{"id":43,"date":"2014-12-11T17:18:40","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T17:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpdev.ypce.org.uk\/?page_id=43"},"modified":"2023-03-13T07:05:44","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T07:05:44","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/?page_id=43","title":{"rendered":"About Sheffield PSC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sheffield Palestine Solidarity Campaign is a campaigning organisation committed to<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>freedom and justice for the Palestinian people<\/li>\n<li>raising funds to help <a title=\"Children\u2019s projects\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/?page_id=48\"><span style=\"color: #d40707;\">children&#8217;s projects in Gaza<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li>campaiging locally and nationally for in support of the international movement for <a title=\"Boycott\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/?page_id=64\"><span style=\"color: #d40707;\">boycotts, divestment and sanctions<\/span><\/a> against Israel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">putting on <\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.5;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/?post_type=tribe_events\"><span style=\"color: #d40707;\">events<\/span><\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"> to increase understanding of Palestine and its culture<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li>encouraging local people to<span style=\"color: #d40707;\"><a title=\"Get involved\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/?page_id=70\"> get involved<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li>we are a cross-section of the Sheffield community reflecting the diversity of people in Sheffield<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sheffield PSC had its first meeting in 1968 just after the 1967 war.\u00a0 It formed as an organisation in 1987.\u00a0 It is one of the larger more active branches in Palestine Solidarity Campaign.\u00a0 We work with many local and national bodies including Stop the War Coalition and\u00a0Jews For Justice in Palestine.<\/p>\n<p>Our members support the <a title=\"Sheffield Palestine Women\u2019s Scholarship Fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/?page_id=157\">Sheffield Palestine Women&#8217;s Scholarship Fund<\/a>.\u00a0 There are\u00a0horrendous obstacles for young Palestinian girls getting a good education.\u00a0 This local charity raises money to give them a chance for a good education.<\/p>\n<p>Each year we work with the Showroom cinema to put on a series of films about Palestinian oppression, resistance and culture.\u00a0 The project is called Cinema Palestino.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Report 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sheffield Palestine Solidarity Campiagn report from February 2013 explaining our campiagns, activities and how we spend the money we raise is available <a title=\"Feb 2013 report\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/sites\/default\/files\/General%20Report_Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheffield Palestine Solidarity Campaign is a campaigning organisation committed to freedom and justice for the Palestinian people raising funds to help children&#8217;s projects in Gaza campaiging locally and nationally for in support of the international movement for boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israel putting on events to increase understanding of Palestine and its culture encouraging &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/?page_id=43\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About Sheffield PSC<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-43","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3101,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43\/revisions\/3101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}