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Two important webinars on Palestine with the International League of Peoples’ Struggle

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network urges you to join us – and the International League of Peoples’ Struggles for the two following webinars, part of the ILPS Month of Solidarity with the Palestinian People!

1. STAND FOR PALESTINIAN FREEDOM

The International League of Peoples’ Struggles (ILPS) Philippines, BAYAN – Bagong Alyansang Makabayan, and Center for International Studies warmly invite you to a webinar entitled “Stand for Palestinian Freedom” in solidarity with the global campaign for the Palestinian people’s struggle.

Date: OCTOBER 25, 2020

Time: 9:00 am Manila, Philippines / 12:00 pm Melbourne, Australia / 9:00 pm EDT (Saturday, Oct. 24) / 2:00 am Amsterdam, Netherlands / 9:00 am Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia / 6:00 am Karachi, Pakistan / 1:00 am Dakar, Senegal / 7:00 pm Mexico City, Mexico (Saturday, Oct. 24) / 10:00 pm Buenos Aires, Argentina (Saturday, Oct. 24) / 4:00 am Nairobi, Kenya / 7:00 pm Guatemala City, Guatemala (Saturday, Oct. 24) / 6:00 pm Vancouver, Canada (Saturday, Oct. 24) / 3:00 am Lusaka, Zambia / 4:00 am Amman, Jordan / 3:00 am Beirut, Lebanon / 4:00 am Gaza, Palestinian Territory / 9:00 pm Ottawa, Canada  (Saturday, Oct. 24) / 9:00 pm New York City, NY, USA (Saturday, Oct. 24) / 6:00 pm Los Angeles, CA, USA (Saturday, Oct. 24)

Speakers:

Khaled Barakat, Leftist writer and activist

Nerdeen Kiswani, Within Our Lifetime

Elmer Labog, ILPS Philippines and Kliusang Mayo Uno (May First Movement)

REGISTER HERE: http://bit.ly/PalestineWebinarILPSPH

#FreePalestine
#GlobalSolidarityPalestine

2. US War on Terror Intensifies: From Palestine to the Philippines

(26 October 2020 Webinar) US War on Terror Intensifies: From Palestine to the Philippines

All US brokered peace deals in the Middle East — Oslo Accords, Deal of the Century, and the most recent, the Abraham Accords- have only resulted in more Palestinian killings, imprisonment, house demolitions and land occupation.

In the Philippines, the so-called “Whole-of-Nation”, a counter-insurgency approach borrowed from the US military books, and implemented chiefly by the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) has become a major stride for assassinations of human rights defenders, plunder of indigenous peoples lands and authoritarian rule even amidst COVID-19 pandemic.

The ultimate result: the Palestinian and Filipino people are fighting back and fortifying their unwavering resistance for self-determination.

Join the Philippines-Palestine Friendship Association, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network and ILPS Commission 10 on their webinar entitled “US War on Terror Intensifies: From Palestine to the Philippines”.

Speakers: Hadeel Shatara, coordinator of Samidoun in occupied Palestine

Mong Palatino, chairperson for Bayan Metro Manila

October 26, 2020 4:00 – 6:00 PM GMT+8  (10 am Palestine, 9 am central Europe/central Africa) 

Register now: https://bit.ly/2IVpPlb

STOP THE US WAR MACHINE!

FREE PALESTINE!

 

Join the Twitterstorm today, Oct. 24: #FreeMaherAlAkhras on his 90th day of hunger strike!

On his 90th day of hunger strike against administrative detention – Israeli imprisonment without charge or trial – Maher al-Akhras faces a severely critical condition. Nevertheless, and apparently to punish him for engaging in a hunger strike to resist this injustice, the Israeli occupation just yesterday, 23 October, reimposed and extended his administrative detention and transferred him from the Kaplan Medical Center to the Ramleh Prison Clinic, preventing him from receiving visits from his wife and concerned supporters and attempting to isolate him just as his life is most at risk.

We urge all supporters of Palestine to join in the Twitterstorm today, Saturday, 24 October at 8:00 pm Palestine time (10 am Pacific time, 1 pm Eastern time, 6 pm in Britain and Ireland, 7 pm in central Europe and central Africa). Use the tweet sheet available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EyMdjbbkEcwXaUJtJRJiSCrT8oIjidD93i0rnDlaVJs/edit

Copy and paste these tweets or write your own using the hashtag #FreeMaherAlAkhras and tagging @amnesty, @hrw, @ICRC, and @UNHumanRights to demand immediate action on Maher’s 90th day of hunger strike.

Video: All out to Lannemezan October 24 – Free Georges Abdallah, Free Palestine!

Georges Abdallah is a Lebanese Communist struggler and a fighter for the Palestinian cause imprisoned in France since 1984 and eligible for release since 1999. He is entering his 37th year of imprisonment next 24 October, one of the longest-held political prisoners in the world.

On Saturday, 24 October, the annual protest for the liberation of Georges Abdallah will march to the gates of the prison where he is held in Lannemezan, France. Gather at the Lannemezan train station at 2 pm for a march to the prison.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network urges all supporters of Palestine to take action for the Month of Action for Georges Abdallah – and to join the march through the streets of Lannemezan, with the call: Free Georges Abdallah, Free Palestine! 

Join the buses to Lannemezan:

  • Toulouse – Bus departs on Saturday, 24 October at 11:30 am at Basso Cambo metro. Tickets are free – register with the Collectif Palestine Vaincra at collectifpalestinevaincra@gmail.com.
  • Marseille – Bus departs at 5:45 am at Saint-Charles station (to be confirmed). Stops along the way in Martigues, Istres, Montpellier, with likely return around midnight. To register: Soraya 07 68 50 21 65 and Adil 06 13 20 51 51
  • Bordeaux – Bus meeting point at 8:30 am, place Ravezies, return around 10 pm. 10 EUR minimum for tickets. To register, email liberonsgeorges33@riseup.net.
  • Pau – AFPS-Pau is organizing carpooling: meet at 12:30 p.m. parking lot at Jaï Alaï, 458 boulevard du Cami Salié
  • Paris bus will leave on Friday, 23 October at 9:30 pm and return on Sunday, 25 October in the morning. Tickets are 50 EUR, and a donation campaign is being organized to support greater participation on the bus from Paris.

 

ILPS call for cultural contributions for October Palestine solidarity month

Samidoun is distributing the following call on behalf of the International League for Peoples’ Struggle. We are an ILPS member organization and encourage all to participate! 

CALL FOR CULTURAL CONTRIBUTIONS FOR PALESTINE

FREE PALESTINE! Cultural workers days of struggle and solidarity with the people of Palestine, October 30, 2020

Dear friends in Palestine and beyond,

This October 2020 the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS) is holding a Month of Global Solidarity with the Palestinian People. A series of on-line and in person events are planned (see more details on ILPS website and Facebook).

The month got underway October 3 with a webinar featuring keynote speaker Leila Khaled.

The grand finale will take place on Friday October 30, 2020, and cultural workers in Palestine and beyond are invited to submit songs, poems, videos, writings, plays, drawings, graphics, memes, films and other creative work in solidarity with the people of Palestine. These will be put together in a program and shared via the ILPS Official Facebook page.

Please make the contributions five minutes in length or less.

Various languages are welcome. If possible, kindly provide English, French or Spanish written description/subtitles of your contribution.

Please send your recorded/digitized contributions by 12 midnight Tuesday, October 27, 2020 to gensec@ilps.info and malcolmguy@ilps.info . Let us know if you would be willing to do a live performance or presentation. We will include as many works as possible and may contact some cultural workers to perform live, or to introduce their work in person.

Kindly introduce your contribution with a short spoken or written sentence such as:

“Hello, my (our) name is ______ _______. I (We) live in (name of city and territory/country) (and this work is entitled (title of work is optional).

This is my (our) contribution to the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS) Month of Global Solidarity with the Palestinian People.”

If you have any questions, suggestions or comments please sent to Malcolm Guy, ILPS Vice Chair for External Affairs (via email – malcolmguy@ilps.info ), who is helping to organize this day of cultural solidarity with Palestine.

#FreePalestine #GlobalSolidarityPalestine

CONTRIBUTIONS CULTURELLES POUR LA PALESTINE

LA PALESTINE LIBRE ! Journée culturelle de lutte et de solidarité avec le peuple de Palestine, 30 octobre 2020

Chers ami es en Palestine et au-delà,

En octobre 2020, la Ligue internationale de lutte des peuples (ILPS) organise un mois de solidarité mondiale avec le peuple palestinien. Une série d’événements en ligne et en personne sont prévus (voir les détails sur le site de l’ILPS et sur Facebook).

Le mois a débuté le 3 octobre par un webinaire avec l’invitée principale Leila Khaled.

La grande finale aura lieu le vendredi 30 octobre 2020. Les artistes de Palestine et d’ailleurs sont invités à soumettre des chansons, des poèmes, des vidéos, des écrits, des pièces de théâtre, des dessins, des graphiques, des mèmes, des films et d’autres travaux créatifs en solidarité avec le peuple de Palestine. Ils seront rassemblés dans un programme et partagés via la page Facebook officielle de l’ILPS.

Les contributions doivent durer cinq minutes ou moins.

Les contributions en plusieurs langues sont les bienvenues. Si possible, veuillez fournir une description/des sous-titres écrits en anglais, français ou espagnol de votre contribution.

Veuillez envoyer vos contributions enregistrées/numérisées avant le mardi 27 octobre 2020 à minuit à gensec@ilps.info et malcolmguy@ilps.info . Dites-nous si vous seriez prêt à vous présenter en directe. Nous pourrions demander à certains artistes de se produire en direct ou à présenter leur travail en personne.

Veuillez introduire votre contribution par une courte phrase orale ou écrite telle que

“Bonjour, mon (notre) nom est ______ _______. Je vis (Nous vivons) à (nom de la ville et du territoire/pays) (et cette œuvre est intitulée (titre de l’œuvre est facultatif).

Il s’agit de ma (notre) contribution au Mois de la solidarité mondiale avec le peuple palestinien de la Ligue internationale de lutte des peuples (ILPS)”.

Pour toute question, suggestion ou commentaire, veuillez contacter Malcolm Guy, vice-président de l’ILPS pour les affaires extérieures (par e-mail – malcolmguy@ilps.info), un des responsables de l’organisation de cette journée de solidarité culturelle avec la Palestine.

#FreePalestine #GlobalSolidarityPalestine

Israeli occupation escalates attacks on Palestinian student movement, banning Birzeit leftist bloc

The Israeli occupation escalated its attack on the Palestinian student movement on Wednesday, 21 October, officially labeling the Democratic Progressive Student Pole, the leftist student bloc at Bir Zeit University, a prohibited “terrorist” organization. These arbitrary designations may be issued at any time by an Israeli military commander of occupation forces in the West Bank, and are used as a pretext to round up, detain and violently attack Palestinian organizations and movements. Almost all Palestinian political parties are similarly labeled by the Israeli occupation.

This designation follows a widespread campaign of attacks and arrests against student activists at Bir Zeit University and elsewhere throughout occupied Palestine. Hundreds of Palestinian university students are behind bars, with dozens of those students from Bir Zeit University.

In response to this latest attack, Palestinian women student prisoners (Layan Kayed, Mays Abu Ghosh, Ruba Assi and Elia Abu Hijleh) at Damon prison issued a statement of solidarity to their colleagues at Bir Zeit University:

“To our colleagues at Birzeit University, we send our love and longing to you and appreciate all your efforts, and every action and every word, even if it is small, sustains our souls and supports us more every day. We hope that we will meet soon on the grounds of Birzeit University, and our love and thanks to all students and supporters wherever they are.

Haifa – Daliyat al-Carmel
Damon Prison
Section 3 – Room 3
Layan Kayed, Mays Abu Ghosh, Ruba Assi, Elia Abu Hijleh”

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network expresses its strongest solidarity with the Democratic Progressive Student Pole and the Palestinian student movement more broadly. This attack is not only a direct attempt to criminalize student organizing in the occupied West Bank of Palestine, it is also an attempt to criminalize Palestinian students in 1948 occupied Palestine and prevent interaction, joint organizing and collective struggle.

These attacks and the imprisonment and targeting of students also cannot be separated from the attempts to suppress Palestinian and Palestine solidarity organizing on university campuses around the world, including the shutting down of events, government intimidation and pressure, and outright censorship of advocacy for justice for Palestine.

Samidoun urges all supporters of Palestine around the world, especially student groups and organizations, to join us to make November 2020 a month of solidarity and struggle in support of Palestinian student and youth prisoners and the Palestinian student movement, inside and outside Palestine. We can and must make it clear that Palestinian students targeted for repression and imprisonment are not alone and will not be silenced!

To join actions and discuss plans for November solidarity actions for Palestinian students, please contact us at samidoun@samidoun.net.

On October 23, we urge North American campus activists to join the USACBI day of action against campus and tech company repression of Leila Khaled and Palestinian speech generally.

 

The campaign is growing: We Will Not Be Silenced – October 23 Day of Action

Samidoun is one of many organizations that has endorsed this call from the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. Get the latest updates at USACBI: https://usacbi.org/2020/10/join-the-growing-list-of-events-we-will-not-be-silenced-october-23-national-day-of-action/

Campuses across North America are joining in the campaign to resist corporate and university silencing of Palestinian narratives and Palestinian voices. On October 23, join us to host a webinar via your campus’ Zoom account, including a video of Leila Khaled, to make it clear that we will not be silenced. It’s not too late for you to join us – add your event and raise your voice for Palestinian rights. 

This national day of action against the criminalization and censorship of campus political speech comes in response to the events of September 23, when corporate tech giants Zoom, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube acted in lockstep with San Francisco State University (SFSU) to shut down an open classroom webinar entitled “Whose Narratives? Gender, Justice, & Resistance: A Conversation with Leila Khaled,” co-sponsored by the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies Program and the Department of Women and Gender Studies at San Francisco State University. Before, during, and since this massive, coordinated, electronic de-platforming by these tech giants, SFSU has refused to support the webinar’s organizers, Profs. Rabab Abdulhadi (AMED) and Tomomi Kinukawa (WGS), defend their academic freedom, or provide them with an alternative platform. Read the full call to action. 

We think it is important that this day of action take place on Zoom itself, if possible with livestreaming on YouTube, along with announcements on Facebook and Instagram, so as to challenge these corporations and force our universities to stand in support of students and faculty, our right to academic freedom, and struggles for justice and liberation, from the US to Palestine.

We therefore call on anyone with access to a university Zoom account
to hold a webinar of your own including a message from Leila Khaled – which we will provide –
on October 23, 2020,
a National Day of Action Against the Criminalization
and Censorship of Campus Speech.  

To sign onto this effort, please write to this email address: usacbidayofaction@gmail.com or use the form at USACBI’s website.

Your webinar or Zoom event can be any type of gathering: a group meeting, open classroom, full webinar or a discussion session. USACBI will provide you with access to the message from Leila Khaled to include in your session along with a program of your choice. We will also provide a curriculum guide to help you plan your event. It doesn’t matter whether you can reach a small group or hundreds or thousands of attendees – your participation will build an important campus resistance to corporatization, silencing and repression. 

List of Events

  • San Francisco State University
    Friday, October 23
    3 pm – 4 pm Pacific time
    Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/979652069221842/
    Zoom details: Meeting ID: 821 8607 8651
    Passcode: 692558
    Speakers:

    • Hatem Bazian: Lecturer, Departments of Near Eastern and Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
    • Jennifer Beach: Lecturer, English Department, SFSU; Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) SF
    • Student Activist with Jewish Voice For Peace (JVP) Bay Area
  • University of Massachusetts – Boston
    Friday, October 23
    11 am – 12 pm Eastern time
    Register online: https://bit.ly/UMB4AF
    Speakers:

    • Leila Farsakh, FSJP & Political Science, UMass Boston
    • Issac Kamola, Political Science, Trinity College
    • Andrew Leong, Philosophy, UMass Boston
    • Facilitated by Heike Schotten, FSJP & Political Science
  • New York University
    Friday, October 23
    4:00 pm Eastern time
    To join, enter the following meeting ID into Zoom:
    950 4559 5136
    Speakers:

    • Katherine Franke (Columbia)
    • Nerdeen Kiswani (CUNY/Within our Lifetime)
    • Fred Moten (NYU)
    • Radhika Sainath (Palestine Legal)
    • moderated by Andrew Ross (NYU/USACBI)
    • (with a message from Leila Khaled)
    • Panelists: Kaleikoa Ka’eo (UH Maui) and Ma’an Odah (UHM)
    • Moderator: Joy Enomoto (UHM)

22 October, Online Event: Palestinians in Captivity: Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israel’s Jails

Thursday, 22 October
6:30 pm Pacific – 9:30 pm Eastern
Register online: tinyurl.com/sphrprisoners
Facebook Event: https://facebook.com/events/2560741344217765/

In the third instalment of Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights UBC’s Palestine 101 series, SPHR, in collaboration with Charlotte Kates, on the behalf of Samidoun Network, are delighted to host “Palestinians In Captivity: On The Topic of Political Prisoners in Israel’s Notorious Jails”.
Since 1967, Israel has detained approximately 800,000 Palestinians, including women and children. The State of Israel has used its power to arrest and detain as a means to control the Palestinian population and punish any political activity aimed at challenging its occupation of Palestinian land. Palestinians participating in peaceful protests are subject to arrest and detention by Israeli forces. In this discussion, we will touch on who the prisoners are, the nature of the arrests and raids, interrogation and torture in jails, child detainees, administrative detention, prisoner solidarity, and so much more! Join us for this talk to learn more about this topic!

23 October, NYC: Emergency protest to free Maher al-Akhras

Friday, 23 October
4 pm
Zionist consulate in NY
800 2nd Ave
NYC
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1519052268295288

As Palestinian political prisoner and “administrative detainee” Maher al-Akhras begins his 90th day of an open hunger strike for freedom from military internment without charge or trial, join supporters of the Palestinian prisoners’ movement to demand the Israeli state release him immediately, and that the International Committee of the Red Cross fulfill its responsibilities to Palestinian prisoners under Israeli occupation.

Samidoun congratulates the people of Bolivia: resisting imperialism, defending humanity

Initial election results show the landslide victory of MAS candidate Luis (Lucho) Arce, 18 October 2020

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network extends our deepest congratulations to the working class and the Indigenous people of Bolivia, on the front lines defending their people, all of Latin America and indeed all of humanity from the most vicious forces of imperialism and their collaborators, defeating the coup and refusing to give up their project of sovereignty, self-determination and socialist development.

The victory of President-Elect Luis (Lucho) Arce and the MAS (Movement Towards Socialism) in the Bolivian elections on 18 October 2020 is a victory for Palestine, a victory for Indigenous resistance to colonialism, and a victory for all who seek a better future free of the ravages of capitalism, exploitation, colonialism and imperialist domination. It is a smashing rebuke to all of those forces that were complicit in the violent, imperialist-backed, anti-Indigenous coup against legitimate Bolivian President Evo Morales in November 2019.

This momentous occasion makes clear that all of the money, power and weapons of U.S. imperialism and its puppets were unable to suppress the will of the people. On this occasion, we underline our support and solidarity with the resistance movements of indigenous peoples continuing to fight back against colonialism and put forward a clear vision for a just society and a just world, despite centuries of genocidal colonialism.

We pledge to stand by the Bolivian people, just as the Bolivian people have stood consistently with Palestine. We are confident that the people of Bolivia, alongside the Palestinian people and all of the struggling peoples of the world who continue to resist the attacks of imperialism, Zionism and reaction, will continue to march forward towards a just and liberated future.

From Bolivia to Palestine, long live indigenous resistance and the global struggle to defeat imperialism! 

Audio: Samidoun’s Joe Catron speaks about Maher al-Akhras and the need for international solidarity

 
On Friday, 16 October, Joe Catron, US Coordinator of the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, joins By Any Means Necessary, hosted by Sputnik Radio. Hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman discuss the ongoing hunger strike by Palestinian political prisoner Maher Al-Akhras, how a broad Israeli policy inherited from British colonization allows for the criminalization of virtually any act of resistance to the occupation, and the growing Palestinian and international movements standing in solidarity with Al-Akhras.

Listen to the program:

Download the audio file: https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/41477512/by_any_means_1043_seg2_joe_spreaker.mp3

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