This Centre Could Be Anywhere But It Isn’t – It Operates Under Military
Occupation
Apart from
being a political activist and blogger I’m also a trustee for a charity, The Brighton Trust. The Brighton Trust was set up by members of Brighton
and Hove Trades Union Council.
The aim of
the trust is to donate money to unpopular causes, campaigns aimed at changing
rather than just putting sticking plaster over the problems in our society. As
a result of our contacts with members of the New Education Union (formerly NUT)
in Brighton and Hove who had adopted a community centre in Jenin, we decided to
do the same.
Jenin was
the subject of a massacre
in 2002 when Israel used military bulldozers to demolish homes with their
inhabitants still inside them.
In the past
year many schools have closed as a result of Donald Trump having cut of all US
funding to UNWRA. The Al Tawfawk Centre is the only one left standing.
Our trust has
agreed to donate £50 per month to the Centre. We will be sending the money this
Wednesday before I go on vacation!
I would
like to appeal to all those who read my blog to consider sending a donation,
however small or large to the following account. We will then forward it on together with our
own donation. It must reach us by Wednesday.
For more
information about the Centre see their Facebook
page
We will, of
course pay the costs of a SWIFT transfer which is £25.
Please
Donate to:
Account Name: The Brighton Trust
Account Number: 91420311
Sort Code: 09-01-28
Many thanks
Tony
Greenstein
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