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By Coalition to Protect People’s Rights

Bank accounts of Hatem and Naima Abudayyeh frozen

Hatem Abudayyeh speaking at April 9 anti-war protest in NYC

Update: Since the publication of this article, activists have learned that the U.S. Treasury Department, not the U.S. Attorney's office, is responsible for the account freezings. See this story for more details.

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By Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa'adat

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa'adat. Ahmad Sa'adat, the General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), is in solitary confinement in an Israeli prison.

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By Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa'adat

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa'adat. Ahmad Sa’adat, the General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, is being held in isolation in the jails of the Israeli occupiers.

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By Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa'adat

Palestinian child with poster of PFLP leader Ahmad Sa'adat

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa'adat. Ahmad Sa'adat, of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine is imprisoned in an Israeli jail.

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By staff

Khalil Maqdesi, member of the Central Committee of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) expressed support, Jan. 27, “for the people of Egypt and their struggle for democracy and social justice, as centrally important for all Arab people.”

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By staff

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from Students for Justice in Palestine.

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By Maureen Murphy

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from Palestine solidarity activist Maureen Murphy. Murphy is the managing editor of the popular online publication, Electronic Intifada and she is also the co-chair of the Chicago Committee Against Political Repression, which has been leading work in Chicago to oppose FBI repression of anti-war and international solidarity activists. On Tuesday Dec. 21, Murphy received a subpoena from the FBI to appear before a federal grand jury.

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By staff

Protesting FBI subpoenas of antiwar activists in Chicago

Chicago, IL – More than 100 anti-war, labor and solidarity activists rallied and picketed here, Dec. 6. The emergency action was organized by the Chicago-based Committee Against Political Repression after the FBI delivered or declared its intention to give federal grand jury subpoenas to solidarity and anti-war activists in Chicago the week before.

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By Maureen Murphy

Tom Burke speaking at Committee to Stop FBI Repression New York City meeting

New York, NY – More than 150 movement leaders and concerned individuals packed a standing room-only hall at Saint Mark's Church in the Bowery on Nov. 6 for the first national meeting of the Committee to Stop FBI Repression.

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By staff

Fight Back News Service urges all of our readers to support this important campaign to free the imprisoned leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Ahmad Sa'adat. TAKE ACTION AGAINST ISOLATION – FREE AHMAD SA'ADAT! INTERNATIONAL DAYS OF ACTION – OCTOBER 5-15, 2010

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By Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

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By Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

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By Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

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By Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

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By Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Fight Back! News is circulating the following statement from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

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By staff

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Popular Front for Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) urging progressive forces to take action this October in solidarity with Ahmad Sa'adat, the jailed leader of the PFLP.

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By Meredith Aby

Fernando Figueroa, an activist with Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)

Albany, NY – The National Conference to Bring the Troops Home Now met in Albany, New York, July 23-25. Around 700 activists from across the country came together to discuss and debate how to build the anti-war movement and to plan for coordinated days of protest.

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By Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

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By Stephanie Weiner

International Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Day of action in Chicago

Chicago, IL – Activists took part in the International Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Day of action by holding a demonstration at the offices of the Chicago Sister City Program, July 9 to demand that the Chicago drop ties with the Israeli city of Petach Tikva.

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By Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine).

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