Saturday, 22 January
1:00 pm
Ealing Broadway, W5
Meet Outside HSBC
Organized by West London FRFI
Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/CYydBvLou1B/

Free Palestinian Prisoners
Rolling picket in Ealing, 22 January, 1pm
Meet outside HSBC, Ealing Broadway

Join West London RCG to protest against the businesses, banks and institutions in Britain that support Israel’s oppression of the Palestinian people.

This action organised as part of the international week of action to free Ahmed Sa’adat and all Palestinian prisoners, called by @samidounnetwork 15-22 January 2022

#freeahmedsaadat #freepalestine #freepalestinianprisoners

Saturday, 22 January
2 pm
Garema Place, Civic
Canberra, Australia
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/2021889451321806

Palestinian prisoners are consistently engaged in a difficult struggle inside Israeli jails against arbitrary laws and unrestrained brutality. Prisoners are regularly forced to go beyond the accepted limits of human endurance to assert their dignity and the most basic of rights, often with the power of empty stomachs in the face of cruelty designed to degrade and break people’s will. Recently, Hisham Abu Hawash, held without a charge or trial as an administrative detainee, was only able to extract freedom after a long 141 day hunger strike.

The Palestinian prisoners’ struggle inside the occupation’s prison system is a pillar of the Palestinian anti-colonial struggle for national liberation. The Palestinian prisoners’ movement represents the national liberation struggle in the course of its confrontations inside prisons which the prisoners sustain with a steadfastness which transcends the self. Ahmad Sa’adat, a leader in Palestinian national liberation movement, is an embodiment of the prisoners’ struggle. To demand freedom for Ahmad Sa’adat is to support the prisoners’ movement and international solidarity is a valuable dimension of this movement.

“The imprisonment of Palestinian political prisoners – some of the strongest organizers, activists and leaders of Palestinian society – is a deeply felt wound in the Palestinian community. The freedom of these prisoners, imprisoned because of their desire to see their homeland free, is a necessary part of achieving justice for the Palestinian people.” [1]

The colonial objective to imprison Palestinian resistance requires that the struggles of prisoners remain pre-eminent in popular consciousness and that people collectively maintain a global movement which demands freedom of all Palestinian political prisoners and dismantling of the occupation’s prison system.

Ahmad Sa’adat also embodies the revolutionary Palestinian vision which seeks to establish a democratic state in historic Palestine on the basis of equality and enfranchisement for all and which endeavours foremost to serve the interests of the oppressed classes. This revolutionary vision is situated, geographically and politically, at the centre of resistance against the long imperialist war which, in order to maintain uncontested access for capitalist accumulation, imposes death, suffering and destitution on masses across the Arab world while simultaneously denying the opportunity for people-centred development through imposition of debilitating economic sanctions, criminalisation and ousting of progressive political fronts, and installation of regressive political regimes whose interests are aligned with imperialist interests.

The imperialist machinations and war in the region within which the Palestinian anti-colonial struggle exists also make the nature of capitalism unnervingly transparent. Similar to other capitalist industry, the weapons industry exercises considerable political control and seeks an expanding market for its products. That is to say, it seeks continuity and expansion of war during which it directly consumes human life and the world in order to make high profit.

It is pertinent to note that survivors of colonialism and imperialism find it difficult to find refuge. The suffering of asylum seekers who are held under indefinite administrative detention is linked to the suffering of prisoners of Palestinian struggle who are held under administrative detention or imprisoned on fabricated charges and whose resistance is situated at the centre of the same imperialist war which displaces and drives people to seek asylum.

The purpose of prison on the Australian continent today is not different from what it has been in the past. It is one of the institutions which maintains control and perpetrates harm on successive generations of First Nations. Its dismantling in Australia is as crucial for decolonisation as it is in Palestine.

Please join this solidarity action to briefly discuss some of the aspects of the Palestinian anti-colonial struggle, the discernible lines between justice and injustice in this struggle, and the wider political context of imperialist war which situates Palestinian struggle firmly within a significant front against capitalism, colonialism and imperialism. We will use this time to distribute flyers with details of Ahmad Sa’adat’s case to the public.

We will also raise the names of Hidme Markam, Victor Yeimo, Khurram Parvez and Julian Assange who are among the prisoners of people’s struggle against capitalism, colonialism and imperialism.

[1] This provides background to Ahmad Sa’adat’s case: https://freeahmadsaadat.org/background/

Sunday, 23 January
1:00 pm
Israeli Consulate/Consulat d’Israel Montreal
1 Westmount Square
Montreal, QC
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/345793843763271

From January 14 to 23, 2022, the international Samidoun network calls for an International Week of Action for the release of Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian prisoners.

PAJU, Canada Sanction Israel and Canadian-Palestinian Foundation of Quebec , Samidoun Palestinian prisoner solidarity Network invite you to gather with us on January 23, 2022 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. in front of the Israeli consulate in Montreal at 1, Westmount Square, H3Z 2P9 to demand the release of political prisoners. Ahmad Sa’Adat and Nasser Abu Hamid.

Ahmad SA’ADAT, secretary general of the Popular Front, is a fighter for the liberation of Palestine, a leader of the Palestinian national liberation movement and a symbol of the international revolutionary movement.

He was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a military tribunal of the Zionist entity, accused of leading a banned organization and for “incitement to hatred”. Since January 15, 2002, it is now 20 years since he was arrested by the Palestinian Authority as part of “security cooperation” with the Zionist occupier. And since 2006, after a violent attack on the Palestinian Authority’s Jericho prison, Ahmad SA’ADAT and his comrades are now serving their heavy sentences in the jails of the Zionist entity.

He stands today alongside nearly + 4,600 other Palestinian political prisoners on the front line of the national liberation struggle. As such, he is a symbol of Palestinian, Arab and internationalist resistance to imperialism, capitalism, racism, apartheid and colonization.

Nasser Abu Hamid:

Prisoner Nasser Abu Hamid (49), from Al-Amari camp in Al-Bireh, has been in a coma since Friday, January 7, 2022, after suffering severe lung inflammation from bacterial contamination.

According to the Palestinian Prisoners Affairs Commission and the Palestinian Prisoner Society said there is nothing new about prisoner Abu Hamid’s health condition. He is still on life support at (Israeli Barzilai Hospital) .

In contact with the official agency, the Authority’s media spokesman, Hassan Abed Rabbo, said that the prisoner was in a very dangerous situation and that the occupation authorities continued to refuse his release for treatment, in indication of a decision to leave him dead.

Various official levels have pursued their efforts and contacts to obtain his release as soon as possible and to transfer him for treatment in a Palestinian hospital or abroad.

In addition, Amani Sarahna, from the Al-Asir club’s media service, said that so far there were no signs indicating the intention of the prison administration of the occupation to release the sick prisoner who is suffering from cancer from the prison and to give him the opportunity to undergo treatment.

To support Ahmad Sa’adat and Nasser Abu Hamid is to support the release of the +4600 Palestinian prisoners as well as the legitimate right of the Palestinian people to resistance!

Take action to intensify the boycott of Israel, end aid and support to Israel, organize for justice in Palestine and resist imperialism and colonialism.

Palestine will be free, from the river to the sea!

#FreeThemAll

Please respect the sanitary measures!

Saturday, 22 January
2:00 pm
Commercial/Broadway Skytrain Station, Vancouver
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1084097665709757/ 

Join us to rally for Palestine — including freedom for Palestinian prisoners, against the ongoing displacement in the Naqab and Jerusalem, and for liberation from the river to the sea!

Ahmad Sa’adat is the imprisoned General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a Palestinian national liberation movement leader and a symbol of the international left and revolutionary movements.

We will mark the 20th anniversary of Sa’adat’s arrest by the Palestinian Authority in the context of “security cooperation” with the Israeli occupation. After Israeli forces violently abducted him from the PA’s Jericho Prison, he was sentenced to 30 years in Israeli prison on 25 December 2008, accused of leading a prohibited organization and of “incitement.” The PFLP, like all Palestinian political parties and resistance organizations, is labeled a “prohibited organization” by the Israeli occupation authorities.

Sa’adat is a leader in the Palestinian prisoners’ movement and the Palestinian national liberation movement and a Palestinian, Arab and international symbol of resistance to Zionism, capitalism, racism, apartheid and colonization. Targeted for his political role and clarity of vision, he remains unsilenced and unbroken, despite the oppression imposed upon him and 4,650 fellow Palestinian political prisoners.

Join our collective call for the freedom of Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian prisoners. Take action to escalate the boycott of Israel, end aid and support to Israel, organize for justice in Palestine and resist imperialism and colonialism.

While held in the PA’s Jericho Prison, Sa’adat and his comrades were held under U.S, British, Canadian and other foreign guards. Some of those same British guards previously served to guard Irish Republican prisoners in the occupied North of Ireland. After a violent Israeli attack, Ahmad Sa’adat and his comrades are now serving lengthy sentences in Israeli prisons.

Also, just as Sa’adat was persecuted by the Israeli occupation for leading an “illegal organization”, the PFLP and other Palestinian resistance groups are listed in the U.S., Europe, Canada and elsewhere on so-called “terrorist lists”. These designations are used to criminalize resistance, much as the Palestinian prisoners are criminalized. Now, the Israeli occupation is attempting to use terror designations to suppress organizing and activism from grassroots organizations and civil society groups. “Terror” labels are used as a colonial weapon against resistance movements, and we affirm: Resistance is a right!

“The Palestinian struggle for national liberation is part and parcel of the international movement of peoples for national liberation, international racial and economic justice, and an end to occupation, colonialism and imperialism.” – Ahmad Sa’adat

Palestine will be free, from the river to the sea!

Saturday, 22 January
2:00 pm
7114 5th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/606999367027932/ 

Tuesday, 18 January
7:30 pm British time (11:30 am Pacific, 2:30 pm Eastern, 8:30 pm Europe, 9:30 Palestine)
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/free-palestinian-political-prisoners-film-discussion-and-fundraiser-tickets-238647128987?fbclid=IwAR0UxiKemtBkuZ-zvyy-1R_TsWOP-64rdWBt0PLK2DQvWbu3uN2VTPP1Mzk
Organized by Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism!
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1165846640486121/ 

Following the heroic victory of hunger striking political prisoner Hisham Abu Hawash after 141 days, join us as part of the international week of action in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners and for the release of revolutionary leader Ahmad Sa’adat.

This event will feature:

– A screening of Abby Martin’s Empire Files documentary on the struggle inside Zionist jails.
– Analysis of British collaboration in the imprisonment of Ahmad Sa’adat.
– Discussion on how we can build effective solidarity in Britain.

Funds raised will go towards supporting the Samidoun campaign and Hakoura refugees cooperative.

Donate what you can via the Eventbrite link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/free-palestinian-political-prisoners-film-discussion-and-fundraiser-tickets-238647128987

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This event is part of a series of organising meetings run by Manchester Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! with the aim of building a revolutionary, socialist and anti-imperialist movement in Britain.

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“Today, it is critical to besiege the racist, settler-colonial Zionist project, and indeed, to delegitimize this project, and to support the struggle of our people for liberation, self-determination and return as the pathway to a democratic political solution for Palestine. Our people will not bow to the governments of “Israel,” including the current government which represents the will of the colonizers and the ultra-extremist Zionist terror. I call on all forces of progress, freedom and democracy to stand by the struggle of our people through all forms of boycott: political, economic, academic and cultural of the occupation state and the creation of a real economic cost for its industries of colonization and settlement and escalating the global campaigns for boycott of all corporations that support and invest in the occupation militarily and economically.” – Ahmad Sa’adat

As we mark the 12th anniversary of the Israeli sentencing of Palestinian national liberation and international Left leader Ahmad Sa’adat, and the 12th anniversary of the brutal Israeli assault on Gaza, “Operation Cast Lead,” Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network urges all who stand with Palestine and justice for the Palestinian people to join us between 15 and 23 January 2021 in a week of action to free Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian prisoners.

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