Saturday 6th January, 2.30pm, Showroom Cinema
Cinema Palestino is showing the 9-award-winning documentary “beautiful portrait of everyday life in Gaza” in 2019 (before the current raging and outrageous ethnic cleansing and genocide) :
GAZA 92mins, followed by a Q&A with Musheir El-Farra
To book and see the the trailer – https://www.showroomworkstation.org.uk/gazadiscussion
January 6th at 6.00 Christ Church Pitsmoor, S3 9AQ
Gather together on the Feast of the Epiphany to sit with our crib scene on it’s last day in Church, and take time to listen to the voice of Palestine, as spoken by Revd. Munther Isaac. Light a candle. Hold the Palestinian people in thoughts or prayers.
While the gathering will be in a Pitsmoor Church listening to words recorded in a Bethlehem one, we see the event as open to people of all faiths and none. The cause at this time is just this one small way to ensure we listen, one small gathering to show our solidarity.
Bring your flags.
See below for the timetable of the #ceasefirenow camp
Please encourage your friends and comrades to come and share the image on the left on insta
More about the camp and our demands can be found here
| 6pm | Meditiation | Short silent meditation on peace |
| 7pm | Palestinian poems | Poetry reading in Arabic and English |
| 8pm | Food | Please bring some food to share |
| 9pm | Procession | Getting noisy now – procession round the park |
| 10pm | Messages from Palestine | Readings of messages from Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank |
| 11pm | Palestinian song | Come and learn a Palestinian song and sing with us |
| Midnight | Palestinian dance | Dance dabke with us and celebrate Palestinian resistance |
A group of Sheffield residents from different backgrounds – Palestinian, British, secular as well as observant, Jewish, Muslim and Christian – and will be setting up a #ceasefirenow camp at the top of Turner Hill in Meersbrook Park from 6pm on New Year’s Eve to half past midnight.
It is to remind everyone, on this new year, that, while we are wishing each other a happy, peaceful and healthy twelve months ahead, the people of Gaza are undergoing a genocide at the hands of the Israeli State; it is criminal to remain silent in the face of this.
Please pay a visit, bring candles of hope, a spirit of peace and a deep passion for justice for Palestinian people. There will be short (10-15 minute) mini-events on each hour between 6 and midnight.
We will start off with a quiet meditation and reflection and we will end with the power and passion of dabke dancing to launch our resistance to the genocide in the new year.
In between we will have Palestinian poems and singing. A full timetable will be available on our facebook and here on new years eve.
Please come and join in all or any of these events.
We are demanding:
Sheffield Ceasefire Now Camp
As the death toll in Gaza exceeded 19,000, Members of the Sheffield Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid visited Waitrose and Marks and Spencer on Saturday and removed stock from the shelves that had been grown on land stolen from Palestinians.
As it is near xmas and lots of people buy dates at this time, we chose to concentrate on date products in the shops. More information about boycotting Israeli Dates here. You have to be very careful. The label rarely says “Israel”.
Saturday 16th Sheffield Boycott Israel Action:
Assemble at 11.00 am outside the Israac Centre, 54 Cemetery Road, S11 8FP (it’s between the Waitrose petrol station and the back of the Waitrose car park) for a mobile boycott action, walking around the town centre and ending in front of the Anglican Catherdal (arriving there at approximately 1.00pm with a very short rally).
Bring your Palestinian flags!
Israel both fears and hates the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement – because it’s global, grassroots and effective.
Our boycott event emphasises the power we all have in our everyday lives to reject Israel, its war crimes and land theft by the simple act of boycotting all Israeli products.
Go to this link to read the full call from Palestine to the global climate justice movements.
#ceasefirenow #climatejusticenow
Setting off from different parks in Sheffield all converging, all in unison, all for #ceasefirenow!
