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12 April, Milan: Book presentation on the Popular Front

Friday, 12 April
9:00 pm
Vittoria Social Center
Via Muratori
Milan, Italy
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1188859917943032/

Presentation of Stefano Mauro’s book on the history of the PFLP and the Palestinian Left. The meeting will also include an update on workers’ struggles.

13 April, Manchester: Stand with Palestine – Stop Israel’s War Crimes

Saturday, 13 April
12:00 pm
Piccadilly Gardens
Manchester, UK
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/374176726645279/

Since the 30th March 2018 Palestinians in Gaza have been protesting against the inhumane living conditions created by a decade-long Israeli imposed blockade. They have been marching towards their homes and lands from where most of them were ethnically cleansed – cleared out to make way for Israel in 1948.

Under international law they have a right to return to their homeland.
On the demonstrations over the past year Israeli snipers have shot and killed at least 190 people of which at least 35 were children, with a further 6000 more protesters were shot and injured with live ammunition. The injuries required over 120 limb amputations. Last Saturday they killed three more 17 year old boys.

On the 28th February 2018 the UN Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2018 Gaza protests found that, “Some of those violations may constitute war crimes or crimes against humanity” and found “reasonable grounds to believe that Israeli snipers shot at journalists, health workers, children and persons with disabilities, knowing they were clearly recognisable as such”.

Israel sells arms to over 100 countries including some of the worst human rights abusers, and attributes the success of its weapons to the fact that they have been “battle-tested” on Palestinians in Gaza and the rest of Palestine.

Still Palestinians march every Friday in Gaza, carrying their flags and facing the Israeli snipers and their bullets. And we will march with them.
Demonstrate in solidarity with the Great Return March, and break the chains of UK complicity with Israel’s ongoing war crimes against the Palestinian people.

12pm Piccadilly Gardens
Saturday 13th April

400 Palestinian prisoners join hunger strike as “Battle of Dignity 2” continues in Israeli prisons

Palestinian prisoners continued to develop their collective hunger strike on 9 April, the second day of the “Battle of Dignity (Karameh) 2” inside Israeli prison. A number of leaders from different Palestinian political forces announced the launch of the strike on Monday, 8 April after Israeli prison administration officials reneged on earlier commitments made to the prisoners’ negotiating team about telephone access.

The strike is growing on a rolling basis among prisoners of “the four forces,” the Popular Front, the Democratic Front, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, with additional prisoners joining the strike as it progresses; many more prisoners are expected to join on or before 17 April, commemorated internationally as Palestinian Prisoners’ Day. Reportedly, 400 Palestinian prisoners have joined the strike at the present time, including prisoners in Ramon, Eshel, Nafha, Negev, Ofer, Gilboa and Megiddo prisons.

Palestinian prisoners who have joined the strike are being transferred to other prisons in retaliation, reported the Prisoners’ Affairs Committee. This process began even before the strike started, as PFLP leader Wael Jaghoub, one of the first five leaders to announce the strike, was transferred to the Petah Tikva interrogation center two days before it began.

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine announced a number of its cadres who had joined the strike on Tuesday, following the first group on Monday. The new group of prisoners who launched an open hunger strike were Ahed Abu Ghoulmeh from Nablus, Hamdi Qur’an from Ramallah, Hakim Awwad from Nablus, Mohammed al-Rimawi from Ramallah, Mohammed Rahimi from Ramallah, Jamal Ankoush from Ramallah, Wissam al-Ali from Ramallah, Mahmoud Abu Wahdan from Nablus and Nael al-Halabi from Ramallah, all held in Nafha prison. In addition, Mehdi Ramadan al-Jarashi, Hakim Derbas and Ahmed Obaid in Section 5 of Ramon prison; Sultan Abu Hamous, Moaz Ka’abi, Moataz al-Absa, Muadh Abu Nassar, Walid Aliyan, Omar al-Lahham, Muhannad As’ad and Tamer Zaid in the Negev desert prison and Misra Qizmar in Eshel prison all joined the strike.

From various organizations, including Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Democratic Front, other prisoners reported to join the strike on Tuesday included Nihad al-Zughayer from Jerusalem, Sabih Mesbah Abu Sbeih from Jerusalem, Omar al-Abed from Kobar, Sheikh Jamal al-Tawil from el-Bireh, Ahmad Hureish from Beitunia, Rajab Mutayyer from Qalandiya Camp, Israr Barghouthi from Kobar, Anas Meshal Barghouthi from Kobar, Tamim Numan Salem from Nablus, Aseer al-Atrash, Akram Fassisi, Rami Khatib, Moataz Takis, Yassin Abu Lefah, Said Hermas from Bethlehem and Salah Abu Salah.  In addition, Nabil Harb of the Fateh Intifada prisoners joined the strike.

Photo: Hadf News

Protesters in Ramallah gathered to support the hunger strikers, including family members of the prisoners, representatives of Palestinian political parties, organizations and institutions and others. The protesters held up photos of the prisoners and expressed their support for the hunger strikers’ demands.

The Palestinian prisoners’ strike was launched in response to escalated repression inside the Israeli prisons directed by the minister of internal security Gilad Erdan (also directing international attacks against BDS organizing and Palestine solidarity and working to suppress freedom of expression around the world in his role as the Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs.) Erdan, a far-right minister of the Likud party, has also used the attacks on the Palestinian prisoners as a plank in his Israeli electoral campaigning, a campaign that has been marked by competition over war crimes, apartheid and racism.

The prisoners’ demands include:

  • Installation of public telephones in the prisons and removal of the cell-phone “jammer” devices installed by the occupation, which reportedly have negative health effects
  • An end of the collective punishments imposed by prison authorities since 2014 and especially the sanctions imposed recently on Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails after the repressive attacks in Negev and Ofer prisons.
  • Cancellation of a ban on family visits imposed on hundreds of prisoners and return to a normal (twice-monthly) schedule of family visits for all prisoners.
  • Ending the policy of medical negligence and dull access to medical treatment for injured, wounded and ill prisoners
  • Ending isolation and solitary confinement
  • Improved conditions and freedom for the child prisoners
  • Improving the conditions on the “bosta” for prisoner transfer and addressing violations of Palestinian women prisoners’ human rights.

Mpho Masemola, national secretary of the Ex-Political Prisoners Association (EPPA) in South Africa, a former political prisoner and veteran of the struggle against apartheid, spoke out in support of the Palestinian prisoners and their strike on Tuesday. In a letter, Masemola, who was previously denied entry to Palestine by the Israeli occupation, said that “We reaffirm our condemnation of the barbaric and inhuman treatment and use of violence against Palestinian prisoners in racist Israeli prisons, where Palestinian prisoners face brutal physical and psychological torture…Our experience during the struggle against apartheid in our country is very similar to the circumstances of the detention of Palestinian prisoners in Israel, especially the use of solitary confinement, insufficient nutrition, refusing medical treatment, and the prohibition of books.”

Masemola continued: “We call on the racist Prime Minister of Israel to unconditionally release all prisoners, especially women and children, and to end the policy of demolishing their homes…We support the call made by the Department of International Relations in South Africa on the withdrawal of the South African ambassador from Israel, and we call on the South African government to close the Israeli embassy in Pretoria. We salute the struggle of the Palestinian people against the worst forms of fascism, and we express our support for the Palestinian struggle and salute the revolutionary spirit of all the Palestinian detainees who have spent long periods in Israeli jails.”

In a statement, Dr. Fawzi Ismail, president of the General Secretariat of the Union of Palestinian Communities and Associations in Europe, noted that “the battle of the prisoners in Israeli jails must be taken up in regional and international forums and be on the agenda in advance of open hunger strikes. For the prisoners, a hunger strike is their last option. As they face the arrogance of the Zionist forces on one hand and the ineffectiveness of the PLO and the Authority on the other hand, the prisoners and our Palestinian national leaders inside the prisons have no choice but to engage in this battle to restore their rights, which the occupation attempts to confiscate and withdraw at any possible opportunity.

Ismail called on all Palestinian institutions, organizations and associations in Europe and everywhere in exile and diaspora to join in this battle of dignity. He praised the position of the Palestinian resistance forces in the Gaza Strip, who have been firm in linking all of these national struggles as one collective battle for justice.

“It is urgent to build consultation and cooperation between the different streams and forces of the Palestinian people, the Arab nation and solidarity movements around the world to support the Battle of Dignity 2. The cause of the prisoners is the cause of the entire Palestinian people, and they represent the solid revolutionary nucleus that is fighting the occupation on the front lines, defending the rights and aspirations of the Palestinian people and our struggle for return and liberation,” Ismail said.

Photo: Hadf News

The National and Islamic Forces in the Gaza Strip held a press conference on Tuesday morning, at which they announced a series of actions and events in Gaza to support the Palestinian prisoners. They issued the following statement:

“The Battle of Dignity (Karameh) 2 is the battle of the prisoners’ movement and the entire Palestinian people in the homeland and the diaspora and its valiant resistance

On the day that marks the anniversary of the Deir Yassin massacre, the Palestinian national liberation movement inside the prisons is entering, with all vigor, will, determination and revolutionary escalation, into the midst of the Battle of Dignity 2, which comes after long preparation for many months. It comes as a result of accumulated pressure caused by the escalation of the Zionist attack on the prisoners and the confiscation of their basic rights inside the prisons. On Monday, the decision to enter the strike was reached after negotiations with the prison administration reached a dead end after the disavowal of previously achieved agreements.

The occupier resorted to typical tactics after being confronted by the failure of its repressive actions in recent days against the prisoners, through the use of marathon negotiations and attempts to drown them in detail. The time factor, shuffling of papers and language of delay and procrastination was an attempt to shift circumstances in their favor. Recognizing this reality, the prisoners are prepared to fight this battle so long as their just demands are not realized.

We in the Prisoners’ Committee of the National and Islamic Forces in the Gaza Strip emphasize the following points in light of this important development inside the Zionist detention centers:

1) We declare our firm stand behind the prisoners in this battle of dignity, and we affirm that we will not leave them alone in this struggle. This battle, which is being waged by a united prisoners’ movement, must be the battle of the entire Palestinian people inside Palestine and in the diaspora.

2) We are confident that the prisoners’ movement will lead this struggle intelligently and wisely. It has the determination and will to continue the battle and to deal with the schemes and methods of the prison administration and will triumph over them as it has in past struggles.

3) We announce a series of activities throughout the Gaza Strip to support the prisoners’ movement in this struggle, and we call on the masses of the Palestinian people everywhere to join forces with the prisoners’ movement as they wage this battle. We are confident of victory no matter how challenging and difficult the situation.

4) The Zionist occupation is escalating its daily violations of international law against the Palestinian prisoners, including systematic torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, deliberate disregard of the rights of prisoners to receive medical care, repeated denials of family visits and contact with family members (especially for prisoners from Gaza) and other daily practices. We renew our demand once again for a thorough international investigation and for the International Criminal Court to put the leaders and officials of the Zionist entity and its prison administration on trial for their crimes against our brave prisoners.

5) We call upon all friends of Palestine, international solidarity movements and democratic forces in the world to stand with our struggling prisoners. We also call upon all supporters of the BDS campaign to consider the Battle of Dignity 2 as a Palestinian, Arab and international priority to expose the Zionist racist and criminal policies of the ministe Gilad Erdan, who continually seeks to distort the image of our struggle and target our prisoners. We consider what is happening in the occupation prisons to be one battle, inside and outside Palestine.

In conclusion, we affirm our full and complete stand with the prisoners’ movement in this heroic battle. We affirm that the Zionist entity, which has been built on the massacres, terrorization and uprooting of our people from their homeland, today is confronting the descendants of martyrs and the fallen, in the ranks of a continuing historical battle. The Palestinian resistance is determined to win…our prisoners will triumph and achieve their rights as a step on the road to freedom.”

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Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network expresses its strongest support for the Palestinian prisoners’ movement as it launches this critical battle for dignity and justice. We urge people around the world to take action to support the prisoners’ strike and join their struggle. The Palestinian prisoners will not be isolated or left alone! International solidarity is critical to building support, attention and pressure to help them achieve their demands. 

Take Action!

1) Organize or join an event or protest for the Palestinian prisoners. From today, organize demonstrations, actions and events and join in the Prisoners’ Week of Action from 17 to 24 April 2019! You can organize an info table, rally, solidarity hunger strike, protest or action to support the prisoners. If you are already holding an event about Palestine or social justice, include solidarity with the prisoners as part of your action. Send your events and reports to samidoun@samidoun.net.

2) Write letters and make phone calls to protest the violation of Palestinian prisoners’ rights. Demand your government take action to stop supporting Israeli occupation or to pressure the Israeli state to end the policies of repression of Palestinian political prisoners.

Call during your country’s regular office hours:

• Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs Marise Payne: + 61 2 6277 7500
• Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland: +1-613-992-5234
• European Union Commissioner Federica Mogherini: +32 (0) 2 29 53516
• New Zealand Minister of Foreign Affairs Winston Peters: +64 4 439 8000
• United Kingdom Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt: +44 20 7008 1500
• United States President Donald Trump: 1-202-456-1111

3) Boycott, Divest and Sanction. Join the BDS campaign to highlight the complicity of corporations like Hewlett-Packard and the continuing involvement of G4S in Israeli policing and prisons. Build a campaign to boycott Israeli goods, impose a military embargo on Israel, or organize around the academic and cultural boycott of Israel.

Palestinian youth delegation to South Africa urges action to support hunger-striking prisoners

Mohammed Khatib, the Europe coordinator of Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, is part of a delegation of Palestinian youth organized by the Palestinian Youth Movement visiting South Africa.  The delegation’s meetings and program are being shared on PYM’s social media, including Instagram and Twitter. The delegation issued the following statement and call to action in support of the Battle of Dignity (Karameh) 2 and the Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike:

“We, a group of Palestinian youth from the diaspora and occupied Palestine in South Africa, are part of a youth delegation. We call out to support the resistance of the prisoners with their empty stomachs, who represent the front line and the vanguard of the struggle with the Zionist oppressor. With their iron will, the prisoners’ movement in the Zionist prisons declares a new battle of heroic struggle, this time against the “jammers,” as part of their continuous struggle to win their freedom and confront the policies of isolation.

We emphasize that all of the steps of struggle taken by the prisoners’ movement, and with it the Palestinian resistance, come within the lessons taken from the historic confrontation with the occupier and the colonizer.

As Palestinian youth, we affirm that it is imperative that the leadership of the Palestinian parties and the Palestinian national movement escalate their role seriously and directly. The work of liberating the prisoners’ movement from the occupation prisons must become a national obligation that is dealt with as a central issue in the programs of daily work, rather than abandoning the prisoners’ movement in line with Zionist projects to cut the allocations of prisoners and besiege their families.

We also urge the masses of our Palestinian people in the diaspora and in occupied Palestine in general, and the Palestinian youth forces in particular, to embrace the cause of the prisoners and their ongoing battle, and to escalate the direct confrontation everywhere against the Zionist project until the liberation of the entire occupied Palestine.”

14 April, Online: Livestream with Khalida Jarrar

Sunday, 14 April
1:00 pm
Facebook Livestream by the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Join the event: https://www.facebook.com/events/299640874064838/

Khaleda Jarrar is a Palestinian political figure, just released from two years detention without charge or trial by the Israeli military occupation authority.

She is a leading member of the PFLP, deputy at the PLC (Palestinian Legislative Council), heads the PLC’s prisoners’ committee and acts as the Palestinian representative in the Council of Europe, an international organization promoting human rights and democracy around the world.

Facebook Livestream on https://www.facebook.com/scottishpsc/

Khaleda Jarrar was previously detained in 2015 and spent 14 months in Israeli jails without charge.

Details of this and other SPSC broadcasts here: http://www.scottishpsc.org.uk/the-wider-view/palestine-sunday-talks-in-april

12 April, Birmingham: HSBC – Stop Funding Destruction!

Friday, 12 April
10:00 am
The ICC
Broad Street
Birmingham, UK
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/816227782084609/

Whether it’s supporting arms sales to Israel and Saudi Arabia, or financing the extraction and exploitation of fossil fuels, HSBC is profiting from destruction.

A coalition of campaigning groups are organising a protest outside the venue of HSBC’s AGM in Birmingham. Join us there to demand that HSBC stop funding the death and destruction of people and planet!

This will be a family friendly protest: expect speakers, chants and music… We are also looking into organising transport from London and potentially other UK hubs – stay tuned for more details soon!

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Why we are mobilising:

There is deep history between violence and the extraction of fossil fuels, one that spans from Western colonialism to now. We see it in fossil fuel rich countries all over the planet: a domestic or foreign government arms themselves to secure resources for themselves and for fossil fuel companies.

The violence enacted on behalf of these governments and companies has displaced communities and destroyed families across the planet, a situation that will only worsen as the extraction and burning of fossil fuels exacerbates the impacts of the climate crisis.

The struggles of anti-militarism groups and climate justice groups are inseparable.

HSBC is directly connected to this history, financing the military-industrial complex through its loan book and its investments. In the last three years alone, the bank has poured over £43bn into the fossil fuel sector . At the same time, HSBC has invested over £830m in arms companies and has been involved in syndicated loans exceeding £18.9bn.

After severe human rights violation by HSBC funded coal mines in Colombia and Russia, the bank has also recently announced new coal financing in the Delta region. HSBC’s new investment in fossil fuel industries would destroy the ecology in Bangladesh, Indonesia and Vietnam.

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Who we are:

We are anti-militarism and climate groups who recognise the inseparable nature of our struggle for peace and climate justice. Organisations involved include: Palestine Solidarity Campaign, War on Want, BankTrack, 350.org, and the National Committee of Bangladesh UK.

12 April, London: International Day for Political Prisoners

Friday, 12 April
6:00 pm
UNITE the Union
28 Theobald Rd
London
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/2254155954652175/

Day of solidarity for the freedom of political prisoners of the world!
Participants:
Anti Internment Group London (Ireland)
Colectivo Aji (Colombia)
Former Political Prisoners from Chile in UK
Peru Solidarity Movement
Congreso de los Pueblos (Colombia)
Marcha Patriotica
More details to follow

Palestinian prisoners’ movement leaders in the first ranks of hunger strikers

Palestinian prisoners’ movement leaders are among the first of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners to launch a hunger strike against Israeli repression on Monday, 8 April. The strike, the Battle of Dignity/Karameh 2, is demanding access to public telephones, restoration of family visits and an end to the harsh repression that has targeted Palestinian prisoners especially in the past months.

The prisoners’ strike is expected to escalate in the coming days, with hundreds more joining the strike tomorrow, 9 April, and even more joining on 17 April, Palestinian Prisoners’ Day. Among the initial strikers are:

  • Mohammed Arman, 40, from Ramallah, serving a 36-year sentence. He is the representative of Hamas prisoners and held in Ramon prison.
  • Zaid Bseiso, 41, from Tulkarem, sentenced to life plus 55 years. He is the representative of Islamic Jihad prisoners and held in Ramon prison.
  • Akram Abu Bakr, 41, from Tulkarem, sentenced to life. He is the representative of the Fateh prisoners and held in Nafha prison.
  • Wael al-Jaghoub, 43, from Nablus, sentenced to life. He is the representative of the prisoners of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and held in Ramon prison.
  • Hussein Derbas, 37, from Jerusalem, sentenced to 25 years. He is the representative of the prisoners of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and held in Ramon prison.

In addition, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine’s prison branch issued a statement urging the broadest support for the strike and listing a number of PFLP prisoners who were among the initiators of the strike: “Kamil Abu Hanish, Hekmat Abdel-Jalil, Hisham Kaabi, Nidal Daghlis, Marcel Shtayyeh from Nablus, Khaled Halabi from Jerusalem, Mahmoud Abu Saba from Ramallah, Samer al-Qaisi from Dheisheh camp in Bethlehem. These are from the same group that were attacked and suppressed in Section 1 of Ramon prison a few days ago amid the burning of the section. In addition, the leader of the PFLP prison branch, Wael Jaghoub, announced that he will begin the battle of dignity early, two days ago.”

The statement noted that the PFLP prisoners are “mobilizing in all ranks of leaders and members” and said that the “prisoners of the four forces (Hamas, the two Fronts and Islamic Jihad) have decided to engage in this battle a gradual manner, beginning with the entry of hundreds of prisoners in the strike, and affirm that this battle will not stop until the prisoners obtain their demands.” It called for the broadest collective support for the prisoners’ struggle inside and outside Palestine, “emphasizing our unity in this decision to engage in the Battle of Dignity.”

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Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network expresses its strongest support for the Palestinian prisoners’ movement as it launches this critical battle for dignity and justice. We urge people around the world to take action to support the prisoners’ strike and join their struggle. The Palestinian prisoners will not be isolated or left alone! International solidarity is critical to building support, attention and pressure to help them achieve their demands. 

Take Action!

1) Organize or join an event or protest for the Palestinian prisoners. From today, organize demonstrations, actions and events and join in the Prisoners’ Week of Action from 17 to 24 April 2019! You can organize an info table, rally, solidarity hunger strike, protest or action to support the prisoners. If you are already holding an event about Palestine or social justice, include solidarity with the prisoners as part of your action. Send your events and reports to samidoun@samidoun.net.

2) Write letters and make phone calls to protest the violation of Palestinian prisoners’ rights. Demand your government take action to stop supporting Israeli occupation or to pressure the Israeli state to end the policies of repression of Palestinian political prisoners.

Call during your country’s regular office hours:

• Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs Marise Payne: + 61 2 6277 7500
• Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland: +1-613-992-5234
• European Union Commissioner Federica Mogherini: +32 (0) 2 29 53516
• New Zealand Minister of Foreign Affairs Winston Peters: +64 4 439 8000
• United Kingdom Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt: +44 20 7008 1500
• United States President Donald Trump: 1-202-456-1111

3) Boycott, Divest and Sanction. Join the BDS campaign to highlight the complicity of corporations like Hewlett-Packard and the continuing involvement of G4S in Israeli policing and prisons. Build a campaign to boycott Israeli goods, impose a military embargo on Israel, or organize around the academic and cultural boycott of Israel.

Palestinian Youth Mobilization in Berlin calls for action for striking prisoners

The Palestinian Youth Mobilization in Berlin (HIRAK) called on the Palestinian community, the Arab community and all German and international supporters of the Palestinian people to participate widely in support of the Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strike and the Battle of Dignity (Karameh) 2 taking place inside Zionist prisons.

The Palestinian Youth Mobilization will be participating in a series of events in the coming days and weeks organized by many Palestinian and Arab forces and institutions in Berlin, calling on members and supporters of HIRAK to participate in these events. It also called for support for the Battle of Dignity 2 inside the prisons of the occupation, especially amid the preparations to commemorate the 71st anniversary of al-Nakba.

HIRAK also called on Palestinian and Arab students and all supporters of Palestine at German universities and schools to begin organizing solidarity activities in the universities and participate in supporting the prisoners’ strike by activating their role and organizing inside German academic institutions.’

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الحراك الشبابي في برلين يدعو الى الإلتحام مع ( الكرامة 2 ) في السجون الصهيونية.

دعا الحراك الشبابي الفلسطيني في برلين جماهير شعبنا الفلسطيني وكافة القوى العربية والالمانية والأممية الصديقة الى المشاركة الواسعة في الفعاليات المساندة لإضراب ومعركة الكرامة الثانية التي تخوضها طلائع الحركة الأسيرة في السجون الصهيونية.

ونشر الحراك الشبابي الفلسطيني على صفحته سلسلة فعاليات تشهدها مدينة برلين في الأيام والأسابيع القادمة تنظمها العديد من القوى والمؤسسات الفلسطي نية والعربية في برلين ، داعياً اعضاء الحراك وانصاره الى المشاركة الفاعلة فيها وتظهير قضية اضراب الكرامة ( 2) في سجون الاحتلال والاستعداد للذكرى الـ 71 للنكبة.

كما دعى الحراك طلائع طلبة فلسطين والطلبة العرب في كافة الجامعات والمدارس الالمانية الى البدء في تنظيم فعاليات تضامنية داخل باحات الجامعات والمشاركة الفعلية في اسناد اضراب الأسرى عبر تفعيل دورهم الطلابي والنقابي دخل المعاهد والمؤسسات الاكاديمية الألمانية.

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There will be a demonstration on Saturday, 13 April at 1 pm at Hermannplatz in Berlin in support of the prisoners.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network expresses its strongest support for the Palestinian prisoners’ movement as it launches this critical battle for dignity and justice. We urge people around the world to take action to support the prisoners’ strike and join their struggle. The Palestinian prisoners will not be isolated or left alone! International solidarity is critical to building support, attention and pressure to help them achieve their demands. 

Take Action!

1) Organize or join an event or protest for the Palestinian prisoners. From today, organize demonstrations, actions and events and join in the Prisoners’ Week of Action from 17 to 24 April 2019! You can organize an info table, rally, solidarity hunger strike, protest or action to support the prisoners. If you are already holding an event about Palestine or social justice, include solidarity with the prisoners as part of your action. Send your events and reports to samidoun@samidoun.net.

2) Write letters and make phone calls to protest the violation of Palestinian prisoners’ rights. Demand your government take action to stop supporting Israeli occupation or to pressure the Israeli state to end the policies of repression of Palestinian political prisoners.

Call during your country’s regular office hours:

• Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs Marise Payne: + 61 2 6277 7500
• Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland: +1-613-992-5234
• European Union Commissioner Federica Mogherini: +32 (0) 2 29 53516
• New Zealand Minister of Foreign Affairs Winston Peters: +64 4 439 8000
• United Kingdom Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt: +44 20 7008 1500
• United States President Donald Trump: 1-202-456-1111

3) Boycott, Divest and Sanction. Join the BDS campaign to highlight the complicity of corporations like Hewlett-Packard and the continuing involvement of G4S in Israeli policing and prisons. Build a campaign to boycott Israeli goods, impose a military embargo on Israel, or organize around the academic and cultural boycott of Israel.

13 April, Berlin: Freedom for all revolutionary prisoners

Saturday, 13 April
1:00 pm
Hermannplatz
Berlin, Germany
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/615399622309232/

Algeria, Venezuela, Mapuche, Palestine, Kurdistan and all liberation movement are united in the fight against imperialism, colonialism, capitalism, sexism and Zionism. You are a part of us and we are a part of you.

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Movement has decided on an open hunger strike. Children, women and men are deprived of their freedom under inhumane conditions. They remain in administrative detention for years without trial or in isolation. On Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, we are the extended arm of this movement! We are committed to amplify the voices of these strugglers and will do our duty conscientiously.

Long live the fight for freedom, long live Palestine!

Algerien, Venezuela, Mapuche Palästina, Kurdistan und alle anderen Befreiuungsbewegungen, die sich im Kampf gegen Imperialismus, Kolonialismus, Kapitalismus, Sexismus und Zionismus vereint haben, sind ein Teil von uns und wir sind ein Teil von Ihnen

Unsere Gefangene Bewegung hat sich für einen offenen Hungerstreik entschieden.

Minderjährige, Frauen und Männer werden unter unmenschlichen Bedingungen ihrerer Freiheit beraubt. Sie bleiben Jahrelang in Administrativhaft ohne Gerichtsverfahren und isoliert. Am internationalen Tag der palästinensischen Gefangenen wollen wir daran erinnern, daß wir der verlängerte Arm dieser Bewegung sind! Wir sind das Sprachrohr dieser Kämpfer*innen und werden unsere Aufgabe Gewissenhaft und mit Eifer und Inbrunst nachkommen!

Es lebe der Kampf um Freiheit
Es lebe Palästina