Doors open 6.00pm, film starts 6.30 pm. Food and drinks available Followed by Q&A with the filmmakers.

Dare to Struggle Films, makers of Palestine under Siege, has released its 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.

The film also investigates Australia’s complicity with the Israeli-US genocide of Palestinians. Both major Australian political parties are endeavouring to reinvigorate our manufacturing industry by integrating it into the US military supply chain.

Hosted by Nikola Leka and Socialist Alliance Newcastle

Demand the immediate release of all the crew in the Madleen and the ship itself, and allow it to bring it's aid to Gaza. demand immediate sanction of Israel.

📅 7th June, @ 2pm
🎬 Nagham of Gaza - presentation of short films and Q&A with the award-winning filmmaker and playwright Ala’a Al Qaisi
📍’The Space’ 1/1 Merewether St, Newcastle/Mulubinba
🇵🇸 Sales from tickets will be raising funds for Nagham of Gaza, a play by Ala’a Al Qaisi + Fundraising stall - All funds donated to verified families in Gaza
🎟️ $20 waged, $10 unwaged

MORE DETAILS AND TICKETS HERE: https://events.humanitix.com/nagham-of-gaza-screening

Organised by Newcastle Mums for Palestine

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

EVERYONE: WEAR RED THIS SUNDAY

and LET'S MAKE IT MASSIVE, for GAZA

1pm Sunday 1 June

Sydney Hyde Park

RALLY: Gaza Is Starving, End The Genocide!

Following other cities, we are asking everyone to wear red this Sunday, so we'll form a red line of humanity, a red line on Gaza, through Sydney as we march.

Most importantly, please share widely and bring everyone this Sunday!

STOP THE GENOCIDE

STOP THE STARVATION

NO MORE EMPTY WORDS: SANCTIONS NOW

STOP ARMING ISRAEL

Organised by Palestine Action Group Sydney

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

Join us this Sunday to rally against the genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, occupation and apartheid.

Newcastle Museum, 1pm

Organised by Palestine Action Group Muloobinba

ABOUT THE FILM:

Where Olive Trees Weep offers a searing window into the struggles and resilience of the Palestinian people under Israeli occupation. It explores themes of loss, trauma, and the quest for justice.

We follow, among others, Palestinian journalist and therapist Ashira Darwish, grassroots activist Ahed Tamimi, and Israeli journalist Amira Hass. We witness Dr. Gabor Maté offering trauma-healing work for a group of women who have been tortured in Israeli prisons. 

Ancient landscapes bear deep scars, having witnessed the brutal reality of ancestral land confiscation, expulsions, imprisonment, home demolitions, water deprivation, and denial of basic human rights. Yet, through the veil of oppression, we catch a glimpse of resilience—deep roots that have carried the Palestinian people through decades of darkness and shattered lives.

This emotional journey bares the humanity of the oppressed while grappling with the question: what makes the oppressor so ruthlessly blind to its own cruelty? 

WATCH THE TRAILER HERE

All proceeds from this screening will be split between Palestine Australia Relief and Action and to support families in Gaza through Newcastle Mums for Palestine

Organised by Conversations for Palestine

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

2025 Academy Award for Best Documentary winner: No Other Land.

Shot over four years by Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers it documents the IDF and Settler efforts to remove the community of Masafer Yatta from the West Bank.

Nutritious vegan meal of red lentil soup available by donation. Funds raised will be send to the Masafar Yatta community that is the subject of the film https://supportmasaferyatta.com/

Organised by NIko Leka and Socialist Alliance Newcastle

The Palestine Sunbird is a symbol of hope, freedom, and resilience.

Join us this Sunday May 11th as we rally against the siege, starvation, slaughter, ethnic cleansing, displacement, and genocide of Palestinians.

We come together to show our solidarity, share our humanity, and connect ourselves to further actions we can take.

We meet at Newcastle Museum at 1pm, for a 1:30 start.

Free Palestine

The genocide intensifies. The war crimes continue.

Get out for Gaza, for the West Bank, for Jerusalem, for Palestine, for Lebanon, for Syria, for Yemen, for Humanity.

Speeches begin at 1:30pm, then we march.

Newcastle Museum

Sunday 27th April

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

Palm Sunday Peace Gathering

Want peace? Work for justice!

2pm to 4pm Sunday 13th April 2025

‘Tighes Hill Peace Park’ Maitland Rd - Left of the lattice, opposite Tighes Hill TAFE

Bring your banners + placards + signs + colours + friends and family

Speakers:

• Quin - Food Not Bombs

• Danlo - Palestine Action Group Muloobinba

• Alex - UoN Students for Palestine

• Charlotte McCabe - Greens

• Lynda Forbes - Hunter Peace Group

• Rob Hanks - Hamilton Uniting Church

The genocide on Gaza accelerates as israel breaks the ceasefire agreement: unleashing heavy bombardment across the entire strip; slaughtering hundreds of men, women and children. The blockade continues into its fourth week, imposing dehydration and starvation on the entire population. Nasser hospital has been destroyed. Adults and children are enduring amputation without anesthesia or pain relief. Tens of thousands are displaced again. All are living in terror, trapped with no safe place to go, desperately trying to survive in the final week of Ramadan.

WE CANNOT BE SILENT

Join us at Newcastle Museum, 1pm this Sunday, March 30th as we come together in grief, outrage and solidarity to protest, march, and strategise.

Organised by Palestine Action Group Muloobinba

OVER 208 MEDIA WORKERS KILLED BY ISRAEL IN GAZA 17 MONTHS

Join us for a national day of action to protest the complicity of the ABC.

The ABC is not reporting the targetting of journalists in Gaza as a war crime. They fail to report on the numerous human rights investigations, over decades, that identify israel’s systemic targetting of Palestinian journalists. They continue to quote the army that is committing crimes against humanity and the regime that is wanted for war crimes.

The malpractice of western media in reporting on Palestine makes them complicit in the death of journalists in Gaza.

Journalists whose footage the ABC uses but who aren’t deemed worthy of protection.

Yesterday, 23 year old Al Jazeera journalist, Hossam Shabat, was targetted and killed by the IOF. He was murdered as part of israel’s campaign of silencing the truth. You can read the obituary Hossam wrote for himself last year when he was named in a hit list by the IOF.

This action is for Hossam, for Mohamed Mansour, also killed yesterday, and for all the journalists and their families.

4:30-6pm
Thursday 27th of March

ABC Newcastle
24 Wood St, Newcastle

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/

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

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

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.

Organised by Palestine Action Group Newcastle/Muloobinba