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

[Drew]

I consens to this

Green is GO!

Drew

John Thielking <pagesincolor at yahoo.com> wrote:
>What say you, oh GPSCC County Council?
>
>I vote yes.
>
>John Thielking
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>From: G. Sharat Lin <sharatlin at hotmail.com>
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>Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2013 4:49 PM
>Subject: RE: I think that the SBCAPR should endorse the statement for
>Rasmea Odeh
> 
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>Yes.
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>And I am requesting SJPJC to endorse as well.
>
>Sharat
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>________________________________
>Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 10:45:53 -0700
>From: masaos at earthlink.net
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>Subject: I think that the SBCAPR should endorse the statement for
>Rasmea Odeh
>CC: carlosmmontes5 at aol.com; gjskha at gmail.com; pestertricia at yahoo.com;
>jessickant at gmail.com; amelia.vergel at gmail.com;
>christopherlapena at gmail.com; nteppang at gmail.com
>
>
>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)
> 
> 
>________________________________
>  
>
>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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