Viva Palestina - meeting for convoy

Viva Palestina Email Alert
25th February 2009

A week of solidarity with Gaza
7th - 14th March 2009

The Viva Palestina team have been over-whelmed by the generousity, solidarity and kindness of all those who have supported the convoy - as it has first been organised, then it departed and now as it has then travelled several thousand kilometres across Europe and north Africa. We are full of admiration for our sisters and brothers who are daily pushing themselves to the limit to take much needed aid to Gaza.

Sadly, the national media in Briatin have decided that the Viva Palestina convoy and, it seems, the plight of Gaza is no longer the news it once was - and they have moved on in search of new stories. But for millions the issue of Palestine and the siege of Gaza remains THE issue on the global stage.

So we are suggesting that in the areas where the convoy has had such a huge resonance - and indeed in paces where the majority have yet to hear of us - we try and keep the convoy in the news. We are suggesting that people try and organise to be part of a "week of solidarity" to take place between March 7th and March 14th.

That week, which will coincide with the convoy reaching Egypt and then Gaza, could involve a range of events - large and small across the county - to raise funds and awareness for the convoy and the situation in Gaza.

Suggestions include:-

* Fund-raising dinners at a local restaurant;
* Bring and buy sales or jumble sales;
* A get-together in someone's house to discuss the convoy and solidarity with Palestine or celebate Palestinian culture and food;
* Meetings in colleges or universities;
* Leafleting of the local high street, mosques and other place of worship.
(We have psoted a high resolution flyer - suitable for professional printers at http://www.vivapalestina.org/resources.htm

Infcat, please think of any activity that can bring people together - in love and solidarity of our besieged friends in Gaza. Let us free our imaginations.

If you are able to organise any event please let us know at website@vivapalestina.org (title your email week of Solidarity event) and we will post up the events on the website. But don't forget to let your local newspaper, especially the freesheets, know as they are more likely to report than the national press.

Let us come together to show the people of Gaza that they have not been forgotten.

Viva Palestina!