Archive for the tag 'Palestine'

At a recent Trades Council meeting we had a talk from a member who had been on a sponsored visit to Palestine.  He showed us slides of the village of Aboud, which is where he stayed.  Aboud is cut off from the hills and fields around it by the “Separation Wall”, which means that children [...]

28 Comments CherryPie on Jun 24th 2009

One of the sections at the PCS conference covered ‘International Issues’, which gave us the opportunity to hear guest speakers from a different part of the world.  Fathi Naser and Hana Joma, representatives from the Palestine General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU) gave us an insight into what it is like to be a Trade [...]

5 Comments CherryPie on May 30th 2009