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What can we do about the catastrophe in Gaza?

OUR next Woking Debate, on Wednesday, October 8th, is approaching fast. The title is Gaza and the West Bank. What should we do? What can we do?

We are trying out a different day of the week and holding the debate in the evening, to see if this is more convenient for attendees than a Saturday morning.

And there is a new venue – Trinity Methodist Church, in Brewery Road, across the canal from Woking town centre. The event is from 7.30pm to 9pm.

Our speakers include Ahmed Afana, a British-Palestinian educator and a resident of Woking since 2013 who is deeply affected by the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the systematic displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank. Other speakers will be announced soon.

The debate will be livestreamed on Zoom, with the opportunity for people to pose questions and their opinions online. To receive the link email Keith Scott, keithsc_2000@yahoo.com.

 

 

Thousands of children are suffering and many have been killed as Gaza is devastated by the Israeli military forces. Ceremony recalls horror of atoms bombs first use
TWINKLING tealights floated down a canal at Send to mark the 80th anniversary of nuclear weapons being used for the first time in war. The little candles, in half grapefruit and orange skins, and white flowers were launched on the Wey Navigation by members of Woking Action for Peace and Woking Debates and members of the public. Launching of the flickering flotilla was preceded by a ceremony on the towpath by the New Inn pub to mark the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. “As dusk started to fall, we read poems and there were appropriate readings to remember the hundreds of thousands of people who died as result of the atomic weapons being dropped on Japan,” said group spokesman Keith Scott.