‘Defending Rights Defenders’ – public talk

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On Saturday, August 11th we were in Bedford Square, Tavistock from 11 am to 1 pm to commemorate Hiroshima and to urge our government to sign the UN Global Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty and to cancel the replacement of Trident. Trident is militarily irrelevant in dealing with the security problems we face today. Replacing Trident is hugely expensive, especially when considered in the context of cuts to other areas of government spending. The use of nuclear weapons would be illegal under international law. Replacing Trident would also be unpopular internationally, with the majority of world governments calling for a ban. Many joined us to sign our CND petition to stop Trident.
On Saturday June 16^th TPAG, with the help of one member of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign in Plymouth, held a stall in Bedford Square, Tavistock to protest about the situation in Gaza and the Israeli treatment of Palestinians. We highlighted Razan Najjar who was a 21year old medic in a white jacket treating the wounded on the Gaza border when Israeli soldiers shot her dead in the chest. Razan’s story is heart breaking, but it’s also outrageous that Israel is getting away with cold blooded murder. The UK should be condemning Israel for these war crimes and threatening sanctions at the least. We handed out 70 leaflets about her urging Theresa May to sanction Israel. Many people also signed a PSC petition and took information leaflets about the dire situation in Gaza and Palestine in general.
A talk by psychotherapist Shane Scott on “The Growing Mental Health Emergency in Present Day Palestine” was on Tuesday the 1st of May in the Friends’ Meeting House in the Bedford Car Park, Tavistock at 7.30 pm as part of our usual TPAG meeting. He was one of a group on a study tour of Palestine finding out about mental health issues there. The group was set up in the UK by the Palestine Mental Health Network. We showed a short film about the Balfour Declaration.
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September 4th 2018