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Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network released a new video calling on supporters of Palestine around the world to join the Week of Action to Free Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian Prisoners, taking place from 15 to 23 January, 2021. The video is also available on YouTube and Facebook.

Ahmad Sa’adat is the imprisoned General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a Palestinian national liberation movement leader and a symbol of the international left and revolutionary movements. He was sentenced to 30 years in Israeli prison on 25 December 2008 after being violently abducted from the Palestinian Authority’s Jericho prison in 2006, accused of leading a prohibited organization and “incitement.” The PFLP, like all Palestinian political parties and resistance organizations, is labeled a “prohibited organization” by the Israeli occupation authorities.

Sa’adat is a leader in the Palestinian prisoners’ movement and the Palestinian national liberation movement and a Palestinian, Arab and international symbol of resistance to capitalism, racism, apartheid and colonization. Targeted for his political role and clarity of vision, he remains unable to be silenced despite the oppression imposed upon him and 4,500 fellow Palestinian political prisoners.

On 15-23 January 2021, join our collective call for the freedom of Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian prisoners, with action and global solidarity to escalate the boycott of Israel, end aid and support to Israel, organize for justice in Palestine and resist imperialism and colonialism. 

Visit the Action Hub for the Week of Action to Free Ahmad Sa’adat for graphics in 11 languages, downloadable and printable materials and more!

Join these events and actions for the Week of Action to Free Ahmad Sa’adat and send your events to us at samidoun@samidoun.net!

Saturday, 16 January – Toulouse, France – Stand Palestine: Freedom for Ahmad Sa’adat! De 11H à 13H,  Métro Capitole – Toulouse,
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/events/2912430855703129/

Saturday, 16 January – Online Event – Steadfastness and Resistance – The Palestinian Prisoners’ Movement and the Case of Ahmad Sa’adat with Lena Meari. 10 am Pacific – 1 pm Eastern – 6 pm UTC – 7 pm central Europe – 8 pm Palestine,  Register online: https://bit.ly/freesaadat

Friday, 22 January – Paris, France – Protest to free Ahmad Sa’adat, Georges Abdallah, and all Palestinian prisoners! 6:00 pm, Place Jean Ferrat – Metro L2 Menilmontant, Paris, France
More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1135211573605908

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16 January, Online Event: Steadfastness and Resistance – The Palestinian Prisoners’ Movement and the Case of Ahmad Sa’adat

Saturday, 16 January
10 am Pacific – 1 pm Eastern – 6 pm UTC – 7 pm central Europe – 8 pm Palestine
Register online: https://bit.ly/freesaadat
Facebook Live: https://facebook.com/SamidounPrisonerSolidarity

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Join Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network for a webinar launching the international Week of Action to Free Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian prisoners. The imprisonment of Palestinian national leader Ahmad Sa’adat highlights not only the use of imprisonment as a key colonial weapon of the Israeli occupation but also the complicity of the Palestinian Authority and the direction of imperialist powers like the US, Britain and EU countries.

Noted scholar Lena Meari will speak about the history and present of Palestinian resistance and steadfastness — sumud — behind bars, and the Palestinian prisoners’ movement’s struggle against colonialism and leadership in the liberation struggle. She will be joined by Hadeel Shatara, coordinator of Samidoun Palestine, discussing Palestinian political prisoners detained by the Palestinian Authority amid “security coordination” with the Israeli occupation, and Mohammed Khatib, coordinator of Samidoun in Europe, on the case of Ahmad Sa’adat and the struggle to revive the Palestinian revolution.

Event will take place in English with French translation.

Speaker Bio:

Lena Meari, born in Haifa to a refugee family from Al-Birweh village. Integrated in her academic training and research various disciplines including: Anthropology, Psychology as well as Gender Studies and Development. An assistant professor of Anthropology at the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences and the Institute of Women’s Studies at Birzeit University. Completed her PhD at the University of California, Davis. Her PhD dissertation titled “Sumud: A Philosophy of Confronting Interrogation” investigates the transforming colonial relations in colonized Palestine from the perspective of the interrogation-encounter. Has special interest in the geopolitics of knowledge production, decolonized methodologies, colonial structures and colonial relations, the politics of sumud, revolutionary subjectivity, anti-colonial feminist theory, and critical approaches to the concept of development with emphasis on Palestine and the Arab World.

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