June 1 - Ahmad Sa'adat transferred to Hadarim prison from Nafha...
QUOTE
"This is your court and you possess the force to celebrate the trial and convict me on the basis of your lists of accusations, the public one and the secret one, and you can dictate a sentence prepared by the political and security apparatuses that are behind this trial. But I too possess a will obtained from the justice of our cause and the determination of our people to reject any decision from this ‘kangaroo court'..."
-Ahmad Sa'adat
EVENTS
Saturday, January 19, 2008
POPULAR ASSEMBLY MARKING THE SIXTH ANNIVERSARY OF AHMAD SA'ADAT'S ABDUCTION
2:30 PM
Salim Effendi Hall, El-Bireh Municipality Hall
Ramallah, Palestine
The Campaign in Solidarity with Ahmad Sa'adat is calling all to attend a general popular assembly in support of Ahmad Sa'adat and political prisoners, commemorating the 6th anniversary of the detention of Ahmad Sa'adat.
Thursday, December 6, 2007
AN EVENING OF SOLIDARITY WITH POLITICAL PRISONERS: FROM THE US TO PALESTINE
7:00 PM
New Brunswick Public Library/Community Room
60 Livingston Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ
Free and open to the public!
Featuring performers and speakers:
HAYA ASHAYER - an original performance by Haya Ashayer of a short play focusing on the struggles of Palestinian political prisoners. Haya Ashayer is a student at Rutgers University, a member of New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine and an organizer with the US Popular Palestinian Conference Network. She will be joined by student members of NJS in performing the play.
ASHANTI ALSTON OMOWALI - Ashanti Alston Omowali is an anarchist activist, speaker, and writer, and former member of the Black Panther Party. He was also a member of the Black Liberation Army, and spent more than a decade in prison after government forces captured him (and the official court system convicted him) of armed robbery. Ashanti is a former northeast coordinator for Critical Resistance, currently co-chair of the National Jericho Movement (to free U.S. political prisoners), a member of pro-Zapatista people-of-color U.S.-based Estación Libre, and is on the board of the Institute for Anarchist Studies.
CHARLOTTE KATES - Charlotte Kates is a lawyer and an organizer for New Jersey Solidarity – Activists for the Liberation of Palestine and Al-Awda New York, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, and co-chair of the Middle East Subcommittee of the National Lawyers Guild. She recently participated in a delegation to occupied Palestine and met with former political prisoners. She was one of the three U.S.-based attorneys to attend a session of the Israeli military trial of Ahmad Sa'adat.
SPEAKER ON THE CUBAN FIVE - New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine supports the Month of Action for the Cuban Five, five Cubans who are unjustly imprisoned in the United States for defending their people against US-based attacks.
December 3, 2007 marks the International Day of Solidarity with Political Prisoners. Join