Next Meeting - Thursday 15 Sep 2011, 7.30pm - Quaker's Meeting House

WFPSC Branch Meeting

Thurs 15 Sept at 7.30pm 

Quaker Meeting House, 1a Jewel Road, Walthamstow

Agenda

1) Welcome back!

2) Fundraising gig for national campaign on 23 Sept at Bell Pub

3) Veolia lobby on 22 Sept

4) Finance ratification

5) Stall on 17 Sep

6) Lots of other interesting stuff to get you involved.

From October Branch meetings will revert to the 3rd Monday of every month.

WFPSC ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING - tomorrow, Friday 08 July - 7pm onwards

Everyone welcome to attend our annual meeting at which we review the year and look forward to the next.  In order to vote, you must be a current member of PSC.  We'll have lots of products on sale too - Zaytoun oils, couscous, olives, and PSC t-shirts, keffiyehs, and lots of other good stuff.  Come along for the short admin meeting, followed by plenty of time to chat and catch up at the social, participating in Hornbeam's "open mic" night!

Friday 08 July

Hornbeam Centre, 458 Hoe St, Walthamstow, E17 9AH

AGM 7pm-8.15pm (upstairs)

Social at the "Open Mic" night 8.30pm (downstairs) 

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

Looking forward to seeing you all!  And BUY THE SINGLE (see below)!  

Best wishes

WFPSC team

Waltham Forest Palestine Solidarity Campaign

Patrons:  Neil Gerrard, Jean Lambert MEP, Prof Nur Masalha

Facebook:  www.facebook.com/walthamforestpsc

Twitter:  @wfpsclondon
Web:  http://wfpsc.blogspot.com

Post:  WFPSC c/o Hornbeam Centre, 458 Hoe St, Walthamstow, E17 9AH

Email:  wfpsc@yahoo.com

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
Facebook: www.facebook.com/walthamforestpsc
Twitter: @wfpsclondon
Web: http://wfpsc.blogspot.com
Post: WFPSC c/o Hornbeam Centre, 458 Hoe St, Walthamstow, E17 9AH
Email: wfpsc@yahoo.com

For latest news, events & campaign resources, join PSC - http://bit.ly/ieoJf8

PUBLIC MEETING - WED O8 JUNE @ 7PM - HARMONY HALL, WALTHAMSTOW

Latest meetings - Branch on 12 May * AGM on 8 July * Stalls on Saturdays

THURSDAY 12 May @ 6pm (NEW TIME - 6PM)

Hornbeam Centre, 458 Hoe St, E17 9AH

WFPC Branch Meeting

We will be discussing: 

+ No2Veolia in WF campaign (Israeli-Apartheid-supporting French company bidding to run North London's recycling-to-recreate-fuel system), and other Boycott Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) activities in WF

+ Nakba (catastrophe) memorial events 14/15 May

+ Gaza activities - forthcoming convoys, Freedom Flotilla II, friendship links

+ West Bank activities - supporting IWPS

+ Delayed public event on Mid East

+ Weekly Saturday stall in Walthamstow Town Square

+ Zaytoun produce sales

Everyone very welcome!
At 8pm, we'll debunk to a local pub to carry on chatting.

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Advance Notice (first advertised in September 2010!)

FRIDAY 8 July @ 7pm

Hornbeam Centre, 458 Hoe St, E17 9AH

WFPSC AGM

This year we will be holding a short administrative meeting to oversee the annual accounts, report back on the year's activities and hold elections.  Everyone welcome to attend and join in. To be eligible to vote or be elected, however, you need to be a paid-up member of PSC national by clicking here.

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SATURDAYS!

Would you help with our weekly info stall?  Happening each Saturday lunchtime in Walthamstow Town Square, it's really easy to take part.  So why not join us to chat, hand out leaflets, receive donations, and enjoy engaging with the local public in the fresh air?  Choose an hour that suits you (from 11am to 3pm) and click here to make your offer!

New WFPSC facebook page

Not to be suppressed for long, WFPSC has set up a brand new 'Facebook Page'. Click here to hook up to it. You can also see Facebook link on the left of this Blogspot. However you get there, please hit "LIKE" as soon as you can, so you can keep in touch.

We had over 500 Facebook friends, which we hope to top now that those trying to scupper Palestinian hopes have very kindly drawn attention to us! We look forward to seeing you on the Facebook platform, and on this Blog, in person, on the phones, and by email. Communication rocks!

Stronger, bolder and very cheerfully, we go on - Palestine will be free, from the river to the sea. And Waltham Forest Palestine Solidarity Campaign will be right there alongside all Palestinians throughout the Just campaign, and when freedom comes.

Lorra luv

All the team at WFPSC

WFSPC's page on Facebook has been shut down 'for being under an assumed name' (QUE?!) which is well odd, because the page has been ambling along genially for over two years, and recently we were hardly using it at all! LOLOLOL

We imagine some really deranged idiots, probably racist and probably against anything 'Arab' and definitely against anything pro Palestinian, had a little go at Facebook out of pique because, as racists, they are irrelevant losers. Just shows how incompetent and sad the 'destroy Palestine' lobby are.

Anyway, we're back, live and loud to stake out Walthamstow Town Square tomorrow, Saturday 2nd April - so see you all there!

Boycott Divestment and Sanctions against the illegal Apartheid occupation of Palestinian lands is really beginning to work - and at the forefront of the BDS campaign to free Palestine are a vast array of Jewish groups alongside whom we are extremely proud to stand.

Love, your very own, proud to be pro-Palestinian, WFPSC team XX

WFPSC Branch Meeting

Tuesday 11 January 2011

Hornbeam Café, Hoe Street, E17 http://www.hornbeam.org.uk/find-us

7pm -9pm

With guest speaker Ann Wright, on the situation in East Jerusalem.

Come along to the first WFPSC branch meeting of 2011 to hear about upcoming activities and campaigns in solidarity with the Palestinian people, and how to get involved in the borough.

Our guest speaker Ann Wright, has gained expert knowledge of the situation in East Jerusalem while volunteering in the area and will give an account of the ongoing house demolitions and expulsions Palestinians residents face daily.

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Fundraising Dinner for our Friendship Projects with Gaza

Wednesday 23^rd February 2011- 7pm

At Cinar Restaurant, Opposite St James Street Station E17

Join us for a marvellous fundraising meal with entertainment to raise funds for our friendship links and twinning projects with communities in Gaza. Make sure to book in advance to guarantee a place for you, your friends and family!

Advance booking only: £20 per person, including full Turkish meal.

Cheques to PO Box 64002, London, E17 0HD

For more info (send text to) 07791107865 or email wfpsc@yahoo.com

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Other events:

Rally for Gaza, to mark 2 years since the end of the Israeli attack on Gaza.

Tuesday 18 January 2011

7pm Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, Holborn

And more on the PSC website: http://www.palestinecampaign.org/Index8b.asp?m_id=1&l1_id=4&l2_id=99

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Waltham Forest Palestine Solidarity Campaign

Patrons: Neil Gerrard, Jean Lambert MEP, Prof Nur Masalha

Email: wfpsc@yahoo.com

Web: www.facebook.com/wfpsc

Blog: http://wfpsc.blogspot.com

Address: PO Box 64002, London, E17 0HD

WFPSC Boycott Action and Lobby of Parliament

WFPSC Boycott Action Saturday 13 November

Join us on Saturday the 13th November at 12.30pm at the Café Rio in the High Street in Walthamstow for a boycott stall and leafleting action at local supermarkets.

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=536623&y=188929&z=0&sv=e17+7db&st=2&pc=e17+7db&mapp=map.srf&searchp=ids.srf

Please email us if you are coming: wfpsc@yahoo.com

More info about BDS: http://www.bigcampaign.org/

Sainsbury's petition:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/sainsburys-boycott-israel/

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Lobby of Parliament 24 November - WFPSC is organising the lobby of our local MPs

Please get in touch with us urgently if you are available on Wednesday the 24^th November from 2pm onwards to join us in Parliament to lobby our MPs for Palestine .

We are especially interested to hear from members and supporters who are constituents of John Cryer MP (Leyton/Leytonstone) and Ian Duncan-Smith (Chingford)!!! Please get in touch with us if you can come and lobby them on the 24^th…

Email: wfpsc@yahoo.com

For more info on the lobby: http://www.palestinecampaign.org/lobby-2010/

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End of Year Get Together

We would like to invite all our members and supporters to join us for a social night out on Wednesday the 8^th December 7.30pm at a Restaurant, in St James Street , Walthamstow http://www.e17foodanddrink.co.uk/Cinar_2.htm

Please RSVP before Friday 3^rd December to: wfpsc@yahoo.com

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Boycott Israeli Goods Week! All welcome to WFPSC Branch meeting, Mon 8th Nov, 7pm-ish, Hornbeam Centre, Walthamstow

Lots of exciting and productive "Boycott Israeli Goods" activities going on around the country this week.

WFPSC wants to do its bit delivering the Boycott Israeli Goods message to the Waltham Forest public. We've got a good track record of jumping up and down in local supermarkets, and we want to make our next activity even more interesting and effective.

To join in, attend our Branch Meeting on Monday evening, at Hornbeam in Walthamstow (see details, across this blog page, on the right).

Offer your time to become a loud, proud, boycotter for your borough! Join our law-abiding, non-violent, peace-able but visual, verbal and emphatic action.

WFPSC really looks forward to seeing you on Monday evening at Hornbeam in Walthamstow. Tea/coffee and cake will be provided!

DEMONSTRATE! TODAY, 5pm - Support the 'Jewish Boat to Gaza'!

URGENT - TODAY - 5pm - DEMONSTRATION
AT UK FOREIGN OFFICE, DOWNING STREET, LONDON

= JEWISH AID BOAT TO GAZA ILLEGALLY SNATCHED BY ISRAELI MILITARY =

Jewish Boat to Gaza - on a highly publicised humanitarian aid mission to the besieged and embattled people of Palestine in Gaza, and supported by many Jewish organisations and celebrities from around the world - has been boarded illegally in international waters by Israeli armed forces off the Gaza coast of Palestine.

Two British Citizens on board - the captain, Glyn Secker, and photojournalist Vish Vishvanath - have been siezed and their whereabouts and welfare are unknown. The Israeli military have stated that the boat, the Irene (a british flagged vessel) is being towed to the Israeli port of Ashdod. However, this has not been confirmed by the boats' supporters since all communication with the boat's passengers and crew has been cut by the Israeli military.

The British Foreign & Commonwealth office has been alerted to the plight of the two British citizens by UK supporters, and are now in liaison with Mr Secker and Mr Vishvanath's next of kin.

However, as yet, no official comment from the UK Government has been made. This despite the thorough and detailed news coverage in the UK and international media throughout the day, and the substantial knowledge of the current situation by UK diplomats. This latest act of piracy is a further grave insult to international law by the Israeli Government, and yet another instance of UK Citizens' rights being violated by that belligerent foreign power.

We call on the British Government to:

* ensure full consular access by UK diplomatic staff to the two British citizens currently being kidnapped by Israel.

* ensure the health, safety and well-being of the British citizens is made of paramount concern to their Israeli kidnappers.

* ensure none of the British citizens' possessions or personal effects of any kind are stolen by Israeli kidnappers, including ensuring that passports are left untampered with and identities are protected.

* uphold international law* actively defend the rights of its own UK citizenry to champion human and civil rights in accordance with international law wherever those rights are violated anywhere in the world

* enact its own policies of redress for previous violations and protection from current violations of humanitarian and civil rights for all Palestinians

* formally and actively hold the Israeli Government to account for its countless examples of blatant disregard and disrespect of international law.

The UK Government has long stated its humanitarian and civil rights commitments both to the Palestinians and its own British citizens.

Now is the time to act on those commitments to the full, and bring the Israeli Government to book. Enough is enough.

Further information:
Jewish Boat to Gaza - http://jewishboattogaza.org/
- Vish Vishvanath, Freelance photographer and reporter.
- Glyn Secker, from the UK, is the boat’s captain and a member of Jews for Justice for Palestinians Executive Commitee.
Jews for Justice for Palestinians - http://jfjfp.com/

WFPSC wishing the Jewish Boat to Gaza every success!

Everyone at WFPSC is excited and proud that Jews for Justice for Palestinians, the excellent UK-based civil and human rights organisation, in collaboration with a broad range of other Jewish groups from around the world, has launched the good ship Irene from Cyprus - on her peaceful mission of aid and solidarity to the Palestinians in Gaza. Click here to read Jewish Boat to Gaza's team updates and wish all the passengers, crew and its many supporters a safe and successful journey!

WFPSC - New Season Calendar

EVENTS - ON OUR WEBSITE

http://wfpsc.blogspot.com

On WFPSC website, find the list of regular WFPSC meetings (in right-hand column). WFPSC will keep this on-line calendar updated, so you will always know about meetings well in advance. Please take a moment to copy the current entries into your diaries! But remember to check back, regularly, for changes/additions/cancellations. Here is a sneak preview:

FUTURE BRANCH MTGS

(all at Hornbeam Centre, Walthamstow, 7-10pm)

Sat, 8 January 2011

Tues, 8 March 2011

Sun, 8 May 2011

Fri, 8 July 2011 - AGM

STALLS - VOLUNTEER AROUND WALTHAM FOREST

The biggest, most important contribution, you can make to WFPSC is to take a turn staffing WFPSC's information & merchandise stalls. If enough of you volunteer throughout the year, you'll only be needed once every six months, or fewer times than that!

WFPSC has come to learn that our stalls are VITAL in the borough - we have more enjoyment, hilarity, intense argument, persuasion, learning, bonding, selling, teaching, fundraising, political epihany-ing, community spirit building, cake and coffee consuming at our stall tables than at any other time or place. Our stalls are THE place for your friends and family to recognise your efforts, brimming with pride. They are extremely easy to run, and you'll be trained up. Please fill in your details below:

NAME:

POSTCODE:

MOBILE PHONE:

EMAIL ADDRESS:

(Delete as applicable:) YES, I HAVE CAR. | NO, SORRY, NO CAR.

Choose date(s) from the lists below, by typing "YES" next to them

CURRENT CAMPAIGN - UNIVERSAL JURISDICTION

We need to safeguard our right, as UK citizens, to arrest foreign war criminals when they visit the UK, and other important legal measures that enable us Brits to undertake the mammoth task of holding to account war criminals, human and civil rights abusers. Erosion of these vital rights must not be allowed to happen by any of our Governments, current or future, whichever political party happens to be in power at the time.

WFPSC's simple, local, task is to pin all our local Waltham Forest political representatives, at any level and of any hue, into a political corner and forbid them from allowing our rights to be removed. We need them to help us retain our legal rights to bring to account those who willfully perpetrate war and other crimes against Palestinians but who are not being held to account in their own countries.

In practice, this means letter writing - to all your relevant MP (one of Ian Duncan Smith, Stella Creasy or John Cryer); to any relevant prospective MP candidates from any political party (although we don't really know who they are now, so maybe we just write to your local party chairmen and women?); to all your local councillors; and to your London Assembly and EU Parliamentary member as well. To find out who these political folks are, discover them at:

http://www.writetothem.com/

For detailed info on what Universal Jurisdiction is about, take a look at:

http://bit.ly/cAZCBM - note the PDF briefing MPs

http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2010/jul/27/universal-jurisdiction-law - Michael Mansfield's letter to the Guardian

Enjoy your letter writing!! Palestinians are relying on your every word. No pressure, then....

All the team look forwards to your deluge of volunteering replies!

Best wishes

Ellie Merton

Chair, WFPSC

Waltham Forest Palestine Solidarity Campaign

Patrons: Neil Gerrard, Jean Lambert MEP, Prof Nur Masalha

Facebook: 'Wfpsc London'

Email: wfpsc@yahoo.com | wfpsclondon@gmail.com

Web: http://wfpsc.blogspot.com

Post: WFPSC, PO Box 64002, Walthamstow, London E17 0HD

Waltham Forest PSC encourages you to Boycott Israeli Goods. Instead BUY PALESTINIAN fairtrade organic goods from our local Zaytoun distributor - lizzygentilcore@yahoo.co.uk

WFPSC and JBIG covered by Israeli Channel 10 news documentary

Click here to see the documentary, the visuals of which get going a few seconds after the sound!

WFPSC/JBIG feature at the beginning, focussing on our Leytonstone Tesco's direct action.

Big Lunch, Walthamstow - Sun 18 July 2010, from 3pm

It's tomorrow!! EVERYONE WELCOME!!!

We are all SO excited! What are YOU going to bring??

A pudding? cartons of orange juice? a bowl of tabouleh? a mountain of pakora? a heap of samosas? some cobbled-together paperchains? a handful of balloons? fairy cakes? houmus and olives? greek salad? mini vine leaves? a stonking bowl of eton mess? bowls of raspberries? apple cake? armfuls of fresh flatbread? hunks of cheese? anything with pistachios?

And don't forget the WFPSC AGM will take place at 4pm for all those interested but it won't get in the way of the fun, frolics, and street celebration of Walthamstow's unique diversity!

Hurrah for our bonkers borough, Waltham Forest! Yay!

Big Lunch, Walthamstow & WFPSC AGM - Sunday 18th July, from 3pm

Everyone welcome!

with special guest speaker, Press TV’s Gaza reporter
YOUSEF AL-HELOU

3pm onwards

please feel free to bring along:

• Food (felafel, humus, bread, dips, murg tikka, vine leaves, tablouleh, samosas, pakora, greek salad, anything palestinian, cakes, puddings, strawberries, raspberries, other fruit - healthy delicious food you like to eat!)
• Drink (anything soft, eg. orange, cranberry, raspberry, apple juice)
• Jolly decorations - balloons, posters, paper chains - whatever takes your fancy!!

Liz will have her Fair Trade stall there, with Palestinian organic olives, dried tomatoes, olive oil....

To coordinate what to bring, contact wfpsc@yahoo.com
or sign up at the “Big Lunch” website:
http://www.thebiglunch.com/map/event.php?id=b432c048c48e9b6d72aa315f0bca0799
venue is outside in the parking lot next to
FRESH‘A’LICIOUS CAFE
152b Hoe Street, Walthamstow, E17 4QR
(from Walthamstow tube: north up Hoe St, left into Hatherley Rd)

Location - http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=537173&y=189434&z=110&sv=537173%2C189434&st=4&ar=y&mapp=map.srf&searchp=ids.srf&dn=693&ax=537173&ay=189434&lm=0


An “Eden Project” idea, put into action by Waltham Forest Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Email: wfpsc@yahoo.com
Web: http://wfpsc.blogspot.com/

Friday 9th July - "Boycott Israeli Goods - national day of action!"

If you can't quite make it to the WFPSC/WFSTW meeting about Gaza tonight, nothing can stop you taking part in the Global BDS Day of Action tomorrow, because you don't have to set foot outside your front door to join in!!!

BOYCOTT ISRAELI GOODS – “BIG national day of action”
Friday 9th July, all day long

Spend a happy Friday jamming telephone/fax/email lines around the country, writing hard-hitting letters to clog up in-trays, and dressing to impress.
Extremely effective way to campaign, something the whole family can get involved doing – young and old - and so easy to do from the peace and quiet of your office/home computer, your mobile/landline, your desk or a handy coffee shop: whatever takes your fancy!
This year we’re targeting Morrisons and Sainsburys:

BY PHONE

Morrisons – 0845 611 6111 (lines open 7.30 a.m. – 6.30 p.m).
Sainsbury - 0800 636 262 (lines open 8 a.m. – 7 p.m.)

Demand answers to the following queries:
· “Why is your supermarket sourcing produce from a country that repeatedly violates international law?”
· “Why is your supermarket sourcing produce from companies that operate on land where Palestinians cannot live or work? (the Jordan Valley)”
· “Why are you sourcing produce from companies that operate in illegal settlements and which benefit from an Apartheid system inside Israel?”
· “Why are you sourcing produce from companies which are all benefiting from the illegal theft of Palestinian water and the theft of Palestinian land?”

IN WRITING

You could go online, or snail mail – whatever you prefer! Contact the national headquarters addressing your comments to Customer Services, or pick your local store addressing your comments to the store manager:

Morrisons on-line Comments Form - click here
Morrisons Store Finder – click here

Morrisons HQ address – Morrisons, Hilmore House, Gain lane, Bradford, BD3 7DL

Sainsbury's on-line Comments Form – click here
Sainbury's Store Finder - click here
Sainbury's HQ address - Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd, 33 Holborn, London, EC1N 2HT

Challenge the supermarkets about the following:
· "supermarkets are known to be trading with Israeli companies, because the labeling on products tells us so."
· "you must end business with Israeli companies that are profiting from Israeli occupation of Palestinian land, and Israel’s apartheid policies."
· "Israeli export companies known to be supplying British supermarkets like yours include: Carmel Agrexco, Arava and Mehadrin Tnuport Export (MTEX)."
· "All these Israeli companies are profiting from Israel’s violations of international law, making its UK trading partners such as your supermarket complicit."

FINALLY...

Wear your “Boycott Israeli Goods” badges with pride! Keep on wearing them! Israel has been in the news so much recently (for murdering civilians on the Gaza Flotilla, etc. etc.) that the general public are noticing badges, and now is the time to tell people about the boycott, in whatever way we can. Wear badges; give out badges on the street; call on all your supporters to wear badges!

WFPSC Branch Meeting - Tues 22/6/2010, 7pm

Tuesday 22nd June 2010

7pm (tea & cake) - for 7.30pm (start)

WFPSC BRANCH MEETING

Hornbeam Centre

458 Hoe Street, Walthamstow, E17 9AH

Click here for map

Vital and vibrant meeting - planning, working out how to do things better. Nitty, gritty, constructive stuff. There will be tea/coffee, and cake, to soothe/bolster tired minds...

However, we want to hear from you BEFORE the meeting, to get the ball rolling:

1) FEEDBACK

We need to hear detailed feedback from you about what you have personally been up to for the last few months in relation to Palestine. For example, some of you have been letter writing to MPs - how did you get on? What kinds of responses did you get? Have you been attending Palestine-related events out of the borough, or even in the borough, that you think we would benefit from hearing about, or liaising with organisations that we should be in contact with? Have you been raising money for palestine-related charities and want to gain our support and backing for your work? Please, please tell us - we'd love to hear from you.

2) PREPARING FOR NEXT EVENTS

To make sure our discussions will be interesting, WE REALLY WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU NOW, so we can create a really zappy list of potential work:

What actions, what letter writing campaigns, what street stalls, what speaker events, cultural experiences, sports events, schools visits, language classes, overseas trips, EU and MP lobbies, banner making, art exhibitions, UK palestinians liaison, direct Gazan palestinian support, and so on, do you want to participate in? What would really float your boat and be of real interest to you to do? What would your children be interested in doing, and what would your work colleagues, who probably know nothing about Palestine, find of use? So, how about a "Palestine for Dummies" presentation we can bring down to your office one lunchtime? What else might work?

3) OFFERING TO HELP OUT

A key aspect to ascertain is what people feel comfortable doing, physically. Of course your time is precious, limited and already over-committed - that's a given for everyone. But if anything really grabs your attention as being interesting, would you actually offer to help organise it and bring it to fruition? Can you actually imagine your pet idea happening without you helping to organise it?

4) OUR SYSTEMS

With all this potential development, do we have the right systems in place as as branch to support all your work and ideas? What should we be changing in the way we run the branch to accommodate and expand on what we want to do?

Please do EMAIL wfpsc@yahoo.com with your suggestions as soon as you can! The Officers group would really like to hear from you BEFORE the meeting if at all possible, so we can put together an exciting and dynamic evening of discussion and idea sharing. Thank you!