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.

Read and endorse the Call for Action below.

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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

9 October, NYC: Black Panther Party/Black Liberation Army political prisoner and prisoner of war art, poetry, greeting cards and letter-writing night

8 October 2017

Monday, 9 October
7:00 – 9:00 pm
Solidarity Center
147 W. 24th St Fl. 2, NYC

In celebration of the 51st anniversary of the 1966 founding of the Black Panther Party

“Settle your quarrels, come together, understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is already here, that people are dying who could be saved, that generations more will live poor butchered half-lives if you fail to act. Do what must be done, discover your humanity and your love in revolution.”
Fallen Black Panther Field Marshal, Comrade George L. Jackson (1941-1971)

Organized by:
Jericho Movement
Malcolm X Commemoration Committee
Guillermo Morales/Assata Shakur Community and Student Center

Momentum is building for international days of resistance to Free Georges Ibrahim Abdallah

7 October 2017

Events | Call to Action | Take Action | Materials and Posters

The campaign to free Georges Abdallah is growing as he approaches the beginning of his 34th year in French prisons. Join the movement to free this imprisoned Lebanese Communist struggler for Palestine from French prisons by organizing an event for the international days of action from 14 October to 24 October. Events are being organized in New York, Toulouse, Paris, Lannemezan, Brussels, Dublin, Lyon and more – be a part of the days of action by organizing an event or including freedom for Georges Abdallah in local actions!

At the European Parliament event in support of Palestinian women’s struggle on 26 September, a number of participants expressed their support for the upcoming days of action and urged supporters of Palestine around the world to get involved with the campaign to free Georges Abdallah.

Leila Khaled, Palestinian revolutionary icon:

Ahed Tamimi and Bassem Tamimi of the Popular Resistance committees in Palestine:

Sahar Francis, executive director of Addameer:

Manu Pineda, of Unadikum Association and the Communist Party of Spain’s director of its Middle East Commission:

Claudia Salerno Caldera, ambassador of Venezuela to Belgium, Luxembourg and the European Union:

Meanwhile, in Belgium, a new call has been launched to build support for Georges Abdallah and Samidoun has kicked off its activities in Lebanon with an activity in Beddawi refugee camp on the case. All over social media, people are adding a Free Georges Abdallah frame to their Facebook photos. Throughout France, in Toulouse and elsewhere, organizers, including Coup Pour Coup 31, the Unified Campaign for the Release of Georges Abdallah, the Collective for the Liberation of Georges Abdallah and EuroPalestine are hanging banners, putting up posters and organizing in the weeks prior to the large national march in Lannemezan on 21 October.

Become a part of the campaign – organize events, actions and protests at French embassies and consulates around the world. Where there is not a French consulate, protest at U.S. or Israeli embassies and consulates and in public squares between 14 October and 24 October. Include Georges Abdallah in your actions and demonstrations during that time against war and racism and for Palestine and political prisoners’ liberation. Send us your events! Use this form or email samidoun@samidoun.net

Events for the Week of Action

BORDEAUX:
Friday, 13 October
Evening of solidarity for Georges Abdallah: film and discussion with Jacques-Marie Bourget and screening of “3000 Nights”
8:30 pm
Cinema Utopia
5 place Camille Jullian
Bordeaux
Organized by Le Collectif Libérons Georges 33, LDH and La Cle des Ondes
More information: https://sd-5b.archive-host.com/membres/up/29b72e7b8387d2014690b4aea20c293508c66477/docs/GA_Bx_2017.pdf

Saturday, 14 October
Meal of solidarity with Georges Abdallah and meeting with Jacques-Marie Bourget
12:00 pm
Athenee Libertaire
7 rue de Muguet
Bordeaux
Organized by: Le Collectif Libérons Georges 33
More information: https://sd-5b.archive-host.com/membres/up/29b72e7b8387d2014690b4aea20c293508c66477/docs/GA_Bx_2017.pdf

ATHENS:
Saturday, 14 October
Action to Free Georges Abdallah at Football Match
Municipal Stadium of Peristeri
Athens, Greece
More information: http://www.kanafani.gr/intervention-to-soccer-match-atromitos-vs-asteras-tripolis-for-george-abdallah-in-athens/

NEW YORK:
Monday, 16 October
Protest to Free Georges Abdallah and Salah Hamouri
5:00 pm
France Mission to the United Nations
245 E. 47th St, NYC
Organized by Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1897506840567283/

VILLENEUVE:
Tuesday, 17 October
Screening and discussion: “After War is Always War” by Samir Abdallah
8:30 pm
Villeneuve centre Culturel
Villeneuve, France
More information: https://sd-5b.archive-host.com/membres/up/29b72e7b8387d2014690b4aea20c293508c66477/docs/GA_Bx_2017.pdf

MANCHESTER:
Wednesday, 18 October
Free Georges Abdallah! Free all Palestinian Prisoners!
12:00 pm
University of Manchester Students Union
Manchester, UK
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/529973637336876/

MARSEILLE:
Thursday, 19 October
Soirée Georges Abdallah/17 octobre 1961
6:30 pm
Dar Lamifa
127 rue d’Aubagne
13006 Marseille
More information: https://www.facebook.com/events/372108329899692/

DEN HAAG (THE HAGUE):
Friday, 20 October
Freedom for Salah Hamouri and Georges Abdallah
2:00 pm
Embassy of France to the Netherlands
Den Haag
More information: https://www.facebook.com/events/182938298942362/

TOULOUSE:
Friday, 20 October
Palestine: They can’t stop our solidarity!
6:30 pm – 11 pm
Le Hangar de la Cépière
8 rue de Bagnolet, Toulouse
More information: https://www.facebook.com/events/1330369670424161/

BRUSSELS:
Friday, 20 October
Liberte pour Georges Abdallah!
5:30 pm
Regentlaan 42 1000 Brussels
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1934882953418757/

HAMBURG
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

LANNEMEZAN:
Saturday, 21 October
National Demonstration to Free Georges Abdallah
2:00 pm
Gare de Lannemezan (March to Lannemezan Prison)
Lannemezan, France
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/814700755345206/

Collective transport to Lannnemezan:

from Paris: depart Friday 20 October, 10 pm Place de la République(email: campaign.unitaire.gabdallah@gmail.com)
from Toulouse: depart Saturday October 21st at 12:00 at the metro Basso-Cambo (email: couppourcoup31@gmail.com)
from Bordeaux: Saturday 21 October at 9am Place de Ravezies (email: liberte.pour.georges@gmail.com)
from Marseille: Saturday 21 October – join the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/291271791355420/

DUBLIN:
Saturday, 21 October
Free Georges Abdallah Dublin
2:00 pm
General Post Office, O’Connell Street
Dublin, Ireland
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1962801003963560

BERLIN:
Saturday, 21 October
Freedom for Georges Ibrahim Abdallah
12:00 pm
Pariser Platz 1
10117 Berlin
More information: http://palaestina-solidaritaet.de/2017/10/13/berlin-sa-21-10-2017-freiheit-fuer-georges-ibrahim-abdallah/

LYON:
Saturday, 21 October
Boxing event and “Soul Train” evening in support of Georges Abdallah
7:00 pm
Lyon 7th-Gerland
Email: csao-harraga@riseup.net
Organized by: Dar Harraga (Lyon) / Jugurtha band’s (St Etienne) / Comité lyon sud/est pour la libération de Georges Ibrahim Abdallah
More info: https://rebellyon.info/Gala-de-boxe-et-soiree-Soul-Train-en-18143

TUNIS:
Saturday, 21 October
Freedom for Georges Abdallah
1:00 pm
French Embassy
Tunis, Tunisia
Assemble on Habib Bourguiba Street to march to French Embassy
More information: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154743879592085&set=a.10150282516337085.333967.730112084&type=3

BAALBEK:
Saturday, 21 October
Freedom for Georges Abdallah: 33 Years Without Compromise
5:00 pm
Martyr Basil al-Asad cultural Center
Baalbek, Lebanon

BEIRUT:
Sunday, 22 October
Lebanon demands the release of Georges Abdallah from French prisons
11:00 am
Al-Sham Street
Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth – USJ
More information: https://www.facebook.com/events/131239200959946/

NEW YORK:
Monday, 23 October
Free Georges Abdallah and Salah Hamouri!
5:00 pm
Consulate General of France in New York
934 5th Avenue
New York City
More information: https://www.facebook.com/events/888197914668181/

ATHENS
Tuesday, 24 October
Protest – Free Georges Abdallah!
6:00 pm
French Embassy
Athens, Greece
More information: https://www.facebook.com/events/140702906553686/

SHATILA CAMP:
Friday, 27 October
Solidarity with Georges Abdallah – Organized by the Palestinian Chess Club in Shatila
6:00 pm
Palestinian Chess Club
Shatila Camp, Beirut, Lebanon

Call to Action

24 October 2017 marks the 33rd anniversary of the arrest of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, revolutionary Lebanese Arab Communist struggler for Palestine, 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, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network joins 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 leftist organization, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, resisting Israeli attacks on Lebanon. Later, he joined other Lebanese revolutionary leftists in 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.

Georges Abdallah was originally arrested for allegedly carrying false documents; his detention was repeatedly extended as French intelligence searched for information to charge him with involvement in armed actions that killed a U.S. diplomat and an Israeli representative in Paris. Even one of his lawyers was reportedly involved in spying on Abdallah for the French intelligence agency. While he was supposed to be exchanged with prisoners held by Arab revolutionaries, the French state reneged after obtaining their own prisoners, keeping Abdallah as a prisoner.

In 1987, when Georges Abdallah was sentenced, he was expected to receive a lengthy sentence of ten yearsor less – as recommended by the prosecutor in his case. Instead, he received a life sentence, as argued by a private lawyer representing the U.S. government.

Today, Georges Abdallah remains behind bars. Despite being eligible for release since 1999, his applications have been denied repeatedly. Even when they have been approved judicially, French officials have intervened at the highest levels to block his release, such as former Prime Minister Manuel Valls. U.S. officials like former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have also intervened in an attempt to block Abdallah’s release. In essence, Georges Abdallah is a prisoner not only of the French colonial state but also of U.S. imperialism and the Israeli occupation. Meanwhile, the Lebanese government has failed to live up to its responsibility in seeking the freedom of its imprisoned countryman.

Despite being held in Lannemezan prison for over 33 years of his life, Georges Abdallah is an active participant in struggle. He has written letters and issued statements in response to revolutionary struggles around the world and always maintains a special eye toward the Palestinian prisoners, who have declared him one of their own.

His words continue to inspire generations of revolutionaries, strugglers and freedom fighters. And his participation is not limited to words – indeed, he has refused meals and organized his Basque and Arab fellow prisoners in Lannemezan to do so as well, in solidarity with the hunger strikes of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.

Georges Abdallah expressed his solidarity with imprisoned Palestinian national leader, Ahmad Sa’adat, the General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, wearing a shirt demanding his release. In return, Sa’adat issued a public letter to Abdallah from Ramon prison:

We are chained by the common injustices manufactured in the United States of America, which are the same ones used in Palestine, and I do not doubt that there are many examples in all of the strongholds of imperialism.

You and those who unite with you in support and solidarity, the true comrades in France, Lebanon, Palestine and all over the world, are the natural extension of those who once carried hammers, stormed the Bastille and broke into the prison walls…the extension of those who turned the cells of the Zionist occupation into revolutionary schools from which successive generations learn the meaning of will, determination and commitment…the extension of all of the forces and movements for liberation in the world who resist for true democracy and a world free of exploitation, tyranny and subjugation, where the values of social justice, liberation and dignity prevail.

Until we meet one day in the world of freedom, you remain a symbol and a model for us to follow.

This year, on 14-24 October, we call on you to join us, in your cities, communities, neighborhoods, camps, towns and campuses, to organize events, protests, marches and activities to demand freedom for Georges Ibrahim Abdallah and all Palestinian prisoners. Events are already being organized in France, including the mass annual march to Lannemezan prison, in Ireland, in the United States, in Germany, in Spain, in Belgium and in Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine, among other locations.

Georges Abdallah is not alone; his imprisonment comes alongside that of Ahmad Sa’adat and over 6,200 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails and the prisoners of Palestine in U.S. and other international jails. They are imprisoned in an attempt to silence and suppress the anti-colonial struggle of the Palestinian people for justice, liberation and return – yet their leadership remains a symbol of hope and inspiration to all those who struggle for freedom. Join the movement to free Georges Abdallah, free Palestinian political prisoners and free Palestine, from the river to the sea!

TAKE ACTION:

1. Organize events, actions and protests at French embassies and consulates around the world. Where there is not a French consulate, protest at U.S. or Israeli embassies and consulates and in public squares. Send us your events! Use this form or email samidoun@samidoun.net

2. Join the broad national protest in Lannemezan on 21 October. Every year, hundreds arrive to demand George’s freedom, raising a call so loud the prisoners can hear us inside. Don’t miss this year’s action!

3. Distribute this call to action and take media actions, like posting photos with posters calling for freedom for Georges Abdallah and other Palestinian prisoners.

4. Endorse this call! Join in the call for events and actions for the prisoners this October. Use the form or email samidoun@samidoun.net

Posters and Materials

New posters have been designed by the Free Georges Abdallah Campaign! Get them below, in French, English and Spanish:

English (Download full size image)

French (Download full size image)

Spanish (Download full size image)

Flyer for distribution: Click here to Download PDF

Posters for Georges Abdallah Protests

Poster 1: Click here to Download PDF

Poster 2: Click here to Download PDF

Poster 3: Click here to Download PDF

Poster 4: Click here to Download PDF

Resources on Georges Ibrahim Abdallah

Coup Pour Coup 31
International Campaign to Free Georges Abdallah
Free Georges Abdallah
Al-Akhbar English Georges Abdallah Archive
Exposing the Farce of French Justice
Free Georges Abdallah on Facebook

14 October, Vancouver: Boycott HP, Shop Apartheid Free

7 October 2017

Saturday, 14 October
2:00 pm
Best Buy
798 Granville (at Robson), Vancouver, BC
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/314908705640436/

Join us for our second picket and be part of the global Boycott HP movement.
Hewlett Packard companies play a key role in Israel’s oppression of Palestinians. They provide technology, equipment and services to the Israeli military, prison system and government, including the ID card system that underpin Israel’s apartheid policies and its movement restrictions for Palestinians.
The international Boycott HP campaign has already seen 17 U.S. churches (representing 7 denominations) divest from the company and has also attracted support from student governments.
More info at: https://bdsmovement.net/boycott-hp
and
http://investigate.afsc.org/company/hp-inc

14 October, NYC: Support Freedom for Leonard Peltier!

7 October 2017

Saturday, 14 October
2:00 pm
Holyrood Episcopal Church/Iglesia Santa Cruz
715 W. 179th St, NYC
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/847588938738531/

SUPPORT freedom for NATIVE AMERICAN POLITICAL PRISONER LEONARD PELTIER!

FEATURED SPEAKERS:
Tarik Haskins, former BPP/BLA Political Prisoner, on
His Time with Leonard in the Federal Prison System

Paulette Dauteuil, ILPDC Co-Director with updates
on Leonard’s health and latest legal campaign

CULTURE AND ACTIVITIES

Mariposa Fernandez and Rafael Landron

Silkscreen workshop, bring a shirt or buy and print your own “Free Leonard Peltier” t-shirt and raffle of leonard’s art and books

Suggested donation:
$5-10; no one turned away due to lack of funds;
Light refreshments will be served.
for More info: nycfreepeltier@gmail.com

Co-sponsors: NYC free peltier, nyc jericho,
prolibertad, nyc anarchist black cross, friends of
the move 9, malcolm x commemoration committee,
international action center

11 October, NYC: ILPS & IWA Reportback: Dispatches from Peoples’ Resistance

7 October 2017

Wednesday, 11 October
6:30 pm
Project Reach NYC
39 Eldridge St Fl 4, NYC
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1768150839894126/

FIGHT AGAINST WAR AT HOME & ABROAD!
DISPATCHES FROM PEOPLES’ RESISTANCE

Join us on Wednesday, October 11 to learn more about the anti-war movement around the world. Sixteen years after the War on Terror began and the US invaded Afghanistan, we still live in a country waging constant war overseas and domestically, especially against working and poor peoples of color.

Hear the reports of delegates who attended the ILPS & IWA Resist US-Led War Movement Conference to answer the questions: What does war and occupation in Palestine have to do with housing issues in New York? Why should people who are facing struggles locally in the US be concerned with what’s happening on the other side of the world?

12 October, Uppsala: Palestinian Children in Israeli Prisons

7 October 2017

Thursday, 12 October
7:00 pm
SIU – Samarbetsorganisationen för Invandrarföreningar i Uppsala
Skolgatan 18, 75316 Uppsala, Sweden
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/134133113980588/

At least 700 children a year are detained by Israeli military.

Come to listen to the lawyer and journalist Ivan Karakashian from Ramallah in the West Bank of occupied Palestine.

He works for Defense for Children International – Palestine, which acts to protect and legally defend Palestinian children detained in Israeli military prisons. The organization also monitors the rights and protection of children regarding the treatment of minors by the Palestinian Authority.

They also provide legal support to families whose children have been detained or abused.

Organizer: Palestinska Folkets Förening i Uppsala

العربي بالأسفل
PALESTINSKA BARN I ISRAELISKA FÄNGELSER
-INGET SÄTT ATT BEHANDLA ETT BARN PÅ!

Israeliska barn sätts inte i fängelse, men det sker med palestinska barn. Minst 700 barn per år fängslas av israelisk militär.

Välkommen att lyssna på juristen/journalisten Ivan Karakashian från Ramallah, Västbanken.
Han arbetar för Defense for Children International Palestine, som försöker skydda och juridiskt försvara palestinska barn som fängslas och sätts i israeliska militära fängelser. Organisationen bevakar också barns rätt och skydd vad gäller palestinska myndighetens behandling av minderåriga.

De ger också juridiskt stöd till familjer där barnen misshandlats eller beskjutits.

Alla intresserade är välkomn
Torsdag 12 oktober 19.00

Lokal: SIU – Skolgatan 18
Arrangör: Palestinska Folkets Förening i Uppsala.

Information:
FAKTA
Ivan Karakashian är jurist och samordnare för påverkansarbetet inom Defense for Children International – Palestine (DCIP). Han har 15 års erfarenhet av rapportering om Mellanöstern och Nordafrika.

Defense for Children International – Palestine (DCIP) ger direkt och gratis rättshjälp till palestinska minderåriga i det israeliska militärdomstolssystemet och det palestinska ungdomsrättssystemet och arbetar för att begränsa fängelsestraff för minderåriga. DCIP avslöjar grava kränkningar av de mänskliga rättigheterna, inklusive tortyr och annan grym, omänsklig eller förnedrande behandling eller bestraffning, mot palestinska minderåriga under det israeliska militärdomstolssystemet och det palestinska ungdomsrättsliga systemet och håller förövarna ansvariga. DCIP arbetar för politiska förändringar som ska öka skyddet för palestinska minderåriga.

DCIP tillhör den globala rörelsen Defense for Children International, där varje sektion är autonom i sin programmering och finansiering. Organisationen har medlemskap i det palestinska mänskliga rättighetsorganisationsrådet. DCIP är den enda lokala barnrättsliga icke-statliga organisationen i Palestina, som är avsedd att försvara och främja barns rättigheter som bor på Västbanken, inklusive Östra Jerusalem och Gazaremsan. DCIP tillhandahåller gratis rättshjälp till palestinska barn.

DCIP är ledande övervaknings- och rapporteringsorganisation för barn i israelisk militär fängelse i UNICEF-ledda arbetsgruppen för grova kränkningar mot palestinska barn, en FN-insats för att stärka övervaknings- och rapporteringsverksamheten i samband med grava överträdelser mot barn som ingår i säkerhetsrådet resolution 1612. UNICEF använder DCIPs uppgifter då man informerar FN: s generalsekreterare årligen om barn i väpnade konflikter.
Ivan Karakashian, jurist/journalist
från palestinska Defense for

العنوان : Skolgatan18
وذالك يوم الخميس الموافق 12-10-2017 في تمام الساعه السابعه مساءا ..
جمعيه الشعب الفلسطيني – اوبسالا

Samidoun in Lebanon launches first event with lecture on Georges Ibrahim Abdallah

7 October 2017

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network in Lebanon organized a symposium on the case of the imprisoned Lebanese Communist struggler for Palestine, Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, held in French prisons for 33 years. The event featured presentations by Lebanese lawyer Fidaa Abdel-Fattah and French organizer Suzanne Le Manceau, representing the Collective for the Liberation of Georges Abdallah in Paris.

The event also marked the launch of the Samidoun Network in Lebanon, coinciding with its establishment in occupied Palestine and as part of the efforts of Samidoun in Palestine and in the diaspora to build a unified Palestinian popular movement to raise awareness of the rights and struggle of Palestinian prisoners and work for their unconditional liberation from Israeli prisons and detention centers.

Human rights lawyer and activist Fidaa Abdel-Fattah delivered the main presentation at the seminar, entitled “The life of a struggler inside the prison.” She discussed the life in struggle of Georges Abdallah, just about to enter his 34th year in French prisons, also focusing on the human rights issues in his case and the importance of popular participation in the campaign to free Georges Abdallah and all political prisoners from French to Israeli prisons, across political and intellectual lines. She also emphasized the need for the Lebanese state and Lebanese officials to carry out their responsibilities in this regard and work to demand Abdallah’s return from the French state.

In addition, activist Suzanne Le Manceau said that the case of comrade Georges Abdallah is part of the struggle against Zionism, imperialism and colonial powers. It is not separate from the struggle of the people in the region for justice and liberation, she emphasized. She gave a brief account of the campaign in France and the ongoing activities for Abdallah’s freedom, including the annual march to Lannemezan prison where he is held, which will take place this year on 21 October.

“This lecture comes as a humble announcement of Samidoun in Lebanon and in Beddawi camp, emphasizing the role of the popular masses, who are the incubator of the Palestinian cause, in the struggle for the liberation of the prisoners,” said Maram Saadi, coordinator of Samidoun in Lebanon. “We look forward to working with all those concerned with the cause of freedom for the prisoners and the campaign of solidarity with Georges Abdallah in Lebanon in particular.” The event closed with participants writing letters and postcards to Abdalllah.

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