Dear friends,
as Israel resumed its murderous bombardment of Gaza, hundreds of thousands around the world prepared to join the Global Day of Rage for Gaza on Saturday, 9 August. Melbourne joined the Day of Rage, holding it fifth demonstration in support of the people of Gaza in as many weeks. More than 1000 people joined the rally.
After hearing speakers at the State Library of Victoria, the protest marched through the Melbourne CBD up to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) office. At DFAT, protesters posted up the names of the Gaza dead on the windows and walls of the building to highlight not only Israel's brutality in Gaza but to also highlight the complicity of the Australian Abbott government which has continued to support Israel and its "right toself-defense", massacre the largely defenseless population of Gaza who have been locked in an open air prison for the last 8 years.
The protest organised by the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid and Students for Palestine called on the Australian Abbott government to break all ties with apartheid Israel and call on the Australian public and all people of conscience to support the Palestinian initiated Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign.
The next Melbourne event in support of Palestine is a public meeting: After Israel's massacre in Gaza: Why you should boycott apartheid Israel
You can check out photos from earlier Melbourne rallies here (1 Aug), here (26 July), here (19 July) and here (12 July). Also you can view a roundup of Australian rallies from the weekend of 19th & 20th July here.
In solidarity, Kim
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Heba from Federation of Australian Muslim Students and Youth leading a chant at the rally
as Israel resumed its murderous bombardment of Gaza, hundreds of thousands around the world prepared to join the Global Day of Rage for Gaza on Saturday, 9 August. Melbourne joined the Day of Rage, holding it fifth demonstration in support of the people of Gaza in as many weeks. More than 1000 people joined the rally.
After hearing speakers at the State Library of Victoria, the protest marched through the Melbourne CBD up to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) office. At DFAT, protesters posted up the names of the Gaza dead on the windows and walls of the building to highlight not only Israel's brutality in Gaza but to also highlight the complicity of the Australian Abbott government which has continued to support Israel and its "right to
The protest organised by the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid and Students for Palestine called on the Australian Abbott government to break all ties with apartheid Israel and call on the Australian public and all people of conscience to support the Palestinian initiated Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign.
The next Melbourne event in support of Palestine is a public meeting: After Israel's massacre in Gaza: Why you should boycott apartheid Israel
You can check out photos from earlier Melbourne rallies here (1 Aug), here (26 July), here (19 July) and here (12 July). Also you can view a roundup of Australian rallies from the weekend of 19th & 20th July here.
In solidarity, Kim
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Gaza Calling: All out on Saturday 9 August Day of Rage
Join the Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions Movement today. Demand Sanctions on Israel Now.
As we face the full might of Israel’s military arsenal, funded and supplied by the United States and European Union, we call on civil society and people of conscience throughout the world to pressure governments to sanction Israel and implement a comprehensive arms embargo immediately.
Take to the streets on Saturday 9 August with a united demand for sanctions on Israel.
From Gaza under invasion, bombardment, and continuing siege, the horror is beyond words. Medical supplies are exhausted. The death toll has reached 1813 killed (398 children, 207 women, 74 elderly) and 9370 injured (2744 children, 1750 women, 343 elderly). Our hospitals, ambulances, and medical staff are all under attack while on duty. Doctors and paramedics are being killed while evacuating the dead. Our dead are not numbers and statistics to be recounted; they are loved ones, family and friends.
While we have to survive this onslaught, you certainly have the power to help end it the same way you helped overcome Apartheid and other crimes against humanity. Israel is only able to carry out this attack with the unwavering support of governments – this support must end.
This is our third massacre in six years. When not being slaughtered, we remain under siege, an illegal collective punishment of the entire population. Fishermen are shot and killed if they stray beyond a 3 km limit imposed unilaterally by Israel. Farmers are shot harvesting their crops within a border area imposed unilaterally by Israel. Gaza has become the largest open-air prison, a concentration camp since 2006. This time, we want an end to this unprecedented crime against humanity committed with the complicity and support of your own governments!
We are not asking for charity. We are demanding solidarity, because we know that until Israel is isolated and sanctioned, these horrors will be repeated.
Take action this Saturday
Signed by
Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions
General Union of Palestinian Women
University Teachers’ Association in Palestine
Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations Network (Umbrella for 133 orgs)
Medical Democratic Assembly
General Union of Palestine Workers
General Union for Health Services Workers
General Union for Public Services Workers
General Union for Petrochemical and Gas Workers
General Union for Agricultural Workers
Union of Women’s Work Committees
Pal-Cinema (Palestine Cinema Forum)
Youth Herak Movement
Union of Women’s Struggle Committees
Union of Synergies—Women Unit
Union of Palestinian Women Committees
Women’s Studies Society
Working Woman’s Society
Palestinian Students’ Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel
Gaza BDS Working Group
One Democratic State Group
- See more at: http://www.bdsmovement.net/2014/gaza-calling-all-out-on-saturday-9-august-day-of-rage-12423#sthash.M3O2tCyb.dpuf
Join the Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions Movement today. Demand Sanctions on Israel Now.
As we face the full might of Israel’s military arsenal, funded and supplied by the United States and European Union, we call on civil society and people of conscience throughout the world to pressure governments to sanction Israel and implement a comprehensive arms embargo immediately.
Take to the streets on Saturday 9 August with a united demand for sanctions on Israel.
From Gaza under invasion, bombardment, and continuing siege, the horror is beyond words. Medical supplies are exhausted. The death toll has reached 1813 killed (398 children, 207 women, 74 elderly) and 9370 injured (2744 children, 1750 women, 343 elderly). Our hospitals, ambulances, and medical staff are all under attack while on duty. Doctors and paramedics are being killed while evacuating the dead. Our dead are not numbers and statistics to be recounted; they are loved ones, family and friends.
While we have to survive this onslaught, you certainly have the power to help end it the same way you helped overcome Apartheid and other crimes against humanity. Israel is only able to carry out this attack with the unwavering support of governments – this support must end.
This is our third massacre in six years. When not being slaughtered, we remain under siege, an illegal collective punishment of the entire population. Fishermen are shot and killed if they stray beyond a 3 km limit imposed unilaterally by Israel. Farmers are shot harvesting their crops within a border area imposed unilaterally by Israel. Gaza has become the largest open-air prison, a concentration camp since 2006. This time, we want an end to this unprecedented crime against humanity committed with the complicity and support of your own governments!
We are not asking for charity. We are demanding solidarity, because we know that until Israel is isolated and sanctioned, these horrors will be repeated.
Take action this Saturday
- Make boycotts, divestments and sanctions the main message at every protest around the world. Take banners and placards calling for sanction on Israel to every protest. Tweet them using the hashtag #GazaDayofRage. Email us your pictures and action details to GazaDayofRage@gmail.com.
- While news of all the mass protests outside Israel’s embassies around the world have given us hope, after weeks of protests, we urge you to intensify your actions. Occupy Israeli embassies, challenge Israeli officials (and others) supporting the current aggression against Gaza whenever they appear in public and stage sit-in in government buildings.
- Boycott all Israeli products and take action against corporations profiting from Israel’s system of colonialism, occupation and apartheid. March to boycott targets in your city and educate the public about companies complicit in Israel’s ongoing military assault and illegal siege of Gaza.
- Palestinian trade unions are calling on our brothers and sisters in the trade union movement internationally to stop handling goods imported from or exported to Israel. The trade union movement has a proud history of direct action against Apartheid in South Africa, the Congress of South African Trade Unions has joined us in the call for direct action to end Israel’s impunity.
Signed by
Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions
General Union of Palestinian Women
University Teachers’ Association in Palestine
Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations Network (Umbrella for 133 orgs)
Medical Democratic Assembly
General Union of Palestine Workers
General Union for Health Services Workers
General Union for Public Services Workers
General Union for Petrochemical and Gas Workers
General Union for Agricultural Workers
Union of Women’s Work Committees
Pal-Cinema (Palestine Cinema Forum)
Youth Herak Movement
Union of Women’s Struggle Committees
Union of Synergies—Women Unit
Union of Palestinian Women Committees
Women’s Studies Society
Working Woman’s Society
Palestinian Students’ Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel
Gaza BDS Working Group
One Democratic State Group
- See more at: http://www.bdsmovement.net/2014/gaza-calling-all-out-on-saturday-9-august-day-of-rage-12423#sthash.M3O2tCyb.dpuf
Gaza Calling: All out on Saturday 9 August Day of Rage
Join the Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions Movement today. Demand Sanctions on Israel Now.
As we face the full might of Israel’s military arsenal, funded and supplied by the United States and European Union, we call on civil society and people of conscience throughout the world to pressure governments to sanction Israel and implement a comprehensive arms embargo immediately.
Take to the streets on Saturday 9 August with a united demand for sanctions on Israel.
From Gaza under invasion, bombardment, and continuing siege, the horror is beyond words. Medical supplies are exhausted. The death toll has reached 1813 killed (398 children, 207 women, 74 elderly) and 9370 injured (2744 children, 1750 women, 343 elderly). Our hospitals, ambulances, and medical staff are all under attack while on duty. Doctors and paramedics are being killed while evacuating the dead. Our dead are not numbers and statistics to be recounted; they are loved ones, family and friends.
While we have to survive this onslaught, you certainly have the power to help end it the same way you helped overcome Apartheid and other crimes against humanity. Israel is only able to carry out this attack with the unwavering support of governments – this support must end.
This is our third massacre in six years. When not being slaughtered, we remain under siege, an illegal collective punishment of the entire population. Fishermen are shot and killed if they stray beyond a 3 km limit imposed unilaterally by Israel. Farmers are shot harvesting their crops within a border area imposed unilaterally by Israel. Gaza has become the largest open-air prison, a concentration camp since 2006. This time, we want an end to this unprecedented crime against humanity committed with the complicity and support of your own governments!
We are not asking for charity. We are demanding solidarity, because we know that until Israel is isolated and sanctioned, these horrors will be repeated.
Take action this Saturday
Signed by
Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions
General Union of Palestinian Women
University Teachers’ Association in Palestine
Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations Network (Umbrella for 133 orgs)
Medical Democratic Assembly
General Union of Palestine Workers
General Union for Health Services Workers
General Union for Public Services Workers
General Union for Petrochemical and Gas Workers
General Union for Agricultural Workers
Union of Women’s Work Committees
Pal-Cinema (Palestine Cinema Forum)
Youth Herak Movement
Union of Women’s Struggle Committees
Union of Synergies—Women Unit
Union of Palestinian Women Committees
Women’s Studies Society
Working Woman’s Society
Palestinian Students’ Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel
Gaza BDS Working Group
One Democratic State Group
- See more at: http://www.bdsmovement.net/2014/gaza-calling-all-out-on-saturday-9-august-day-of-rage-12423#sthash.M3O2tCyb.dpuf
Join the Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions Movement today. Demand Sanctions on Israel Now.
As we face the full might of Israel’s military arsenal, funded and supplied by the United States and European Union, we call on civil society and people of conscience throughout the world to pressure governments to sanction Israel and implement a comprehensive arms embargo immediately.
Take to the streets on Saturday 9 August with a united demand for sanctions on Israel.
From Gaza under invasion, bombardment, and continuing siege, the horror is beyond words. Medical supplies are exhausted. The death toll has reached 1813 killed (398 children, 207 women, 74 elderly) and 9370 injured (2744 children, 1750 women, 343 elderly). Our hospitals, ambulances, and medical staff are all under attack while on duty. Doctors and paramedics are being killed while evacuating the dead. Our dead are not numbers and statistics to be recounted; they are loved ones, family and friends.
While we have to survive this onslaught, you certainly have the power to help end it the same way you helped overcome Apartheid and other crimes against humanity. Israel is only able to carry out this attack with the unwavering support of governments – this support must end.
This is our third massacre in six years. When not being slaughtered, we remain under siege, an illegal collective punishment of the entire population. Fishermen are shot and killed if they stray beyond a 3 km limit imposed unilaterally by Israel. Farmers are shot harvesting their crops within a border area imposed unilaterally by Israel. Gaza has become the largest open-air prison, a concentration camp since 2006. This time, we want an end to this unprecedented crime against humanity committed with the complicity and support of your own governments!
We are not asking for charity. We are demanding solidarity, because we know that until Israel is isolated and sanctioned, these horrors will be repeated.
Take action this Saturday
- Make boycotts, divestments and sanctions the main message at every protest around the world. Take banners and placards calling for sanction on Israel to every protest. Tweet them using the hashtag #GazaDayofRage. Email us your pictures and action details to GazaDayofRage@gmail.com.
- While news of all the mass protests outside Israel’s embassies around the world have given us hope, after weeks of protests, we urge you to intensify your actions. Occupy Israeli embassies, challenge Israeli officials (and others) supporting the current aggression against Gaza whenever they appear in public and stage sit-in in government buildings.
- Boycott all Israeli products and take action against corporations profiting from Israel’s system of colonialism, occupation and apartheid. March to boycott targets in your city and educate the public about companies complicit in Israel’s ongoing military assault and illegal siege of Gaza.
- Palestinian trade unions are calling on our brothers and sisters in the trade union movement internationally to stop handling goods imported from or exported to Israel. The trade union movement has a proud history of direct action against Apartheid in South Africa, the Congress of South African Trade Unions has joined us in the call for direct action to end Israel’s impunity.
Signed by
Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions
General Union of Palestinian Women
University Teachers’ Association in Palestine
Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations Network (Umbrella for 133 orgs)
Medical Democratic Assembly
General Union of Palestine Workers
General Union for Health Services Workers
General Union for Public Services Workers
General Union for Petrochemical and Gas Workers
General Union for Agricultural Workers
Union of Women’s Work Committees
Pal-Cinema (Palestine Cinema Forum)
Youth Herak Movement
Union of Women’s Struggle Committees
Union of Synergies—Women Unit
Union of Palestinian Women Committees
Women’s Studies Society
Working Woman’s Society
Palestinian Students’ Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel
Gaza BDS Working Group
One Democratic State Group
- See more at: http://www.bdsmovement.net/2014/gaza-calling-all-out-on-saturday-9-august-day-of-rage-12423#sthash.M3O2tCyb.dpuf
Join the Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions Movement today. Demand Sanctions on Israel Now.
As we face the full might of Israel’s military
arsenal, funded and supplied by the United States and European Union, we
call on civil society and people of conscience throughout the world to
pressure governments to sanction Israel and implement a comprehensive
arms embargo immediately.
Take to the streets on Saturday 9 August with a united demand for sanctions on Israel.
From Gaza under invasion, bombardment, and
continuing siege, the horror is beyond words. Medical supplies are
exhausted. The death toll has reached 1813 killed (398 children, 207
women, 74 elderly) and 9370 injured (2744 children, 1750 women, 343
elderly). Our hospitals, ambulances, and medical staff are all under
attack while on duty. Doctors and paramedics are being killed while
evacuating the dead. Our dead are not numbers and statistics to be
recounted; they are loved ones, family and friends.
While we have to survive this onslaught, you
certainly have the power to help end it the same way you helped overcome
Apartheid and other crimes against humanity. Israel is only able to
carry out this attack with the unwavering support of governments – this
support must end.
This is our third massacre in six years. When not
being slaughtered, we remain under siege, an illegal collective
punishment of the entire population. Fishermen are shot and killed if
they stray beyond a 3 km limit imposed unilaterally by Israel. Farmers
are shot harvesting their crops within a border area imposed
unilaterally by Israel. Gaza has become the largest open-air prison, a
concentration camp since 2006. This time, we want an end to this
unprecedented crime against humanity committed with the complicity and
support of your own governments!
We are not asking for charity. We are demanding
solidarity, because we know that until Israel is isolated and
sanctioned, these horrors will be repeated.
Take action this Saturday
- Make boycotts, divestments and sanctions the main message at every protest around the world. Take banners and placards calling for sanction on Israel to every protest. Tweet them using the hashtag #GazaDayofRage. Email us your pictures and action details.
- While news of all the mass protests outside Israel’s embassies around the world have given us hope, after weeks of protests, we urge you to intensify your actions. Occupy Israeli embassies, challenge Israeli officials (and others) supporting the current aggression against Gaza whenever they appear in public and stage sit-in in government buildings.
- Boycott all Israeli products and take action against corporations profiting from Israel’s system of colonialism, occupation and apartheid. March to boycott targets in your city and educate the public about companies complicit in Israel’s ongoing military assault and illegal siege of Gaza.
- Palestinian trade unions are calling on our brothers and sisters in the trade union movement internationally to stop handling goods imported from or exported to Israel. The trade union movement has a proud history of direct action against Apartheid in South Africa, the Congress of South African Trade Unions has joined us in the call for direct action to end Israel’s impunity.
From occupied and besieged Gaza
Signed by: Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions, General Union of Palestinian Women, University Teachers’ Association in Palestine, Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations Network (Umbrella for 133 orgs), Medical Democratic Assembly, General Union of Palestine Workers, General Union for Health Services Workers, General Union for Public Services Workers, General Union for Petrochemical and Gas Workers, General Union for Agricultural Workers, Union of Women’s Work Committees, Pal-Cinema (Palestine Cinema Forum), Youth Herak Movement, Union of Women’s Struggle Committees, Union of Synergies—Women Unit, Union of Palestinian Women Committees,Women’s Studies Society, Working Woman’s Society, Palestinian Students’ Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel, Gaza BDS Working Group, One Democratic State Group.
Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions National Committee (BNC)
BNC includes: Council of National and Islamic Forces in Palestine, Palestinian NGO Network (PNGO), Palestinian National Institute for NGOs, Global Palestine Right of Return Coalition, Palestinian Trade Union Coalition for BDS (PTUC-BDS), Federation of Independent Trade Unions, General Union of Palestinian Workers, Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions, General Union of Palestinian Women, Union of Palestinian Farmers, General Union of Palestinian Teachers, General Union of Palestinian Writers, Palestinian Federation of Unions of University Professors and Employees (PFUUPE), Union of Professional Associations, General Union of Palestinian Peasants, Union of Public Employees in Palestine-Civil Sector, Grassroots Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign (STW), National Committee for Grassroots Resistance, Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), National Committee to Commemorate the Nakba, Civic Coalition for the Defense of Palestinian Rights in Jerusalem, Coalition for Jerusalem, Union of Palestinian Charitable Organizations, Palestinian Economic Monitor, Union of Youth Activity Centers-Palestine Refugee Camps, Occupied Palestine and Syrian Golan Heights Initiative
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All photos by Kim Bullimore, unless indicated otherwise (other photos by Emerson Tung).
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All photos by Kim Bullimore, unless indicated otherwise (other photos by Emerson Tung).
Palestinian speaker, Nasser Mashni from Australians for Palestine speak the importance of solidarity with Palestine and the Palestinian BDS campaign.
Cuban activist, Aili Labinino, daughter of Ramon Labinino, one of the "Cuban Five" political prisoners jailed by the USA gives solidarity greetings to Palestine and conveys her father's solidarity message from prison. with Palestine. The Cuban Five are five Cuban men who are unjustly
imprisoned in 1998, falsely accused by the US government of committing espionage conspiracy against the USA. The Cuban Five are Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González and René González.
Trade Unionist, Cecilia Judge from the Australian Services Union speaks on union support for Palestine.
Long time, anti-war activist, Jacob Grech speaks on arms traders and dealers and the Australian government's complicity with Israeli arms traders.
Above: Photo by Emerson Tung
Israeli and Jewish activists oppose Israel's massacre in Gaza. Photo by Emerson Tung
Greens MP, Adam Bandt speak in solidarity with Palestine.
Mai Saif, Palestinian activist from Students for Palestine calls for continued solidarity with Palestine
Dr Rick Kuhn, from the Canberra based Jews against the Occupation condemns Israel's occupation and apartheid regime and calls for support for the Palestinian BDS campaign.
Protest takes to the street to march to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFAT)
Above:Photo by Emerson Tung
Above: Photo by Emerson Tung
Arriving at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) to protest Australia's support for Israel and to call on the Australian Abbott government to break ties with apartheid Israel.
Outside DFAT
Posting the names
of the Gaza dead on the windows/walls of the Department of Foreign
Affairs and Trade (DFAT). Demanding the Australian government breaks all
ties with apartheid Israel.
Posting the names
of the Gaza dead on the windows/walls of the Department of Foreign
Affairs and Trade (DFAT). Demanding the Australian government breaks all
ties with apartheid Israel.
Posting the names of the Gaza dead on the windows/walls of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)
Posting the names of the Gaza dead on the windows/walls of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)
Rally outside of the DFAT building
Posting the names of the Gaza dead on the windows/walls of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)
Posting the names of the Gaza dead on the windows/walls of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)
Posting the names of the Gaza dead on the windows/walls of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). Demanding the Australian government breaks all ties with apartheid Israel.
Posting the names
of the Gaza dead on the windows/walls of the Department of Foreign
Affairs and Trade (DFAT). Demanding the Australian government breaks all
ties with apartheid Israel.
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