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22 January, Online Event: Save Eyad – Medical Negligence in Israeli Prisons

Saturday, 22 January
12 pm Eastern (9 am Pacific, 6 pm central Europe, 7 pm Palestine)
Register to join: https://tinyurl.com/d8teachin
Info: https://mobile.twitter.com/D8forJustice/status/1482507583663611907
Organized by D8 for Palestine

The crimes of Israeli occupation are many, including medical negligence and wrongful treatment of prisoners who are often detained without charge or trial. Eyad is a detained Palestinian experiencing medical discrimination in occupation prison. So far, Eyad has endured memory loss, paralysis, and gangrened organs.

Join us on January 22 in a conversation with Eyad’s brother to learn about Eyad’s story and find out how we can demand justice for all Palestinian political prisoners!

18 January, Online Event: Free Palestinian Political Prisoners – film, discussion, fundraiser

Tuesday, 18 January
7:30 pm British time (11:30 am Pacific, 2:30 pm Eastern, 8:30 pm Europe, 9:30 Palestine)
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/free-palestinian-political-prisoners-film-discussion-and-fundraiser-tickets-238647128987?fbclid=IwAR0UxiKemtBkuZ-zvyy-1R_TsWOP-64rdWBt0PLK2DQvWbu3uN2VTPP1Mzk
Organized by Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism!
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1165846640486121/ 

Following the heroic victory of hunger striking political prisoner Hisham Abu Hawash after 141 days, join us as part of the international week of action in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners and for the release of revolutionary leader Ahmad Sa’adat.

This event will feature:

– A screening of Abby Martin’s Empire Files documentary on the struggle inside Zionist jails.
– Analysis of British collaboration in the imprisonment of Ahmad Sa’adat.
– Discussion on how we can build effective solidarity in Britain.

Funds raised will go towards supporting the Samidoun campaign and Hakoura refugees cooperative.

Donate what you can via the Eventbrite link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/free-palestinian-political-prisoners-film-discussion-and-fundraiser-tickets-238647128987

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This event is part of a series of organising meetings run by Manchester Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! with the aim of building a revolutionary, socialist and anti-imperialist movement in Britain.

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“Today, it is critical to besiege the racist, settler-colonial Zionist project, and indeed, to delegitimize this project, and to support the struggle of our people for liberation, self-determination and return as the pathway to a democratic political solution for Palestine. Our people will not bow to the governments of “Israel,” including the current government which represents the will of the colonizers and the ultra-extremist Zionist terror. I call on all forces of progress, freedom and democracy to stand by the struggle of our people through all forms of boycott: political, economic, academic and cultural of the occupation state and the creation of a real economic cost for its industries of colonization and settlement and escalating the global campaigns for boycott of all corporations that support and invest in the occupation militarily and economically.” – Ahmad Sa’adat

As we mark the 12th anniversary of the Israeli sentencing of Palestinian national liberation and international Left leader Ahmad Sa’adat, and the 12th anniversary of the brutal Israeli assault on Gaza, “Operation Cast Lead,” Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network urges all who stand with Palestine and justice for the Palestinian people to join us between 15 and 23 January 2021 in a week of action to free Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian prisoners.

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www.samidoun.net
https://freeahmadsaadat.org/
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Solidarity with Ahmad Sa’adat, Palestinian resistance leader, in the heart of downtown Toulouse

Photo: Corine Janeau

On Saturday, 15 January, the Collectif Palestine Vaincra, a member organization of the Samidoun Network, organized a Palestine Stand outside the Capitole metro station in Toulouse, France, as part of the International Week of Action to Free Ahmad Sa’adat, General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, unjustly imprisoned by the Israeli occupation.

Photo: Corine Janeau

This initiative coincided with the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the arrest of the Palestinian leader by the Palestinian Authority on 15 January 2002 as part of its “security coordination” with Israel.

Photo: Corine Janeau

Supporting the immediate release of Ahmad Sa’adat is part of supporting the release of all Palestinian prisoners, but it is also supporting the legitimacy of the resistance of the Palestinian people against the Zionist state while denouncing the criminal complicity of the Palestinian Authority with the occupation regime.

https://twitter.com/CollectifPV/status/1482372156558393345

In a crowded pedestrian street under a beautiful winter sun, organizers unfurled Palestinian flags and a large banner, reading “Freedom for Ahmad Sa’adat — Freedom for Palestine.” They displayed Boycott Israel posters and set up a stand, drawing attention from many people. For over two hours, participants distributed hundreds of flyers explaining the life and struggle of Ahmad Sa’adat, and conducted many discussions about the situation of over 4,600 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.

Photo: Corine Janeau

Many people came to the stand to write letters addressed to Ahmad Sa’adat to show their solidarity. One little girl named Lina told organizers that she had looked on a map of the world to see where Palestine was, but couldn’t find it. Her mother told us: “She asked me where Palestine was but I didn’t know how to explain it to her. Thank you for all these materials which will help me to tell her the story of the Palestinian people.”

People from France, Algeria, Italy and Turkey wrote messages of solidarity to the Palestinian people.

Dozens also posed for solidarity photos calling for the release of Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian prisoners:

 

Every month, the Collectif Palestine Vaincra organizes stands in different parts of Toulouse to support campaigns for the Palestinian people and their resistance for the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea. Contact the Collectif to get involved, or reach out to Samidoun Network to get involved in your local area outside of France.

Photo: Corine Janeau

Paris solidarity actions to free Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian Prisoners

On Saturday, 15 January, Samidoun Région Parisienne organized its monthly solidarity stand for Palestine at the Aubervilliers market near Paris, France. This month, the Palestine Stand was convened as part of the International Week of Action to free Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian prisoners. The week of action was initated by the Samidoun Network and endorsed by dozens of organizations around the world.

Ahmad Sa’adat, the General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, was arrested and imprisoned on 15 January 2002 by the Palestinian Authority, within the framework of “security coordination” with the Israeli occupation. Kidnapped in 2006 by the Israeli occupation army, he was then sentenced by a military court — which he boycotted throughout the process — to 30 years in prison for his role in the Palestinian resistance on 25 December 2008.

Activists and supporters of Samidoun distributed flyers for two hours on the importance of supporting the Palestinian people and the Palestinian prisoners. Many people stopped by to show their solidarity with the just Paletinian struggle against colonialism, racism and apartheid. Many people also took photos to show their support for the campaign to free Ahmad Sa’adat.

Samidoun Région Parisienne regularly organizes Palestine Stands at the Aubervilliers market. To get involved, please reach out via email to samidoun.rp@gmail.com or via social networks (Facebook, Twitter and Instagram)

The day before, on 14 January, the Unitary Campaign for the Liberation of Georges Abdallah organized a rally in the Ménilmontant district of Paris as part of the International Week of Action. Dozens gathered to show solidarity with Ahmad Sa’adat, Georges Abdallah, and over 4,600 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. They chanted slogans in support of the Palestinian resistance and carried Palestinian flags, banners and posters, showing solidarity with the revolt in the occupied Naqab and support for the sick prisoner Nasser Abu Hmaid.

Video: The Palestinian Cause, the Prisoners’ Movement and the Case of Ahmad Sa’adat

On Sunday, 16 January, the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network hosted a webinar for the International Week of Solidarity to Free Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian Prisoners. The webinar provided an overview of the case of the imprisoned General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and his leading role in the Palestinian prisoners’ movement and liberation struggle from behind Israeli bars.

Jakob of Samidoun Stockholm presented an overview of Sa’adat’s imprisonment and ongoing struggle, from his election as PFLP general secretary to the efforts of the Palestinian resistance to secure his release in a prisoner exchange. He invited those watching to get involved and join Samidoun and other organizations in working for a liberated Palestine.

Khaled Barakat, Palestinian activist and writer and coordinator of the follow-up committee of the Masar Badil, provided a thorough historical look at Sa’adat’s life and struggle, particularly some of the less-frequently discussed aspects of his organizing in the 1980s and 1990s, his steadfastness under interrogation, his role in the underground organizing of the PFLP, and his confrontation with the Palestinian Authority, not only when he was arrested in 2002, but his ongoing rejection of the path of Oslo. He provided insight into Sa’adat’s leadership and character, inside prison and in the larger Palestinian liberation movement. He provided a detailed examination of how the Palestinian Authority’s “security coordination” with Israel and its role as an agent of imperialist powers serves to support colonialism in occupied Palestine, including the development of this over time.

The event concluded with an informative question and answer period discussing topics like campaigns to boycott Israel, the future of a liberated Palestine and the potential of building upon the unity of Palestinians throughout occupied Palestine and in exile and diaspora.

Watch the full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3z8HiOShJc

Organizations are invited to endorse, organize events and take action for the International Week of Solidarity to Free Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian Prisoners. To find out more about how you can get involved, email samidoun@samidoun.net.

Vancouver event discusses future for Palestinian liberation movement

Palestinians and supporters of Palestine gathered in Vancouver’s Grandview Church on Saturday, 15 January for a discussion of the Palestinian liberation movement and its next steps forward. The event focused on the development of the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path movement (Masar Badil), which launched in November 2021 after conferences in Madrid, Beirut and Sao Paulo.

The event was organized by the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network in Vancouver, together with the Palestinian Youth Movement, Canada Palestine Association, BDS Vancouver – Coast Salish and the International League of Peoples’ Struggle. Khaled Barakat, coordinator of the Masar Badil follow-up committee and Palestinian writer and activist, and Hanan, student organizer and activist, spoke about their experiences attending the conference in Madrid as well as the political orientation and framework of the movement, especially its commitment to the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea.

Charlotte Kates, Samidoun international coordinator, opened the event, thanking the church for its longstanding commitment to social justice issues and providing space for movements, including the movement for justice in Palestine. She noted that the event is taking place as one of the opening events for the international Week of Solidarity to Free Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian Prisoners, with events and actions taking place in the U.S., France, Ireland, Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Sweden, Palestine and elsewhere.

Hanan, a Palestinian student organizer, spoke about her experiences attending the conference, connecting with other Palestinian youth and students across borders, and sharing resources for organizing and political education with many other young Palestinians with various experiences of struggle. She noted that the conference was a place for Palestinians inside Palestine, in the refugee camps, in Europe and in North America to come together, especially alongside the parallel events in Beirut and Sao Paulo, expanding the circle of participation. She spoke about the collaborative and committed atmosphere of the event, the lessons participants learned from one another, and the ongoing activities being undertaken by the coordinating group of students and youth following the conferences.

Khaled Barakat discussed the political framework of the movement in the context of the development of the Palestinian liberation movement. Specifically, he reviewed the mass mobilization of Palestinians during the great popular Intifada and the prior development of the Palestinian revolution — and how that progress was forcefully brought to a halt through the so-called “peace process,” including the 1991 Madrid conference and the 1993 Oslo accords signed in Washington, DC.

He discussed the need for a Palestinian alternative path to the domination of Oslo and the Palestinian Authority, to the detriment of the Palestinian people, their land and their rights. In particular, he emphasized that a small class of Palestinian capitalists, seeking benefits from a subservient alliance with the Israeli occupation, were exercising a monopoly over the Palestinian political scene and official institutions, meaning that Palestinian popular classes and the movements that represent them must take an alternative path, centering the right to return and liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea. He noted that colonizers had always sought a complicit group from among the oppressed population to serve as their agents, even though this sector does not represent the interests of the people who continue to give their lives for justice, self-determination and liberation.

The event concluded with a discussion about organizing and building upcoming initiatives of the Masar Badil, including a Palestinian student conference and a march for the right to return and freedom of the prisoners in November 2022. All were encouraged to participate in upcoming activities for Palestine in Vancouver, including the demonstration next Saturday, 22 January at 2:00 pm at Commercial-Broadway Skytrain station, calling for freedom for Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian prisoners.

16 January: Webinar – The Palestinian Cause, the Prisoners’ Movement and the Case of Ahmad Sa’adat

Join the webinar for the week of action to free Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian prisoners.

Sunday, January 16
12 pm Pacific – 3 pm Eastern – 9 pm Europe – 10 pm Palestine
Register to attend on Zoom: https://bit.ly/saadatevent
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1373940159708393

Hear from:
SAMIDOUN NETWORK on the struggle of Palestinian prisoners
KHALED BARAKAT, Palestinian writer and activist

This webinar will take place in English with French translation.

Ahmad Sa’adat is the imprisoned General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a Palestinian national liberation movement leader and a symbol of the international left and revolutionary movements.

We will mark the 20th anniversary of Sa’adat’s arrest by the Palestinian Authority in the context of “security cooperation” with the Israeli occupation. After Israeli forces violently abducted him from the PA’s Jericho Prison, he was sentenced to 30 years in Israeli prison on 25 December 2008, accused of leading a prohibited organization and of “incitement.” The PFLP, like all Palestinian political parties and resistance organizations, is labeled a “prohibited organization” by the Israeli occupation authorities.

Sa’adat is a leader in the Palestinian prisoners’ movement and the Palestinian national liberation movement and a Palestinian, Arab and international symbol of resistance to Zionism, capitalism, racism, apartheid and colonization. Targeted for his political role and clarity of vision, he remains unsilenced and unbroken, despite the oppression imposed upon him and 4,650 fellow Palestinian political prisoners.

On 15-22 January 2022, join our collective call for the freedom of Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian prisoners. Take action to escalate the boycott of Israel, end aid and support to Israel, organize for justice in Palestine and resist imperialism and colonialism.

Register to attend on Zoom: https://bit.ly/saadatevent

Georges Abdallah’s message to the International Week of Solidarity to Free Ahmad Sa’adat

Georges Abdallah, the Lebanese Arab struggler for Palestine imprisoned in French jails for over 37 years, sent the following message to people participating in the international week of solidarity to free Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian prisoners. We invite all supporters of justice in Palestine to endorse the week of action and participate in the events scheduled around the world. To send us your event, email samidoun@samidoun.net.

Comrades and friends participating in the International Week of Solidarity with our comrade, the imprisoned leader Ahmed Sa’adat

Dear ones,

Twenty years have passed since the arrest of our leader, the General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

Twenty years have passed since the deal of shame between the Palestinian Authority and the Zionist occupation authorities, under the auspices of the United States and Britain, which referred our comrade, the leader Ahmed Sa’adat, before a military court and imprisoned him in the Palestinian Authority prison of Jericho after a mock trial, with the responsibility of guarding this prison entrusted to an American-British force.

Twenty years have passed since the decision, deemed unconstitutional by the “Palestinian Supreme Court,” which, despite its powerlessness, ordered the immediate release of the captive leader, but the Palestinian Authority flouted the decision of the “Supreme Court” and was instead content with implementing the humiliating deal with the Zionist occupation authorities. And when the American-British force decided to give up the responsibility of guarding Jericho prison and withdrew in early March 2006, Mahmoud Abbas’ authority did not move a finger, nor did it release the Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and his fellow prisoners, leaving them to the occupation forces. On 14 March, the occupation forces stormed the prison, killing two martyrs and wounding twenty after an unequal confrontation between the Palestinian prisoners and guards on one side and the occupation forces on the other.

Twenty years, comrades, and the captive leader, Ahmed Saadat, and his fellow male and female prisoners, face all mechanisms of repression inside the prisons of the Zionists. Nevertheless, they act without a moment’s hesitation to take the appropriate decisions to push the movement of struggle forward. They strive to keep the flame of resistance going, despite all the obstacles, and serve as a beacon to the unity of the “social bloc” with a historical interest in revolution and liberation.

Twenty years of the most wonderful embodiment of the will to steadfastness! This represents the truest expression of adherence to the historical postulates of the masses of our committed people, to activate all energies for the sake of national unity, the necessary condition for accumulating initiatives of struggle in order to change the balance of power between the paths of the revolution and the miserable labyrinths of abject submersion in and around the treacherous negotiations, their “security coordination,” and the betrayal of the resistance fighters and the righteous martyrs.

Comrades, comrades!

Perhaps we can say that “security coordination” is the labyrinth of the path of “negotiations” with the occupier. Perhaps the arrest of our comrade, the captive leader, Ahmed Saadat, by the Palestinian Authority was the greatest of the achievements of “security coordination” between this sector that monopolizes the official Palestinian decision and the authorities of the Zionist entity. And now the importance of this “security coordination” is no longer a secret to anyone, not only for the Zionist entity, but even for all the reactionary bourgeois forces in Palestine and all over the Arab region.

In the end, the main goal of “security coordination” became, apart from the active role in suppressing all forms of resistance, especially armed ones in Palestine, to spread the “culture” of coordination, making it so that dealing with the enemy is no longer viewed as criminal and official normalization with the usurper and colonizer is simply one viewpoint among many. And within this approach, the “Palestinian Authority” and even some other Palestinian organizations condone the ongoing normalization processes between some Arab countries and “Israel.” Also, along this path we see the response of the “Palestinian Authority” to U.S. and Israeli pressures regarding support funds for the prisoners and the families of martyrs, and the measures taken against Gaza and its heroic population.

Within this framework, we also see the escalating repressive measures inside the Zionist prisons and the attacks upon the resisting people of Jenin, the assaults on the institutions working to defend the prisoners of the Palestinian revolution, and the children holding on to hot coals in the castles of dignity, our steadfast and heroic prisoners. The issue of their liberation, and not only solidarity with them despite its importance, must be placed at the top of any list of urgent tasks.

In this context, it is necessary to seriously consider how international solidarity can play its role in acting to liberate our fellow prisoners. Undoubtedly, the task of liberating the prisoners of the Palestinian revolution remains more than ever the gateway to building a comprehensive Arab resistance front to confront the crisis-ridden bourgeois regimes and imperialist propaganda.

Greetings and appreciation to the leaders of the Palestinian revolution, our steadfast and heroic prisoners, at the forefront of which is our comrade and leader Ahmad Sa’adat, General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

Yes to building a comprehensive Arab resistance front to confront normalization in all forms!

Glory and eternity to the martyrs! Victory to the masses and the struggling peoples.

Down with imperialism and its agents, the Zionists and Arab reactionaries!

Best regards to all of you.

Your friend,

Georges Abdallah

15 January, Vancouver: Palestinian Liberation: A New Path Forward

Saturday, January 15
2:00 pm
Grandview Church, 1803 E. 1st Ave
Vancouver, BC
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/209641671382697/

In November 2021, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path movement was formed at a conference in Madrid (and simultaneously in Beirut and Sao Paulo) that brought together Palestinian, Arab and international activists and organizations struggling for a free Palestine from the river to the sea.

Hear from Vancouver participants in the conference about the goals of the movement, next steps in organizing, and a vision of a liberated Palestine. Find out how you can get involved and take action.

Join us:
SATURDAY, JANUARY 15
2:00 PM
GRANDVIEW CHURCH, 1803 E. 1st Ave, VANCOUVER

Speakers: Palestinian writer Khaled Barakat; student organizer Hanan; Samidoun coordinator Charlotte Kates

This event is part of the International Week of Action to free Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian Prisoners

Please note: All public health restrictions are in place, including capacity limits

To reserve a space: email vancouver@samidoun.net — you are welcome to just come to the door!

Events and Endorsers: Join the Week of Action to Free Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian Prisoners, 15-22 January 2022

Palestinian prisoners are resistance leaders, on the front lines for justice and liberation, enduring hunger strikes and struggling relentlessly with an unbreakable will toward freedom. Join Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network and organizers for justice and liberation in Palestine around the world for the International Week of Action to Free Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian Prisoners, 15 January to 22 January 2022. 

Ahmad Sa’adat is the imprisoned General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a Palestinian national liberation movement leader and a symbol of the international left and revolutionary movements.

On 15 January 2022, we will mark the 20th anniversary of Sa’adat’s arrest by the Palestinian Authority in the context of “security cooperation” with the Israeli occupation. After Israeli forces violently abducted him from the PA’s Jericho Prison, he was sentenced to 30 years in Israeli prison on 25 December 2008, accused of leading a prohibited organization and of “incitement.” The PFLP, like all Palestinian political parties and resistance organizations, is labeled a “prohibited organization” by the Israeli occupation authorities.

Sa’adat is a leader in the Palestinian prisoners’ movement and the Palestinian national liberation movement and a Palestinian, Arab and international symbol of resistance to Zionism, capitalism, racism, apartheid and colonization. Targeted for his political role and clarity of vision, he remains unsilenced and unbroken, despite the oppression imposed upon him and 4,650 fellow Palestinian political prisoners.

On 15-22 January 2022, join our collective call for the freedom of Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian prisoners. Take action to escalate the boycott of Israel, end aid and support to Israel, organize for justice in Palestine and resist imperialism and colonialism.

EVENTS   ||  ENDORSERS  || CALL TO ACTION ||  ACTION ITEMS  || GRAPHICS  || RESOURCES

EVENTS

Organize your own event for the week of action! Email us at samidoun@samidoun.net to give us the time, date and details. Stay tuned for more announcements, including from Marseille and Tarbes!

Friday, 14 January

Paris
Demonstration for the liberation of Ahmad Sa’adat, Georges Abdallah and all Palestinian Prisoners
5:00 pm
Place Jean Ferrat – Metro 2 Menilmontant
Organized by the Unitary Campaign for the Liberation of Georges Abdallah
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/663303068178155/ 

Saturday, 15 January

Paris/Aubervilliers
Stand Palestine: Free Ahmad Sa’adat
10:30 am – 12:30 pm
Aubervilliers market, 25 rue Ferragus
Organized by Samidoun Région Parisienne
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/520542302405739/ 

Toulouse
Palestine Stand: Free Ahmad Sa’adat!
From 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Metro Capitole – Toulouse, France
Organized by Collectif Palestine Vaincra
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/487125332932047/

Gothenburg
Film screening – KOFIA: A Revolution Through Music
POSTPONED due to public health restrictions — check the ticketing site and FB for updates!
Tickets: https://kulturpunkten.nu/evenemang/kofia-a-revolution-through-music/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/233967842213835/ 

Vancouver
Panel: Palestinian Liberation – a New Path Forward
2:00 pm
1803 E 1st Ave
Vancouver, BC
Organized by Samidoun Vancouver, Palestinian Youth Movement, Canada Palestine Association, ILPS Canada, BDS Vancouver Coast Salish
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/209641671382697/ 

Sunday, 16 January

Berlin
Film Screening: Fedayin, Georges Abdallah’s Fight
6:15 pm
Ratiborstraße 14C, 10999 Berlin, Deutschland
Organized by Samidoun Deutschland
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/478608360356073/ 

Online Event
Webinar: The Palestinian Cause, the Prisoners’ Movement and the Case of Ahmad Sa’adat
12 pm Pacific, 3 pm Eastern, 9 pm central Europe, 10 pm Palestine
Register to join online: https://bit.ly/saadatevent
Organized by Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1373940159708393/ 

Monday, 17 January

Berlin
Kundgebung: Freiheit für Georges Abdullah
Am 17.01.2022 um 15 Uhr
Französische Botschaft
Am Pariser Platz 5
10117 Berlin
Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/CYy0sBzsWRi/

Tuesday, 18 January

Manchester – Online Event
Free Palestinian Political Prisoners – film, discussion, fundraiser
7:30 pm British time (11:30 am Pacific, 2:30 pm Eastern, 8:30 pm Europe, 9:30 Palestine)
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/free-palestinian-political-prisoners-film-discussion-and-fundraiser-tickets-238647128987?fbclid=IwAR0UxiKemtBkuZ-zvyy-1R_TsWOP-64rdWBt0PLK2DQvWbu3uN2VTPP1Mzk
Organized by Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism!
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1165846640486121/ 

Wednesday, 19 January

Jersey City
Palestinian Prisoner Letter-writing Social
6:00 pm
Samia Grill, 680 NJ-440, Jersey City
Organized by Samidoun NY/NJ
More info: https://twitter.com/samidounnynj 

Thursday, 20 January

Marseille
Palestine Solidarity: Free all Palestinian Prisoners
6:00 pm
Préfecture des Bouches du Rhône
Marseille
Organized by Rouges Vifs / ANC 13 and PCF 13
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/325854319407399/ 

London
Picket for Palestine – Free Palestinian Prisoners!
6:30 pm
M&S
458 Oxford Street, London
Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/CY6rnsZoSaa/

Friday, 21 January

Athens
Rally to defend Al-Naqab
6:00 pm
Kapnikareas Square
Athens

Saturday, 22 January

Brooklyn/New York City
Speak out to free Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian Prisoners!
2:00 pm
7114 5th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/606999367027932/ 

Vancouver
Rally and postering to free Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian prisoners
2:00 pm
Commercial/Broadway Skytrain Station, Vancouver
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1084097665709757/ 

Amsterdam
Stand for Palestine
12 pm to 4:00 pm
Plein ’40 – ’45
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Info: https://www.instagram.com/samidoun.nl/

London
Free Palestine Rolling Picket
1:00 pm
Ealing Broadway, W5
Meet Outside HSBC
Organized by West London FRFI
Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/CYydBvLou1B/

Milano
3:00 pm
Via Padova and Via Giacosa
Milano, Italy
Info: https://samidoun.net/it/2022/01/22-gennaio-milano-liberta-per-ahmad-saadat-e-tutti-i-prigionieri-palestinesi/

Canberra
2:00 pm
Garema Place, Civic
Canberra, Australia
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/2021889451321806

Hamburg
3:00 pm
Bahnhof Altona (vor dem Mercado, Ottenser Hauptstraße 10)
Hamburg, Germany
Info: http://political-prisoners.net/hh-kundgebung-am-22-januar-2022-um-15-uhr-am-bahnhof-altona-vor-dem-mercado-ottenser-hauptstrasse-10/15608/

Tarbes
Rally for Palestinian prisoners
2:00 pm
outside the Mairie de Tarbes
Tarbes, France
Organized by Collectif 65 pour la libération de Georges Abdallah

Marseille
Screening of Fedayin and discussion with Collectif Palestine Vaincra
5:00 pm
26 rue d’Isoard Marseille (local JC)
Marseille, France
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/s/soiree-du-peuple-projection-de/297815745649789/

Sunday, 23 January

Stockholm
Film Screening: Fedayin, Georges Abdallah’s Fight
3:30 pm
Kafé 44,  Tjärhovsgatan 46, 116 28 Stockholm, Sweden
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/182672827385341/

Montreal
Protest to free Nasser Abu Hamid, Ahmad Sa’adat and Palestinian Prisoners
1:00 pm
Israeli Consulate/Consulat d’Israel Montreal
1 Westmount Square
Montreal, QC
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/345793843763271

 

ENDORSERS

Your organizational endorsement is welcome! Click here to add your endorsement for the Week of Action.

FULL CALL TO ACTION

Sa’adat’s case represents the colonial nature of Israeli imprisonment that aims to target the legitimate leadership of the Palestinian people. His boycott of the Zionist military courts reflects his principled commitment to reject colonization in all forms. His case also reflects the role of imperialist powers like the United States, Britain and Canada, and the collusion of the Palestinian Authority and its “security coordination” regime in the oppression of the Palestinian people and the Palestinian resistance.

While held in the PA’s Jericho Prison, Sa’adat and his comrades were held under U.S, British, Canadian and other foreign guards. Some of those same British guards previously served to guard Irish Republican prisoners in the occupied North of Ireland. After a violent Israeli attack, Ahmad Sa’adat and his comrades are now serving lengthy sentences in Israeli prisons.

This is just one of the devastating consequences for Palestinians of the Madrid-Oslo path and the creation of the Palestinian Authority in the so-called “peace process” that has been in reality a project for the liquidation of the Palestinian liberation movement.

Join us to demand freedom for Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli occupation prisons. Prisoners of the Palestinian liberation movement continue to be held in international jails as well, especially Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, jailed in France for 37 years despite being eligible for release since 1999; the Holy Land Foundation 5 in the U.S.; and Issam Hijjawi Bassalat in British jails; and we join the call for their liberation.

Also, just as Sa’adat was persecuted by the Israeli occupation for leading an “illegal organization”, the PFLP and other Palestinian resistance groups are listed in the U.S., Europe, Canada and elsewhere on so-called “terrorist lists”. These designations are used to criminalize resistance, much as the Palestinian prisoners are criminalized. Now, the Israeli occupation is attempting to use terror designations to suppress organizing and activism from grassroots organizations and civil society groups. “Terror” labels are used as a colonial weapon against resistance movements, and we affirm: Resistance is a right!

“The Palestinian struggle for national liberation is part and parcel of the international movement of peoples for national liberation, international racial and economic justice, and an end to occupation, colonialism and imperialism.” – Ahmad Sa’adat

Palestine will be free, from the river to the sea! 

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TAKE ACTION 

  1. Organize events, actions and protests to demand freedom for Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian prisoners! Protest in public squares, campuses and community spaces. Organize a Palestine Stand or a letter writing event to write to Sa’adat and his fellow Palestinian prisoners. Email us at samidoun@samidoun.net to inform us about your events or actions.
  2. Screen the film “Fedayin”, on the life and struggle of Georges Abdallah. Ahmad Sa’adat and Georges Abdallah are comrades who constantly salute each others’ struggles and maintain a political correspondence despite miles of distance and prison walls. To organize a screening, email samidoun@samidoun.net and vacarmesfilms@gmail.com
  3. #ShutElbitDown: Palestine Action won an important victory against British repression of the courageous activists who have confronted Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems with red paint and creative direct action. Elbit in Oldham is shutting down! Help support the campaign by organizing actions to #ShutElbitDown in your area. Learn more at https://palestineaction.com/
  4. Join the social media campaign. Post a photo or a video with a message calling for freedom for Ahmad Sa’adat and his fellow Palestinian prisoners and the hashtag #FreeAhmadSaadat. You can use the posters below. Send us your photo by emailing us at samidoun@samidoun.net or contacting us on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.
  5. Boycott Israel! Ahmad Sa’adat says: “I call on all forces of progress, freedom and democracy to stand by the struggle of our people through all forms of boycott: political, economic, academic and cultural of the occupation state and the creation of a real economic cost for its industries of colonization and settlement and escalating the global campaigns for boycott of all corporations that support and invest in the occupation militarily and economically.” Don’t buy Israeli goods, and campaign to end investments in corporations that profit from the occupation. Join direct actions to challenge war profiteers and boycott complicit corporations like Puma and HP.

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