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18 March, Paris: Solidarity rally to support Palestine organizations dissolved by French state

PALESTINE VAINCRA ! PALESTINE ACTION!

Let’s show our unconditional support for our comrades in struggle!
March 18, 2022, at 6 p.m.: Gather at Ménilmontant metro station (Paris 20th arrondissement)
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1166604657504908/

Gather, FRIDAY MARCH 18, AT 6 PM, AT METRO MENILMONTANT
Solidarity is our weapon! Towards victory!

Organized by the Unitary Campaign for the Liberation of Georges Abdallah
Campagne.unitaire.gabdallah@gmail.com

26 March, Vancouver: Stand for Palestine: Commemorate Land Day

Saturday, 26 March
2 PM
Commercial/Broadway Skytrain
Vancouver
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/491572399044429

Join us on Saturday, March 26 for a Palestine stand! We’ll distribute information, materials, stickers and more, as well as sign letters to support the Boycott Israeli Wines campaign. Take solidarity photos, and bring signs, banners, Palestinian flags and keffiyehs!

March 30 is the Day of the Land, when Palestinians and supporters of Palestine commemorate and continue the struggle to remain on the land and to liberate the land from Zionist colonialism. At this Palestine Stand, we will commemorate Land Day and the ongoing struggle for Palestinian liberation.

26 March, Albuquerque: Palestine Land Day Rally

Samidoun Albuquerque invites everyone to join us on Saturday March 26 to commemorate Palestinian Land Day and to highlight the ongoing struggle for Palestinian National Liberation and the struggle to free Palestinian Prisoners.

Palestine Land Day Rally
2pm Tiguex Park
Saturday March 26.
Albuquerque
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/665516037831453

If your organization would like to endorse, speak, or be part of planning please message us here on facebook.

The Day of the Land has become a national commemoration of the entire Palestinian people, inside and outside occupied Palestine. It marks the unity of the Palestinian people in confronting Zionism, colonization and occupation and in celebrating the continuing and unbreakable ties to the land of Palestine that cannot be erased by military might. It is a day for the Palestinian refugees struggling for return and every fighter against colonialism.

In 2018, the Day of the Land once again bore witness to the popular organizing of the people, as thousands upon thousands gathered in Gaza for the Great March of Return, and occupation forces again shot down Palestinians defending their land and upholding their rights. 42 years after the first Land Day massacre, Israeli occupation forces killed 16 martyrs of the land and return, with over 200 more shot down in the marches over the months and days to come.

On Land Day, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network affirms that this day continues to reflect the commitment of the Palestinian people to liberate their land from the river to the sea and to resist all forms of colonization.

Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network is an international network of organizers and activists working to build solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in their struggle for freedom.

18 March, Berlin: International Day of Political Prisoners

International Day for Political Prisoners

Internationaler Tag der politischen Gefangenen

اليوم العالمي للأسرى السياسيين

Call to participate in the demonstration on 18 March 2022 at Rathaus Neukolln, Berlin

Aufruf zur Teilnahme an der Demonstration zum 18. März 2022 in Berlin

دعوة للمشاركة في المسيرة وفاءاً وعرفاناً لنضال الأسرى السياسيين يوم الجمعة الموافق ١٨ آذار ٢٠٢٢ أمام بلدية نوي كولن – برلين

Friday, 18 March
6 pm
Rathaus Neukölln, Berlin

On this day, we take to the streets to show our solidarity with the prisoners who fight fascism consistently and daily defend their political identity behind bars.

Come to the demo to show your support for political and revolutionary prisoners. We want to highlight their faces, voices and struggle. We will not forget the prisoners in the dungeons and torture chambers of imperialists and capitalists, those who fight in against exploitation and oppression.

Let us show the prisoners they are not alone, as a front against repression, an international front of solidarity!

Freiheitskomitee Berlin
Komitee für den Anti-Imperialistischen Kampf
Netzwerk Freiheit für alle politischen Gefangenen Berlin
Samidoun Deutschland

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Freitag, 18. März um 18 Uhr
Rathaus Neukölln, Berlin

Wir wollen an diesem Tag auf die Straße gehen, um unsere Solidarität mit
entschieden haben, den Faschismus konsequent bekämpfen und jeden Tag
ihre politische Identität hinter Gittern verteidigen.

Kommt zur Demo und zeigt denden politischen und revolutionären Gefangenen zu zeigen. Wir wollen ihre

Gesichter, ihre Stimmen und ihren Kampf auf die Straße tragen.
Vergessen wir die Gefangenen nicht, welche weltweit in den Kerkern und
Folterkellern der Imperialisten und Kapitalisten eingesperrt sind.
Diejenigen die sich für den Kampf gegen Ausbeutung und Unterdrückung

Gefangenen, dass sie nicht alleine sind,
lasst uns eine Front gegen Repression sein – eine internationale Front
der Solidarität!

Freiheitskomitee Berlin
Komitee für den Anti-Imperialistischen Kampf
Netzwerk Freiheit für alle politischen Gefangenen Berlin
Samidoun Deutschland

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نذهب لنعبر عن تضامننا مع الأسرى السياسيين والثوريين لنعطيهم الحد الأدنى من حقهم ولنروي قصص كفاحهم العادل ونحتضن نضالهم ونردد صوتهم العالي من السجون لنوصله ونرفعه هنا وفي كل بيت وزقاق.
لكي لا ننسى أخواتنا و إخواننا الأسرى الذين يتعرضون لشتى أشكال التعذيب والإضطهاد الجسدي والنفسي في زنازين الإمبريالية والرأسمالية.
لنتذكر الذين سَخَّروا جُل حياتهم في مقاومة القمع والإستغلال والطبقية والفاشية والذين يدافعون ليل نهار عن هويتهم ضد محاولات الطمس والترهيب خلف قضبان العدو.

نناديكم وندعوكم للخروج والمشاركة بشكل فعال في المظاهرة والالتفاف والتلاحم جنباً إلى جنب مع جميع الأسرى لكشف وفضح الجرائم التي تُرتَكَب في حقهم ولنبني جبهة موحدة ضد القمع والقهر الذي يتعرضون له من ألمانيا حتى فلسطين ومن الفيليبين حتى فرنسا ومن تشيلي حتى كردستان وتركيا وصولاً إلى اليونان وإلى كل أنحاء العالم من أجل جبهة أممية موحدة في وجه الإمبريالية وأدواتها!

لجنة الحرية – برلين
شبكة الحرية لجميع الأسرى السياسيين – برلين
لجنة مناهضة الإمبريالية
صامدون – ألمانيا

30 March, NYC: Land Day march to #DefundRacism and #DefendPalestine

Wednesday, 30 March
5 pm
60 E 42nd St
New York, NY 10165
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/652247569187930/

March against Zionist settler groups, in support of the Palestinian resistance, and for the liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea.

11 March, Online Event: Before the Palestine 6, There Were the Holy Land 5: A Discussion on “Terror” Designation of Human Rights Groups in Palestine and the U.S.

Friday 11 March
11:30 am Pacific/2:30 pm Eastern/9:30 pm Palestine
Watch on Patreon: patreon.com/civilfreedoms
Or register on Zoom: bit.ly/HLF5Webinar
Organized by the Coalition for Civil Freedoms

Before the Palestine 6, There Were the Holy Land 5: A Discussion on “Terror” Designation of Human Rights Groups in Palestine and the U.S.

Last October, the world was outraged when the Israeli authorities designated six human rights organizations in Palestine to be “terrorists.”

But this is not new. For over a decade, the U.S.-based Holy Land Foundation Five have been in U.S. federal prisons because of similar allegations from the Israeli authorities: Bush Administration prosecutors cited Israeli military claims and witnesses to shut down the Holy Land Foundation, seize its $15 million dollars in charity for Palestine and other suffering communities, and jailed their leaders using the same spurious reasoning that was used to shut down the Six. CCF and allies are now spearheading an effort calling on the Biden Administration to release the Holy Land Foundation Five as the Israeli military’s accusations of terrorism against charities and human rights defenders plummet in credibility.

Join CCF as we discuss the criminalization of charity and human rights by Israel and the United States with Miko Peled, author of Injustice: Story of the Holy Land Foundation, Omar Shakir, head of Human Rights Watch’s Israel / Palestine Department who was targeted for deportation by Israel, and Asma Elashi, daughter of Holy Land Foundation co-founder Ghassan Elashi.

Watch on Patreon: patreon.com/civilfreedoms
Or register on Zoom: bit.ly/HLF5Webinar
#StandWithThe6 #FreetheHLF5

12 March, Online Event: Women on the Frontlines: Political Prisoners from Palestine to the Philippines

Saturday, 12 March 
4 pm Pacific/7 pm Eastern (13 March, 8 am Manila time)
Register to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0oLpFfYmQjyXu3-fQbqc8w

From Palestine to the Philippines lets join the movement to set political prisoners free. Following speakers will be highlighting the struggles and resistance of Women Political Prisoners in Palestine and the Philippines.

Fides Lim is a writer and editor, and a former political prisoner form the Philippines. Organizer with KAPATID, a support organization of families and friends of political prisoners in the Philippines.

Cora Agovida is an organizer of the GABRIELA women’s group in Metro Manila region and a former political prisoner.

Charlotte Kates is the international coordinator of Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network.

Maricon Montajes is a filmmaker and former political prisoner from the Philippines. Her recent work is A River of Tears and Rage, a documentary film culled from Kodao Production’s live media coverage of the burial of River Emmanuel Nasino, the baby of Reina Nasino, a political prisoner.

11 March, Brussels: Rally against the dissolution of associations in France

Friday 11 March
6 p.m.
Boulevard du Régent 42
Brussels, Belgium
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/2154328294724782/

In yet another attack on the Palestine solidarity and liberation movement, French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin has called for the Collectif Palestine Vaincra to be dissolved. This request for dissolution comes a few weeks after those which targeted Nantes Révoltée and the CCIF.

What the police of the Macron regime cannot beat, maim or harass, the French state prohibits in an extra-judicial procedure, trampling once again on the democratic freedoms of association and expression that it claims to embody. 

This attack is also one more example of the unfailing collaboration of the French State with the Israeli State, and of its unfailing support for the colonial, racist and apartheid policy of the Zionist entity.

Solidarity with Palestine will not be silenced!
For a free, secular and democratic Palestine from the river to the sea!
Solidarity against dissolutions!

11 March, Berlin: Rally: we must defend our freedom of speech for Palestine

Rally: we must defend our freedom of speech
On Friday 11.03.2022 at 10am
Kirchstraße 6, 10557 Berlin

The trial of Palestinian writer Khaled Barakat will be heard in a German court on March 11, 2022. Barakat is fighting the political ban imposed on him by the Berlin immigration office to participate in political and social events and activities, and the order to expel him from the country for four years. Barakat was deported from Germany in August 2019 and has filed an appeal against the immigration authority’s action.

Khaled Barakat’s trial is not an isolated case; it is part of the systematic attack on Palestinian organizing, political expression and freedom in Germany. Germany hosts one of the largest Palestinian communities in Europe, but its official policies not only support the Zionist colonization of Palestine, but also crack down on Palestinian and pro-Palestinian expression in Germany.

French government officially dissolves the Collectif Palestine Vaincra — Collectif launching its appeal

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network republishes the below statement from our member association, the Collectif Palestine Vaincra, under severe attack in France, where Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin has just announced the “administrative dissolution” — essentially banning — of the collective. Please share this statement widely and take action to defend Palestinian rights and liberation, from Toulouse to Jerusalem: 

Take action:

French government officially dissolves the Collectif Palestine Vaincra — the Collectif will appeal to the Council of State

On Wednesday, 9 March 2022, French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced on Twitter the dissolution of the Collectif Palestine Vaincra for “calls to hatred, violence and discrimination”. We are outraged by this purely political decision and denounce this full-scale attack for “thought-crime”! For three years, the Collectif Palestine Vaincra, by supporting the Palestinian people, has clearly displayed and defended its anti-racist and anti-colonialist positions and we reaffirm them today. Through this outrageous attack and these abject accusations, French president Emmanuel Macron and his government seek to gag the entire Palestine solidarity movement and continue their unconditional support for Israel and the illegal colonization of Palestine unchallenged.

The dissolution of the Collectif Palestine Vaincra today is one more step in the criminalization of the solidarity movement with the Palestinian people. And it is indeed all anti-colonialist and anti-racist organizations that are targeted today. More than ever, we must stand up against this grave offensive against fundamental freedoms and this attack on the most basic rights of freedom of expression. The Collectif Palestine Vaincra is now dissolved but the fight continues. We will soon appeal to the courts of the Council of State to defend ourselves. We therefore call on all organizations, groups and individuals to mobilize to denounce this dissolution once again! The Collectif Palestine Vaincra calls upon all of its supporters and the supporters of the Palestinian cause to organize actions and rallies in the coming days! We will not give in!

Long live the struggle of the Palestinian people!
Palestine will live, Palestine will win!

Collectif Palestine Vaincra

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Watch the webinar on the attacks on Palestine in Europe:

Read the full statement from the Collectif debunking the French government’s allegations: Why is French president Emmanuel Macron asking to ban the Collectif Palestine Vaincra?

Take Action: 

  1. Individuals: Sign the petition in support of Collectif Palestine Vaincra! Add your signature here. https://www.change.org/p/non-%C3%A0-la-dissolution-du-collectif-palestine-vaincra
  2. Organizations: Sign the solidarity statement for Collectif Palestine Vaincra. Add your organizational endorsement here: https://bit.ly/defendcpv 
  3. Stand against criminalization of Palestinian rights in France with a statement or action! Send organizational solidarity statements to collectifpalestinevaincra@gmail.com (and copy us at samidoun@samidoun.net. Protest at a French embassy or consulate in your area. Find the embassy near you: https://www.embassy-worldwide.com/country/france/
  4. Call the French embassy or consulate in your area and speak up about the targeting of CPV! Find the closest French embassy or consulate in your area: https://www.embassy-worldwide.com/country/france/ For easy reference, the French embassy in the US can be reached at +1 (202) 944 6000, the French embassy in Canada at +1 (613) 789-1795, and the French embassy to the UK at [+44] (0) 207 073 1000. Find the embassy near you: https://www.embassy-worldwide.com/country/franceWhen you call, say, “My name is _____ and I am calling from _____. I am calling about the Interior Minister’s statement today that he will dissolve and ban two pro-Palestine organizations. This is an outrageous attack on freedom of expression. I stand with Palestine and with the Collectif Palestine Vaincra, and France should stop these attacks immediately.”
  1. Take an individual or group photo or video with the campaign posters (below), make your own sign and share on social media! Tag us on FacebookTwitter or Instagram and use the hashtag: #SolidaritéCollectifPalestineVaincra

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