tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82179475192900371292024-03-05T09:19:16.001-08:00Pendle Beit LeedThere have been links between Pendle and the Palestinian village of Beit Leed for some five years. Links have included visits in both directions. In December 2012, Pendle Council decided to formalise the link. For more information contact
richardmacsween@gmail.comUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8217947519290037129.post-70099621192409462412016-02-08T10:59:00.001-08:002016-02-08T11:56:44.929-08:00George reunited with his Palestinian family<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">In Beit Leed
we heard how many of the villagers had refugee status and had fled from the
sister village of Beit Leed in the 48 war, then of course, many had to flee again
in the 67 war. They had their land seized, many arriving with nothing. Some of
those who fled to Jordan returned, but many did not. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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how the restrictions imposed by the Israeli occupation has severely depressed
the local economy, with a third of the working population unemployed, sadly
graduation from University is two-sided – most likely anyone who succeeds will
have to leave the village. The local farmers struggle with lack of access to
water. The Israelis can cut off water and energy at any point, and Palestinians
have no right to sink wells for their crops, animals and themselves in the
local area. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Often during the olive
harvest, the checkpoints are increased, hampering this most important economic
activity. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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facilities are very basic, and if an emergency occurs at night, they may be
restricted in movement and unable to get to the nearest hospital in Nablus.</span></span></div>
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Dar Assadaqahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02804723300080719559noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8217947519290037129.post-42158454967142337372016-01-17T04:56:00.002-08:002016-01-17T04:56:26.795-08:00A visit to Pendle I had the opportunity to talk about my experience of living and teaching in Palestine under the Israeli Occupation. The teachers and the people were extremely hospitable and they made an event so I could speak to the people about education in Occupied Palestine. The event was very successful and the people wanted to hear about it.<br />
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Also, I've been to Marsden Height School in Pendle and I had a great talk with the teachers who gave me a tour around their school. When I return to Palestine, I will be telling my students about my experience and begin with encouraging them to write letters for the students in Marsden Heights.<br />
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<br />Dar Assadaqahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02804723300080719559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8217947519290037129.post-20122573482014944102013-05-09T03:50:00.000-07:002013-05-09T03:50:14.633-07:00A view from Coldwell<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Palestinian students will enjoy this... very different from Palestine.... hope it doesn't rain....Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8217947519290037129.post-60518178419290080192013-05-09T03:46:00.000-07:002013-05-09T03:46:25.015-07:00Student project getting nearer...Last night we met four of the students who will be coming on the June project - Aftab from Nelson, Frances from Bradford, Nabeela from Halifax and Umar from Burnley - and they're really looking forward to it. (They just have to get their end-of-year uni stuff sorted first...)<br />
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Everything's shaping up very well for the project which starts on 9 June when the 12 students from Palestine fly into Manchester and meet up with the 12 students from the UK at Coldwell. That's where they'll all be staying for four days before they go to London for the next seven days.<br />
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Richard MacSweenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07064923041403006124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8217947519290037129.post-7227043535750155442013-05-09T03:32:00.002-07:002013-05-09T03:32:03.677-07:00Preparing for the student visit from PalestinePendle-Beit Leed is going to be working with CADFA on an exciting student visit from Palestine. The project summary is below and the visit will be in June! Two young women from Beit Leed, Saja and Asala will be among the group. There will be many visits to places and organisations in Pendle during the first part of the visit... watch this space!<br />
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The project summary: 'Ma'an: students together' organised by CADFA, funded by Youth in Action<br />
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Najah Universities in Palestine together with two leaders will spend twelve
days with twelve students from universities in Britain during June 2013. They
will compare their experiences and their lives as students and design material
together to make a website that will strengthen on-going twinning links between
their student unions and seek to extend this work to other universities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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each country will use the book of photos made during our last students'
exchange ‘Look at our Lives’ as a stimulus to discussion about student twinning
links and what they want to do in the project. They will prepare for the exchange
by taking photographs and videos and preparing short presentations on their
lives and concerns. This will become
material to show the other group during the visit. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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be a residential in Lancashire when the students from each country will present
their lives to the other group. Together they will meet people from a local
twinning group (Pendle) and a different university (Manchester) which will help
them decide on themes and content for a student twinning website which they
will prepare during the following week. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the British students will show the Palestinians their life in the city and they
will work in small groups to make material for the website. They will have
workshops in which they can create animated film based on the experiences of
the week and designs for the website. The evenings will have a variety of
activities with university students from across London. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">The participants will show their work in a public event at SOAS to which
a European representative will be invited. The day will include an evaluation
of the website, a discussion on ways this can be used to strengthen student
twinning links, planning for dissemination of the work and for future work
together. Following the visit, the website will be publicised to student groups
in both countries and CADFA and student unions will continue to work to develop
the student twinning links.<br />
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The following day, after having breakfast (which was a feast!) we were taken around Beit Leed village. The walk was lovely, we passed various fruit trees that line the road and admired the view across the valley. The village, despite its slow pace, has lots of character with it's old stone buildings and pretty doorways which are often occupied by women sitting and chatting.<br />
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We arrived at the Women's Society building and went inside the cool stone buildings to escape the heat. Here we found a small museum area showing centuries-old artefacts for use in the home and working the land, examples of traditional Palestinian clothing and a huge olive mill originally dating back to the Roman era and last used in 1932. Next we moved on to a small craft shop, showcasing the handiwork of local women, and then we headed up to the roof to take in spectacular views of Beit Leed and the surrounding lands.<br />
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After another feast at lunch, we went on a leisurely afternoon walk into the mountains to see our hosts' land. Fields of sage, beans and almond trees made for a beautiful backdrop for a sit down with the other women.<br />
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Our time here has been delightful and we hope that the links and friendships between Beit Leed and Pendle continue to grow and flourish.<br />
<br />Dar Assadaqahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02804723300080719559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8217947519290037129.post-55425944343473505502013-02-12T16:29:00.000-08:002013-02-20T08:12:51.393-08:00Few words about Beit Leed...<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Beit Leed</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">(</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_language" title="Arabic language"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="color: black;">Arabic</span></span></a><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">بيت ليد</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span dir="LTR" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></span><span lang="AR-SA" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span dir="LTR"></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">) is a Palestinian</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">town in the Tulkam Governorate</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">in the northeastern West </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Bank </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">located a few kilometers southwest of Tulkarm<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">and west of Nablus </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">. According to the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="apple-converted-space">Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistices, </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">the town had a population of 4,994
inhabitants in 2007</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">. In </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">1922, its
residents amounted to 653, and then rose to 1,807 in 1961.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">On the map 163.185 and rises from sea level 435m and descended the hill
of Beit Leed severe decline towards the south, where there is soil brown and
brown soil red on the south side of the hill while descended gradually
declining in the two northern and northwestern where spreading soil white and
extends the Mount in the North West and Mount Ras al-Shami in the north side of
town and the surface of the earth in the same Beit Leed covered with brown
soil.</span></div>
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are built with stone and cement, especially older buildings that are not
separated in the center of town only alleys with a round shape or a
semi-circular therefore planned town circular radial cross the narrow streets
branching along the roads branching from Beit Leed, particularly in the Bank on both sides of the by Saffarin where almost all buildings of Beit Leed and
Saffarin coalesce with each other area of </span><span lang="EN-US"></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">the town has increased as a result of this urban
growth of "22 acres" in 1945 to more than "150 acres" in
1980.</span></span>Dar Assadaqahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02804723300080719559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8217947519290037129.post-39356123735669714192013-02-12T16:03:00.000-08:002013-02-20T08:15:40.553-08:00Letter from the mayor and from the municipality of Beit Leed<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This letter is from the Mayor and municipality members of Beit Leed to the Mayor of Pendle.</div>
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Dear Mr. Mayor and the distinguished members of the municipality.</div>
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Greetings<br />
We are so grateful and honored to have this twining between your town and our village.<br />
Myself and the municipality members would like to extend and develop this twinning relationship between our municipality and yours for a closer relation, communication and cooperation.<br />
We hope that we will find more ways in which we will keep in touch.</div>
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With sincere thanks and appreciation,</div>
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Mayor of Beit Lid.<br />
Abdallah Atallah.</div>
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هذه الرسالة من رئيس واعضاء بلدية بيت ليد لرئيس البلدية حضرتكم:<br />
حضرة السيد رئيس واعضاء بلدية حضرتكم المحترمين<br />
تحية طيبة وبعد<br />
نتقدم نحن رئيس واعضاء بلدية بيت ليد في فلسطين بطلب بناء علاقة توأمة بين بلديتنا وبلديتكم من اجل توثيق علاقات الاتصال والتواصل والتعاون بيننا وبينكم املين منكم الموافقة على طلبنا<br />
مع خالص الشكر والتقدير<br />
رئيس بلدية بيت ليد</div>
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<br />Dar Assadaqahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02804723300080719559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8217947519290037129.post-76540777400648070712013-02-12T15:52:00.001-08:002013-02-20T08:35:53.390-08:00Pendle's mayor<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">In the evening, we were invited to the Council where we had a great opportunity to meet the Mayor and to talk about the twinning. We had the letter translated into English. In this letter the Mayor of Beit Leed </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">thanked the municipality here and requested to extend the relations and the communication between the two towns. Noor read the letter in Arabic and Richard read it in English.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">After that the Twining was approved. Noor was also asked to present a talk during which she explained the projects that she has been doing.Some of these projects are about Palestinian life and Beit Leed in particular. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Sabrina explained about the up coming students' visit in June and explained more about CADFA work in London.</span>Dar Assadaqahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02804723300080719559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8217947519290037129.post-32012119893930656672013-02-12T15:23:00.001-08:002013-02-20T08:56:21.194-08:00Coldwell<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today we've been in an exploratory tour for the students' visit accommodation. We went to a nice place called Coldwell. We really enjoyed the place and we got discount and good offers.<br />
Coldwell Activity Centre is a residential facility in the heart of the Lancashire landscape in a remarkably beautiful setting overlooking the reservoir.<br />
The organizers were very nice, we had the chance to talk and we put some suggestions and ideas for making the stay more interresting.<br />
Coldwell has twelve bedrooms, three of which are en-suite, sleeping up to 27 people. Because of the size of the groups who will stay they will have exclusive use of all the residential facilities, and receive a bespoke, personal service.<br />
The building itself has been converted from an 18th century inn, retaining many original features and set in its own grounds with woodland walks and plenty of wildlife.<br />
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Lancashire (see the map). Pendle is composed of the towns of Nelson,
Colne, Barnoldswick and Earby. Pendle is nestled within Pennine Lancashire, Pendle
offers some of England’s finest countryside, as well as beautiful villages,
bustling towns and wide open spaces to explore at whatever pace takes your
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Dar Assadaqahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02804723300080719559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8217947519290037129.post-75437868099726103242013-02-10T13:50:00.000-08:002013-03-06T07:50:33.272-08:00Report second meeting in Pendle<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6dSa7sEJWY82_lZVKJiKkntOsTVyaM-WJL-QkZpU4feCQfdfkEiKNFxpDTkTyOwBsRrkGlL-bPTbZ8YJD6dhQvfmNdS-XcQHxVnJpMtuVpo-PDB5ZQV1Hw6bEIsOuxdjpSBhlmj54pqH4/s1600/DSC03822.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6dSa7sEJWY82_lZVKJiKkntOsTVyaM-WJL-QkZpU4feCQfdfkEiKNFxpDTkTyOwBsRrkGlL-bPTbZ8YJD6dhQvfmNdS-XcQHxVnJpMtuVpo-PDB5ZQV1Hw6bEIsOuxdjpSBhlmj54pqH4/s200/DSC03822.JPG" width="200" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzlr6QRmHxU3iT97d5VH2pHiWf5HRhG6kVTtGuGPv4HibeVDJtZw2KmeJ4IYKUFOmGBNJER-L5gJfB2MWXJYAlxiOkOOGeYzUIc_NUP63BMWHNSDE04WujB2uInH4W4Zs9wCpYlRmlWJjs/s1600/DSC03823.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzlr6QRmHxU3iT97d5VH2pHiWf5HRhG6kVTtGuGPv4HibeVDJtZw2KmeJ4IYKUFOmGBNJER-L5gJfB2MWXJYAlxiOkOOGeYzUIc_NUP63BMWHNSDE04WujB2uInH4W4Zs9wCpYlRmlWJjs/s200/DSC03823.JPG" width="200" /></a><br />
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meeting was organised in order to start to prepare the Students visit in June. This meeting happened around a dinner. Indeed,
during this meeting we exchanged and talked about different aspects of this
visit. First of all, we started to talk about how to find the buddies. With regards to this point we decided to ask each peson who wanted to become a buddy to fill an application
form. After, we talked about the accomodation so, people proposed different
places. Then, we dealt with transport and we were wanded if it was possible
to rent a van and finally, we finished by discussing fundraising. In fact, the people in
Pendle will organise different events and cake sales. We also thought it would be good if we had a budget and a target of the amount of money which we
needed to finance the trip in Pendle. Each of the people in charge should ask or/and think about either the accomodation, transport or the fundraising for the next meeting. The
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Dar Assadaqahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02804723300080719559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8217947519290037129.post-48674181059152457442013-02-10T13:09:00.000-08:002013-03-06T07:56:08.239-08:00First meeting in Pendle<br />
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Manchester with its museum</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">,<span style="background: white;"> followed by the Old Trafford, the home of the Manchester United. We
ended the day with a play called « Woody Sez ». It was about the life and music of Woody Guthrie. We saw it at the Lowry in Salford.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">We went to an event organized by the twinning
group in Pendle. This event was in a restaurant in Burnley. We started the
speech by talking about CADFA. We also explained our voluntary work, with a
power point presentation and we talked about the different visits which CADFA
will be organizing (Women's visit, Students' visit...) from Palestine, so at the end
people were aware of the twinning groups. And Richard informed them about the
twining that will be between Pendle and Beit Leed. People asked questions and were interested to talk and exchange ideas during a warm dinner.
It was really interesting.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
Dar Assadaqahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02804723300080719559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8217947519290037129.post-26189454710491211342013-02-10T12:44:00.002-08:002013-03-06T08:02:14.712-08:00Very lovely welcoming !!!<br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We were met and warmly welcomed by Richard at Manchester station and he
took us around in his car and then we had a cup of tea at Yvonne's house. She was so sweet and we enjoyed it a lot.</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /><span style="background: white;">After that we had a dinner in a fancy Italian restaurant,
where we talked about the work, the importance of the twinning and we discussed
about the school work that we've been doing and CADFA work specifically.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Dar Assadaqahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02804723300080719559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8217947519290037129.post-75257986041362218342013-01-28T10:29:00.003-08:002013-01-28T10:29:39.467-08:00Volunteers and student visit<h3>
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pendle Beit Leed group has made a friendship link within Britain! Specifically with CADFA, a human rights charity based in Camden, with its own partner in Abu Dis, Palestine. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This year this is likely to mean for Pendle that</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />* Palestinian volunteers working with CADFA will come to Pendle to help with the twinning links (watch this blog develop!)</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />* A student visit from Palestine now being arranged with CADFA will bring some students from Beit Leed or the An Najah University, and the group will come to Pendle in the first part of their visit.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Lots more exciting things should follow... watch this space!</span></span></h3>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8217947519290037129.post-8678622775684488102013-01-28T10:24:00.000-08:002013-01-28T10:24:59.943-08:00Pendle - formal twinning links with Beit LeedFrom "Pendle Today"<br />
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PENDLE councillors have agreed to formal twinning links being made with the Palestinian town of Beit Leed.</div>
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Labour and Liberal Democrat members agreed to a motion backing the move at the full council meeting, but Conservative councillors argued that the Israel-Palestine issue was one the council should not involve itself in.</div>
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In a debate which lasted for more than half an hour, watched by members of the Pendle for Palestine Twinning Group in the public gallery, Coun. Mohammed Iqbal praised the actions of two young Pendle people who had increased public awareness of the situation by organising a rally in Nelson last month and congratulated Pendle MP Andrew Stephenson for his efforts to secure a peace deal between Israel and Palestine through Parliament.</div>
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As well as calling for the signing of twinning links, his motion called on the council to welcome the affording of “observer status” to Palestine by the UN and condemn Israeli government plans to build illegal settlements on occupied Palestinian land.</div>
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Conservative Coun. Graham Waugh said it was not appropriate to waste time discussing the matter when there were local problems which needed councillors’ attention.</div>
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And the BNP’s Coun. Brian Parker said: “I am not taking sides but we could twin with a settlement in Israel. We should stay well out of this. We should avoid Palestine because of its links with terrorist groups” – a comment which provoked calls of “Fascist” from the public gallery and drew a rebuke later from council leader Coun. Joe Cooney.</div>
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Other speakers from both sides of the argument made contributions before Coun. Iqbal, in summing up, thanked all councillors “bar one” for their “helpful” contributions to the debate.</div>
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A meeting will be held in the near future to consider the twinning arrangements.</div>
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PPTG spokesman Richard MacSween thanked councillors afterwards for getting behind the proposal.</div>
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“People in Pendle will be able to show their support for a town in a country which has had a hard time of it.” he said.</div>
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