Category: Statements
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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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Former Puerto Rican political prisoner Luis Rosa Perez writes to Palestinian hunger strikers
My Palestinian Family The cancer of colonialism affects every aspect of human development. It hinders economic and social growth; and causes despair and a host of psychological and physiological conditions with the aim of destroying the peoples enslaved by this system. Its aim is genocide and the deformation of a national identity and culture. The…
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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…
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Help USPCN Celebrate Another 10 Years of Organizing for Liberation and Return!
Help USPCN Celebrate Another 10 Years of Organizing for Liberation and Return! Please make your tax-deductible donation now, and help launch us into our next decade! Ten years ago, I was one of the proud co-founders of the United States Palestinian Community Network (USPCN), which came together at a meeting in Detroit, Michigan, in 2006,…
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USPCN joins call for protection of human rights defenders working on issues related to Palestine
New signatories added 12/12/16 December 9, 2016 – In marking International Human Rights Defenders Day, the undersigned organizations commend the work of all human rights defenders working for justice globally, stand in solidarity with them, and highlight the case of individuals and organizations focused on Palestine. Human rights defenders advocating and working on Palestinian human…
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For Immediate Release: Rasmea’s lawyers file motion “to protect defendant from additional harm”
News Alert | For Immediate Release | Rasmea Defense Committee, Wednesday, September 7, 2016 Press Contact: Hatem Abudayyeh, [email protected], 773.301.4108 Rasmea’s lawyers file motion “to protect defendant from additional harm” Defense attorneys for Rasmea Odeh, the Palestinian American icon who was wrongfully convicted in a politically-motivated, federal immigration case, filed a motion yesterday in response…
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Rasmea’s prosecutors deny the horror of torture; Judge Drain accepts their argument
For Immediate Release: Rasmea Defense Committee, August 30, 2016 Media Contact: Hatem Abudayyeh, [email protected], 773.301.4108 Rasmea’s prosecutors deny the horror of torture; Judge Drain accepts their argument Rasmea Odeh, a survivor of vicious torture at the hands of the Israeli military, will be compelled to undergo hours of psychological evaluation by a government forensic examiner,…