[GPSCC-chat] Fw: I think that the SBCAPR should endorse the statement for Rasmea Odeh

[John Thielking]

What say you, oh GPSCC County Council?

I vote yes.

John Thielking


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Yes.

And I am requesting SJPJC to endorse as well.

Sharat



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Hello.
I think that we should endorse the following statement (you can view the page and links to other solidarity statements at <http://www.stopfbi.net/2013/10/23/solidarity-against-indictment-palestinian-american-activist-rasmea-odeh>) before our next meeting which is not until November 26.  Could people who have been coming to meetings please get back to me on this and do a reply all so others know your views?

Masao
Solidarity against the indictment of Palestinian-American activist Rasmea Odeh
Published on Wed, 2013-10-23 18:24  
Take Action!
1) Call Oct. 25th and send photos of support for Rasmea! 
2) Join the Facebook page: Drop The Charges Against Rasmea Now!
3) Mobilize to support Rasmea at her next hearing in Detroit on 
November 1st. Details coming soon. For more information, email the 
Coalition to Protect People's Rights at cppr at aaan.org  
4) Have your organization sign or write a solidarity statement (email to: stopfbi at gmail.com)
 
 
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PSLS, CCR and 33 other rights groups sign statement opposing indictment of Palestinian-American activist Rasmea Odeh
The below-signed organizations are deeply disturbed by and stand 
opposed to the indictment yesterday of Rasmea Yousef Odeh, a 
Palestinian-American community activist who has dedicated 10 years to 
the Chicago Arab-American community, working with women on issues 
ranging from promoting literacy and political education to addressing 
domestic violence and anti-Arab and Muslim sentiment.
Rasmea’s indictment for alleged immigration fraud comes at a time 
when advocates for Palestinian rights and immigration rights activists 
have been facing increasing pressure all over the country.  Exactly 
three years ago, 23 anti-war and Palestinian rights activists were 
subpoenaed to testify before a Grand Jury and several of their homes 
were raided by the FBI.    There have been no indictments against the 23
 activists subpoenaed in 2010, presumably because of a lack of evidence.
 It is no coincidence that federal prosecutors are now targeting Rasmea,
 who is a pillar in the same community.
The 2010 raids, the Grand Jury subpoenas that accompanied them, and 
this indictment against a 65 year old woman who suffered for a decade in
 Israeli prisons before coming to the U.S. in 1995, are a clear signal 
that federal authorities, along with Israel and its supporters in the 
U.S., are continuing to search for ways to intimidate and silence those 
who are effective advocates for Arab American communities, and who speak
 out for Palestinian rights.
In the last year alone, Palestine Solidarity Legal Support, in partnership with the Center for Constitutional Rights, and in 
collaboration with the National Lawyers Guild and other organizations, 
has documented over 75 cases of intimidation and legal bullying. These 
include perceived surveillance, FBI contacts, and discriminatory 
enforcement of laws against advocates for Palestinian rights.  Rasmea’s 
arrest and indictment must be viewed within this wider context of 
widespread attempts to intimidate people into silence on one of the most pressing human rights issues of our time.  Rasmea’s indictment is also 
an illustration of increasingly draconian enforcement of immigration 
laws, which have left immigrant communities devastated at the hands of 
Obama’s Department of Homeland Security.
Rasmea is an exemplary citizen who recently finished a Master’s 
degree in Criminal Justice, and has a law degree from Jordan.  She has 
overcome amazing odds after being convicted by the Israeli military 
court system in 1969 for her alleged association with a leftist 
Palestinian nationalist group that the U.S. designated a terrorist 
organization.  The military courts operate exclusively to subjugate 
occupied Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.  They routinely bypass 
all but a modicum of due process, and justify holding individuals 
without charge or trial for months and years, often in abusive 
conditions and subject to torture.  Rasmea’s activism against the 
Israeli occupation in the 1960s resulted in her imprisonment in Israeli 
prisons for 10 years, and it is surely her community activism in the 
U.S. that has made her, and by extension, the community that relies on 
her, the target of this indictment.
We call for solidarity with Rasmea as she undergoes a difficult legal
 battle.  Please support Rasmea at her November 1 appearance in federal 
court in Detroit, Michigan.
SIGNED:

	* Al-Awda New York, Palestine right to Return Coalition
	* American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
	* American Muslims for Palestine
	* AROC: Arab Resource & Organizing Center
	* Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights
	* Boycott Israeli Apartheid Campaign - Vancouver
	* Canada Palestine Association
	* Center for Constitutional Rights
	* Chicago Movement for Palestinian Rights
	* Committee for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine
	* Council on American-Islamic Relations – Chicago
	* Grassroots Global Justice Alliance
	* Independent Jewish Voices-Vancouver
	* Jewish Voice for Peace -- Philadelphia
	* Jews for Palestinian Right of Return
	* Labor for Palestine
	* Legalease Collective, CKUT, Montreal
	* Minnesota Break the Bonds Campaign
	* Muslim Defense Project of the National Lawyers Guild - New York Chapter
	* National Lawyers Guild Free Palestine Subcommittee
	* National Students for Justice in Palestine
	* New York City Labor Against the War
	* NYC Queers Against Israeli Apartheid
	* PAWA: Palestinian American Women's Association
	* Palestine Solidarity Group - Chicago
	* Palestine Solidarity Legal Support
	* Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
	* Socialist Action
	* Solidarity: a socialist, feminist, anti-racist organization
	* Sunbula: Arab Feminists for Change
	* The Dream Defenders
	* US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
	* US Palestinian Community Network
	* Women of Colour Collective at the McGill Faculty of Law
	* Voice of Palestine
More solidarity statements:
	* Arab American Action Network
	* American Party of Labor
	* Committee to Stop FBI Repression
	* Elizabeth Bishop (TSU Professor)
	* Father Robert Bossie, SCJ
	* Hamerhead Media Support
	* International League of Peoples' Struggles-US (ILPS)
	* National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP)
	* The Palestine Solidarity Group
	* United African Organization 
"If we do not act, we shall surely be dragged down the long, dark, and
shameful corridors of time reserved for those who possess power
without compassion, might without morality, and strength without
sight." Martin Luther King, Jr., "A Time to Break Silence," April 4, 1967
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