Reading PSC AGM 2013: Thu 21st March 8pm

March 12th, 2013 • Events
Tags: AGM, reading psc, risc

We will be holding our Annual General Meeting as follows:

When? 8pm Thursday 21st March 2013

Where? RISC, Reading (Room 3)

Reading International Solidarity Centre, Room 1, 35 – 39 London Street, Reading RG1 4PS

All national members and regular supporters are welcome to attend.

This is an opportunity to elect officers, and plan future activities for the local branch.

PLEASE NOTE: ONLY NATIONAL MEMBERS HAVE VOTING RIGHTS.

FILM: Five Broken Cameras at our March Meeting

March 3rd, 2013 • Events, Film & Documentary, News
Tags: film, hard crossings, meeting, november

Winner of audience prizes around the world and nominated for an Oscar, Five Broken Cameras is the story of Bil’in, a West Bank Palestinian village, whose inhabitants have long been mounting a resistance to the occupation and appropriation of their land for a neighbouring Israeli settlements. It is told via the footage of local inhabitant Emad Burnat.

A compelling, stirring and moving document of the collective struggles that daringly meshes the personal essay with political cinema.

When? 8pm Monday 11th March 2013

Where? Room 3, RISC, London Street, Reading , RG1 4PS (above the Global Cafe)

FREE refreshments will be available plus Palestinian food products and handicrafts will be for sale.
Everyone welcome to this FREE event! We look forward to seeing you!

Call our new number 0118 307 0037 or email us with questions.

Miko Peled: The General’s Son at our February Meeting

February 19th, 2013 • Events, Film & Documentary, News
Tags: film, hard crossings, meeting, november

Join us for a filmed lecture with Miko Peled, son of a famous Israeli General introducing and talking about his recent amazing book, that chronicles the opening of his eyes to the injustices endured by Palestinians and his personal journey for the struggle for justice.

When? 8pm Thursday 21st February 2013

Where? Room 3, RISC, London Street, Reading , RG1 4PS (above the Global Cafe)

FREE refreshments will be available plus Palestinian food products and handicrafts will be for sale.
Everyone welcome to this FREE event! We look forward to seeing you!

Call our new number 0118 307 0037 or email us with questions.

FILM: Hard Crossings at our November Meeting

November 6th, 2012 • Events, Film & Documentary, News
Tags: film, hard crossings, meeting, november

Come and see this hard hitting documentary film that follows the daily reality of Palestinian’s battles to negotiate the the Israeli checkpoints that criss-cross the Palestinian West Bank.

Israeli checkpoints in the occupied West Bank have become part of everyday life for the thousands of Palestinians who must pass through them daily.

Israel claims that the checkpoints are vital to stop suicide bombers entering its cities.

But critics say they are a form of collective punishment – effectively sealing off Palestinian cities, hindering travel and access to schools and medical care and jeopardising any hopes for peace.

When? 8pm Thursday 15th November 2012

Where? Room 3, RISC, London Street, Reading , RG1 4PS (above the Global Cafe)

FREE refreshments will be available plus Palestinian food products and handicrafts will be for sale.
Everyone welcome to this FREE event! We look forward to seeing you!

Call our new number 0118 307 0037 or email us with questions.

Join us for Stories from Palestine & Israel at the Reading International Festival 2012!

October 10th, 2012 • Events, News
Tags: Human rights monitor, occupied, reading, Reading International Festival, risc, Steve Hynd, territories, west bank

We’re happy to announce this FREE event as part of the Reading International Festival 2012!

Stories from Palestine & Israel

Human Rights Monitor Steve Hynd offers some moving and fascinating eye-witness accounts from his time in the Occupied Palestine Territories

WHEN? 8pm Thursday 18th October 2012

WHERE? Room 3, RISC (Above Global Cafe), 35 – 39 London Street, Reading, RG1 4PS

Refreshments, Palestinian Fairtrade Goods And Handicrafts Will Be Available.

FILM: Jaffa at our July Meeting

July 17th, 2012 • Events, Film & Documentary, News
Tags: cannes, film, meeting, november, oscar, Salt of This Sea

Due to popular demand, we’ll be screening Eyal Sivan’s film “Jaffa, the orange’s clockwork”:

… narrates the visual history of the famous citrus fruit originated from Palestine and known worldwide for centuries as “Jaffa oranges”.

The history of the orange is the history of this land. Through photography and cinema, poetry, paintings, workers of the citruses’ industry and historians, memory and present mythologies, Palestinians and Israelis cross and combine. The close reading of the Jaffa brand’s visual representation is a reflection on western orientalist phantasms surrounding the ‘holy land’ and the ‘State of Israel’ and a tool to reveal the untold story of what was once a commune industry and symbol to Arabs and Jews in Palestine.

When? 8pm Thursday 15th July 2012

Where? Room 3, RISC, London Street, Reading , RG1 4PS (above the Global Cafe)

Reading PSC AGM 2012: Sun 25th March 2-4pm

February 25th, 2012 • Events
Tags: AGM, reading psc, risc

We will be holding our Annual General Meeting as follows:

When? Sunday 25th March 2012 2-4pm

Where? RISC, Reading (Room 1)

Reading International Solidarity Centre, Room 1, 35 – 39 London Street, Reading RG1 4PS

All national members and regular supporters are welcome to attend.

This is an opportunity to elect officers, and plan future activities for the local branch.

PLEASE NOTE: ONLY NATIONAL MEMBERS HAVE VOTING RIGHTS.

FREE Talk & Film: Valley of Hope and Despair, 3 March 2-5pm

February 17th, 2012 • Events, Film & Documentary, News
Tags: film, Friends Meeting House, Quakers, reading, talk, The Friends of Wadi Fuqeen, Valley of Hope and Despair

Friends of Wadi Fuqeen will be holding a free talk and film-show about the Palestinian village of Wadi Fuqeen.

When? 2-5pm Saturday March 3, 2012

Where? The Friends Meeting House, 2 Church Street, Reading, RG1 2SB

Download: Event Flyer – Event Poster

2.30pm: Joe Odell speatks about his recent experiences in Palestine
3.15pm: Film “Valley of Hope and Despair: The Director’s Cut”, trailer:
Fairtrade tea and coffee will be available from 2pm to 5pm and Fairtrade Palestinian handicrafts and foodstuffs will be on sale throughout the afternoon.

The event is part of Fairtrade Fortnight

FILM: Gaza Lives On at our February Meeting

February 9th, 2012 • Events, Film & Documentary, News
Tags: cannes, film, meeting, november, oscar, Salt of This Sea

UPDATED: Thanks to all those that attended the meeting. Please share the film, embedded above.

As part of our February branch meeting we’ll be showing Ashraf Mashharawi’s film “Gaza Lives On”: The Israeli blockade may have taken a heavy toll on Gazans, but this film reveals life and hope among the devastation.

Some have said of the film: “… it is very precious and captures the beauty, struggle and spirit of Gazans in a very intimate way.”

“I just wanted by this film to show how people here have a nice building spirit and to show their love of life and peace so we can see this nice color pictures despite the hard conditions that they have.” – Ashraf Mashharawi

When? 8pm Thursday 16th February 2012

Where? Room 3, RISC, London Street, Reading , RG1 4PS (above the Global Cafe)

FILM: Salt of this Sea at our November Meeting

November 10th, 2011 • Events, Film & Documentary, News
Tags: cannes, film, meeting, november, oscar, Salt of This Sea

As part of our November branch meeting we’ll be showing the award-winning film “Salt of this Sea” – a 2008 Official Selection at Cannes and Palestine’s OSCAR entry for Best Foreign Language Film.

When? 8pm Thursday 17th November 2011

Where? Room 3, RISC, London Street, Reading , RG1 4PS (above the Global Cafe)

Soraya, born in Brooklyn in a working class community of Palestinian refugees, discovers that her grandfather’s savings were frozen in a bank account in Jaffa when he was exiled in 1948. Stubborn, passionate and determined to reclaim what is hers, she fulfills her life-long dream of “returning” to Palestine. Once there, slowly she is taken apart by the reality around her and is forced to confront her own anger. She meets Emad, a young Palestinian whose ambition, contrary to hers, is to leave forever. Tired of the constraints that dictate their lives, they know in order to be free, they must take things into their own hands, even if it’s illegal.