Category: Features
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#BoycottCoke at shareholders’ meeting in Atlanta April 29!
The United States Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) is stepping up its #BoycottCoke campaign with a protest of the Coca-Cola shareholders’ meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, this Wednesday, April 29th. WHERE: Cobb Galleria Centre 2 Galleria Pkwy SE, Atlanta, Georgia 30339 WHEN: Wednesday, April 29th, 2015, at 11 AM Eastern Facebook event page The #BoycottCoke campaign…
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USPCN: Palestinian Women on Prisoners’ Day 2015
Today, April 17, the United States Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) joins our people and supporters across the world in calling for international solidarity on Palestinian Prisoners’ Day. As noted by the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, every year since 1974 we commemorate the liberation of Mahmoud Hijazi, the first Palestinian political prisoner freed in an…
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USPCN statement in commemoration of Land Day 2015
The U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) remembers the six Palestinian martyrs killed by Israeli soldiers on this day in 1976, and pledges to continue its organizing in support of the Right of Return for all Palestinian refugees and their descendants, self-determination and equality, national liberation, and ending Israeli occupation, colonization, and apartheid. On March 30,…
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Media Action Alert for Rasmea!
On March 12, 2015, Palestinian American community organizer and women’s leader Rasmea Odeh was sentenced to 18 months in prison after an unjust conviction last November, but she is challenging that conviction, and our organizing has helped her remain free on bond, pending the outcome of her appeal. She is back home to her community…
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Rasmea’s speech on International Women’s Day
Rasmea Odeh’s speech at International Women’s Day fundraising event in Chicago March 8th, 2015 I’m so glad to join you today, to express my pleasure to be back amongst all of my family, friends, supporters, and the community who I love and respect so much. I’m so grateful for the support, care, and endless love…
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March 12 for Rasmea: Come to Detroit or organize a rally in your city!
All out to support Rasmea Thursday, March 12! Come to Detroit or organize solidarity rallies in your city! Register if you are attending the sentencing hearing in Detroit Stand with Rasmea and fill the federal courthouse in Detroit! We are committed to filling the courtroom, and an overflow room, on Rasmea’s sentencing day on March…
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Defense attorneys file “sentencing memorandum” calling for judge NOT to imprison Rasmea Odeh
Rasmea Defense Committee For Immediate Release: Wednesday, February 25th, 2015 Contact: Hatem Abudayyeh, National Spokesperson, Rasmea Defense Committee, 773.301.4108, [email protected] Defense attorneys file “sentencing memorandum” calling for judge NOT to imprison Rasmea Odeh Supporters mobilize for March 12 sentencing in Detroit Today, defense attorneys for Rasmea Odeh, Chicago’s 67-year-old Palestinian community leader, filed a “sentencing…
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Action Alert: #FreeLinaKhattab sentenced to 6 months in Israeli prison
Feb 16, 2015 Samidoun Report: Lina Khattab sentenced to six months in Israeli prison Continue to take action and demand her immediate release. Lina Khattab, Palestinian student at Bir Zeit University and folkloric dancer with El Funoun, was sentenced by an Israeli military court at Ofer to six months imprisonment on Monday, 16 February after…
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USPCN mourns the loss of Yusor, Razan, and Deah
The United States Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) offers its most sincere condolences to the families of the three Arab Muslim youth who were killed in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, this week. Palestinian Americans Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha and her sister Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, and Yusor’s husband, Syrian American Deah Shaddy Barakat, were shot execution style Tuesday…
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Wave of support builds for Palestinian activist Rasmea Odeh; Supporters mobilize for March 12 Sentencing
Rasmea Defense Committee MEDIA ALERT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, February 9, 2015 CONTACT: Hatem Abudayyeh, National Spokesperson, Rasmea Defense Committee 773.301.4108, [email protected] Wave of support builds for Palestinian activist Rasmea Odeh; Supporters mobilize for March 12 Sentencing Protests, speaking events, and fundraisers are being organized across the U.S. as part of the growing national movement…