Category: Media
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Rasmea is coming home! She’s to be released on $50,000 cash bond
Rasmea Defense Committee Press inquiries: Hatem Abudayyeh, 773.301.4108, [email protected] Judge rules that Rasmea can be released pending sentencing We are pleased to announce that Judge Gershwin Drain just filed his ruling granting Rasmea’s motion for reconsideration of his November 10th order revoking her bond. RASMEA IS COMING HOME! The defense committee is working now to…
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USPCN launches #BoycottCoke campaign
Boycott Coca-Cola #BoycottCoke Join the campaign on Facebook! In 2005, Palestinians issued a call for a campaign of boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel, because of its violations of international law and attacks on Palestinian rights. BDS is now a worldwide movement against Israeli Apartheid, and USPCN wants to work with you to target…
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Update on the legal fight to #FreeRasmeaNow
Update on the legal fight to #FreeRasmeaNow – Rasmea Defense Committee November 28th, 2014 Ever since her unjust conviction on November 10th, Rasmea has been detained in St. Clair County Jail in Port Huron, Michigan. Three days later, her attorneys filed a motion calling on Judge Gershwin Drain to release her pending sentencing scheduled for…
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Protest to #FreeRasmeaNow in Chicago TODAY, Nov. 12
Emergency protest to #FreeRasmeaNow Join USPCN and the Rasmea Defense Committee for the first protest in Rasmea’s home city since she was unjustly convicted and arrested two days ago. Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/ TODAY, Wednesday, November 12th, 2014, at 4:30 PM Federal Plaza (50 W. Adams St) in downtown Chicago Email [email protected] for more information uspcn.org…
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Oakland Activists Lockdown U.S. Fed Court to #FreeRasmeaNow
For Immediate Release – November 12, 2014 ACTIVISTS LOCKDOWN US FEDERAL COURT IN SUPPORT OF TORTURED CHICAGO COMMUNITY LEADER Oakland Rallies Against Conviction of Palestinian Organizer Press Contact: Lara Kiswani: 530.220.2842 (Oakland), Hatem Abudayyeh 773.301.4108 (Detroit) Where: Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building When: 7am – Wednesday, Nov 12 Oakland – Activists with the Bay Area Rasmea Defense Committee have chained themselves…
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Rasmea’s lawyers speak with Chicago NPR affiliate on the targeting of a Palestinian leader
On October 31, the lawyers for targeted Palestinian American community leader, Rasmea Odeh, spoke with Worldview on WBEZ, Chicago’s National Public Radio affiliate. The 22-minute interview with Jim Fennerty and Michael Deutsch looks at Rasmea’s case as part of “a pattern of U.S. government harassment to silence social justice, anti-war and environmental activists.” WBEZ description…
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News articles and coverage of government attacks on Rasmea Odeh supporters
The following articles have been published in recent days, on the government’s attempt to suppress and deny the democratic rights of supporters of Rasmea Odeh. Please read for more information: U.S. Attorney Trying to Jail Tortured Palestinian Activist Seeks Anonymous Jury by Dima Khalidi, Center for Constitutional Rights Political Protest Or Jury Tampering? by Sue Udry,…
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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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USPCN: Bringing Palestine to the US Social Forum
by Andrew Dalack. This article was first published at The Electronic Intifada on 6 April 2010 The global movement to realize Palestinian equal rights, self-determination and the opportunity for refugees and their descendants to return to Palestine is gaining increased momentum. As Israel continues its attempt to systematically purge the memory of the indigenous Arab…