Upcoming Local Action
Saturday 2nd March | 1 - 4pm | Outside the Town Hall, Tunbridge Wells, TN1 1RS
Empty Shoes For Lost Lives
Where: The steps outside Tunbridge Wells Town Hall
What: Display pairs of shoes representing the children killed in Gaza
When: Saturday 2nd March, gather from 1pm to set up, finish at 4pm
This will be a family friendly action, with hundreds of pairs of children’s shoes laid out neatly on the town hall steps, each pair a representation of child who has been killed in Gaza.
We will have leaflets to hand out, large Palestine flags with poles for people to wave in solidarity, and items to sell to raise funds for the charity Medical Aid for Palestinians, with additional donation buckets for people to move around with.
There will be a special carpeted area for children’s activities, such as colouring in pictures of watermelon slices and olive branches.
At the top of the steps, using our portable PA, we will read Michael Rosen’s Poem ‘Don’t Mention the Children’ after which children will proceed to read the names of children killed in Gaza and the West Bank. This will be repeated every 15 minutes throughout the afternoon. We will also read quotes and messages from children in Gaza.
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Previous Actions
Saturday 10th February | 1.3opm | Jubilee Square, Maidstone
All Kent Rally for Palestine
West Kent PSC has joined up with Medway PSC and South East Kent PSC to organise an all Kent march and rally for Palestine on Saturday 10 February.
The plan is to march from Jubilee Square in Maidstone to the Kent County Council offices at Sessions House (County Hall) where we will have a selection of speakers on the Palestinian issue (more details to follow).
We’re calling on Kent County Council to do more to stop Kent from hosting arms factories supplying Israel with weapons and to publicly support the Palestinians in this time of need, as they have done and are continuing to do with Ukrainian refugee programmes.
This should be the biggest Kent march for Palestine yet! Join us and assemble 1.30pm on Sat 10 Feb at Jubilee Square, Maidstone, ME14 1SA
Saturday 20th January | 11am–2pm | The Big Bridge, Tonbridge TN9 1DR
Street Stall in Tonbridge
Join our street stall this Sat 20th Jan, 11am-2pm, in Tonbridge to protest against the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people and call for a Ceasefire Now!
We’ll meet at the Big Bridge in Tonbridge at 11am.
Saturday 6th January | 11am–2pm | Barclays, Calverley Rd, Tunbridge Wells
Street Stall in Tunbridge Wells
We must keep the momentum going in 2024 💪 Join our street stall this Sat 6 Jan, 11am-2pm, in Tunbridge Wells.
We’ll be outside Barclays on Calverley Rd to demand the bank stop supporting the indiscriminate killing of civilians and end its financial ties with companies arming Israel.
Thurs 11th January | 7pm | Victoria Suite, The Camden Centre, Tunbridge Wells TN1 2SW
West Kent PSC branch community & volunteers meeting
We’re looking for volunteers and ideas. Are you interested in helping us plan or run future events and activities? Would you like to discuss and share ideas for our local branch and campaigns? Please come by – we’d love to hear from you.
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Saturday 16th Dec, 2–5pm
Voices for Palestine
A Social Event with West Kent PSC
📍 Tunbridge Wells
The Camden Centre
Royal Victoria Place
TN1 2SW
Free Entry
All are welcome.
Donations welcome on the day.
Join our West Kent PSC community and fundraiser event in support for Palestinian rights and freedom. Entry is FREE, but donations are welcome on the day, some of which will go to the charity Medical Aid for Palestinians and the rest will go towards funding the event itself.
The event will take place on Sat 16 Dec, 2-5pm at The Camden Centre, Royal Victoria Place, Tunbridge Wells, TN1 2SW.
We'll have a lineup of speakers who'll speak on the Palestinian issue, live music and singing, and opportunities for discussion.
We encourage guests to bring vegetarian food, potluck style. So please feel free to contribute with your own vegetarian dish. Please also bring your own non-alcoholic drinks.
This is an opportunity for people to come together and connect in solidarity with the people of Palestine during this difficult time.
Headline Speakers
Children’s voices from Masjid Al Noor mosque, Tunbridge Wells
Amira Nimerawi, Social Impact Specialist at The Palestinian Medical Relief Society
Leah Levane, Co Chair of Jewish Voice for Labour and Palestinian rights activist
John Hurst, Tunbridge Wells Green Party Parliamentary Candidate
Martin Clay, Christian lay minister and advocate for Palestinian justice
Tina Clay, Treasurer and Trustee of Musalaha UK
Sybil Cock, Executive Committee Member for the Palestine Solidarity Campaign
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National March – 25th November
Saturday 25th November | Meet 11am | Tunbridge Wells Station
This weekend we’ll be travelling up to London to join the National March for Palestine. You can make your own way or travel with us from Tunbridge Wells Station. We’ll be meeting at 11am outside Tunbridge Wells Rail Station opposite The Range, ready to get the 11.10am train to Charing Cross.
Location
11am
Tunbridge Wells Station
Mount Pleasant Road
Tunbridge Wells
Kent
TN1 1BT
Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions
20–29th November | Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions
Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions
Now is the perfect time to brush up on the current list of companies to boycott for their complicity in Israel’s genocide against Palestinians.
Barclays, Stop Arming Israel
Our campaigning focus is on Barclays this week, demanding the bank end its financial ties with companies that are arming Israel. You can support the campaign by doing the following:
Email Barclays to demand it ends financial ties with companies arming Israel – you can use the pre-filled email template here.
Why Barclays?
Israel’s assault on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip has killed many thousands. Nowhere in the Gaza Strip is safe; residential neighbourhoods have been levelled, schools sheltering the displaced and hospitals treating the wounded have been hit.
Barclays must end all financial ties with companies arming Israel.
Barclays invests over £1 billion in companies supplying weapons and military technology to Israel, used in its bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip.
Barclays invests in:
General Dynamics, which produces the gun systems that arm the F-16 and F-35 fighter jets being used by Israel to bomb the Gaza Strip.
Elbit Systems, one of Israel’s largest arms companies, which produces drones, munitions, bombs, and artillery weapons used by the Israeli military.
Palestinians have asked us to take action against companies, like Barclays, that are complicit in the violence they face.
And there is a precedent for success: Barclays was the biggest high street bank in apartheid South Africa, and anti-apartheid campaigns throughout the 70s and 80s successfully pressured the bank to withdraw from South Africa in 1986. It worked then, so why not today?
Barclays must end all financial ties with companies supplying weapons and military technology to Israel, used in its assault on Palestinians.
Thank you for joining us
Thank you to everyone who joined us on Saturday 18th November to protest outside Barclays. Sign up to our mailing list to learn where we’ll meet next.
