CURRENT MISSION Popular resistance movements. Environmental justice. Direct action on BDS, Arts and culture, Linking stories of struggle. ABOUT ME P.E.D.A.L. begins its journey at Grow Heathrow in Sipson for two days of workshops on art & permaculture, environmental justice, storytelling, and discussions with Palestinian and Israeli activists on the 19th and 20th of March. The living, breathing, cycling tool-kit leaves for the West Bank on the 21st of March to support the Boycott Divestment Sanctions movement, and share stories, skills and strategies for resistance from the UK to Palestine. The bicycle caravan will be cycling in solidarity with Palestinian and Israeli popular resistance movements- responding to the call-out from Palestinian civil society in 2005 to support the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions campaign. The ride will trace a trail of corporations complicit in the occupation, pollinate information about the campaign and support activists on trial for BDS actions. The group will join the dots of counter-cultures resisting injustice through Europe to the Middle East sharing stories, skills and strategies of resistance to create a cultural document for those working to end the illegal Occupation and the wider Global Justice movement. P.E.D.A.L. will focus on environmental justice issues such as access to land, water and seeds- visiting Reclaim the Fields collectives through Europe and working with farmers in the West Bank to strengthen mutual networks for food autonomy. We are also working with Stop the JNF campaign to expose the greenwashing of the JNF in maintaining Israel’s occupation of Palestinian land. Video, photography, audio and theatre projects will make up a cultural document tracking the stories, experiences and ideas to build strong social movements that support each other in our struggles. Our aim is to link and empower groups across our route implementing the concept of ‘dual power’; by building networks with groups who are involved in opposing oppression in Palestine as well as those creating new worlds and forms of organising in resistance to social and environmental injustice. ITINERARY: United Kingdom, ***** France, ******* Belgium,********* Germany,******* Austria,****** Slovenia,********* Croatia,****** Bosnia,******** Serbia,******** Kosovo, *********Macedonia,********Greece, ********Turkey, ********Syria,********* Jordan, *********Palestine ************************* Come and join us at the stops along the route: * 19th & 20th March, Grow Heathrow, London, UK: Workshops on- ‘Art & Permaculture’ by the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination ‘Environmental Justice from Heathrow to Palestine’ by So We Stand ‘Consensus Decision Making & Facilitation’ by Seeds For Change ‘Carrying stories across Europe: A talk about walking from England to Istanbul’ by Adam Weymouth ‘Storytelling in Social Movements’ 21st of March: P.E.D.A.L. will begin it’s journey leaving Grow Heathrow on Monday morning with a critical mass through London meeting at Speaker’s Corner, Hyde Park, for 11.30am. We will map locations relevant in the fight to end the occupation of Palestine with speakers on the route, and also previous sites of resistance in the capital city. Come and join us! * 23rd-25th of March, Calais Solidarity camp, Calais, France: P.E.D.A.L. will be supporting the work of the Calais Solidarity campaign and taking part in the Spring festival. The group will also be meeting with French farmers, participating in creating a growing space and taking part in skill-shares and workshops. * 28th-30th of March, Brussels, Belgium: 28th (Day) Discussions, presentations and workshops with the Palestinian Solidarity campaign 29th (Day) Work in Reclaim the Fields community garden (Eve) B.D.S. Critical mass mapping corporations complicit in the illegal occupation of Palestine by Israel 30th (Day) Skill-share and workshops with topics such as Boycott Divestment Sanctions, media literacy, storytelling, consensus, popular education * 17th-19th April Wieserhosl Farm, Graz, Austria P.E.D.A.L. will stay at the beautiful Wieserhosl farm working on the land and contributing to the daily life of the collective. Workshops and skill-shares will be held and seeds swapped to maintain strong banks of peasant seed varieties. Theatre, performance and play will also fill the days we stay with the Reclaim the Fields collective. Check out: 100daystopalestine.org