Tuesday, 15 January
6:00 pm
Corner North Charles Street and North Avenue
Baltimore, MD
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1190930671061194/

January 15, is a national day of protest to demand freedom for Palestinian political prisoner Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian prisoners. There is also an important press conference in Philadelphia for Mumia. In Baltimore, we will be holding a special outreach event, distributing flyers and rallying at N. Charles St & North Ave. Learn more about both cases. There will be coffee and light snacks immediately afterwards at the Harriet Tubman Solidarity Center, 2011 N. Charles St., with information on how to write to both political prisoners.

Saturday, 19 January
12:00 pm
M&S Nottingham
Nottingham, UK
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Nottingham Protest to Free Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian Political Prisoners

Nottingham Revolutionary Communist Group is joining the international week of action called by Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network to Free the Political Prisoner Ahmad Sa’adat and all political prisoners.

“The Palestinian people are determined to continue the intifada for all of the national rights of our people. This position is naturally consistent with the struggle of all progressive global forces confronting global imperial arrogance and struggling for independence, self-determination and liberation, for social justice, equality and socialism, based on a fair distribution of the wealth and human principles of peace, rejection of war, imperialism and all forms of oppression and exploitation…” – Ahmad Sa’adat

On Saturday 19 January, Join us in a collective call for the freedom of Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian Prisoners. Join us to demand an end to British support for the Israeli occupation that has been confiscating land and lives for over 70 years. Join us outside Marks & Spencer, Britain’s biggest corporate sponsor of the Zionist Israeli state and a symbol of Britain’s support for Israel.

Freedom for all political prisoners! Freedom for Palestine! Victory to the Intifada!

This will be an anti-racist protest – all anti-racist groups and individuals are welcome to join us and bring your own placards/ literature or borrow some we have prepared. We will have an open microphone so please feel free to prepare something to say. If you would like to learn more about the situation in Palestine and in particular the situation for prisoners, feel free to come along to find out more.

More information about Marks & Spencer’s role in supporting Israel below and more info about Ahmad Sa’adat here:

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

15 January 2019 marks the 17th anniversary of Sa’adat’s arrest by the Palestinian Authority in the context of “security cooperation” with the Israeli occupation. After a violent attack on the PA’s Jericho prison in 2006, where Sa’adat was held under United States and British guards, Ahmad Sa’adat and his comrades are serving lengthy sentences in Israeli prisons. Sa’adat was sentenced to 30 years in prison, convicted in an Israeli military court of leading a prohibited organization and “incitement.”

Sa’adat is a leader in the Palestinian prisoners’ movement and the Palestinian national liberation movement. He is a figure of international importance and political clarity, targeted behind bars in an attempt to isolate him from his political role. He stands alongside nearly 6,000 fellow Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails on the front lines of the liberation struggle. As such, he is a symbol of Palestinian, Arab and internationalist resistance to capitalism, racism, apartheid and colonization.

The case of Ahmad Sa’adat also clearly highlights the complicity of international powers in the occupation and colonization of Palestine. He and his comrades were held for years under U.S. and British guards in a Palestinian Authority prison – and those guards moved away in a prearranged agreement to allow the Israeli occupation army to attack Jericho prison in 2006. The support of the United States, Britain, Canada, the European Union, Australia and others for the Israeli colonial project continues to perpetuate its impunity as it carries out land confiscations, home demolitions, mass imprisonment, extrajudicial executions, the ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem, the siege on Gaza and further crimes against humanity and war crimes.

The Palestinian Authority kidnapped Sa’adat under false pretenses and imprisoned him for four years before its prison was attacked by the Israeli occupation. This is part and parcel of the policy of “security coordination” that has led to the repeated imprisonment of Palestinians for their political involvement by the PA. Despite critical words, the policy remains firmly in place – with devastating and deadly consequences for Palestinians, as seen in the case of Basil al-Araj.

Why protest outside M&S?
Britain has been responsible for racist oppression of Palestine for over 100 years- in 1917 the British government issued the Balfour Declaration, which called for “a national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine, despite the huge majority of Palestinians being against this. After decades of British rule, this lead to the ethnic cleansing of 750,000 Palestinians in 1947/8. Today Britain continues to support Israel, militarily, economically and politically– for example, £221m in arms export licenses were issued last year alone.

Boycott M&S
Marks and Spencer is a key British supporter of Israel.

Marks and Spencer annually sell approximately £240 million worth of Israeli goods, including grapes, lychees, fresh figs, plums, dates, Hass avocados, fresh herbs, Sweet potatoes, potatoes, red peppers, suits and underwear. M&S stocks goods produced by Israeli companies like Delta – selling a reported 51% of Delta clothing.

They have also been marked with a long history of political support for the state of Israel and the Zionist movement:

In 1941 Israel Sieff, M&S Chairman, advocated ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians: ‘large sections of the Arab population of Palestine should be transplanted to Iraq and other Middle Eastern States’ (Jewish Chronicle 21/9/1941).

In 1990 Marcus Sieff, M&S Chairman, wrote that M&S sees ‘aiding the economic development of Israel as one of its fundamental objectives’.

In 1998 Marks and Spencer CEO Richard Greenbury received the Jubilee Award for services to Israel.

In 2004 chief executive Stuart Rose was guest of honour to the British Israeli Chamber of Commerce annual dinner as reward for ongoing support for Israel.

In 2014 M&S chiefs attended events in London organised by David Cameron to counter the boycott and to strengthen trade with Israel.

We call for the complete boycott of M&S, as a symbol of boycotting British state and corporate support for the vicious Zionist state. Join us.

Saturday, 19 January
12:00 pm
Piccadilly Gardens
Manchester, UK
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1133153793529369/

All Palestinian prisoners jailed by Israel are political prisoners, jailed for being Palestinian – existing and resisting against Israel’s ethnic cleansing and military occupation of Palestine.

We will stand in support of the nearly 6000 Palestinians security detainees and prisoners being held in Israel Prison Service (IPS) facilities, including 310 from the Gaza Strip. Over 200 are Palestinian children.

This is also in response to a call from Samidoun for a week of international demonstrations on the 10th anniversary of the Israeli sentencing of Ahmad Sa’adat, the General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

Sa’adat was sentenced to 30 years in prison, convicted in an Israeli military court of leading a prohibited organization and “incitement.” He has stood strong as a major Palestinian liberation leader from Israeli jails, as have many others before him.

He stands alongside nearly 6,000 fellow Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails on the front lines of the liberation struggle. As such, he is a symbol of Palestinian, Arab and internationalist resistance to capitalism, racism, apartheid and colonization.

Supported by
Manchester Palestine Action
Manchester Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Manchester Jewish Action for Palestine
University of Manchester BDS Campaign

Saturday, 19 January
12:00 pm
Piccadilly Gardens
Manchester, UK
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/2090765017679025/

Join the Manchester protest called by Manchester Boycott Israel Group – Victory to Palestine! and Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! (FRFI) Manchester as part of an international week of action called by Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network.

“The Palestinian people are determined to continue the intifada for all of the national rights of our people. This position is naturally consistent with the struggle of all progressive global forces confronting global imperial arrogance and struggling for independence, self-determination and liberation, for social justice, equality and socialism, based on a fair distribution of the wealth and human principles of peace, rejection of war, imperialism and all forms of oppression and exploitation…” – Ahmad Sa’adat

Today, we remember the 10th anniversary of the Israeli sentencing of prominent Palestinian national liberation and international left leader Ahmad Sa’adat, the General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. We urge you to join us for an International Week of Action between 15 and 22 January 2019 to free Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian prisoners!

On 15 January 2019, we will mark the 17th anniversary of Sa’adat’s arrest by the Palestinian Authority in the context of “security cooperation” with the Israeli occupation. After a violent attack on the PA’s Jericho prison in 2006, where Sa’adat was held under United States and British guards, Ahmad Sa’adat and his comrades are serving lengthy sentences in Israeli prisons. Sa’adat was sentenced to 30 years in prison, convicted in an Israeli military court of leading a prohibited organization and “incitement.”

Sa’adat is a leader in the Palestinian prisoners’ movement and the Palestinian national liberation movement. He is a figure of international importance and political clarity, targeted behind bars in an attempt to isolate him from his political role. He stands alongside nearly 6,000 fellow Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails on the front lines of the liberation struggle. As such, he is a symbol of Palestinian, Arab and internationalist resistance to capitalism, racism, apartheid and colonization.

The case of Ahmad Sa’adat also clearly highlights the complicity of international powers in the occupation and colonization of Palestine. He and his comrades were held for years under U.S. and British guards in a Palestinian Authority prison – and those guards moved away in a prearranged agreement to allow the Israeli occupation army to attack Jericho prison in 2006. The support of the United States, Britain, Canada, the European Union, Australia and others for the Israeli colonial project continues to perpetuate its impunity as it carries out land confiscations, home demolitions, mass imprisonment, extrajudicial executions, the ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem, the siege on Gaza and further crimes against humanity and war crimes.

The Palestinian Authority kidnapped Sa’adat under false pretenses and imprisoned him for four years before its prison was attacked by the Israeli occupation. This is part and parcel of the policy of “security coordination” that has led to the repeated imprisonment of Palestinians for their political involvement by the PA. Despite critical words, the policy remains firmly in place – with devastating and deadly consequences for Palestinians, as seen in the case of Basil al-Araj.

On 15-22 January 2019, join us in a collective call for the freedom of Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian Prisoners. Join us to build the global grassroots campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions from Israel and complicit corporations. Join us to fight for an end to aid and support for the Israeli occupation that has been confiscating land and lives for over 70 years.

We urge you to organize events, actions and protests in cities, campuses, communities, towns, campuses and all other public spaces. When we raise our voices, we can help to break the Israeli isolation of Ahmad Sa’adat and his fellow Palestinian prisoners. Free Ahmad Sa’adat! Free all Palestinian Prisoners! Free Palestine!

Friday, 18 January
5:00 pm
Obelisco
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/387355272020899/

January 15 to 22 is an international week of action for the immediate release of Ahmad Sa’adat – general secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – and all Palestinian prisoners. Sa’adat was arrested by the Palestinian Authority on January 15, 2002 and imprisoned under American and British surveillance. After a violent attack in 2006, he was abducted by the occupation forces. He is currently serving a sentence of 30 years in an Israeli prison.

We call for a demonstration and open mic in front of the Obelisco in Buenos Aires. At the same time, we will denounce the growing link between the national government and provincial governments with the Israeli terrorist state, in support of its genocidal policies towards the Palestinian people and the adoption of its program, methods and armaments for use in the internal repression against our peoples.

Organized by ILPS Argentina

Del 15 al 22 de Enero- En el marco de la semana de acción internacional por la inmediata libertad de Ahmad Sa’adat- secretario general del Frente Popular de Liberación de Palestina, arrestado por la autoridad palestina el 15 de enero de 2002 y encarcelado bajo vigilancia americana y británica. Después de un ataque violento en 2006, fue secuestrado por las fuerzas de ocupación. Cumple actualmente una pena de 30 años en una prisión israelí – y por la libertad de todos los presos políticos palestinos!! , convocamos a una concentración y radio abierta frente al obelisco en la ciudad de Buenos Aires. Al mismo tiempo , denunciaremos el creciente vínculo entre el gobierno nacional y gobiernos provinciales con el estado terrorista israelí , en el apoyo a sus políticas genocidas para con el pueblo palestino y la adquisición del programa, métodos y armamento sionista en la represión interna contra nuestros pueblos.

Sunday, 13 January
9:45 am
Meet at Frankfurter Tor 3 (Humana shop)
Berlin, Germany
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/361075004694403/

** Please note, we have an evening event on 13 January as well, Palestinian Prisoners and the Struggle for Liberation, at 6 pm at Reuterstr. 15 in Berlin, and we hope you will be able to join us for both. We will also have postcards to distribute about Ahmad Sa’adat and the Palestinian prisoners at the LLL-March as well as a large banner for the prisoners as part of this block! **

Palästina im Internationalistischen Block
wir treffen uns zur LL-Demo vor dem Laden Humana um 9:45
gemeinsam und entschlossen erheben wir unsere Stimmen gegen den Faschismus, so wie es unsere beiden Genoss*innen Luxemburg und Liebknecht vor uns taten.
فلسطين في الكتلة الأممية
أمام متجر Humana الساعة 9:45 صباحا
نرفع معا أصواتنا ضد الفاشية ، تماما مثلما فعل رفاقنا لوكسمبورغ وليبكنشت من قبلنا

Palestine in the Internationalist Block
We meet for the LL demo in front of the shop Humana at 9:45
Together and resolutely we raise our voices against Fascism, just as our two comrades Luxemburg and Liebknecht did before us.

Wednesday, 23 January
8:30 pm
cinéma Méliès-St-François
8 rue de la Valse
42100 St-Etienne, France
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/2242041089408337/

Special projection of a film that highlights life in Gaza through images and drawings, including occupation violence and the courage of the Palestinian people.

Tickets: single admission for 5 EUR (+1 EUR for the organizers)

Discussion after the screening led by Hisham Abu Shahla, a political scientist who conducts research on Palestine and was part of the film’s work team.

Description: In the rural outskirts of Gaza, the Samouni family is about to celebrate a wedding. This is the first party since the last war. Amal, Fouad, their brothers and their cousins ??have lost their parents, their homes and their olive trees. The neighborhood where they live is under reconstruction. They replant trees and plow fields, but a more difficult task still lies with these young survivors: rebuilding their own memoy. Through their memories, Samouni Road has a portrait of this family before, during and after the event that changed their lives forever.

Projection unique d’un film unique qui évoque en images et dessins la vie à Gaza, la violence, le courage des Palestiniens.
Billet: tarif unique à 5€ (+1€ pour les assoc’ organisatrices)

Samouni Road, un film de Stefano Savona
(Prix du Meilleur documentaire au Festival de Cannes 2018)
France, Italie – 2018 – durée 2h08 – VOSTFR

?? Débat, à l’issue de la projection, animé par Hisham Abu Shahla, chercheur en sciences politiques qui effectue ses recherches sur la question palestinienne et a fait partie de l’équipe de travail du film.

Dans la périphérie rurale de la ville de #Gaza, la famille Samouni s’apprête à célébrer un mariage. C’est la première fête depuis la dernière guerre. Amal, Fouad, leurs frères et leurs cousins ont perdu leurs parents, leurs maisons et leurs oliviers. Le quartier où ils habitent est en reconstruction. Ils replantent des arbres et labourent les champs, mais une tâche plus difficile encore incombe à ces jeunes survivants : reconstruire leur propre mémoire. Au fil de leurs souvenirs, Samouni Road dresse un portrait de cette famille avant, pendant et après l’événement qui a changé leur vie à jamais.