Dear all,

We have just been informed that this year the Israeli ‘independence celebrations’ will take place this Tuesday 5th May in Ballsbridge Court Hotel, Shelbourne Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4. This event will be nothing other than a celebration of 61 years of ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people, particularly disgusting in the wake of the slaughter of 1,400 people in Gaza at the beginning of this year.

The IPSC has called for a peaceful protest picket outside the Ballsbridge Court Hotel, to start at 6.30pm. We need to shame those attending this celebration of dispossession and mass killing. Last year’s picket was highly successful and looked really well, we hope this year’s will be even bigger.

Attached is a map of how to get there – click here: http://www.ipsc.ie/images/events/nakba2009map.jpg

We are also asking people/organisations to not only build for this, but to circulate this mail far and wide, thank you.

And apologies for the short notice, we have literally just found out.

Please Note: To facilitate this emergency protest, we have changed the time of the IPSC Discussion Evening from 7.30 to 8.30pm. For more information on the discussion evening, please see: http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/ipsc/displayEvent.php?eventID=639

In solidarity,
Kevin Squires
IPSC National Coordinator