PNP SOLIDARITY WITH THE INTIFIDA
People not Profit is outraged by the recent events in Palestine, and by the mainstream media’s slant on them. The fighting is often presented as a war between equal sides, whereas an army of occupation, i.e. Israel, is oppressing and murdering an impoverished minority community within its so-called borders. Of the 300 plus deaths in the uprising, the vast majority have been Palestinians, many of them youths throwing stones killed by tanks and helicopter gunships. Atrocities committed against Palestinians are hardly mentioned, in contrast to the much smaller number of Israeli victims. This racist bias is not new or surprising. The setting up of the state of Israel in 1948, masterminded by the US and Britain, was a brutal violation of the Palestinians’ right to live in their own homeland. They were violently evicted from their homes, their villages bulldozed, and whole communities massacred. All this was justified in the name of Biblical prophecy - that a homeland for the Jews should be set up in Palestine – Zionism. This whole Zionist cause was used to create a Middle East state which is bankrolled by the US to keep control of the area and its people, oil, resources and profits. The West Bank and Gaza Strip today are like a vast sealed prison camp. The Israeli authorities close roads and border crossings arbitrarily, stopping freedom of movement, and cut off electricity and water supplies without warning. Palestinian farms are still being burned down and their land illegally seized by Jewish settlers. Events are taking place in Liverpool to mark the horror of the Holocaust, organised by Sefton Holocaust Memorial Project, for local schoolchildren. It is necessary and right that new generations should be taught about that history, but how ironic that a Zionist state, which claims to represent Jewish people who have suffered pogroms for centuries, is itself oppressing another people. And new generations also need to learn about other holocausts and the one particularly relevant to this city, the Slave Trade. For more information about Palestinian history or how you can support the Palestinian cause.
See: www.oneworld.org & www.znet.org

POLITICAL PRISONERS MURDERED
People Not Profit along with people from the Turkish and Kurdish community, carried out a spontaneous protest on 23rd December on Church Street, making people aware that the Turkish Authorities were storming Turkish prisons and killing Political prisoners, many of whom had been on Hunger Strike for 60 days. The hunger strike was against the enforced plan by the Turkish government to separate prisoners from large style communal cells and put them in either solitary confinement cells or cells for two or three, thus isolating political prisoners, so they can do what they want with them. Turkey has a ruthless right-wing government and has not only bombed villages and killed 30,000 Kurdish people over the last 15 years, but it also tortures and murders Turkish political opponents. PNP and OZTUDAK got a great response from the public.
More info: Contact OZTUDAK. 02079237847 or www.labournet.net