24 October, Athens: Freedom for Georges Abdallah

21 October 2019

Thursday, 24 October
6:30 pm
French Embassy in Greece
Vasilisis Sofias avenue 7
Athens, Greece
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/450539312225490/

October 24, 2019 marks the 35th anniversary of the arrest of George Ibrahim Abdallah, a Lebanese Arab rebel, a Palestinian militant, by the French police. George Abdallah has remained behind bars since 1984, making him one of the longest-serving political prisoners in the world.

Η 24 Οκτωβρίου του 2019 σηματοδοτεί την 35η επέτειο από τη σύλληψη του Τζορτζ Ιμπραχίμ Αμπντάλα , του επαναστάτη Λιβανέζου Άραβα Κομμουνιστή, αγωνιστή για την Παλαιστίνη, από τη γαλλική αστυνομία. Ο Τζορτζ Αμπντάλα από το 1984 παραμένει πίσω από τις φυλακές, αποτελώντας έτσι, έναν από τους μακροβιότερους πολιτικούς κρατούμενους στον κόσμο.

Ο Τζορτζ Αμπντάλα καθ ‘όλη τη διάρκεια της ζωής του έχει επιδείξει σημαντικό επαναστατικό αγώνα στον Λίβανο και για την απελευθέρωση της Παλαιστίνης. Ασχολήθηκε με την Παλαιστινιακή Αριστερή οργάνωση, Λαϊκό Μέτωπο για την Απελευθέρωση της Παλαιστίνης(PFLP) και αντιστάθηκε στις ισραηλινές επιθέσεις στον Λίβανο. Αργότερα, ένωσε άλλους Αριστερούς Λιβανέζους επαναστάτες στις Λιβανέζικες Ένοπλες Επαναστατικές Ταξιαρχίες, επισημαίνοντας ένα μη-σεχταριστικό, σοσιαλιστικό και επαναστατικό μονοπάτι για την απελευθέρωση του λαού του Λιβάνου, που αντιμετώπιζε τις πολιτοφυλακές και την Ισραηλινή εισβολή και Κατοχή στο νότιο Λίβανο.

Ο Αμπντάλα συνελήφθη από τις Γαλλικές αρχές, αρχικά επειδή φέρεται να είχε μαζί του πλαστά έγγραφα. Η κράτησή του επεκτάθηκε επανειλημμένα, καθώς οι γαλλικές μυστικές υπηρεσίες αναζητούσαν πληροφορίες για να τον εμπλέξουν σε ένοπλες ενέργειες από τις οποίες σκοτώθηκε ένας διπλωμάτης των ΗΠΑ αλλά και ένας εκπρόσωπος του Ισραήλ στο Παρίσι. Ακόμη και ένας από τους δικηγόρους του συμμετείχε στην παρακολούθηση του Αμπντάλα για τις Γαλλικές Μυστικές υπηρεσίες . Ενώ υπήρχε στον αρχικό σχεδιασμό η πρόβλεψη να ανταλλαχθεί με άλλους κρατούμενους που είχαν πιάσει αιχμάλωτους οι Άραβες Επαναστάτες, το γαλλικό κράτος αθέτησε την συμφωνία όταν πήρε τους δικούς του κρατούμενους πίσω, κρατώντας τον Αμπντάλα φυλακισμένο…

Ο Αμπντάλα, η δίκη του οποίου ήταν γεμάτη παρατυπίες, καταδικάστηκε σε ισόβια ενώ στην αρχική πρόταση του Εισαγγελέα υπήρχε η πρόβλεψη για ποινή 10 ετών ή και λιγότερο.

Σήμερα ο Τζορτζ Αμπντάλα παραμένει πίσω από τα σίδερα . Παρά το γεγονός πως δικαιούται να αφεθεί ελεύθερος από το 1999, οι αιτήσεις του έχουν απορριφθεί επανειλημμένα. Ακόμη και όταν έχουν εγκριθεί δικαστικά, οι Γάλλοι αξιωματούχοι παρενέβησαν στα υψηλότερα επίπεδα για να εμποδίσουν την απελευθέρωσή του, όπως ο πρώην πρωθυπουργός Μάνουελ Βαλς . Αμερικανοί αξιωματούχοι όπως η πρώην υπουργός Εξωτερικών Χίλαρι Κλίντον παρενέβησαν επίσης σε μια προσπάθεια να εμποδίσουν την απελευθέρωση του Αμπντάλα.

Στην ουσία, ο Τζορτζ Αμπντάλα είναι κρατούμενος όχι μόνο του γαλλικού αποικιακού κράτους αλλά και του Αμερικάνικου Ιμπεριαλισμού και της Ισραηλινής Κατοχής. Μέχρι και η κυβέρνηση του Λιβάνου δεν κατάφερε να ανταποκριθεί στην ευθύνη που έχει απέναντι στον φυλακισμένο συμπατριώτη της, στην αναζήτηση κάποιου τρόπου για την απελευθέρωση του.

23 October, Montreal: Conference on Georges Ibrahim Abdallah

21 October 2019

Wednesday, 23 October
7:30 pm
Bibilotheque DIRA
2035 St-Laurent
Montreal, QC
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/2429135237414427/

In the framework of the international month of action for the liberation of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah – the Lebanese communist struggler for Palestine imprisoned in France since 1984 – Secours Rouge Canada and Socialist Youth for Popular Power invite you to a public lecture on the life of this resister, his fight against imperialist-Zionist aggression and his political detention.

A video of Secours Rouge will be presented and a special guest of the Collectif Palestine Vaincra will intervene by video conference.

***Nous répondons à l’appel international d’un mois d’agitation pour la libération de Georges Ibrahim Abdallah***

Georges Ibrahim Abdallah est un communiste libanais et militant de la cause palestinienne détenu en France depuis 1984.

Dans le cadre du mois international d’agitation pour sa libération, le Secours Rouge Canada et Jeunes Socialistes pour le Pouvoir Populaire vous convie à une conférence publique portant sur la vie de ce résistant, son combat contre l’agression impérialiste-sioniste puis sa détention politique.

Une vidéo du Secours Rouge sera notamment présentée et un invité spécial du Collectif Palestine Vaincra interviendra par vidéo-conférence.

Le Collectif Palestine Vaincra interviendra sur le sens de la solidarité avec Georges Abdallah. Basé à Toulouse, près de la prison où est enfermé Georges Abdallah, il est membre du réseau international de soutien aux prisonniers palestiniens Samidoun. Il rend visite très régulièrement à Georges Abdallah et soutient la Résistance palestinienne contre l’impérialisme, le sionisme et les régimes réactionnaires arabes.

Militant.e de gauche, pro-palestinien.ne ou simple curieux.se, vous êtes tous et toutes invitéEs.

N’oubliez pas qu’un rassemblement le 26 octobre est également prévu. Vous trouverez les informations ci-dessous :

https://www.facebook.com/events/1119565334910752/?ti=cl

-Secours Rouge Canada
-Jeunes Socialistes pour le Pouvoir Populaire – JSPP

22 October, Toronto: Gaza Fights for Freedom – Toronto Film Screening w/Abby Martin

21 October 2019

Tuesday, 22 October
6:00 pm
Revue Cinema
400 Roncesvalles Ave
Toronto, ON, Canada
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/527591511145988/

Toronto theater premiere of the new documentary ‘Gaza Fights For Freedom,’ followed by Q&A with Director Abby Martin

Join Abby Martin for the one-day-only theater screening in Toronto! Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see Gaza Fights For Freedom on the big screen.

This debut feature film by journalist Abby Martin began while reporting in Palestine, where she was denied entry into Gaza by the Israeli government on the accusation she was a “propagandist.” So Abby connected with a team of journalists in Gaza to produce the film through the blockade.

This collaboration shows you Gaza’s protest movement like you’ve never seen before. Filmed during the height of the Great March Of Return protests, it features exclusive footage of demonstrations where 200 unarmed civilians have been killed by Israeli snipers since March 30, 2018.

The documentary tells the story of Gaza past and present, showing rare archival footage that explains the history never acknowledged by mass media.

GazaFightsForFreedom.com

22 October, Toulouse: Meeting with Nahla Abdo

21 October 2019

Tuesday, 22 October
7:00 pm
Terra Nova
18 rue Gambetta
Toulouse, France
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/927540014280902/

Meeting with Nahla Abdo, author of the book, “The captive revolution: The anti-colonial struggle of Palestinian women in the Israeli prison system,” with the French edition published by Blast.

Rencontre avec Nahla Abdo autour de son livre “La Révolution captive. La lutte anticoloniale des femmes palestiniennes et le système carcéral israélien”, paru aux éditions Blast.

Over 500 march in Lannemezan to free Georges Abdallah

21 October 2019

See the French original at Collectif Palestine Vaincra

On Saturday, 19 October, over 500 people marched in Lannemezan to the gates of the prison where Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, Lebanese Arab communist struggler for the Palestinian cause, has been imprisoned by France since 1984.

Many delegations and contingents participated in the march from the Lannemezan railway station to the prison for the annual demonstration, including participants from Tarbes, Pau, Bordeaux, Montpellier, Lyon, Marseille and Paris as well as international groups from Brussels, Milan, Naples, Zurich and elsewhere.

In Toulouse, Collectif Palestine Vaincra co-organized a bus and carpooling to bring a large number to the demonstration. The march was led by a joint contiingent of the Collectif Palestine Vaincra – a member organization of Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network – and Secours Rouge International.

Marchers chanted slogans of liberation for Georges Abdallah, Palestine and all political prisoners as they rallied through Lannemezan, the vitality of the demonstration reflecting the strong support for Europe’s longest-held political prisoner. Many participants carried Palestinian flags as well as banners of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), recalling Georges Abdallah’s commitment to the Palestinian resistance confronting imperialism, Zionism and Arab reactionary regimes.

The event included a lengthy rally outside the prison itself, with many solidarity statements being delivered on behalf of the growing movement demanding Georges Abdallah’s freedom. Participants hung banners on the prison gates, banged and shouted to be heard by the prisoners inside the walls.

The rally opened with a statement from Georges Abdallah, who called for increased solidarity, noting that imprisoned strugglers are facing a “policy of annihilation targeting incarcerated revolutionary strugglers.” He emphasized the need for greater action for Palestine and the Palestinian political prisoners.

The Collectif Palestine Vaincra delivered the following statement:

Collectif Palestine Vaincra is here in Lannemezan today to affirm once more our support for Georges Ibrahim Abdallah. We stand before the prison gates to emphasize the importance of the struggle!

Supporting Georges Abdallah means supporting the PAlestinian struggle against Zionism, imperialism and reactionary Arab regimes for the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea. Collectif Palestine Vaincra supports the Palestinian resistance in all forms against the Israeli state, a Zionist settler-colonial entity. Our collective denounces and struggles against France’s support for the Israeli occupation.

Supporting Georges Abdallah also means recognizing the right of Palestinians to resist by all forms they judge necessary for his release, including armed struggle, struggle carried on for decades by Palestinian revolutionary left strugglers.

Supporting Georges Abdallah means recognizing and supporting the right of return of all Palestinian refugees. This fundamental right includes more than 5 million Palestinians fighting today to return to their land.

Supporting Georges Abdallah is also supporting thousands of Palestinian prisoners in the jails of the Zionist occupation. It is to support Ahmad Sa’adat, the imprisoned General Secretary of the PFLP, and also the students of Birzeit University and othe runiversities throughout Palestine held in administrative detention and undergoing interrogation by the Israeli intelligence and suffering under their well-known methods of torture.

Finally, supporting Georges Abdallah is supporting thousands of Palestinians in Gaza who every week defy the Israeli occupation and siege in the Great March of Return.

The resistance of the Palestinian people is legitimate, just as is that conducted by Georges Abdallah, imprisoned here in the jails of French imperialism. For 35 years, they have wanted to silence him. And for 35 years, he holds his head high and continues the struggle! So we must also continue our struggle, in support of Palestine and Georges Abdallah!

His is our struggle, we are part of his fight!
Palestine will live, Palestine will win!
Free Georges Abdallah!

On the previous evening in Toulouse, a support rally for Georges Abdallah and the Palestinian cause gathered 120 participants, who heard presentations by Leila Khaled (via Skype), Mustafa Awad and Pierre Stambul. All affirmed their support for the Palestinian people and their resistance, the liberation of all Palestinian prisoners, the boycott of Israel and the immediate release of Georges Abdallah.

All photos: Collectif Palestine Vaincra

21 October, Berlin: Talking Justice – Palestinian Political Prisoners’ Rights

21 October 2019

Monday, 21 October
7:00 pm
Haus der Demokratie und Menschenrechte
Greifswalder Str. 4
10405 Berlin, Germany
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/539822943493593/

“Palestinian Political Prisoners: The Intersection of International Law and the Palestinian Struggle”

Coalition for Palestinian Rights and Against Racism (Palästina Spricht) and the International League for Human Rights (ILMR) in Berlin are proud to host Sahar Francis, General Director of Addameer, directly from Colonized Palestine.

Sahar Francis will be speaking about “The continued prosecution of Palestinians under military law, the widespread arrests, human rights defenders arrests, women arrests, daily life and torture in Israeli jails, children detention, administrative detention and serving sentences of an occupied people exemplify the apartheid nature of the Israeli regime. Through the law and practice of Israeli military courts that distinguish between criminal and security prisoners, the Israeli authorities practice an “institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination” by Israelis over Palestinians, “committed with the intention of maintaining that regime” in line with the definition of apartheid by the International Criminal Court.viii This system serves to repress Palestinians through lower trial guarantees, longer interrogation periods, and legal cover for torture.”

She will emphasize about the Israeli mechanism of censoring and silencing Palestinian and Israeli human rights organizations, and the continuous persecution while they investigative and expose Israeli war crimes, and crimes against humanity.

ADDAMEER (Arabic for conscience) Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association is a Palestinian non-governmental institution that works to support Palestinian political prisoners. The center offers free legal aid to political prisoners, advocates their rights at the national and international level, and works to end torture and other violations of prisoners’ rights through monitoring, legal procedures and solidarity campaigns.

Addameer was the leading organization supporting the historic Dignity Strike in Palestine and supported different hunger Strike for the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails and still doing a great national and international efforts to protect the basic rights for Palestinians.

Since 2006, Sahar Francis has been the General Director of Ramallah-based Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, a Palestinian NGO providing legal and advocacy support to Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli and Palestinian prisons. An attorney by training, she joined the association in 1998, first as a human rights lawyer, then as head of the Legal Unit. With over sixteen years of human rights experience, including human rights counseling and representation, Ms. Francis also was on the Board of Defence for Children International – Palestine Section for 4 years, and currently sets in the Board of the Union of Agricultural Work Committees. Sahar did her practice on Human Rights in the Society of Saint Yves in Jerusalem, on issues of Land confiscations, house demolitions, labor rights and freedom of movement. On 1997 worked in Badil Refugee Rights Centre, in the legal unit. Sahar did her masters in international Studies at Bir Zeit University, and her law degree at Haifa University.

Take action: Write to Heba Al-Labadi, tortured “administrative detainee” on hunger strike

10 October 2019

Heba Al-Labadi, a 24-year-old Palestinian-Jordanian tortured by Israeli interrogators for weeks, is on her 17th day of a hunger strike against her “administrative detention” without charge or trial. She faces her next hearing in an Israeli military court on Thursday, 17 October. Your letters of support will send a powerful message to both her and the Israeli jailers.

Write to:

Heba Al-Labadi
Kishon Detention Center
PO Box 175, Kiryat Tivon
Israel

On Tuesday, 20 August, Heba was abducted by Israeli occupation forces from the Allenby border crossing between Jordan and the occupied West Bank, where she had traveled to attend a family wedding in Nablus.

The occupation forces transferred her to a series of detention centers and prisons in which she underwent five weeks of brutal interrogation, including torture.

In an account obtained and released by the Commission on Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs, Heba said her interrogations began at 9:00 am, then continued until early the following morning, on each of the first 16 days.

“The interrogation was very cruel and violent, and it lasted for long hours while I was sitting tied to the chair, which caused pains in my back, hands and neck,” she said.

“Interrogators kept yelling at me loudly and they were sitting close to me, touching my leg deliberately in a provocative way. They spit on and described me with ugly descriptions. They cursed me saying: loser, mean, animal, ugly and many cruel words that I heard for the first time in my life. They told me that I am an extremist and they cursed the Islamic and Christian religions and said that Judaism is the best and that other religions are racist.”

Interrogators also threatened Heba with the arrests of family members, as well as placement into “administrative detention.”

“They told me, ‘We do not have any evidence against you, but we have administrative detention with the authority to renew it for seven and a half years, and then we will detain you in the West Bank and prevent you from going to Jordan and deprive you of family visits.'”

Later, Heba said, “I told the interrogator that the psychological torture they use is more difficult than the physical one. He said, ‘I know.'”

She launched her hunger strike on Tuesday, 24 September, five weeks after her interrogation began, in response to an “administrative detention” order.

These orders, issued by Israeli military commanders, allow them to intern Palestinians indefinitely without charge or trial.

While Heba’s was issued for an initial six-month period, commanders can renew them an indefinite number of times.

Heba “is subjected to being searched every two hours, including throughout the night and often by soldiers.” the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association said in a statement after its attorney, Samer Simaan was able to visit her for the first time on Thursday, 3 October.

Her “isolation cell is filthy and has surveillance cameras,” Addameer said. “The designated area for bathing is completely exposed and therefore, she has not been able to shower since arriving to Jalameh Prison. Additionally, there is no window in the isolation cell, and in its place is an air conditioning unit meant to keep the cell cold. There is nothing in the isolation cell except for one dirty sheet.”

On Monday, 5 October, her father warned a Jordanian television channel of the risks his daughter’s hunger strike posed to her health.

“My daughter has been exposed to harsh detention conditions and her health is deteriorating because of her hunger strike for 14 days,” he said.

Heba will challenge her “administrative detention” in an Israeli military court next Thursday. She is currently held in isolation as punishment for her strike.

She is one of two Jordanian citizens among 425 Palestinians in “administrative detention,” one of six on hunger strike to demand freedom, and one of 43 imprisoned women and girls among 5,000 Palestinian political prisoners.

11 October, Brussels: Free Georges Abdallah! Rally in Brussels

8 October 2019

Friday, 11 October
6:00 pm
Regentlaan 42
Brussels, Belgium
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/2706615849383840/

35 years of prison, 35 years of resistance: freedom for Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, militant communist for Palestine jailed in France since 1984!

Part of the month of agitation for the liberation of Georges Abdallah

35 ans de prison, 35 ans de résistance, liberté pour Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, combattant communiste pour la Palestine emprisonné en France depuis 1984 !

Dans le cadre du Mois d’Agitation pour la libération de Georges Abdallah : lire l’appel complet sur www.freeabdallah.red

12 October, Berlin: Anticolonial Demo 2019

7 October 2019

Saturday, 12 October
3:00 pm
Hermannplatz
Berlin, Germany
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/389547988649266/

· ANTICOLONIAL MARCH 2019 ·

Colonialism has never ended. The neocolonial-capitalist system still wants to silence and to marginalize us. With fascism rising everywhere, time has come to unite and stand together!

The 12th of October marks the „discovery“ of America by the Europeans in 1492. It’s the founding stone of a big lie that lives on until today in forms of white supremacy, eurocentrism and ignorance. October 12th marks the beginning of the colonial genocides, of the destruction and robbery of precolonial societies, culture and knowledge, of forced christianization, the exploitation of the indigenous peoples, their land and ressources, the transatlantic slave trade and the globalization of the a system that is wrecking life on our planet.
Until today October 12th is celebrated as „Columbus Day“ and „dia de la raza“ (Spanish: „race day“) by colonial states. The „heroic achievements“ of Columbus are still taught in German schools, while our forests are burning for the profit of multinational coorporations and neocolonial regimes. German weapons are exported to war zones to kill people, while people fleeing these wars are left to drown to not enter Europe. This hypocrisy can no longer be tolerated.

We were not discovered, we discovered the lies of the colonial system.
We are not inferior, we refuse to be subjugated to colonial racism.
We are not primitive, primitive is the system that destroys the nature that it needs in order to survive.
We are not people without history, in fact European „modernity“ could only be built on the gold and blood of the Global South.

We invite everyone to join the first Anticolonial March, to reconnect and to make our resilient voices heard. No flags of colonial and oppressive regimes!

The demonstration is part of the first Antikolonialer Monat 2019 taking place in Berlin between October and November 2019.

· ANTIKOLONIALE DEMO 2019 ·

Der Kolonialismus hat nie aufgehört! Das neokolonial-kapitalistische System will uns weiter marginalisieren und zum Schweigen bringen. Mit dem Aufstieg des Faschismus überall auf der Welt ist es an der Zeit uns zu vereinen und zusammen zu stehen!

Der 12. Oktober symbolisiert die “Entdeckung” Amerikas durch die Europäer im Jahr 1492. Es ist der Grundstein einer großen Lüge, die bis heute in Form von Rassismus, Eurozentrismus und Ignoranz weiterlebt. Der 12. Oktober markiert den Beginn der kolonialen Genozide, der Zerstörung und Ausbeutung präkolonialer Gesellschaften, Kulturen und Wissensformen, der Zwangschristianisierung, der Ausbeutung der indigenen Völker, ihrer Länder und Ressourcen, des transatlantischen Sklavenhandels und der Globalisierung eines Systems, welches unseren Planeten zerstört.

Bis heute wird der 12. Oktober von kolonialen Staaten als “Kolumbus Tag” und “dia de la raza” (Spanisch: “Rassentag”) gefeiert. Die “heroischen Errungenschaften” Kolumbus’ werden bis heute als solche in deutschen Schulen unterrichtet, während unsere Wälder für den Profit multinationaler Konzerne und neokolonialer Regimes niederbrennen. Deutsche Waffen werden in Kriegszonen exportiert, um Menschen zu töten, während Menschen die vor diesen Kriegen fliehen, willentlich im Mittelmeer ertrinken gelassen werden. Diese Heuchelei kann nicht länger toleriert werden.

Wir wurden nicht entdeckt, wir haben die Lügen des kolonialen Systems entdeckt.
Wir sind nicht minderwertig, wir weigern uns dem Kolonialrassismus unterworfen zu werden.
Wir sind nicht primitiv, primitiv ist das System, dass die Natur zerstört, welches es selbst zum überleben braucht.
Wir sind keine Menschen ohne Geschichte, die europäische “Moderne” konnte nur auf dem Gold und Blut des globalen Südens errichtet werden.

Wir laden alle zur ersten antikolonialen Demo ein, um wieder zueinander zu finden und um unsere Stimmen hörbar zu machen. Flaggen kolonialer und unterdrückerischer Regimes sind nicht erwünscht!

Die Demo ist Teil des ersten Antikolonialer Monat 2019, der dieses Jahr zwischen Oktober und November in Berlin stattfindet.

· MARCHA ANTICOLONIAL 2019 ·

El colonialismo nunca acabó! El sistema neocolonial-capitalista sigue intentando silenciarnos y marginarnos.
Mientras el facismo avanza en todas partes, ha llegado el momento de unirnos!

El 12 de octubre se conmemora y remarca el “descubrimiento” de América por los europeos en 1492. Este acontecimiento es en realidad la piedra angular de una gran mentira que perdura hasta el día de hoy en forma de racismo, eurocentrismo e ignorancia. El 12 de octubre marca el inicio de los genocidios coloniales, de la destrucción y el robo de la cultura y el conocimiento de las sociedades ancestrales, de la cristianización forzada, de la explotación de las tierras y recursos de los pueblos indígenas, así como también de la trata transatlántica de esclavos y de la mundialización de un sistema colonialista-patriarcal-capitalista que está destruyendo la vida en nuestro planeta.

Hasta el día de hoy, el 12 de octubre se sigue celebrando como el “Día de Colón” y el “Día de la Raza” por los estados coloniales y sus canales de propaganda. Los “logros heroicos” de Colón todavía se enseñan en las escuelas alemanas, mientras que nuestros bosques arden para el beneficio de multinacionales y regímenes neocoloniales. Al mismo tiempo, las armas alemanas se exportan a zonas de conflicto para matar gente, y a las personas que huyen de estas guerras se les deja ahogarse para que no entren a Europa. Esta hipocresía no puede seguir siendo tolerada!

Nosotros no fuimos descubiertos, nosotros descubrimos las mentiras del sistema colonial.
No somos inferiores, nos rehusamos a ser subyugados por el racismo colonial.
No somos primitivos, primitivo es el sistema que destruye la naturaleza que necesitamos para sobrevivir.
No somos personas sin historia, la “modernidad” europea sólo pudo ser construida con el oro y la sangre del Sur Global.

Invitamos a todas las personas a unirse a la primera marcha anticolonial en Berlín!

Marcharemos para hacer que nuestras voces resilientes sean escuchadas. Sin banderas de regímenes coloniales y opresivos!

La manifestación forma parte del primer mes anticolonial que tendrá lugar en Berlín entre octubre y noviembre de 2019.

13 October, Utrecht: International Solidarity – Youth on the Forefront of Resistance

6 October 2019

Sunday, 13 October
5:00 pm
ACU
Voorstraat 71
Utrecht, Netherlands
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/2337220473042045/

Around the world a new youth movement is emerging, fighting for climate justice. Youth have always played a central role in changing society, from civil rights to national liberation movements. Beyond the youth school strikes, what is the current situation regarding student and youth movements? On October 13th, join us for a special event at The Barricade with speakers from student/youth movements in Palestine, the Philippines and the Netherlands.

While the new school term has started in the Netherlands, students and youth of oppressed nations are facing ever-increasing repression for mobilizing and struggling for a brighter future.

> In Palestine, September saw a spike in the number of student activists imprisoned, most of them leading movements on their campuses. Systematic imprisonment campaigns have long been a tool of the Zionist occupation to attempt to subdue resistance.

> In The Philippines, black propaganda against students, youth and organizations critical of Duterte intensified, along with detention of members and organizers, all part of the larger counter-insurgency against the National Democratic revolution.

> The last big student movement in the Netherlands, the Maagdenhuis occupation ended with students being dragged out by the police following a court order, many mobilizations since have been met with state violence.

How has international solidarity played a role in such struggles against oppression? What role can you play? We invite you to learn, engage and stand in solidarity with those who are sacrificing their freedom in their struggle for justice and liberation.

Schedule will be posted soon.

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