Jon Snow speaks about the Children of Gaza on returning home from reporting the onslaught
followed by 'Then what?'
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Saturday 26 July 2014
Jon Snow and Michael Rosen speak out for the children of Gaza
followed by 'Then what?'
Wembley mums set up Eid supermarket boycott campaign for the children of Gaza
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| Children protest on behalf of their brothers and sisters in Gaza, London, July 26th 2014 |
This is what they say on their Facebook page:
MUMS 4 CHILDREN OF PALESTINE
EID TOTAL BOYCOTT OF ASDA, TESCO, WAITROSE, SAINSBURYS UNTIL END OF 29 JULY 2014
This group has been created because of the affinity mothers and
grandmothers feel for the plight of the people of Palestine. In this
month of July 2014 Israel has mercilessly bombed Gaza resulting in
countless deaths, suffering, trauma and horrendous injuries, mental and
physical.
WE ARE SICKENED AT SEEING BABIES, CHILDREN AND PREGNANT WOMEN WITH UNBORN BABIES IN THEIR WOMBS BEING MURDERED!
We feel helpless as we do not have much power to effect justice for the Palestinians, who have suffered for decades. But what power we do have is our spending power. We often make the decisions in our families on what we purchase for our families and homes. And now we are using this power to force change.
In the first instance, we want to use this power to transform our buying patterns and to boycott companies, supermarkets and other outlets that sell produce from Israel and the Occupied Territories. We are bringing our local Mums together to effect real change - because money speaks!
We have had enough of British companies propping up Israel economically, which allow it to act with impunity. We will no longer be complicit in this genocide because we will no longer buy Israeli & OT produce. We will run Total Boycott Strikes targeting all the supermarkets until they comply with our demands.
We are demanding that all supermarkets:
• Stop sourcing all their produce from Israel
• Stop sourcing their produce from the Occupied Territories
• Support Palestinian Farmers and other ethical producers around the world
We are an organic movement of Mums of all backgrounds and this is only the beginning. We are not going to stop until children of Gaza can sleep safely in their beds in a free Palestine and there is a JUST resolution for the Palestinians.
#FreePalestine #FreeGaza #Boycott4childrenofgaza
JOIN US ON FACEBOOK
Follow on Twitter @Mums4gazakids
WE ARE SICKENED AT SEEING BABIES, CHILDREN AND PREGNANT WOMEN WITH UNBORN BABIES IN THEIR WOMBS BEING MURDERED!
We feel helpless as we do not have much power to effect justice for the Palestinians, who have suffered for decades. But what power we do have is our spending power. We often make the decisions in our families on what we purchase for our families and homes. And now we are using this power to force change.
In the first instance, we want to use this power to transform our buying patterns and to boycott companies, supermarkets and other outlets that sell produce from Israel and the Occupied Territories. We are bringing our local Mums together to effect real change - because money speaks!
We have had enough of British companies propping up Israel economically, which allow it to act with impunity. We will no longer be complicit in this genocide because we will no longer buy Israeli & OT produce. We will run Total Boycott Strikes targeting all the supermarkets until they comply with our demands.
We are demanding that all supermarkets:
• Stop sourcing all their produce from Israel
• Stop sourcing their produce from the Occupied Territories
• Support Palestinian Farmers and other ethical producers around the world
We are an organic movement of Mums of all backgrounds and this is only the beginning. We are not going to stop until children of Gaza can sleep safely in their beds in a free Palestine and there is a JUST resolution for the Palestinians.
#FreePalestine #FreeGaza #Boycott4childrenofgaza
JOIN US ON FACEBOOK
Follow on Twitter @Mums4gazakids
The Lion Will Roar Again in Wembley on Monday
A lion's head corbel, rescued from the demolition of the last of the British Empire Exhibition buildings, is to be unveiled at its new resting place in Wembley on Monday at 12.15pm. The unveiling coincides with the end of the exhibition 'The Lion Roars - the World at Wembley' at Brent Civic Centre which marks the 90th Anniversary of the British Empire Exhibition.
I publish Philip Grant's Guest blog account of the Lions of Wembley below:
I publish Philip Grant's Guest blog account of the Lions of Wembley below:
Demonstrate for Gaza and its children today: Noon, Israeli Embassy, Kensington High Street
Writer and broadcaster Michael Rosen will be one of the speakers at today's rally for Gaza in Parliament Square. This is a poem published on his blog LINK earlier this week. The names of Gazans, including children, killed by the Israeli Defence Force can be found HERE
Assemble today at Noon opposite the Israeli Embassy (Kensington High Street) and then march to rally in Parliament Square.
Don't Name the Dead Children
Israel bans radio advert listing names of children killed in Gaza (Guardian 24.07.14)Don't mention the children.
Don't name the dead children.
The people must not know the names
of the dead children.
The names of the children must be hidden.
The children must be nameless.
The children must leave this world
having no names.
No one must know the names of
the dead children.
No one must say the names of the
dead children.
No one must even think that the children
have names.
People must understand that it would be dangerous
to know the names of the children.
The people must be protected from
knowing the names of the children.
The names of the children could spread
like wildfire.
The people would not be safe if they knew
the names of the children.
Don’t name the dead children.
Don’t remember the dead children.
Don’t think of the dead children.
Don’t say: ‘dead children’.
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