Stand for Palestine- Every First Thursday!

Note: The Stands are every First Thursday, at the intersection of Forbes Ave and Bigelow Blvd, outside of the Hillman Library, from 5:30 – 6:30PM

- Join the Pittsburgh Palestine Solidarity Committee, Pitt Students for Justice in Palestine, and members of the community for our weekly “Stand for Palestine.”

- 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza have been under a debilitating military siege for the past two years, creating a “surrealistic situation in the Gaza Strip” forcing the tiny piece of land back to the Middle Ages, according to Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) Karen Abu Zayd.

- On July 3, 2009, in an act of piracy, Israeli forces kidnapped 21 passengers on board a boat of the Free Gaza Movement–A human rights group that in August 2008 sent the first international boats to land in the port of Gaza in 41 years. Their mission is to break the siege of Gaza and to raise international awareness about the prison-like closure of the Gaza Strip. Former US Congreewoman Cynthia McKinney and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mairead Maguire were on the boat and are still in an Israeli prison.

-Learn more about what President Jimmy Carter and Nelson Mandela have called “Worse than Apartheid South Africa” at Stand for Palestine