Category: Media
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Political activist Rasmea Odeh a symbol of deportation’s many faces
Political activist Rasmea Odeh a symbol of deportation’s many faces Rasmea Odeh was deported Tuesday. The 70-year-old Palestinian immigrant, whose U.S. citizenship was revoked by Immigration and Customs Enforcement for not disclosing having served time as a prisoner in Israel, didn’t cry until the end, only after ICE refused her huge crowd of supporters entry…
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This is the court statement Judge Drain didn’t want you to hear
This is the court statement Judge Drain didn’t want you to hear On Thursday, August 17th, Judge Gershwin Drain again violated the rights of Palestinian-American icon Rasmea Odeh, this time by not allowing her to read her entire statement to the court. Close to 150 supporters joined Rasmea in Detroit for what was supposed to…
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USPCN pickets for Palestinian hunger strikers at Durbin’s office yesterday! Asks for phone calls to the Senator today!
USPCN pickets for Palestinian hunger strikers at Durbin’s office yesterday! Asks for phone calls to the Senator today! Love & Struggle Photos of the picket Yesterday, May 25th, USPCN-Chicago organized a lunch time picket attended by over 75 people, to pressure U.S. Senator Dick Durbin to take a stand in support of the 1,800 Palestinian…
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69 Years Since Al-Nakba & 29 Days of the #DignityStrike
Today, May 15th, 2017, marks the 69th anniversary of the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of over 750,000 Palestinians from their homes and lands. Today also marks 69 years of resistance to Israeli colonization and occupation, and to British and later U.S. imperialism. Generations of Palestinians have refused to concede this key demand of the national…
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Day-long hunger strike & encampment in solidarity with Palestinian political prisoners May 11, in Burbank, IL
Day-long hunger strike and encampment in solidarity with Palestinian political prisoners Thursday, May 11th, in Burbank, IL WHAT: Join us in a day-long hunger strike and encampment in solidarity with the over 1,500 Palestinian political prisoners currently on an open-ended hunger strike in Israeli prisons. Facebook event page! WHEN: Thursday, May 11th, 2017, from 10…
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Hundreds to join Rasmea at her plea hearing April 25th in Detroit, as U.S. Attorney’s office launches another political attack
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA CONTACT: Hatem Abudayyeh, 773.301.4108, [email protected] Hundreds to join Rasmea at her plea hearing April 25th in Detroit, as U.S. Attorney’s office launches another political attack Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan Tukel appears to want to sabotage the plea agreement WHEN: Tuesday, April 25th, 2017, at 1:00 PM Eastern Time (rally at 1:00…
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All Out for Rasmea’s April 25th plea hearing in Detroit!
All Out for Rasmea’s April 25th plea hearing in Detroit! WHEN: Tuesday, April 25th, 2017, at 1:00 PM Eastern Time (rally at 1:00 PM, hearing starts at 2:30 PM) WHERE: U.S. District Court, 231 W. Lafayette Blvd., downtown Detroit, Michigan The Rasmea Defense Committee is calling on everyone to mobilize for Rasmea’s final court appearance…
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Rasmea Odeh accepts a plea agreement with no prison time
Rasmea Odeh accepts a plea agreement with no prison time; plea hearing April 25th in Detroit Rasmea Odeh, the 69-year old Palestinian American community leader who was tortured and sexually assaulted by the Israeli military in 1969, is bringing to a close her battle to win justice from the U.S. legal system. She will…
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Rasmea Defense Committee response to racist NY Post piece attacking #Justice4Rasmea
This response to a vicious opinion piece in the New York Post was submitted on February 28th, but unsurprisingly rejected by the Post. We publish it ourselves now. On Saturday, February 25th, the New York Post published an opinion piece by Kyle Smith that openly ridicules the idea of women striking on International Working Women’s…
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Rasmea speech on IWD; JVP responds to Tribune
Rasmea Odeh received TWO standing ovations at the #InternationalWomensDay event at the Chicago Teachers Union hall last night. Watch the speech here, and it is also transcribed below. In addition, our friends from Jewish Voice for Peace members Eli Massey and Lynn Pollack wrote pieces supporting and defending Rasmea from recent media attacks by contributors…