Author: uspcn
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Thurs, Sep. 2 – Washington, DC: Palestinians Say No To Negotiations: Palestine is Not For Sale!
Join Palestinians in Washington, DC on Thursday, Sept. 2 for a picket outside the US State Department to say: Palestinian National Rights Are Not For Sale! As the direct negotiations begin at the US State Department, it is critical that our voices are heard saying that the Authority does not speak for Palestinians and that…
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Sign Arabic-language petition against negotiations!
The following Arabic letter is a petition from the Palestinian people and communities around the world against the so-called negotiations scheduled to take place in Washington, DC on September 2, 2010. The letter confirms full and unconditional rejection of these negotiations and the threat they pose to the Palestinian people’s inalienable rights, in particular, the…
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The US Palestinian Community Network mourns Abu Obeida Omran, from the village of Burin
The US Palestinian Community Network expresses its feelings of great sadness and grief on the loss of the Palestinian community activist and leader Abu Obeida Abdel-Salam Omran, of the village of Burin, who lived in Houston, Texas. He died on Friday, August 13, 2010 of his injuries suffered as a victim of an attempted robbery…
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Don’t deny our rights: open letter to Mahmoud Abbas
The following open letter to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, whose elected mandate expired in July 2009 and who has remained in power under controversial emergency laws, was issued on 22 July 2010: We are Palestinians of diverse perspectives and affiliations — scholars, intellectuals, artists, activists, trade unionists, human rights advocates and civil society leaders,…
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Endorse Al-Awda NY Statement: The Way Forward for Palestine Solidarity
To endorse this statement as an individual or organization, please email [email protected] or use the form below. Al-Awda NY: The Palestine Right To Return Coalition June 23, 2010 In the year and a half since Israel’s massacres in Gaza, the Palestine solidarity movement, for fifteen years weakened by the two-state “Peace Roadmap” of the 1993 Oslo…
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San Francisco: July 29 – New Gaza documentaries premiere
The Arab Film Festival Presents The premiere of two powerful documentaries on the attacks on Gaza Gaza’s Winter produced by Najwa Najjar A variety of short films about Gaza and Operation Cast Lead, a collaboration of 12 International filmmakers. Gaza-strophe, The Day After directed by Samir Abdallah “We bring back images of Palestine, this country…
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Video: USPCN’s Monadel Herzallah on US Social Forum
In this video from the US Social Forum, the Electronic Intifada interviews USPCN’s Monadel Herzallah, national organizer with Labor for Palestine and the Arab American Union Members Council, on the US Social Forum’s decision to cancel the Zionist group Stand With Us’ workshop, which had been organized under false pretenses. The full statement on the…
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New Video: US Social Forum concludes with call for BDS, recognizing Zionism as racism
“We call on all organization and social movements to boycott, divest and sanction the Israeli apartheid state and the institutions the support it.” “We affirm that Zionism is a form of racism that denies Palestinians the right to self-determination.” – US Social Forum National People’s Movement Assembly 2010 The US Social Forum concluded on June…
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US Social Forum: A Victory for Palestine, A Victory for Justice
In a historic accomplishment, the leadership of the US Social Forum voted this morning to cancel a workshop proposed by “Stand With US”, a Zionist organization…
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International Support Pours in for June 20 Zim Lines Ship Picket
Letters of solidarity are pouring in to support the Sunday, June 20 Picket of an Israeli Zim Lines Ship, calling on dockworkers of the storied ILWU Local 10 to refuse to unload an Israeli ship in line with Palestinian calls for solidarity following the Israeli massacre against the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza. The action is…