Category: Statements
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The Golan Heights is Arab Syrian Land
The Golan Heights is Arab Syrian Land The U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) categorically rejects Donald Trump’s executive order today recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Syrian Golan Heights. As always, the U.S. continues to act with impunity against the will of the Arab people and with clear disregard of international law. This comes one…
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Rasmea Odeh: I’ve Been Away Now for a Full Year
I’ve Been Away Now for a Full Year Today is the one year commemoration of my deportation, and I miss you all very much. I miss the colorfulness of my life with you, and the value that you added to it! My life now is as grey as everything else in Jordan, but it would…
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On Land Day, Israel Attacks and Massacres Palestinians in Gaza
On Land Day, Israel Attacks and Massacres Palestinians in Gaza (Above photo credit: Jack Guez/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images) Today, March 30th, when USPCN, Palestinians, and supporters all across the world remember the six martyrs killed by Israeli soldiers in 1976, the terrorist Israeli state continues its murderous rampage against our people in Gaza. Over…
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A Letter of Greetings from Amman
USPCN can’t help but miss Rasmea Odeh this holiday season, especially as her city of Jerusalem (she was born in the tiny village of Lifta, which is directly adjacent to the Palestinian capital), as well as the issue of Palestinian political prisoners, is all over the news. She would have been here with us the…
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Emergency Rally in Chicago Dec. 7th: #Jerusalem is the capital of Palestine!
Emergency Rally in Chicago: #Jerusalem is the capital of Palestine! WHEN: Thursday, December 7th, at 4:30 PM WHERE: Federal Plaza (Adams and Dearborn), downtown Chicago Facebook event page #HandsOffJerusalemChi In the wake of Trump’s announcement declaring U.S. support for Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and the moving of the U.S. embassy there, the Coalition…
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Send-off for Rasmea at O’Hare Airport September 19th
Send-off for Rasmea at O’Hare Airport September 19th #HonorRasmea We now have the departure date for our dear Rasmea Odeh. She will be leaving the U.S. for Jordan on Tuesday, September 19th, 2017. She was officially sentenced in August by Judge Gershwin Drain, who did not allow her to make a final statement in open…
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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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On Naksa Day, June 5, Invite Congress to This Week’s Palestine Briefing
On Naksa Day, June 5, Invite Congress to This Week’s Palestine Briefing June 5th is the day Palestinians commemorate the Naksa, “setback” in Arabic, when the Israeli white-settler colonialists illegally occupied all of historical Palestine. Today, we are supporting partner organizations Defense for Children International—Palestine and American Friends Service Committee, and asking you to contact…
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USPCN statement: Victory to the Palestinian Political Prisoners’ #DignityStrike
USPCN statement: Victory to the Palestinian Political Prisoners’ #DignityStrike “They will not criminalise us, rob us of our true identity, steal our individualism, depoliticise us, churn us out as systemised, institutionalised, decent law-abiding robots. Never will they label our liberation struggle as criminal.” — Bobby Sands, Irish Republican leader who died in a political prisoners’…
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On Rasmea’s 70th birthday, read her speech from Oscar Lopez’ homecoming
On Rasmea’s 70th birthday, read her speech from Oscar Lopez’ homecoming And help with legal fees Today, May 22nd, is Rasmea’s 70th birthday, and she’s been pretty busy the past few weeks. The Hana Center honored her on May 5th, she spoke at Northwestern University on May 15th, and she gave a powerful welcoming statement…