What you can do about Gaza

Write to your federal members of parliament to demand that they call for a ceasefire

Our friends at the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) have created an easy email campaign you can participate in by just entering your residential address, your first and last names and your email address: ACTION: Australia must call on Israel to stop attacking Palestinians

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Join Union-Palestine Solidarity

Join with other union members in South Australia to coordinate trade union action in solidarity with Palestine

There has been an urgent call to action from Palestinian trade unions for trade unionists and people of conscience around the world to increase their solidarity work. Heeding this call, AFOPA members active in their unions are establishing a ‘Union-Palestine Solidarity Bloc’ to coordinate trade union action in South Australia. AFOPA encourages all union members to engage in this initiative - please complete the expression of interest at the following link and share widely with union members you know: https://forms.gle/DJcNHUqXRgtgEQvCA

Australian Union members in solidarity with Palestine

Sign and Share the Union solidarity petition

Join thousands of South Australians who are standing up for Palestine and the Palestinian People! This is the fourth big rally and they are bigger every time. Send a message to the people of Palestine that we stand with them.

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Vigil for Palestine - Steps of Parliament House, Adelaide

Tuesday, 28 November 2023, 7:00 pm 8:30 pm

On the eve of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, we will gather in grief and solidarity on the steps of Parliament House, Adelaide. This will be a quiet gathering with some speeches, to mourn the horror of Gaza and come together in contemplation.

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Attend rallies and events - keep up to date with what’s on

For South Australian events and actions, regularly check AFOPA’s Events Calendar and especially our Facebook page, Facebook Members Group, Instagram and X. They are constantly updated and provide information about rallies and upcoming events and more.

For events around Australia, regularly check the APAN website.

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DONATE TO THE PEOPLE OF GAZA

Since early October 2023 the people of Gaza have been subjected to horrific violence by the state of Israel. After 3 weeks over 9,000 people have been killed in Israeli bombing raids and armed assaults. Almost half of the dead are children. Over 20,000 people have been injured. More than 1.4 million people have been displaced. The devastation is beyond anything previously experienced by the people of this tiny enclave, which is one of the most densely populated places on earth.

The people of Gaza need your help. You can do this by donating to a number of appeals that are in place to respond to this crisis. Click here for more information.

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Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)

We all have the power to help Palestinians. It’s the same power that ended the Apartheid regime in South Africa. It’s the power to boycott Israeli goods and the companies complicit in maintaining the Occupation.

Boycott products with the barcode 729. Tell your friends and family to do the same. Inform as many shopkeepers as possible that you will never buy Israeli products.

Join AFOPA and come along to our weekly BDS actions. We have been doing these actions for 13 years! (Contact Margaret for more information margaret.cassar@internode.on.net.).

Click here to see our updated BDS leaflet

Go to BDS Australia for companies to boycott.

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