PSG News
Posted on May 14th, 2009
4/19/13
Friday April 19 Intifada Theater Action on International Palestinian Prisoners Day
5:30PM
See details below
4/19/13
Friday April 19 Intifada Theater Action on International Palestinian Prisoners Day
5:30PM
See details below
CHICAGO ACTION FOR PALESTINIAN PRISONERS DAY – FRIDAY APRIL 19 5:30PM AT THE BEAN IN MILLENNIUM PARK
Join the Palestinian community and Palestinian activists from across Chicago for our “Intifada Theater” production in support of International Palestinian Prisoners Day. April 17 is the day when activists around the world demand justice and freedom for all Palestinian political prisoners.
There are still over 4,800 Palestinian political prisoners held in Israeli jails, including children and administrative detainees (jailed without charge or trial). Over the past month we’ve seen Samer Issawi remain on hunger strike for over 260 days until he wins freedom without conditions; we’ve seen Arafat Jaradat tortured to death in Israeli prison; and Maysara Abuhamdieh die of cancer after being refused proper medical treatment by the Israeli prison service. The Israelis have continued their illegal policies of jailing Palestinians without charge or trial, jailing children in violation of all international laws, and torturing prisoners regardless of their age or gender.… Read More »
Weds 3/6/13 4:30PM Israeli Consulate 500 W. Madison St. Chicago
Chicago Street Action for Arafat Jaradat, Samer Issawi, and other Palestinian Political Prisoners
On Wednesday, March 6, 2013, Chicago activists and people of conscience will gather in response to the death of 30-year-old Arafat Jaradat last Saturday. An autopsy revealed that Jaradat died after being tortured during interrogation by Israeli security, sustaining a total of six broken bones in his spine, arms and legs; his lips lacerated; his face badly bruised.
As the Palestinian prisoners’ rights group Addameer recently reported, “Since 1967, over 200 prisoners have died in captivity, fifty-one of them from medical negligence. Alarmingly, there is a recent trend of prisoners who have died shortly after they are released from medical complications that went untreated during their detention.”
Over 4,000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails launched hunger-strike action on Sunday to protest the death of Arafat Jaradat. Additionally, Jaradat’s death set off a wave of demonstrations in Palestine… Read More »
Israel has TORTURED and KILLED another Palestinian in prison! Maan News Agency reported on Sunday that political prisoner Arafat Jaradat was beaten and hanged for many hours while in Israeli custody, this according to his lawyer, Kameel Sabbagh. An autopsy conducted in Israel in the presence of Palestinian officials revealed that the 30-year-old Jaradat had six broken bones in his neck, spine, arms and legs and did not die of a stroke or cardiac arrest as claimed by the Israeli prison officials. Arafat Jaradat was being detained for throwing stones at an Israeli soldier.
The Israeli government has no respect for international law and the just treatment of prisoners. Do Palestinian lives have any value to the U.S. government?
Samer Issawi continues on his hunger strike now in its 218th day, until he wins an absolute agreement that guarantees his release. We need to continue to put pressure on the US government to demand his release.
We also must… Read More »
Samer Issawi’s battle isn’t done yet. He is still continuing his hunger strike, which has reached the 215th day, until he wins an absolute agreement that guarantees his release. He knows very well that Israel never upholds its agreements and that keeping him in custody is always possible.
On Thursday, the Israeli Magistrate court issued a release order for Samer for the 6th of March, as that court sentenced him to 8-months imprisonment when he was first arrested. However, this doesn’t guarantee his release. So the time for us to celebrate hasn’t yet arrived. He still has to face another Israeli military court, which ordered to hold him captive on the basis of secret information held by the Israeli security forces.
Samer is done with the Israeli “civil” court, but he still has the military court to face and because of that, he is still on hunger strike! Our role here is to redouble our efforts as injustice… Read More »
Wednesday 2/20/13 9:00AM – 5:00PM EST
After 211 days on hunger strike, the Israeli kangaroo court rejected the release of Palestinian hunger striker Samer Issawi today during his “emergency” hearing. Issawi will remain behind bars until his next scheduled hearing on March 14, 2013. Issawi’s mother Um Ra’fat collapsed during the court decision. The Israelis are clearly waiting for him to die. After the court hearing, 800 Palestinian inmates also went on hunger strike to show solidarity with the other prisoners already on hunger strike. It’s time for all Palestinian activists around the world that have been daily supporting the prisoners to step up our actions.
We call for all activists, especially those in the U.S., to call President Obama and the State Department on Wednesday 2/20/13 to take action.
“My name is _____ from __________ and I demand that the US administration intervene for the immediate release of Samer Issawi, the other hungers strikers, and all the administrative detainees… Read More »
JOIN US FOR CAROLING AND PROTESTING THE SALE OF SODASTREAM – ISRAELI SETTLEMENT PRODUCT!
Sunday December 16 2:30PM
Macy’s – Meet at State and Washington, Chicago
SodaStream wants to make its homemade soda makers a hit this holiday shopping season. What they won’t tell you is that they profit from stealing Palestinian land and water resources!
SodaStream markets itself as an environmentally friendly product to “Turn Water Into Fresh Sparkling Water And Soda”… but there is nothing friendly about the destruction of Palestinian life, land and water resources!
SodaStream is an Israeli corporation that produces its products primarily in an illegal settlement in the West Bank. This SodaStream factory is located in an illegal industrial zone called Mishor Adumim, which is built on stolen Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank. Located East of Jerusalem, Mishor Adumim and Ma’aleh Adumim cut the West Bank into two pieces and disconnects Ramallah, Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Jericho. All Israeli settlements exist in… Read More »
The Gaza War and the Palestinian National Movement
Featuring Lamis Deek – USPCN-NY and National Lawyers Guild Member
7PM – Wednesday Nov. 28
Jerusalem Restaurant
8310 S. Harlem Ave
Bridgeview, IL
On the week of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, the United States Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) is honored to welcome Lamis Deek of the New York chapter of USPCN and National Lawyers Guild to Chicago on November 28th. Deek will discuss the recent Israeli attack, and continued siege, on the Gaza Strip; the state of the national movement in Palestine and the U.S. today; and the civil liberties violations and other challenges faced by Palestinian and solidarity activists in the U.S.
Speaker’s Bio:
Lamis Deek is an attorney and human rights advocate specializing in defending Arab and Muslim community members, activists, and organizers against U.S. government attacks, including a number of the recent and prominent “entrapment” cases on the East Coast.
Deek… Read More »
Remember our huge rally for Palestine last night. Let’s not let this Israeli government propaganda rally go unchallenged.
State of Illinois Building
100 W. Randolph
Chicago
11:30Am – 1:00PM
The Jewish United Fund is hosting a rally for Israel tomorrow outside the Thompson Center. Some politicians will also be coming out to this rally in support. They may have politicians on their side, but we have people power. Let us have a strong counter-protest to show our powerful presence! For more information, check out: http://www.juf.org/news/israel.aspx?id=418127
Sponsored by:
US Palestinian Community Network – Chicago
Palestine Solidarity Group – Chicago
American Muslims for Palestine
Arab Jewish Partnership for Peace and Justice in the Middle East
Chicago Movement for Palestinian Rights
Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago
TODAY – EMERGENCY Protest of the New Israeli Invasion of Gaza!
Thursday 11/15/12
4:00PM – 5:00PM
130 E. Randolph Street (the location of President Obama’s headquarters)
Chicago
Almost four years ago, Israel invaded Gaza and killed 1,400 and wounded more than 5,000. The then President-elect Obama did not speak out against the Israeli attack and the Israeli army committed war crimes against the civilian population in Gaza.
Now four years later, the Israelis have once again escalated their attacks on Gaza, with aircraft, drones and warships bombing over 20 sites throughout Gaza, killing and wounding dozens of civilians. Once again the Israeli army is threatening a ground invasion.
Demand President Obama take action this time and pressure the Israeli government to end their attacks on the people of Gaza and end the illegal blockade of Gaza.
Organized by:
Palestine Solidarity Group – Chicago
Chicago Movement for Palestinian Rights
US Palestinian Community Network – Chicago
American Muslims for Palestine… Read More »