Category: News
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Rasmea’s June 13 status hearing in chambers, but we’re still going All Out for Detroit!
Rasmea Defense Committee update to the mobilization for Detroit June 13th! Just last week, Judge Gershwin Drain informed Rasmea’s attorneys that the June 13th status hearing will take place in chambers, which means it will not be in open court, and which also means that it may be a very short (between an hour and…
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USPCN Palestinian Prisoners Weekly Review 5/29/2016
Take Action: Sign USPCN’s Petition to #StopAD: sign your name to take a stand against the Israeli policy of administrative detention! All Out for Detroit! June 13th 2016: sign up to join the Rasmea Defense Committee June 13th in Detroit, MI for Rasmea’s next hearing Tell Congress: Support Palestinian Children’s Rights: petition from the No…
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USPCN Palestinian Prisoners Weekly Review 5/22/2016
Take Action: Sign USPCN’s Petition to #StopAD: sign your name to take a stand against the Israeli policy of administrative detention! All Out for Detroit! June 13th 2016: sign up to join the Rasmea Defense Committee June 13th in Detroit, MI for Rasmea’s next hearing Tell Congress: Support Palestinian Children’s Rights: petition from the No…
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USPCN Commemorates Al-Nakba & Launches Political Prisoners Campaign
Today marks the 68th year of the Palestinian Nakba, or “Catastrophe,” and we join fellow Palestinians and Arabs, along with our allies all over the world, to commemorate the ethnic cleansing of over 450 Palestinian villages by zionist settler gangs, the killing of almost 15,000 people, including the 250 massacred at Deir Yassin, and the…
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USPCN’s Palestinian Prisoners Weekly Review 5/15/2016
Take Action: Sign USPCN’s Petition to #StopAD: sign your name to take a stand against the Israeli policy of administrative detention! Tell Congress: Support Palestinian Children’s Rights: petition from the No Way to Treat a Child campaign and Defense for Children Palestine urging Congress to pressure President Obama to appoint a special envoy for Palestinian…
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USPCN joins CTU’s call to #ShutDownChi on April 1st
USPCN joins CTU’s call to #ShutDownChi on April 1st The U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) has joined the call from the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) for a massive day of action April 1st across the city of Chicago. Far from being a strike simply about teachers’ salaries and benefits, and school funding, the CTU, as…
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Tell Airbnb in SF to stop listing Israeli settlements; Rasmea Defense Cmte joining Chicago panel on repression
Dear Friends and Supporters, In coalition with the US Campaign to End Israeli Occupation, American Muslims for Palestine, Jewish Voice for Peace, CODEPINK, and SumOfUs, the USPCN has helped collect more than 140,000 signatures on petitions calling on Airbnb, the online accommodation service, to stop listing homes in illegal Israeli settlements for people to rent.…
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Israeli court rejects Al-Qeeq’s transfer to Palestinian hospital; imprisoned journalist on 85th day of hunger strike
Israeli court rejects Al-Qeeq’s transfer to Palestinian hospital; imprisoned journalist on 85th day of hunger strike The Israeli Supreme Court rejected the appeal of Mohammed al-Qeeq, imprisoned Palestinian journalist on his 85th day of hunger strike, to be transferred to a Palestinian hospital in the West Bank on Tuesday evening, 16 February. Al-Qeeq, held under…
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SHINE 2016: Teach in the Palestinian Refugee Camps of Lebanon this Summer
~~please circulate widely~~ Project SHINE Summer Help IN English Apply to LEAP’s Project SHINE and Teach English in the Palestinian Refugee camps of Lebanon this Summer Apply today Deadline: February 22, 2016 ABOUT LEAP Learning for the Empowerment and Advancement of Palestinians (LEAP) is an educational empowerment program for Palestinian refugee-youth in Lebanon dedicated to nurturing the intellectual growth and creative curiosity of our…
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USPCN joins Samidoun: Justice for Omar Nayef Zayed!
Omar Nayef Zayed, Palestinian former prisoner and community leader, is being threatened with extradition from Bulgaria and being returned to Israeli prisons. After 22 years living in Bulgaria, and raising three children with his wife, the Israeli state has requested that Bulgaria extradite Omar – who received a life sentence in Israeli military courts in…