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		<title>Chicago activists protest &#8220;Brand Israel&#8221; Batsheva Dance Company</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chicago Palestine solidarity activists made their voices heard on Saturday, March 17, during a protest of the opening night of Batsheva Dance Company&#8217;s two-night performance at Roosevelt University&#8217;s Auditorium Theater....]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Chicago Palestine solidarity activists made their voices heard on Saturday, March 17, during a protest of the opening night of Batsheva Dance Company&#8217;s two-night performance at Roosevelt University&#8217;s Auditorium Theater.</p>
<p>Chants included &#8220;All your dancing can&#8217;t erase! Apartheid&#8217;s ugly face!&#8221; and in a tribute to St. Patrick&#8217;s Day, &#8220;Occupation is a crime! From Ireland to Palestine!&#8221;</p>
<p>Protesters carried picket signs reading &#8220;No art for apartheid&#8217;s sake&#8221; and &#8220;Don&#8217;t buy brand I$rael.&#8221;</p>
<p>The action was part of a <a href="http://adalahny.org/document/790/open-letter-north-american-organizations-batsheva-take-strong-unequivocal-stance-agains" target="_blank">national campaign to boycott Batsheva</a>, which is sponsored by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs in an effort to use cultural production to whitewash Israeli war crimes, occupation and apartheid. Batsheva has been protested throughout its North American tour.</p>
<p>Inspired by activists in the Bay Area, protesters distributed a <a href="http://psgchicago.org/wp-content/uploads/welcome_to_brandisrael_event.pdf" target="_blank">mock program</a> to concert attendees, highlighting the Brand Israel campaign and Israel&#8217;s apartheid policies.</p>
<p>Protesters also distributed a <a href="http://psgchicago.org/wp-content/uploads/BDS-comic-.pdf" target="_blank">comic flyer about the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement</a>. The majority of those taking flyers understood and supported the comparison between the BDS movement against apartheid South Africa and the current academic and cultural boycott of Israel. Reinforced by our &#8220;program&#8221; describing Batsheva&#8217;s funding by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, event goers were very surprised that the troupe was funded as a &#8220;Brand Israel&#8221; campaign by the Israeli government.</p>
<p>Because of the protest, the performance started much later than scheduled, as security thoroughly went through attendees&#8217; possessions, apparently fearing that the event would be disrupted.</p>
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<p><strong>The action was co-sponsored by:</strong><em></em></p>
<p><em><strong>Palestine Solidarity Group – Chicago </strong></em><a href="http://www.psgchicago.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.psgchicago.org</a><em> – <a href="mailto:info@psgchicago.org" target="_blank">info@psgchicago.org</a><br />
<strong>Chicago Movement for Palestinian Rights </strong><a href="http://www.goo.gl/PSW5Z" target="_blank">www.goo.gl/PSW5Z</a> – <a href="mailto:chicagompr@gmail.com" target="_blank">chicagompr@gmail.com</a><br />
<strong>USPCN-Chicago</strong><a href="http://www.facebook.com/groups/USPCN.Chicago/" target="_blank"> www.facebook.​com/groups/USPCN.Chicago/</a> – <a href="mailto:uspcn@uspcn.org" target="_blank">uspcn@uspcn.org</a><br />
<strong>Jewish Voice for Peace – Chicago </strong></em><em><a href="http://www.jvpchicago.org/" target="_blank">www.jvpchicago.org</a></em><em> – <a href="http://www.jvpchicago.org/contact" target="_blank">www.jvpchicago.org/contact</a></em></p>
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		<title>Stand with Palestinian women on International Women&#8217;s Day</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[On International Women&#8217;s Day, March 8, the Palestinian Solidarity Group-Chicago and the U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN)-Chicago encourage supporters of women&#8217;s rights to show support and solidarity with Palestinian women...]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://www.uspcn.org/wp/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/iwd5.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1205" title="iwd5" src="http://www.uspcn.org/wp/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/iwd5-206x300.jpg" alt="" width="206" height="300" /></a>On International Women&#8217;s Day, March 8, the Palestinian Solidarity Group-Chicago and the U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN)-Chicago encourage supporters of women&#8217;s rights to show support and solidarity with Palestinian women struggling for their freedom and for the national liberation of the Palestinian people.</p>
<p>We stand in support of and solidarity with Hana al-Shalabi, who went on hunger strike on February 16 to protest Israel detaining her without charge or trial. She has previously spent more than two years in detention without charge or trial &#8212; a practice known as &#8220;administrative detention.&#8221;</p>
<p>Israel currently holds approximately 300 Palestinians under administrative detention. (For more about Hana al-Shalabi and administrative detention, read here: <a href="http://addameer.org/etemplate.php?id=161" target="_blank">http://addameer.org/etemplate.<wbr>php?id=161</wbr></a>)</p>
<p>Act today!</p>
<p>1. Show your solidarity with Hana al-Shalabi &#8212; send her a message of support to:</p>
<p>Hana al-Shalabi<br />
HaSharon Prison<br />
Even Yehuda<br />
PO Box 7<br />
40330 Israel</p>
<p>(Send copies to the prisoner rights group Addameer at <a href="mailto:info@addameer.ps">info@addameer.ps</a> to make sure Hana gets your message in case it is not delivered by Israel.)</p>
<p>2. Demand that the Israeli government immediately release Hana al-Shalabi:</p>
<p>Brigadier General Danny Efroni<br />
Military Judge Advocate General<br />
6 David Elazar Street<br />
Harkiya, Tel Aviv<br />
Israel<br />
Fax: <a href="tel:%2B972%203%20608%200366">+972 3 608 0366</a>; <a href="tel:%2B972%203%20569%204526">+972 3 569 4526</a><br />
Email: <a href="mailto:arbel@mail.idf.il">arbel@mail.idf.il</a>; <a href="mailto:avimn@idf.gov.il">avimn@idf.gov.il</a></p>
<p>Maj. Gen. Avi Mizrahi<br />
OC Central Command Nehemia Base, Central Command<br />
Neveh Yaacov, Jerusalam<br />
Fax: <a href="tel:%2B972%202%20530%205741">+972 2 530 5741</a></p>
<p>Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Ehud Barak<br />
Ministry of Defense<br />
37 Kaplan Street, Hakirya<br />
Tel Aviv 61909, Israel<br />
Fax: +972 3 691 6940 / 696 2757</p>
<p>Col. Eli Bar On<br />
Legal Advisor of Judea and Samaria PO Box 5<br />
Beth El 90631<br />
Fax: <a href="tel:%2B972%202%209977326">+972 2 9977326</a></p>
<p>3. Write your elected representatives to urge them to have Israel release Hana al-Shalabi and put an end to administrative detention.</p>
<p>View this call on PSG&#8217;s website: <a href="http://psgchicago.org/?p=581" target="_blank">http://psgchicago.org/?p=581</a></p>
<p>Share this call on Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/156944934425779/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/<wbr>events/156944934425779/</wbr></a></p>
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		<title>Khader Adnan&#8217;s Hunger Strike: Palestinian Resistance, Steadfastness and Courage</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 06:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Week of Action: February 19-26, 2012 Khader Adnan has been on hunger strike for 63 days &#8211; one day for each year of the occupation of Palestine; one day, one...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Week of Action: February 19-26, 2012</strong></p>
<p>Khader Adnan has been on hunger strike for 63 days &#8211; one day for each year of the occupation of Palestine; one day, one year, of steadfastness, resilience, resistance, and dignity in the face of occupation and oppression. His courage and commitment must inspire us all to act to amplify his message, support his action, demand his freedom &#8211; and the freedom of Palestine.</p>
<p><strong><em>&#8220;“I hereby assert that I am confronting the occupiers not for my own sake as an individual, but for the sake of thousands of prisoners who are being deprived of their simplest human rights while the world and international community look on&#8230;</em></strong><strong><em>It is time the international community and the UN support prisoners and force the State of Israel to respect international human rights and stop treating prisoners as if they were not humans.” &#8211; Khader Adnan, from his hospital bed</em></strong><br />
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<strong><em>BACKGROUND</em></strong></p>
<p>Khader Adnan was abducted by Israeli occupation soldiers on December 17, 2011 at 3:30 am. Addameer reports:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Before entering his house, soldiers used the driver that takes Khader’s father to the vegetable market, Mohammad Mustafa, as a human shield by forcing him to knock on the door of the house and call out Khader’s name while blindfolded. A huge force of soldiers then entered the house shouting. Recognizing Khader immediately, they grabbed him violently in front of his two young daughters and ailing mother.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>He was then taken to interrogation, where interrogators forced him into stress positions, ripped out chunks of his beard and rubbed his face with dirt as they insulted his wife, sister, children and mother. Throughout this ordeal, he refused to say a word to his interrogators or take a bite of food. He was never charged with any crime, but instead placed in administrative detention, a mechanism in which Palestinian prisoners are held for months at a time, renewable again and again, without charge or trial, on the basis of secret evidence.</p>
<p>Since then, Khader Adnan has been on hunger strike for 63 days. Past 50 days, a hunger striker is in immediate danger of organ failure and death. He has lost eighty pounds, cannot walk, and remains shackled hand and foot to his hospital bed.<strong> And still he insists upon his strike, upon his humanity and dignity in the face of a system that would obliterate it. </strong></p>
<p><strong><em>ACTION</em></strong></p>
<p>While the Western media has been almost entirely silent about the case of Khader Adnan, he has become an international symbol of resistance to injustice through grassroots movements and social media. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the Carter Center have joined the call for his release.</p>
<p>Khader Adnan is demanding not only his release but the end of administrative detention. He is one of 307 administrative detainees and nearly 4500 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. 40% of Palestinian men in the West Bank and Gaza have spent time in the occupation&#8217;s jails. Palestinian prisoners have long utilized the hunger strike as a mechanism of struggle, and Khader Adnan is the latest &#8211; and longest-term &#8211; inheritor of that great and heroic tradition of the Palestinian prisoners&#8217; movement. The Palestinian prisoners have always been the conscience of the Palestinian national liberation movement, and Khader Adnan&#8217;s steadfastness is the emblematic example of that role.<strong>Khader&#8217;s struggle and sacrifice calls us home to the fundamentals of the struggle, to the freedom of our people and our land, the return of our refugees, to opening the gates of the occupier&#8217;s prisons, and must call us now to action. </strong></p>
<p>Protests have taken place in many cities in the past weeks and thousands of letters have been written. <strong>At this critical time, the next week &#8211; February 19-26, 2012 must be a week of action for Khader Adnan and all Palestinian prisoners.</strong> On Monday, February 20,<a href="http://www.ampalestine.org/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=1678%3Ademand-us-state-department-intervene-for-rights-of-palestinian-political-prisoners&amp;catid=96%3Aarticles"> join AMP, USPCN  and others in a national day of fasting</a> for Khader Adnan. Hundreds have already joined a &#8220;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/350938041607190/">Fasting for Freedom</a>&#8221; campaign and protests are planned in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/374439785901155/">New York</a>, Oakland, Los Angeles and elsewhwere. <strong>We call on all USPCN chapters and members, the Palestinian community, and the supporters and friends of the Palestinian people to:</strong></p>
<p><strong>1. Join and organize such actions at Israeli embassies and consulates, in public squares, on campuses, and in communities. Join in the solidarity hunger strikes and Fasts for Freedom.</strong> Please email us at <a href="mailto:uspcn@uspcn.org" target="_blank">uspcn@uspcn.org</a> or send us the Facebook link to your events.</p>
<p><strong>2. Organize call-in centers and hunger strike events to bring together solidarity fasters and people calling the State Department</strong>. Please email us at <a href="mailto:uspcn@uspcn.org" target="_blank">uspcn@uspcn.org</a> or send us the Facebook link and we will publicize your call-in centers.</p>
<p><strong>3. Continue the Social Media and Twitter campaigns to publicize the case of #KhaderAdnan. </strong>The twitter hashtag #HungerStrike63Days trended worldwide today &#8211; when the mainstream media is silent, we must speak in our own voices.</p>
<p><strong>4. Continue the phone-call and letter pressure</strong>. Call the office of Jeffrey Feltman, Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs at <a href="tel:202.647.7209" target="_blank">202.647.7209</a> and insist the US take a stand and demand that Israel release Khader Adnan and end the practice of administrative detention. Write letters to the occupation authority to make it clear that thousands around the world are with Khader Adnan: <a href="http://samidoun.ca/2012/02/take-action-for-hunger-striking-palestinian-prisoner-khader-adnan/" target="_blank">http://samidoun.ca/2012/02/<wbr>take-action-for-hunger-<wbr>striking-palestinian-prisoner-<wbr>khader-adnan/</wbr></wbr></wbr></a> and sign the petition to the International Committee of the Red Cross: <a href="http://signon.org/sign/khader-adnans-life-at-1?source=c.fwd&amp;r_by=2447156" target="_blank">http://signon.org/sign/khader-<wbr>adnans-life-at-1?source=c.fwd&amp;<wbr>r_by=2447156</wbr></wbr></a></p>
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		<title>Standing Up for Our Rights! USPCN Pledges to Defend Human and Civil Rights</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US Palestinian Community Network passed the following resolution at its planning meeting on January 6-8, 2012, committing itself to work for the civil and human rights of the Palestinian...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The US Palestinian Community Network passed the following resolution at its planning meeting on January 6-8, 2012, committing itself to work for the civil and human rights of the Palestinian community, particularly those targeted for FBI repression and a grand jury investigation. Those targeted in the case include labor activists, antiwar organizers, and seven Palestinian USPCN members and leaders in Chicago. For more information on the case, please see the website of the<span style="color: #ff0000;"><a href="http://stopfbi.net"><span style="color: #ff0000;"> Committee to Stop FBI Repression</span></a></span>.</p>
<p><strong>USPCN is circulating a Pledge to Defend Civil and Human Rights and calls upon all of its members and supporters to both <span style="color: #ff0000;"><a href="http://uspcn.org/pledge-to-defend-civil-and-human-rights/"><span style="color: #ff0000;">sign the petition online</span></a></span>  and<span style="color: #ff0000;"><a href="http://uspcn.org/wp/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Pledge-to-Defend-Civil-and-Human-Rights.pdf"><span style="color: #ff0000;"> distribute the hard-copy form</span></a></span> at your events and activities. Send the signatures you collect to defend_peoples_rights@uspcn.org! </strong></p>
<p><strong>United States Palestinian Community Network (USPCN)</strong></p>
<p><strong>Strategic Planning Meeting</strong></p>
<p><strong>January 6<sup>th</sup>-8<sup>th</sup>, 2012</strong></p>
<p><strong>Santa Clara, CA</strong></p>
<p><strong>Standing Up for Our Rights!</strong></p>
<p><strong>Whereas</strong>, the USPCN’s mission statement includes the upholding of Palestinian rights around the world, including the protection of democratic rights in the U.S.;</p>
<p><strong>And whereas</strong>, the FBI raids on homes and offices, and confiscation of property, in Chicago and Minneapolis, and the grand jury subpoenas served to 14 individuals in the Midwest, including one USPCN National Coordinating Committee member, in September of 2010, constituted an escalation of historical attacks on the Palestinian community, the Palestine solidarity movement, the anti-war movement, and democratic rights in the United States;</p>
<p><strong>And whereas</strong>, the nine (9) grand jury subpoenas served in December 2010 were to six (6) additional Palestinians, all members and leaders of Chicago’s USPCN chapter, and 3 Palestine solidarity organizers;</p>
<p><strong>And whereas</strong>, the FBI raid on Carlos Montes’ home in Los Angeles in May of 2011 constituted an additional attack on a leading immigrant rights, Chicano liberation, and Palestine solidarity organizer;</p>
<p><strong>And whereas</strong>, Department of Justice and other U.S. government repression is being utilized to stifle critique of U.S. foreign policy and Israeli violations of the human, civil, and national rights of the Palestinian people, as evidenced by the cases of the Irvine 11, the Holy Land Foundation 5, Abdelhaleem Ashqar, Sami Al-Arian, and many others;</p>
<p><strong>Therefore be it resolved</strong> that the USPCN calls on all Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims to sign the Pledge to Defend Civil &amp; Human Rights at <a href="http://uspcn.org/pledge-to-defend-civil-and-human-rights/" target="_blank">http://uspcn.org/pledge-to-<wbr>defend-civil-and-human-rights/</wbr></a> and the petition to support Carlos Montes at <a href="http://www.stopfbi.net/petition/national" target="_blank">http://www.stopfbi.net/<wbr>petition/national</wbr></a>;</p>
<p><strong>And be it further resolved</strong> that the USPCN calls on all of its chapters and other Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, and solidarity institutions across the U.S. to establish Emergency Response Plans in preparation for the possible indictments and arrests of any of the Palestinians or Palestine solidarity activists raided and/or subpoenaed;</p>
<p><strong>And be it further resolved</strong> that the USPCN calls on all of its chapters and other Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, and solidarity institutions across the U.S. to identify supportive U.S. Congresspeople in their respective districts, and call on these legislators to demand from Attorney General Eric Holder and U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald an end to this investigation;</p>
<p><strong>And be it further resolved</strong> that the USPCN calls on its chapters to help organize a speaking tour of the U.S. for one of its Chicago members, to build support around the case;</p>
<p><strong>And be it finally resolved</strong> that, even in the face of the attacks on our movement, the USPCN calls on all Palestinians, Arabs, Muslims, and other people of conscience in the U.S. and around the world to continue organizing for, and demanding, self-determination, independence, full equality, and the Right of Return for the Palestinian people; and freedom for Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, and Palestine solidarity political prisoners in Israeli, Palestinian Authority, U.S., and all other jails.</p>
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		<title>Announcing First USPCN Community Forum &#8211; Santa Clara, CA &#8211; January 7, 2012</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ANNOUNCING THE FIRST US PALESTINIAN COMMUNITY NETWORK COMMUNITY FORUM Saturday, January 7, 2012 Hyatt Regency, 5101 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, CA Reflecting the strategic need for nurturing open spaces of...]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>US PALESTINIAN COMMUNITY NETWORK</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>COMMUNITY FORUM</strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong>Saturday, January 7, 2012</strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong>Hyatt Regency, 5101 Great America Parkway, </strong><strong>Santa Clara, CA</strong></p>
<p>Reflecting the strategic need for nurturing open spaces of conversation amongst Palestinians in the US, the US Palestinian Community Network is excited to announce its <strong>first of a continuing series of Community Forums</strong> to be held across the US on Saturday, January 7, 2012 in Santa Clara, CA.  This <strong>all-day</strong> Forum, part of a weekend of strategic organizing for the National Coordinating Committee of the USPCN, will offer attendees an opportunity to hear about the work of USPCN and participate in developing its plans for 2012 to advance a strong Palestinian voice in the diaspora and within the national movement. The Forum is a new initiative aimed at strengthening communication between the national coordinating committee and local chapters in order to advance participatory democratic practices within USPCN; coordinate amongst Palestinian associations in the US; and establish and develop local chapters of USPCN in Palestinian communities.</p>
<p>Based upon requests from Palestinian community members across the US, the Forum will also inaugurate a series of skill-building workshops for 2012 in order to develop community organizing skills and mobilization training.  We are delighted to announce that the inaugural workshop will be on Communication Strategies and led by Salah Asad, a national coordinating committee member of USPCN and an established expert on strategic communication skills.</p>
<p>The Forum concludes with a conversation on <em>Palestine Amidst the Uprisings</em>, featuring guests As`ad Abu-Khalil, professor at California State, Stanislaus, and Omar Barghouti, a member of the Boycott National Committee and a leader in the Palestinian-led movement for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Against Israel.</p>
<p>The Forum is open to the Palestinian and Arab community. Non-USPCN members may register to become members (and attend) at the Forum. Attendees will be asked for a $25 donation to cover costs.</p>
<p>Register online here: <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://uspcn.org/register-here-for-uspcn-community-forum-january-7-2012/"><span style="color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;">http://uspcn.org/register-here-for-uspcn-community-forum-january-7-2012/</span></a></span></span></p>
<p><strong>Agenda for the Forum can be found here: <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><a href="http://uspcn.org/uspcn-community-forum-program-january-7-2012/"><span style="color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;">http://uspcn.org/uspcn-community-forum-program-january-7-2012/</span></a></span></span><br />
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<p><strong>We look forward to the conversation and building ahead. </strong></p>
<p><strong>Until Liberation and Return!</strong></p>
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		<title>Take Action &#8211; Defend Palestine and OccupyChicago</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following call is being circulated to defend Palestine and OccupyChicago after biased media coverage on ABC 7, attacking USPCN organizer Hatem Abudayyeh and Palestinian participation in OccupyChicago. Please write...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The following call is being circulated to defend Palestine and OccupyChicago after biased media coverage on ABC 7, attacking USPCN organizer Hatem Abudayyeh and Palestinian participation in OccupyChicago. Please write to ABC 7 below!</p>
<p>Dear friends and supporters:</p>
<p>We are calling on folks to take a few minutes to respond to ABC 7 reporter Chuck Goudie&#8217;s inaccurate and irresponsible reportage on OccupyChicago, OWS in general, and the Palestine support movement, as well as his continued attacks on Palestinian community organizer Hatem Abudayyeh. The link to Goudie&#8217;s report: <a href="http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/iteam&amp;id=8407349">http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/iteam&amp;id=8407349</a></p>
<p>Below is a letter you can send to Goudie and others on the ABC 7 news team. Or draft your own letter. If you would, please b.c.c. <a href="mailto:defend.dissent@gmail.com">defend.dissent@gmail.com</a> so we can get an accurate estimate of the movement&#8217;s response to this alert.</p>
<p>Take action!</p>
<p>Email: <a href="mailto:chuckgoudie@gmail.com">chuckgoudie@gmail.com</a></p>
<p>Carleen Mosbach, assignment editor, <a href="mailto:carleen.r.mosbach@abc.com">carleen.r.mosbach@abc.com</a></p>
<p>Jeff Marchese, night-side assignment editor, <a href="mailto:jeff.a.marchese@abc.com">jeff.a.marchese@abc.com</a></p>
<p>Assignment Desk, <a href="mailto:wls.desk@abc.com">wls.desk@abc.com</a></p>
<p>Jennifer Graves, news director, via news desk, <a href="mailto:wls.desk@abc.com">wls.desk@abc.com</a></p>
<p>Fax: general news assignment, 312-899-8019</p>
<p>general assignment, 312-750-7381</p>
<p>***ALSO&#8211;Call in day to WLS TV / ABC 7 Chicago Assistant News Director Joyce Fisher</p>
<p>Friday, October 28th, 2011</p>
<p>9 AM to 7 PM</p>
<p>312.750.7380</p>
<p>See the letter below and demand that she pull the piece off the web and apologize for the inaccurate statements and borderline libel against the OWS and Palestine support movements.</p>
<p>Thank you,</p>
<p><strong>Shirien Damra (Coalition for Palestinian Rights)*</strong></p>
<p><strong>Joe Iosbaker (Committee Against Political Repression)</strong></p>
<p><strong>Maureen Murphy (Palestine Solidarity Group)</strong></p>
<p><strong>Rocky Pyskoty (OccupyChicago)</strong></p>
<p><strong>Shira Tevah (International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network)</strong></p>
<p>* organizations listed for identification purposes only</p>
<p>____________________________________________________________________</p>
<p><strong>Sample Letter:</strong></p>
<p>October 27, 2011</p>
<p>WLS-TV / ABC 7 Chicago</p>
<p>190 North State Street</p>
<p>Chicago, Illinois 60601</p>
<p>To Whom It May Concern:</p>
<p>Last night, you broadcast an irresponsible and uninformed report by Chuck Goudie (http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/iteam&amp;id=8407349). Goudie asserted that the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement has a “vein of anti-Semitism flowing through [it],” and used the presence of Palestine solidarity activists in the movement to “prove” his argument. The Occupy Wall Street movement has the support of tens of thousands of Americans in cities across the country, and is growing rapidly, because Americans are suffering from an economic crisis brought about by Wall Street and big banks. As the OWS movement describes it, the “99%” experience extreme economic inequality, where millions are unemployed without meaningful help, while bankers in trouble are bailed out.</p>
<p>While there have been unfortunate anti-Semitic statements made by individual protesters at OWS actions that should and have been challenged as dangerous and divisive, the vast majority of the movement does not espouse these opinions. Media reports, including Goudie’s, have inflated these unrepresentative views for the purpose of discrediting two movements—OWS and Palestine solidarity. Instead of substantiating his false claim that anti-Semitism is a pervasive problem in the OWS movement, Goudie uses the presence and involvement of Palestinians and Palestine solidarity activists at OccupyChicago and elsewhere to “prove” the movement anti-Semitic.</p>
<p>By smearing the OWS movement and Palestinian community and solidarity activists, Goudie blatantly avoids discussing the real issues that are bringing tens of thousands of Americans to the streets in cities and towns across the country.</p>
<p>For example, some OWS protestors, including American Jews, have brought to the protests Palestinian flags and signs condemning US military aid to Israel. The US gives $3 billion a year in aid to Israel, which is used to carry out its policies of military occupation, inequality and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian people.</p>
<p>And in an ad hominem attack, Goudie also falsely accused Palestinian-American community organizer Hatem Abudayyeh of advocating for the destruction of Israel because he spoke in support of Palestinian freedom and self-determination at a Chicago anti-war rally earlier this month.</p>
<p>Holding a Palestinian flag and advocating for Palestinian human rights, civil rights and equality should never be equated with anti-Semitism. By doing so, Goudie attempts to smear a just movement and evade discussing the real issues: unequal economic policies in the US and unrestricted military and diplomatic support to the human rights-abusing state of Israel.</p>
<p>Finally, Goudie also claimed last night that OccupyChicago did not provide a response to his emailed questions, but as an example of how disingenuous and unprincipled his whole process behind this piece has been, the questions were not sent to OccupyChicago’s spokespeople until after 8 PM, less than 2 hours before the broadcast. OccupyChicago did eventually respond, and WLS-TV posted the statement on the page linked above.</p>
<p>We call on Goudie and WLS-TV/ABC 7 Chicago to immediately apologize for the story&#8217;s false statements about Hatem Abudayyeh and mis-characterization of the Palestinian flag and struggle for freedom as symbols of anti-Semitism.</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p>Your Name<br />
City, State</p>
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		<title>National Action:  Activists connect prisoner abuses from California to the Gaza Strip, hold rallies and collect signatures</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Friday, October 7</strong></p>
<p><strong>Chicago, IL: Israeli Consulate, 111 East Wacker Dr.  8:30am</strong><strong></strong></p>
<p><strong>San Francisco, CA:  Montgomery St. BART Station, 456 Montgomery St</strong><strong>.  8:30am</strong></p>
<p><strong>New York City, NY: Liberty Park Square.  6:00pm</strong></p>
<p>(Chicago, IL; San Francisco, CA; NY, NY) Palestinians, Jews, and prisoner solidarity activists of all backgrounds are responding to calls from Palestine to support the nearly 6,000 political prisoners and people across California State prisons who are on hunger strike to change humiliating and demeaning conditions.  The International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network has specifically called on Jews of conscience to fast for 48 hours, from Thursday sundown October 6<sup>th</sup> to Saturday October 8<sup>th</sup>, as part of their Yom Kippur observance.  Yom Kippur is traditionally a time to acknowledge injustices and speak out against them.</p>
<p>The International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN), and the US Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) are holding rallies to protest the conditions that Palestinian prisoners face, and connecting those injustices to the situation of US prisoners.  The message from their call-to-action states: &#8220;We stand with people all over the world whose daily lives are terrorized and unjustly controlled by policing and incarceration.&#8221;</p>
<p>The demands of the activists are these:</p>
<p>1)      End isolation of Ahmad Sa&#8217;adat &#8211; General Secretary, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine;</p>
<p>2)      End solidarity confinement of all prisoners;</p>
<p>3)      Meet demands of the civil disobedience and hunger strike of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli occupation prisons and of prisoners at California state prisons;</p>
<p>4)      End the death penalty in the US and all places it remains a State practice; and</p>
<p>5)      End the Israeli blockade on Gaza and a permanent opening of the Rafah crossing.</p>
<p><strong>For more information contact: </strong></p>
<p><strong>Sara Kershnar, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network </strong></p>
<p><a href="mailto:skershna@earthlink.net">skershna@earthlink.net</a></p>
<p>(510) 685-5347</p>
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<p><strong>Monadel Herzallah, US Palestinian Community Network</strong></p>
<p><a href="mailto:mmonadel@hotmail.com">mmonadel@hotmail.com</a></p>
<p>(408) 849-7977</p>
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		<title>New York City: Durban +10 Commemoration, September 19-21</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The week of September 19th and all the activities engaging the 10th Commemoration of the World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) and the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (DDPA) is rapidly approaching.</p>
<p>USPCN is a member of the <a href="http://www.durban10coalition.com/">Durban+10 Coalition</a>, a peoples&#8217; initiative to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Durban conference. <em><strong><a href="http://uspcn.org/wp/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Durban-10-Flyer-color-3.pdf">Download the flyer (PDF).</a></strong></em></p>
<p><strong>The Durban + 10 Coalition presents:</strong><br />
<strong>Recognition, Justice, and Development:</strong><br />
<strong>A Civil Society Conference in support of the 10th Anniversary of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (DDPA).</strong></p>
<p><strong>Monday, September 19th – Wednesday, September 21st</strong></p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.durban10coalition.com">Durban + 10 Coalition</a> is composed of over 40 organizations from throughout the world that affirm the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (DDPA) and have joined together to ensure its full implementation by all the governments of the world.</p>
<p><strong>Monday, September 19th</strong><br />
<strong>Brecht Forum</strong><br />
<strong>451 West Street, NYC</strong><br />
<strong>6 pm Doors Open</strong></p>
<p>Opening Event and Cultural Performance by Masauko Chipembere Band at 7 pm</p>
<p><strong>Tuesday, September 20th</strong></p>
<p>Day Program<br />
Community Church of New York<br />
40 East 35th Street, NYC<br />
9 am – 2 pm</p>
<p>10 am – 12 pm The Importance of the DDPA to the Global Fight against Racism</p>
<ul>
<li>Ejim Dike, Human Rights Project of the Urban Justice Center</li>
<li>E. S. Reddy, former UN Assistant Secretary General for the Center Against Apartheid</li>
<li>Mireille Fanon-Mendes France, Frantz Fanon Foundation and Member of the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent</li>
</ul>
<p>12 – 2 pm Immigration, Displacement and Globally Accelerating Racism after 9/11</p>
<ul>
<li>Azadeh Shahshahani, National Lawyers Guild (NLG)</li>
<li>Charo Mina Rojas, Black Communities’ Process (Colombia)</li>
</ul>
<p>Evening Program<br />
CUNY Grad Center Student Lounge<br />
365 5th Avenue, NYC</p>
<p>6 – 9 pm Standing Up to the Anti-DDPA Campaign</p>
<ul>
<li>Sara Kershner, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN)</li>
<li>Bina Ahmad, BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights</li>
<li>Ajamu Baraka, Black Left Unity Network (BLUN)</li>
<li>David Gespass, National Lawyers Guild (NLG)</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Wednesday, September 21st</strong></p>
<p>Day Program<br />
Community Church of New York<br />
40 East 35th Street, NYC<br />
9 am – 5 pm</p>
<p>10 am – 1 pm The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, Slavery, and Reparations</p>
<ul>
<li>Roger Wareham, December 12th Movement (D12)</li>
<li>Sam Anderson, Black Left Unity Network (BLUN)</li>
<li>Jan Lonn, World Against Racism Network (WARN)</li>
<li>Verene Shepherd, University of the West Indies (Jamaica) and Member of the UN Working Group of Experts of People of African Descent</li>
</ul>
<p>1 pm – 2:30 pm Racism, Mass Incarceration, and Political Prisoners</p>
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<li>Efia Nwangaza, Malcolm X Center for Self-Determination</li>
<li>Lamis Deek, Al Awda NYC</li>
<li>Carl Dix, Network to Stop Mass Incarceration</li>
</ul>
<p>3 – 5 pm Experiences Implementing the DDPA</p>
<ul>
<li>Jorge Guerrero Veloz, Afro-Venezuelan Network</li>
<li>Brazilian Representative</li>
</ul>
<p>Evening Program<br />
CUNY Grad Center Student Lounge<br />
365 5th Avenue, NYC</p>
<p>6 – 9 pm Where Do We Go From Here?</p>
<ul>
<li>Edna Roland, General Rapporteur of the 2001 World Conference Against Racism and UN Eminent Expert on DDPA Implementation</li>
<li>Malaak Shabazz, Malcolm and Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center</li>
<li>Mireille Fanon-Mendes France, Frantz Fanon Foundation</li>
<li>Saladin Muhammad, Black Workers for Justice (BWFJ)</li>
</ul>
<p>For more information visit www.durban10coalition.com or email Durban10Coalition@gmail.com.</p>
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		<title>Take Action: Open the Rafah Crossing Permanently and Unconditionally</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="center"><a href="http://uspcn.org/wp/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/rafah-logo.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-977" title="rafah-logo" src="http://uspcn.org/wp/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/rafah-logo.gif" alt="" width="299" height="267" /></a>Take action:</p>
<p align="center"><strong>OPEN THE RAFAH CROSSING </strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong>PERMANENTLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY</strong></p>
<p>A deadly siege on 1.6 million people living in Gaza has been imposed by Israel since 2006.  It was partially and momentarily lifted when the revolutionary Egyptian movement ousted Hosni Mubarak and made clear that emancipation and the freedom of Palestine were joint and connected goals.</p>
<p>Yet today, and daily, approximately 35,000 people wait to cross the border. Meanwhile, Israeli air strikes last week on ‘the largest open air prison on earth’ killed at least 15 people, including 2 children, and injured at least 50 more. The denial of freedom of movement for Palestinian people is also an offense to the immense ongoing struggles of the Egyptian people in pursuit of human rights and dignity.</p>
<p>Join the growing calls from Egypt for: recalling the Egyptian ambassador from Tel Aviv, expelling the Israeli ambassador from Egypt, opening the Rafah Crossing unconditionally, halting all moves for normalization with Israel and halting trade of natural gas between the two countries.</p>
<p align="center"><strong>CALL TO ACTION</strong></p>
<p>On Friday, August 26, South Africans will deliver the petition to their Egyptian embassy.</p>
<p>Starting on August 26 and for the next four Fridays, until September 30, join in international actions in solidarity with Gaza and in support of the on-going Egyptian people&#8217;s movement:</p>
<p align="center">Request that the Egyptian Supreme Council of the Armed Forces</p>
<p align="center"> honor the human dignity and freedom of its own people and the people of Gaza and</p>
<p align="center"><strong>OPEN THE RAFAH CROSSING PERMANENTLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY</strong>.</p>
<p><strong>Take action </strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Organize a delegation to deliver the petition to your Egyptian embassy, consulate or representative office on a Friday.</li>
</ol>
<p>2.   Contact your Egyptian embassy.  In the US, fax, phone or email the DC Embassy:<br />
Fax: (202) 244-4319; Phone: (202) 966-6342; <a href="mailto:Consulate@egyptembassy.net">Consulate@egyptembassy.net</a></p>
<p>3.   Sign and circulate the <a href="http://www.change.org/petitions/government-open-the-rafah-crossing-permanently-and-unconditionally">petition</a>.</p>
<p>4.   &#8220;Like&#8221; and &#8220;Share&#8221; the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Open-the-Rafah-crossing-permanently-and-unconditionally/140279296059112">Facebook page</a> with your friends and organizations.</p>
<p>Send an email about your activities to: <a href="mailto:rafahcrossingcampaign@gmail.com">rafahcrossingcampaign@gmail.com</a></p>
<p>Post your activities on the campaign <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Open-the-Rafah-crossing-permanently-and-unconditionally/140279296059112">Facebook</a> page.</p>
<p align="center">For more information, contact us at: <a href="mailto:rafahcrossingcampaign@gmail.com">rafahcrossingcampaign@gmail.com</a></p>
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		<title>NY September 15: Rally for Palestine and the Right of Return</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Palestinians Tell the World: Sovereignty Means Securing ALL Our Rights! Download flyer (English) &#124; Download flyer (Arabic) Palestinians everywhere are mobilizing to remind the world of their right to self-determination. In...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Palestinians Tell the World:</strong><br />
<strong> Sovereignty Means Securing ALL Our Rights!</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://uspcn.org/wp/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/sept-15-protest-english.pdf">Download flyer (English)</a> | <a href="http://uspcn.org/wp/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/sept-15-protest-arabic.pdf">Download flyer (Arabic)</a></p>
<p>Palestinians everywhere are mobilizing to remind the world of their right to self-determination. In New York we are marching to the UN because the world’s attention is focused on the vote on Palestine scheduled to take place there.</p>
<p>For over six decades, the UN has approved numerous resolutions promising Palestinians their basic rights, none of which have been implemented. We come to the UN to demand: Sovereignty, Equality, and the Right of Return for Palestinians NOW!</p>
<p><strong>Rally and March to the UN, Thursday, September 15th!</strong><br />
<strong> End All US Aid to Israel!</strong><br />
<strong> End the Occupation!</strong><br />
<strong> Support Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions!</strong></p>
<p><strong>4:30 pm: Gather at Times Square</strong><br />
<strong> 5:30 pm: March to Grand Central and then over to the UN</strong></p>
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<h2 dir="rtl" align="center"><strong>الفلسطينيون يقولون للعالم:</strong></h2>
<h2 dir="rtl" align="center"><strong> </strong><strong>السيادة تعني ضمان كل حقوقنا</strong></h2>
<h3 dir="rtl" align="right">الفلسطينييون في كل مكان يحشدوا لتذكير العالم بحقهم في تقرير المصير. وفي نيويورك سوف نسير الى الامم المتحدة لان انظار العالم ستكون متجهة نحو القضية الفلسطينية في الامم المتحدة .</h3>
<h3 dir="rtl" align="right">ومنذ ما يزيد على ستة عقود، شرّعت الامم المتحدة العديد من القرارات والتي وعدت الفلسطينيين بحقوقهم الاساسية المشروعة ولم يتم تطبيق اي منها حتى الان . اننا جئنا الى الامم المتحدة للمطالبة بما يلي:</h3>
<p style="text-align: center;" dir="rtl"><strong>السيادة ، المساواة ، وتطبيق حق العودة للاجئين الفلسطينين ، </strong></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;" dir="rtl" align="center"><strong>شاركوا في المسيرة الحاشدة والمهرجان الفلسطيني امام الامم المتحدة</strong></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;" dir="rtl" align="center"><strong>يوم الخميس الموافق  15 ايلول / سيبتمبر/2011</strong></h3>
<h2 dir="rtl" align="center"><strong>اوقفوا الدعم الامريكي &#8221; لاسرائيل&#8221;</strong></h2>
<h2 dir="rtl" align="center"><strong> انهاء الاحتلال فوراً</strong></h2>
<h2 dir="rtl" align="center"><strong>ادعموا حملة المقاطعة وسحب الاستثمارات وفرض العقوبات</strong></h2>
<h2 dir="rtl" align="center"><strong>التجمع الساعة الرابعة والنصف- 4:30  في تايم سكوير</strong></h2>
<h2 dir="rtl" align="center"><strong>الخامسة والنصف – 5:30 -  أمام مبنى الامم المتحدة</strong></h2>
<h3 dir="rtl" align="center"><strong>للمزيد من المعلومات نرجو الاتصال على البريد الالكتروني</strong></h3>
<h3 dir="rtl" align="center"><a href="mailto:palestineun@gmail.com"><strong>palestineun@gmail.com</strong></a><strong></strong></h3>
<h2 dir="rtl" align="center"><strong>برعاية التحالف الفلسطيني لمسيرة الامم المتحدة</strong></h2>
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