Wollongong Friends of Palestine

  • Bisalloy picket training

    • Gadigal Country/Sydney

    In the lead up to our first-ever overnight Community Picket at Bisalloy on 27th-28th July, join us for a skill-share to help us all get connected and prepared. The day will cover: -Affinity groups - Decision making on the front line - Legal stuff - What time bring and what not to bring Dinner provided with halal/vegan/gluten free options.

  • Picket Bisalloy overnight: No Illawarra steel for genocide!

    • Tharawal/allowrie/Wollongong

    Bisalloy Steel continues to arm Israel's illegal settlements and the IOF with armour plate steel. Wollongong Friends of Palestine won't rest until they stop. We are holding our second overnight community picket at Bisalloy. This is because on Sunday nights, Bisalloy fire up their furnace and start a busy week of arming a genocide. Our community picket will stop this at the start…

  • Stop the Genocide in Gaza: Wollongong

    • Tharawal/allowrie/Wollongong

    Stop the genocide! End the Occupation! Free Palestine! We’ll be rallying this Sunday at 2pm. Wollongong Crown Street mall

  • Palm Sunday rally for refugees and Free Palestine

    • Tharawal/allowrie/Wollongong

    Annual Palm Sunday rally and march for Refugees. This year we will be joined by Wollongong Friends of Palestine to call for an end to the Australian government's detestable attitudes to refugees and an end to their complicity in the genocide in Gaza. We demand - Stop the genocide and end the occupation of Palestine Fund UNRWA End mandatory detention of refugees Close Nauru and all…

  • Palestine: The environmental impacts of war and occupation

    • Tharawal/allowrie/Wollongong

    Join us in a public forum featuring Palestinian academic and writer Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh. Professor Qumsiyeh has been writing on Palestine for the past three decades, on topics ranging from the environmental impacts of colonization to environmental and climate justice to cultural heritage to human rights to biodiversity conservation to cancer. The forum will be hosted by a…

  • Stop the genocide! End the Occupation! Free Palestine!

    • Tharawal/allowrie/Wollongong

    We’ll be rallying again this Sunday at 2pm in Crown St Mall. TIME CHANGE ALERT: Please note that the rally will be held at 2PM on Sunday at Wollongong Mall due to a community event! Spread the word and bring your friends

  • Training day for Bisalloy Steel blockade

    • Tharawal/allowrie/Wollongong

    In the lead up to our Community Picket at Bisalloy on on 10th May, join us for a skill-share to help us all get connected and prepared. The day will cover: - Affinity groups - Decision making on the front line - Legal stuff - What time bring and what not to bring We will facilitate additional skillshares for various roles at the picket, including: - Police Liaison and Legal…

  • Bisalloy blockade: No Illawarra steel for genocide!

    • Tharawal/allowrie/Wollongong

    Over the past eight months, Wollongong Friends of Palestine amongst other groups have been rallying and organising to end Israel's genocide and occupation in Palestine. Meanwhile, a local steel manufacturer, Bisalloy Steel, has been busy supporting the Israeli Occupation Forces and profiting off the genocide. Please join us from 6AM-- we are going to try to hold this picket for…

  • Picket Bisalloy: No Illawarra steel for genocide!

    • Tharawal/allowrie/Wollongong

    Despite fifteen months of Israel committing genocide against Palestinians, in both Gaza and the West Bank, local steel manufacturer, Bisalloy Steel continues to arm Israel with its armour plate steel. Wollongong Friends of Palestine are calling our fifth community picket of Bisalloy Steel. Our community picket will be collective form of direct action. We want as many people as…

  • Overnight picket of Bisalloy Steel: No Illawarra steel for genocide!

    • Tharawal/allowrie/Wollongong

    Bisalloy Steel continues to arm Israel's illegal settlements and the IOF with armour plate steel. Wollongong Friends of Palestine won't rest until they stop. We are holding our first ever overnight community picket at Bisalloy. This is because on Sunday nights, Bisalloy fire up their furnace and start a busy week of arming a genocide. Our community picket will stop this at the…