Category: Statements
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Don’t deny our rights: open letter to Mahmoud Abbas
The following open letter to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, whose elected mandate expired in July 2009 and who has remained in power under controversial emergency laws, was issued on 22 July 2010: We are Palestinians of diverse perspectives and affiliations — scholars, intellectuals, artists, activists, trade unionists, human rights advocates and civil society leaders,…
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Endorse Al-Awda NY Statement: The Way Forward for Palestine Solidarity
To endorse this statement as an individual or organization, please email [email protected] or use the form below. Al-Awda NY: The Palestine Right To Return Coalition June 23, 2010 In the year and a half since Israel’s massacres in Gaza, the Palestine solidarity movement, for fifteen years weakened by the two-state “Peace Roadmap” of the 1993 Oslo…
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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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New Video: US Social Forum concludes with call for BDS, recognizing Zionism as racism
“We call on all organization and social movements to boycott, divest and sanction the Israeli apartheid state and the institutions the support it.” “We affirm that Zionism is a form of racism that denies Palestinians the right to self-determination.” – US Social Forum National People’s Movement Assembly 2010 The US Social Forum concluded on June…
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US Social Forum: A Victory for Palestine, A Victory for Justice
In a historic accomplishment, the leadership of the US Social Forum voted this morning to cancel a workshop proposed by “Stand With US”, a Zionist organization…
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USPCN Call to Palestinian Students in the U.S.
The US Palestinian Community Network calls on Palestinian students in the U.S. to take a leadership role in the efforts to convene the Second Popular Palestinian Conference, Palestine: One Land, One People, One Destiny: Together, Restoring our National Institutions, Reclaiming our Rights, Empowering our Community, which will be held is on October 29-31, 2010 in…
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USPCN joins the world in outrage at Flotilla massacre
In the early morning hours of May 31, Israel added another massacre to its long list of premeditated crimes against humanity. Hours ago, Israeli forces opened fire on ships holding hundreds of international humanitarian activists and European parliament members heading to Gaza to deliver much needed building supplies and medicine, killing between 10 and 19…
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Letter Urging Support for Palestinian Refugee Rights in Lebanon (Arabic)
The following letter, in Arabic, is addressed to Lebanese embassies and consulates around the world, from Arab expatriates and exiles. It calls upon the Lebanese government to expeditiously facilitate the rebuilding of Nahr el-Bared Palestinian refugee camp, destroyed by the Lebanese army in 2007, to ensure the civil, social and human rights of Palestinian refugees…
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PALESTINE: One People, One Land, One Destiny – Second Popular Conference, October 29-31, Chicago
Palestine: One Land, One People, One Destiny Second Palestinian Popular Conference: Together, Restoring our National Institutions, Reclaiming our Rights, Empowering our Community ( فلسطين: شعبٌ وَاحدْ ، وَطنٌ وَاحدْ ، مَصيرٌ وَاحدْ ) المُؤتَمرْ الشعبيّ الفِلسطيني الثاني في الولايات المتحدة الامريكية. مَعاً نَبني مُؤسَسَاتنا الوطنيه، وَننتزعْ حُقوقنا، وَننهض ُقدُماً… October 29-31, 2010 The Westin…
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US Palestinian Community Network joins Arizona boycott
The United States Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) joins with civil rights groups, labor unions and people’s movements across the country in calling for a boycott of Arizona in response to the passing of the racist bill SB1070, recently signed into law by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer that targets and criminalizes the immigrant community and people…