestine supporters,

Our regular Wathamstow Palestine info and produce stall is, as always, taking place on the second Saturday of each month 11.30-14.00, in the Town Square at the market, near the Library.

Pop over for a chat tomorrow, to stock up on the latest from our stall, to sign a Palestinian Child Prisoners letter to your MP and Boycott Hewlett Packard petition and most importantly, to get on our supporters list and find out how you can join WFPSC and make our human rights movement grow even stronger.

Also, you are invited to the Palestine Solidarity evening on Tuesday 21 March in The Wanstead Tap, with the guest speakers from Palestine and a young local UK/Palestinian teen activist form Wanstead.

More details can be found below.

See you there!