Jeremy Corbyn and the Peace and Justice Project’s Music For A Ceasefire effort has just announced another gig as part of its ongoing campaigning over Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Music For A Ceasefire: Corbyn announces another gig
The latest Music For A Ceasefire fundraiser concert will take place at Belgrave Music Hall in Leeds on Friday 24 May. The gig will feature an introductory speech from Jeremy Corbyn followed by performances from bands Currls and Mint, as well as appearances from several special guests.
You can buy tickets here.
As the Canary previously reported, the Peace and Justice Project launched Music For A Ceasefire in November.
It started as an open letter from artists. It has now been signed by around 2000 performers, including Sam Fender, Enter Shikari, Clean Bandit, Fontaines D.C., IDLES, Declan McKenna, The Last Dinner Party, Architects, Bastille, Sean Ono Lennon, and Little Mix’s Jade Thirlwall. Full letter text and signatories can be found here.
Israel’s genocide continues
Since then, Music For A Ceasefire has held gigs in London and Manchester, with one in Brighton on 7 May; you can get tickets for that here.
Also since then, Israel has killed over 34,000 people in Gaza – the majority of them being women and children. Overnight on Monday 29 April, Israel conducted air strikes on Rafah, where the majority of Gaza’s 2.4 million people have sought refuge near the border with Egypt.
It killed at least 22 people, hitting at least three civilian houses.
Corbyn: Israel’s Gaza assault ‘a stain on humanity forever’
Announcing the fundraiser, Jeremy Corbyn MP, founder of the Peace and Justice Project, said:
The destruction of Gaza and the deaths of over 34,000 innocent Palestinian men, women, and children is the result of utter failure by political leaders who made the choice to cheer on and fund this massacre when they had the opportunity to stop it. Their inability to treat Israeli and Palestinian lives with equal worth will be a stain on humanity forever.
With Gaza reduced to rubble, the Peace & Justice Project’s Music For The Many campaign launched the ‘Music For A Ceasefire’ concert series to raise vital funds to support humanitarian aid in Gaza, highlighting the importance of grassroots music venues like Leeds Belgrave Music Hall in bringing our communities together raise money for important causes and stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people living under siege in Gaza.
Music For The Many campaign organiser Samuel Sweek said:
We are delighted to be joined by the exciting up-and-coming bands Currls and Mint for this show in Leeds. Zak, the singer from Mint, is himself a Palestinian so the message that this gig sends to our government and others complicit in Israel’s genocidal bombardment of Gaza is so powerful.
Music has the power to bring people together and that is what ‘Music For A Ceasefire’ is all about: standing as one united community against war and the disgraceful profiteering of the arms trade.
Additional reporting via Agence France-Presse
Featured image via Al Jazeera – screengrab and the Canary
