We March!

Let’s lift the numbers of people on this Rally and March.

We need thousands of people rallying at Britomart and then marching up Queens Street to Aotea Square to make our politicians hear our voices.

Its been more than 22 Months of the Deliberate Israeli Genocide in Gaza.

Israel has chased Palestinians from one end of Gaza to the other end and back again.

It has destroyed Every Functioning Hospital and through its blockade of Medical supplies, guaranteed Palestinians will die of their wounds.

Over the last few months, Israel has implemented a Deliberate Starvation Genocide of Gaza.

Just the other day, Israel tracked down and Murdered 4 Al Jazera Journalists. Desperately Murdering the Media to stop the Truth getting out.

Join us as we make our call to this indifferent Government heard:
Let Gaza live. Sanction Israel.

Bring your flags, banners and energy as we rally for Palestine.

Spread the word. Bring your family and friends.

1. Nationwide Rally (and Marches) this Saturday 16 August
2. Counter-Terrorism Laws Review
3. Sodastream Boycott Campaign continues
4. Events around Tamaki Makaurau
5. Events around Aotearoa
6. BDS targets
7. Significant dates

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• Undermines democratic oversight and transparency.
• Ignores risks of laws being misused to target legitimate protest, including solidarity with Palestine, Māori, Muslims affected by the Christchurch massacre, Environmental and other indigenous solidarity struggles.
• Mirrors troubling Western trends where "counterterrorism" stifles advocacy and human rights especially for Palestinians.

I demand the Ministry of Justice:

1. Immediately include the NZCCL, Palestinian, Muslim organisations affected by Islamophobic attacks and Māori lawyers and iwi organisations for Te Tiriti context in all consultations.
2. Publicly release the stakeholder list and terms of reference.
3. Guarantee future reviews are open and rights-respecting including Māori, Palestinian, Muslim, NZCCL and Environmental representation.
4. Must not follow other Western governments criminalising dissent for advocacy for Palestine.
5. Determine whether the establishment of a permanent FBI office would constitute foreign interference under our current legislation and whether it is in our region’s interest given the US FBI director singling out our largest trading partner and given its horrendous spying and militaristic domestic actions against its own citizens and human rights leaders since inception.

This feedback is to be made available to the public and is not to be redacted. I look forward to hearing from you on the next steps.

Ngā mihi nui

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• Every weekday – Sign holding at the US Consulate @ 3:00 pm and then at Te Komititanga Britomart Square – 4:00 – 5:00 pm
• Wednesday 13 August – Leafletting blitz for the National Mobilisation on August 16 – Email AK-Leaflets for more information
• Thursday – Sumud series continues @ 6:00 pm
• Famine Fridays at Your Local MP’s office from 9:00 am onwards
• Every Saturday – Information Stall on Waiheke @ 8:00 am – 1:00 pm
• Every Saturday – Banners around Tamaki Makaurau @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm (Note – Locations change each week) Text John on 021 899 659 for details
• NOTE – Saturday August 16 – Nationwide Mobilisation – Rally and March at Britomart
• Saturday August 16 – Fundraiser Film Evening @ 5:30 pm – To Kill a War Machine
• Monday 18 August – Zoom planning meeting @ 7:00 pm.
• Wednesday 20 August – Pickets at Rocket lab at Mt Wellington @ 11:30 am and at Warkworth @ 1:00 pm
• Saturday 23 August – Rally at Te Komiotitanga Britomart Square @ 2:00 pm

Please Scroll down for more details of each of the events above.

• Go to the PSNA Homepage – www.PSNA.nz
• Scroll down to the button “CLICK THIS BUTTON TO GO TO THE PSNA FACEBOOK EVENTS PAGE – CHECK BACK OFTEN FOR UPDATES”
• Click the button
• Check back on Friday for any moves, adds or changes

Or just click here.

Again, there are more than 30 events/rallies around the country this week.

Week days:

• 3:00 pm @ the US Consulate on Customs Street East
• 4:00 pm @ Te Komititanga Square Britomart

If you get a chance, please make time to join Marika at the US Consulate or at Britomart Square.

If you want to be part of the leafletting team, please email ak-leaflets to let Anna know you want to be part of this initiative.

Matthias Engelke in Büchel, Germany has decided to fast every Friday until the people of Gaza have sufficient food, medicine, and clean water. He says, "The current threat of mass famine in the Gaza Strip requires the solidarity of all people of good will”. He says, “I invite everyone to join this fast and spread the word in their own way." Those participating in the fast can contact Rev. Dr. Matthias-W. Engelke at distelwenk. Let him know if your name can be published in this context.

Please take an empty bowl and spoon to hit it with. Maybe sitting outside your Local MP’s office when they are in town on a Friday or Saturday.

Get some fliers to hand out to people as they visit their local MP. Maybe go into the office to explain what you are doing and leave a flier with them.

• Every Saturday
• 8:00 am – 1:00 pm
• Ostend Market, Waiheke Island

It is great to see the level of support the team receives from motorists and passing public to the banners. There are very few Pro Israel Genocide supporters who pass by.

Banners are on:

• Every Saturday
• 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
• Text John on 021 899 659 for more details

• Saturday 16 August
• 5:30 pm
• Aaiotanga, 22 Emily Place,Auckland CBD

Free Entry – Koha apperciated.

Masks reccommended and available free.

• Monday August 18
• 7:00 pm
• Email Admin@PSNA.nz for zoom number

Auckland
11:30 am – 1:30 pm
25 Levene Place, Mount Wellington, Auckland

Warkworth
1:00 pm
73 Woodcocks Road, Warkworth

– Email AK-Ride for transport options to Warkworth

• Saturday 23 August – Rally at Te Komititanga / Britomart Square @ 2:00 pm
• Wednesday 27 August – Picket at the UK Consulate 151 Queen Street @ 12:00 mid day

• Sodastream
• Ahava skin care products
• HP (Hewlett-Packard)
• BP and Caltex
• McDonalds

The next Target for BDS in Aotearoa is Sodastream.

There are a number of Boycott apps you can load onto your phone to make Boycotting products easier:

BoyCat

• https://bdsmovement.net/BDS-Has-Partnered-With-Boycat-App

Halal Kiwi

• https://halalkiwi.com/

No Thanks

• Google Play
• Apple

Editor’s picks

• World Food Programme warns of mass starvation in Gaza here
• The nature of the new Israeli Uranium bombs: Evidence from Beirut here
• Rafah no longer exists. This is part of Israel’s plan to permanently occupy Gaza here
• Open letter to Fijians – why is our country supporting Israel’s heinous crimes in Gaza here
• Israeli air strike hits Gaza children’s hospital here
• PSNA calls on government to initiate global plea for no-fly zone over Gaza here
• Israel accused at ICJ of using aid as weapons of war and trying to destroy the Palestinian people here

• Ben-Gvir: US Republicans support bombing Gaza ‘food and aid depots’ here
• Israeli forces install two iron gates at entrances to Jenin camp here
• Lebanon: Indiscriminate Israeli Attacks on Civilians here
• How Israel became fascist and what we can do to stop it here
• On moral panic and the courage to speak on the west’s silence on Gaza here
• Homage paid to Pope Francis at NZ street theatre rally for Palestine here
• All the worst evils are happening right out in the open here
• Israel’s endgame for tormented Gaza is political and physical erasure here
• All those who have stood by as Israel exterminates Gaza are guilty here
• The generals of Islamabad and their Zionist daydream here
• Smorgasbord of thousands of Australian military aid to the Israeli military in Gaza revealed here
• ‘This administration does not want any dissent’: breaking down Trump’s attacks on Middle East Studies programs here
• Israel Is Using Suicide Drones to Target Displaced Palestinian Families Sheltering in Tents here
• Why I violated the IHRA definition of anti-semitism here
• Israel Is Using Suicide Drones to Target Displaced Palestinian Families Sheltering in Tents here
• Israel Is Using U.S. Bombs in Lebanon to Commit Alleged War Crimes here
• ‘Israel Doesn’t Want Peace’: Jeffrey Sachs FIERY DEFENCE Of Hamas’ Oct. 7 Attack, Then Explains Why here
• John Hobbs: Why New Zealand government should back Greens sanctions bill on Israel over Gaza genocide here

We will need some serious money to make our campaign as effective as possible. For example, we will need somewhere in the vicinity of $25,000 to bring speakers to New Zealand over the next year and organise large public meetings to help spread the message.

You can help. Are you able to donate a cup of coffee a month to the campaign? In other words, can you afford to make an automatic payment of $5 per month to support the Palestinian struggle? (If you can afford more that would be great!)

Our account details are:
Account name: Palestine Solidarity Network
Account number: 38-9015-0849542-00

We are happy to provide a receipt upon request (however, we are not a registered charity so this is not tax-deductible)

I worked in the Beehive for 3 years as a Ministerial Advisor, until just after the 2020 election. I’ve seen plenty of Treasury documents. When the latest Treasury Long-Term Insight Briefing was released, I thought it would be another well-thought-through, if occasionally dull, document. Instead, we had what Sir Michael Cullen would refer to as an “Ideological burp”. A blast straight from the past. It’s not often I am lost for words, but this is right up there.

Because of mainstream news media complicity, daily headlines and commentary only occasionally ever mention the relentless Israeli violence in Palestine, not even the frequent air strikes!

However, daily news and statistics regarding the violence Palestinians are forced to live under are regularly reported on in the “In Occupied Palestine daily newsletter”, sourced and compiled for easy reading and correlation chiefly from the Palestinian Monitoring Group’s daily situation reports.

The In Occupied Palestine daily newsletter continues to be circulated, by email, worldwide to subscribers only, as it has been over the last two decades.

Please contact Leslie if you also wish to become a subscriber.

• Forward this Newsletter – If you know people who may be interested in this movement, please forward this Newsletter to them. They can sign up themselves by emailing Secretary
• Join in local activities in your area monthly Rallies – Please consider doing the same in your community. Contact Secretary if you would like to know where and how to get Flags and Banners
• Help set up a Students for Justice in Palestine group on your campus
• Tell Your MP your opinions on Divestment and Sanctions of Israel
• Write Letters to Newspapers – Call Talkback Radio
• Keep in touch with the campaign on social media
  • Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa website: www.PSNA.nz
  • Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa Facebook page
  • Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa email: Secretary@PSNA.nz
• The Palestine Human Rights Campaign produces the In Occupied Palestine newsletter. It is a regular daily newsletter on the daily situation in Palestine, compiled by Leslie Bravery and emailed to subscribers. If you would also like to become a subscriber please contact Leslie at "sumud1 @ outlook. com" (Remove the spaces to use an an email address) for further information.
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Other groups supporting Palestinian Rights

• Preserved Identity (Palestinian products)
• Boycott Divestment and Sanctions NZ
• Kia Ora Gaza
• Letters for Palestine
• Auckland Peace Action
• Global Peace and Justice Auckland
• Auckland Uni – Students for Justice in Palestine
• Massey Uni – Students for Justice in Palestine
• Tamaki Loves Palestine
• Justice for Palestine
• Palestine Human Rights Campaign
• Pax Christi Aotearoa

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