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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 kidnapping and imprisonment of Ahmad Sa'adat. We urge all of our readers to support the efforts to secure his immediate release.

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By staff

Protesters back Palestine in Chicago

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following letter, written by Labor for Palestine to the President of the AFL-CIO, urging support for the campaign to boycott Israel.

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By staff

_Interview with Ala Jaradat _

PFLP leader and Palestinian political prisoner Ahmad Sa'adat

Fight Back! interviewed Ala Jaradat, a Palestinian who lives in the West Bank and is the program manager for Addameer – a Palestinian prisoners support group. Ala Jaradat was in the Twin Cities in November and spoke at Hamline Law School and the University of Minnesota, during a nine-city tour of the United States. Israel currently holds more than 8000 Palestinian political prisoners.

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By Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

PFLP rally in Gaza on 42nd Anniversary

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following account of the massive Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) rally, held in Gaza, Dec. 12. This account of the event was written by the 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.

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By Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa'adat

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

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By Doug Michel

Hatem Abudayyeh gives a speech in support of the actions inside the event

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was scheduled to speak at the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy about “peace and prosperity” in the Middle East. However, on Oct. 15, over 200 community members, students and Palestine solidarity activists gathered outside of the event, decrying the university for hosting the notorious war criminal. Meanwhile, around 30 activists inside, mainly from Students for Justice in Palestine chapters at the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois at Chicago, DePaul University, Loyola University and Northwestern University, disrupted Olmert's speech every 20 minutes for two and a half hours.

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By Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa'adat

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement 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 reprinting the following statement for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine , an organization that helps lead the fight to end the Israeli occupation of Palestine. The statement condemns the Palestinian Authority for requesting the postponement of consideration of the report by Judge Richard Goldstone on war crimes in Gaza at the UN Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva.

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By Redacción

El lunes, 1 de agosto, 500 personas manifestaron en Plaza Venezuela, en Caracas, para protestar los ataques de Israel contra Líbano y Gaza, y para protestar el apoyo estadounidense frente la agresión israelí. Oradores, poetas y cantantes denunciaron el imperialismo estadounidense y el sionismo que están manejando este conflicto.

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