WFPSC at the St Barnabas Christmas Fayre, 4 December ’16

On Sunday the 4th we joined a well-attended community event in the St Barnabas Church in Walthamstow.
Visitors streamed in and out throughout the afternoon buying Christmas presents made by local organisations and arty residents and having cakes and hot drinks.


The link with a Christian family in Bethlehem made the event even more special. Sami Awad of the
http://www.holylandtrust.org/about-holy-land-trust.html spoke to the people attending the Fayre via a laptop which Cannon Steven Saxby carried around the Church Hall.


Steven and his family made everybody so very welcome and good time was had by all.
We had chats with so many fellow Waltham Forest residents who tried our Palestinian olive oil and zatar and acquired quantities of it, as well as Palestinian dates, Nablus soap and other Zaytoun and Palestine Solidarity Campaign produce we had on our stall.

Leyton stall today, 3 December '16

Here are a few pictures form our Palestine stall earlier today, in the wind-tunnel outside the Poundland in Leyton.

The interest and expressions of solidarity were hearth warming. A woman came over who spoke with tears in her eyes about her recent trip to pray in Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem and the subsequent tour of the occupied West Bank.

Another woman told us that she spend time in the West Bank during the First Intifada and described her feelings of desperation that the atrocities in Palestine still continue to this day.

There was lots of interest in the Hewlett Packard boycott and everybody we spoke to was surprised to learn about HP's involvement in the Israeli occupation of Palestine.

Out next stall will take place in the Walthamstow Town Centre, near Library,

on Saturday 10 December
11.30-14.00.

Hope to see you there. All welcome.

Join us at Leyton stall tomorrow & at Christmas Fayre on Sunday

Join Jim and Rada at WFPSC stall outside TKMaxx near the Leyton tube station.

We will be there with our Palestine publicity materials and Zaytoun produce tomorrow,

Saturday the 3rd December
between 11.30 - 14.00.




Also, we will take our stall to the St Barnabas Christmas Fayre taking place on this

Sunday the 4th December
between 13.00-17.00
Foster Hall, Wellesley Road, E17 8QY


Come and mingle with the locals at this traditional and well attended community event and do your Christmas shopping while supporting local organisations.

We hope to have a skype link with a Palestinian family in Bethlehem and share festive feelings with them.

The pictures are form WFPSC last year's stall at St Barnabas Christmas Fayre.

WFPSC starts a week of actions against the HP, 25 Nov-3Dec '16

Hewlett Packard (HP) is the technology behind the Israeli occupation and oppression of Palestinians and we want to make sure that this is known locally in London and nationwide.

We are lucky to have choices and not many of us would choose to fund an occupation by buying a printer or a laptop.

WFPSC joined the international weeks of actions against the HP by campaignig against the HP on Saturday the 26th in the bustling Walthamstow market outside Rayman's and Argos, both of which have HP produce on their shelves.

We than moved to another big HP seller, John Lewis in London's Oxford Street, brimming with Christmas shoppers.

We handed out hundreds of HP cards explaining HP's role in the occupation of Palestine and asking people to sign a pledge online to boycott HP http://stophp.uk and put pressure on Hewlett Packard to abandon its participation in abuses of human rights of the Palestinians.

On Tuesday the 29th , between 9.30 and 14.00 we will join a London-wide action against the HP who is participating in a trade fayre in the Excel Centre, Royal Victoria Dock, 1 Western Gateway, E16 1XL

Join us if you can - all welcome!

Here are some pictures form our HP actions so far.

Global Week of Action Against HP: 25 November – 3 December 2016

Help us create HP-free Waltham Forest

We associate Hewlett Packard with laptops and printers, but there is a dark side to the HP business.

In Palestine, Hewlett Packard helps the Israeli army and illegal settlers to maintain an oppressive system of occupation and control over all aspects of the lives of Palestinians.
Israel uses HP technology to deny to the Palestinians freedom of movement on their own land, by providing biometric IDs, fingerprinting, and retinal scanning equipment at hundreds of Israel’s checkpoints, critical to Israel’s ability to maintain segregation and apartheid.

Hewlett-Packard (HP) is one of the largest contractors of the U.S. defence industry which enables Israel’s deadly blockade of the Gaza Strip and provides services to illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.

HP’s dark business is not confined to occupied Palestine. HP companies are notorious for their involvement in oppressive practices worldwide, like providing technology to enable deportations, mass incarceration, and solitary confinement in the United States.

Waltham Forest Palestine Solidarity Campaign (WFPSC) will join the International Week of Actions Against HP.

On the coming Saturday the 26th we will leaflet outside Ryman’s and Argos in Walthamstow market between 11am and 1pm.

Our aim is to ensure that our fellow residents are aware of the real business HP is involved in, and to hopefully create an HP-free Waltham Forest.

At 2pm we will join the London-wide HP protest outside John Lewis in Oxford Street.

Come and join us for a chat, take our publicity and find out more about HP. Sign a pledge to boycott HP for profiting from the violation of human rights.

National Lobby of Parliament for Palestine on Tuesday 15 November

Join Waltham Forest Palestine Solidarity Campaign (WFPSC) activists in the National Lobby of Parliament for Palestine on

Tuesday 15 November 12.00-18.00

The most powerful way to let your MP know you care about Palestine is to request a meeting to discuss it.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the Knesset a few days ago "there will not be a more sympathetic government toward settlement than this one"

The UK Government calls Israeli settlements illegal and a barrier to peace. And yet in spite of their words, they have taken no action.

Demand from your MP action against Israel illegal settlements.

Use the link below to find out more about the lobby day and to use MP appointment request template, which can be sent at the click of a button

https://www.palestinecampaign.org/2016lobby/

The latest WFPSC Walthamstow stall and call for HP boycott

The picture is of the Waltham Forest Palestine Solidarity Campaign (WFPSC) activists setting up a stall in Walthamstow Town Square earlier today, Saturday 11 June.

The special theme this week was raising awareness amongst the Walthamstow Saturday shoppers about Hewlett Packard, which is sadly not only into printers and computers but also heavily involved in the decades long oppression of Palestinians by Israel – more here:
http://www.palestinecampaign.org/campaigns/hp/

The next WFPSC stall will be on the 25 June 11am-2pm outside TKMaxx near Leyton tube.
Come for a chat and to pick up Palestine info materials and Zeytoun olive oil and other produce by the Palestinian farmers.

The day of UK-wide boycott actions against the HP on 4th June 2016

The pictures are from today's boycott actions across UK against the Hewlett Packard (HP) in Tottenham Court Road, central London. WFPSC participated and on the next Saturday the 11th, WFPSC will have a local HP action in Walthamstow. We will keep you posted.

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