Palestine solidarity protests around the country continue this weekend as the Gaza death toll reaches 40,000
Palestine solidarity protests around the country continue this weekend as the Gaza death toll reaches 40,000, the Luxon government refuses to hold the US/Israel to account and our mainstream media refuse to hold our government to account
Palestine solidarity protests around the country continue this weekend while the government continues to pay lip service to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and our mainstream media report only sideshow issues such as the chants heard on a protest video shared by an MP.
Unreal and unhinged.
Meanwhile the wholesale slaughter of Palestinian civilians goes on unreported.
The International Court of Justice advisory opinion that Israel’s occupation of Palestine is illegal has been all but been ignored by mainstream media despite the ICJ calling on all states to withdraw any “aid or assistance” to Israel’s occupation.
So when will our media ask a few simple questions about government plans to support the ICJ position as part of New Zealand’s professed belief in an “international rules-based system”?
PSNA has written to the government asking for several specific steps to be taken immediately to begin actioning their responsibilities under international law but the government seems to think paying fealty to the US/Israel comes first and fills the gap with bluff and bluster.
The details of the protests around the country this weekend are on the PSNA Facebook events page here. Basic details are below.
John Minto
National Chair
Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
North Island
Opononi – Rally to Stop the war on Children
Sunday 18 August
1:30 pm
Outside the Four Square, Opononi
Kerikeri – Rally
First Saturday of the month
Whangarei – Rally for the Tamariki of Gaza
Saturday 17 August
No Rally this week
Auckland – Q&A with Brooke and Iona, The British High Commissioner to NZ
Friday 16 August
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm (Gather at 12:30 pm)
St Heliers Bay Church and Community Center
100 St Heliers Bay Road, Auckland
Waiheke – Market Stall – hosted by Stand With Palestine Waiheke!
Saturday 17 August
8:00 am – 1:00 pm
Ostend Market, Waiheke Island
Auckland – Banners around Tamaki Makaurau at Eden Park
Saturday 17 August
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm (note Change of time)
Sandringham side of Kingsland railway station. Cnr Sandringham and Walters Roads
Text Steve for details (dependant on wind speeds)
Auckland – Rally and March to Stop the war on Children
Sunday 18 August
2:00 pm
Te Komititanga – Britomart Square
Thames – Vigil to Stop the war on Children
(by The Basket – Social and Environmental Justice – Hauraki)
First Saturday of the month
Tauranga – Flag waving for Palestine
Saturday 17 August
11:00 am – 12:00 noon
Papamoa Shopping center, Domain & Gravatt Rd, Papamoa
Hamilton – Rally and March to Stop the war on Children
Saturday 17 August
TBC
Check the PSNA Facebook events page
Raglan – Movie – Where Olive Trees Weep ($10 Koha)
Wednesday 28 August
7:00 pm
Raglan Old School Arts Center, Raglan
Cambridge – Rally to Stop the war on Children
Every Saturday
11:00 am
Cambridge Town Hall
Gisborne – Farmers Market – Vigil to Stop the war on Children
Every Saturday
9:30 – 11:30 am
Gisborne Farmers Market
Rotorua – Rally to Stop the war on Children
Every Thursday
4:00 pm
Rotorua Lakes Council, Haupapa Street (Sir Howard Morrison Corner)
Napier – Rally to Stop the war on Children
Saturday 17 August
11:30 am
Marine Parade Soundshell Roundabout
Hastings – Rally to Stop the war on Children
Sunday 18 August
1:00 pm
Hastings Town Clock – Hastings CBD
Palmerston North – Rally to Stop the war on Children
Sunday 18 August
2:00 pm
The Square, Palmerston North
New Plymouth – Flags on the Bridge
Friday 16 August
4:30 pm
Paynters Ave Bridge
New Plymouth – Rally and March to Stop the war on Children
Saturday 17 August
1:00 pm
The Landing, 1 Ariki Street, New Plymouth
Whanganui – Film – Israelism
Friday 16 August
7:30 pm
Davis Lecture Theatre, Watt Street Whanganui
Whanganui – Rally to Stop the war on Children
Saturday 17 August
11:00 am
Riverside Market, Whanganui
Carterton – Vigil to Stop the war on Children
Every Tuesday
12:00 midday
Memorial Square.
Martinborough – Vigil to Stop the war on Children
Every Wednesday
11:00 am
The square at the top of Kitchener St, Martinborough
Masterton – Vigil to Stop the war on Children
Every Sunday
9:30 am
Town Hall Lawn
Featherston – Gathering for Gaza
Every Saturday
11:00 am
The Squircle (opposite the op shop).
Wellington – Vigil for Palestine (by Aotearoa Healthcare Workers for Palestine)
Every Friday
6:00 pm
In front of Wellington Hospital
49 Riddiford Street, Newtown, Wellington
Wellington – Flags on the Bridge
(hosted by the Falastin Tea Collective)
Every Friday
7:45 – 8:45 am
Hill Street bridge Overbridge, Wellington
Wellington – Rally and March to Stop the war on Children Rally
(hosted by Collective groups of Wellington)
Saturday 10 August
2:00 pm
Midland Park, Wellington
South Island
Nelson – Rally
Saturday 17 August
10:30 am
1903 Square, Upper Trafalgar Street, Nelson
Blenheim – Rally to Stop the war on Children
Saturday 17 August
11:00 am
Blenheim Railway Station
Christchurch – Flag Waving for Palestine
Friday 16 August
4:00 – 6:00 pm
Bridge of Remembrance, Cashel Street, Christchurch
Christchurch – Food for Peace – Kai and Fundraising for families in Gaza
Saturday 17 August
12:00 noon – 2:00 pm
Risingholme, 22 Cholmondeley Avenue, Opawa, Christchurch
Timaru – Movie – Where Olive Trees Weep
Sunday 18 August
10:00 am
Movie Max, Timaru
Dunedin
Saturday 17 August
No Rally this weekend
Queenstown – Kōrero with University of Otago’s Dr Leon Goldsmith
Hosted by the Catalyst Trust
Sunday 18 August
6:00 -7.30pm
The Rees Hotel Queenstown’s Ruma Wai Kahu on the fifth floor
Bookings essential – https://events.humanitix.com/the-complex-middle-east-context-of-the-gaza-war/tickets
Invercargill – Rally to Stop the war on Children
Sunday 18 August
1:00 pm
Wachner place Invercargill
Big rain forecast late Saturday and most of Sunday in my neck of the woods so our protest might not go ahead.
“Meanwhile the wholesale slaughter of Palestinian civilians goes on unreported.”
Further evidence that our (mainstream) media works for the interests of the powerful thus against the interests of the powerless – we the people. Our govt won’t change its position because our media is subservient to it and these positions will not change because the information is not getting through to the general public, thus there is little pressure being exerted from the public onto govt/media for them to change. Exactly the way the powerful want it. And of course, this is a typical dynamic all across the world hence why genocide, mass slaughter and wars rage on, with every likelihood of these calamities growing in scale.
Information is king, the general public is being starved of relevant information and this genocide is thee most obvious example of this. If you want the truth, if you want an end to war, then move away from mainstream media folks….
Finally, “rules based order”, who are they, they are nothing more than the handful of countries, spearheaded by the USA who shuns International Law, hence their own rule of law known as the “rules based order”.
I support the Palestine fight for freedom like I support the Ukranioan fight for freedom. Its the same issue
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