Stroud Ceasefire Now Coalition

24/07/2024

Screening this Sunday - see Gloucestershire Palestine Solidarity Campaign for details

19/07/2024

17/07/2024

From Zarah Sultana: "Our new government must do the right thing and stop enabling Israeli war crimes. That is why today, as a backbench Labour MP, I am tabling an amendment to the king’s speech calling on colleagues to uphold international law and suspend arms sales to Israel." We wonder if our local MP Simon Opher for Stroud will vote for this amendment?

International law is clear: we have an obligation to prevent genocide. That is why I have tabled an amendment to the king’s speech, says Labour MP Zarah Sultana

12/07/2024

Thanks to everyone who keeps coming to our vigils - another strong turnout outside the Sub Rooms tonight. Keep following us for updates on location of future vigils. Thanks to Deborah Roberts Photography and Robin Layfield for the pictures

07/07/2024

This short speech was made by Simon Opher for Stroud - announced as the new MP for the Stroud constituency about 16 hours before our Ceasefire NOW protest Sub Rooms 6pm on Friday evening. We'll be continuing to organise regular protests/vigils, please follow the page for updates

06/07/2024

Thanks to everyone who came along last night to continue raising the need for a ceasefire in Gaza now! We will continue to organise regular protests/vigils - details to be announced, please share and invite friends to follow our page. Thanks to Deborah Roberts Photography for the photos

05/07/2024

Please join Stroud Ceasefire Now Coalition TONIGHT for a Ceasefire NOW protest Sub Rooms 6pm. We have a new Stroud MP and a new Government, and we still demand a Ceasefire NOW! In the coming weeks we will be updating our plans for weekly vigils - but please join us tonight at the Subs.

28/06/2024

Earlier tonight. Planning to move to the Sub Rooms next week, after the election

08/06/2024

Raising funds for Gaza Emergency Aid

*EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT* 📣

*AMBIENCES MUSICAL MEDITATIONS*
Raising funds for Gloucester2Gaza

🗓 Saturday 22nd June
🕙 7.30pm
📍 All Saints Church, Almshouse Road, Newlands, Forest of Dean, GL16 8NL
🎫 Ticket price £7

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24/05/2024

From 6pm every Friday

24/05/2024

The court voted by a majority of 13 votes to two that “Israel shall, in conformity with its obligations under the convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide, and in view of the worsening conditions of life faced by civilians in Rafah governorate … immediately halt its military offensive and any other action in the Rafah governorate which may inflict on the Palestinian group in Gaza conditions of life that would bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part”.

ICJ president says humanitarian situation in Gaza’s southernmost city is now classified as ‘disastrous’

15/05/2024

Join the peace camp at Wallbridge today marking Nakba Day

Early this morning campaigners set up a peace camp at Wallbridge, Stroud, to mark the anniversary of Nakba Day, when in 1948 around 750,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homes during the conflict that established the State of Israel.

15/05/2024

Join the peace camp at Wallbridge today marking Nakba Day. Please visit and stay for as long or little as you'd like

09/05/2024

09/05/2024

On Tuesday, 14th May, scores of protestors turned out at MP Siobhan Baillie's office in a strong showing to hold the MP accountable for their continued support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza & to demand a ceasefire. Amplify Stroud feature comment from Stroud Parents for Palestine, Community Solidarity Stroud District, Palestine Solidarity Campaign - Stroud District , The RYSE, and Nailsworth Quakers - as well as calls to action from Na'amod, CND, and Amnesty International UK

On Tuesday, 14th May, scores of protestors turned out at MP Siobhan Baillie’s office in a strong showing to hold the MP accountable for their continued support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza & to demand a ceasefire.

08/05/2024

🚨 Join us in remembrance as we mark 76 years since the Nakba (The Catastrophe) - a tragic event that saw over 700,000 Palestinians forcibly exiled from their homes.

✊🏽To stand against the ongoing oppression happening to this day, we’ve organised another protest in Gloucester.

🗓 Saturday, May 11th, 2024
🕑 2:00 PM
📍 Kings Square, Gloucester City Centre (opposite post office)

Stay tuned for updates on the route. Let’s stand united and raise our voices for justice and support the Palestinian cause!

07/05/2024

Thanks to everyone who made it to the SAVE RAFAH - EMERGENCY PROTEST tonight. We will hold our regular vigil this Friday at the same location at 6pm, and on Saturday there is a Nakba Day protest in Gloucester - meeting 2pm Kings Sq - see comments for link to more details

10/04/2024

We wish all our Muslim friends Eid Mubarak, as you end the feast and fast of Ramadan.

We particularly think of sisters and brothers in Gaza. For all in Palestine, we recognise that the usually joyful period of Ramadan, concluding today in the feast of Eid-Ul-Fitr, has been full of anguish and loss. Traditional greeting of Eid with joy, new clothes, special food and sweets, gatherings with relatives and friends to share gratitude for the month of fasting, and gifts especially for the children: how are these to be imagined in the horror of the last weeks?

Eid is the time to celebrate completing the ordeal of the month of fasting. How much more of an ordeal for the people of Gaza? We send solidarity to you in all the ways that you are holding together your beseiged and aching community.

We continue to appeal to the spirit of humanity in Israel to stop the destruction of Gaza and her people, on this special day for Palestinian people, and going forward for the sake of all future generations in the region.

28/03/2024

"The judges, who were unanimous in their decision, said Palestinians in Gaza were facing worsening conditions of life, and famine and starvation were spreading. “The court observes that Palestinians in Gaza are no longer facing only a risk of famine … but that famine is setting in,” the judges said.

In its legally binding order, the court told Israel to take “all necessary and effective measures to ensure, without delay, in full cooperation with the United Nations, the unhindered provision at scale by all concerned of urgently needed basic services and humanitarian assistance” including food, water, fuel and medical supplies.

The ICJ also ordered Israel to immediately ensure “that its military does not commit acts which constitute a violation of any of the rights of the Palestinians in Gaza as a protected group under the convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide, including by preventing, through any action, the delivery of urgently needed humanitarian assistance”.

Read more:

Judges issue unanimous decision and say Palestinians are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance

17/03/2024

Join the vigil every Friday from 6pm - 6.15pm on King St

11/03/2024

“As members of Israel-based civil society committed to human rights and the rule of law, we condemn the fact that Israel has so far failed to change its behaviour based on the measures imposed by the ICJ, as well as the fact that humanitarian aid to Gaza dropped by 50% in the month following the ruling,” the letter says.

“We call for an immediate ceasefire, which must include the return of the hostages. We urge the Israeli government to comply with the ICJ order and implement the court’s provisional measures, which are essential to mitigating and overcoming the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza.

“Moreover, we call on the international community to use its collective influence to promote and support an immediate ceasefire and the implementation of the provisional measures, and to increase its efforts to ensure that the Israeli hostages are returned from Gaza.”

Exclusive: 12 prominent organisations sign open letter criticising lack of humanitarian access

22/02/2024

Families for Ceasefire Monmouthshire, one of the groups campaigning against the bombing of Gaza by Israel, said that the number of children killed in Gaza now outstrips the entire school age population of Monmouthshire.

“It is incomprehensible that the weapons being made right here on our doorstep are being used in this mass slaughter. Families for a Ceasefire represent the voice of families in Monmouthshire who want to see an immediate end to this a war on children and are calling for a permanent ceasefire now. Wales must stop arming the genocide of children and families!”

Over 100 protesters have set up 'peace pickets' blockading two weapons factories in Bristol that are allegedly arming the Israeli military offensi ...

18/02/2024

17/02/2024

For anyone who is unable to get to London, Gloucester is also taking part in the Global Day of Action (between 12 and 2), meeting at The Cross for an Emergency Protest to demand the government call for an immediate ceasefire now. 1.4million Palestinians are in danger in Rafah with nowhere to go