Wollongong Friends of Palestine

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

    • Tharawal/allowrie/Wollongong

    We’ll be rallying again this Sunday at 2pm in Crown St Mall. Please note that we have switched back to 2pm due to Ramadan likely beginning on Monday 11th March, and speaker availability. Please spread the word, and our apologies for confusion!

  • Blockade Bisalloy: Community picket

    • Tharawal/allowrie/Wollongong

    Over the past six 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 Forcess. Bisalloy Steel armours IOF tanks, as well as Plasan Re'em armoured cars, the vehicle of choice in…

  • Stop the genocide in Gaza!

    • Tharawal/allowrie/Wollongong

    Stop the genocide! End the Occupation! Free Palestine!    We’ll be rallying again this Sunday at 2pm in Crown St Mall at the Stage Area.   Spread the word and bring your friends :)

  • No Illawarra steel for genocide! Community blockade of Bisalloy

    • 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. This community picket will be our longest yet, aiming…

  • Women’s Palestinian solidarity breakfast

    • Tharawal/allowrie/Wollongong

    After 16 months, please join us as we dare to hope that the ceasefire holds, and the killing and destruction of Gaza is coming to an end. Everything we do does count. And we must not stop now.  Peace means justice, and that means ensuring the ceasefire holds, bringing war criminals to account, and that all humanitarian aid, food and warm clothing can now move freely into Gaza…

  • 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…