Fund Raiser: Palestine Un-Rapped featuring LOWKEY
| March 11, 2010 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 9:30 pm |
Queen’s Lecture Theatre
Emmanuel College
St Andrew’s St Cambridge
(Event sponsored by Islamic Relief)
Speakers:
**Mr M A & Mrs I M Warsi** The Warsis were on the Viva Palestina Convoy to Gaza in 2009. They are active fundraisers for Palestine in Cambridge.
**Mr Jody Mcintyre** Jody, an activist, blogger and journalist, is most known for his blog ‘Life on Wheels’, where he writes about his experiences and and struggles in Palestine amongst other things.
After being evicted with the Hanoun family in East Jerusalem, he lived in the village of Bil’in for six months, participating in the weekly non-violent demonstrations and resisting against the military incursions that followed, before travelling to Gaza. He was the only person among the 1400 foreigners in Cairo who managed to do so.
He has lived in the Palestine for 8 months from 2009-2010.
Performer:
**LOWKEY** Lowkey is a musician, poet, activist and playwright. He first came to fame through a series of mixtapes he released before he was 18. He is featured on BBC Radio and appears at various festivals and concerts including the Electric Proms, Glastonbury, T In The Park and Oxegen in the build up to his first solo album.
In February 2009, he travelled to Palestine and Palestinian refugee camps around the West Bank area to perform fundraising shows to help rebuild the Gaza Strip but was detained by the Israel Police for nine hours at Ben Gurion International Airport and was interrogated. Later in 2009, he travelled to Gaza on a humanitarian aid mission to bring medical aid to the Palestinian people.
His singles Long Live Palestine part 1&2 reached No.1 on the itunes and amazon hip hop charts. ————————————————-
Ticket price:
3 pounds
***ALL PROCEEDS GO TO THE ISLAMIC RELIEF GAZA FUND***
Book Launch: The Power of Inclusive Exclusion
| March 3, 2010 | ||
| 5:00 pm | to | 6:30 pm |
Keynes Hall
King’s College
Dr Sari Hanafi
The event is open to the general public
Talk: Take Your Democracy and Give Me Back My Land
| March 2, 2010 | ||
| 5:00 pm | to | 6:30 pm |
Keynes Hall
King’s college
for Israeli Apartheid Week
Talk by Dr Jamal Zahalqa
Open to the general public
Public Meeting: and Cambridge Stop the War AGM
| March 2, 2010 | ||
| 7:30 pm | to | 9:30 pm |
Bramwell Longe
CU Sports and Social Club
Mill Lane Cambridge
John Tipple (Solicitor for soldiers Joe Glenton and Danny Fitzpatrick)
Joe Glenton is a British soldier who has refused to go back to fight in Afghanistan and now risks two years imprisonment. He has spoken out publicly against the war and has been arrested and charged under the anti-terror laws. Danny Fitzpatrick is on death row in Iraq; he is a former British soldier.
Sarah Chapman (Military Families)
Sarah lives just outside Cambridge. Her brother was killed in the Hercules plane crash in Iraq in 2005 and she has consistently spoken out in order to hold to account those responsible for his death.
Hanin Cafe: Gaza Fundraising Event
| February 20, 2010 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 10:30 pm |
St Paul’s Church and Centre
Hills Road Cambridge CB2 1JP
FOOD - MUSIC - CRAFTS
Local musicians and some from further afield
Folk - Georgian - Arabic Song
Tickets £15/£10 concessions from
Janet - 01223 690157 0r 07751 600315
Mo - 07792 320416
Proceeds to Medical Aid for Palestinians and
al Beit al Samed (grassroots Gaza charity)
Talk: Dancing with the Enemy
| February 9, 2010 | ||
| 7:30 pm |
St Catherine’s College, Rushmore Room
Tuesday 9th February, 7.30pm
(Organised by CU Shirley Society)
Samir El-Youssef is a Palestinan writer and critic. Next week he comes to Cambridge to deliver a talk entitled: ‘Dancing with the Enemy: Fiction and the Palestine/Israel Political Landscape’
Samir was born in Rashidia, a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon, where he lived until he was ten, before moving to Sidon.
His father father is a Sunni and his mother is from the only Shi’ite Palestinian family.
He writes in both Arabic and English. In 2004, he co-authored ‘Gaza Blues: Different Stories’ with Israeli author Etgar Keret. Since then he has written two novels in English: ‘The Illusion of Return’ (2007) and ‘A Treaty of Love’ (2008)
Vigil: Remember Gaza
| January 16, 2010 | ||
| 12:00 pm | to | 2:00 pm |
Market Square
Cambridge
Organised by Cambridge Stop the War
Gather at 12 noon with banners and placards
Speakers and petitioning to be followed by Vigil
Please join us for all or part of the time
Film: On the Verge
| January 10, 2010 | ||
| 7:30 pm | to | 9:30 pm |
The Cafe Project
22 Jesus Lane
A documentary film about the Brighton Smash EDO campaign.
Using activist, police and CCTV footage plus interviews with those involved in the campaign, On The Verge tells the story of one of the most persistent and imaginative campaigns to emerge out of the UK’s anti-war movement and direct action scene.
This is ahead of the Remember Gaza - Smash EDO march in Brighton on Monday 18th January,
For more details see http://www.smashedo.org.uk/remember-gaza.htm, transport will be going from Cambridge - email gandhi_hands@riseup.net
Cafe open from 7:30pm, film begins at 8pm, stay around for discussion afterwards.
Film: Occupation 101
| January 8, 2010 | ||
| 7:30 pm | to | 9:30 pm |
The Cafe Project
22 Jesus Lane
Cafe open from 7:30pm, film begins at 8pm, stay around for discussion afterwards
A documentary covering the history of the Israel Palestine conflict, and some of the day to day experiences of people there. Presents several sides of the story, including Israeli peace movements.
This week’s Discussion: Gaza and Occupation
We can explore some of the themes of the film, and look back at the events of last year, and the quite brutal incursion into Gaza over last Christmas/New Year. We can also look forward, at what we can do this month, and onwards in solidarity with those struggling for peace.
Film: Bethlehem Hidden from View
| December 16, 2009 | ||
| 7:30 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
Wesley Methodist Church
Cambridge
A short film about Bethlehem from the Amos Trust followed by a discussion
Filmed during the June 2008 Amos Trust pilgrimage to the Holy Land by Tim Neeves, (co-produced by Mairie Neeves) it tells the story of what is happening to Bethlehem and its neighbour, Hebron, through the eyes of Palestinians and Israelis. The film is just under half an hour long and before the discussion there will be a brief perspective from someone with direct experience of Palestine.
Event Calendar
EI: News/Comment- Interview with Gaza rights defender: "Siege began in 1967"
- Amir, ten years old, abducted by Israeli soldiers from his bed
- "Palestinian cinema is a cause": an interview with Hany Abu-Assad
- Pushing the boundaries of identity: an interview with Jennifer Jajeh
- Palestinian women become breadwinners under occupation
- The sounds of piano in Gaza
- BBC: Latest
