Manchester Amnesty Weekly Action and News 17/01/2025
Manchester Amnesty Weekly Action and News
Please do this action and make a difference
Whatever happens in the next few days with respect to a ceasefire, unless the Israeli Government changes course, Israel will compel UNRWA to stop operating in Israel and Palestine (the Occupied Palestinian Territory) by 30 January. Yet more Palestinian civilians will die of hunger in Gaza, and West Bank refugees will suffer grievously.
Please write to your MP now to press our Government to work urgently to prevent this destructive action by the Israeli Government. UNRWA is literally irreplaceable in Gaza, and delivers essential health and education services in the West Bank.
If you click the link below and type in your postcode, the email will be addressed automatically to your MP. Please feel free to amend the draft. When you receive your MP’s response, please share it with the Balfour Project, who have set up this action, by emailing it to info@balfourproject.org.
***THIS EVENING*** MANCHESTER AMNESTY SILENT VIGIL for Palestine and Israel
St Peters Square, Manchester, Friday 17th January, 5-6pm.
Please do not bring placards, banners or flags.
We will provide placards with Amnesty’s messages, and tea-lights. Feel free to bring your friends.
2025 annual subscriptions are now due!
Subscriptions are voluntary. We suggest £20 or £5 yearly, but feel free to pay whatever you wish.
You can pay via bank transfer - it would help our planning if you could set up a standing order.
Account name: Manchester Amnesty Group Acct number: 68177527 Sort code: 05-05-73
If you wish to pay another way, please contact our treasurer sean.a.dunne@btinternet.com
Save the dates!
7th June, 2025
Human Rights Festival – Sefton Park, Liverpool (see attached flyer)
5th and 6th July 2025
Amnesty International UK, Annual General Meeting and National Conference, Birmingham
More information to follow about both of these events
Non Amnesty events and actions
Charity Ceilidh Night
Friday 31st January, 7-10:30pm, Chorlton Central Church, corner of Zetland Road.
A night of live folk music, ceilidh dancing led by an expert caller, and delicious food - all supporting Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP)'s crucial work for the health and dignity of Palestinians.
BOOK NOW (last year’s event sold out quickly!)
Rethink Rebuild Society have issued this newsletter for the second half of 2024, celebrating recent developments in Syria, and packed with news about activities that have taken place over the past 6 months.
Greater Manchester Friends of Palestine and other organisations
Stop the BBC’s support for Israel!
Demonstration, Saturday, 18th January, 12.00-14.30, BBC HQ, Media City, M50 2NT
Whalley Range Peace and Justice Stand with Palestine
Each Wednesday 4.30-5.30 at Brooks Bar M16 7RN
Didsbury against genocide, rally, every Wednesday, 5.30-6.30pm outside the Library.
Levenshulme Peace and Justice for Palestine All out for Palestine
Each Thursday, 5-6pm, Levenshulme Village Green, junction of Stockport Rd & Chapel St
Good news
United States of America - On January 6, 2025, 11 detainees, held without charge or trial in the Guantanamo Bay detention centre and whose release had been authorized for some time, were transferred to Oman.
Greece - On 7 January 2025, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that there is "serious evidence to support" a practice of systematic pushbacks by the Greek authorities from the Evro River region to Turkey, an illegal practice denounced for years by Amnesty International.
Saudi Arabia - On 8 January 2025, human rights defenders Mohammad al-Qahtani and Issa Al-Nukhaifi, both Amnesty International's prisoners of conscience, were released almost two years after the end of their sentences of more than ten years in prison.
Manchester Amnesty issue and campaign coordinators
Anti-racism –Hazel Errey hazelerrey@gmail.com
Craftivism – Lima Al-Iskalachi limazakoor@gmail.com
Europe/ Turkey Fatih Segmen - fsegmen@yahoo.com
Human Rights in the UK volunteer needed
Individuals at Risk (bi-monthly appeal writing drop ins and Write for Rights in Nov/Dec) – Anne Walker is stepping down volunteer needed anne.walker9@ntlworld.com, sarabm6@gmail.com
Israel's Apartheid Against Palestinians - Mike Reed mikewreed101@gmail.com
LGBTQ+ and Pride – Zoe Song weiyi.zoe.song@gmail.com
Press freedom and Julian Assange – Lima Al-iskalachi limazakoor@gmail.com & Danny Jones dannyj644@gmail.comsu
Refugees Whatsapp group – Alison Wearden alison.wearden@gmail.com
UAE – Kathryn Fletcher bussk@btinternet.com
Our website Manchester | Amnesty International UK [amnesty.org.uk] (managed by Alison Wearden)
X/Twitter @amnestymanc [twitter.com] (managed by Steve Lindsay – stevenjameslindsay@gmail.com)
Facebook Manchester Amnesty Group [facebook.com] MANAGER NEEDED!
Instagram @amnestymanchester [instagram.com] (we are in the process of recruiting a new manager)
Alison Wearden
Communications Secretary
Manchester Group of Amnesty International
Please contact me with items for our Weekly Action and News email, or with ideas for longer articles for the quarterly Manchester Amnesty Group Bulletin.
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