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24 February, Brussels: Rasmea Odeh at Le Space

Saturday, 24 February
6:00 pm
Le Space
Rue de la Cle 26
Brussels
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/550562678647845/

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Eye On Palestine Arts and Film Festival in collaboration with Association Belgo-Palestinienne, Palestina Solidariteit and Le Space are proud to host Rasmea Odeh for an evening discussion on anti-colonialism, women struggles and carceral politics in Palestine and beyond. Come and join us!

Rasmea Odeh is a leading member of Chicago’s Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim communities, and her decade of service in Chicago has changed the lives of thousands of people, particularly disenfranchised Arab women and their families. She has been with the Arab American Action Network (AAAN) since 2004, and was responsible for the management of day-to-day operations and the coordination of its Arab Women’s Committee, which has a membership of nearly 600 and leads the organization’s work in the areas of defending civil liberties and immigrants’ rights. She has been a mentor to hundreds of immigrant women, as well as many members of the AAAN’s staff and board, and is a well-known and respected organizer throughout Chicagoland, the U.S. and the world. In 2013, Rasmea received the Outstanding Community Leader Award from the Chicago Cultural Alliance, which described her as a woman who has “dedicated over 40 years of her life to the empowerment of Arab women, first in her homes of Palestine, Jordan and Lebanon, where she was an activist and practicing attorney, and then the past 10 years in Chicago.” Rasmea is a community icon who overcame vicious torture by Israeli authorities while imprisoned in Palestine in the 1970s, and an example for the millions of Palestinians who have not given up organizing for their rights of liberation, equality, and return.

Date: Saturday 24 February
Time: 18-20:00H
Venue: Le Space, Rue de la Clé 26, Brussels.

Entrance: free contribution

More details on www.eyeonpalestine.be

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Le Festival d’arts et du film « Eye on Palestine » en collaboration avec l’Association belgo-palestinienne, Palestina Solidariteit et Le Space ont l’honneur d’accueillir Rasmea Odeh à l’occasion d’une soirée-débat sur les thématiques de l’anti-colonialisme, des luttes féminines et de la politique carcérale en Palestine et ailleurs.

Rasmeah Odeh est une figure éminente des communautés palestiniennes, arabes et musulmanes à Chicago. Depuis une dizaine d’années, son investissement à Chicago a changé la vie de milliers de personnes, en particulier celle des femmes arabes et de leurs familles privées de leurs droits. Depuis 2004, elle travaille avec le Arab American Action (AAAN) (« réseau d’action arabe américain »). Elle était responsable de la gestion des opérations journalières et de la coordination de son Comité des Femmes Arabes qui compte près de 600 membres et dirige les activités de l’organisation relatives aux libertés civiles et des droits des immigrants. Elle a été et reste toujours un mentor pour des centaines de femmes immigrées, tout comme beaucoup de membres du personnel et des cadres de l’AAAN et elle est reconnue et respectée, en tant qu’organisatrice, à Chicago, aux Etats-Unis et dans le monde entier. En 2013, Rasmea a reçu le Outstanding Community Leader Award (« le prix de leader communautaire exceptionnel ») de l’Alliance Culturelle de Chicago, qui l’a décrite comme une femme ayant « dédié 40 ans de sa vie à l’émancipation des femmes arabes, d’abord dans leurs maisons en Palestine, en Jordanie et au Liban, où elle agissait en tant qu’activiste et avocate, et ensuite ces dix dernières années à Chicago ». Rasmea est une icône communautaire qui a surmonté les tortures qui lui ont été infligées par les autorités israéliennes lorsqu’elle était emprisonnée en Palestine dans les années 1970, elle est un exemple pour les millions de palestiniens qui n’ont cessé de s’organiser pour leurs droits à la libération, à l’égalité et au retour.

Date : le samedi 24 février
Heure : 18 – 20h
Adresse : Le Space, Rue de la Clé, 26, Bruxelles

Entrée : contribution libre

Plus d’informations sur www.eyeonpalestine.be

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Eye On Palestine en Film Festival in samenwerking met Association Belgo-Palestinienne, Palestina Solidariteit en Le Space presenteren u met trots een discussie avond met Rasmae Odeh over anti-kolonialisme, de strijd voor vrouwenrechten en verstikkende politiek.

Rasmea Odeh is een leidend figuur binnen Chicago’s Palestijns, Arabische en Moslim gemeenschap. Haar toewijding en werk heeft de levens van duizenden mensen, vooral Arabische vrouwen en hun families, doorheen de jaren verbeterd. Ze werkt samen met het Arabisch Amerikaans Actie Netwerk (AAAN) sinds 2004. Ze was verantwoordelijk voor het management en de dagelijkse werking samen met de coördinatie van het Arabisch Vrouwen Comité. Het Arabisch Vrouwen Comité met haar 600 leden verdedigt de burgerrechten en rechten van immigranten. Rasmae is een mentor voor honderen immigrant vrouwen, alsook voor de vele AAAN leden. In 2013 kreeg Rasmea de Outstanding Community Leader Award van het Chicago Cultural Alliancedie haar beschreef als een vrouw die “al 40 jaar werkt aan de empowerment van Arabische vrouwen, eerst in Palestina, Jordaan en Libanon, waar ze zich onpopte als activist en pleitbezorger om dan het zelfde werk te doen in Chicago.” Rasmea is een gemeenschaps icoon die de martelingen van Israëlische soldaten overwon tijdens haar gevangenschap in de jaren ’70 en een voorbeeld voor miljoenen Palestijnen die zich blijven organiseren om hun rechten te verdedigen en hun strijd voor vrijheid.

Datum: zaterdag 24 februari
Uur: 18 uur tot 20 uur
Plaats: Le Space, Rue de la Clé 26, Brussel.
Prijs: vrije bijdrage

24 February, Lyon: Protest to support the Palestinian people

Saturday, 24 February
3:00 pm
Place Bellecour
Lyon, France
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1882407915116641/

For many years, the State of Israel has been colonizing Palestinian land in Jerusalem and the West Bank, unceasingly, committing crimes and killing innocent people.

Israel rejects any action that calls for peace. Indeed, it refused once again to respect the resolution of the Security Council calling for an end to colonization and settlement building in the occupied Palestinian territories adopted on December 20, 2016.

We do not accept that the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, welcomes war criminals! How can he welcome the butcher of Palestine, Benyamin Netanyahu?

By killing the children of Jerusalem and Palestine, it is the whole humanity that is being murdered! Gather together on Saturday, February 24, 2018 at 3 pm on Place Bellecour to say loud and clear: Stop the massacres and colonization in Palestine!

This demonstration of support to the Palestinian people welcomes with pleasure all collectives and associations to demonstrate with us, because we all fight for the same cause and we all share human objectives.

Sara and Khaoula ,collectif d’une paix juste en Palestine.
AbdelAziz,Mouvement pour une Solidarité Internationale.

23 February, Barcelona: The Case of Ahed Tamimi + Concert for Palestinian Resistance

Friday, 23 February
6:30 pm
Avinguda de Barbera 142
08203 Sabadell (Barcelona)
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1617632768324703/
Concert Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/2110551612537077

The event at L’Obrera Sabadell will feature a screening of the documentary, “Radiance of Resistance.” Ibrahim Beisani, president of the Palestinian Community of Catalonia, will speak at the event. (Unfortunately, due to personal obligations, Manu Pineda will be unable to attend.)

The film presents the resistance of Janna Ayyad, 9, and Ahed Tamimi, 14, at the time of filming, against the Zionist military occupation in Nabi Saleh, Palestine.

Ahed Tamimi, 17, a young Palestinian activist, was detained on 19 December 2017 by occupation forces and has been imprisoned for two months. There are 350 Palestinian children in Israeli prisons among 6100 total Palestinian political prisoners.

Following the film presentation, Rallat will perform a concert in support of Palestinian resistance with drinks and food at popular prices.

21 February, Ghent: Imprisonment and Solidarity in Palestine (Eye on Palestine)

This event is part of the Eye on Palestine film festival, running from 18 to 24 February in Ghent, Belgium. The theme of this year’s festival is “Processions of the Sun” and is informed by Greg Thomas‘ work on George Jackson in the Sun of Palestine. View the full schedule of events: http://www.eyeonpalestine.be/

Wednesday, 21 February
7:30 pm
De Exepditie
Dok Noord 4F
9000 Ghent
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/165220037537826/

A panel with Rasmea Odeh, Dhoruba Bin Wahad and Charlotte Kates moderated by Luk Vervaet

This panel brings together key figures in the Palestinian struggle and the Black and Prison Abolitionists movements to discuss similarities and differences of Black and Palestinian life under conditions of mass incarceration. Drawing parallels between these movements, the discussion will deal with questions of racist state violence in an era of neoliberal globalization, the ramified effects of this violence across public and intimate spheres of social life, the connections and solidarities across continents needed to confront it, and the legacies of past movements and struggles that continue to inform the work of human liberation.

Rasmea Odeh is a leading member of Chicago’s Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim communities, and her decade of service in Chicago has changed the lives of thousands of people, particularly disenfranchised Arab wom- en and their families. She has been with the Arab American Action Net- work (AAAN) since 2004, and is responsible for the management of day-to-day operations and the coordination of its Arab Women’s Com- mittee, which has a membership of nearly 600 and leads the organi- zation’s work in the areas of defending civil liberties and immigrants’ rights. She is a mentor to hundreds of immigrant women, as well as many members of the AAAN’s sta and board, and is a well-known and respected organizer throughout Chicagoland, the U.S. and the world.

Dhoruba Bin Wahad was a leader member of the new York Black Panther Party, a Field Secretary of the BPP responsible for organizing chapters throughout the East Coast, and a member of the Panther 21. Arrested June 1971, he was framed as part of the illegal FBI Counter Intelligence program (COINTELPRO) and subjected to unfair treatment and torture during his nineteen years in prison. During Dhoruba’s incarceration, litigation on his behalf produced over three hundred thousand pages of COINTELPRO documentation, and upon release in 1990 he was able to bring a success- ful lawsuit against the New York Department of Corrections for all their wrongdoings and criminal activities. Living in both Ghana and the U.S. Dhoruba, an uncompromising critic of imperialism and capitalism, con- tinues to write and work promoting freedom for all political prisoners and revolutionary Pan-Africanism.

Charlotte Kates is the international coordinator of Samidoun Palestini- an Prisoner Solidarity Network and the coordinator of the International Committee of the National Lawyers Guild. She is also a member of the Organizing Collective of the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultur- al Boycott of Israel and Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition.

Luk Vervaet is a prison activist and author. From 1973 to 2003, he was one of the leaders of the group “Alle Macht aan de Arbeiders” (All Power to the Workers) and of the “Partij van de Arbeid” (Workers Party of Bel- gium). He le the party in 2003 and started working as a prison teacher in Brussels from 2004 until 2009. In 2009 he was banned from prisons on ‘security grounds’. Two years later, the Constitutional Court revoked the ban, but his exclusion by the prison authorities and the ministry of Jus- tice has been upheld. Luk Vervaet is the author of ‘Le making-of d’An- ders B. Breivik’ (2012), ‘Nizar Trabelsi: Guantanamo chez nous?’ (2014) and ‘De grote stap achterwaarts, teksten over straf en gevangenis” (2016).
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Full programmation on: http://www.eyeonpalestine.be/program/?lang=en
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Praktisch:

– Aanvang: 19:30 uur
– Vrije bijdrage
– De Expeditie Dok Noord 4F, 9000 Gent
– Taal: Engelse

Practical information:

– Start: 7:30 PM
– Free contribution
– De Expeditie Dok Noord 4F, 9000 Gent
– language English

Call to Action: 18 February – Global Day of Action to Free the Tamimis

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network is reprinting the call below from the Free the Tamimis Campaign. Join the Facebook page for the day of action:  https://www.facebook.com/events/148520499284296/

Free the Tamimis Campaign calls on allies, comrades and supporters around the world to protest the ongoing incarceration and systematic targeting of members of the Tamimi family and the village of Nabi Saleh.

On Tuesday the 19th of December 2017, 17 year old Ahed Tamimi was arrested from her family home in Nabi Saleh by the Israeli army under the cover of darkness. Ahed is one of over 300 Palestinian children in Israeli military detention. Her mother, Nariman Tamimi was arrested later on the same day when she went to inquire about her daughter. On Thursday the 11th of January 2018, Mohammad Tamimi, Ahed’s cousin, was arrested from his home in Nabi Saleh. 11 days later, his brother Osama was also arrested on his way home from work. All of them remain incarcerated and have been subjected to sleep deprivation, emotional abuse and inhumane interrogation.

The Tamimi family and the village of Nabi Saleh are targets of a political campaign that aims to crush their resistance to the Israeli settler colonial regime. The Free the Tamimis Campaign calls on Palestine’s allies, comrades and supporters around the world to take action and demand the release of Ahed, Nariman, Mohammad and Osama, as well as all Palestinian prisoners.

What can you do on the 18th of February?

1. Organize marches and sit-ins in front of the Israeli embassies and consulates.
2. Organize vigils in your towns, neighborhoods, and streets.
3. Call and email your political representatives and demand they take action.
4. Take it to social media and use #FreetheTamimis

For inquiries and support to plan your action, please contact falastine@freetamimis.info

Thank you for your support!
Free the Tamimis Campaign.

18 February, NYC: Free The Tamimis New York City Action

Sunday, 18 February
4:00 pm
Israeli Consulate
800 2nd Ave, NYC
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1822977297752603/

Photo: Bud Korotzer/Desertpeace

Join the global day of action (https://www.facebook.com/events/148520499284296) to protest the ongoing incarceration and systematic targeting of members of the Tamimi family and the village of Nabi Saleh.

On Tuesday, December 19, 2017, now 17-year-old Ahed Tamimi was arrested from her family home in Nabi Saleh by the Israeli army under the cover of darkness. Ahed is one of over 300 Palestinian children in Israeli military detention. Her mother, Nariman Tamimi was arrested later on the same day when she went to inquire about her daughter. On Thursday, January 11, 2018, Mohammad Tamimi, Ahed’s cousin, was arrested from his home in Nabi Saleh. Eleven days later, his brother Osama was also arrested on his way home from work. All of them remain incarcerated and have been subjected to sleep deprivation, emotional abuse and inhumane interrogation.

The Tamimi family and the village of Nabi Saleh are targets of a political campaign that aims to crush their resistance to the Israeli settler-colonial regime. The Free the Tamimis Campaign calls on Palestine’s allies, comrades and supporters around the world to take action and demand the release of Ahed, Nariman, Mohammad and Osama, as well as all Palestinian prisoners.

18 February, Phoenix: Ahed’s Birhday Party – Free the Tamimis Global Day of Action

Sunday, 18 February
3:00 pm
The Coronado
2201 N 7th St
Phoenix, AZ
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1474058496056224/

February 18, 2018: Global Day of Action to Free the Tamimis
#FreetheTamimis

Rather than holding a vigil or demonstration, we choose to celebrate the bravery and resilience of the Tamimi family and Ahed in a different way. We’ll be enjoying a belated 17th birthday party for Ahed (who remains in military detention indefinitely) with our friends at The Coronado Phx. All are welcome to partake in the activities, information, discussion, and cake.

Activities:
– Introduction to the Tamimi Family, the resistance village of Nabi Saleh, & the detention of children in Israeli military jails.
– Solidarity poster making & photo shoot. Photo’s will be sent to the Tamimi family and tagged #FreeAhed #FreetheTamimis
– Eat yummy Ahed birthday cake!
– Make space for further conversation and local organizing around adjacent issues: indigenous liberation, border wall resistance, incarceration, etc
– Record interview segments with attendees for a forthcoming episode of Watermelon Brigades podcast

Watermelon Brigades
http://watermelonbrigades.buzzsprout.com/

Background Info:
December 15, 2017: Israeli soldiers shot Mohammed Tamimi in the face, shattering his skull. Shortly after, Ahed Tamimi, cousin of Mohammed, resisted and slapped an Israeli soldier who was trying to forcibly enter her home.

December 19, 2017: After the video circulated through social media, Israeli forces raided the Tamimi house and arrested Ahed and her mother, Nariman. The house was searched and recording materials were seized.

January 30, 2018: Ahed Tamimi turned 17 years old in an Israeli military detention center, where she remains in detention to this day.

18 February, Calgary: Marching for Ahed Tamimi

Sunday, 18 February
1:00 pm
Calgary City Hall
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/159162224865782/

Calgarians, you are invited to a protest march for Ahed Tamimi on February 18 at 1pm at City Hall…

Ahed Tamimi recently arrested at the age of 16 is currently behind bars in an Israeli prison. She will soon be facing a military court that convicts Palestinians 99.8% of the time and is facing a 10 year prison sentence.

This march is to show our solidarity to Ahed, all other underage prisoners and Palestine as whole. It is a peaceful march to call on our government officials to intervene for the release of Ahed and all Palestinian child prisoners and to finally take a stand against the injustices Israel has brought upon the Palestinian people.

Israel is the only country in the world to regularly arrest children and put them through military court. There are currently over 300 Palestinian children in Israel prisons and another 700 Palestinian children in military detention awaiting trial.

Ahed Tamimi’s Story….

Ahed Tamimi lived in a small village called Nabi Saleh near Ramallah in Palestine. This town acts as a great leader for Palestine in peaceful marches resisting their Israeli occupiers and is under constant danger of military raids. Numerous members of Ahed’s family have been arrested or killed solely for their commitment to preserving and protecting their villages land, which is under the constant threat of ongoing illegal Israeli settlement construction, land confiscation, mass arrests and other attacks in their village. All of the Tamimi family is aware that they could be woken up in the middle of any night, and be facing bulldozers demolishing their homes to make way for new Israel settlers and be left with absolutely no where to go.

Ahed was arrested on December 19, 2017 just an hour after her cousin was shot in the face by a rubber coated metal bullet resulting in part of his skull having to be removed, leaving him in a coma for 10 days and with permanent brain damage for the rest of his life. When these soldiers later entered Ahed’s property standing on her front lawn she asked them leave, the soldiers did not leave and one of them pushed Ahed away, pushing from both sides than proceed and an understandably frustrated 16 year old girl slapped these soldiers in the face. Please keep in mind that these soldiers were armed and had full military gear, Ahed had no weapons and even if the soldiers were wearing normal street clothes Ahed would be of no real physical threat to them.

Ahed’s mother (Nariman Tamimi) filmed this event and posted it to the internet, the video than proceeded to go viral and was watched all over the world. The next night the Israeli military raided Ahed’s house and was violently arrested, also the next day her mom was arrested just for filming the event. Ahed is currently in military detention awaiting trial and facing 10 years in military prison.

These events and the great bravery shown by Ahed Tamimi has made her the face of Palestinian resistance. There have been demonstrations all over the planet calling for her release and to show support for Ahed Tamimi along with all of Palestine in their fight for freedom!

17 February, Dundalk, Ireland: Free Ahed Tamimi and Palestinian Child Prisoners

Saturday, 17 February
1:00 pm
Market Square
Dundalk, Ireland
More info: http://www.louthsinnfein.ie/news/3044/o-murchu-urges-people-to-support-palestinian-child-prisoners

Dundalk Sinn Féin will hold an awareness/solidarity protest at the Market Square in Dundalk on Saturday 17th February at 1pm to highlight the plight of Palestinian child prisoners that are being held in Israeli detention.

Councillor Ruairí Ó Murchú said “every year there are approximately 500-700 Palestinian children detained and prosecuted in the Israeli military court system. Some of these children are as young as twelve and the most common charge levied against them is stone throwing and three out of every four children experience physical violence through their arrest, transfer or interrogation. For a child convicted of stone throwing, the potential maximum sentence they face is 10 – 20 years depending on their age.”

Cllr Ó Murchú is asking everyone to attend the protest on Saturday 17th February and show their support for these children.

17 February, Manchester: Stand with Ahed Tamimi – Stand with Palestinian Prisoners

Saturday, 17 February
1:00 pm
Piccadilly Gardens
Manchester
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/375045182968944/

This Saturday 1pm join us in Manchester Piccadilly Gardens to stand with Ahed Tamimi and all Palestinian prisoners as she begins her trial in Israeli military court. It is also the weekend of action for Ahed as Sunday the 18th February is the Global Day of Action for the Free the Tamimis Campaign, of which we can all be a part: https://www.facebook.com/events/148520499284296/?ti=icl
The trial has just been adjourned to be held behind closed doors at a later date in order to stop the media reporting on her case:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=59&v=iNiZTHyT0SU
Here is her lawyer Gaby Lasky talking about the outrageous decision to stop public scrutiny of the case:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMQ0pi74uAg
Come and demonstrate, bring others, and help build the global stand against Israel’s appalling treatment of Palestinian children and grow the movement against Israel’s apartheid regime.

Ahed Tamimi, the Palestinian girl who as a 16 year old was arrested for slapping a member of the Israeli army who was on her yard in December has just begun the trial in Israeli military court. An hour before she confronted the soldiers she had learned that her younger cousin had been shot in the face by the Israeli army and was in a coma. For that slap faces up to ten years in Israeli jails. Ahed’s bravery has helped the whole world stand up to see Israel’s treatment of Palestinians and the courage of Palestinian children facing it every day. It has also put a bigger light on Israel’s decades-long military occupation of Palestinian land and gradual ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people. Conviction rates in Israeli military courts for Palestinians are over 99%. Governments around the world, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and many campaigners for social justice such as Angela Davis have called for her release and the release of 350 more Palestinian children languishing in Israeli jails

Come and stand with Ahed and all Palestinian prisoners locked away from their communities and families for resisting Israel’s brutal and illegal military occupation.
1pm Piccadilly Gardens
Saturday 17th February

Called by Manchester Palestine Action
Manchester Palestine Solidarity Campaign
BDS University of Manchester
Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism!
Manchester Jewish Action for Palestine