25 Days to #FreeAlaa: Solidarity with Egyptian political prisoner and activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah

10 October 2017

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network supports the campaign to #FreeAlaa and all political prisoners in Egyptian prisons. Alaa Abdel-Fattah is a longtime activist and blogger and struggler for the Egyptian people – and for Palestine. In fact, he has been denied awards by the EU and attacked at an international level while facing Egyptian state repression because of his support for the Palestinian people and their right to resist occupation and oppression.

The campaign to Free Alaa is highlighting the case of this jailed struggler from 24 September to 19 October; on 19 October, the appeal hearings will begin in the “Shoura Council” case, in which Alaa and other activists were found guilty of protesting outside the Shoura Council building in November 2013 after peaceful protesters against military trials were attacked with massive police brutality and violence. Alaa was sentenced to five years in prison, of which he has served three and a half; the case is now being appealed to Egypt’s highest court, the Court of Cassation.

In addition, Abdel-Fattah is also facing allegations of “insulting the judiciary” in a case that will come to trial in December; he is threatened with a fine and more years in maximum security prison. His release has been called for by dozens of human rights groups including the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, and his trial was judged unfair by Euromed Rights.

The Free Alaa campaign urges: “Once upon a time the international solidarity was really helpful and made a great difference supporting the revolution(s), right now we are in such a different moment though, Egypt is currently under a severe online crackdown and hundreds of websites, including nearly all critical media, are blocked inside the country. So we are again asking for help from outside to relay information, mobilize media, attract attention and build pressure.”

Today, Alaa Abdel-Fattah is only one of thousands of political prisoners in Egypt. We express our solidarity with Alaa and join the Days of Action to #FreeAlaa, and similarly declare our solidarity with all of those unjustly held behind bars as the Egyptian regime pursues closer and closer military and economic ties with the Israeli occupation and continues its role in the siege on Gaza. We urge the immediate release of Alaa Abdel-Fattah and all political prisoners in Egyptian jails.

Take Action:

1- Liking Free Alaa Page https://www.facebook.com/freealaa2013/

2- Following and sharing Alaa’s news

3 – Downloading and sharing the brief on Alaa’s case: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1edxvcQha5m7A7Fb9N15_o3VYYdb4DvsMFvhtkaeprBE/edit

4- Organizing support events/protests in your cities and/or by the Egyptian Embassies.

58 Palestinian women in Israeli prisons; one family’s yearning for their mother

10 October 2017

As Khadija Rabie, 30, was seized by occupation forces in an overnight raid on her home in Yatta on Tuesday morning, 10 October, Palestinian lawyers Hanan Khatib and Wahba Masalha reported that there are currently 58 Palestinian women political prisoners imprisoned by Israel, including 10 minor girls. The lawyers reported following their visits to HaSharon and Damon prisons, where women prisoners are held.

Rabie was one of seven Palestinians seized by occupation forces in pre-dawn raids throughout the occupied West Bank of Palestine.

The two lawyers reported that Palestinian women prisoners are located next to Israeli “criminal” prisoners’ sections, from whom they receive harassment as well as frequent disturbances at night. This is particularly troubling to a number of ill prisoners, who do not receive appropriate treatment and hospitalization or diagnosis is frequently delayed. For women prisoners who receive medication, their medication will frequently end at the end of the month and there will be a delay before the medication is refilled or sometimes replaced with a different drug.

In addition, prisoners living with mental illness, frequently as a result of trauma, often do not receive treatment at all, and if they do, they are given only sedatives.

Palestinian women prisoners also raised once more the torturous experience of the “Bosta,” the van in which prisoners are transported to military courts or other prisons. The ride has frequent stops and prisoners are forced to board and deboard repeatedly and ride on hard metal benches, often shackled. Prisoners often do not receive food during the transit periods and transportation takes excessively long periods of time due to frequent and lengthy stops. They also noted that they are subject to provocations and harassment by the Nachshon forces responsible for prisoner transfers.

Women prisoners going to the military court are often subjected to a two- day journey with an overnight stay at the Jalameh interrogation center, notorious for insect infestations and filthy conditions of life.

The women prisoners also emphasized their experiences under interrogation. Ibtisam Mousa, a prisoner from Gaza, said that she was held for 27 days in the Ashkelon interrogation center, interrogated for many hours at a time and shackled to a chair as interrogators screamed curses at her, threatened to shell her family’s home in Gaza and hurt her children and husband. She noted further that conditions in the interrogation center were filthy, with little toilet facilities and dirty bedding, part of a comprehensive attempt to wear down and break the will of prisoners facing interrogation.

The Asra Media Center reported on the experience of the four children of Sabah Faraoun, 36, a seamstress from Jerusalem, who is one of four Palestinian women currently held without charge or trial under administrative detention. Her four children are Abdel-Razak, 16, Alaa, 14, Tala, 7, and Leen, 6. Their mother has been held without charge or trial since 19 June 2016.

Her husband, Issa Faraoun, noted that when ocupation forces surrounded and stormed their home after midnight, they immediately began questioning Sabah about her brother, Omar al-Shurbaji, a freed prisoner displaced to Gaza upon his release. He noted that the scene was very difficult for the children as occupation forces “armed as if prepared to fight a fierce battle” invaded the family home in the middle of the night.

He said that Leen repeatedly goes to the front door of the family home, looking for her mother and asking when she will return. The children refused to celebrate on Eid, thinking only of their mother and when she would return. He noted that “the visits are difficult for all of us, especially for the children who see their mother behind plate glass and strain to hear her voice over the visitation phone.”

He also noted that she suffers from joint disease that is exacerbated by the use of the “bosta” for transportation and receives little to no treatment and is suffering physically as well as from the separation from her family. He noted that he tries to support the children and alleviate their psychological pain, but that “their mother is still missing and no one can fill that hole.”

Sick Palestinian prisoners suffering in Israeli jails, petition for early release

10 October 2017

*Image: Sami Abu Diak, via Asra Media Center*

Sick Palestinian prisoners are continuing to struggle for their lives and health inside Israeli prisons. The Palestinian Prisoners’ Affairs Commission has submitted an appeal for the early release of Sami Abu Diak, 35, from the village of Silat al-Zuhair, south of Jenin.

The appeal in the case of Abu Diak, who was sentenced to three life sentences and 30 years and has been jailed since 17 July 2002, will be heard on 25 October. He has colon cancer and his health has been severely declining for years. Two years ago, he underwent four operations to remove tumors and 80 cm of his large intestine was removed. However, he developed an infection when he was returned to Ramleh prison clinic due to a lack of hygiene and was in a coma and in critical condition for a week. At the time, his request for early release was denied. However, his suffering has only continued in the ensuing years and his health is precarious.

Early release applications were also filed for several other Palestinian political prisoners, including the child prisoner Khaled Dabaya, 16, who is suffering from serious depression, does not speak to anyone and has lost a great deal of weight. He was held in solitary confinement for a long period of time. A petition was submitted to have him examined by a specialist, Mahmoud Saleh, who will submit a report on his case.

In addition, Nisreen Hassan, 40, from Gaza, has petitioned to undergo a screening for breast cancer. Fadi Abu Attia, from the al-Amari refugee camp in Ramallah, is serving a 12.5-year sentence and is currently suffering from severe psychological distress and loss of memory. He previously petitioned for release after a psychological crisis after the last hunger strike; however, a new request has been submitted as his psychological condition has only worsened since that time.

Mansour Moqtada from Salfit is sentenced to life imprisonment and is held permanently in the Ramle prison clinic. He was paralyzed due to his injuries from being shot by occupation forces at the time of his arrest and relies on colostomy bags and a “plastic stomach” for digestion. His health condition has remained continually very serious; the early release committee will hear his case on 27 December in the Ramle prison.

Hussein Atallah, from Nablus, is serving a 32-year sentence and is currently suffering from cancer and a severe health condition. An urgent petition has been filed for his early release. Meanwhile, Mohammed Bisharat, from Tubas, is serving an 18-year sentence and is suffering from life-threatening kidney disease. An outside doctor, Mohammed Masarwa, visited him on 5 October after a petition by the Commission’s lawyers, and a hearing on his early release will be heard on 19 October.

Meanwhile, ill child prisoner Anas Adnan Hamarsheh, 17, from the village of Yabad, had his detention extended for 11 days on Tuesday, 10 October; he was seized on Sunday morning in a pre-dawn raid when occupation forces invaded his family home. He is a high school student and the son of former prisoner Adnan Hamarsheh, who spent 11 years in Israeli prisons. Anas suffers from Perthes disease and requires treatment; he is in danger of losing his ability to walk.

Palestinian lawyer Moataz Shqeirat also urged legal and humanitarian action for Palestinian prisoner Khaled al-Shawish, held in the Ramle prison clinic. Al-Shawish used a wheelchair to move around and his right hand was hit by four bullets and was shattered, receiving a platinum implant. Two months ago, he received a bone graft in his hand and it was rejected, causing severe pain and infection. The graft and implant were removed, which could lead to the amputation of his hand. He was told he would receive a further operation to restore the original metal implant, but has since been told that the operation will not be carried out.

Shqeirat highlighted the cases of the 15 sickest prisoners held in Ramle prison clinic who continue to suffer not only from their illnesses but from the medical neglect of the Israel Prison Service.

Ramallah march against Electronic Crimes Law blocked en route by PA security

10 October 2017

Hundreds of Palestinians marched against the so-called “Electronic Crimes Law” on Tuesday, 10 October before being blocked by Palestinian Authority security services from reaching the PA Prime Minister’s office in Ramallah.

The march began from the Palestinian Legislative Council office in Ramallah but was blocked by PA security forces’ barricades along its path; it was organized by civil society groups protesting the new law, created by a decree by PA president Mahmoud Abbas.

Numerous Palestinian activists and organizers have been arrested under the law, which attempts to criminalize social media posts and other online publications critical of PA officials. Palestinian civil society organizations have demanded its immediate cancellation, noting that it is an attack on public freedoms and deepens Palestinian division at a time that Palestinian expression is under massive attack by the Israeli occupation.

The “Electronic Crimes Law” has been widely condemned by political parties and organizations throughout occupied Palestine. The PA law, which attempts to criminalize Palestinian political expression on Facebook and in the media, comes alongside systematic Israeli attacks on Palestinian expression, including the persecution of hundreds of Palestinians for their posts on social media and the jailing of teens, journalists and elders in Israeli occupation prisons.

Amnesty International has joined the denunciation of the law created by decree of PA president Mahmoud Abbas, due to its use against journalists, writers and human rights defenders like Issa Amro. Zaher al-Shammali and Nassar Jaradat were subject to detention for Facebook posts critical of PA officials, and Palestinian-American activist Mashal Alkouk was detained for several days last week, also in the context of the law, as was youth activist Ahmed Abdel-Aziz. A number of journalists have been interrogated and detained for publishing critical material about the PA as well.

The “Electronic Crimes Law” goes so far as to threaten sentences of hard labor against people convicted of committing “offenses” with the “purpose of disturbing public order…or harming national unity.” Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association has published a lengthy analysis of the dangers posed by the law.

20 October, Den Haag: Protest – Free Salah Hamouri and Georges Abdallah

10 October 2017

Friday, 20 October
2:00 pm
Den Haag, exact location TBA
Facebook (for updates, news): https://www.facebook.com/events/182938298942362/

Organized by SRP-NL

FREEDOM FOR SALAH HAMOURI & GEORGES IBRAHIM ABDALLAH

SJP-NL calls on everyone to protest this Friday 20 October in The Hague (location ASAP) to demand the freedom of Salah Hamouri and Georges Ibrahim Abdallah. We call on the French Government to take action in the case of Salah Hamouri and put pressure in Israel to end his illegal. We also call on the French Government to immediately release Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, who has been imprisoned in France for 33 years and has been eligible for release under parole since 1999.

French-Palestinian human rights defender Salah Hamouri was seized from his home in the Jerusalem-area village of Kufr Aqab in a pre-dawn raid by Israeli occupation forces on 23 August. On Sunday 27 August, Salah had his detention period extended by the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court allowing further interrogation. On 14 September, Salah Hamouri received a six months administrative detention order meaning that he is further deprived of his freedom without a charge and trial.

Two weeks before Salah’s arrest, some members of SJP NL had the chance to talk to him on a field trip to Palestine where he shared his experiences as a former political prisoner, while also giving mention to the torture, as well as inhumane and degrading treatment that he has received during interrogations.

Together with Samidoun, Amnesty International and Addameer Prisoner Support & Human Rights Association, where Salah Hamouri works as field researcher, SJP NL has called for action to pressure France to release Salah Hamouri.

Georges Ibrahim Abdallah is a Lebanese struggler for Palestine who has been imprisoned for over 33 years in France. While he has been eligible for parole since 1999, which has been confirmed by the court, French ministers have refused to cooperate with his release, with the involvement of Hillary Clinton.

Show solidarity by demanding that France put pressure on Israel to release Salah Hamouri and all 6,128 Palestinian political prisoners! Join thousands of protestors around the world in demanding the immediate release of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah from French jails.

Let’s protest together against the illegal detention of Salah!
Let’s put pressure on France to protect its own citizen from arbitrary detention!
Let’s put pressure on France to immediately release George Ibrahim Abdallah!

Free Salah Hamouri!
Free Georges Ibrahim Abdallah!
Free all Palestinian Political Prisoners!

When: Friday 20 October, 14:00h – 16:00h
Location: Announced ASAP
Goal: Call on the French state to free Georges Ibrahim Abdallah and put pressure on Israel to release Salah Hamouri

Contact: palestinasolidariteit@gmail.com
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LINKS

Click here to sign the petition to the French government for the freedom of Salah Hamouri: https://www.change.org/p/emmanuel-macron-demand-the-immediate-release-of-human-rights-defender-salah-hamouri?recruiter=732326705&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=share_petition

Background information Salah Hamouri: https://samidoun.net/2017/09/salah-hamouris-administrative-detention-order-confirmed-as-more-protests-urge-his-release/

Background information Georges Ibrahim Abdallah:https://samidoun.net/2016/10/week-of-action-for-georges-ibrahim-abdallah-materials-and-resources/

Call to international week of action for Georges Ibrahim Abdallah and all Palestinian political prisoners: https://samidoun.net/2017/09/call-to-action-14-24-october-free-georges-abdallah-and-all-palestinian-prisoners/

SRP-NL roept iedereen op om vrijdag 20 oktober om 14:00u te protesteren in Den Haag (locatie ASAP) om de vrijheid van Salah Hamouri en Georges Ibrahim Abdallah te eisen. We roepen de Franse overheid op om actie te ondernemen in de zaak van Hamouri en een einde te maken aan zijn opsluiting door de Israëlische bezettingsmacht. We roepen de Franse overheid ook op om Georges Ibrahim Abdallah onmiddellijk vrij te laten na ruim 33 jaar gevangenschap

De Frans-Palestijnse mensenrechtenverdediger Salah Hamouri werd gearresteerd in zijn huis in het dorp Kufr Aqab, vlakbij Jeruzalem, tijdens een nachtelijke inval door de Israëlische bezettingsmacht op 23 augustus. Op zondag 27 augustus werd zijn hechtenis verlengd door de Jeruzalem Magistraat rechtbank voor verdere ondervraging. Op 14 september kreeg Salah zes maanden administratieve detentie opgelegd, opsluiting zonder aanklacht of proces.

Twee weken voor Salah’s arrestatie hadden enkele leden van SRP-NL de kans om met hem te praten tijdens een reis naar Palestine. Salah deelde zijn ervaringen als voormalig politieke gevangene en sprak over de marteling, als ook de onmenselijke en onterende behandeling die hij had gehad tijdens ondervragingen.

Samen met Samidoun, Amnesty International en Addameer, waar Salah Hamouri werkt als een veldonderzoeker, heeft SRP-NL opgeroepen tot actie om druk te zetten op Frankrijk om Salah vrij te laten.

Georges Ibrahim Abdallah is een Libanese activist voor Palestina die nu ruim 33 jaar gevangen zit in Frankrijk. Hoewel hij al sinds 1999 in aanmerking komt voor voorwaardelijke vrijlating, en dit zelfs door het gerechtshof is bevestigt, hebben Franse ministers geweigerd hieraan mee te werken, mede op aandringen van Hillary Clinton.

Wees solidair door te eisen dat Frankrijk Israël onder druk zet om Salah Hamouri vrijlaat en alle 6,128 Palestijnse politieke gevangenen! Eis samen met duizenden anderen de vrijlating van Georges Ibrahim Adbdallah!

Vrijheid voor Salah Hamouri!
Vrijheid voor Georges Ibrahim Abdallah!
Vrijheid voor alle politieke gevangenen!

WANNEER: Vrijdag 20 oktober, 14:00u – 16:00u
LOCATIE: Wordt zsm bekendgemaakt
DOEL: De Franse staat oproepen Georges Ibrahim Abdallah vrij te laten en druk op Israël te zetten om Salah Hamouri vrij te laten

Contact: palestinasolidariteit@gmail.com

18 October, Paris: Meeting of Committee of Support for Salah Hamouri

10 October 2017

Wednesday, 18 October
7:00 pm
Espace Robespierre, Salle 5
2 rue Robespierre, Ivry-Sur-Seine
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/685295895008255/

This week, Elsa Lefort, Jean-Claude Lefort and Maitre Tourne met with the diplomatic group from the French government. They stated following the meeting: “We understood from our conversation with the diplomatic cell of the Elysée that France’s action would not be limited to consular protection alone, but that to intervene so that the arbitrary detention of a French national, in this case Salah Hamouri, ceases. We remain mobilized and waiting for concrete progress.”

We must amplify the movement and not lose the pressure. On the agenda for this meeting are updates on the situation, organizational mobilizations and future events. Contact the committee at libertepoursalah@gmail.com.

18 October, Manchester: Free Georges Abdallah! Free all Palestinian Prisoners!

10 October 2017

Wednesday, 18 October
12:00 pm
University of Manchester Students Union
Manchester, UK
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/529973637336876/

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network call for international solidarity with Georges Abdallah – a Lebanese communist and fighter for Palestinian freedom.

Assemble 12pm, Wednesday 18 Oct, outside Uni of Manchester Students Union.

24 October 2017 marks the 33rd anniversary of the arrest of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah by French police. Since 1984, he has remained behind bars, one of the longest-held political prisoners in the world. From 14-24 October 2017, RCG – Revolutionary Communist Group and BDS Campaign – University of Manchester join Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network and organizations in France and around the world to call for a week of international actions to demand freedom for Georges Ibrahim Abdallah and all Palestinian prisoners!

Georges Abdallah has been committed throughout his life to the revolutionary struggle in Lebanon and the liberation of Palestine. He was involved with the Palestinian Marxist-Leninst revolutionary organization, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, resisting Israeli attacks on Lebanon. Later, he joined the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Factions, pointing to a non-sectarian, socialist and revolutionary path to liberation for the people of Lebanon, faced with civil war militias and Israeli invasion and occupation in the south of Lebanon.

Imperialist nations have been complicit in the Zionist Apartheid state of Israel since Balfour signed away Palestine from the British empire to the Zionists in 1917.

All welcome and encouraged to protest loudly and angrily and Israeli, British and French repression.

Fight racist, imperialism, Zionism!
Fight for socialism!

12 October, Ramallah: The Experience of Imprisonment

10 October 2017

Thursday, 12 October
3:30 pm
Ottoman Court/Ramallah
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1711969995503390

Seeing the issue of prisoners as a major demand of the Palestinian people and that the responsibility to liberate them from the prisons of the occupation is also an international and Arab responsibility, the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network in occupied Palestine invites you to attend a seminar, entitled “The Experience of Imprisonment: The impact on the construction of the revolutionary self” on Thursday, 12 October at 3:30 pm in the Ottoman Court in Ramallah, hosted by Dr. Lena Meari and the liberated prisoner, Mohammed Badr. The prisoners and their liberation are an integral part of Palestinian existence.

20 October, Hamburg: Event and Film to Free Georges Abdallah

10 October 2017

Friday, 20 October
Event and film on Georges Abdallah
7:00 pm
International Center B5
Brigittestrasse 5
St. Pauli
Hamburg, Germany
More information: https://www.facebook.com/detouteurgence/photos/a.881264881928183.1073741828.880931775294827/1434490609938938/?type=3&theater

International week of action to Free Georges Abdallah, from 14 to 24 October 2017

Georges Abdallah is a Lebanese communist. In the 1970s and 80s he fought on the side of left Palestinian organizations for a democratic, free and secular Palestine and opposed the occupation of Southern Lebanon by the Israeli forces.

Georges Abdallah was arrested in Lyon on 24 October 1984; on 25 October 2017 he starts his 34th year behind bars in France!

He was sentenced to life in France for complicity in the shooting of a Mossad agent (Israeli intelligence) and a U.S. military officer in France.

Since 1999, he could be released under French law, but this does not happen to protect French interests in the middle east. If we know about the billionaire arms exports of the French arms industry, which go to reactionary Arab states such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar, a part of this attitude will be clear.

The US government also intervened several times. And in 2013, when the judiciary had decided to approve Georges Abdallah’s release, it was met with a request from Hillary Clinton to come up with something in order to make sure that justice did not take effect.

Georges Abdallah has never turned his back on his convictions and has always shown solidarity with the Palestinian prisoners.

A remarkable solidarity has developed around the world and joined the demands for the release of Ahmad Saadat and Marwan Barghouti, Georges Abdallah and all Palestinian prisoners.

In the week between 14 and 24 October, in France and many other countries, actions are planned to support the demand for his release.

In the context of the international week in Hamburg, we are organizing an event and film screening to support Georges Abdallah.

Organized by the Alliance Against Imperialist Aggression

Internationale Aktionswoche „Freiheit für Georges Abdallah“ vom 14.- 24. Oktober 2017

Georges Abdallah ist libanesischer Kommunist. Er hat in den 1970er und 80er Jahren an der Seite linker palästinensischer Organisationen für ein demokratisches, freies und säkulares Palästina gekämpft und sich der Besatzung des Südlibanon durch die israelischen Streitkräfte entgegengestellt.

Georges Abdallah wurde am 24.Oktober 1984 in Lyon verhaftet. Am 25. Oktober 2017 beginnt für ihn das 34ste Jahr hinter Gittern in Frankreich!

Er wurde wegen Mittäterschaft an der Erschießung eines Mossad-Agenten (israelischer Geheimdienst) und eines US-Militärattachés in Frankreich zu lebenslänglich verurteilt.

Seit 1999 könnte er nach französischem Recht freigelassen werden, was jedoch zur Wahrung französischer Interessen im Nahen und Mittleren Osten nicht geschieht. Wenn man um die milliardenschweren Waffenexporte der französischen Rüstungsindustrie weiß, die u.a. in reaktionäre arabische Staaten wie Saudi-Arabien und Qatar gehen, wird einem ein Teil dieser Haltung klar.

Die US-Regierung intervenierte mehrmals in den Fall. Und 2013, als die Justiz Georges Abdallahs Freilassung entschieden hatte, kam es zu einer Aufforderung Hillary Clintons an den damaligen französisches Außenminister, sich etwas einfallen zu lassen, damit dieses Justizurteil nicht wirksam wird.

Georges Abdallah hat seinen Überzeugungen nie den Rücken gekehrt und war immer mit den palästinensischen Gefangenen solidarisch.

Eine beachtliche Solidaritätskampagne entwickelte sich weltweit und verband die Forderungen nach Freilassung von Ahmad Saadat und Marwan Barghouti, Georges Abdallah und allen palästinensischen Gefangenen.

In der Woche vom 14.-24. Oktober sind in Frankreich und vielen anderen Ländern Aktionen zur Unterstützung der Freilassungsforderung geplant.
Wir machen deshalb im Rahmen der internationalen Aktionswoche in Hamburg eine Veranstaltung mit Film zu George Abdallah:

Freitag, 20. Oktober, 19:00 Uhr, Internationales Zentrum B5, Brigittenstraße 5, St. Pauli

Bündnis gegen imperialistische Aggression

November 9 – Global Day of Action: A World without Walls

10 October 2017

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network is one of numerous Palestinian and international organizations who have signed on to the following call for actions on 9 November against Walls of oppression, from Palestine to the US-Mexico border. See the original call and sign on at StopTheWall.org:

From Israel’s apartheid Wall on Palestinian land to the US Wall of Shame on indigenous land at the border with Mexico – Walls are monuments of expulsion, exclusion, oppression, discrimination and exploitation. As people affected by these walls and as movements that pose justice, freedom and equality as our tools to resolve the problems of this planet, we join the call for the 9th of November as a Global Day of Action for a World without Walls.

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“There is no word for wall in our language. We’ve asked our elders. We have searched. There is no word for wall because there shouldn’t be walls.”

Verlon M. Jose, Tohono O’odham tribal vice chairperson. The Tohono O’odham people’s land is divided by the US/Mexico border.

From Israel’s apartheid Wall on Palestinian land to the US Wall of Shame on indigenous land at the border with Mexico – almost 70 walls across all continents are today ripping through people’s lives and lands as they fortify often unilaterally defined borders or limits of state control. They cause thousands of deaths every year and destroy means of livelihoods and hope for many more. They are monuments of expulsion, exclusion, oppression, discrimination and exploitation.

15 years ago Israel started building its up to 8-meter high and over 700km long Wall on Palestinian occupied land as an integral part of its policy to confiscate over 60% of the West Bank and imprison the Palestinian people on not more than 13% of their historical homeland. This adds to its wall surrounding and completely isolating the Palestinian Gaza Strip since 1994. Palestinians have never stopped resisting these illegal Walls and the continuous expulsion of their people from their land and in 2003 called for November 9 – the day the Berlin Wall fell – as International Day against Israel’s apartheid Wall.

Today it is time we unite against the global proliferation of walls – we call for November 9 as Global Day of Action for a World without Walls.

Israel has been central in promoting this new global era of walls and the US has risen to back it up: From India, to Saudi Arabia, to Turkey, Western Sahara and Europe, today, the number of walls designed to forcibly define and seal borders has almost tripled over the last two decades. These walls bar the right to freedom of movement and self-determination. They have become are cornerstones in a world where wars, militarisation and exclusion are to substitute justice, freedom and equality.

Walls have not only risen to fortify borders of state control but demarcate the boundaries between the rich, the powerful, the socially acceptable and the ‘other’. They increasingly dominate our cities and societies. Tens of thousands linger as prisoners of conscience or under illegal and inhumane conditions behind prison walls. Visible and invisible walls, as is the case of the blockade of Cuba, aim to bar us from attaining economic, political, social and environmental justice.

Where they do not outright promote these walls, governments de facto condone their existence, while a veritable industry of walls literally makes a killing out of all of this. Selling their ideology, methodology and technology corporations team up in arms fairs, biddings and seminars to profit from the construction of these walls.

As people affected by these walls and as movements that pose justice, freedom and equality as our tools to resolve the problems of this planet, we join the call for the 9th of November as a Global Day of Action for a World without Walls.

We will unite in mobilisation to:

Raise awareness about the devastating effect of the increasing dominance of walls in our world and our lives
Create solidarity and links among the people affected by the walls and movements fighting the walls
Demand an immediate end to the walls that expel, exclude, oppress, discriminate and exploit
Resist and defund those that profit from the walls

Signatories:

From Palestine:

Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign (Stop the Wall)

Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC)

Palestinian Consultative Staff for Developing NGOs (25 civil society organizations)

Palestinian Environmental NGOs Network (PENGON)

Palestinian General Union for Charitable society (PGCUS) (400 civil society organizations)

Palestinian Land Defense Coalition (11 civil society organizations)

Palestinian Non Governmental Institute PNIN (37 civil society organizations)

Palestinian Non Governmental organizations Network (132 civil society organizations)

The Civic Coalition for Palestinian Rights in Jerusalem

The National and Islamic Forces in the West Bank (the coordination body of Palestinian political parties)

Addameer – Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association

Al-Amal Association for Childhood and Development

Applied Research Institute-Jerusalem (ARIJ)

Arab Agronomists Association

Arab Center for Agricultural Development (ACAD)

Arab Women Union Society – Nablus

Association for Farmers’ Rights and for the Preservation of the Environment

Association Jadayel – Palestinian Center for Culture, Arts and creativity

Burj Al-LuqLuq Social Center Society

Defense for Children DCI – Palestine

First Sareyyet Ramallah

Health, Development, Information and Policy Institute (HDIP)

Huriyyat – Center for Defense of Liberties and Civil Rights

Ibrahimiya kindergarten

Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Center

Land Research Center

MA’AN Development Center

Mother school

MUSAWA – Palestinian Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession

Ni’lin Society for Development and Community Work

Occupied Palestine and Syrian Golan Heights Advocacy

Palestine Youth Forum

Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees (PARC )

Palestinian Counseling Center

Palestinian Family Protection

Palestinian Farmers Society-Tulkarem

Palestinian Farmers’ Union (PFU)

Palestinian Federation of New Unions

Palestinian Hydrology Group

Palestinian Postal services workers union (PPSWU)

Palestinian Women Development Center

Palestinian Working Women’s Society for Development (PWWSD)

Palestinian Youth Union

Popular Art Center

Popular Council to Protect the Jordan Valley

Popular Struggle Coordination Committee (PSCC)

Save the Jordan Valley Campaign

SAWA women organization

Union Of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC)

Women Center for Legal Aid and Consulting (WCLAC)

Youth Development Association

Youth Against Settlements

From Mexico:

Coordinadora de Solidaridad con Palestina – Corsopal (Coordination in Solidarity with Palestine)

Movimiento Nacional del Poder Popular (MNPP) (National Movement of Popular Power)

Movimiento Nacional del Poder Popular Zacatecas (MNPP – Zacatecas) (National Movement of Popular Power – Zacatecas)

Movimiento del Magisterio Democrático Nacional (Movement of the National Democratic Teachers)

Comité Ejecutivo Nacional Democrático del Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación en Lucha (CEND del SNTE en Lucha) (National Democratic Executive Committee of the National Union of Education Workers in Struggle)

Asamblea de los Pueblos en Defensa del Territorio, la Educación Pública, Laica, Gratuita y los Derechos Humanos (Assembly of the Peoples in Defense of the Territory, Public, Secular and Free Education and Human Rights)

Frente de Pueblos en Defensa de la Tierra en San Salvador Atenco (FPDT-Atenco) (Front of Peoples in Defense of the Land in San Salvador Atenco)

Consejo de Defensa de los Derechos del Pueblo (CODEP-MNPP) (Council for the Defense of People’s Rights)

Council of Interdisciplinary Organizations Bounded for Oxaca (COIVO-MNPP)

Coordinación de Comunidades Indígenas de la Sierra Sur (COCISS) (Coordination of Indigenous Communities of the Sierra Sur)

Comité de Defensa Ciudadana (CODECI-MNPP) (Citizen Defense Committee)

Contingentes del Comité Ejecutivo Nacional Democrático del SNTE en Lucha (CEND SNTE en Lucha) (Contingents of the National Democratic Executive Committee of the SNTE in Struggle)

Congreso Nacional de Bases, Movimiento del Magisterio Democrático Nacional (National Popular Congress, Movement of the National Democratic Teachers): Sección III de Baja California Sur; Sección V de Campeche; Sección X de la Ciudad de México; Sección XIII y XLV de Guanajuato; Sección XIV de Guerrero; Sección XV de Hidalgo; Movimiento Magisterial Jalisciense, Secciones XVI y XLVII de Jalisco; Sección XVIII de Michoacán; Movimiento Magisterial de Bases, Sección XIX de Morelos; Consejo Democrático Magisterial Poblano, Secciones XXIII y LI de Puebla

Movimiento Magisterial de Bases (Grassroots Teachers Movement) de Querétaro, Sección XXIV de Querétaro

Bases Magisteriales Democráticas (Democratic Teachers Collective) de Quintana Roo, Sección XXV de Q. Roo

Bases Magisteriales (Teachers Collective) de Tabasco, Sección XXIX de Tabasco

Trabajadores del Colegio de Bachilleres de Tabasco (Workers of the Bachilleres de Tabasco high school)

Comité Estatal Democrático, Sección XXXII y LVI de Veracruz; Sección XXXVI del Valle de México; Consejo Nacional de Sistematización; Escuelas Integrales de Educación Básica de Michoacán; Colectivo Pedagógico “Francisco Javier Acuña Hernández”

Promotora del Poder Popular de Michoacán (Promoter of the Popular Power of Michoacán)

Caja Popular de Ahorro (Popular Savings Bank) “Emiliano Zapata”

Colectivo de Estudios (Study Collective) “Ricardo Flores Magón”

Movimiento de Unidad Social por un Gobierno del Pueblo (MUSOC-GP) (Movement of Social Unity for a People’s Government, Michoacán)

Coalición de Jubilados y Pensionados “Elpidio Domínguez Castro”; Talleres

Community of Nezahualcoyotl Municipality – Estado de México Comunitarios del Municipio de Nezahualcóyotl, Estado de México

Federation Brazon: Estado de Mexico, Queretaro, Morales, Veracruz, Guerrero and Mexico City – Barzón Federación: Estado de México, Querétaro, Morelos, Veracruz, Guerrero y Distrito Federal

Coalición Nacional de Cooperativas y Empresas Sociales (CONACyES) (National Coalition of Cooperatives and Social Enterprises)

Organización Nacional del Poder Popular (ONPP) (National Organization of People’s Power)

Organización Nacional del Poder Popular de Morelos (ONPP-MORELOS) (National Organization of People’s Power – Morelos)

Organización Nacional del Poder Popular del D. F. (National Organization of Popular Power of the district of Mexico City)

Asamblea Permanente de los Pueblos de Morelos (Permanent Assembly of the Peoples of Morelos)

Instituto Mexicano de Desarrollo Comunitario (IMDEC), Mexican Institute of Community Development

Centro de Atención en Derechos Humanos a la Mujer y el Menor Indígena (CADHMMI) (Center for Human Rights Care for Women and Indigenous Minors)

Centro Regional Indígena en Derechos Humanos “Ñuu-Savi” (CERIDH) (Indigenous Regional Center on Human Rights)

Organización de los Pueblos Indígenas del Bajo Mixe (OPI) (Organization of the Indigenous Peoples of Bajo Mixe)

Organización de los Pueblos Indígenas de la Cuenca (OPIC) (Organization of Indigenous Peoples of the Cuenca)

Coalición de los Pueblos Indígenas de Valles Centrales (COPIVAC) (Coalition of the Indigenous Peoples of the Central Valleys)

Coordinator of United Neighborhoods from Salina Cruz (CCU)

International signatures:

Academic committee against LawTrain @Leuven

AFSC (United States)

AFM Local 1000 (United States)

Al-Jisr: The bridge between Japan and Palestine

Alternative Law Forum (India)

Aman Biradari

American Humanist Association (United States)

Americans United for Palestinian Human Rights

Amigos de la Tierra de América Latina y el Caribe -ATALC

Anglican Church of Korea

Anthropologists for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions (United States)

Assdociation Belgo-Palestinienne – prov. Luxembourg (Belgium)

Association d’amitié franco-vietnamienne (France)

AssoPacePalestina

ATTAC España

BDS Berlin

BDS Colombia

BDS France

BDS Malaysia

BDS Nederland

BDS Switzerland

BDS Quebec Coalition (Canada)

Bkswrites

BACBI Belgian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel

Biomystic Institute (United States)

Birmingham Interfaith Human Rights Committee (United States)

Brighton & Hove Palestine Solidarity Campaign

BolandFarm

Bolivarian Agrarian and Community Movement from Venezuela – Movimiento

CEBRAPAZ – Centro Brasileiro de Solidariedade aos Povos e Luta pela Paz (Brasil)

Centro Brasileiro de Solidariedade aos Povos e Luta pela Paz-Paraná (Brasil)

Centro de Amigos para la Paz / Red de Solidaridad con Palestina – Costa Rica

Centro Memorial Martin Luther King, Cuba

CineGRI

Chelsea Area One World One Family (United States)

Chico Palestine Action Group (United States)

Cleveland Chapter INA

Coalisión para los derechos de los presos (United States)

CODEPINK

CoherentSystems (United States)

Colectivo antimilitarista Mambrú de Zaragoza

Collectif Judéo Arabe et Citoyen pour la Palestine

Collectif Palestine 12- Millau (France)

Comisión Ecuménica de Derechos Humanos (Ecuador)

Comisión Multisectorial del Uruguay (Multisector Commission)

Comitê Brasileiro em Defesa dos Direitos dos Povos Ocupados

Comité pour une Paix Juste au Proche-Orient

Committee for a Just Peace in the Middle East (Comité pour une paix juste au PO)

Confederación Nacional de Organizaciones Campesinas, Indígenas y Negras (FENOCIN) de

Ecuador (National Confederation of Peasant, Indigenous and Black Organizations)

Confederación Sindical Única De Trabajadores Campesinos de Bolivia (CSUTCB) (Trade Union

Confederation of Peasant Workers of Bolivia)

Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in South Africa (CoRMSA)

Correspondents Diplomatiqe (United Kingdom)

Corriente Revolucionaria Bolívar y Zamora de Venezuela (Revolutionary Tendency Bolívar and Zamora)

Crisci

Christian Church (DOC)

Cultura è Libertà, una campagna per la Palestina

CUT-Brasil

Days of Palestine (United States)

Deya (Canada)

Democratic Socialists of America (United States)

Democratic Socialists of America, Boulder, CO (United States)

Donne in Nero Italia

Donne in Nero di Torino

Earth Is My Cathedral Ministry

Eileen fleming.org

Enlace Internacional

Fagforbundet (Norwegian Union of Municipal and General Employees)

FASE Brasil

Finca La Muda Lavandula y Bayas (Spain)

Frauen in Schwarz (Wien)

Frances Beal Society (United States)

Frente de Luta Amazonica por Defensores Direitos Humanos

Ford Mediation

Friends of Sabeel – North America

Fundación para la Cooperación APY – Solidaridad en Acción

Global Justice Alliance

Grassroots Global Justice Alliance

Holy Apostles Episcopal Church, St. Paul, MN (United States)

IJAN (United States)

Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign – Derry Branch

Indian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (InCACBI)

Jews for Palestinian Right of Return (United States)

Jews for Justice for Palestinians

Jewish Voice for Peace (United States)

Jewish-Palestinian Dialogue-Group Munich

Just World Educational

JVP Westchester

Kairós Palestina Brasil

KFF (Sweden)

La Concordia

La Coalición de Derechos Humanos

Labor for Palestine (United STates)

Las Cruces CIVIC (Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement, United States)

Legal Centre Lesbos (Greece)

LeNove studi e ricerche sociali (Italy)

Los Angeles County Democratic Party (United States)

LNC, LLC (United States)

Marquette UU Congregation

Milieu-infocentrum (Belgium)

MidEast: JustPeace

Middle East Crisis

Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens (MAB)

Movimiento de Mujeres Palestinas Alkarama (Spain)

Nebraskans for Peace (United States)

Nederlands Palestina Komitee

Network Against Islamophobia (United States)

New Zealand Palestine Solidarity Network

Non Violent Peaceforce (United States)

NorCal Friends of Sabeel (United States)

Observatorio de Derechos Humanos de los Pueblos (Observatory of Human Rights of the People)

Observatory of Human Rights of the People, USA and Swiss chapters

Ocean Tree Books (United States)

Pax Christi (Canada)

Palestina Solidariteit vzw (Belgium)

Palestine Israel Working Group (United States)

Palestine Solidarity Committee in India

Palestine Solidarity Campaign South Africa

Palestine subcommittee of the National Lawyers Guild (United States)

Palestinian and Jewish Unity (Canada)

Palestinian Rights Committee (United States)

Piwg (United States)

PFAW

PNHPWW (United States)

Portland Network Against Racism and Islamophobia

Presbyterian Peace Fellowship

PSC Thailand

PSC (United Kingdom)

Quaker (New Zealand)

Red de Colectivos La Araña Feminista de Venezuela (Feminist Network ‘ The Spider)

Red de Integración Orgánica – Rio – Por la Defensa de la Madre Tierra y los Derechos Humanos de Guatemala (Network of Organic Integration – RIO – for the defense of Mother Earth and Human Rights)

Ontario Humanist Society (Canada)

OvertActs.com (United States)

REDES-Amigos de la Tierra Uruguay

Renewed HOPE (United States)

Right to Migrate Institute

Rumbo a Gaza (Spain)

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network

Sanctuary Hill Farms (United States)

SBIA (United States)

SOA Watch – Observatory for the Closure of the School of Americas

Soldepaz – Pachakuti

Solidarity International (Germany)

SOS Art

St. Louis Jewish Voice for Peace

St. Matthew’s United Methodist Church (United Sates)

Stichting Diensten en Onderzoek Centrum Palestina (DocP)

Students for Justice in Palestine (Stony Brook University, United States)

Tadamon! Montréal (Canada)

The Association of Norwegian NGOs for Palestine

The Hampton Institute : A working Class think tank (United States)

Trade Union Friends of Palestine, Ireland

Transnational Institute (TNI)

Tucuman por Palestina

U/Mass/Boston

UCC Church (United States)

Ulster People

Unite

United Methodist Church (United States)

Union juive française pour la paix (UJFP, France)

US Campaign for Palestinian Rights

Vancouver for Peace (United States)

Veterans For Peace

Victoria Coalition against Israeli apartheid

Voices for Justice in Palestine

War on Want (United Kingdom)

WESPAC (United States)

White Rabbit Grove RDNA

Women in Black Vienna

Women In Black Seattle

Worcester Palestine Friendship (United Kingdom)

WSA (United States)

Yorkshire Friends of Sabeel

Zawaya, Bay Resistance, No Migra

ZEPA (Slovenia)

Zoroastrian Association (United States)

9/11 Truth Action Project

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