About USPCN

The U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) is a Palestinian and Arab community-based organization, founded in 2006 to revitalize grass-roots organizing in Palestinian and Arab communities in the U.S., as part of the broader Palestinian nation in exile and the homeland.

All Palestinians and Arabs can email [email protected] or click here to join us. We welcome annual contributions from non-Arab “Friends of USPCN” as well!

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History and political principles:

On August 8-10, 2008, USPCN launched its work by organizing the first Palestinian Popular Conference in the U.S. in over a decade, drawing 1,200 attendees from our communities across the U.S. to empower our movement, unify our voice, and affirm the right of Palestinians in the Shatat (exile) to participate fully in shaping our struggle for national liberation.

Our guiding principles:

• Self-determination and freedom for the Palestinian people — “From the River to the Sea” — in an independent, liberated state with Jerusalem as our capital;

• The right of all Palestinian refugees, and their descendants, to return to the original homes and lands they were exiled from in historical Palestine in 1947-8 during the Nakba (Catastrophe) and again in 1967; and

• The right of resistance against zionist occupation and colonization of all Palestinian and Arab lands.

USPCN has members in dozens of states, with chapters in Los Angeles, the Bay Area, Chicago, Youngstown, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Madison, Houston, Detroit / Dearborn, New York, and Washington DC.

Organizing work across the U.S.

We organize around a number of campaigns and projects, especially:

• Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS), including our most recent #BoycottSadaf launch;

• Defending Palestinians and allies against repression, including the historic Rasmea Defense Committee, the Antiwar 23 victory, and #StandWithThe6;

• Protests and direct actions against zionist institutions and individuals, especially attempts at normalization and whitewashing Israeli crimes;

• Political prisoner advocacy, including #FreeAhmadManasra, #FreeKhitamSaafin, #FreeKhalidaJarrar, #SaveWalidDaqqa, and many others;

• Arts and culture events and tours, including visits to the U.S. from the Ramallah-based Wishah Popular Dance Troupe and Gaza visual artist Mohammed Qraiqae, respectively; and

• Educational events, including the May 2023 Nakba 75 tour with Chief Nkosi Mandela from South Africa. Go to MandelaTour.com for details.

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