{"id":3482,"date":"2023-12-27T15:47:56","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T15:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/?p=3482"},"modified":"2024-01-02T16:02:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T16:02:55","slug":"ceasefirenow-camp-new-years-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/?p=3482","title":{"rendered":"ceasefirenow camp, new years eve"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A group of Sheffield residents from different backgrounds &#8211; Palestinian, British, secular as well as observant,&nbsp; Jewish, Muslim and Christian &#8211; and will be setting up a #ceasefirenow camp at the top of Turner Hill in Meersbrook Park from 6pm on New Year&#8217;s Eve to half past midnight.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/petergilbertcropped.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/petergilbertcropped.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/petergilbertcropped-300x213.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/petergilbertcropped-768x545.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>It is to remind everyone, on this new year, that, while we are wishing each other a happy, peaceful and healthy&nbsp;twelve months ahead, the people&nbsp;of Gaza are undergoing a genocide at the hands of the Israeli State; <strong>it is criminal to remain silent in the face of this.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We will start off with a quiet meditation and reflection and we will end with the power and passion of dabke dancing to&nbsp;launch our resistance to the genocide in the new year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In between we will have Palestinian poems and singing.  A full timetable will be available on our <a href=\"https:facebook.com\/sheffieldpalestine\">facebook<\/a> and here on new years eve. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please come and join in all or any of these events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are demanding:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>an immediate ceasefire and an end to Israeli occupation <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>immediate permission for necessary aid at scale to avoid the starvation of people in Gaza<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>that <strong>Sheffield City Council<\/strong> declare&nbsp;Sheffield an Israeli Apartheid Free Zone until such time as the occupation of Palestine has ceased. Sign Israeli Apartheid Free Zone pledge <a href=\"http:\/\/pledge.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"pledge.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Sheffield Ceasefire Now Camp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of Sheffield residents from different backgrounds &#8211; Palestinian, British, secular as well as observant,&nbsp; Jewish, Muslim and Christian &#8211; and will be setting up a #ceasefirenow camp at the top of Turner Hill in Meersbrook Park from 6pm on New Year&#8217;s Eve to half past midnight.&nbsp; It is to remind everyone, on this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/?p=3482\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ceasefirenow camp, new years eve<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3483,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-protest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=3482"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3520,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3482\/revisions\/3520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}