Upcoming Events
Trivia Fundraiser for Gaza
Join us at The Oak in Tighes Hill for a night of solidarity and trivia. Raising money for Laila Ezzat Al Shana and her small family living in the wreckage of Gaza. Funds raised will also go towards Laila's project "Humans To Be" supporting children orphaned by Israeli oppression.
Limited space, bookings essential. Register here: https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1367327
DATE:
Wednesday 19 March 2025 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM (UTC+10)
LOCATION:
The Oak
207 Maitland Rd, Tighes Hill NSW 2297
Palestine stall at 'March in March for Forests'
We’ll have a Palestine stall at march for forests, for information and selling Palestine-related goods to raise funds. (Let us know if you can help out on the stall!)
Details for the Newcastle March in March for Forests can be found here: https://marchforforests.org/location/newcastle/
National Picket Network online forum
An online information session about tactics for picketing weapons manufacturers, with campaigners from locations around australia.
For details please contact us or DM https://www.instagram.com/noweaponsforgenocide/
Screening: The Palestine Laboratory Episode 2 - ‘How is Israel’s military tech marketed abroad?’
6.30 for 7pm start.
In Episode 2 of "The Palestine Laboratory", journalist and author Antony Loewenstein investigates how surveillance and military technology developed by Israel and tested on Palestinians is marketed abroad. He finds out how the latest Israeli technology is being used to monitor refugees and migrants in Greece and along the US-Mexico border.
Light vegan meal available by donation.
N.B. The Resistance Centre is located upstairs.
If you'd like to watch Part 2 before, it can be handy for discussion, its on YouTube at https://youtu.be/5pPQydBGwQY?si=8HU4W2P_cgppxUh0
Hosted by Nikola Leka and Socialist Alliance Newcastle
PAGM Rally: 16 March
The zionist entity has continued its violation of the ceasefire agreement by imposing starvation conditions on the people of Gaza. While food and water is being deliberately withheld, anthony albanese allows australian weapons to freely flow into israel and aid in this policy of genocide.
Join us at 1pm on the 16th of March, as we continue to protest our government's complicity in this genocide.
Organised by Palestine Action Group Muloobinba
Screening: The Palestine Laboratory Episode 1 - ‘How Israel tests military tech on Palestinians’
6.30 for 7pm start.
Episode 1 reveals an Israeli arms and surveillance industry that's thriving because so many nations admire the Jewish state's ethno-nationalist agenda (and deadly weapons). This first episode looks at Palestine and Israel.
Light vegan meal available by donation.
N.B. The Resistance Centre is located upstairs.
If you'd like to watch it before, it can be handy for discussion, its on Youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GvkFwpzDhI
Hosted by Nikola Leka and Socialist Alliance Newcastle
Film Screening: Palestinians Don’t Need Sidewalks
Dare to Struggle Films, makers of Palestine Under Siege, have released their latest documentary on the Palestinian struggle for self-determination.
Palestinians Don't Need Sidewalks takes us on a journey through occupied Palestine. It profiles, through Palestinian eyes, life under Israeli occupation. The film builds on the investigation of a Jewish professor, a Palestinian-Australian student activist and a former politician into Israel’s settler colonial, apartheid society as documented in Palestine Under Siege.
Dare to Struggle Films partnered with the Hebron Human Rights Defenders. They provided interviews and footage, which profile the increasing settler violence happening in the West Bank. Some of the funds raised from the film will go to supporting the Hebron Human Rights Defenders.
Tickets available for purchase now: https://tickets.civictheatrenewcastle.com.au/WebPages/EntaWebGateway/gateway.aspx?E=N&QL=S1382|VNPH|G~/WebPages/EntaWebShow/ShowPerformance.aspx
CLICK HERE to view the film trailer.
Militarisation and the Hunter Region with keynote speaker David Shoebridge
Join us at this community forum to learn more about the future plans for the Hunter Region. More details will be released in the coming days but in the meantime if you are wanting to learn more then check out this blog post from last year. We need to continue to question the decisions that are being made about the future of our region.
Palestine Action Group Muloobinba Rally: Sunday 16 February
Join your local community this Sunday at the Newcastle Museum for speakers and then a march from the Museum to Queens Wharf and then return to the Museum.
Weekly demonstration at Belmont office of Pat Conroy MP, federal Defence Industry Minister
We continue to hold weekly demonstrations outside the office of Pat Conroy MP, federal Minister for Defence Industry, every Monday at 4:30pm. Join us!
OUR DEMANDS:
Stop arming Israel - a full embargo across all trade imports and exports
Sanction Israel to support all orders by the International Court of Justice, including those made under the UN Genocide Convention
Recognise Palestinian sovereignty
As Israel’s war crimes continue, our politicians offer only empty words (if that) and refuse to take any action to halt Israel’s genocide.
We must keep the genocide in the public mind, and apply as much sustained public pressure as possible on the Australian Government to cease their complicity in the genocide in Gaza, cut all military ties with Israel, and put in place sanctions.
Because Conroy is obviously indifferent to the deaths and suffering of Palestinians, we must inform his constituents of the Labor government’s complicity in Israel’s genocide, and try to pressure Conroy through something he does care about - losing votes and losing his job!
Location: 571 Pacific Highway, Belmont
Bring simple large-text signs, kufiyas, flags, and friends!
Organised by No Weapons for Genocide
Nupress Community Picket
On December 4 at 6am we will hold a community picket at Nupress, located at 11 Nelson Road, Cardiff.
Nupress supply five critical parts, and ground equipment, for the F-35 war plane. Israel has one of the largest fleets of F-35s in the world. Nupress parts go into a global pool that Israel gets priority access to. Israel has used F-35s in countless massacres of Palestinians, and in Lebanon and Yemen. The organisation, Workers in Palestine, has named Nupress as a company complicit in the ethnic cleansing and genocide of Palestinians.
Community pickets are a collective form of direct action. They are powerful because of the community that shows up and the clarity of the cause. Supplying components to machines that are used to cause mass casualties and death is something that must be opposed, on both moral and legal grounds.
Community members will take up space around the Nupress factory using their physical presence and symbolism (e.g. placards, chants, props) to send the message that making parts for machines that cause mass scale murder is not morally or legally acceptable. The picket is inclusive of families with young children and people with a disability. Please note there is a grass verge/ nature strip out the front but the site is on a slope and there is no paved footpath.
We use democratic processes to decide the best ways to disrupt production at Nupress. We encourage people to be informed, ready to discuss tactics and be involved in decision making.
There are different roles including worker liaison, media liaison, police liaison, safety officer, etc. A convenor will guide decision making processes for example how long to hold the picket. Affinity groups can act independently whilst ensuring respect for other tactics and groups. (Affinity groups are small groups who keep connected and look out for one another. If you don’t come in one, you can join one on the day).
The important thing is holding firm to the goal of sending a clear message about the moral and legal obligations of Nupress, as we take action in solidarity with Palestinian struggles and in response to the call to end military supply to the genocide.
Palestine Flotilla at the People's Blockade
11-12.30pm. On the beach and in the water flying Palestine and Lebanese flags!
Ending Israel’s genocide against Palestine is a climate justice issue as well as a humanitarian one.
Founder and Director of the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability, Palestinian ecologist and Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh says:
"There is both a genocide and an ecocide going on, supported by some Western governments against the will of the Western public."
Israel has murdered an estimated 186,000 Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank over the last twelve months, report the Lancet (medical journal). As of October 7, 2024, Israel has invaded Lebanon with ground troops, killed over 2000 people in two weeks and is bombing Syria.
Israel has dropped the equivalent of two nuclear bombs in their assault on Gaza. The pollution to soil, air and water is immense.
As leading climate activist Greta Thunberg says, there is no climate justice on colonised lands.
This is why, at Rising Tide, activists are taking a stand for Palestine.
Join us on Nobby’s Beach for a mass display of solidarity with the people of Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Iran.
We will take kayaks out onto the water and fly Palestine, Lebanese flags.
Saturday November 23, 11-12.30pm Nobby’s Beach, Newcastle. All welcome.
Called by City of Sydney 4 Palestine, Jews Against the Occupation '48, Climate Activists for Palestine, Inner West 4 Palestine
Weekly protest at Belmont office of Pat Conroy MP, federal Defence Industry Minister
Israel’s war crimes have intensified in the Gaza Strip and southern Lebanon, but our politicians continue to offer only empty words (at most) and no action to halt Israel’s genocidal campaign.
We must apply as much sustained public pressure as possible on the Australian Government to cease their complicity in the genocide in Gaza, cut all military ties with Israel, and put in place sanctions.
With those goals, we continue our weekly protests outside the office of Pat Conroy MP, federal Minister for Defence Industry, every Monday at 4:30pm. Because Conroy is obviously indifferent to the deaths and suffering of Palestinians, we must inform his constituents of the Labor government’s complicity in Israel’s genocide, and try to Conroy through something he does care about - losing votes and losing his job!
Location: 571 Pacific Highway, Belmont
Bring simple large-text signs, kufiyas, flags, and friends!
OUR DEMANDS:
Stop arming Israel - a full embargo across all trade imports and exports
Sanction Israel to support all orders by the International Court of Justice, including those made under the UN Genocide Convention
Recognise Palestinian sovereignty
Organised by No Weapons for Genocide
Weekly protest at Belmont office of Pat Conroy MP, federal Defence Industry Minister
Israel’s war crimes have intensified in the Gaza Strip and southern Lebanon, but our politicians continue to offer only empty words (at most) and no action to halt Israel’s genocidal campaign.
We must apply as much sustained public pressure as possible on the Australian Government to cease their complicity in the genocide in Gaza, cut all military ties with Israel, and put in place sanctions.
With those goals, we continue our weekly protests outside the office of Pat Conroy MP, federal Minister for Defence Industry, every Monday at 4:30pm. Because Conroy is obviously indifferent to the deaths and suffering of Palestinians, we must inform his constituents of the Labor government’s complicity in Israel’s genocide, and try to Conroy through something he does care about - losing votes and losing his job!
Location: 571 Pacific Highway, Belmont
Bring simple large-text signs, kufiyas, flags, and friends!
OUR DEMANDS:
Stop arming Israel - a full embargo across all trade imports and exports
Sanction Israel to support all orders by the International Court of Justice, including those made under the UN Genocide Convention
Recognise Palestinian sovereignty
Organised by No Weapons for Genocide
PAGNM Fortnightly Rally - Sunday 10 November
DETAILS TO BE CONFIRMED
Organised by Palestine Action Group Newcastle
A Night of Resistance with Uncle Wayne 'Coco' Wharton
Learn about First Nations & Kanaky resistance to the empire and colonisation!
Live music, films, food, Q&A
Wed 6 Nov
5:30pm for a 6pm start
Star Hall
23 Valencia St, Mayfield, NSW
$15 waged
$10 unwaged/concession
Raising funds for:
‘Kanaky & King’ resistance campaign
Atfaluna Charity, Gaza
Community Kitchen, Sudan
Documentary Screening - 'Gaza Fights for Freedom'
Come be a part of this community and fundraising event.
'Gaza fights for freedom' is a 2019 documentary film showing footage of demonstrations during 'The great march of return' protests in Gaza, in which 200 unarmed civilians were killed and 6000 unarmed civilians were catastrophically injured by israeli snipers.
Organised by Rhys Drury
PAGN Fortnightly Rally - Sunday 27 October
Join us this Sunday as we rally for Palestine and Lebanon, Newcastle Museum 1pm
More than a year on and the zionist entity is still committing daily atrocities against the people of Palestine and Lebanon. The complicity of the Australian government in these acts must cease!
Organised by Palestine Action Group Newcastle
SNAP ACTION - Protest $7 billion for Raytheon
Israel has again intensified its assault on the Gaza Strip and southern Lebanon, but our politicians continue to offer only empty words (at best!) and no action to halt Israel’s genocidal campaign.
We must apply as much sustained public pressure as possible on the Australian Government to cease their complicity in the genocide in Gaza, cut all military ties with Israel, and put in place sanctions.
With those goals, we continue our weekly protests outside the office of Pat Conroy MP, federal Minister for Defence Industry, every Monday at 4:30pm. Because Conroy is obviously indifferent to the deaths and suffering of Palestinians, we must inform his constituents of the Labor government’s complicity in Israel’s genocide, and try to Conroy through something he does care about - losing votes and losing his job!
Location: 571 Pacific Highway, Belmont
Bring simple large-text signs, kufiyas, flags, and friends!
OUR DEMANDS:
Stop arming Israel - a full embargo across all trade imports and exports
Sanction Israel to support all orders by the International Court of Justice, including those made under the UN Genocide Convention
Recognise Palestinian sovereignty
Organised by No Weapons for Genocide
SYDNEY RALLY - One Year of Genocide in Gaza
Sydney organisers are asking people to make this rally a big one, so make the trip down if you can, or, if you can't make it, spread the word!
Protest: ONE YEAR of the GAZA GENOCIDE
1pm Sunday 6 October
Sydney Town Hall
We are approaching the horrific milestone of one year since Israel began it's current genocidal campaign in the Gaza Strip.
One year of continuous bombing and massacres, of siege and starvation, in which an estimated 180,000 Gazans have been killed, a third of them children. A year of lies and racist dehumanisation of the Palestinian victims of this genocide. A year of governments around the world, including Australia and the US, continuing to support and arm Israel.
We need huge mobilisations around the world to stand with the Palestinian people and demand an end to the systematic massacre, starvation and destruction of Gaza.
Israel's killing and oppression of the Palestinian people did not begin on 7 October, and is not limited to Gaza. Israel is escalating the violent ethnic cleansing of the West Bank and Jerusalem. We march on 6 October 2024 to remind the world that the struggle for Palestinian liberation has been ongoing for over 76 years, and will not end until Palestine is free, from the river to the sea!
Please help us to spread the word and make this the biggest mobilisation we have seen all year!
Organised by Palestine Action Group Sydney
Vigil for Palestine and Lebanon
Join us in solidarity with Palestine and Lebanon.
Starting from 3pm - we will gather together and share poetry, create postcards for @floodthepost_aus and mark 12 months of horror.
The mini market will be raising funds for the Almassri family, Laila Al Shana’s family and Mothers of the Holy Land.
Please send us a message if you’d like to read a poem.
We are stronger together. As @konkarapanagiotidis says ‘the best antidote to fear and hate, is love and community.’
Location on Google Maps
Location on Apple Maps
Organised by Newcastle Mums for Palestine
PAGN Rally for APAN National Day of Action - Sunday 29 September
In collaboration with Australian Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) our National Day of Action is a ramped up rally as the genocide crosses into Lebanon .
We call upon all pro-Palestine groups and people join this action.
While the occupation is escalating its campaign of extermination against Palestine and Lebanon, the Australian government remains complicit by providing weapons and parts for the genocide. It is once again time, to demonstrate that we will not be silent on this matter.
Speeches followed by a march
Newcastle Museum, Sunday 15th September, 1pm
Organised by Palestine Action Group Newcastle
Conversations for Palestine: Palestine Imprisoned
Join us for a powerful evening of conversations, audio visuals, and performances focused on Palestinian political prisoners detained by Israel.
Featuring Damien Linnane - editor of Paper Chained magazine, Sara Saleh - human rights lawyer, author & performer, and Byron Williams (Toe-Fu from The Herd) - guitarist & singer.
Registration essential: https://events.humanitix.com/conversations-for-palestine
Organised by Conversations for Palestine
Council Elections - Vote for candidates who support Palestine
NSW local government elections will be held this Saturday, 14th September 2024, with early voting open from the 7th.
The activist group ‘We Vote for Palestine’ asked candidates to pledge their positions on taking action for Palestine at council, and published the responses. Find your council electorate and the scorecard for each of your local candidates here: https://wevoteforpalestine.net/whos-pledged/
NO WEAPONS PROFITEERS IN THE HUNTER - Disrupt the Hunter Defence Conference 2024
The annual Hunter Defence Conference is happening - stand with us to take action against the war machine! From 8AM on Wednesday 21 August: harms dealers, warmongers, government officials and more will be gathered to talk about exporting and importing genocide and war, tucked away in a conference that costs more than $1000 to attend. What don't they want us to hear?Come down to stand with us, and tell them loud and clear that we don't want their murderous militarism - here or anywhere!
Stay tuned for more info. Check the Facebook event for updates: https://www.facebook.com/events/952732123205168/
Organised by No Weapons for Genocide and Food Not Bombs Muloobinba/Newcastle