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By Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), on Bush’s proposed international conference on the Middle East. The PFLP is one of the organizations leading the fight to end the occupation of Palestine.

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By Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa'adat

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement on the international campaign to free Ahmad Sa’adat, the General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). We urge all of our readers to support this effort.

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By Freedom Road Socialist Organization

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement about the case of Ahmad Sa'adat.

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By staff

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following report on the deteriorating heath of Ahmad Sa'adat, the imprisoned leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. We urge all of our readers to support the campaign for his release.

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By Hatem Abudayyeh

Palestinian National Football Team

The Palestinian National Football (soccer) Team functions, or barely functions, under more difficult conditions than any other team in the world. Players from Gaza cannot travel to the West Bank or Jerusalem, West Bankers cannot travel to Jerusalem or Gaza and neither Gazans nor West Bankers can enter the 1948 Palestinian territories (now called ‘Israel’).

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By Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement on the current situation in Palestine.

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By Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa'adat

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Solidarity Campaign with Saadat & his comrades. We urge all our readers to support the fight to free this key Palestinian leader from an Israeli jail.

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By Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Fight Back News Service is reprinting the following statement from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) on the passing of Dr. Ahmad Maslamani, an important leader in the fight to free Palestine.

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By Hatem Abudayyeh

Rally in Chicago against Siege in Gaza

Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in the United States and around the world, Jan. 25-26, to demand an immediate end to the Israeli siege of Gaza. Protesters gathered outside Israeli embassies and consulates, as well as at U.S. federal buildings, making it clear that the U.S. must stop aiding and abetting Israeli war crimes.

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By Kosta Harlan

The following interview with Baha Abu Hussein, the Director of International Relations in the Palestinian Progressive Youth Union, was conducted by Kosta Harlan.

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By Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

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By Nader Abusumayah

Chicago, IL - Almost 30 Palestinian, Black and Latino youth marched into a packed banquet hall to open the Saturday night event of the Popular Conference for Palestinians in the U.S. The historic weekend conference on Aug. 8-10 in Chicago had over 1000 organizers, activists and community members attend from across the country. Amongst the resolutions approved for future work were a focus on the Right to Return demand, campaigns to free political prisoners held in Israeli and U.S. jails, the establishment of national youth and student networks and the mandate to establish new local committees in cities all over the U.S.Popular Palestine Conference

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By Union of Palestinian Women's Committees

Maha Nassar

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Union of Palestinian Women's Committees on the passing of Maha Nassar, an important leader of Palestinian women and a member of the Central Committee of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

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By Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) on the Bush administration's attack on Syria.

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By Friends of Ahmad Sa'adat

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following call for action from the Friends of Ahmad Sa'adat. Ahmad Sa’adat is a Palestinian political prisoner and the General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. He is being held by the Israeli authorities. Fight Back!’s 2003 interview with Ahmad Saadat can be read at: http://www.fightbacknews.org/2003-3-summer/pflp.htm.

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By Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Ahmad Sa’adat is a Palestinian political prisoner and the General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. He is being held by the Israeli authorities. Fight Back!’s 2003 interview with Ahmad Sa’adat can be read at: http://www.fightbacknews.org/2003-3-summer/pflp.htm

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By Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa'adat

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following call to action from the Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa'adat.

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By Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) on the Israeli killings of hundreds of Palestinians in Gaza. The number of dead and injured has continued to rise.

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By Stephanie Weiner

Gaza War Protest in Chicago, IL

Chicago, IL - 500 people gathered here Dec. 28 for an emergency rally and press conference to condemn the Israeli attacks in the Gaza. The crowd formed a circle around the speakers in front of the Water Tower at noon. The real anger was felt when most of the group moved to the corner to chant at the lone Zionist with an Israeli flag across the street. The militant chanting ranged from, “Free, free Palestine!” to “ End the occupation now!”

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By staff

Sit-in at Sen. Klobuchar's Office

Minneapolis, MN - 200 Palestinian Americans, anti-zionist Jews and peace activists protested outside of Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar’s office, Dec. 30, to demand an end to U.S. support for Israel’s attacks on Gaza. Over 400 people have died and over 1700 Palestinians have been injured in Gaza from Israeli bombing attacks.

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