Sunday 26th January 2025

🚨  The People's Red Line

We desperately need your help to make this rescheduled protest a success...

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A procession through the city with a symbolic kilometre-long Red Line
When:   Sunday 26th January 12.30pm til 2pm
Where:   Assemble outside Fratton station, Selbourne Terrace, P01 5AL

Seven months into Israel's devastating attack on Gaza, US President Joe Biden drew a metaphorical 'red line', saying that Washington would not provide bombs or artillery shells for an invasion of Rafah.  Prime Minister Rishi Sunak also declared a Rafah invasion to be a 'red line'.

But the Israelis did invade Rafah.

Indeed, they went much further, invading and wreaking destruction and mass slaughter across the whole of the Gaza Strip.  And, far from halting arms exports as promised, the US and UK governments rewarded Israel for this with millions more in military aid and weapons shipments.

Our leaders lied.  They had no 'red lines' for Israel.  To the contrary, they gave them 'carte blanche' to continue the genocide.

But there are red lines.  Our red lines.  The people's red lines.

We say that destroying hospitals is a red line.  Destroying schools is a red line.  Torturing prisoners is a red line.  Killing journalists, doctors, babies, elderly people, the sick - these are all red lines.

In the past fifteen months Israel has crossed every single one of those lines multiple times in Gaza, and now also in the West Bank and in Lebanon.

It is a disgrace to all humanity.  Our government must heed the people they pretend to serve, they must stop arming Israel and they must take action to halt the genocide.

To symbolize this and get our message heard, we need your help on Sunday 26th January as we carry a literal kilometre-long red line through the streets of Portsmouth.  Everyone can play their part, children included.

The Red Line has already been carried through Bournemouth, Brighton and Bristol, so let's prove that it's not only cities beginning with 'B' that care about Palestine!

Be part of the People's Red Line.  Show the world that Pompey Stands With Palestine!

   
    Watch the Red Line snake through Bristol at https://youtu.be/7wzTI51qf64

IMPORTANT POSTSCRIPT

Whether or not you can join in on the day, it would be enormously helpful if you would spread word of this as widely as you can, in every way you can think of.

• If you can display a poster or distribute some flyers, contact us on flyers@ppsc.uk with your street address, and we will get them to you.
• On any platform online, you can simply type ppsc.uk/red to direct people to this message.
• Graphics for social media can be freely downloaded from here.

Thank you, and we look forward to seeing you on 26th January.

A procession through the city with a symbolic kilometre-long Red Line
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When:   Sunday 26th January 12.30pm til 2pm
Where:   Assemble outside Fratton station, Selbourne Terrace, P01 5AL

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