HEY, JTF!
ANTISEMITISM ALERT! CHARLOTTE KATES EVENT PLANNED FOR 7/28/07 in JERSEY CITYA friend of a friend emailed this to me. I've posted this at www.jihadchat.com. Do we have time to mount a counter-event here?
If so, I highly recommend involving the Jersey City Police Force...we will be on hostile ground.A friend of mine, Sara, told me to contact you and see if you guys can arrange some type of counter-demonstration to this.
This event is being organized by anti-Semite Charlotte Kates of NewJerseySolidarity.
Tom
WE ARE THE PEOPLE!!!
Charlotte Kates <
[email protected]> wrote:
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:48:53 -0400
From: "Charlotte Kates" <
[email protected]>
To: "Charlotte L. Kates" <
[email protected]>
Subject: Hello - re..Palestinian Political Prisoner Event Saturday..
Dear all,
Please consider attending the event below, and please let your friends, family and contacts know about this event. As you know, the struggle of the prisoners is very important, and the more support we can build, the better.
Thanks!
Charlotte
*PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY*
NJ Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine invites you to attend...
PALESTINIAN POLITICAL PRISONERS:
The Prisoners of Freedom
Films and Discussion
SATURDAY, JULY 28
2 PM - 4 PM
at the
Old Bergen Church
1 Highland Ave (corner of Bergen and Highland)
Jersey City, NJ
featuring FILM SCREENINGS of:
"WOMEN IN STRUGGLE" and "STOLEN YOUTH"
*read below for film details and directions*
There are, today, approximately 11,000 Palestinian political prisoners held in the jails of the Israeli state. Palestinians, living under occupation and oppression for sixty years, have been targeted relentlessly for imprisonment and detention. Since the extension of occupation to the West Bank and Gaza Strip in 1967, over 650,000 Palestinians have been taken prisoner - one out of every four Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza; 40% of Palestinian men in the West Bank and Gaza have spent time in jail as a political prisoner or held under administrative detention.
Of late, the Palestinian political prisoners - activists, organizers and leaders, men, women and children - have been spotlighted. 255 Palestinian prisoners were released on July 20, while nearly 300 additional prisoners were taken in the week prior to the release. Palestinian prisoners represent every major Palestinian political organization, and include 41 members of the elected Palestinian Legislative Council. On July 29, the trial of Ahmad Sa'adat, Palestinian political prisoner and General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, is scheduled to begin, over a year after he was kidnapped from Jericho prison in an Israeli military attack. Other key Palestinian political leaders, including Marwan Barghouthi of Fateh and Aziz Dweik, the Hamas speaker of the Legislative Council, are also imprisoned.
Join us for two remarkable films and edifying discussion about Palestinian political prisoners, and to find out what you can do to support freedom for all Palestinians!
Film Details:
"WOMEN IN STRUGGLE"
(Dir: Buthina Canaan Khoury, 2004, 56 min)
WOMEN IN STRUGGLE presents rare testimony from four female Palestinian ex-detainees who disclose their experiences during their years of imprisonment in Israeli jails and the effect it has had on their present lives and future outlooks. The focus will be on the lives of four women who came out of their roles as sisters, mothers, and wives, and took on a different role - being involved in the Palestinian national struggle. Without narration, these women give their testimony in their own words about their past difficult experiences, and their daily life in the current Intifada, facing the so called "war on terror" and the apartheid wall. For more information about the film please see
http://www.womeninstruggle.com .
and
"STOLEN YOUTH"
(Dir. Saed Andoni, 2004, 20 min.)
STOLEN YOUTH casts a light on the experience of Palestinian child prisoners. The documentary includes interviews with ex-child detainees, their families and their lawyer as well as exclusive footage from the inside an Israeli military court. The film highlights the personal pain experienced by the children and their relatives during the period of their incarceration, as well as placing this suffering within the wider context of occupation and oppression.
Directions:
PATH Train: Take the PATH to Journal Square station. Walk down Bergen Ave. to the corner of Bergen and Highland. The Church is on the southwest corner of the intersection.
Parking is available in the Church parking lot on Highland Avenue.
Map at:
For more information, contact:
New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine
http://www.newjerseysolidarity.org/ [email protected] 973-954-2521