The 2016 Oxfam One World Fair will be held in the town hall on 19
November. This is always an important event for Oxford PSC.
As always we need a team of volunteers to help with the stall. If you
can offer an hour or two between 10.00 and 4.00 on the day please let me know.
Also if you can help with delivery to the town hall at 9.00 and collection at
4.00 that would be very helpful.
Please get back to Oxford PSC if you can help and let us know
if you can offer one hour or two and if you have a preferred timeslot.
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Come
and hear Sahar Vardi, Israeli conscientious objector and peace
activist, talk on Tuesday 27th September at 7.30pm at the Friends
Meeting House, 43 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LW
Based
in Jerusalem, Sahar coordinates the Israel programme for the American Friends
Service Committee (AFSC), focusing on countering the militarisation of Israeli
society. Sahar started protesting against Israel’s treatment of the Palestinian
people at a very young age, joining her father doing agricultural work with
Palestinian villagers, mainly planting trees. She was conscripted to the
Israeli Defence Forces at age 18 but publicly refused to serve and spent several
months in military prison for conscientious objection in 2008.
Since
then, Sahar has been active with several Israeli peace and human rights groups . Today much of her activism is in Jerusalem in
Palestinian-led struggles against house demolitions, child arrest and acts of
discrimination against East Jerusalem Palestinian residents.
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continuing to run a regular stall on Cornmarket every week:
Every Saturday 11.30-1.30pm: OXFORD PSC STALL in Cornmarket by St
Michael at Northgate church. The OPSC Saturday street stall on Cornmarket
Street is one of the main ways we use for raising the issue of Palestine with
the public at large. It is an important activity
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for offering information leaflets to the
public, inviting them to join PSC or leave their email for Oxford PSC updates.
Generally we are there 11:30 to 13:30. Always a minimum of two people on shift.
Please consider volunteering for a shift: it’s an opportunity to meet other PSC
members, those wanting information and occasionally those wishing to challenge
our views, even volunteering for one shift a year would help. Please email Ali
at OPSCstall@gmail.com if you're able to help.
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Dr Ramzy Has asked me to publicise a meeting on
Thursday 22nd September at 5.30 p m , at the Multifaith Chaplaincy
room 20 at Oxford Brookes University,. It is a dialogue on Jewish-Muslim
relations to be addressed by Rebecca
Abrahamson who lives and works in
Israel, and is married to an orthodox rabbi.
