Films, forums, actions, quiz nights… Adelaide, Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney… View the CJPP Current Events page to see a listing of events on in your state, then get along, get active, get involved!
“Open Shuhada Street 2012” 5:30pm Friday 24 Feb 2012 Norton St., Leichhardt -organised by Leichhardt Friends of Hebron
Student action for Palestine and Israeli Apartheid Week on Sydney campuses: more details here…
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“The world watches as tragedy unfolds beneath its gaze. Khader Adnan is entering his 61st day as a hunger striker in an Israeli prison, being held under an administrative detention order without trial, charges, or any indication of the evidence against him.” Read this article by Richard Falk a distinguished academic lawyer who is currently serving his third year of a six-year term as a UN Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights.
Contact Kevin Rudd’s office – ask our government to insist Israel either releases Khader or charges him and that they end the practice of administrative detention.
Hon Kevin Rudd MP Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs
Telephone: (02) 6277 7500 Fax: (02) 6273 4112
More info: AMNESTY UN PRESS RELEASE
Write to the newspapers: letters@theaustralian.com.au, letters@smh.com.au, letters@theage.com.au
Hal Wootten discusses Peter Kosminsky’s The Promise – recently screened on SBS and about to be released on DVD:
“Apologists for special interests have a choice. They can be open to The Promise as one of many ways a film about the Israel–Palestine conflict could be made, they can accept its challenge to seek solutions, they can learn from it, even if some of the lessons may be painful, and they can offer competing views and interpretations and emphasise different points if they wish. Alternatively they can firmly close their minds, refuse to recognise the challenge or seek solutions, resist any lessons they could learn, and seek to suppress the film.”
Read the whole article at http://inside.org.au/much-too-promised-land/
13 February 2012 [Sydney Morning Herald]: Political stance on Palestine is out of step with public opinion - Peter Manning
“…The overwhelming trend [in opinion polls] shows a sharp swing since the 1980s against Israel’s image and actions among ordinary Australians. The fact of the current disjunction between government policy and public attitudes on the Israel-Palestine issue receives almost no publicity, unlike polls on Afghanistan. But it is becoming increasingly difficult to hide.”
View full article on SMH website here >>>
View results of 2011 Opinion Poll and 2009 Opinion Poll conducted by Roy Morgan Research on our website.
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