Saturday, 30 September 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Part of the PCE Fiesta Carpa 1 Manolo Gil Auditorio Municipal Villa de Vallecas C/Monte de Montjuich, 7. Vallecas (Madrid)
Presented by: Manuel Pineda, chair of the Middle East commission of the Communist Party of Spain
Speakers: Leila Khaled, historical Palestinian figure, of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, leader in the movement for refugees’ right of return
Sira Rigo, federal committee of the PCE
Jorge Ramos Tolosa, BDS movement activist in the Spanish state and co-author of the book, Existence is Resistance.
Coloquio “Existir es resistir” de solidaridad con Palestina”
Presenta: Manuel Pineda. Responsable de la Comisión de Oriente Medio del PCE.
Intervienen: Layla Khaled, dirigente histórica del Frente Popular para la Liberación de Palestina (FPLP), líder del movimiento por el derecho al retorno de los refugiados; Sira Rego, Comité Federal del PCE y Jorge Ramos Tolosa, activista del movimiento BDS en el Estado español y coautor del libro “Existir es resistir”.
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network expresses our strongest solidarity with Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi as she confronts racist attacks, including a federal lawsuit launched by right-wing Zionist organizations.
The “Lawfare Project” filed a lawsuit against Prof. Abdulhadi, director of the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas (AMED) program at San Francisco State University (SFSU) as well as several SFSU administrators, attempting to accuse them of creating a “hostile environment” for Jewish students on campus.
Far from reflecting reality, this lawsuit is only the latest in a slew of attacks launched by Zionist organizations in an attempt to silence Palestinian activism, narratives and scholarship and to criminalize Palestinian students, faculty and education itself within the U.S. academy. At SFSU and beyond, Prof. Abdulhadi and Palestinian and Arab students – for example, the members of the General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS) at SFSU, of which Prof. Abdulhadi serves as faculty mentor – have been subject to a series of assaults.
Racist posters bearing crude likenesses and lists of names, labeling faculty and students as “supporters of terrorism,” have repeatedly been posted on campus at the behest of David Horowitz’s so-called “Freedom Center” in an attempt to intimidate and silence support for Palestine. Anti-Palestinian and anti-Arab racism have run rampant on campus with little check from university officials.
It should also be noted that this latest attack by the Lawfare Project comes following numerous attempts to stop SFSU’s partnership with An-Najah University in Palestine, to prevent Dr. Abdulhadi from doing her work and to silence student activism for Palestine and GUPS organizing on campus. From AMCHA to the Simon Wiesenthal Center to Campus Watch, Stand With US, Middle East Forum and a number of other Zionist organizations, her work and scholarship has been a major target of coordinated attacks.
It should be noted that the lawsuit is an attack not only on Palestinian scholarship but on the College of Ethnic Studies, defending itself for years from defunding. It is an attack on, as Prof. Abdulhadi herself wrote, “the spirit of ’68,” of the movements on and on campus: Black, Latinx, Asian, Palestinian, Arab and other social justice, anti-racist and anti-colonial movements struggling for self-determination, confronting imperialism and reclaiming their scholarship and narratives. The College was created out of the 1968 student strike, and the Lawfare Project attempts to depict Ethnic Studies itself as leading to a “disturbing and consistent pattern of anti-Jewish animus,” thus attacking all anti-colonial, anti-racist scholarship that emphasizes oppressed peoples.
Further, we also are clear that this lawfare attack is part and parcel of the criminalization of Palestinian organizing and resistance. Prof. Abdulhadi has come under attack for leading programs like the Prison, Labor and and Academic Delegation to Palestine, building connections between Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails and U.S. political prisoners and liberation movements. She has been attacked repeatedly for meeting with major Palestinian political figures like Leila Khaled, a prime example of the use of “anti-terror” rhetoric and legislative threats to silence Palestinian academia and activism.
The campaign has attempted also to criminalize Palestinian student organizing both in the United States and in Palestine, attempting to demonize students at An-Najah University as unacceptable and illegitimate just as those same students face daily night raids and arrests by Israeli occupation forces. This rhetoric comes hand in hand with the attempts to shut down GUPS and other students mobilizing for Palestine on the SFSU campus by targeting them with false claims of anti-Semitism, when in fact they are deeply committed to anti-racist and liberatory struggle.
This groundless lawsuit by the Lawfare Project is yet another attempt to marginalize and suppress Palestinian narratives and realities. From the targeting and deportation of former prisoner and community leader Rasmea Odeh, to the imprisonment of the Holy Land Five, to the surveillance of mosques, community groups and student organizations by police and FBI, to the promotion of anti-BDS legislation, to “anti-terror” laws and “terror” labeling that mirror Israeli occupation lists and labels and seek to silence and suppress Palestinian and solidarity organizing, we stand against all of these attacks and support those on the front lines confronting repression.
We join with many other organizations, students and faculty across the United States and around the world, in support of Prof. Abdulhadi against this malicious lawsuit. We call upon SFSU and the CSU system to provide Prof. Abdulhadi with independent, high-quality legal representation of her choice at no cost to ensure that she receives a thorough and proper defense, and we demand that the university and CSU system publicly and clearly uphold Prof. Abdulhadi’s academic freedom rights, defend her academic integrity, and refuse to settle this lawsuit in any way that concedes to any of the allegations made.
We also express our full support to all of the students and faculty targeted in the ongoing racist posters and attacks on California university campuses and emphasize the importance of official university support and proper funding for the AMED program and the College of Ethnic Studies. Defending these programs and the right to not only protect but expand and enhance Palestinian scholarship is critical to confronting these racist attempts to silence and intimidate.
On October 1, 2017 at 6pm, Anthology Film Archive in NYC will host the first US screening and revival of the internationally acclaimed film “Kafr Qassem” a 1974 Franco-Belgo-Syrian co-production by Film Maker, Borhane Alaouié.
On an October afternoon in 1956, Israeli military impose a curfew on Arab villages with little notice. Arriving home after working in the fields, the villagers of Kafr Kassem were left unaware of the curfew or their violation of the curfew. Later that night, Israeli forces surround the town.
This film reconstructs the events leading up to that oft-commemorated event while sharing the quotidian activities of the townspeople so stoically, the viewer is left on edge by the eeriness of the human attempt at normalcy under unusually challenging conditions.
The film premiered in 1974 at the Carthage Film Festival [1]where it won top Award for Best Film, Tanit D’Oro, and was honored and nominated for the Golden Prize at the Moscow Film Festival of 1975. Despite its regional accolades and reach, the film was only briefly run, screened in only a few locations outside Syria and Lebanon and remained dormant almost immediately after its release because of the political crises brewing in the region at the time, leaving the film largely forgotten until now when a group of volunteers found the film and began the translation and subtitling to be able to bring it to the English speaking world.
Using Pontecorvo’s 1966 “The Battle of Algiers” as a visual and political framework for its depiction of the massacre, the film skillfully refuses to force any conclusions upon its audience. The General who ordered the massacre is depicted with same seeming objectivity as Lieutenant-Colonel Mathieu in the “Battle of Algiers.”
The film is made in Pontecorvo’s hallmark style of newsreel and documentary, using fictional realism to tell the story of the Arab workers and their massacre in 1956. The film begins with the testimony of the General, while the workers are introduced through the narrative of the spy as he meets with military officials. The film continues its serpentine meandering as it leads us to the fateful doom of the characters.
Alaouié uses near scientific accuracy in his depiction of the events, relying on official transcripts and records to build the narrative. The audience is also treated to glimpses of the daily life of the townspeople, their history, their humanity and their ability to manage normalcy and humor in this surreal context.
Acclaimed French film critic, Serge Daney, called filmmaker-director Borhane Alaouié a “topographer-filmmaker” for his seeming laissez faire approach to provoking thought in his audience.
Alaouié began his career in 1968 and explained that this film was a break from the sort of activism in his circles at the time– despite the subject matter– stating that, “[f]riends asked me, ‘You do not think that with the money of this film it would be better to buy Kalashnikovs? ‘I said ‘Kalashnikovs we have, movies, no.’ So, I went on.”
The film stars prolific Syrian actors Salim Sabri, Abdallah Abbassi, Shafiq Manfaluti and Charlotte Rushdie.
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[1] Carthage Film Festival celebrates Arab and African cinema, is the oldest event of its kind still active in Africa and the first of its kind in the Arab world, launched in 1966.
Rasmea Odeh at Chicago send-off. Photo: Rasmea Defense Committee
On 19 September, Palestinian former political prisoner and beloved community leader Rasmea Odeh was forced to leave the United States after years of attacks by the FBI and the Department of Justice. She was sent off with the love, solidarity and admiration of hundreds of people who were present with her at O’Hare airport in Chicago as well as in the thoughts and hearts of thousands more across the United States and around the world.
Speakers at the farewell included Hatem Abudayyeh of USPCN, Frank Chapman of the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression, representatives of Anakbayan, JVP Chicago and a number of other organizations. “We will liberate Palestine because of the Rasmea Odehs of the world,” said Abudayyeh.
Odeh herself addressed the group. “They began to destroy my life but I want to tell you, I am strong, they will not destroy me,” she said. “Even if they deport me out of this country, I will continue our struggle.” ICE blocked her supporters from entering the airport to walk with her to check-in and security after several hours of rallying outside the entrance to O’Hare’s international terminal.
Crowds of friends and family awaited Odeh in Amman, Jordan after a 12-hour flight from Chicago, embracing her and welcoming her.
Odeh, 70, fought strongly and bravely against an immigration case brought against her in October 2013. A survivor of severe sexual torture at the hands of Israeli occupation forces who arrested and imprisoned her in 1969, she served 10 years in Israeli prison before winning her freedom in a prisoner exchange with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in 1979.
Her story was told before the United Nations and in London’s Sunday Times in 1979; she was well-known as a former political prisoner and torture survivor. After coming to the United States in 1994, she became a community leader in Chicago, founding the Arab Women’s Committee of the Arab American Action Network and organizing hundreds of Palestinian and Arab women throughout the city.
The attack on Odeh came as the culmination of an ongoing attack on the Palestinian community and Palestine solidarity movements in the United States, including a series of raids and grand jury subpoenas against anti-war and social justice activists in Chicago and Minnesota carried out after an FBI agent infiltrated organizations mobilizing against the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis in 2008.
After the case against the activists fell apart, the Department of Justice next moved on to Odeh, beloved Palestinian leader and torture survivor, re-victimizing her in court and attempting to portray her as a “terrorist” for resisting Israeli occupation and oppression of the Palestinian people. In 2017, she reached a plea agreement after the DoJ refiled the case in a “terror” framework after Odeh’s appellate victory allowing her to introduce evidence of her PTSD that was earlier excluded at trial.
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network salutes Rasmea Odeh, lifelong struggler for Palestine, its people and its liberation, with deepest respect and honor. She has left a deep imprint on the Palestinian community, the Palestine solidarity movement and all movements fighting racism, imperialism, colonialism and oppression in the United States and internationally. From Lifta to Chicago to Amman, she remains a leader and a symbol of Palestinian steadfastness, resilience, resistance and commitment to true liberation and justice. She is on the front lines of the ongoing march towards return and liberation.
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network stands in solidarity with 14 detained lawyers in Turkey, all members of the Progressive Lawyers Association (CHD); the 14 lawyers are all involved in the defense of the hunger strikers, Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça. We urge their immediate release and the release of all political prisoners in Turkey’s jails.
The trial of Gülmen and Özakça was scheduled to begin on 14 September; two days before, 16 lawyers were arrested by Turkish police, preventing them from appearing in the courtroom and stopping the hunger-striking activists from receiving a defense. On the 20th, they were brought before the court; 14 were charged and two of the group, Ezgi Gokten and Ahmet Mandaci, were released on probation.
The 14 detained progressive lawyers are Didem Ünsal, Aytaç Ünsal, Yagmur Ereren, Barkin Timtik, Ebru Timtik, Sükriye Erden, Engin Gökoglu, Süleyman Gökten, Ozgur Yilmaz, Aysegül Çagatay, Behiç Asçi, Aycan Çiçek, Zehra Özdemir, and Özgür Yilmaz.
Meanwhile, the phones and computers of the president of the Progressive Lawyers’ Association, Selçuk Kozagaçli, and his wife Betül Kozagaçli, both of whom work in the CHD, were confiscated; they were also informed that their legal activities were restricted. The CHD has been repeatedly subject to attacks by the Turkish state over many years, including the arrests of lawyers and human rights defenders and an October 2016 order to close the association.
Before representing the two imprisoned educators, some of the arrested lawyers, among Turkey’s most active human rights defenders, represented the family of Berkin Elvan, a 15-year-old Turkish boy killed in 2014 after he was hit on the head by a tear gas canister fired by police, as well as the families of miners killed in the Soma mine disaster in Turkey in 2014. 301 miners were killed in the massive underground fire, and the Turkish government blocked an investigation into this mass killing of workers. Hundreds of family members of the victims protested after Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan labeled the disaster, the worst mine tragedy in Turkish history, as an “ordinary thing,” despite warnings about the mine’s safety only eeks before.
The European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and Human Rights (ELDH) noted that “We are particularly concerned about the situation of attorneys Barkin Timtik, Engin Gökoglu und Özgür Yilmaz. We fear that they are (again) subjected to torture.” ELDH further notes that there are now 1,343 lawyers subject to prosecution in Turkey; 538 of them were arrested under political charges following the attempted coup in July 2016.
The 16 lawyers seized here were clearly detained in order to prevent Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça, two educators fired by the state who were then arrested for protesting their firing, from receiving a defense in court. Their arrest came in order to prevent them from carrying out their professional duties as lawyers and their responsibilities as human rights defenders for political prisoners in Turkish jails.
Photo: Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça, by Murat Bay/Sendika.Org
This is only the latest incident in an ongoing pattern of Turkish state repression in which the lawyers of political prisoners are arrested or accused in the same proceedings as their clients in order to prevent them from presenting a defense in court.
Both Gülmen, a university professor, and Özakça, a primary school teacher, began their hunger strike in Ankara in April demanding the return of their jobs after both were dismissed under the pretext of the post-coup-attempt state of emergency, in clear retaliation for their progressive political positions, despite their rejection of military coups. Only one week after the two joined rallies in Ankara in support of a mass hunger strike of Palestinian political prisoners, they were arrested on 23 May and accused of “terror” activities. Now, the lawyers face similar charges of “membership in a terrorist organization.”
They have received support from Palestinian community and solidarity organizations in Turkey as well as from Palestinian resistance icon Leila Khaled. Hassan Tahrawi of the Palestinian community in Ankara declared, “We declare our solidarity as Palestinians with Nuriye, Semih and Kemal Gün. The resistance here and in Palestine is a continuation of the historical solidarity between oppressed peoples.”
Neither Gülmen nor Özakça was brought to court for their first hearing on 14 September in Ankara; “health and security” were cited as the reasons for their absence; their trial was adjourned until 28 September, when it will convene in Sincan, near Ankara, where the two are imprisoned.
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network reiterates its solidarity with Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça, now on hunger strike for 196 days. They are consuming lemon, salt water and sugar solutions along with vitamin B1 but refusing solid foods. Their health has deteriorated and they are at risk of forced feeding and forced treatment. We join their demand for immediate release and the reinstatement of their jobs.
Samidoun declares our strongest solidarity with the 14 imprisoned lawyers and human rights defenders and demands their immediate release and the dropping of all charges against these lawyers as well as an end to the ongoing harassment and repression against the Progressive Lawyers Association (CHD) and other lawyers and human rights defenders in Turkey.
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network demands the release of all of the Turkish and Kurdish political prisoners in Turkey’s jails. From Turkey to Palestine, justice, freedom and liberation for all political prisoners!
Palestinian youth activist and former prisoner Saleh al-Jaidi was seized by Israeli occupation forces in a dawn raid on his family home in Dheisheh refugee camp near Bethlehem. He was previously arrested three times before. In 2010, he was held for four months and in 2015 for six months in administrative detention without charge or trial.
In 2011, he was again seized by occupation forces and imprisoned for three years. On Friday morning, 22 September, Israeli occupation forces invaded the camp and his home, ransacking his family home, overturning plants and upending furniture.
Al-Jaidi is a well-known youth activist in the camp, which has come under frequent attack by Israeli occupation forces. His brother, Yazan, is also imprisoned by Israeli occupation forces.
The infamous so-called “Captain Nidal” is the Israeli occupation commander in the area, known for both his threats against the youth of Dheisheh to “make all of you disabled” by shooting them in the legs and his specific threat to Raed Salhi, 22, killed by Israeli occupation forces when they invaded the camp and his home on 9 August.
Video of the arrest of al-Jaidi by Israeli occupation forces was distributed by Dheisheh al-Hadath, a news page serving the camp:
The young man – unarmed when he was shot – suffered in a hospital for nearly one month under armed guard, denied family visits even as he lay in a coma until his death on 3 September. Before Israeli occupation forces invaded his home and shot Salhi, he had received a call from “Nidal” in which he threatened to “shoot you in front of your mother.”
Despite the ongoing attempts to instill a reign of terror in the camp through ongoing invasions, attacks and extrajudicial executions of Palestinian youth in Dheisheh camp, the camp’s youth have retained their spirit of resistance, confronting Israeli occupation forces whenever they invade the area.
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network demands the immediate release of Saleh al-Jaidi and urges greater international mobilization against the ongoing invasions, attacks and arrests directed at Palestinian youth. We urge the freedom of all 6,200 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails and we demand that “Captain Nidal,” as well as the Israeli occupation commanders and officials that authorize his threats and terror against the youth of Dheisheh be held accountable and prosecuted for his crimes.
Three Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails are continuing hunger strikes in protest of their conditions of confinement and demanding their freedom from unjust imprisonment. Imprisoned Palestinian hunger striker Anas Shadid, 21, is experiencing deterioration of his health on his 10th day of hunger strike, reported his brother to Asra Voice. Shadid previously engaged in a 90-day hunger strike to demand his freedom from administrative detention without charge or trial. Only weeks after Shadid was released to his home village of Dura, near al-Khalil, on 24 May, he was re-arrested once again by Israeli occupation forces on 15 June 2017.
Once again, he was ordered imprisoned without charge or trial under a six-month, indefinitely renewable administrative detention order. He launched his hunger strike when he was ordered to solitary confinement in Hadarim prison and has continued his strike against isolation and his detention without charge. Two days ago, on the eighth day of his strike, he was moved to the clinic in Hadarim prison after his health began to deteriorate.
Asra Voice also noted that Ahmed Sawarka, originally from el-Arish in Egypt, but who lived in the Gaza Strip with his wife for many years prior to being seized by the Israeli occupation in 2009, is continuing his hunger strike for the eighth day. Sawarka’s sentence ended in September 2016, yet he remains imprisoned. He is demanding release to the Gaza Strip, but the Israeli occupation is insisting that he can only be released to the Egyptian Sinai.
Furthermore, fellow administrative detainee Izzadine Amarneh, 55, is also continuing his hunger strike for the sixth day after being ordered to administrative detention without charge or trial. Amarneh, who is blind, is from the town of Yabed south of Jenin and has been imprisomed since 10 September. He was previously imprisoned for six years in Israeli jails.
Khalida Jarrar, Palestinian national leader, leftist parliamentarian, feminist and advocate for Palestinian political prisoners, was issued a six-month administrative detention order on Wednesday, 12 July 2017. The order was signed by the Israeli occupation military commander over the West Bank.
Jarrar was seized by Israeli occupation forces who invaded her home in a pre-dawn raid on Sunday, 2 July, along with multiple other Palestinians subjected to early-morning raids including Khitam Saafin, president of the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees. Jarrar is a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, head of its Prisoners Committee and Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of Addameer.
The order came three days after Saafin was also ordered to three months in administrative detention without charge or trial. Administrative detention orders are issued for one to six months at a time, but they are indefinitely renewable. Palestinians have been jailed for years under administrative detention.
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Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network supports the 2018 Certain Days calendar project! This calendar highlights the art and writing of political prisoners int he United States and internationally; the 2018 calendar includes work by the Rasmea Defense Committee, in support of Rasmea Odeh, former Palestinian political prisoner forced into deportation from the United States.
Proceeds from the calendar will go to support Addameer Prisoners Support and Human Rights Association in Palestine as well as Release Aging People in Prison (RAPP), who have consistently stood not only in defense of prisoners in U.S. jails but also Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. We reprint below the new announcement that Certain Days is available for bulk pre-order, a great choice for groups supporting prisoners’ freedom and liberation.
We are getting very close to print for our 2018 Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners calendar and wanted to give you a heads up that we are now accepting pre-orders for bulk copies. Like in years past, you can buy the calendars in quantities of 10 or more at wholesale price and sell them for more, keeping the difference for your organization, campaign or infoshop. Pre-orders will ship within days of getting the calendars from the printer. We encourage you to get your pre-orders in now so you can be the first to have the calendars later this month.
Your group can buy 10 or more copies for the rate of $10 each and then sell them for $15, keeping the difference for your organization. Many campaigns, infoshops and projects do this as a way of raising funds and spreading awareness about political prisoners. Order at http://www.certaindays.org/?q=order
We think you will love this year’s calendar as its one of our best yet. This year’s theme is “Awakening Resistance,” and features art and writings by Jesus Barraza, Fight Toxic Prisons, Serena Tang, Andrea Ritchie, Roger Peet, Sophia Dawson, Rasmea Support Committee, EE Vera, Herman Bell, Fernando Marti, Alexandra Valiente, Billie Belo, Arlene Gallone Support Committee, Marius Mason, David Gilbert, UB Topia, April Rosenblum, Design Action Collective, Sundiata Acoli, Crimethinc, Annie Banks, Mutope Duguma, Xinachtli, Zola and more.
The proceeds from Certain Days 2018 will be divided among these groups: Addameer Prisoners Support and Human Rights Association (Palestine), Release Aging People in Prison (RAPP) and other groups in need.
Copies for prisoners remain at $8 (postage-paid). If you order for a prisoner, be sure to let us know who the copy is for and their full legal name and prisoner number. If you work for a publication and wish to review our calendar, please let us know. Single copies of the calendar will be available for purchase in a few weeks. Any questions can be sent to info@certaindays.org
In solidarity and appreciation,
the Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners & Prisoners of War Calendar collective
Every year, the academic year at the Catholic University of Leuven (KULeuven) begins with a procession of gowned professors from the University Hall on Namsestraat to St. Peter’s Church on the Grote Markt.
In 2016, the Stop Law Train campaign engaged in actions at the procession in protest against the participation of KULeuven in LAW-TRAIN, a research project on interrogation techniques funded by the European Union and involving the Israeli police, Bar-Ilan University alongside several European police agencies. Such cooperation with human rights violators is unacceptable, and faculty and students at KULeuven have waged a campaign to demand withdrawal from LAW-TRAIN, including 100 academics at the university and over 3,000 signatories of a national Belgian petition against the program.
Professor Luc Sels is the newly elected Rector of KULeuven. When the academic year begins, activists are urged to join students and faculty to join an honor guard with Stop LAW-TRAIN posters as a delegation presents a cake to Rector Sels with 3000 thanks and appeals to withdraw from LAW-TRAIN.
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We nodigen je van harte uit om op maandag 25 september om 9 uur ‘s morgens in de Naamsestraat in Leuven (ter hoogte van de Universiteitshal) deel te nemen aan een positieve actie om de kersverse rector Luc Sels aan te moedigen om de deelname van de KU Leuven aan Law-Train zo vlug mogelijk te beëindigen.
We willen graag met zoveel mogelijk actievoerders een EREHAAG vormen met Stop Law-Train affiches.
Een kleine delegatie zal de rector een TAART overhandigen met daarop “3000 x dankuwel” [om uit Law-Train te stappen]. Dat is namelijk het aantal ondertekenaars van de Stop Law-Train petitie. Uiteraard zullen een spandoek en infopamfletten voor voorbijgangers niet ontbreken.
Ondanks het feit dat ze op een maandagochtend plaatsvindt, mikken we toch op minstens 100 DEELNEMERS aan deze (korte) actie waarmee we de KU Leuven aanmoedigen om een moedige beslissing te nemen. In principe zal de actie slechts een half uurtje duren en zal ze tussen 9u30 en 9u45 afgelopen zijn.