Saturday, 21 April
3:00 pm
Vorplatz Herz-Jesu Kirche
Löhr Center
Löhrrondellstr. 1A
Koblenz, Germany
More info: http://palaestina-solidaritaet.de/2018/04/14/koblenz-sa-21-04-2018-kundgebung-fuer-die-palaestinensischen-gefangenen/
Join the Palestinian community in Koblenz to mark Palestinian Prisoners’ Day and urge freedom for all Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.
Sunday, 22 April
2:30 pm
Porta Nuova Station
Turin, Italy for the Procession for Gaza
5:30 pm
Meeting in Cavallerizza
Turin, Italy for the Popular Assembly for #CambiaGiro
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/193054648158219/
Over 70 percent of the 2 million inhabitants of the Gaza Strip are Palestinian refugees, driven from their homes and lands in 1948. Israel was built on the ruins of the destroyed Palestinian villages, yet after 70 years and dozens of UN resolutions, Palestinian refugees continue to be denied their right to return.
On 30 March, the Day of the Land, the anniversary of one of many Israeli massacres against a Palestinian demonstration against land confiscation, tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza peacefully poured into the colonially imposed “border” of the Strip to begin the Great March of Return. These marches, united under the Palestinian flag, will continue every week until 15 May, the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
Israeli occupation forces opened fire on the unarmed crowd, killing dozens of people, wounding thousands and targeting journalists and medical personnel. Despite the reality, the Italian media continues to speak of “clashes” in an attempt to justify a massacre. Faced once again with the failure of the “international community” and Trump’s recent decision to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, underlining the failure of the Oslo accords, it is up to us, civil society, to stand alongside the Palestinian people in their struggle for freedom.
Domenica 22 Aprile:
*Ore 14:30 Ritrovo alla Stazione di Porta Nuova – Torino per il Corteo per#Gaza
*Ore 17:30 Ritrovo in Cavallerizza per Assemblea #CambiaGiro
COSA SUCCEDE A #GAZA ?
Il 70% dei 2 milioni di abitanti della Striscia di Gaza è composto da rifugiati le cui famiglie furono cacciate nel 1948 dalle loro terre.
Sulle macerie dei villaggi palestinesi distrutti è stato creato Israele e, dopo 70 anni e decine di risoluzioni ONU, ai rifugiati palestinesi della Striscia viene ancora impedito di fare ritorno alle proprie case ed alle proprie terre.
Il 30 marzo, in occasione del Giorno della Terra – Yom Al Ard – anniversario di uno dei numerosi massacri compiuti dalle truppe israeliane ai danni di un gruppo di contadini palestinesi che non voleva cedere le proprie terre, centinaia di migliaia di persone di Gaza, uomini, donne, anziani e bambini, si riversano pacificamente verso le recinzioni della Striscia per dare inizio alla Grande Marcia del Ritorno. [The Great March of Return]
La popolazione, unita sotto la sola bandiera della Palestina, ha promesso di portare avanti le manifestazioni, marciando in direzione delle proprie case e dei propri villaggi occupati, ogni settimana fino al 15 maggio, giorno dell’anniversario della Nakba, la Catastrofe, l’inizio della pulizia etnica palestinese.
Le truppe israeliane hanno aperto il fuoco sulla folla disarmata, prendendo di mira anche giornalisti e personale medico, uccidendo decine di persone e ferendone migliaia.
I media nazionali italiani, dal canto loro, si sono cimentati in voli pindarici per riuscire a giustificare un massacro ed hanno parlato di “scontri”.
Di fronte all’ennesimo fallimento della diplomazia, che con la recente decisione di Trump di spostare l’Ambasciata americana a Gerusalemme segna anche il tramonto definitivo degli Accordi di Oslo, sta a noi, la società civile, prendere posizione al fianco del popolo palestinese nelle lotta di liberazione.
Per questa ragione DOMENICA 22 APRILE scenderemo in strada e sfileremo in corteo per ribadire il nostro sostegno alla popolazione palestinese sotto assedio, per il diritto al ritorno dei profughi e per la fine dell’occupazione e dell’apartheid in Palestina.
#CAMBIAGIRO
Alla fine del corteo ci sarà poi l’Assemblea pubblica #CambiaGiro per organizzare la protesta contro la partenza del Giro d’Italia da Israele.
Quest’anno, infatti, le prime tre tappe del Giro si svolgeranno tra Gerusalemme, Tel Aviv, Haifa ed il Negev, ovvero nella Palestina occupata da Israele. Questo perché il governo italiano ed il gruppo RCS (Rizzoli – Corriere della Sera – Gazzetta dello Sport) si sono prestati alla complicità con i sionisti, ai quali il Giro è stato “venduto” per celebrare i 70 anni della fondazione di Israele, la Nakba palestinese.
Invitiamo tutte e tutti, realtà organizzate e singoli, ad aderire alla campagna nazionale CambiaGiro, contro l’uso dello sport per coprire i crimini e l’apartheid in Palestina, ed a partecipare all’Assemblea pubblica per costruire assieme una grande mobilitazione popolare contro il Giro dell’Apartheid che il 25 e il 26 maggio passerà da Venaria e dalla Val di Susa.
CORTEO
Ritrovo alla Stazione di Porta Nuova alle ore 14.30.
ASSAMBLEA CAMBIAGIRO
Ritrovo in Cavallerizza ore 17.30.
INTIFADA FINO ALLA VITTORIA!
ASSEMBLEA TORINESE CAMBIAGIRO
Saturday, 21 April
2:00 pm
Boston Common
Boston, MA
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/916698265164279/
As students living in the United States on the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, we raise our voices and our fists in solidarity with our student counterparts in Palestine, who suffer daily harassments and deprivations at the hands of the Israeli occupation. We call on all students and allies of conscience in the greater Boston area to join us on April 21st, 2018, as we rally at Boston Common to demand an end to U.S. support for the Israeli occupation, which has deprived thousands of Palestinian youth of their basic right to receive an education.
We will meet at the Park Street Green Line T-Stop, and then march to hold our rally at the State House. Anyone with mobility concerns please meet us at the State House.
We have a public statement found at http://bit.ly/sjpboston and are calling on all organizations to endorse this letter. Contact us at bpsolidaritynetwork@gmail.
Groups which have endorsed so far:
– Harvard College Palestine Solidarity Committee** *
– Harvard Law School Justice for Palestine** *
– Reclaim Harvard Law School** *
– Northeastern Students for Justice in Palestine** *
– Palestine @ MIT** *
– Boston University Students for Justice in Palestine** *
– Boston College Students for Justice in Palestine*
– Suffolk University Students for Justice in Palestine*
– Tufts University Students for Justice in Palestine*
– The Center for Gender, Sexuality, and Activism – BU*
– Harvard International Socialists*
– The Queer Activist Collective – Boston University*
– BU Students for a Just and Stable Future*
– BU Young Democratic Socialists*
– Palestinian Community in Boston
– The Alliance for Water Justice in Palestine
– United for Justice with Peace
– Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine, UMass Boston
– First Baptist Church – JP
– The Community Church of Boston
– Boston International Socialist Organization
– The Middle East Education Group – First Parish Cambridge
– Answer Coalition Boston
– Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East – MA Chapter
– 1for3.org
– Jewish Voice for Peace – Boston
– Boston Democratic Socialists
– National Lawyers Guild – Mass Chapter
* denotes student group *
** denotes primary organizers **
Friday, 20 April
7:00 pm
UNC Charlotte – Fretwell Room 100
9203 Mary Alexander Road
Charlotte, NC
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1812643459029722/
Islam Maraqa, a Palestinian coordinator of the ISM from Hebron, and Joe Catron, an international volunteer and journalist who spent over three years in Gaza, including both the 2012 and 2014 Israeli attacks, will speak about their experiences and how people can get involved.
The presentation will also include a screening of an abridged version of “Radiance of Resistance,” a film focusing on Ahed Tamimi, Janna Ayyad and the Palestinians of Nabi Saleh village.
This event is sponsored by the Palestinian American Center of Charlotte (PACC) and the Palestinian Cultural Organization (PCO) at UNC Charlotte
Please spread this event widely.
Light food will be served right after the program
Friday, 20 April
5:00 pm
Washington Square Park
New York City
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/432217450559063/
Solidarity with the #GreatReturnMarch, Palestinian prisoners, Palestinian martyrs and Palestinian women.
Since March 30th, Palestinians in Gaza have been protesting for their freedom and the right to return to the lands and homes they were displaced from in 1948. Israel has responded to their peaceful protests with exploding bullets and other weapons of war. Over 35 Palestinian have been killed so far and thousands more have been wounded.
In honor of Palestinian Prisoners Day (which was commemorated throughout Palestine and around the world on April 17), Palestinian martyrs and responding to a call from the Women’s committee of the Great Return March, we will show our solidarity with those putting their lives on the line for their freedom.
Friday, 20 April
8:00 pm
De Groene Waterman
Wolstraat 7
Antwerp, Belgium
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/159622464705678/
17th of April is internationaly named as day of solidarity with the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons. Worlwide there are actions in support of the Palestinians locked up in Israeli detention centers.
On this evening we talk about the different situations in which Palestinians can be locked up in Israeli prisons.
Bar Palestine: a new place to meet people and learn about the situation in Palestine – where we talk each time about another subject related to Palestine – and this on a regular basis.
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17 april is internationaal uitgeroepen tot dag van solidariteit met de Palestijnse gevangenen in Israëlische gevangenissen. Op deze dag worden er wereldwijd acties georganiseerd uit steun met de Palestijnen opgesloten in Israëlische gevangenissen.
Bar Palestine: een nieuwe ontmoetingsplek om samen te komen en meer te leren over de situatie in Palestina, – waarbij er telkens een ander thema aan bod komt- en dit op regelmatige basis.
Praktisch
– 20u00 deur open
– 20u15 inleiding
– 20u30 start sessie
– 21u30 pauze
– 22u30 einde
Op deze eerste avond zullen we het gesprek aangaan over de situatie van Palestijnen in Israëlische gevangenissen met kans om al je vragen te stellen
Thursday, 19 April
7:00 pm
North Carolina State University
Nelson Hall Room 3400
2801 Hillsborough Street
Raleigh, NC
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/219173931995377/
The International Solidarity Movement works directly with grassroots organizers and communities to support popular, non-violent action against Occupation.
This event will feature speakers Joe Catron and Islam Maraqa. Join us as we watch and discuss an informative documentary featuring grassroots resistance leaders in Palestine.
Event is free. Donations welcome.
Sunday, 22 April
8:00 pm
White Plaza
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1014061148718859/
Part of Palestine Awareness Week at Stanford University. Vigil for victims of the Gaza massacre – call for Palestinian refugees’ right to return!
Saturday, 21 April
12:00 pm
Michigan Ave. and Congress Expressway
Chicago, IL
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1651795418243658/
The U.S. government has been at war for over 16 straight years. It has killed hundreds of thousands of people and devastated several countries in the Middle East and Africa, creating millions of refugees, all in flagrant violation of international law and the Constitution. It continues to regularly bomb and drone-strike in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen and Somalia and is funding a murderous covert drug war in Mexico. Now it is threatening new wars against North Korea, Iran and Venezuela, and has adopted a dangerously more aggressive policy on nuclear war, while engaging in dangerous brinkmanship with Russia.
The result? We have literally been made to pay TRILLIONS of dollars to make our lives LESS safe and secure. This money has benefited only the wealthy owners of energy, weapons and other corporations, while millions of working people in Chicago and around the nation, especially communities of color, struggle to survive. Every bomb that’s dropped and every missile that’s fired is a theft from our communities, robbing us of the good quality jobs, schools, public services, infrastructure improvements and just transition to a clean energy future that should be created instead.
These wars have also devastated our environment. In addition to contaminating the nations under attack, the military is a huge consumer of fossil fuels and the wars are mainly being waged for rich corporate owners to control supplies of oil, natural gas and other valuable resources in order to profit from their consumption. Thus, these wars are major contributors to catastrophic climate change.
It’s time to stand up and say ENOUGH is ENOUGH! END the WARS at HOME and ABROAD! If you have had enough of war, please JOIN US on Saturday, April 21st, marking Earth Day, for a RALLY and MARCH, beginning with a rally at noon at Michigan Ave. and Congress Expressway in Chicago, and marching to the Tribune Tower at 435 N. Michigan Ave. for a concluding rally. Featured speakers will include Dr. Anne Scheetz of Physicians for a National Health Program, journalist Randi Nord, Maria Hernandez of Black Lives Matter and Kathy Kelly of Voices for Creative Non-Violence.
Tuesday, 17 April
6:00 pm
Grand Place
Place du General de Gaulle, Metro Rihour
Lille, France
More info: https://www.facebook.com/notes/collectif-de-soutien-%C3%A0-la-r%C3%A9sistance-palestinienne-59-62/17-avril-2018-solidarit%C3%A9-avec-les-prisonniers-palestiniens-solidarit%C3%A9-avec-georg/1646380928732668/
1984-2018: 34 years of prison and of resistance!
The struggling Lebanese Communist is detained inside French prisons since 1984 despite being eligible for release since 1999, but the successive French governments have refussed to release him. The United States and Israel have never ceased their pressure to block his freedom. Georges Abdallah is considered another Palestinian political prisoner – a resistance struggler imprisoned for their involvement with the Palestinian resistance and a resistance struggler with all peoples who confront imperialis,.
Freedom now for Georges Ibrahim Abdallah!
17 April 2018: Solidarity with Palestinian political prisoners!
On the occasion of the International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian prisoners, marked each year on 17 April, the Palestinian people and those who stand in solidarity salute all of the prisoners behind Israeli prison bars.
They are thousands of Palestinians, resistance fighters, activists, parliamentarians, politicians, activists, or ordinary civilians, men, women and children locked up in 18 Israeli jails: neaarly 7,000, including 60 women and 300 children under the age of 18.
As of September 2017, 501 prisoners were serving life sentences and 466 were serving more than 20 years. 500 are held in illegal administrative detention without charge or trial. Almost every family in occupied Palestine has at least one member who has gone through Israeli prisons. Prison, therefore, has a central place in Palestinian life and resistance.
In 2015, the International Committee of the Red Cross estimated at 850,000 the number of Palestinians who have been arrested or detained since 1967. Among these prisoners, dozens suffer from serious illnesses and their lives are in danger due to the medical neglect of the Israeli occupation authorities.
Solitary confinement, torture, humiliation, intimidation of family members and prohibition of their visits are all tactics used to try to stifle the movement for Palestinian freedom. The prisoners represent the resistance of those who face the oppression of the Zionist state. If we defend Palestine, we must defend them and show our full support and solidarity to the Palestinian resistance in all of its forms.
1984 – 2018 : 34 ans de prison, de résistance !
Ce combattant communiste libanais est détenu dans les prisons françaises depuis 1984 et libérable depuis 1999, mais les gouvernements français successifs refusent de le libérer. Les pressions des Etats Unis et Israël pour s’opposer à sa libération ne cesseront pas pendant toutes ces années. Georges Abdallah doit être considéré comme un prisonnier politique palestinien aussi – Un résistant emprisonné pour son implication dans la résistance palestinienne – Un résistant solidaire des peuples en lutte contre l’impérialisme.
Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, Liberté maintenant !
17 avril 2018 : Solidarité avec les prisonniers politiques palestiniens !
A l’occasion de la Journée internationale de la solidarité avec les prisonniers palestiniens, célébrée le 17 avril de chaque année, le peuple palestinien et ceux qui sont solidaires rendent un grand hommage à tous les prisonniers en souffrance permanente derrière les barreaux des prisons israéliennes.
Ils sont des milliers de Palestiniens, résistants, activistes, députés, hommes politiques, militants, engagés, combattants ou simples civils, hommes, femmes ou enfants enfermés dans 18 prisons israéliennes : plus de 7000, dont 60 femmes et 300 enfants de moins de 18 ans.
En septembre 2017, 501 prisonniers purgeaient des peines de condamnation à vie et 466 des peines de plus de 20 ans.
700 sont en détention administrative illégale sans jugement ni procès.
Presque toutes les familles en Palestine occupée ont au moins un membre qui est passé par les prisons israéliennes. La prison a donc une place centrale dans la vie et la résistance palestinienne.
En 2015, le Comité international de la Croix Rouge (CICR) évaluait à 850 000 le nombre de Palestiniens ayant été arrêtés et plus ou moins longtemps détenus depuis 1967.
Parmi ces prisonniers, des dizaines souffrent de maladies graves, leur vie est en danger, à cause de la négligence médicale des autorités israéliennes qui veulent faire pression sur eux pour qu’ils cessent leur combat.
L’enfermement, la torture, l’humiliation, l’intimidation des familles et l’interdiction des visites sont des pratiques utilisées pour tenter d’étouffer le mouvement d’une Palestine libre.
Les prisonniers représentent la résistance de ceux qui font face à l’oppression de l’Etat sioniste. Si nous défendons la Palestine, nous devons les défendre et apporter notre solidarité totale et notre soutien à la résistance palestinienne sous toutes ses formes.
Organizers: Collectif de soutien à la résistance palestinienne (CSRP59), Samidoun, Antifa59/62, Solidarité Georges Abdallah Lille,Capjpo europalestine, Amitié Lille Naplouse, Collectif « Bassin minier » pour la libération de Georges Abdallah, UJFP59, Comité « Libérez-Les ! » (59/62), Secours Rouge Lille et Bruxelles, NPA, PCRF,
