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bikerlovertexas · 3 months
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Major coordinated demonstrations took place across the world on Saturday to mark the 100th day of Israel's bombardment and military assault on the people of the Gaza Strip that have now claimed the lives of nearly 24,000 Palestinians, a large majority of them innocent men, women, and children who had nothing to do with the attacks orchestrated by Hamas on October 7 of last year.
In London, as many as 500,000 people marched on Parliament Square to demand an immediate cease-fire Gaza, condemn their own U.K. government's support of Israel's disproportionate and "genocidal" onslaught, and warn against a wider regional war that experts warn is creeping closer by the day.[...]
In Dublin, organizers of a march that saw more than 100,000 march through city streets called it the largest rally for Palestinian rights in Irish history.[...]
The crowd was filled with Palestinian flags, posters calling for an "End to the Gaza genocide" as well as makeshift washing lines, with baby clothes hanging from it, representing the many young lives lost in the conflict.
At the front of the march, four people held mock corpses in bloody body bags to represent the growing number of civilian casualties.
In the United States, tens of thousands marched in Washington, D.C. to denounce the Israeli onslaught—which has claimed over 23,000 lives, including more than 10,000 children—as well as their own government's complicity in the carnage. President Joe Biden was on the tip of many demonstrators' tongues and polls in the U.S. have shown very little support across the political spectrum for how he is handling the situation.[...]
Following the march, demonstrators left a pile of bloodied baby dolls, including severe parts, in a pile outside the White House as a message to Biden. "The blood of the over 10,000 murdered children in Gaza is on his hands," said CodePink co-founder Jodie Evans.
Meanwhile, in Indonesia, thousands gathered outside the U.S. embassy in Jakarta to condemn the ongoing "genocide" in Gaza perpetrated by Israel with the backing of the U.S. government and other Western allies.
Large protests were also held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia as well as in the South African cities of Cape Town and Johannesburg. [...]
Cities in Israel were not among those holding large-scale demonstrations against the government's ongoing military campaign in Gaza. One application by Israelis for a rally in Haifa to denounce the onslaught was rejected.
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Thousands of protesters gathered on Parliament Hill Saturday afternoon, calling for a permanent ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war and for the Canadian government to take a firmer stance on the conflict. The National March on Ottawa, as it's been called, was one of the largest pro-Palestinian rallies to take to the streets of Canada's capital since the war broke out following a Hamas attack on Oct. 7.
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arctic-hands · 11 months
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On Thursday, protesters gathered at a rally held outside of Indianola City Hall where attorney Carlos Moore called on the city to act in the wake of the shooting that left 11-year-old Aderrien Murry critically injured.
Nakala Murry, the boy’s mother, said Indianola police were called to the house because the boy’s father came over and was acting irate. When he acted this way, she knew something could potentially happen and wanted “to stop it right there.” She said she snuck her phone to her son and asked him to call her mother and the police.
The officer-involved shooting happened around 6:00 a.m. on Saturday, May 20 at a home on BB King Road, according to Bailey Martin, press secretary for the Mississippi Department of Public Safety (DPS).
Murry told CNN that the responding officer she says shot her son had his weapon drawn when he arrived at the residence and asked everyone inside to leave the home. She said Aderrien was walking down a hallway and had just come around a corner into the living room when the officer shot him.
“I cannot grasp why. The same cop that told him to come out of the house.” Murry told CNN. “(Aderrien) did, and he got shot. He kept asking, ‘Why did he shoot me? What did I do wrong?’"
...Moore is calling for the termination of Officer Greg Capers, who he says shot Murry in the chest, and of Chief Ronald Sampson. The attorney is also calling for the release of body camera footage of the incident, which has not been made public by the Indianola Police Department.
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workersolidarity · 4 months
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[ 📹 Protests rage across Europe and the world as South Africa's genocide case against Israel moves forward with hearings at The Hague in the Netherlands.]
🇺🇳⚔️🇮🇱 🚨 GLOBAL SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINE AS PROTESTS SPREAD THROUGHOUT EUROPE
People across the world protest Israel's genocide of Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, with thousands of people demonstrating throughout the globe in solidarity with occupied Palestine.
In excess of 23'700 Palestinians have been killed in Zionist bombing and shelling of the Gaza Strip since October 7th, with upwards of 60'000 Palestinians wounded in the bombardment of the enclave.
On Saturday, dozens of protestors gathered in front of the United States embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, calling for a ceasefire in the occupied territories.
Meanwhile, on Friday, hundreds gathered waving flags and banners in rejection of the United States and United Kingdom's aggression against Yemen, along with Yemen's efforts to hinder Israel's war in Gaza by blocking trade with the occupied territories through the Bab el-Mandeb straight in the Red Sea.
In the Netherlands, crowds gathered in front of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague to rally in support of Palestinians, chanting pro-Palestine slogans and waving flags and banners.
Protests were also recorded in both Chile and South Africa, with crowds demanding an immediate end to Israel's genocide and calling for a ceasefire as South Africa's case against Israel for genocide proceeds with hearings at The Hague.
Protests are also ongoing in Berlin, Germany as well as the City of London, in the United Kingdom, where large crowds chanted pro-Palestinian slogans and waved the flag of Palestine along with banners.
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iww-gnv · 9 months
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SAVANNAH, Ga. — Dozens of striking workers from Savannah cafes are set to strike on Saturday, Aug. 5. Foxy Loxy, Fox & Fig, and Henny Penny employees will gather with community members in Troup Square at 1 p.m. with a list of demands for their employer. "IT always we can think about this, and we are going to work towards this. They might go as far as to make a small plan about it, but actions speak louder than words," said Rose Waltron, an employee at Henny Penny. On Friday, employees sent a letter to the cafes demanding better working conditions, higher wages, and a safe workplace. "A consistent this is what happens when you cross train. This is how much you are paid, and we can help you repair any damage that we have done by not paying attention to that," said Waltron. The letter was signed by more than 40 workers across the three restaurants. Workers requested a sit-down with Foxy Loxy management, but the company refused to come to the table.
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thissortofsorcery · 1 year
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I’m toying with this idea where Steve falls in love with Billy from afar, through things he overhears or things people tell him.
I’m a sucker for fics where people fall in love with someone after they die (there are Harringrove ones, I think, but my favorite is a Superbat fic), but this would be a softer version because I live and breathe post-season 2.
It starts when Steve’s driving the brats around, and hanging out with them on weekends. Max goes from scowling when she gets out of Billy’s car to looking a little lighter, a little softer, then to laughing. Showing Billy the middle finger looks like a joke.
Sometimes Max still goes quiet, staring at nothing like she’s mulling over secrets she doesn’t share with the Party.
Once Eleven starts to hang out more with the kids, she and Max become fast friends, and Hopper asks Steve to drive El around when he can’t. It feels good to know the Chief trusts him like that.
When the kids are hanging out, Max and El sit close and talk with their heads together, laughing until their faces are red. The boys look terrified. Steve thinks it’s hilarious.
Turns out El’s curious about siblings after watching something on tv, and Mike doesn’t want to talk about Nancy too much. And Max doesn’t really have anyone to talk to about Billy. The boys don’t get it, they don’t like him, and that’s fair. He scared them. But he’s still her brother.
Steve just happens to be around when they talk about him, is all. People underestimate him a lot, especially the kids. But he’s always got an ear out for trouble.
Except what he hears isn’t trouble at all.
“… they didn’t come back until Sunday anyway. Billy rented movies and made grilled cheese and stuff. We stayed on the couch all night,” Max is saying, leaning against the kitchen counter in the Wheeler’s kitchen. They came up for a food break, but the girls are refilling their sodas off to one side. Steve is quietly washing dishes at the sink.
Last weekend, Max missed a Party gathering because she had a cold. Dustin had complained the whole time that she must be miserable stuck at home with Billy. He would have rallied the kids to storm the house if Steve hadn’t put a stop to it.
“Feel better?” El asks, speaking softly and standing close to Max. They’re talking like they don’t want the boys to hear. The way Mike and Dustin are arguing over what pizza to order, they’re not gonna hear them anyway.
“Yeah,” Max says, smiling a little. “It was just a cold. Billy painted all my toe nails neon green while I was sleeping, and then he hid the nail polish remover so I couldn’t take them off yet. Asshole.”
“Can I see?” El asks, face brightening and smiling wide. Max is already lifting a foot to take a sneaker off.
Steve smiles softly at the sink. That was unexpectedly sweet of Hargrove, not just look out for Max while she was sick, but make her laugh about it a week later. Steve knows there was a party last Saturday, though he ditched it to hang out with the kids. Guess Hargrove didn’t go either.
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eretzyisrael · 6 months
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by Gemma Crotty
Sharri Markson has revealed exclusive details about a brutal anti-Semitic attack on a Jewish man in Sydney's Inner West by Palestine supporters with the 44-year-old saying he feels lucky to be alive.
The man was at a children's playground in Arncliffe in Sydney's Inner West on Saturday, October 28, and saw a poster advertising a Palestinian rally which was half-torn down.
It was past the event's date and he absent-mindedly tore the rest of it down.
A father at the children's playground saw him do this and came up to him, then asked if he supported Israel and started threatening him. He said to him: "I will murder you".
The Jewish man rang police but they didn’t turn up in time. A crowd of pro-Palestinian men and women gathered around him, yelling slurs and insults.
He then felt a knock to the back of his head and immediately fell to the ground. As he lay there, unable to move, three men pummelled him, taking turns punching and kicking him.
He said he took at least 12 punches to the head and ended up in hospital for four days, and according to Ms Markson the man feels "very lucky" that he's alive. 
NSW Police have confirmed they are now investigating the incident.
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mariacallous · 2 months
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Croatian opposition parties from the left and centre are organising a protest on Saturday at 11 a.m. on St Mark’s Square in Zagreb, under the slogan “Enough is enough! Let’s go to elections!”
Participants include the Social Democratic Party, We Can! (Mozemo!), the Centre, the Istrian Democratic Parliament, the Croatian Peasants Party, the Workers’ Front, Fokus, the Social Democrats, the Reformists, GLAS (Voice) and the Party With Name and Surname.
Representatives of the parties insist the protest on Saturday is not a pre-election rally ahead of parliamentary elections but a way for citizens to express dissatisfaction with the politics of the ruling Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ, which needs to be told “enough”.
“The introduction to the protest is today’s presentation of the signatures of MPs, by which we request the dissolution of parliament. It is clear to everyone, except perhaps [Prime Minister Andrej] Plenkovic, that the situation with [Attorney General, Ivan] Turudic was the last straw, after which it no longer makes sense to continue working in parliament,” said Sandra Bencic, from the We Can! party.
“The right to a state belongs to all of us, not just one political party and the criminal underworld. According to his function, the state Attorney General is the most important person to protect the legal order, and now the HDZ is giving that power to a man connected to the criminal milieu. This protest belongs to everyone, this is a prelude to parliamentary elections,” said Dalija Oreskovic from the Party with Name and Surname.
The ruling HDZ proposed Turudic to parliament as state Attorney General, angering the opposition, as he is an admitted sympathizer with the HDZ and has been linked to people either convicted or suspected of corruption, as BIRN has reported.
“Enough of thievery, corruption, darkness,” said Pedja Grbin, president of the Social Democratic Party. “This occupation culminated with Turudić. He is clearly pathologically incapable of telling the truth. It is still irrelevant to the HDZ because he is their man,” Grbin added.
Unofficial estimates are that around 5,000 people could gather on the square. Significantly, these 11 parties could potentially form the next left-centrist government, depending on how many votes they get in the elections. These have not yet been announced, but most analysts predict they will be held in May or June.
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vuutarros · 3 months
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@crechum and I were at this rally today. My girlfriend and I had to drive past in our attempt to find parking, and I was shocked at the turnout. (I don't do very well with large crowds and wasn't sure I'd be able to be there after that, but I managed to stay through the whole thing with Val's help.)
It was amazing to see so many people out in support of trans youth. They had elders from the local 2 Spirit groups out to speak, as well as politicians from the provincial and national levels, local queer groups, and even the ATA.
I cried during the St Albert OutLoud leader's speech on queer joy, on the queer joy of the kids and teens they get to see in their programs. It was so amazing to hear, I love that these kids get to have these experiences and hate that hatemongers like Smith want to take that away.
There's another rally tomorrow (Sunday Feb 4) at the legislature grounds from 12-2, but unfortunately can't make it to that one. I encourage any who can to do so.
Some people were surprised to see a policy like this coming out, but I'm a bit of a pessimist and am only surprised it took this long, I've been expecting this the New Brunswick bill back in June.
There's a federal petition that's been put out in support of trans rights below.
And trans.rights.yeg on Instagram has a letter writing campaign for Albertans below.
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Paris on Saturday despite an official ban – many wearing T-shirts printed with “Justice for Adama”, in honour of Adama Traoré, a 24-year-old black man who died in police custody in 2016.
Demonstrations were organised in an estimated 30 other towns and cities, including Marseille, Nantes and Strasbourg, and were described as “citizens’ marches of grief and anger” following the police shooting of a 17-year-old youth 10 days ago.
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aleprouswitch · 7 months
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It's almost like Scottish people know a thing or two about what it feels like to be attacked, have their culture systematically oppressed, and forced out of their ancestral homeland.
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Protesters gathered in front of the Royal Bank of Canada's (RBC) downtown Montreal office on Saturday to demand that the bank stop investing in fossil fuels.
It was one of dozens of protests held across Canada as part of a multi-day campaign to put pressure on the financial institution ahead of its annual general meeting next week.
Rajendra Kapila Basdeo, co-ordinator of the Kahnistensera (Mohawk Mothers) solidarity collective, was one of the people who showed up. 
"The bank should be a good example for people to put their money in, and they should divest from fossil fuels," he said. "It's the only proper way to protect our environment."
Last year, a Banking on Climate Chaos report found that RBC was the world's foremost funder of fossil fuels in 2022. Between 2016 and 2021, the bank ranked fifth in financing fossil fuels, according to the report. [...]
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Notes from the poster @el-shab-hussein: Unfriendly reminder that RBC has over 2 million shares worth more than 76 million CAD in a zionist military tech company that uses AI to murder and spy on Palestinians. RBC also invests in zionist settlements in the West Bank, something that is by every standard of international law completely and totally illegal.
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Foundry Workers Melt Down Charlottesville’s Robert E. Lee Statue
Eventually, an artist will be chosen to transform the bronze bars into a public art installation
The controversial bronze statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee that stood for nearly a century in Charlottesville, Virginia, has been melted down so that it may someday be transformed into a public art installation.
On Saturday, at a foundry in an undisclosed location in the American South, workers cut the infamous figure into small pieces, then fed those pieces into a 2,250-degree furnace. They poured the metal into molds for ingots, or rectangular bars, imprinted with the words “Swords Into Plowshares.” That’s the name of the project that will transform the divisive monument into a new piece of public art.
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Only a small group of people, including a handful of journalists, was allowed to watch the melting. They were invited on the condition that they didn’t disclose the name or location of the foundry—or the identities of its workers—over fears of retaliation.
“The risk is being targeted by people of hate, having my business damaged, having threats to family and friends,” says the foundry’s owner, a Black man, to the Washington Post’s Teo Armus and Hadley Green.
Even so, the man added, “When you are approached with such an honor, especially to destroy hate, you have to do it.”
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One particularly poignant moment occurred when foundry workers removed the statue’s face from the rest of the head.
“A man in heat-resistant attire pulled down his gold-plated visor, turned on his plasma torch and sliced into the face of Robert E. Lee,” writes Erin Thompson, an art historian at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and author of Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America’s Public Monuments, in a guest essay for the New York Times. “The hollow bronze head glowed green and purple as the flame burned through layers of patina and wax. Drops of molten red metal cascaded to the ground.”
The 21-foot-tall statue’s journey to this point was a long and complicated one. Commissioned in 1917 and installed in 1924, it loomed over a downtown Charlottesville park for decades.
In 2017, amid a broader national debate over Confederate monuments, white supremacists gathered in Charlottesville to protest the statue’s removal. During the “Unite the Right” rally, a man drove his car into a group of counter-protesters, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer and injuring many others.
After years of legal battles, the statue finally came down in July 2021. The city donated it to the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, which has been responsible for it ever since and leads the Swords Into Plowshares project.
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Organizers had wanted to melt down the statue sooner, but they waited until a judge dismissed a lawsuit against the plan.
Because of the statue’s size, the melting process will take weeks. Once that work is finished, project organizers will move on to the next phase of their plan: choosing an artist who will transform the metal into something new.
“Humpty Dumpty couldn’t be put back together again,” said Reverend Isaac Collins, a Methodist minister in Charlottesville who spoke at the melting ceremony, per NPR’s Debbie Elliott. “We still have a lot of work to do, but this statue that has cost us so much, so much violence, so much hurt, so much bloodshed—it’s gone. And it’s never going to be put back together the way it was.”
By Sarah Kuta.
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At exactly 11am on a Saturday in mid-November, hundreds of students from Luton Sixth Form College streamed out of their school, gathering outside in a sea of black, white and red keffiyehs and Palestinian flags. They carried banners and placards saying “Bombing kids is not self-defence” and “This is no ‘conflict’ it’s genocide”, referring to Israel’s war on Gaza after Hamas’s October 7 attacks on southern Israel. Student organisers of the rally read out speeches against the war, in which Israeli bombs and artillery fire have now killed more than 21,000 Palestinians in Gaza, including more than 8,000 children. Yet Israel wasn’t the only target of criticism at the rally: The students were protesting against their college’s links to an arms company that had supplied weapons and advanced military platforms to Israel. The walkout was organised by the school’s student council after its chair, 18-year-old Hassan Sajjad, was approached by students critical of the senior leadership at the college, who some students felt had failed to address or acknowledge strong student sentiment towards the Israel-Gaza conflict. But a week later, Sajjad and the other council members were informed by the school leadership that their entire council had been disbanded, months before their term was supposed to end in April 2024. Their student council email communication was also suspended. “It shattered my understanding of democracy in college, and the idea of freedom of speech and ‘British values’,” Sajjad said. Since the start of the war, the United Kingdom has seen unrelenting demonstrations urging the government to call for a ceasefire. Yet as students in schools, colleges and universities across the UK also joined the chorus condemning the war, they have also been reprimanded, subtly or explicitly, for their pro-Palestine advocacy in several instances, igniting concerns around freedom of speech. Luton, a town less than 48km (30 miles) north of London with a majority ethnic minority population, has been at the centre of that debate after the backlash faced by students over their walkout. It all started when students discovered that their school had played host to a weapons giant with ties to Israel’s military.
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‘Protest to have your voice heard’
Though Israel is today a major arms exporter, it continues to import weapons from the West. The United States is its biggest military partner and the source of 83 percent of Israel’s weapons imports between 1950 and 2020. But the UK has also been a steady military ally to Israel. It has licensed arms worth more than 442 million pounds ($563m) to Israel between May 2015 and August 2022 and is now facing a legal challenge in the High Court from Palestinian human rights groups.
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A walkout wasn’t the student council’s first planned course of action against the war. The council – who represent over 3,000 students – suggested organising a fundraiser for Gaza and the occupied West Bank. As the civilian death count mounted in Gaza, the council also flagged the college’s relationship with Leonardo[, one of the world's largest arms companies]. For about a month, their requests were met with silence. Then, the school’s leadership said the students could fundraise but only for an event that wasn’t specifically for Palestinians. “If students aren’t being catered for and the [school leaders] are not respecting the student council – the people who represent the thousands – then you only have one option left: that’s to protest to have your voice heard”, Sajjad said. On November 18, hundreds of students walked out of their lesson in what was a peaceful protest. “We wanted students to know this is your legal right to protest, and you shouldn’t feel pressured or afraid to protest”, said Arsalan Ilyas, 17, a student at the college.
-- From "Walkout over weapons: British school students battle Gaza protest curbs" by Aina Khan for Al Jazeera, 31 Dec 2023
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Below is a list of events happening in New Zealand in support of Palestine. All events can be found on the official PSNA website (Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa).
North Island Opononi – Gathering for Palestine Sunday 28 April 1:30 pm Outside the Four Square, Opononi Kerikeri, Bay of Islands - Rally Rally on the First Saturday of the month from now on Next Rally Saturday May 4 Whangarei – Rally Saturday 27 April 11:00 am Whangārei Town Basin in front of Hundertwasser Building  Auckland – TVNZ Picket – TVNZ’s Jack Tame Platforming Genocide Friday 26 April 12:00 mid-day TVNZ - 100 Victoria Street West Auckland  Auckland – Banners around Tamaki Makaurau Saturday 27 April (Delayed from last week due to high winds) 10:00 am Gather at the Market Road Overbridge. Plans to go to (dependant on numbers):
Pedestrian motorway overbridge at Mauranui Ave – Dilworth Road
Omahu Road overbridge
Text Steve on 021 256 511 For further details Auckland – Rally Sunday 28 April 2:00 pm Te Komititanga – Britomart Square Tauranga – Rally Every second Sunday. Next Rally Saturday May 4 10:30 am Watch this space Tauranga – Flag waving Sunday 28 April 11:00 am Coronation Park, Mount Maunganui Hamilton - Rally Saturday 27 April 1:00 pm Flynn Park, Hamilton Rotorua – Flags for Todd McClay Thursday 25 April 4:00 pm National MP Todd McClays Office - 1301 Amohau St, Rotorua Napier - Rally Saturday 27 April 11:30 am Marine Parade Soundshell Roundabout Hastings - Rally Sunday 28 April 2:00 pm Hastings Town Clock – Hastings CBD Palmerston North - Rally Sunday 28 April 2:00 pm The Square, Palmerston North New Plymouth – Flags on the Bridge Friday 26 April 4:30 pm Paynters Ave Bridge, New Plymouth New Plymouth – Rally Saturday 27 April 1:00 pm The Landing, 1 Ariki Street, New Plymouth Whanganui - Rally Saturday 27 April 11:00 am Riverside Market, Whanganui Whanganui – (Kite) Flying Prayers for Palestine Sunday 28 April 1:00 – 2:00 pm Castlecliff Beach Carterton Every Tuesday 12:00 midday Memorial Square. Martinborough – Gathering for Palestine Every Wednesday 11:00 am The square at the top of Kitchener St, Martinborough Featherston Every Saturday 11:00 am The Squircle (opposite the op shop). Wellington No Rally this weekend South Island Nelson – Rally Check out the Te Tau Ihu Palestine Solidarity Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/TeTIPalestine/ Takaka – Information and Networking Gathering Saturday 27 April 10:30 am Village Green, Takaka Blenheim Saturday 27 April 11:00 am Blenheim Railway Station Christchurch – Rally Saturday 27 April 1:00 pm Bridge of Remembrance, Cashel Street Dunedin - Rally Saturday 27 April 2:00 pm Otago Museum Reserve to the Octagon, Dunedin Queenstown - Rally NOTE – Next Sunday May 5 1:00 pm Earnslaw Park, Queenstown Invercargill - Rally Friday 26 April 5:30 pm Wachner place Invercargill
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There will also be a PSNA National Meeting 18/19 May 2024 in Auckland.
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