Cardiff Stop the War was first launched 22 years ago, the week after 9/11. We are the oldest still-active peace group in the capital city of Wales. This is our new account. We look forward to sharing information on local, national and global peace and Palestine issues and actions
1/3 📢💥 BREAKING: UK's biggest arms dealer SHUTDOWN 💥
👉 Hundreds of Welsh activists & allies have SHUTDOWN BAE's BIGGEST UK site near Pontypool, Wales for it's complicity in arming Israel's genocide.
3rd Student Encampment in Wales For Gaza Has Begun!
Last night, Cardiff joined Bangor and Swansea and over 30 universities across the UK in establishing a campsite.
Donate here:
Swansea is Anti-Fascist!
Another large vibrant community counter-protest today to a threat by the far right to demonstrate in Wales.
(Photo credit: SUTR Wales)
1/9 APARTHEID FREE ZONE CITY ROAD Official Launch. Business after business on the street publicly pledged to join the boycott in solidarity with Gaza today
MAKE CARDIFF AN APARTHEID FREE ZONE!
A people's inspection of Sainsbury's, Colchester Avenue, found that the supermarket continues to stock goods in violation of the global call for boycott, divestment & sanctions to isolate Israel as we isolated apartheid in South Africa...
1/10 "JO STEVENS YOU CAN'T HIDE. WE CHARGE YOU WITH GENOCIDE!"
Community march through Roath to raise awareness that Jo Stevens, Labour Shadow Secretary of State for Wales, failed to vote for a ceasefire at the earliest possible opportunity greenlighting genocide in Gaza
Weekly Road blockade for Rafah
Rush hour traffic in 6 directions brought to stand still by sit-down protest on Park Place, Boulevard de Nantes, Stutgarter Strasse under slogan Shut It Down For Palestine & No Business as Usual in a Genocide. Everyone in black to mourn Gaza dead
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
For almost 30 weeks Cardiff has seen a sustained wave of direct action with pro-apartheid businesses, as well as public buildings, occupied & road blockades under the slogans "Shut It Down For Palestine" & "No Business as Usual During a Genocide"
Well done, Marzooq, an A-level student active in our movement, challenging Welsh party leaders last night over Gaza.
Sorry, Vaughan Gething and David TC Davies totally ignored your question.
VICTORY for boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement to isolate Israel as we isolated apartheid in South Africa until Palestinians from the river to the sea can live free from racist oppression.
More and more people joining occupation of Cardiff Bay Police Station after prominent Welsh Palestine activist arrested. From an hour ago. People gathering outside too. (Video credit
@BLMCardiff
)
18 demonstrators arrested last night in Cardiff on the day people took to the streets over war crimes in Rafah, Gaza have been held for 17-21 hours in police stations across South Wales. Still unreleased.
3/3 ❤️🔥 WE ARE THE PEOPLE'S ARMS EMBARGO ❤️🔥
The People's blockade spreads nationwide -
"If the UK government won't stop selling weapons - we will stop those complicit making them." ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
👉 WANT TO JOIN THE BLOCKADE AS IT IS HAPPENING?
Get over to NP15 1XL RIGHT NOW!
Thank you to Bethan Sayed, former Senedd Member and longstanding peace activist, speaking on behalf of Cardiff Stop the War at today's powerful Nakba Day protest in Wales. We are very proud of you!
Part of my speech today in Cardiff for the National Naka rally. Rhan o fy araith heddiw ar gyfer y rali Nakba Cenedlaethol.
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2/3❓ WHY SHUTDOWN BAE SYSTEMS?
BAE Glascoed site makes & packs 155mm artillery shells extensively used on Palestinians in Gaza & occupied West Bank
Site is home to the only phosphorus packing plant in the UK, & Israel's use of white phosphorus is well documented in the region
People of all ages and walks of life will join the weekly march for Palestine.
This week's march honours the student protest encampments that have spread to over 100 U.S universities, and now to the UK and internationally.
#Cardiff
#Wales
#Protest
#Gaza
Full House at Cardiff Stop the War event on How Can Wales Support Palestine.
Thank you to panellists Beth Winter MP, Sioned Williams MS, Willoughby Zimmerman (S Wales Jews for Collective Liberation), Sabrin Hasbun (Palestinian-Italian writer), Anthony Slaughter, Cllr Imran Latif
Defiant mood in Cardiff this weekend after arrest of almost 20 Palestine protesters earlier in the week.
Sign and share our petition to drop the charges:
Photo credit: Fields of Light Photography
Jo Stevens, Shadow Secretary of State for Wales, failed to vote for an immediate ceasefire last November or to call for the UK to stop arming Israel to end the Gaza genocide. Help raise awareness among local residents to vote for candidates with better records
#noceasefirenovote
Ceasefire Now
Stop the Genocide
Stop Arming Israel
Join us to mark the 76th anniversary of the Nakba (the catastrophe) in 1948 when 750,000 Palestinians were made refugees, forced off their land to make way for the Israeli state, still denied their right to return home.
This year saw the first Welsh-language khutbah (sermon) at the Eisteddfod's mosque and Welsh-speaking Muslims say it sends a 'powerful message, that here in Wales, we are one'
Politicians, Palestinian & Jewish activists discuss & debate the urgent & immediate needs in Palestine, as well as longer-term steps towards liberation.
Ask elected reps questions. Learn how to move Palestine further up the political agenda.
Book now:
🌬️ JOIN US SINGING FOR FREEDOM IN PALESTINE!
No experience is necessary and you don’t have to be a singer, just come along and join us!
We will be raising money for
@MedicalAidPal
on the day.
1/5 Solidarity on Trial -
Drop the Charges
121 organizations, parties, politicians, prominent figures, and student encampments have signed our statement condemning the actions of South Wales Police, arresting 19 pro-Palestine activists in 48 hours.
Politicians, Palestinian & Jewish activists discuss & debate the urgent & immediate needs in Palestine, as well as longer-term steps towards liberation.
Ask elected reps questions. Learn how to move Palestine further up the political agenda.
Book now:
Official launch of our campaign to make City Road, Cardiff, an Apartheid-Free Zone!
Saturday 16 March, 1 pm in front of Pardise Garden, City Road.
Background reading:
March for Palestine
Saturday 6 April, 1 pm
Cardiff Central Library
Protest over 13,000 Palestinian children dead in Gaza.
This war is a war on children. It is a war on their childhood and their future.
Ceasefire NOW.
Arms embargo NOW.
Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions NOW.
Cardiff Student Encampment for Gaza achieves victories for Palestine & social justice.
'The tent village in the heart of Cardiff which has been there for two months. The encampment was create to achieve change and may just have helped achieve it'
1/2 Thank you to
@Heledd_Plaid
&
@JaneHutt
for r defending the right to protest. Hope you both & all MS's now sign our statement calling for South Wales Police to drop the chatges, affirming that political policing & politically motivated charges are not in the public interest.
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement to isolate Israel as a pariah state as we isolated apartheid in South Africa is chalking up incredible victories in recent weeks.
🚨BDS VICTORY - Coffee shop chain Pret has pulled out of its planned investment in Israel, with media sources citing the threat of a major boycott campaign by Palestine solidarity activists. (1/6)
#BDS
#FreePalestine
MAKE CARDIFF AN APARTHEID FREE ZONE!
People's inspection of Lidl on Cathays Terrace finds supermarket continues to stock goods in violation of global call for boycott, divestment & sanctions to isolate Israel as we isolated apartheid in South Africa.
Items removed from shelves.
The Cymru Peace Coalition today joined trade unionists blockading GE Aviation in Cheltenham.
The new First Minister of Wales,
@vaughangething
& the majority of Welsh MPs refuse to call for an immediate ceasefire, while
@WelshGovernment
supports arms manufacture supplying Israel
BREAKING: Hundreds of trade unionists are blockading major arms factories in England and Scotland that manufacture weapons supplied to Israel.
We will not stand by as weapons made in Britain are used to commit genocide against the Palestinian people!
#ShutItDown4Palestine
On Saturday, the weekly march for Palestine joins forces again with the Sudanese community to amplify and unify the voices of two freedom movements sharing a lived experience of war, genocide, hunger, & mass displacement.
This is the 3rd Welsh march for Sudan and Palestine.
Bring empty pots and pans. And a ladle or spoon to bash them. Let's make some NOISE on the streets of Cardiff for the hungry people of Gaza enduring an enforced famine and genocide.
#Cardiff
#Palestine
#Gaza
#Protest
Stop bombing Gaza
Stop ethnic cleansing on West Bank.
End the military occupation
Lift the siege
End apartheid in Israel, Jerusalem, West Bank & Gaza
Let the refugees return
CEASEFIRE NOW
ARMS EMBARGO NOW
BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT, SANCTIONS NOW
#Cardiff
#Gaza
#Palestine
#Protest
🇵🇸 ARMS FACTORIES SHUT DOWN🔥
Over 100 concerned citizens have formed peace pickets, arm in arm, blocking 2 weapons factories arming Israel.
Halting all Elbit Systems operations in south west.
Elbit produce 85% of Israeli weaponry, inc drones & land-based military equipment.
1/3 Cardiff Stop the War are at the Cardiff Mela, Wales largest multicultutral festival, educating the people about the Palestinian struggle for basic rights against apartheid, military occupation, blockade & unequal citizenship. Palestine is
#1
anti-racist struggle in the world
Charlotte Church is the latest cultural worker to pull out of
@hayfestival
in Wales in solidarity with Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions to isolate Israel as we isolated apartheid in South Africa until Palestinians can live free in their ancestral homeland
I’m scheduled in to talk at the Hay Festival with the brilliant Mary Loudon this weekend.
However, due to the continuing sponsorship of the festival by asset manager Baillie Gifford, I will be boycotting and not attending
🍉
@fossilfreebooks
Local residents outside office of Anna McMorrin MP highlight failure to actively campaign for a real & immediate ceasefire & arms embargo, properly condemn Israel's war crimes, or support boycott, divestment & sanctions to isolate Israel as we isolated apartheid in South Africa
Thank you for your solidarity with the
#Cardiff19
. We hope there will be cross-party support in defending the right to protest in Wales. Drop the Charges!
The Cardiff, Vale, and Valleys Green Party (CVVGP) stand in solidarity with the
#Cardiff19
, who were violently arrested by South Wales Police (SWP) in Cardiff and Swansea on the 3rd and 4th of June.
We are particularly disturbed by the treatment of disabled community members…
1/2 Sharifah from Cardiff Stop the War & Welsh Palestinian activist Lujane are among speakers in Bristol talking about our work building the Cardiff City Road Apartheid Free Zone - we have won support of 59 local businesses to join the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement
The FINAL event of the festival - Apartheid-Free Zones and Solidarity with Palestine!
Discussing mass boycotts - the ongoing campaign in Cardiff - and the
@STWBristol
plan to launch the same campaign in Bristol!
Sign up for the campaign:
1/2 This Saturday, instead of the usual march in Cardiff City Centre, we are all going to Swansea to support the march there!If you want to travel up as a group, meet at Cardiff Central Railway Station.
HAPPENING NOW: People are blockading the Bristol Arms fair. Exhibitors include Elbit Systems and BAE Systems.
Wherever arms dealers are meeting, protesters will greet them.
#StopArmingIsrael
#FreePalestine
The next national demonstration in London for Saturday 30 March – Palestine Land Day.
It's also Easter weekend, traditionally associated with calls for peace.
Full details of the protest can be found at
SHUT IT DOWN FOR PALESTINE!
St David's Shopping Centre in Cardiff occupied today as part of the international day of protest for Palestine. No business as usual during a genocide
We thank
@PeredurPlaidAS
for tabling a short debate on Gaza.
We will meet on the steps in front of the Senedd with flags and banners ahead of the debate.
We wish
@WelshGovernment
to do more to help achieve justice for a people who have suffered decades of oppression.
A thread of photographs and videos from the weekly march for Palestine.
Today, particularly focused on the plight of children in Gaza, slaughtered at a rate of 1 child every 10 minutes, unprecedented in any recent war. Children comprise over a third of the dead in Gaza.
Vote for Palestine
March for Palestine
Freedom for Palestine
This week, vote for candidates who support Gaza and join this local protest in Cardiff or the national march in London.
Saturday 6 July, 1pm, Aneurin Bevan Statue, Queen St.
#Cardiff
#Palestine
#Gaza
#Protest
Stop Arming Israel
No War on Iran
Ceasefire Now
Freedom For Palestine
Saturday 20 April, 12.30pm, Aneurin Bevan Statue, Queen St.
With danger of escalation into a regional war, we need an escalation of the anti-war movement on the streets
#Cardiff
#Gaza
#Palestine
#Protest
Demand Cardiff North MP Anna McMorrin represent majority opinion in Britain: an immediate ceasefire & arms embargo on Israel.
Our MPs must properly condemn Israel's war crimes & support boycott, divestment, and sanctions to isolate Israel as we isolated apartheid in South Africa
Stop Arming Israel
#BoycottBarclays
Assemble outside Barclays, who invest over £1 billion in arms companies supplying Israel.
March. Protest.
Build the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement to isolate Israel as we isolated apartheid in South Africa.
Stop Arming Israel
Ceasefire Now
We represent the majority opinion in Britain today that wants a ceasefire now.
The best response to political policing of protest is protesting in even bigger numbers to show our movement is unstoppable!
#Cardiff
#Gaza
#Palestine
#Protest
Undod Cymru â Phalestina!
Brilliant to see
@charlottechurch
and
@BethWinterMP
bringing love and solidarity from Wales to the Palestinian people at this weekend's march in London.
Welsh sisterhood is powerful.
Celebrate Welsh peace traditions on St David's Day: Ceasefire Now
“Gwnewch y pethau bychain” or “Do the little things” are St David's most famous words
Wales' patron saint believed that the people of Wales should do the small, considerate things that often make a big difference
Ceasefire Now
Stop the Genocide
Stop Arming Israel
Join us to mark the 76th anniversary of the Nakba (the catastrophe) in 1948 when 750,000 Palestinians were made refugees, forced off their land to make way for the Israeli state,
still denied their right to return home.
1/2 Students, staff & community are invited to join an urgent international action, declaring March 8th, International Women's Day, as a global day for the Palestinian women of Gaza & Palestinian people centring their stories, histories & struggles as a driving force for action
Israel is preparing an invasion of Rafah, knowing there is nowhere safe for Palestinians to flee
Israel believes it can massacre with impunity because Western governments will not act: Arms, trade, military & economic aid will continue to flow to the apartheid state
We must act
MAKE CARDIFF AN APARTHEID FREE ZONE!
A people's inspection to monitor if the supermarket continues to stock goods in violation of the global call for boycott, divestment & sanctions to isolate Israel as we isolated apartheid in South Africa. Help publicise the boycott!
***MARCH FOR THE FATHERS OF GAZA***
Images from Gaza. Fathers carrying their wounded children. Cradling their lifeless bodies. And pleading for help for their starving families. Rise for them.
NYE BEVAN STATUE, QUEEN ST., CARDIFF 1PM
After 9 months of slaughter, we need an immediate end to UK Government arms sales to Israel & arms purchases from Israel + Economic sanctions to isolate the genocidal regime as we isolated apartheid in South Africa until Palestinians have rights
#Cardiff
#Gaza
#Palestine
#Protest
Cardiff's weekly march for Palestine this weekend demands solidarity with the women and girls of Palestine who suffer and resist genocide, war, military occupation, siege, racist laws, and refugee camps.
#Cardiff
#Palestine
#Gaza
#IWD24
#IWD
#Protest
Don't Bank on Apartheid!
#BoycottBarclays
Over 1,000 people today closed their Barclays bank accounts in protest at over £1bn shares in arms companies supplying Israel. This is the 2nd mass account closure day during the genocide in Gaza.
Yesterday, it was Vietnam, civil rights, & ending apartheid in South Africa.
Today, it is Palestine. Gaza is the acid test. If you haven't marched over the last 9 months, you are on the wrong side of history.
Stop Arming Israel. Ceasefire Now
#Cardiff
#Gaza
#Palestine
#Protest
1/2 People of all ages and walks of life will be marching for an immediate ceasefire, an end to Israeli apartheid and freedom, justice, and equality for the Palestinian people.
This week's march salutes the global student encampments for Palestine, ending at the Cardiff camp.
"Israel meets the requirements for a just war in what it is doing in Gaza. It is a legitimate authority. Its cause is unquestionably just."
Gaza haunts Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg in Cardiff.
A 10-day peace camp by
@LakenheathAfP
is in progress outside American base RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk, East Anglia protesting plans to station U.S. nuclear weapons there.
Peace activists, including from
@CNDCymru
have joined the 24/7 vigil outside the base
Charlotte Church is leading thousands on a march in central London for the protection and liberation of the Palestinian people & a ceasefire now
Protesters also marched in Cardiff on solidarity with the women, girls, mothers, daughters & sisters in Gaza
1/5 'How Can Wales Support Palestine' 18.04.2024, Temple of Peace, Cardiff.
Thank you to everyone who came to our 200 strong event this week. Photos by AQ Aziz.
'Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.' — Martin Luther King Jr.
'In Swansea, police raided a home on Tuesday morning and arrested a 12-year-old girl and her Palestinian mother'
Shocking that a 12-year-old was held in a police cell.
@childcomwales
Land Day marks Israeli police killing 6 unarmed Palestinian citizens of Israel
during a 1976 protest against expropriation of Palestinian land
Appropriation of land has been continuous since Israel's establishment
Easter weekend is traditionally associated with calls for peace
We are participating in this event initiated by the Muslim Vote. All welcome.
#noceasefirenovote
The mainstream parties have failed us on every level. It is time we unite to drive genocidal MPs out.
Register here:
1/2 Rahma Zein is an Egyptian journalist, podcaster, activist and influencer best known for her viral confrontation with CNN reporter Clarissa Ward at the Rafah crossing over Western media dehumanisation of Arabs as Palestinians are slaughtered before the eyes of the world.
To mark International Women’s Day, a new exhibition at St Fagans National Museum of History is highlighting the stories of the women of Wales who demanded a future free from war.
Exhibition 9 March – 15 September 2024. Free admission.
40 years ago today, 11 Dublin supermarket workers walked out on strike to refuse the selling of South African fruit — an act of defiance that would make Ireland the first Western nation to ban apartheid goods.
Inspiring. Must-read story.
2nd Cardiff March 4 Palestine & Sudan
Gaza: Stop the Rafah massacre
Sudan: Remember 3 June 2019 Khartoum massacre
Wear blue if can! After Khartoum massacre, Sudan went blue on social media, wall murals, in tribute to Mohamed Mattar whose favourite colour was blue & other martyrs
1/2 Call out for Health Workers to join march in Cardiff on Saturday
Health workers in Gaza have been slaughtered at an unprecedented rate in any modern war, with hospitals, medical centres, ambulances systematically targeted, & denied medical supplies by Israel's blockade.
A century ago, after horror of WWI, three-quarters of Welsh women signed a petition appealing to American women to work with them for a world without war. Amid rising global tensions between rival powers, our generation turns to the petition
@peace_news
“We learned that you have to stop the fascists from marching. You can’t march away from them because they believe that whoever controls the streets can control the state...You can’t allow our streets to relinquish to them.”
1/6 Peace in Palestine. Peace in Sudan.
On Saturday, the weekly march for Palestine joins forces with the global march for Sudan to amplify the voices of two freedom movements sharing a lived experience of war, genocide, hunger, and mass displacement.