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Palestine Solidarity Campaign


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Saturday 14th December 2024

It didn't seem possible for Israeli military aggression to become still more dangerously unhinged, but they have somehow managed it this week.  Please attend our rally this coming Saturday:

๐Ÿ“ข   Rally for Palestine

Where: Barclays Bank, Commercial Road, PO1 1BT
When: Saturday 14th December, from 11.30am

You may have read that Barclays have disposed of their shares in Elbit Systems.  This is welcome news, but it makes only a tiny dent in their complicity.  They still have over ยฃ2 billion invested in companies arming Israel, and provide them with financial services worth a further ยฃ6.1 billion. So as the location for our demo this Saturday we have once more chosen the public space outside Barclays in Commercial Road. We won't leave Barclays alone until they cease all their immoral and illegal genocide-profiteering.

We're sure that like us you were bitterly disappointed by the last-minute postponement of the "Pompey People's Red Line" action last Sunday (watch this space for a new date!), but we promise that this demo will go ahead whatever the weather... so please put it in your diary now and resolve to come and help us make a bit of a commotion in Commercial Road from 11.30 this coming Saturday.


Date to be announced

๐Ÿ“ข  The Red Line

We desperately need your help for our next protest, which will be...

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A procession through the city with a symbolic kilometre-long Red Line
When:   [Date and time to be announced]
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 hospitals are a red line.  Schools are 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 fourteen 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's a disgrace.  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 8th December 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.

Thank you, and we look forward to seeing you on 8th December.

A procession through the city with a symbolic kilometre-long Red Line
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When:   [Date and time to be announced]
Where:   Assemble outside Fratton station, Selbourne Terrace, P01 5AL



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