Monday, March 30, 2009

Two Palestine solidarity events Thurs 2 April


There will be two Palestine solidarity events organised by the Friends of Palestine on this coming Thursday 2 April.

PROTEST -- 11am

Protest the "signature event of the year" of the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce
Assemble 11.00am Thursday April 2nd
outside the grand ballroom
Burswood entertainment complex
Great Eastern Highway, Burswood

From the Friends of Palestine:
This Thursday April 2nd, the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce will be holding what its own website describes as its 'signature event of the year'. The guest speaker will be David Bussau, a microfinance guru whom the AICC calls "an inspiring social entrepreneur who has been hailed for his innovative approach to world poverty." Strange then that Mr Bussau chooses to address a business lobby group whose very reason for being is to promote economic relations with a state that systematically terrorises and impoverishes its indigenous population. Presumably Mr Bussau is unaware of the fact the unemployment rate in the Gaza Strip is somewhere in the region of 90% and that its GDP per capita is lower than that obtaining in Mozambique? Or that the agricultural economy of Palestine is literally being destroyed root and branch?



CAMPAIGN LAUNCH -- 6pm

"Boycott Divestment & Sanctions" campaign launch by Friends of Palestine WA
6.00pm Thursday April 2nd
Great Southern Room, Alexander Library
PICA complex, Perth city
Entry by donation


Visit www.fopwa.org for information about Friends of Palestine