Thursday, 21 June
6:00 pm
Embassy of the State of Palestine
31 Marathonodromon Str.
Athens, Greece
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One people, united, with one future, and one enemy…

Lift the sanctions!

Why do we call for a demonstration to lift the sanctions on Gaza in Athens? We protest the destructive policies pursued by the leadership of the PLO and praticed by the Palestinian Authority, including the appalling crimes committed against our people in the Gaza Strip, the attacks on the resistance in the occupied West Bank and the suppression of all free voices rejecting this oppression. PA security forces have used beatings, humilation, attacks, arrests and violence, contradicting all human and moral values, against demonstrators in Ramallah and Nablus who peacefully demanded the lifting of the sanctions imposed by the PA on the Gaza Strip. These crimes and others emphasize the nature of this security authority as an ageent of the occupation, with its main function being to act as a security guard for the interests of the Zionist enemy. They are helping to besiege the Palestinian resistance in order to clear the path for suspicious political deals, at the expense of the legitimate national rights and human dignity of all Palestinians in the homeland and in the diaspora.

In order to rise to the call of our besieged people in all of occupied Palestine and
In order to support the national and popular movement to lift the sanctions and siege on our Palestinian people in Gaza, and
In order to struggle against the policy of repression, abuse and torture practiced by the Palestinian Authority against the Palestinian national liberation movement and resistance to the occupation,

We call on the Palestinian and Arab community in Greece and all people who believe in the justice of the cause of the Palestinian people and their right to return and liberation from colonization, to join in the sit-in outside the representative office of the Palestinian Authority on Thursday, 21 June at 6:00 pm.

We will not accept the humiliation and subjugation of our people in occupied Palestine or anywhere else. Together, we break the siege and win!

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
Jafra Foundation for Relief and Youth Development

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#ارفعوا_العقوبات

لماذا ندعو لمظاهرة ارفعوا العقوبات عن غزة في اثينا ؟ – ان السياسات المدمرة التي تنتهجها قيادة م ت ف وتمارسها السلطة الفلسطينية وما وقع من جرائم بشعة بحق اهلنا في فلسطين المحتلة والمشاركة في حصار وتجويع شعبنا في قطاع غزة وملاحقة المقاومة في الضفة الغربية المحتلة وقمع كل صوت حر رافض للاحتلال، وأخيرا ما قامت به الاجهزة الامنية من اعتداء بالضرب والسحل والاهانة والاعتقال وباسلوب همجي يتناقض مع كل القيم الانسانية والأخلاقية بحق المتظاهرين في رام الله ونابلس الذين طالبوا سلميا برفع العقوبات المفروضة من قبل السلطة على قطاع غزة، هذه الجرائم وغيرها تؤكد على طبيعة هذه السلطة ألامنية بوصفها وكيلاً للإحتلال ومهامها الرئيسية القيام بدور الحارس الأمني لمصالح العدو الصهيوني ، فهي تعمل على حصار المقاومة الفلسطينية من اجل تمرير صفقات سياسية مشبوهة تعتاش على فتاتها وعلى حساب الحقوق الوطنية المشروعة وكرامة وحقوق كل الشعب في الوطن والشتات.

وتلبية لنداء شعبنا المحاصر في كل فلسطين المحتلة ودعما والتحاماً بالحراك الوطني والشعبي من اجل رفع العقوبات والحصار عن اهلنا في قطاع غزة وضد سياسة القمع والارهاب والعتذيب التي تمارسها السلطة الفلسطينية ضد كل حراك وطني ومشروع مقاوم للاحتلال، ندعو الجالية الفلسطينية والعربية في اليونان وكل القوى الصديقة وجموع المتضامنين المؤمنين بعدالة قضية شعبنا وحقه في العودة والتحرر من نير الاستعمار واداوته، للمشاركة الواسعة في الاعتصام امام ممثلية السلطة الفلسطينينة وذلك يوم الخميس القادم الموافق ٢١ حزيران الجاري في تمام الساعة السادسة مساء.
لن نرضى الذل أو الإهانة لشعبنا في الأرض المحتلة او اي مكان آخر..معا نكسر الحصار وننتصر

شبكة صامدون للدفاع عن الاسرى الفلسطينيين
مؤسسة جفرا للاغاثة والتنمية الشبابية

العنوان: Μαραθωνοδρόμου 31, Ψυχικό 154 52

Wednesday, 20 June
3:30 pm
Permanent Observer Mission of the State of Palestine to the United Nations
115 E. 65th St
New York, NY
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On Wednesday, June 20th, Palestinians and our supporters are rallying at the “Permanent Observer Mission of the State of Palestine to the United Nations” to echo the demands of our family in the West Bank for the Palestinian Authority to end its assault on our family in Gaza. The sanctions imposed by the PA accompanied by the Israeli siege works to further suffocate Palestinians in Gaza. It is for this reason, all over the world, that we are standing up and demanding that the PA #LiftTheSanctions.

#OnePeopleOneStruggle
#ارفعوا_العقوبات
#LiftTheSanctions

This rally is organized by Palestinian Youth Movement – حركة الشباب الفلسطيني, Within our Lifetime • United for Palestine, and ارفعوا العقوبات

Sunday, 24 June
2:00 pm
Dam Square
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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Facebook: We invite you to take part in the vigil #LiftTheSanctions on Sunday, 24/6/2018, at 2:00 pm, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, to say with one voice, “Stop the punitive measures imposed on our people in Gaza.” We call on the Palestinian Authority to immediately repeal all the sanctions imposed on Gaza.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has since 2017 imposed a package of punitive measures on more than two million Palestinians in Gaza, which led to the deterioration of humanitarian and economic conditions very quickly and very seriously.

The punitive measures imposed by the President have severely negative impacts on the health sector, availability of electricity, salaries of employees, and operational necessities and expenses. It also led to the cessation of part of the medical transfers and the denial of patients and those wounded from leaving Gaza and receiving the necessary treatment. These sanctions violate the fundamental human rights of Palestinians, and are a clear evasion by the PA of its responsibilities towards the Gaza Strip and our steadfast people.

While our people in Gaza at the great return march, despite suffering tens of casualties and thousands of injuries, pushed the Right of Return to the center of regional and international priorities despite the sinister plots being pushed to delegitimize the Palestinian cause, the Palestinian Authority continues to enforcing collective punishments — which is what pushes us to stand up today in solidarity and support, demanding an immediate cease to all sanctions.

One People, one cause, one enemy.

هل يكافأ الصمود بالعقاب؟

ندعوكم للمشاركة في الوقفة الاحتجاجية #ارفعوا_العقوبات يوم الأحد، الموافق 24/6/2018، الساعة 2:00 ظهراً، في العاصمة الهولندية أمستردام، لمطالبة السلطة الفلسطينية بإلغاء الإجراءات العقابية المفروضة على أبناء شعبنا في قطاع غزة، كما سيتم تسليم رسالة احتجاج لممثلية منظمة التحرير في هولندا.

ففي الوقت الذي تقاوم فيه غزة لوحدها، ويتصدى أبناء شعبنا بصدورهم لقوات الاحتلال الإسرائيلي في مسيرات العودة الكبرى، وفي ظل تردي الأوضاع الصحية والاقتصادية بسبب الحصار والعقوبات والحروب، يواصل الرئيس الفلسطيني محمود عباس فرض رزمة من الإجراءات العقابية على أكثر من مليوني فلسطيني في قطاع غزة منذ عام 2017، ما أدى إلى تدهور الأوضاع الإنسانية والاقتصادية بشكل سريع وخطير جداً.

طالت الإجراءات العقابية التي يفرضها الرئيس قطاع الصحة، والكهرباء، ورواتب الموظفين، والمستلزمات والمصاريف التشغيلية، كما أدت لوقف جزء من التحويلات الطبية وحرمان المرضى والجرحى من الخروج من غزة وتلقي العلاج اللازم. وتنتهك هذ العقوبات الحقوق الفلسطينية والإنسانية الأساسية، كما فيها تملص واضح للسلطة الفلسطينية من مسؤولياتها تجاه قطاع غزة وأهلنا الصامدين فيه.

شعب واحد، همٌ واحد وعدو واحد .

#ارفعوا_العقوبات
#مستمرون
#غزة

Saturday, 23 June
7:00 pm
Tabya Cultural and Social Space
Ntentidakidon ke Mastracha
Heraklion, Greece
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On Saturday afternoon, the tables go into the small square of Mastracha road. We will discuss with Mohammed Khatib, representative of the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, about the current situation in Palestine, especially after the US’ indirect recognition of Jeruaalem as the capital of Israel and the transfer of the US embassy there.

In addition, we will explore ways of expressing our solidarity with the Palestinian people through the BDS movement against the state of apartheid imposed by the Israeli occupation.

Το απόγευμα του Σαββάτου, τα τραπεζάκια βγαίνουν έξω, στη μικρή πλατεία του πλακόστρωτου της οδού Μαστραχά.
Θα είμαστε παρέα, να συζητήσουμε με τον Mohammed Khatib, εκπρόσωπο του δικτύου αλληλεγγύης Παλαιστίνιων κρατουμένων Samidoun. Θα ενημερωθούμε για την τρέχουσα κατάσταση στην Παλαιστίνη, ειδικότερα μετά την έμμεση αναγνώριση της Ιερουσαλήμ ως πρωτεύουσας του Ισραήλ και μεταφορά εκεί της πρεσβείας των ΗΠΑ.
Τέλος, θα διερευνήσουμε τρόπους έκφρασης της αλληλεγγύης μας προς τον Παλαιστινιακό λαό μέσω του κινήματος BDS (μποϊκοτάζ, απόσυρση επενδύσεων, κυρώσεις) εναντίον του κράτους Απαρτχάιντ που επιβάλλεται από τον Ισραηλινό στρατό κατοχής.

Wednesday, 20 June
7:00 pm
Hostel Marina
Scalette San Sepolcro
Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
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Doctors for Gaza: Operating in Emergency
The testimony of a Sardinian doctor and a Palestinian doctor

Introductions:
Dr. Mariangela Pedditzi
Associazione Amicizia Sardegna Palestina

Greetings:
Dr. Raimondo Ibba
President of the Order of Physicians, Surgeons and Dentists of the Province of Cagliari

Speakers:
Dr. Roberto Tumbarello
Director of Pediatric Cardiology of the Hospital G. Brotzu

Dr. Ghassan Abu Sitteh
Director of the Department of Plastic Surgery at the American University of Beirut Medical Center

Medici per Gaza: Operare in Emergenza
La testimonianza di un medico sardo e un medico palestinese

Introduce e coordina:
Dott.ssa Mariangela Pedditzi
Associazione Amicizia Sardegna Palestina

Saluti:
Dott. Raimondo Ibba
Presidente dell’ordine dei Medici Chirurghi e degli Odontoiatri della Provincia di Cagliari

Intervengono:
Dott. Roberto Tumbarello
Direttore struttura complessa di Cardiologia pediatrica dell’Azienda ospedaliera G. Brotzu
Dott. Ghassan Abu Sitteh
Direttore del reparto di Chirurgia plastica presso l’American University of Beirut Medical Center

Thursday, 21 June
5:00 pm
Institut für Afrikawissenschaften, Universität Wien
Spitalgasse 2, Hof 5, Seminarraum 1 (1. Stock)
Vienna, Austria
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Friday, 22 June
6:30 pm
Afripoint
Hofmuhlgasse 2
Vienna, Austria
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Thursday event:

Born in the storm to become a Black Panther – The life story of Dhoruba al-Mujahid bin Wahad told by himself

Dhoruba al-Mujahid bin Wahad, former member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army, and later a political prisoner in the USA for 19 years, will recount the path of his life from membership in a South Bronx street gang to his ultimate self-realization in the organization and ideology of the Black Panther Party. Along the way, he experienced a first stretch of incarceration for youthful offenses, a break with this past after the murder of Malcolm X, and his conversion to Islam. Why does he tell this story? He wants to make it clear to the current generation of marginalized and socially discriminated people of colour, Muslims, and those struggling for survival in the regions afflicted by imperial wars that organizing and the overcoming of individualism and egoism are the keys to winning rights and dignity. Dhoruba is a person with unique consciousness and personal experiences. He is a witness of his times, an activist, and an academic, who does not describe historical developments in abstruse and intellectualized terms that are designed to extinguish the flame of activism. Dhoruba speaks from experience and from his reflections on this experience to share a picture with his audience that differs markedly from the coopted narrative that is fabricated in the West. Questions will be raised about the compulsive violence of colonialism and consequently about the legitimacy of resistance; reasons for the current paralysis of those who need to take their fate into their own hands will be named, and challenging ideas about Islam and liberation will be raised.

Dhoruba al-Mujahid bin Wahad, ehemaliges Black Panther Party und Black Liberation Army Mitglied, 19 Jahre als politischer Gefangener in den USA festgehalten, erzählt seinen persönlichen und politischen Werdegang vom Angehörigen einer Gang in der South Bronx von New York, den ersten Gefängnisaufenthalten, dem Bruch, den der Tod Malcolm X bei ihm auslöste, die Rückkehr zum Islam und letztendlich die organisatorische und ideologische Verwirklichung in der Black Panther Party. Warum erzählt er diese Geschichte? Um heutigen Generationen von Marginalisierten, Deklassierten, People of Colour, Muslimen, ums Überleben Kämpfenden in den Kriegszonen des imperialen Angriffs, zu verdeutlichen, dass Organisierung und Überwindung des Individualismus/ Egoismus der Schlüssel zum Prozess der Erringung von Recht und Würde ist. Dhoruba ist Subjekt, Zeitzeuge, Aktivist und Akademiker, der nicht distanziert und intellektualisiert Prozesse aus vergangenen Zeiten beschreibt, um letztendlich das Feuer zum Erlöschen zu bringen. Dhoruba erzählt aus Erfahrung und der Reflexion dieser Erfahrungen, um den Zuhörenden ein anderes Bild zu geben, als das industriell gefertigte und kooptierte Narrativ aus westlicher Produktion. Es werden Fragen zum Gewaltkomplex des Kolonialismus angesprochen und damit zur Rechtmäßigkeit eines Widerstandes, Gründe genannt für die heutige lähmende Situation derer, die ihr Schicksal in die Hand nehmen müssten, und Herausfordernde Gedanken zu Islam und Befreiung aufgeworfen.

Friday event:

Analysis and Assessment of Global Power Structures by the Former Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army Member Dhoruba al-Mujahid bin Wahad

“If we are sincere about African development and building a future for our children then we must fully appreciate that Africa is on a collision course with Europe’s economies and Western civilization as currently configured. The dichotomies between rich and poor nations, north and south, will not continue down the primrose lane of diplomatic vacillation forever. Soon the struggle between “have and have nots” will turn ugly. Absent redistribution of global wealth, unresolved historical injustices will flare into recurring social and political crisis and violent confrontations. Africa’s relative underdevelopment gives it an advantage in the coming world economic crisis. Lack of sophisticated infrastructures, underdevelopment of social services, etc. give Africa an ability to cope economic dislocation better than the more technological dependent societies. Nonetheless, without construction of an Afro centric paradigm as the basis for a Pan-African political/diplomatic agenda, Africa’s potential advantage will be transformed into catastrophe. Should we fail to build a Pan-African movement, it is my opinion that African continent will succumb to a “new and improved” recolonization process during the next millennium. That recolonization process, in my view has already begun. The question now is what are we going to do about it?” (Dhoruba Bin-Wahad, on the relevancy of Nationalism, Ghana 2007)

New Age Imperialism has its own modern day ‘moral’ crusade and ethical artifice of “respect for human rights” to conceal its ignoble agenda and capitalist greed. Unlike the “Old school” imperialism which relied on the ethical artifice of Biblical White supremacy and “Christianizing the African heathen” to rationalize cold-blooded exploitation, New Age Imperialism’s moral cloak is an unbelievably transparent and phony humanism and a cynical respect for “rule of Law”(1). This phony “humanism” though not religious based, nonetheless appeals to universal religious ethics of tolerance and thereby distort most people’s perception of its racist and imperialistic political objectives. Likewise, the developed nation which practice this New Age imperialism are endlessly lecturing poorer nations on the need to “respect the rule of law” while themselves employing “legal” artifice to justify military assassination of heads of state they disfavor, or to rationalize amoral economic embargoes of poorer nations, and secure unimpeded access to Third World resources. The New Age Imperialist consumes an inordinate amount of the world’s resources and are the major source of global pollution and toxic waste. Their ideals of ‘free market economy” and morality of conspicuous consumption are masked by the propaganda of “environmental friendly” multinational corporations. But despite their rhetoric, the Corporate managers of New Age Imperialism do not respect even the rule of “natural law” and derive maximum profits in a manner which pollutes the planet and deplete its ecosystem. New Age Imperialist encourage greed, individualism, and selfish acquisition of power. Their ethos of conspicuous consumption appeals not just to the “rich and famous” but to the “down and out” who are encouraged to fantasize becoming wealthy themselves even though the dichotomy between rich and poor benefit only the rich and grows wider everyday. Finally, “New Age Imperialism” seeks to defuse the prerequisites for Pan-African unity by amplifying the budgetary influence of capital (translatable as “debt”) on Africa’s half-finished decolonization progression and thereby emerging African nations relationships within the International community of Nations. The control of Finance capital over the governments of former African colonies was exercised by the IMF, World Bank, African Development Bank and several other institutions created after WWII to macro-manage the rise of former colonialized peoples – fully two-thirds of the planets population! Globalization from this perspective is not transformative, but absolutely restrictive, confining African national economies to “niche” roles as providers of raw materials, cheap labor, and enormous profits for Western multi-national corporations, the major beneficiaries of Globalization. With this perspective in mind the current upsurge of “democratic reforms” in Africa, takes on a more sinister role and reveals the hand of New Age Imperialism at-work on the African continent and the nature of its political agenda.

We can see that Finance capital (read dividends from colonialism] now require a new integrated global marketing system based on consistent recirculation of perpetual debts. This integrated (or organic) global system is meant to supplant the old imperialist economic order and alleviate the economic anomalies of cold-war rivalry between competing capitalists and socialist systems.

Since the end of the cold-war, the introduction of “free market” measures on the individual “socialist” economies of Africa, were accompanied by shifts in the ‘political policies” of those African states toward a “volunteer” form of “new age” imperial controls and away from Pan-African interdependence. That is to say, what is supported by the major industrial and financial centers of global commerce is not “democracy” or promotion of human rights per se, but promotion of those Africans who support policies of “liberal investment opportunities” and “free market development”. This is because, only by masking Euro centric “political democracy” as the only national characteristic conducive for “investment”, can integration of Third World resources into a global marketing system that (organically) services the needs of U.S. and European finance capital be achieved and characterized as “globalization”.

Colonialism integrated Africa into Europe’s economic development while under developing Africa. New Age Imperialism does the same thing, but with a different twist: It integrates African “development” into European economic supremacy by regulating Africa’s markets, reinvesting African debt payments, and restricting Africa’s access to capital. It is my opinion that global economic integration as defined by the developed industrial economies represents the highest form of neocolonialism to date, which is defined herein as New Age Imperialism because of its wholesale incorporation and co-optation of post -colonial progressive ideals, and values.

(1) ‘‘Rule of Law”, vis a vis the European nation-state as a Western concept is relatively new, dating essentially back to the Magna Carta. However, it is from an Afro centric perspective an artifice by which to institutionalize and regularize territorial conquest or racial subjugation. This a historically accurate view and can be verified in exhaustive detail by examining British, French, Belgian, and Portuguese colonial records in Africa.. For example, the annexation of West Africa by the British as the “Gold Coast Territory” is a classic case of a carefully devised matrix of legal definitions justifying crimes of British military aggression, fraudulent commercial dealings, religious persecution, chattel slavery, as well as the usurpation of sovereign peoples right to self-determination, theft of their land, and castration of their political institutions. Actions which are still considered unacceptable behavior for national governments. Indeed, the USA, Britain and their allies currently embargo a number of nations for supposedly practicing similar activity, e.g.. Iraq, Iran, Cuba, Libya, and criticize others for employing varying degrees “human rights” abuses.