Saturday, 14 April
2:00 pm
Radhuspladsen
Aarhus, Denmark
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/201901983921777/

Join Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke Aarhus in a solidarity march calling to free 17 year old Ahed Tamimi and the unjustly imprisoned children of Palestine.

Ahed and her mother Nariman Tamimi have been imprisoned since December 19 after a video of Ahed slapping an Israeli occupation soldier went viral on social media. For nearly all of her life, Ahed has been in direct confrontation with occupation forces who have repeatedly invaded her home; arrested and imprisoned her father, brothers, cousins and other relatives; killed her cousin and her uncle; attacked the village with tear gas and other weaponry, including the rubber-coated metal bullet shot into the face of her 15-year-old cousin, Mohammed, shortly before the video was filmed.

Her case has also highlighted the ongoing, systematic imprisonment of Palestinian children; approximately 700 are brought before military courts each year, and Palestinian kids seized by Israeli forces are frequently subject to beatings, abuse, and interrogations without parents or lawyers present in violation of the law.

The march will start with words from invited speakers at Town Square and will be concluded at Mølleparken.

Speakers:
Bilal Al-Issa (Council member at Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke and consultant at the Danish house in Palestine)
Marwan – Palestinian rapper from Aarhus V

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Tag med Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke Aarhus på en solidaritetsmarch for den 17-årige Ahed Tamimi og de uretfærdigt fængslede palæstinensiske børn.

Ahed og moren Nariman Tamimi har været fængslet siden den 19. december, efter et videoklip – af Ahed der sparker og giver en israelsk besættelsessoldat en lussing – gik viralt på de sociale medier.

For det meste af sit liv har Ahed Tamimi været i direkte konfrontation med besættelsesmagten, der gentagende gange har invaderet hendes hjem, arresteret og fængslet hendes far, bror, fætre, kusiner og andre familiemedlemmer, dræbt hendes onkel, angrebet hendes landsby med blandt tåregas og andet, som gummibelagte kugler, som hendes 15-årige fætter, Mohammed, kort forinden videoen var blevet skudt i hovedet med.

Aheds sag er ikke enestående, og har derfor også været medvirkende til et øget fokus på den aktuelle systematiske fængsling af palæstinensike børn, hvor ca 700 børn bliver bragt for militære domstole hvert år. Palæstinensiske børn der fængsles udsættes ofte for fysisk vold, mishandling og afhøring uden at hverken forældre eller advokater er tilstede, hvilket bryder med international lov.

Demonstrationen indledes med taler på Rådhuspladsen og slutter i Mølleparken.

Talere:
Bilal Al-Issa (Rådsmedlem hos Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke og konsulent hos det Danske hus i Palæstina)
Marwan – Aarhus V rapper med Palæstinensisk baggrund
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Thursday, 12 April
7:00 pm
Olin Center – Tufts University
180 Packard Ave
Medford, MA
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/204061070179609/

International Solidarity Movement (ISM) is coming to present at Tufts as part of their North American tour – don’t miss this chance to hear from these amazing Palestine solidarity activists!

Since 2001, thousands of volunteers from around the world have joined the International Solidarity Movement to participate in Palestinian-led nonviolent resistance against Israeli human rights violations. They stayed with resistance fighters in the Nativity Church in Bethlehem, brought medical supplies to the ancient Nablus Casbah, and filmed the destruction and death in the Jenin refugee camp. They included Rachel Corrie, killed in Gaza and Tom Hurndall, shot in the head. In 2009, 2012 and 2014, ISM volunteers were in Gaza, reporting the Israeli invasion and helping in the hospitals, clinics and schools.

But ISM needs more volunteers, so we came to North America to talk to interested groups. The presentation includes an abridged version of Radiance of Resistance, a film by three ISM volunteers serving in Nabi Salih and featuring Ahed Tamimi and her cousin, Janna Ayyad.

Joe Catron is a reporter and blogger, and went to Gaza as an ISM volunteer, witnessing and reporting on several Israeli invasions. Islam Maraqa trains and coordinates international volunteers and interfaces with the Palestinian communities that ISM serves, assuring that ISM is Palestinian-led.

Saturday, 14 April
4:00 pm
African Community Center – Jerusalem
Al-Wad Road
Jerusalem, Palestine
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/179414029362998/

Administrative detainees in Zionist prisons continue to boycott the occupation courts for the 53rd day in a row in rejection of the policy of administrative detention practiced by the occupation against them. Some have them have reached nearly 14 years of imprisonment through multiple administrative detentions!

Accordingly, Samidoun Network – Palestine and the Nabd Youth Forum invite you to a symposium with former prisoner and political analyst Rasim Obeidat and lawyer Amjad Abu Assab.

Friday, 13 April
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Under Hungerford Bridge, Southbank
(Between London Eye and Southbank Centre)
London, UK
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1786061231689075/
Web: http://inminds.co.uk/article.php?id=10796

To mark Palestinian Prisoners Day, Inminds human right group will, on Friday 13th April 2018, hold a vigil on the Southbank of the River Thames in London to highlight the plight of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli occupation prisons, and to demand their freedom.

Figures published in March 2018 show the Israeli occupation abducted 1319 Palestinians in the previous two months, including 274 children, 23 women and 4 journalists. As of 28th February 2018, here are around 6,500 Palestinians caged in Israel prisons including 350 children and 63 women including 6 minor girls. Over 500 Palestinians are held without charge or trial indefinitely under administrative detention orders.

Inminds chair Abbas Ali said “The Israeli occupation is enforced by terrorising the indigenous Palestinian population; abducting its children; and imprisoning anyone who resists. In many cases the formality of a charge let alone a trial or even a set length of sentence are ignored – people are just locked up indefinitely on the whim of the colonizer. During interrogation physical torture, even of young children, is standard practice as is sexual abuse of children. Women have been electrocuted into submission, and many prisoners like Arafat Jaradat have died under torture (72 prisoners in total tortured to death since 1967). If they survive the interrogation then they face the military court and its ‘conveyor belt’ trial system with its ‘rubber stamp’ 99.74% conviction rate. In no other country in the world is such injustice law.”

Inminds chair Abbas Ali added “Some 20% of the Palestinian population of men, women, children and the elderly have been imprisoned by the Israeli military since 1967, every single Palestinian family has been effected. The prisoners form the cornerstone of Palestinian society, their suffering is felt in every home. We are here to show our solidarity with them and their families, and to demand their freedom from occupation dungeons. We are also here to demand that companies complicit in their suffering, like HP that provides the IT infrastructure for Israel’s torture dens and dungeons, end their complicity in these war crimes.”

Please join us on Friday 13thh April 2018 on the Southbank of the river Thames under Hungerford Bridge near the Southbank Centre.

Wednesday, 11 April
1:00 pm
Hotel Okura Amsterdam
Ferdinand Bolstraat 833
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/219565888594494/

Theatrical demonstration and die-in against Airbus and the militarization of EU borders during Airbus’ shareholders meeting.

DUTCH BELOW

Website: https://stopthewaronmigrants.noblogs.org/post/2018/03/09/demonstration-die-in-against-airbus-and-the-militarisation-of-eu-borders/

Migrants bear the brunt of the ongoing militarisation of the European borders. While Fortress Europe heightens its walls, refugees drown in the Mediterranean,
get stuck in dire circumstances or end up in detention and being deported. The military and security industry reaps the benefits of the racist border policies of the EU.

Airbus is the second largest European arms producer. It sells aircraft and missiles to countries at war, repressive regimes and human rights abusers. This way it fuels the reasons that force people to flee their homes. Airbus again profits by providing EU with border security equipment to stop refugees. It is a key player in the successful industrial lobby for the militarisation of Europe’s borders.

Airbus’ headquarters are in The Netherlands (Leiden). Every year they hold their Annual General Meeting for shareholders at the Hotel Okura in Amsterdam. They celebrate the rising numbers of their profitable deadly business but they fail to mention the rising number of deaths in the Mediterranean, Middle-East and Africa where their products are being used.
We take this opportunity to give Airbus a taste of the consequences of their actions. Bring a white sheet for the die-in part of the action.

In the run up to the Airbus shareholders meeting:
put pressure on Hotel Okura to cancel the reservation Airbus:
Website: https://stopthewaronmigrants.noblogs.org/post/2018/03/09/put-pressure-on-hotel-okura-to-cancel-reservation-airbus-shareholders-meeting/
Facebookevent:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1971363929792543/

DUTCH

Theatrale demonstratie en doodligactie tegen Airbus en de militarisering van de EU-grenzen.

Website: https://stopthewaronmigrants.noblogs.org/post/2018/03/09/demonstration-die-in-against-airbus-and-the-militarisation-of-eu-borders/

Migranten zijn de dupe van de voortgaandemilitarisering van de Europese grenzen. Terwijl Fort Europa de muren verhoogt, verdrinken vluchtelingen in de Middellandse Zee, komen vast te zitten in erbarmelijke omstandigheden of eindigen in detentie en worden gedeporteerd. De militaire en veiligheidsindustrie plukt de vruchten van het racistische grensbeleid van de EU.

Airbus is de op een na grootste Europese wapenproducent. Het verkoopt vliegtuigen en raketten aanlanden in oorlog, repressieve regimes en mensenrechtenschenders.Daarmee voedt het de oorzaken die mensen dwingen te vluchten.Airbus profiteert opnieuw door de EU grensbeveiligingsmaterieelte leverenom vluchtelingen tegen te houden. Het is een belangrijke speler in de succesvolle industriële lobby voor de militarisering van de Europese grenzen.

Het hoofdkantoor van Airbus bevindt zich in Nederland (Leiden). Elk jaar houdthet bedrijfhaarjaarlijkse algemene aandeelhoudersvergadering in Hotel Okura in Amsterdam. Ze vieren de winstvan hundodelijke zaken, maar ze vermelden niet het stijgende aantal sterfgevallen in de Middellandse Zee, het Midden-Oosten en Afrika waar hun producten worden gebruikt.
We maken van de gelegenheid gebruik om Airbus de gevolgen van hun acties onder ogen te laten zien. Neem een ​​wit laken mee voor de doodligactie.

In de aanloop naar de Airbus aandeelhoudersvergadering: zet Hotel Okura onder druk om de reservering te cancelen:
Website: https://stopthewaronmigrants.noblogs.org/post/2018/03/09/put-pressure-on-hotel-okura-to-cancel-reservation-airbus-shareholders-meeting/
Facebookevent:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1971363929792543/

Saturday, 14 April
12:00 pm
Balboa Park Fountain
San Diego, CA
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1734613286582253/

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 12 pm on Saturday, April 14th in front of the Balboa Park Fountain. Please share this event widely.

Saturday, 14 April
4:00 pm
Hermannplatz
Berlin, Germany
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/453571665060657/

After pro-Zionist German organizations excluded Palestinian and Palestine solidarity groups and individuals from the Berlin 18 March alliance for political prisoners, we decided to organize the Day of All Political Prisoners on Palestinian Prisoners’ Day.

Freedom for all political prisoners!
Freedom for the imprisoned Palestinian people, inside and outside Palestine!
Return is not negotiable!
Freedom and self-determination for Kurdistan!

الحرية لأسرانا و أ سيراتنا البواسل الحرية لشعبنا في فلسطين وقسماً إنا لعائدون!!

بعد أن قامت مجموعات ألمانية مناصرة للصهيونية بإقصاء المجموعات الفلسطينية والمجموعات المتضامنة مع النضال التحرري الفلسطينى من إتحاد 18 آذار اليوم العالمي للأسير السياسي، قررنا إعلان يوم الأسير الفلسطينى يوما عالميا للأسرى السياسيين، ومن هذا المنطلق ندعوا جميع أنصار الحرية للتضامن مع الأسرى والأسيرات والتضامن مع الشعب الأسير في غزة وكافة أنحاء فلسطين المحتلة و في الشتات!

Nachdem pro-zionistiche deutsche Gruppen sowohl palästinensische, als auch Palästina-solidarische Gruppen und Einzelpersonen aus dem Berliner 18. März Bündnis 2018 – Internationaler Tag der politischen Gefangenen- ausgegrenzt haben, haben wir beschlossen, den Tag der palästinensichen Gefangenen zum Tag aller politischen Gefangenen auszurufen.

Freiheit für alle politischen Gefangenen!
Freiheit für das gefangene palästinensiche Volk, innerhalb und außerhalb Palästinas!
Die Rückkehr ist nicht verhandelbar
Freiheit und Selbstbestimmung für Kurdistan

Wednesday, 11 April
1:00 pm
Low Steps at Columbia University
New York City
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/378205732659426/

Join us to show solidarity with the 30,000 Palestinians participating in the #GreatReturnMarch, seeking an end to the siege on Gaza that has left 2 million Palestinians imprisoned for over a decade and a return to the homes from which they were ethnically cleansed in 1948.

On March 30 2018, the protesters’ attempt to march back home was greeted with bullets by the state that violently displaced them. Israeli snipers fired on the protesters with live ammunition. 17 people were killed and over 1500 were injured. On April 6, seven more protesters were killed by those snipers including Yaser Murtaja, a journalist wearing a protective “PRESS” vest. Following these brutal killings, the Israeli army claimed that “Nothing was carried out uncontrolled; everything was accurate and measured, and we know where every bullet landed.”

Despite the ruthless violence of the Israeli state, the protesters are determined to continue their demonstration until May 15, the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, when 750,000 Palestinians were forcibly expelled from their homes. Join us to show that we stand in solidarity with them, and will continue until their battle to return home is won.