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Solidarity event raised funds for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel
A regional Palestine support group and the Boston branch of a U.S. political prisoner organization hosted a successful event to raise money for Palestinian political prisoners and their families. The Benefit for Palestinian Political Prisoners will begin at 6:00 p.m. on Sunday, September 17, Encuentro 5 at 33 Harrison Av, 5th Floor, Boston, near the Chinatown stop on the MBTA Orange Line.
The sponsors are New England Committee to Defend Palestine
www.onepalestine.org
and Jericho Boston
www.jerichoboston.org
The focus was on reports from Palestinian political prisoner defense campaigns and statements from current and former US political prisoners, including
*Ahmad Kawash, Palestinian refugee from Lebanon, and other Palestinian speakers
*Kazi Toure, former political prisoner and National Co-Chair of the Jericho Movement
*Myriam Ortiz, Puerto Rican independentista and member of Jericho Boston
*Statements from Jalil Muntaquim, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Jaan Lamaan, Russell Shoats, the Angola 3, Bill Dunne, David Gilbert, and other current and former US held political prisoners
The political music groups PRESENTE! and VCR performed, and Palestinian food was served.
In memory of Black September: a statement
The benefit was held in commemoration of a series of key events in the recent history of Palestine and Lebanon, all of which happened in September.
In September, 1970, over 3000 Palestinian refugees in Jordan gave their lives in a revolutionary uprising against the repressive U.S. and Zionist puppet government of the Jordanian monarchy. In September, 1982, Israel, in an effort to crush Palestinian resistance in Lebanon, slaughtered over 2000 refugees in Sabra and Shatila. In September of 1993, the official signing of the Oslo Accords gave recognition to the theft of more than 78 percent of Palestine and created an infrastructure for settlement expansion in all the remaining land. In September 2000, Israel murdered 13 Palestinians, marking the beginning of the Al Aqsa Intifada.
Zionist aggression over the past months in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon, is a continuation of Israel's 70 year assault on the people of Palestine and Lebanon. By late August, more than 200 Palestinians had been killed and hundreds wounded in this latest period of escalated attacks.
Although the Zionists have intensified their assault on Palestinians because of their defeat in Lebanon, 2006 marks an important turning point in the history of regional resistance to this aggression—the rise of a more and more united regional movement to reclaim sovereignty over Arab land by Palestinian, Lebanese, and Iraqi resistance fighters.
Over the past few months, resistance movements in Palestine and Lebanon have acted with extreme courage. The Popular Resistance Committees in Gaza captured an Isreali soldier in order to press for the release of Palestinian political prisoners, who number more than 10,000 and now include over 65 elected leaders.
Hizbollah captured two Israeli soldiers to press for the release of Lebanese political prisoners.
"All proceeds will go to Palestinian political prisoners and their families," organizers promised.
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