[van-announce] Tues 9/17 - Kwantlen: Palestinian Political Prisoners: The Struggle for Freedom

[Charlotte Kates]

*Palestinian Political Prisoners: The Struggle for Freedom*
*Tuesday, September 17
5:00 PM
Kwantlen Polytechnic University - Conference Centre A (Cedar 1205A)
12666 72 Ave, Surrey, BC *
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/365966520200705/

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(1)]<http://www.boycottisraeliapartheid.org/biac/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/prisoners-event-1.jpg>Today,
over 5,000 Palestinian political prisoners are held in Israeli jails - many
without charge or trial. Mass imprisonment is a fact of life for
Palestinians; over 40% of Palestinian men in the West Bank and Gaza have
done time in Israeli jails. Everything from being a member of most
Palestinian political parties, to giving speeches against the occupation,
to resistance, can subject a Palestinian to arrest and imprisonment.

While this is happening, the Canadian and US governments are avidly
supporting Israel, and Canadian officials have joined in the labelling of
Palestinian political prisoners who are struggling for freedom, for
themselves and their people.

Join us for a discussion of who are Palestinian political prisoners, what
prisoners are doing to organize for freedom, and what you can do.

*Organized by Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network. More info:
samidoun.ca samidoun at samidoun.ca

ALL ARE WELCOME - FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Hosted by the Critical Criminology Working Group @ Kwantlen. More info: <
jeffrey.shantz at kpu.ca>**
*

-- 
Charlotte L. Kates     charlotte.kates at gmail.com