Part Two of the Drug Policy Review of 2008 will be available later this week.

In the meantime like lots of people like I have been sat looking at the awful news from Gaza over Christmas and the New Year wondering if there's anything I can do to register my disapproval and disgust with Israeli actions. From discussions with friends and from some other sources on the web, this list has come together.

To make financial donations to support healthcare for people in Gaza and find out more about the desperate situation in hospitals there following the Israeli attacks please visit http://www.map-uk.org/ - or just click the image below

Ten Things You Can Do For Gaza (and not Gazza as one correspondent of mine thought ... though I've no doubt he needs all the help we can give him too)

1 First get the facts and then disseminate them. Here is some basic background information War on Want  Don't just talk about Gaza with people who agree with you, talk to people with different political views. Give people something to think about. Read and talk about the personal accounts of people in Gaza - try here Electronic Intifada.

2 Contact the media. Write letters to editors (usually 100-150 words) and write to news departments in both print, audio, and visual media about their coverage. 

3 Contact elected and other political leaders in your country to urge them to apply pressure to end the attacks. Use this link http://www.theyworkforyou.com/ to find your MP

4 Join demonstrations and organised campaigns.

5 Pass out or email flyers with facts and figures about Palestine and Gaza in your community, at the pub, in church, in local shops.

6 Put a Palestinian flag at your window.

7 Wear a Palestinian head scarf (Koufiya). Wear Black arm bands (this helps start conversations with people)

8 Send direct aid to Gaza through the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). http://www.un.org/unrwa/

9 Find out if your pension fund or ISA or whatever invests in companies who support or profit from Israeli apartheid. Check out the Disinvestment section on www.bigcampaign.org for more information.

10 Boycott Marks and Spencer. I know it's hard, but you can get good knickers and orange juice in other places too! Check goods you buy in other supermarkets (particularly Waitrose, Sainsburies and Tesco) to make sure they don't come from Israel. Economics hurts more than demonstrations. Remember what was achieved through economic sanctions against South Africa.

Oh and an 11th that's actually really important. Don't allow what's happening in Gaza turn you into an anti semite. This is not about race or religion, its about human rights, and war crimes.