A public 'Action for Peace' meeting will be held in Lancaster as weekly gatherings continue in the city centre calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
The meeting, organised by the North Lancashire Green Party, will be held this Saturday, March 9 from 2pm to 4pm at the Quaker Meeting House, Meeting House Lane in Lancaster.
Organisers said the aim of the meeting is to hear from inspiring speakers, share Palestinian culture, and gather ideas to promote justice and peace.
The event will start with hot drinks and Palestinian light food, followed by speakers and discussion from 2.30pm to 4pm. There will also be music from 'Behind the Wheel'.
Speakers will include local campaigners Deena Jayousi, a British-Palestinian active in the local Palestinian Solidarity Campaign, and Gwenda Meredith, of Jewish Voice for Peace, whose mother came to England in 1939 on the Kindertransport.
The meeting comes at a time of growing calls for a permanent ceasefire, in the face of tens of thousands of deaths from bombing, including thousands of children, and the imminent threat of starvation and dehydration.
Weekly gatherings have been taking place in Market Square since October, calling for peace.
"We, the people of Lancaster, must act now," said Deena Jayousi.
"We cannot let the horror of thousands of deaths continue."
Gwenda Meredith said: "I want all campaigners for peace to be mindful of the language we use to express the outrage and pain we share about these events."
In this spirit the meeting will bring together people from different viewpoints, to discuss and share fresh ideas for urgent local action.
The weekly protest in Market Square at 1pm on 9th March will be a symbolic 'die-in' (where campaigners will lie down, simulating being dead) and demonstration by Lancaster Women for Palestine in the week of International Women's Day, which takes place on March 8.


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