following the call by Palestinian Civil Society

Free All Palestinian Political Prisoners !

On April 17, 2012, over 2,000 Palestinian prisoners launched an open-ended hunger strike that came to an end two days ago after some of their demands were met. Their strike was hit hard with retaliation from Israel Prison Services, including beatings, transferring from one prison to another, confiscation of salt (an act that could have severe health consequences for hunger strikers), denial of family and lawyer visits, and isolation and solitary confinement of hunger strikers. These are only some of the measures that the Israeli prison authorities use against political prisoners.

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Sumoud : an evening in solidarity with Palestinian Political Prisoners

Thursday April 19, 2012
6:30pm at Concordia University
Hall Building, room H-110
1455 de Maisonneuve West
metro Guy-Concordia
facebook event
Montreal, Quebec

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download Tadamon! popular education document at political prisoners pamphlet

Drawing by Molly Fair via Just Seeds for Certain Days: Political Prisoners Calendar

Popular education pamphlet created for recent Montreal event, on 10/12/2011, entitled “Political Imprisonment and State Impunity”, drawing attention to political prisoners all around the world from the Philippines, to Colombia, to Egypt, to Palestine and in both Canada and the US. Please download, print, distribute this PDF document that details specific campaigns and struggles involving political prisoners fighting for freedom on different corners all around the world.

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Panel discussion and vigil on political prisoner struggles around the world.
photo Palestinian boy views photos of Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails.

Saturday, December 10, 2011
13h-16h panel discussion / food
16h-17h vigil / protest ending at US consulate in Montreal.
St James United Church
463 Ste-Catherine west
métro McGill, Montréal, Québec
facebook event

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call for Solidarity with Egypt: Defend the Revolution!

Saturday, November 12, 2011
3pm la Place du Peuple
métro Square Victoria
at Occupy Montreal
in front of the statue
Montreal, Quebec
info facebook event

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March 14, 2011, Palestinian activist Abdallah Abu Rahmah released from Israeli prison.

Photo: Iyas Abu Rahmah. Palestinian community activist Abdallah Abu Rahmah upon release from Israeli prison.

Palestinian community activist Abdallah Abu Rahmah, from Bil’in, Palestine, has been released from Israeli prison after being jailed for sixteen month as a political prisoner. Abu Rahmah visited Canada in 2009 to speak in Montreal on a lawsuit launched by Bil’in village against two companies registered in Quebec, Green Mount International and Green Park International, due their involvement in constructing Israeli settlements on agricultural lands belonging to Bil’in, which had been confiscated previously by the Israeli state.

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Report Defence for Children International – DCI Palestine October 2010 download PDF

Photo Israeli occupation forces patrol the Old City of Hebron, in occupied Palestine.

In October, DCI-Palestine collected information relating to the arrest of 17 children from the Silwan neighbourhood in occupied East Jerusalem, although lawyers and fieldworkers for DCI-Palestine estimate that the overall number of children arrested in the Silwan neighbourhood in October is considerably higher.

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Palestine News Network – PNN Jerusalem 01.11.10

Photo: Wolf Bonpiedbonoeil Palestinian youth in Beit Djibril refugee camp.

Human rights groups issued a report saying that the Israeli military police, better known as the border police, arrested 100 Palestinian children from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan in October.

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McGill University lecture feat. Ala’ Jaradat of Addameer

Wednesday, November 3rd, 18h-20h
McGill University
Day Chancellor Hall room 102
3644 Peel Street
Montreal, QC
Canada

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Palestine Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 11 Oct 2010

Photo: Israeli soldier attempts to cover camera in the West Bank

Bil’in protest organizer Abdallah Abu Rahmah was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment today, for his involvement in his village’s unarmed struggle against the wall.

Abdallah Abu Rahmah was sentenced today to 12 months in prison, plus 6 months suspended sentence for 3 years and a fine of 5,000 NIS. In the sentencing, the judge cited the non-implementation of an Israeli High Court ruling which declared the current route of the wall on Bil’in’s land illegal as a mitigating factor.

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