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Calendar of Resistance for Palestine 2024

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network urges all Palestinian, Arab and international supporters of Palestine to escalate their organizing and struggle to stand with the heroic Palestinian resistance and confront colonial Zionist genocide and imperialist complicity and involvement. (The list below will be constantly updated at least once a day – please share the link with your friends and comrades!)

These events are organized by many groups around the world — wherever possible, we link to the original organizers so that you can be in direct contact! 

NOTES:

  • This list is for action-oriented/outdoor/protest actions specifically. Check out our events listings for the webinars, discussions and meetings we’re involved in! 
  • Direct actions like those by Palestine Action are some of the most important and material actions of resistance and solidarity taking place — but they are typically not announced in advance, and those that are not announced in advance are not listed here!  
  • We know that these events are mainly international and that the Arab people are marching everywhere for Palestine – we will be honored to add more Arab events whenever we are informed!
  • Times and details may change. Wherever we have it, we have linked to the original organizers’ accounts, posters and pages. Please follow these for the latest information – and don’t hesitate to send us updates!
  • List below is ordered by date, then by country in alphabetical order in English, then by city in alphabetical order in English.

TO ADD YOUR EVENT TO THE CALENDAR: Email us at  samidoun@samidoun.net or tag us on social media! 

Sunday, December 1

SPANISH STATE

SWEDEN

UNITED STATES

Monday, December 2

ITALY

UNITED STATES

Tuesday, December 3

UNITED STATES

Friday, December 6

UNITED STATES

Saturday, December 7

BELGIUM

GERMANY

UNITED STATES

Sunday, December 8

UNITED STATES

Monday, December 9

UNITED STATES

Tuesday, December 10

UNITED STATES

Friday, December 13

UNITED STATES

Saturday, December 14

UNITED STATES

Sunday, December 15

SPANISH STATE

UNITED STATES

Monday, December 16

UNITED STATES

Tuesday, December 17

UNITED STATES

Friday, December 20

UNITED STATES

Saturday, December 21

UNITED STATES

Sunday, December 22

UNITED STATES

Monday, December 23

UNITED STATES

Tuesday, December 24

UNITED STATES

Friday, December 27

UNITED STATES

Saturday, December 28

UNITED STATES

Sunday, December 29

UNITED STATES

Monday, December 30

UNITED STATES

30 December, Seattle: Screening of “Fedayin: The Struggles of Georges Abdallah”

Please join Samidoun Seattle for a screening and discussion of, “Fedayin: The Struggles of Georges Abdallah”

Join us in the call for his freedom! We will be studying the life in struggle of Georges Abdallah, a Lebanese revolutionary. He is the longest held political prisoner in Europe for now 39 years!

🔸Saturday 30th 4-7pm
🔸RSVP required for location: https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/i4iaUt1BhwFMD–F8tJrNYtTRXZnU-GuVDhV38bRLdY/
🔸Bring snacks and blankets!
🔸Sliding scale donation 0-$20
🔸Masks encouraged.

Please note that if you are unable to make this screening, this film is free to stream via YouTube in Arabic, French, English, Spanish and German.

Free Khalida Jarrar! Palestinian feminist, leftist and scholar seized by occupation forces

Khalida Jarrar, the Palestinian feminist, leftist, and scholar was seized from her home in El-Bireh, occupied Palestine, in the morning hours of 26 December 2023 as part of mass arrests by Zionist forces in the West Bank of occupied Palestine during the genocide in Gaza.

Jarrar is currently a scholar and researcher at the Muwatin Institute at Birzeit University. In fact, she was scheduled to appear on 27 December at a panel convened by Jadaliyya on imprisonment in the time of genocide; she was seized from her home only one day before.

Jarrar, a historical leftist political leader with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, has been imprisoned on multiple occasions by the occupation regime, including in 2015, when her administrative detention without charge or trial drew global protests before she was then transferred to the occupation military courts. She is a lifelong advocate for the liberation of political prisoners and was targeted specifically for her statements and advocacy for the liberation of Palestinian prisoners.

In 2019, she was once again seized by the occupation regime. While she was imprisoned, her daughter Suha tragically passed away. She was denied the right to see Suha’s body and attend her funeral before she was released again in 2021. During both of her times of imprisonment, she established independent educational programs to teach the imprisoned minor girls the high school education they were denied as well as the adult women prisoners their rights under international law.

She discusses her imprisonment in the book, Our Vision for Liberation, by Ramzy Baroud and Ilan Pappe; her piece is published at the Palestine Chronicle.

In the months since 7 October, while the Zionist regime has been waging a full-fledged genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza, they have seized thousands of prisoners and subjected them to horrific conditions. Palestinians from Gaza in particular have been brutally and routinely tortured and abused by occupation forces. This is both a continuation of the attack on the Palestinian people as well as a mechanism to inflate the number of prisoners in order to manipulate the results of a prisoner exchange with the Palestinian resistance.

Freedom for Khalida Jarrar and all Palestinians in zionist, imperialist and reactionary jails!

La cause des prisonniers palestiniens et de Georges Abdallah (vidéos)

Nous reproduisons ci-dessous plusieurs vidéos d’émissions où Samidoun Paris Banlieue était invitée à intervenir sur le sort des prisonniers palestiniens, dont Georges Abdallah, et sur l’importance de se mobiliser pour leur libération :

Sans oublier l’émission sur Radio Primitive le 11 décembre dernier à écouter ici.

 

 

“Fedayin: Georges Abdallah’s Fight” now available free on YouTube

“Fedayin: Georges Abdallah’s Fight” was released in 2021; this documentary explores the life in struggle of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, the Lebanese Arab struggler for Palestine jailed in France for 39 years. Since its release, it has been screened at hundreds of events, film festivals and public activities in over 20 countries.

Now, Collectif Vacarme(s) Films, the film’s producer, is making the documentary available online on YouTube, free and accessible, for private viewing or public screening, in French, English, Arabic, Spanish, Catalan, German and Italian.

ENGLISH:

FRENCH:

ARABIC:

SPANISH:

CATALAN:

GERMAN:

ITALIAN:

The film features historical footage and interviews with Abdallah’s brothers Robert and Maurice, fellow political prisoners like Jean-Marc Rouillan and Bertrand Sassoye, as well as with Samidoun’s international coordinator Charlotte Kates, Europe coordinator Mohammed Khatib, Palestinian writer and Masar Badil executive committee member Khaled Barakat, and many more advocates for his liberation.

Who is Georges Abdallah? 

A Lebanese Arab struggler for Palestine, Georges Abdallah has been imprisoned in French prisons since 1984, convicted on charges of participation in armed actions by the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Faction, working to fight off colonialist and Zionist invasions in Lebanon.

From his youth, Georges Abdallah was an activist and engaged in the struggles of the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. With the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), he resisted and was injured by Israeli forces invading Lebanon in 1978. A committed Communist and internationalist, he views the Arab struggle for liberation from Zionism and imperialism as part and parcel of the international workers’ struggle for liberation from capitalism.

He has been eligible for release since 1999 yet continues to be denied parole, despite having parole requests approved several times by French judges. The Lebanese government has officially asked for his release, and he is asking to be deported to Lebanon. Yet the French state has intervened at the highest levels, alongside the U.S and Israeli regimes, to deny Georges Abdallah’s parole requests. He has filed a new appeal for his immediate release, accompanied by a call to build the movement for his liberation.

The Palestinian prisoners’ movement considers Georges Abdallah to be part of the movement from inside French prisons, where he has participated in collective hunger strikes by returning meals.

15-16 December 2023: #LaborShutItDown4Palestine: End All Complicity With Genocide—Stop Arming Israel!

#LaborShutItDown4Palestine on D15-16, 2023

End All Complicity With Genocide—Stop Arming Israel!

We welcome growing union calls for a permanent ceasefire to end the U.S.-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza. Now, we call on our labor bodies to take the next step of fully embracing the Urgent Call from Palestinian Trade Unions: End all Complicity, Stop Arming Israel, and of standing in solidarity with the struggle for Palestinian liberation and return, by:

From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will be Free!

Issued on December 11 by: 

Labor for Palestine (U.S.)

Palestinian Youth Movement

Contact: info@laborforpalestine.net

Click here for your organization to endorse

Labor Endorsers (endorse here)

Bay Area Labor for Palestine

CUNY4Palestine

UAW Labor for Palestine RFA Working Group

ALU Democratic Reform Caucus

Oakland Education Association

Vermont Labor for Palestine

Mississippi Workers Center for Human Rights

El Hormiguero NYC

NYC City Workers for Palestine

Food Chain Workers Alliance 

Coalition of Labor Union Women TX

Student Workers Collective at Dartmouth

NYC Educators for Palestine

Purple Up 4 Palestine

Brandworkers

Community Endorsers (endorse here)

Jews for Palestinian Right of Return

Al-Awda NY: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network

Honor the Earth

US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI)

Do No Harm Coalition

Sunrise Movement at Dartmouth

Palestine Solidarity Coalition at Dartmouth

Upper Valley for Palestine

Socialist Party NYC

NewYork4Palestine

LA4Palestine

Friday, December 15: At the workplace and beyond

  • Hold a teach-in or moment of silence
  • Take and post a group photo, with flags, signs, keffiyehs, buttons, and other symbols of Palestine
  • Protest at AFL-CIO and other labor bodies complicit in Israeli genocide
  • Leaflet and protest at a nearby weapons plant or military facility
  • Devise other creative actions
  • Join our social media storm by posting: @AFLCIO @TheSOC #LaborShutItDown4Palestine #EndUnionComplicityWithGenocide #StopArmingIsrael #BDS #DumpIsraeliBonds #DroptheHistadrut #FromtherivertotheseaPalestinewillbefree

Saturday, December 16: Rally Labor for Palestine

Hold a rally like Bay Area Labor for Palestine, or organize a labor contingent at a Palestine rally near you.

Register your action here. 

Contact info@laborforpalestine.net for educational materials, speakers, and other support.

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Why is Palestine a Worker Issue? 

  • An injury to one is an injury to all. The Israeli settler-colonial regime is part of the same U.S.-backed system of racist state violence that brutalizes BIPOC and working class people around the world. With Israel’s knee on their neck, Palestinians can’t breathe, and we unconditionally stand with them, just as they have stood with our struggles for Black and Brown Lives, Standing Rock, migrant rights, and beyond. 
  • Our tax dollars arm Israel. Israel’s crimes are committed with more than $3.8 billion a year (or $10+ million per day) in bipartisan US military aid, tax dollars that should be spent instead on badly-needed jobs, food, housing, healthcare, education, and transportation for poor and working people at home.
  • Our unions fund Israel. Our unions are already involved—on the wrong side. In the 1920s-1930s, top labor officials donated millions to the Histadrut, the Zionist labor federation that spearheaded anti-Palestinian dispossession, apartheid, and ethnic cleansing, including the Nakba (Catastrophe) that established the Israeli state in 1948. For more than 70 years, they have used our union dues and pension funds to buy billions in Israel Bonds. Today, despite horrendous Palestinian casualties, most labor officials remain silent—or worse. 
  • Workers can stop Israeli genocide. Fifty years ago, Arab and Black auto workers led a wildcat strike and other actions to protest UAW complicity with Israel. Today, we can follow their example in respecting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) picket line by protesting, bringing union resolutions, and—above all—by mobilizing our collective power at the workplace, as shown by dockers in South Africa, India, Sweden, Norway, Turkey, Italy, Belgium, and the ILWU on the West Coast of the United States, which has respected Block the Boat’s community-labor picket line by refusing to handle Israeli cargo. 

Background Resources

Video: How to resist EU state led crackdown on Pro Palestinian Solidarity with Zaid Abdulnasser

On 12 December, CAGE organized an online conference on resisting European state repression of the Palestinian and Palestine solidarity movement.

Speakers included Zaid Abdulnasser, who was the coordinator of Samidoun Germany until our chapter in Germany was forcibly dissolved and banned by the German government as part of its widespread attack on Palestinian identity, organizing and existence; Fahad Ansari, human rights lawyer; Amanj Aziz of Insan in Sweden; Maria de Cartena, a legal and political adviser at Perspectives Musulmanes in France; Amani Hassani, a researcher at CEDA in Denmark, and Zoe Darling, a caseworker at CAGE.

Germany has become one of the major backers of the Zionist genocide against the Palestinian people, increasing its weapons exports to the Israeli regime tenfold in 2023 at the same time that it engages in widespread demonstration bans, smear campaigns and attempts to deport Palestinian refugees in Germany. The ban on Samidoun is part and parcel of Germany’s participation in the assault on Gaza.

Watch the full video, above and at the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSIve7wfalE

12 December, Albuquerque: Free All Palestinian Prisoners – Movement Education

Tuesday, Dec. 12
6 pm (Albuquerque)
International District Library
Albuquerque, NM
Register to join online: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScgvdGTXQ-SfMRvjXD-zb7I-plpy9Z3DEF4rMG4Lr_24y_CqQ/viewform

Samidoun Albuquerque is launching a political education project for the growing movement for Palestinian liberation in Albuquerque. Join the session on December 12, “Free all Palestinian Prisoners!”

17 December, Vancouver: Public Forum on The Palestinian Liberation Struggle: Confronting Zionism and Imperialism – Next Steps

Please join Samidoun Vancouver for an evening forum on Sunday, December 17:

The Palestinian Liberation Struggle:
Confronting Zionism and Imperialism – Next Steps

Sunday, December 17
5 pm to 8:30 pm (Light dinner will be served!)
Grandview Church
1803 E 1st Ave
Vancouver, BC

Thousands of people are taking to the streets of Vancouver every week to march for Palestine over the past nine weeks. Sit-ins, die-ins, office occupations, boycotts and student walkouts are proliferating as people organize in their communities, workplaces, schools and social groups. At the same time, over 18,000 Palestinian lives have been taken in Gaza by the Zionist genocidal bombardment, backed, supported and funded by Canada alongside the United States, Britain, Germany, France and their imperialist partners.

Join us for a forum on the Palestinian liberation struggle, the local, national and international context, and our next steps. The evening will begin with a panel and roundtable on youth and student organizing at the forefront of mobilization in North America, as well as the resistance to repression and silencing tactics in workplaces and campuses, followed by a light dinner and discussion. Following our dinner, our second panel and roundtable will focus on labour and Palestine and the international movement, including a reportback from the recent Global Campaign to Return to Palestine conference on Nelson Mandela and Palestine in Johannesburg, South Africa, and concluding with an open facilitated discussion with presenters and attendees.

Participants will include student organizers and members of Labour for Palestine, Palestinian Youth Movement, United in Struggle and Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network.

Organized by Samidoun Vancouver — vancouver@samidoun.net

13 December, NYC: All out for Palestine at the German Consulate NYC

Wednesday, 13 December
5 pm
German Consulate NYC
871 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017
Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/C0sZc5ptZdQ/

‘On November 23rd of this year, Palestinians in Germany were subject to brutal raids on their homes by the German state. The police carried out raids in 4 federal states targeting Palestinians labeled by the German state as “members” or “supporters” of Samidoun or of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas. These raids these are a clear attempt by the German state to terrorize the Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim communities in Germany and a futile attempt to crush popular support for Palestinian resistance.

Join us on Wednesday as we stand in solidarity with Palestinians in Germany who have been subjected to brutal repression by the German state. We’re here to say, loud and clear, that an attack on one is an attack on all. Whether the attack is on our brothers and sisters in Palestine, Europe, or New York City, we will be here to stand with them.

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