Free Palestine! No Normalization with Colonization or Occupation

Published: Sept. 27, 2020, 3:56 p.m.

Audio from a webinar sponsored by Workers World Party.\n\nBuy Essential Dissent a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent\n\nPart of the globally coordinated actions from September 18-26 defending Palestinian refugees\u2019 right to return to their homes and lands throughout Palestine, reclaim their properties and ensure restitution and reparations.\n\nThese days of action will mark the commemoration of the Sabra and Shatila massacres, the September 1970 massacres in Jordan, the signing of the Oslo agreements and the continuing attacks, including the current farce touted as a \u201cpeace initiative\u201d, against the rights and struggle of Palestinian refugees for return and liberation. All of these U.S. supported efforts promote militarism and delay the potential for true peace in the region\u2013peace based on justice and human dignity.\n\nA statement signed by more than 50 organizations raised international solidarity with the demand: No Normalization with Occupation and Colonization. This webinar will discuss the ongoing struggles of the Palestinian people and how we can build solidarity together for the liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea.\n\nFeaturing (In order of first appearance):\n\nTed Kelly - An organizer with Workers World Party and active in Solidarity with the Palestinian Struggle\n\nCharlotte Kates - International Coordinator of Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network and organizer with the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel and Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition\n\nSusan Abulhawa - Palestinian novelist, poet, and member of WWP and US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel\n\nKhaled Barakat - Palestinian writer and activist whose work in Arabic and English has been widely published in a number of outlets, International Coordinator of the Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa'adat\n\nEssential Dissent Online: \n\nYouTube:\u202fhttps://tinyurl.com/yxz8ehks\nFacebook:\u202fhttps://tinyurl.com/y64ufjeh\na-Infos Radio Project:\u202fhttps://tinyurl.com/y5k6t4ub\niTunes: https://tinyurl.com/yyq9w8sy