*****NEW PROTESTS AS ISRAEL LAUNCHES GROUND INVASION INTO GAZA**** SPREAD THE WORD

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• Emergency Demonstration Sun 4 January 2pm
Israeli Embassy, High St, Kensington, London
(Nearest tube High Street Kensington.)

• Daily protests 5 - 9 January, 5.30pm-7.00pm
Israeli Embassy, High St, Kensington, London

• National Demonstration: Saturday 10 January
March to Israeli Embassy,
High St Kensington, London
Stop Israel's crime against humanity

Stop the War is asking all its local groups outside of London to book coaches or arrange other transport to help make this the biggest demonstration yet seen in this country in the cause of Palestinian freedom.

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NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION - HANDS OFF GAZA: STOP THE BOMBING: FREE PALESTINE

Saturday 3rd January, Assemble 12:30pm, Embankment, London, W2, Nearest Tube: Embankment or Charring Cross

*Mass protest at Israeli Embassy, Saturday 3 January, 4-6pm*

Following Saturday’s national demonstration, there will be a mass protest outside the Israeli Embassy from 4.00 – 6.00 pm. Please join if you are attending the national demonstration. Saturday 3 January 4 - 6pm Kensington High Street (Nearest tube High Street Kensington)


*PLEASE INVITE ALL YOUR CONTACTS TO THIS EVENT*

--ARRANGE TRANSPORT ASAP IF TRAVELLING FROM OUTSIDE LONDON - National coaches: http://www.stopwar.org.uk--

(BELOW IS A LIST OF OTHER DEMONSTRATIONS IN LONDON AND AROUND THE COUNTRY)
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Israel has launched a terror bombing against the people of Gaza, with over 300 hundred dead and many hundreds more injured. Not content after three days of devastating slaughter, the Israeli government promises more barbarity to come. The head of the Israeli military says, "This is only the beginning". The people of Gaza are asking, if this is only the beginning, what will the end look like? (See http://tinyurl.com/83b7el)

An eye witness describes what happens when the world's fourth most heavily armed nation rains down such devastation on the civilians of the world's most densely populated area:

"People are going through the dead terrified of recognizing a family member among them. The streets are strewn with their bodies, their arms, legs, feet, some with shoes and some without… Hospitals and morgues cannot cope and some of the dead are still lying in the streets with their families gathered around them, kissing their faces, holding on to them. Outside the destroyed buildings old men are kneeling on the floor weeping. Their slim hopes of finding their sons still alive vanished after taking one look at what had become of their office buildings." (See http://tinyurl.com/82fuho)

Protests against these atrocities have already taken place across the world with two big demonstrations in London, called at the shortest notice, blocking the roads to the Israeli Embassy.

Now a national emergency demonstration in London has been organised for Saturday 3 January. Called by Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Stop the War Coalition, British Muslim Initiative and many more organisations, the demonstration will assemble at Embankment, central London, at 12:30pm. The nearest tube stations are Embankment and Charring Cross.

We need to mobilise in the largest possible numbers for the emergency demonstration. Gordon Brown needs to be reminded that Tony Blair's support for Israel's attack on Lebanon in 2006 lead to him being forced from office. The British government must call for the bombing to stop now and for an end to Israel's illegal blockade of Gaza over the past year, which has inflicted near starvation and lack of essential resources on its people.

Please do all you can to mobilise for the emergency
demonstration:

* Spread the word as widely as you can among your friends, neighbours, work colleagues, fellow students.

* Download the demonstration flyer from the Stop the War website, photocopy or print it, distribute it as widely as you can (available shortly http://www.stopwar.org.uk/)

* Take leaflets to your local community centre, mosque,
church, etc. Help leaflet tube and bus stations.

Stop the War is asking all of its local groups around the
country to mobilise support for the demonstration as widely as possible.

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NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION - HANDS OFF GAZA: STOP THE BOMBING: FREE PALESTINE

Saturday 3rd January, Assemble 12:30pm, Embankment, London, W2. Nearest Tube: Embankment or Charring Cross

*PLEASE INVITE ALL YOUR CONTACTS TO THIS EVENT*

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OTHER DEMONSTRATIONS IN LONDON:

TUESDAY 30 DECEMBER, 2 - 4pm outside Israeli Embassy,
Kensington High Street, London, W4. Nearest tube
Kensingston High Street (turn right out of tube station and walk along the main road.

WEDNESDAY 31 DECEMBER, 2 - 4pm outside Israeli Embassy

THURSDAY 1 JANUARY, 2 - 4pm outside Israeli Embassy

FRIDAY 2 JANUARY 2 - 4 pm. Outside the Egyptian Embassy, 26 South Street, London, W1K 1DW. Call for Egypt to open the border immediately.

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DEMONSTRATIONS ROUND THE COUNTRY PLUS COACHES TO NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION IN LONDON

WARWICK
Israeli ambassador to the UK speaking at Warwick university - Wednesday 31 December. Emergency demonstration called. Assemble between 10-11 am, Warwick University campus.
GETTING TO WARWICK:
With a young person’s railcard, getting a Chiltern train from Marylebone from London for the day will be £11 return. Get off at Leamington and take the bus 12 (across the road) to Warwick University.
Euston trains stop at Coventry train station. A bus 12 will get you to Warwick University

GLASGOW
Saturday 3 January 11:20am. Outside Lloyds TSB St Vincent Street then assemble for demo at Blytheswood Square 12:30pm

EDINBURGH
Saturday 3 January 12 noon. Foot of the Mound, Princes Street

Scotland: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/event.php?eid=115719145111&ref=nf

BIRMINGHAM
Demo in Birmingham on Friday 2nd Jan, outside Waterstones, from 5-6 p.m.

Coach leaving for National Demonstration in London from Carrs Lane Church,
Carrs Lane, Birmingham City Centre
Tickets: ₤8 (Unemployed) and ₤12 (Employed)
To book seats and pay on day, call Naeem Malik on: 07721427690

10 additional coaches organised by MAB leaving from Birmingham Central Mosque - please see www.birminghamrespect.tk for further details on Birmingham coaches.

BRADFORD
coaches leave for national demo in London on Sat 3rd Jan at 07.45am outside the Old Building, Bradford College, Gt Horton Road. Please phone to book: 01274 666799 or 01924 442000 Mobile 07980294410.

MANCHESTER
Action Palestine has booked a coach to go from Manchester to the national demo in London this saturday. Tickets cost £10, although if you can afford to pay slightly more that would be great as the tickets dont cover the price of hiring the coach.
We would prefer if you could pay for your ticket before saturday, find Nasreen or Josh at the vigil in Picadilly gardens 5-6pm.
We will be leaving from the students union on oxford road (M13 9PR) at 7.15am, and returning around 10pm.
If you would like a seat, please get in touch as soon as possible as places are very limited.
Nasreen
07599832052

NEWCASTLE
Sat 3 January 12noon-2pm, Grey's Monument, Newcastle

LIVERPOOL
Saturday 3rd January, 12 noon steps of St Lukes Church at the top of Bold Street.

BRISTOL
Centre, opposite the Hippodrome, Tuesday - Friday 5.00 - 6.00 and Saturday 3.00 - 4.00.

LEEDS
Saturday 3rd Jan - March for Gaza - assemble 12.30pm for 1pm outside Leeds Art Gallery, Headrow, Leeds
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=42539002538

Coaches for national demo leave at 07.45am Leeds University parkinson steps Harehills Pakistani Centre and West Yorkshire Playhouse phone to book: 01274 666799 or 01924 442000 Mobile 07980 294410.

CARDIFF
Tuesday 30 December 12 to 1pm. outside Cardiff Market/ St John's Church, the Hayes

Wednesday 31 December New Year Vigil. Nye Bevan Statue, Queen Street

Three coaches will be leaving from Cardiff for National Demonstration in London on Sat 3rd Jan. More then 120 people registered so far.
email samotri@hotmail.com or call/txt 07894218343 if you like to join
12 pounds (waged) + 10 (unwaged)

SWANSEA
Potest: Saturday 3 Jan 13.00 Castle Square, Swansea.

And....Bus leaving the Uplands at 9am Sat for the London demo. Please contact Ally tjellyrollbustle@googlemail.com for further info.

TUNBRIDGE WELLS
Saturday at 12 noon outside the royal victoria place shopping center in Tunbridge Wells town center.

SOUTHAMPTON
Tuesday 30 December 12 to 2pm, West Quay Entrance, High Street

NORWICH
Saturday 3 January, 12 noon-1pm, opposite the forum.

NOTTINGHAM
Tuesday 30 December 12 noon, Market Square.

LEICESTER
A coach will leave for national demo on Sat 3rd Jan from Leicester at 9.00am, from 105 Gwendolen Road, Leicester, LE5 5FL. £5 per person. Organised by Friends of Al-Aqsa.
Call to book your place – 07825446859 or 07980907420, or email info@aqsa.org.uk

For those of you unable to attend London, there is a demonstration in Leicester 12 - 2pm at the Clock Tower 3rd Januray 2009

LANCASHIRE
Lancashire-wide demo for Sunday 4 Jan at 1.15pm in Preston Flagmarket - Hands off Gaza; Freedom for Palestine!

EXETER
Saturday 3rd January Bedford Square from noon to 2 pm.

PORTSMOUTH
Saturday 3 January 11am, Guildhall Square
Organised by Portsmouth Network for a Just Settlement of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, and Portsmouth Stop the War Coalition

HULL
Saturday 3 January, 11am. Queen Victoria Square.