Saturday, 14 April
3:00 pm
899 Market St
San Francisco, CA
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/783399885199486/

International call to action in support of The Great Return March!

We are calling our community and allies to take action and launch demonstrations in support of the Great Return March on April 14th, just as the righteous resisters in Gaza have declared. The time has come for our youth wherever they may be to raise their voices in support of the rightful struggle of our people in Gaza, and for our youth in diaspora to proclaim we will never surrender the right of return. Now more than ever when we seem the most divided, we must come together in collectively asserting our right to return and our dream of the total liberation of our people and homeland. There will be no solution without the total end of the Zionist colonization of Palestine–return is our right, and demand: we will return! Palestine will be free!

We will meet at 3 pm on Saturday, April 14th at the intersection Powell St & Market St. Please share this event widely.

Saturday, 14 April
2:00 pm
Duval County Court House
Jacksonville, FL
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1604552769640328/

Jacksonville Palestine Solidarity Network and the Jacksonville Community Action Committee are joining the international day of action demanding the right of return for all Palestinians. Join us at 2 PM on Saturday in front of the Duval County Courthouse!

Call to action:

International call to action in support of The Great Return March!
We are calling our community and allies to take action and launch demonstrations in support of the Great Return March on April 14th up until May 15th, just as the righteous resisters in Gaza have declared. The time has come for our youth wherever they may be to raise their voices in support of the rightful struggle of our people in Gaza, and for our youth in diaspora to proclaim we will never surrender the right of return. Now more than ever when we seem the most divided, we must come together in collectively asserting our right to return and our dream of the total liberation of our people and homeland. There will be no solution without the total end of the Zionist colonization of Palestine–return is our right, and demand: we will return! Palestine will be free!

Please email us if you wish to launch and action at pal.youth.transnational@gmail.com
دعوة دولية لدعم مسيرة العودة الكبرى!
نحن ندعو الشعب الفلسطيني والعربي وحلفائنا إلى إطلاق مظاهرات لدعم مسيرة العودة الكبرى في 14 أبريل ، تمامًا كما أعلنت المقاومة في غزة. لقد حان الوقت لشبابنا أينما كانوا لرفع أصواتهم دعما للنضال الشرعي لشعبنا في غزة ، ولشبابنا في الشتات ليعلنوا أننا لن نسلم ونتنازل أبدا عن حق العودة. الآن أكثر من أي وقت مضى عندما يبدو أننا الأكثر انقسامًا ، يجب أن نتحد ونأكد تأكيد جماعي على حقنا في العودة وحلمنا بالتحرير الكامل لشعبنا ووطننا. لن يكون هناك حل بدون النهاية الكاملة للاستعمار الصهيوني لفلسطين!

¡Llamada a acción internacional en apoyo de La gran marcha de retorno!
Estamos llamando a nuestra comunidad y aliados para que tomen acción y lancen manifestaciones en apoyo de la Marcha del Gran Retorno del 14 de abril hasta el 15 de mayo, tal como lo declararon los virtuosos resistentes en Gaza. Ha llegado el momento de que nuestros jóvenes, dondequiera que estén, alcen sus voces para apoyar la lucha digna de nuestro pueblo en Gaza, y para que nuestros jóvenes en diáspora proclamen que nunca renunciaremos el derecho a regresar. Ahora más que nunca, cuando aparentamos más divididos, debemos unirnos para afirmar colectivamente nuestro derecho a regresar y nuestro sueño de la liberación total de nuestro pueblo y nuestra tierra natal. No habrá solución sin el final total de la colonización sionista de Palestina–el regreso es nuestro derecho y exigimos: ¡Volveremos! ¡Palestina será libre!

Envíenos un correo electrónico si desea iniciar una acción al pal.youth.transnational@gmail.com

Sunday, 15 April
2:00 pm
Herald Square
34th St and 6th Avenue
March to Trump Tower
New York City
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/2089893391248150/

More info: https://www.springaction2018.org/

U.S. Hands off Syria! Stop the massacres in Gaza!
Trump and Big Oil want a new war in the Middle East.

Already tens of thousands have died in U.S. effort to overturn the government. A U.S. attack on Syria could lead to World War III against Russia and China.

At the same time Israel has killed at least 30 Palestinians in Gaza, including children, and wounded thousands.

U.S. Out of the Middle East!
End U.S. Aid to Israel!
Solidarity with Gaza!

We Are United:

Oppose all U.S. wars, nuclear threats, sanctions, coups and bases

Fund Human Needs, Not Endless Wars

Solidarity with oppressed peoples under attack at home and oppressed people all around the world

Friday, 13 April
5:00 pm
Piazza Antenore
Padova, Italy
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/183713062259074/

Stop the massacre of the Palestinian people!
Stop the occupation of Palestine!

The Great Return March, the Palestinian popular mobilization that started on 30 March and will continue until 15 May, has already been marked with blood by the Zionist occupation of Palestine attacking the right to return of all Palestinian refugees.

This peaceful march was met by the Zionist military with snipers, bullets and tear gas in the Gaza Strip, an open-air prison in which Palestinians have been under siege for 11 years. 30 Palestinians have been killed and over 2500 injured.

15 May 2018 marks the 70th anniversary of the declared foundation of the Israeli state, and of the Nakba, the catastrophe of the Palestinian people which has since then lived the experience of exile, theft of their land and Zionist apartheid.

This anniversary will be celebrated with great pomp by the transfer of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem following Trump’s recognition of it as the capital of Israel. This theft of Palestine’s historical capital and denying the Right to Return of the refugees in exile is another step in the Zionist colonial project, endorsing the ongoing ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people. This shameful action attempts to legitimize the Israeli colonization project, the settlement of Palestine, and conceal the daily Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people. Amid international silence, Israel implements policies to enlarge colonial settlements, expropriate land and water, prevent the production of goods, block the free movement of people and goods with roadblocks and walls, arrest and detain in prison adults and children, demolish homes and murder those who resist the violence of the occupation. The colonizers call these crimes “the right to defend themselves” but in practice they represent “the right to occupy” and “the right to exterminate.”

The struggle of the Palestinian people against Zionism and for the liberation of their land is, therefore, a struggle against racism, colonialism and crimes against humanity, and it is a beacon for all oppressed peoples. Our solidarity with the Palestinian people leads us to denounce the economic, academic and military ties between the Italian and Israeli states. This will be marked this year with the launching of the Giro d’Italia cycle race from Israel. In fact, RCS and the organizers, on the mandate of Italian politics, have transformed a sporting event that should be a symbol of peace and brotherhood into a showcase of propaganda for the Zionist state to clean its hands of Palestinian blood before international public opinion.

Solidarity with the Palestinian people includes denouncing the interests that bind the Italian government to the Israeli one and therefore today we must mobilize on the occasion of the Giro d’Italia scheduled in Veneto to raise our solidarity with the Palestinian people and our opposition to the logics of war that unite the Italian and Israeli governments.

With the Palestinian people! Free Palestine! No to the start of the Giro d’Italia from Israel!

BASTA CON IL MASSACRO DEL POPOLO PALESTINESE
BASTA CON L’OCCUPAZIONE DELLA PALESTINA

E’ già macchiata di sangue la Marcia del Ritorno, la mobilitazione del Popolo Palestinese cominciata il 30 Marzo, Giornata della Terra, e che continuerà fino al 15 Maggio per chiedere la fine dell’occupazione sionista della Palestina e il Diritto al Ritorno di tutti i profughi palestinesi.
Una marcia pacifica a cui i militari sionisti hanno risposto con cecchini, pallottole e lacrimogeni: nella striscia di Gaza, un lager in cui i palestinesi vivono sotto assedio da 11 anni, sono stati uccisi 30 palestinesi e supera i 2500 il numero dei feriti.

Il 15 Maggio 2018 cade il 70° anniversario dalla fondazione unilaterale dello Stato di Israele, della Nakba, la catastrofe del Popolo Palestinese, che da allora vive l’esperienza dell’esilio, del furto della propria terra e dell’apartheid sionista.

Anniversario che verrà celebrato in pompa magna con il trasferimento dell’ambasciata statunitense da Tel Aviv a Gerusalemme in seguito al riconoscimento di Trump di quest’ultima come capitale di Israele. Questo, rubando ai palestinesi la loro capitale storica e negando il Diritto al Ritorno dei profughi in esilio, segna un passo avanti storico nel progetto sionista di colonizzazione e avvalla la pulizia etnica, in atto, del Popolo Palestinese. Questa scelta vergognosa legittima di fatto il progetto israeliano di colonizzazione/insediamento della Palestina e occulta i crimini che Israele quotidianamente commette contro la popolazione Palestinese. Nel silenzio dell’informazione internazionale, Israele attua politiche di ampliamento di colonie, espropria acqua e terra, impedisce la produzione di beni, il libero movimento delle persone e delle cose con blocchi e muri, arresta e trattiene in carcere, senza motivo, bambini e adulti, demolisce case e assassina chi si vuole opporre alle violenze dell’occupazione. Crimini che i colonizzatori chiamano “diritto a difendersi” mentre nella pratica si traducono nel “diritto ad occupare” e nel “diritto di sterminio”.

La lotta del Popolo Palestinese contro il sionismo e per la liberazione della loro terra è quindi una lotta contro il razzismo, il colonialismo e i crimini contro l’umanità e rappresenta un faro per tutti i popoli oppressi. La nostra solidarietà con il Popolo Palestinese ci porta a denunciare i legami che intercorrono tra lo Stato italiano e quello israeliano, fatti di accordi economici, accademici, militari. Interessi che quest’anno verranno celebrati con la partenza del Giro d’Italia da Israele. Infatti, RCS e gli altri organizzatori, su mandato della politica italiana, hanno trasformato una manifestazione sportiva, che dovrebbe essere simbolo di pace e fratellanza, in una vetrina di propaganda per lo Stato sionista per ripulirne le mani sporche di sangue palestinese di fronte all’opinione pubblica internazionale.

La solidarietà con il Popolo Palestinese passa per la denuncia degli interessi che legano il nostro governo con quello israeliano e quindi oggi significa mobilitarsi in occasione della tappa del Giro d’Italia prevista in Veneto portando i contenuti della solidarietà con il Popolo Palestinese e la contrarietà alle logiche di guerra che uniscono il governo italiano a quello israeliano

A fianco del popolo palestinese!
Palestina Libera!
No alla partenza del Giro d’Italia da Israele!

Comitato del Nord-Est Freniamo le ruote dell’occupazione!

Saturday, 14 April
2:00 pm
Fontaine des Innocents
Paris, France
More info: http://www.europalestine.com

Join the demonstration to expose Israeli massacres and demand sanctions on Israel!

Tuesday, 17 April
2:30 pm
Università degli Studi di Milano
Via Festa del Perdono 7, 20122 Milan, Italy
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/164015440974068/

This year, the organizers of the Giro d’Italia (RCS Mediagroup spa) have chosen to start this important cycling race from Israel after it paid an exorbitant suum of 4 million dollars.

Why start this year from Israel? How can sport be used to justify occupation? What are the relations between Italy and Israel?

This meeting at the University of Milan will discuss and attempt to answer these questions.

A short video will be screened and there will be a Skype connection with a Gaza parkour team that will discuss the situation of the Palestinian people and the events of the recent period.

Quest’anno gli organizzatori del Giro d’Italia ( RCS Mediagroup S.P.A) hanno scelto di far partire questa importante gara ciclistica da Israele che ha sborsato l’esorbitante cifra di 4 milioni di dollari.

Perché partire proprio quest’anno da Israele?
Come lo sport può essere utilizzato per giustificare un’oppressione?
Quali sono i rapporti tra Italia e Israele?

Durante questo incontro, che si terrà presso l’Università degli Studi di Milano in infra-chiostri, cercheremo di discutere e di rispondere a questi interrogativi.

Verrà proiettato un breve video e ci sarà un collegamento via Skype con una squadra di parkour di Gaza che ci racconterà la vicenda del popolo palestinese e gli avvenimenti degli ultimi giorni.

Saturday, 14 April
12:00 pm
Sheffield Town Hall
Sheffield, UK
More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1933925190251425/permalink/1937034399940504/?ref=1&action_history=null

Since the launch of #GreatReturnMarch, 29 defenceless protesters were shot dead by Israeli snipers in Gaza. The march will continue until May 15, the 70th anniversary of Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe), which marks the destruction of historic Palestine and the ethnic cleansing of its people. Israel celebrate the same event as its ‘war of independence’ while Palestinians experience an ongoing process of ethnic cleansing and other forms of colonial oppression ever since.

Despite the Israeli brutal repression of the Great March of Return, Gaza’s refugee population, who make the majority, have decided to continue protesting to highlight their dehumanisation under Gaza siege and re-position their inalienable right of return at the forefront of their struggle. The past two Fridays were very bloody despite the condemnations that came from all corners of the world. With Israel’s continuing international impunity, this coming Friday might be even bloodier. Therefore, we will continue protesting.

Join Sheffield Palestine Solidarity Campaign this Saturday April 14th, at 12 noon in front of Sheffield Town Hall to stand in solidarity with the families of 29 protestors killed in cold blood. Let’s together call for an end to the bloodshed, an end to the siege on Gaza, an end to the occupation and an arms embargo now between the UK and Israel. #StopArmingIsrael

If you haven’t signed the petition calling for an arms embargo on Israel, please do and share widely: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/216561

Thursday, 12 April
6:00 pm
NBV-lokalen
Kronobergsgatan 12
Växjö, Sweden
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/802122989978700

David Andersson-Shukur discusses the project “Novel Gaza,” a literary project for youth in the Gaza Strip. The project was started by a group of Växjö youth who wanted to connect with young people in Gaza. Through collections in Sweden and in cooperation with other organizations, the Novel Gaza team launched English lessons and printer training for young people in Gaza City in the summer of 2013. The result was 200 short stories that provide a completely unique insight into what it is like to grow up under war and isolation. There have since been two books of stories from Gaza’s youth published. But the end project is not just a book, but a new form of exchange between Sweden and Gaza.

David Andersson-Shukur kommer och berättar om projektet “Novel Gaza”:

Novell Gaza är ett litteraturprojekt för ungdomar på Gazaremsan. Projektet startades av ett gäng Växjöungdomar som ville göra något annorlunda för en av världens mest utsatte grupper: unga människor i Gaza. Genom insamlingar i Sverige och samarbete med UD, FN, Diakonia och andra organisationer kunde Novell Gazas team sätta upp skrivarutbildningar och engelsklektioner för en skara ungdomar i Gaza City. Tanken var att erbjuda Gazas ungdomar en rolig plattform att lära sig och utbilda sig under sommaren 2013. Resultatet blev 200 noveller, som ger en helt unik inblick i hur det är att vara barn och växa upp under ständigt krig och isolering. Projektet har sedan fortsatt och två böcker har getts ut med berättelser från Gazas ungdomar. Men slutprodukten är inte bara en bok – utan även en ny form av kulturutbyte mellan Sverige och Gaza.

Välkomna att höra om ett spännande projekt!

Tuesday, 17 April
8:00 pm
Scripps Humanities Building Room 119
Claremont, CA
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/187075452100113/

Claremont Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and 5C Prison Abolition are working in collaboration to write letters to domestic and international prisoners. SJP will be addressing the topic of Palestinian political prisoners in connection to the Israeli occupation, capitalist exploitation, and child prisoners. Later, we will guide people in writing letters of support to political prisoners under the guidelines of Samidoun, a Palestinian prisoner solidarity network. In addition, we will provide other educational resources that include the stories of Palestinian women prisoners and corporations that profit from Israeli prisons. Meanwhile, Prison Abolition will lead people in writing postcards to female prisoners in California, as well as letters of solidarity associated with the Black & Pink letter writing campaign which works to support incarcerated LGBTQ people of color and abolish prisons. We recognize that the struggle for Palestinian liberation and fight to end the Prison Industrial Complex through prison abolition are inherently battles fought against the same forces of patriarchal white supremacist capitalism and are necessary for world wide liberation of all people.