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Eleven Palestinian Political Detainees Continue their Hunger Strike

Thursday April 12, 2012

by Ghassan Bannoura
http://www.imemc.org/article/63298

Eleven Palestinian political prisoners continued on Thursday their hunger strike, Palestinian human rights groups reported. According to the report two of the prisoners, Thaer Halahla and Bilal Thiyab, have entered on Thursday their 45th day of hunger strike.

The political detainees are protesting the Israeli policy of administrative detention and ill-treatment inside detention centers.

The Israeli government uses administrative detention to hold Palestinians for unspecified time without any charges.

Last month prisoner Hana ash-Shalabi ended her hunger strike after a deal was reached to deport her to Gaza for three years before she can come back to her home in northern West Bank.

Immediately after being abducted by the Israeli army in the West Bank, Ash-Shalabi, 30, years old conducted a 43-day hunger-strike demanding an end to her illegal detention.

Brussels, April 17: Protest for Palestinian Prisoners’ Day

17 APRIL TE BRUSSEL:

MANIFESTATIE BIJ EUROPESE COMMISSIE (12-14 UUR) EN SOLIDARITEITSAVOND (18-22 UUR) 

17 APRIL TE DEN HAAG:
PICKET VAN 12.30 – 13.30 UUR VOOR DE ISRAELISCHE AMBASSADE OP HET BUITENHOF.

http://www.palestina-komitee.nl/agenda/693

EISEN 

Wij eisen de onmiddellijke vrijlating van alle Palestijnse politieke gevangenen die door Israël worden vastgehouden. Zij zijn het slachtoffer van een onwettig en onrechtvaardig rechtssysteem, dat voortkomt uit het systeem van racisme en discriminatie in Israël.

In het bijzonder eisen we dat een einde gemaakt wordt aan volgende praktijken:

  • Administratieve detentie,
  • Marteling en mishandeling,
  • Eenzame opsluiting,
  • Het illegale gebruik, in de bezette Palestijnse gebieden, van militaire rechtbanken om burgers te veroordelen.
  • Het gebruik van “geheime bewijzen”, hetgeen een flagrante schending betekent van het recht op een normale en eerlijke rechtspraak
  • De arrestaties onder de kwetsbare groepen van de bevolking, zoals kinderen, gehandicapten, ouderen en zieken.

Locatie

Brussel en Den Haag

World Federation of Trade Unions: Call to Action for Palestinian Prisoners’ Day

The World Federation of Trade Unions issued the following call on April 13, 2012:

Dear Colleagues,

Today in Israeli prisons there are 4,600 Palestinians imprisoned militants. Of these:

560 have been convicted to life imprisonment by Israeli courts. 220 are children. 24 are Members of the Parliament. 204 prisoners have died in Israeli prisons.

Among the prisoners there are great Palestinians and Arab militants who have dedicated their lives to the struggle of the Palestinian People to get their own independent homeland.

The WFTU from the first day of its establishment is firmly on the side of the Palestinian People.
On April 17th is the International Day of Action for Palestinian people for the release of all prisoners in Israeli jails. All of those militants kept illegally and undemocratically by the imperialists and their organs.

For years now the International Organizations are limited to words. They show indifference. They allow the government of Israel to kill, to imprison, and to terrorize the people of the region.

The WFTU in a joint meeting with the GUPW held recently in Ramallah decided to call upon all our affiliates and friends to act on April 17. To submit statements to the Israeli embassies in their countries, as well as international organizations and to demand the immediate release of all the militants from Israeli prisons.

We ask you all to act. To express active solidarity with the best possible way. All together on April 17 calling for:

– The immediate release of all political prisoners kept unfairly in Israeli prisons.

– To stop the settlement activity and the dismantling of the settlements.

– The immediate lifting of the unfair and inhumane blockade of Gaza Strip, the withdrawal of the Israeli army from all occupied territories, which is there since 1967, including the Golan Height and the Shebaa area of ​​southern Lebanon.

– The demolition of the racist wall.

– The creation of an independent, democratic and truly free Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital and the return of all Palestinian refugees to their homeland.

– The international community to undertake its responsibilities and to implement all decisions of the United Nations and the Security Council!

Send your protest letters, photos and statements to the following e-mail addresses:

mohammad_yahya2007@yahoo.commohiqn62@gmail.cominternational@wftucentral.org

– UN Human Rights Council: civilsociety@ohchr.org– Israeli Foreign Minister: sar@mfa.gov.il-High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy: COMM-SPP-HRVP-ASHTON@ec.europa.eu

Montreal, April 19 – An Evening of Solidarity with Palestinian political prisoners

Thursday, April 19, 2012
6:30pm until 9:30pm
Concordia University Hall Building
Room H-110
1455 de Maisonneuve West
Metro Guy-Concordia
Montreal, Quebec

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/273290676089860/?ref=ts

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(français à suivreSince 1967, it is estimated that approximately 650,000 Palestinians have been detained by Israel as part of its repression of the popular resistance. As of March 2012, there were 4,637 Palestinians behind bars in Israeli jails, among them 5 women and 183 children. In addition, there are currently 320 Palestinians being held under six month administrative detention orders, without charge or trial, which can be and usually are renewed.

While imprisoned, Palestinian political prisoners from the West Bank face a military justice system that is often characterized by trumped up charges, low standards of evidence, a lack of due process, an acceptance of torture, as well as sentencing that is disparate and far harsher than that encountered in the Israeli civil justice system. As such, the vast majority experience some form of mistreatment during their detention, including torture, coercive interrogation, isolation, food and sleep deprivation, along with the frequent denial of family and legal visits.

If Palestinian political prisoners have experienced considerable oppression in the occupation’s jails, they have also remained active participants in the Palestinian struggle for freedom and self-determination. In recent months, Khader Adnan and Hana Shalabi have captured the attention of many worldwide, staging lengthy hunger strikes to courageously confront Israel’s military justice system and protesting administrative detention practices.

On February 11, 2012, Khader Adnan issued a call, requesting that solidarity groups make April 17th- Palestinian Prisoner’s Day- an international day of action. With this in mind, during the week of April 17th, prisoner support groups and Palestine solidarity networks around the world will be gathering to demand justice and freedom for political prisoners. Please join us for a pane ldiscussion and screening to highlight prisoner struggles, affirm our support and stand in solidarity with Palestinian political prisoners.

Featuring:

* Issam Al-Yamani

A founding member of the Palestinian Left, Issam Al-Yamani is a Palestinian activist, writer and political commentor. Currently, he is also the Executive Director of Toronto’s Palestine House, which was defunded by Minister Jason Kenney in February 2012.

* Serin Atiani

A Palestinian researcher and activist, Serin Atiani has advocated for Palestinian human, civil and political rights for over a decade.

The event will also feature a screening of a video produced by Addameer, featuring an interview with Suha Barghouti, wife of Ahmed Qatamesh. A prominent Palestinian writer, academic and activist, Qatamesh is currently under an administrative detention order and has been held without charge since his arrest on the night of April 21, 2011.)

 

Organized by Tadamon! Montreal and SPHR Concordia

For more information:
*Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Organisation
www.addameer.org

*Tadamon! Montreal
www.tadamon.ca

*Solidarity For Human Rights (SPHR)-Concordia
www.sphr.org

Tadamon! Montreal
Tel: 514-664-1036
E-mail: info@tadamon.ca
Twitter:@tadamonmontreal

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Sumoud : une soirée de solidarité avec les prisonniers politiques palestiniens

Jeudi, 19 avril 2012
18h30, Université Concordia
Pavillon Henry-F.-Hall, local H-110
1455 Boul. de Maisonneuve Ouest
Métro Guy-Concordia
Montréal, Québec

Depuis 1967, il est estimé qu’environ 650 000 Palestiniens ont été détenus par Israël dans sa répression de la résistance populaire contre l’occupation. En mars 2012, on comptait quelques 4 637 Palestiniens dans les prisons israéliennes, parmi eux 5 femmes et 183 enfants. De plus, 320 Palestiniens sont présentement détenus sous ordres administratifs, sans charge ou jugement. Les prisonniers politiques palestiniens de la Cisjordanie sont soumis à un système de justice militaire qui est caractérisé par des charges vagues, des standards d’évidence très bas, un manque de procédures standards, une acceptation de la torture ainsi que de sentences incompatibles et beaucoup plus sévères que celles rencontrées dans le système judiciaire civil israélien. En conséquence, la grande majorité des prisonniers subissent de mauvais traitements au cours de leur détention, ceci incluant la torture, des interrogations coercitives, l’isolement, la privation de nourriture et de sommeil ainsi que l’empêchement fréquent de visites légales et familiales.

Si les prisonniers politiques palestiniens ont vécu de l’oppression dans les prisons de l’occupation, ils demeurent des participants actifs dans la lutte palestinienne pour la liberté et l’auto-détermination. Dans les derniers mois, Khader Adnan et Hana Shalabi ont capté l’attention de milliers à travers le monde avec leur grèves de faim de longue durée afin de confronter courageusement le système israélien de justice militaire et de protester contre les pratiques de détention administrative. Le 11 février 2012, Khader Adnan a fait appel à la communauté internationale afin de faire du 17 avril – la journée du prisonnier palestinien – un journée internationale d’action.

Avec cet appel en tête, des groupes du support de prisonniers et des réseaux de solidarité palestiniens autour du monde se réuniront afin de réclamer justice et la libération des prisonniers politiques. Veuillez vous joindre à nous pour une discussion et projection vidéo visant à jeter lumière sur les luttes des prisonniers, tout en affirmant notre support et solidarité avec les prisonniers politiques palestiniens.

Avec :
* Issam Al-Yamani
Un des membres fondateur de la gauche palestinienne, Issam Al-Yamani est activiste palestinien, auteur et commentateur politique.
Il est présentement directeur de la Maison de Palestine à Toronto, organisme qui a vu ses budgets coupés par le ministre Jason Kenney en février 2012.

* Serin Atiani
Recherchiste et activiste palestinienne, elle est active dans la lutte pour les droits politiques, civils et humains des Palestinien depuis plus de dix ans.

La soirée inclura aussi la projection d’une vidéo produite par Addameer comportant une interview de Haneen Qatamish, conjointe du prisonnier politique Ahmad Qatamish. Auteur, activiste et académicien palestinien de renom, Qatamish est présentement sous détention administrative et est détenu sans charge depuis son arrestation dans la nuit du 21 avril 2011.

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Chicago: Hungry for Justice: Fast in Solidarity with Palestinian Prisoners – April 17

Join CMPR for a community dinner and discussion with prisoner rights activist Bekah Wolf

Tuesday, April 17, 7:00pm
CAIR-Chicago Gallery
28 E. Jackson Blvd, Suite 1700

Chicago, IL 60604

**Free and open to the public, but space at the venue is limited. To ensure a seat, please RSVP to chicagompr@gmail.com as soon as possible.**

Earlier this year, Khader Adnan completed a 66-day hunger strike, the longest carried out by any Palestinian prisoner. Since then, Adnan has issued a call for April 17, 2012 to be observed as a Day of International Action on behalf of Palestinian prisoners. In response to his call, events have been scheduled to take place all over the world that day, from Vancouver to Brussels to Amman.

Since 1974, April 17 has been commemorated annually as Palestinian Prisoners’ Day. Currently there are more than 4500 Palestinians in Israeli prisons and detention centers; nearly 200 of these prisoners are children. Just like Hana Shalabi and Khader Adnan, 320 prisoners are held – without charge or trial – under administrative detention.

Here in Chicago, the Chicago Movement for Palestinian Rights (CMPR) is calling on people of conscience to fast from sunrise to sunset on April 17 in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners. According to latest reports from prisoner rights group Addameer, 8 prisoners are currently on hunger strike.

Joining us that evening via Skype will be Bekah Wolf. She is a Jewish-American activist and co-founder of the Palestine Solidarity Project. Married to former Palestinian prisoner Mousa Abu Maria, she lives in the town of Beit Ommar and has worked in the West Bank since 2003. She will speak on recent developments in the prisoner rights movement, with a special focus on child detainees and administrative detention.

Attendees will also have the opportunity to write letters on behalf of Palestinian prisoners, make political art/posters and network with local solidarity activists.

Dinner will be provided by generous local businesses. Vegetarian options will also be available. Attendees are encouraged to bring a dessert to share.

Sponsored by: Chicago Movement for Palestinian Rights (CMPR), American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), Jewish Voice for Peace-Chicago (JVP), Palestine Solidarity Group-Chicago, and US Palestinian Community Network-Chicago (USPCN)

For additional information, or to RSVP, please contact chicagompr@gmail.com

Facebook Event: www.facebook.com/events/301360836599124/

Click here to learn more about Khader Adnan’s call to action and to find out about events in other cities.

April 17, Toronto: Palestinian Prisoners’ Day: Perspectives on the Current Struggle

Tuesday, April 17

7:00 PM

Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham St., Toronto, ON

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/352427434794172/

April 17th is International Palestinian Prisoners Day. As of 1 March 2012, there were 4,637 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli prisons and detention centers, including 183 children. Just like Hana Shalabi and Khader Adnan, 320 prisoners are held–without charge or trial–under administrative detention.

Speakers:

Ameena Sultan is a lawyer practicing in Toronto. She is a director and founding member of the Arab Canadian Lawyers’
Association.

Shaira Vadasaria is an anti-racist feminist activist and doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at York University. Her areas of research attend to feminist contestations of colonial violence, occupation, incarceration and the ‘war on terror’. Her current research concerns anti-colonial strategies of political mobility advanced by Palestinian womyn political prisoners.

Issam Al Yamani is a Palestinian refugee, an activist and a writer who was been in Canada since 1985.

Join us at Beit Zatoun at 7PM on April 17th to learn more about the current situation in Israel for Palestinian prisoners and to help build the next stage of this struggle.

 

Inter-Parliamentary Union calls for freedom for PLC members, end of isolation for Ahmad Sa’adati

Kampala/Geneva, 5th April –  The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) is today calling on Israel to end the practice of administrative detention and to either immediately release members of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) held under such terms or prosecute them using normal criminal procedure if there is any criminal involvement on their part.

The call is part of a series of resolutions on human rights violations of parliamentarians adopted at its 126th Assembly in Kampala, which ended today.

Twenty-three Palestinian legislators, close to 20% of the PLC’s total membership, are currently being held in administrative detention, nine of them for more than a year and one of them more than 72 years old. Among those detained is the Speaker of the Council.

The IPU expresses serious misgivings on the ability of those kept in administrative detention to benefit from due process.

The Organization is also urging Israeli authorities to end an isolation order on another Palestinian MP, Ahmad Sa’adat, arrested two months after being elected to the PLC in 2006. In poor health and reportedly without medical attention, Sa’adat has been in solitary confinement for almost three years.

International human rights bodies, including the UN Committee against Torture, have concluded on several occasions that prolonged periods of isolation are cruel, degrading and inhuman punishment.

The IPU is seeking access to Sa’adat to ascertain his conditions of detention and reaffirming its position that his imprisonment was related to his political activities as General Secretary for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), is calling for his immediate release.

It is also reiterating its call for the release of Marwan Barghouti, arrested in the West Bank town of Ramallah and transferred to an Israeli prison. Barghouti has this week been put into solitary confinement.

Elsewhere, the Organization expressed satisfaction at the release in Myanmar of the last five members-elect of the People’s Assembly as part of an amnesty of more than 600 prisoners in January.  However, stressing that they were political prisoners held on the basis of unjust laws and unfair procedures, the IPU considers it essential that the People’s Assembly repeal these laws as a matter of priority.

It deeply regretted the deaths of seven former MPs in prison or shortly after their release due to the conditions in detention and urged authorities to put in place a new Prisons Act that will ensure prisoners are treated according to international norms.

Other resolutions on human rights cases of MPs include high profile political names such as Anwar Ibrahim in Malaysia, Sam Rainsy in Cambodia and Sheikh Hasina in Bangladesh.

The IPU Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians is currently following 77 cases involving 201 MPs from around the world.  Thirty-four of these cases are public including that of Iceland’s Birgitta Jónsdóttir whose co-production of a video released by Wikileaks led to a US court order for Twitter to hand over details of her account to the government.

 

The IPU passed resolutions on 31 cases today. Of these, five were in Africa including a new case in Cameroon; three in Europe; five in the Middle East; 12 in Asia including four in Sri Lanka and 6 in the Latin American country of Colombia.

 

To access all the resolutions in full detail, please go to:

 

http://www.ipu.org/PDF/hrres190_en.pdf

 

For further information, please contact:

 

Jemini Pandya, IPU, Tel: + 41 79 217 3374 or Email: jep@mail.ipu.org

 

Follow IPU on Twitter at IPUparliament

 

L’UIP est préoccupée par le maintien en détention et les violations des droits fondamentaux de parlementaires palestiniens et d’autres pays

 

Kampala/Genève, 5 avril – L’Union interparlementaire (UIP) appelle Israël à mettre fin à la pratique de la rétention administrative et lui demande, soit de libérer immédiatement les membres du Conseil législatif palestinien (CLP) ainsi détenus, soit de les poursuivre selon la procédure pénale normale, s’il y a des motifs de le faire.

 

Cette demande fait partie de toute une série de résolutions adoptées à la 126ème Assemblée de l’UIP qui s’achève aujourd’hui à Kampala, quant à des violations des droits de l’homme.

 

Vingt-trois parlementaires palestiniens, soit près de 20 % des membres du CLP, sont actuellement en détention administrative, pour neuf d’entre eux depuis plus d’un an. Le Président du CLP est du nombre. Soulignons aussi que l’un de ces détenus a 72 ans.

 

L’UIP doute sérieusement que ces personnes bénéficient d’une procédure équitable.

 

Elle demande en outre instamment aux autorités israéliennes de lever la détention au secret d’un autre parlementaire palestinien, M. Ahmad Sa’adat, arrêté deux mois après avoir été élu au CLP, en 2006. M. Sa’adat, qui est pourtant en mauvaise santé, ne bénéficierait pas du suivi médical requis et serait détenu à l’isolement depuis près de trois ans.

 

Les organismes internationaux de droits de l’homme, et notamment le Comité des Nations Unies contre la torture, ont affirmé à plusieurs reprises que les périodes prolongées d’isolement équivalaient à un traitement cruel, dégradant et inhumain.

 

L’UIP demande à rencontrer M. Sa’adat, de façon à pouvoir se rendre compte de ses conditions de détention. Elle continue à soutenir que son incarcération est liée à ses activités politiques de Secrétaire général du Front populaire pour la libération de la Palestine (FPLP) et demande qu’il soit immédiatement libéré.

 

Par ailleurs, l’UIP a de nouveau appelé à la libération de Marwan Barghouti, arrêté à Ramallah, en Cisjordanie, avant d’être transféré dans une prison israélienne. Cette semaine, M. Barghouti a été placé en isolement cellulaire.  

 

Au Myanmar, les cinq derniers parlementaires-élus encore emprisonnés ont été remis en liberté en janvier dans le cadre d’une opération d’amnistie touchant plus de 600 prisonniers, ce dont l’UIP s’est félicitée. Elle a toutefois souligné qu’il était urgent que l’Assemblée du peuple abroge les lois et procédures iniques autorisant la détention de prisonniers politiques.

 

Déplorant vivement le décès de sept anciens parlementaires morts en prison ou juste après leur remise en liberté en raison des conditions de détention qu’ils avaient subies, l’UIP a engagé les autorités à adopter un nouveau code des prisons qui garantirait un traitement des prisonniers conforme aux normes internationales.

 

Au nombre des autres résolutions sur les droits de l’homme des parlementaires, on citera celles qui concernent les cas très médiatisés d’Anwar Ibrahim en Malaisie, de Sam Rainsy au Cambodge et de Sheikh Hasina au Bangladesh.

 

Le Comité des droits de l’homme des parlementaires de l’UIP suit actuellement 77 cas concernant 201 parlementaires de différents pays du monde.  Trente-quatre de ces cas sont publics, dont celui de Birgitta Jónsdóttir, la parlementaire islandaise qui avait coproduit une vidéo diffusée par Wikileaks. Un tribunal américain a ordonné que des données figurant sur son compte Twitter soient communiquées au gouvernement des Etats-Unis.

 

Aujourd’hui, l’UIP a adopté des résolutions sur 31 cas, dont cinq se rapportaient à des pays d’Afrique, y compris un nouveau cas au Cameroun. Trois résolutions avaient trait à des cas européens; cinq concernaient le Moyen-Orient, 12, l’Asie, dont quatre le Sri Lanka, et six, la Colombie.

 

On trouvera le texte intégral des résolutions sur le site en anglais pour l’instant (le français sera disponible prochainement) :

http://www.ipu.org/PDF/hrres190_en.pdf

 

 

Pour toute information complémentaire, veuillez vous adresser à :

Jemini Pandya, UIP, tél: + 41 79 217 3374 ou courriel: jep@mail.ipu.org

Suivez l’actualité de l’UIP sur Twitter @ IPUparliament

New Berlin, NY woman on hunger strike for Palestinian prisoners

The following article ran in the New Paltz Daily Star on April 6, 2012:

Woman on hunger strike for Palestinian prisoners

By Jake Palmateer

A New Berlin woman said Thursday that she is 15 days into a hunger strike over Israel’s treatment of Palestinians.

“I’m getting weaker,” Sandra Twang said.

Twang said she is protesting Israel’s administrative detention policy for Palestinians and was inspired by the recent hunger strikes of two prisoners.

“I have been reading about the Palestinians for a couple years now and the conditions they live under,” Twang, 57, said by phone to The Daily Star.

Twang said she learned last year of a prisoner named Khader Adnan.

Khader Adnan went on a 66-day hunger strike last year after being detained by Israeli authorities. He was eventually released from detention.

“During his hunger strike he did appeal to the courts and his appeal was denied,” Twang said. “I just watched with such sadness and such rage.”

And earlier this year, she followed another case — that of Hana Shalabi.

Shalabi went on a 44-day hunger strike after she was arrested. Her strike ended when she was released from prison and deported to the Gaza Strip.

Earlier this week, Shalabi sent letters to U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.; Rep. Richard Hanna, R-Barnevald; and President Barack Obama.

In her letters, she urges them to request Israel to:

“¢ charge and allow due process for all Palestinians being held under administrative detention or release them;

“¢ end the practice of administrative detention in accordance with international and human rights law;

“¢ respect international, human rights and humanitarian law during arrest and detentions in the Palestinian territories.

Twang, a certified nursing assistant, said she has been on worker’s compensation since last June for a back injury. She said she has consulted with her doctor, who agreed to monitor her hunger strike.

Twang, who lives with her 17-year-old son, said she started off drinking tea and water, along with vitamins. But she said she is now drinking mostly just water with lemon.

“My stomach is getting to the point where it doesn’t want (tea) anymore. I am still able to get my vitamins down every day,” she said. “I get very shaky sometimes. I can still get around and still do chores, but I have to rest a lot.”

Twang said she has gone from 198 pounds to about 183.

Twang said she has not decided how long she will continue her hunger strike. That, she said, will depend on what sort of feedback she gets.

“My government needs to take Israel to task,” Twang said.

A representative from Schumer’s office called her Wednesday to acknowledge her letter was received, and he urged her to stop the hunger strike.

Radio Against Apartheid features Addameer

The following description comes from Radio Against Apartheid. Download the full episode here.
This week on Radio Against Apartheid, we honor the memories of Juliano Mer Khamis, Martin Luther King Jr., and Trayvon Martin.

We are joined on the program by a representative of Addameer, the Palestinian Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association to talk about the recent hunger strikes of Hana Al Shalabi, Khader Adnan, the process of administrative detention, and the “kangaroo courts” of the Israeli military in the occupied territories.
Palestine News Network provides a tribute to the memory of Juliano Mer Khamis, and gives a wrap-up of this week’s news in the occupied territories.
Finally, we are proud to conclude the show with a song from Philadelphia’s own tUnE-yArDs, who back in January canceled their show in Tel Aviv as a demonstration of their support for the Palestinian call for a cultural boycott of Israel.
It should be noted that in the United States prisoners are being unjustly held in solitary confinement. Two such cases which have gotten the attention of the BBC and Amnesty International are those of Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace, two black men held in solitary for almost 40 years.
Please sign Amnesty’s petition to LA state governor Bobby Jindal to have them both released to general population, and to hold the state accountable for this cruel and inhumane punishment.
Direct download: Show_23.mp3

Columbia University to livestream “Carceral Politics and Palestine” tonight, 6 PM EST

The Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University is hosting “Carceral Politics and Palestine” tonight, Thursday April 5. For those not able to attend, Columbia will be livestreaming the event, which you can watch below:

Live stream videos at Ustream

This panel will explore comparative approaches to Israeli prisons and detention. PANELISTS:

Judith Butler, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Lena Meari, Center for Palestine Studies Fellow, Columbia University
Mai Masri, Independent Documentary Filmmaker, Beirut, Lebanon
Angela Davis, Prison Activist and History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz

This event is brought to you by the Center for Palestine Studies and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender and generously co-sponsored by:

The Barnard Center for Research on Women
The Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race
The Heyman Center
The Department of Anthropology
The Office of Diversity, GSAS
Center for Gender and Sexuality Law
The Institute for Comparative Literature and Society