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

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa'adat.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was scheduled to speak at the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy about “peace and prosperity” in the Middle East. However, on Oct. 15, over 200 community members, students and Palestine solidarity activists gathered outside of the event, decrying the university for hosting the notorious war criminal. Meanwhile, around 30 activists inside, mainly from Students for Justice in Palestine chapters at the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois at Chicago, DePaul University, Loyola University and Northwestern University, disrupted Olmert's speech every 20 minutes for two and a half hours.

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa'adat:

Fight Back News Service is reprinting the following statement for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine , an organization that helps lead the fight to end the Israeli occupation of Palestine. The statement condemns the Palestinian Authority for requesting the postponement of consideration of the report by Judge Richard Goldstone on war crimes in Gaza at the UN Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva.

El lunes, 1 de agosto, 500 personas manifestaron en Plaza Venezuela, en Caracas, para protestar los ataques de Israel contra Líbano y Gaza, y para protestar el apoyo estadounidense frente la agresión israelí. Oradores, poetas y cantantes denunciaron el imperialismo estadounidense y el sionismo que están manejando este conflicto.

La Organización Socialista Camino de Libertad (Freedom Road Socialist Organization) lamenta el fallecimiento del líder palestino Yacer Arafat (1929 – 2004). Expresamos nuestro pesar por la sensible perdida de un luchador por la libertad que trabajo incansablemente por la emancipación de Palestina.

¡LyR!: Viajó a Palestina con una delegación de otros estadounidenses. ¿Por qué fueron?

Entrevista con Maha Nassar, líder de los Comités de la Unión de Mujeres Palestinas

Maha Nassar, activista, educadora, madre y ex-prisionera política, visitó los Estados Unidos como parte de una gira para hablar del trabajo que ella hace como líder de los Comités de la Unión de Mujeres Palestinas. Maha Nassar nos comparte sus años de experiencia trabajando por la libertad y resistencia Palestina ante la ocupación Israelí. Ella habla, llana y sencillamente sobre donde ha estado el movimiento y hacia donde debe encaminarse. Los Comités de la Unión de Mujeres Palestinas es uno de los grupos más importantes que trabaja para la justicia social en Palestina. Un país donde por la justicia se pelea con piedras en contra de tanques blindados, las palabras deben de ser armas y el conocimiento poder. Lea y aprenda de la gente que resiste sobre la lucha Palestina.

Lucha y Resiste entrevistó al encarcelado Secretario General del Frente Popular por la Liberación de Palestina (FPLP), Ahmad Saadat, el 20 de Mayo. En momentos en que los ojos del mundo están enfocados en el Medio Oriente, nosotros agradecemos la oportunidad de traerles a ustedes, nuestros lectores, el pensamiento, en sus propias palabras, de uno de los líderes claves de la resistencia Palestina.

Firsthand Report on Growing Resistance

Fight Back!: You traveled to Palestine with a delegation of other people from the U.S. Why did you go?

Denounce “the tight grip of the Israeli occupation of Palestine”

Bloomington, MN – Israeli security forces refused entry to three U.S. solidarity activists for attempting to participate in a human rights delegation organized by the Palestine Solidarity Group. Sarah Martin, member of Women Against Military Madness, and Katrina Plotz, of the Anti-War Committee, refused voluntary deportation and were forcibly deported Sunday evening, August 2. It was an emotional reunion at the airport on Monday afternoon, as Martin and Plotz were greeted with cheers and embraces by dozens of friends and supporters, carrying signs reading “Free Palestine!” and “End the occupation!”

Voices from the protest

These are statements from some of the many people who will protest against the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, MN on September 1-4, 2008.

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following announcement  from the Anti-war Committee for their press conference on Monday August 3:

Letter Delivered to Administration Demands Boycott and Divestment

Chapel Hill, NC – A delegation of students from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's chapter of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) delivered a letter to Chancellor Thorp's office, Feb. 25, demanding that UNC divest from Israel. Holding a banner that said, “End U.S. aid to Israel!” the students explained their demands to the university administrator who received the letter in place of Chancellor Thorp. “We want our university to stop investing in the murder of Palestinian civilians,” said Maddy Miller, a member of SDS.

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Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Twin Cities-based Anti-War Committee ( http://www.antiwarcommittee.org):

In addition to the internal debates over the future of labor, there are two struggles over foreign policies that will happen at the July convention of the AFL-CIO. One is a campaign underway to get the AFL-CIO to break its ties with the National Endowment for Democracy. A second is to end AFL-CIO support for the state of Israel’s occupation and oppression of Palestine.

Washington, DC – People across the country took to the streets to protest on the sixth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Demonstrators called for an end to the ongoing wars and occupations in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine. It was the first national day of protest against the war and occupations since Obama was elected president.

Washington, D.C. — Chants of “No return, no peace!” filled Lafayette Park, Sep16, as over 4500 demonstrators demanded the right of Palestinian refugees to return to the land they were forced from in 1948. As the protesters marched from Freedom Plaza to this park overlooking the White House, organizers marveled at the largest mobilization of Arab demonstrators since the Gulf War.

The ongoing massacre of Palestinians, by the U.S.-backed Israeli government has sparked demonstrations across the country. Protests have been held in Detroit, Chicago, New York, Minneapolis, and many other cities.