Category: Actions
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One Million Tweets to #FreeOscarLopez
One Million Tweets to #FreeOscarLopez Today, on Oscar Lopez’ 73rd birthday, USPCN joins the National Puerto Rican Agenda and National Boricua Human Rights Network‘s (NBHRN’s) call for One Million Tweets For Oscar Lopez! The NBHRN has been a great friend to the Palestinian people in this country for decades, and when USPCN members were amongst…
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UPDATE: Alie Kabba, friend of Palestine, is free!
USPCN thanks its friends and supporters for responding so quickly to an action alert regarding the politically-motivated arrest of our dear comrade, Dr. Alie Kabba, an African Muslim from Sierra Leone, who is former Executive Director of the Chicago-based United African Organization (UAO), and former board president of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee…
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Rasmea Defense Committee thanks you!
Rasmea Defense Committee thanks you! Dear Friends and Supporters, You’ve done everything we’ve asked for! You filled the courthouse over and over again, in Detroit and Cincinnati, at preliminary hearings and the trial. You made phone calls to the prosecutor Tukel and his boss McQuade, to the county jail in Michigan, to the confused Arab…
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Hurry & support USPCN with tax deductible donation!
Banner year for USPCN From the successful national tour of Wishah and spearheading Rasmea’s defense campaign to boycotting Coke and promoting Palestinian support for #BlackLivesMatter, 2015 was a banner year for the United States Palestinian Community Network (USPCN). Please make your tax-deductible donation now, and help us move toward funding a national office in 2016!…
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USPCN-DC joins 3 protests of war criminal Netanyahu November 9 & 10
USPCN-DC joins 3 protests of war criminal Netanyahu November 9 & 10 Join these three protests of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his November 9-10 visit to Washington, DC. 1. Protest War Criminal Netanyahu at the White House, Monday, November 9, 9:00 AM, White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. Sponsored by ANSWER Coalition. Protest…
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CJP & USPCN joining JVP, IJAN protest of Jewish National Fund!
Coalition for Justice in Palestine & USPCN joining Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP)-Chicago & the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN) to Picket Jewish National Fund (JNF) Conference JNF separate, unequal policies a root cause of escalating violence against Palestinians WHEN/WHERE: Sunday, October 25, 2015. 12:00 pm: Participants gather on Southeast corner of Michigan and Randolph,…
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March for Palestine in Chicago, DC & across the world this weekend!
Coalition for Justice in Palestine (CJP)-Chicago Rally and March to Protest Israeli Aggression Against Palestine WHERE: Michigan & Congress, downtown Chicago WHEN: Sunday, October 18th, 2015, at 3 PM Bring your Palestinian flags! Buses will leave Mosque Foundation, ICCI, Orland Park Prayer Center, Islamic Center of Wheaton, and 87th & Harlem (PAC) at 1:30 PM.…
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Israeli basketball NOT welcome at the Madhouse on Madison Oct. 1st!
https://www.facebook.com/events/100748923616099/ In support of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, join the U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) and the Anti-War Committee on Thursday, October 1st, 2015, outside the United Center in Chicago, where we will protest Israeli and Euroleague basketball. WHERE: United Center, 1901 W. Madison St., Chicago (meet at…
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Rasmea wants you on the bus to CAARPR’s #BlackLivesMatter rally & march August 29
Ride a bus with the AAAN’s youth organizing program, the Arab Women’s Committee, and me this Saturday, to a downtown rally in Arab and Palestinian solidarity with the movement for #BlackLivesMatter, and specifically to #StopPoliceCrimes and #EnactCPAC (Civilian Police Accountability Council). I am honored to be one of the activists that was asked to speak…
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USPCN joins Samidoun, calls for Solidarity with Palestinian Political Prisoners
TAKE ACTION: Stand in support of Palestinian political prisoners As of Sunday, August 9, there were 180 Palestinian prisoners on an open hunger strike in Israeli jails, with hundreds more set to begin striking today. WE JUST RECEIVED WORD THAT TODAY’S NEW STRIKE WAS SUSPENDED, because one of the demands was met, but many…