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U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) شبكة الجالية الفلسطينية في الولايات المتحدة

[U.S. Palestinian Community Network @uspcn]

🚨TAKE ACTION TODAY!

Call & email the @AmerMedicalAssn & your elected officials to demand they use their influence & power to call for the immediate release of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya.

For email instructions, additional scripts, & more, visit: https://t.co/bX3NeuWO7L

[U.S. Palestinian Community Network @uspcn]

Join us for an evening of testimony and reflection on Palestinian rights, free speech, and the personal cost of speaking out.

Copies of the book will be available for purchase. Join us, bring a friend, and help spread the word! See you then.

[U.S. Palestinian Community Network @uspcn]

USPCN, @cairchicago, & The Justice Coalition are proud to host Mahmoud Khalil for a conversation on his new memoir!

Join us on Tuesday, Nov 24, 6:30 PM at Alhambra Palace: 1240 W Randolph St, Chicago!

Admission is FREE, but registration is required: https://t.co/6Mcqmqzqx0

[U.S. Palestinian Community Network @uspcn]

Stop FBI, DHS, ICE & Police Repression! Protect our students and other organizers! #DontTalkToTheFBI

@stopfbi @NAARPR @NLGnews @PeoplesLawChi

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

⚡️ Federal prosecutors filed an emergency motion to detain a University of Michigan student today, alleging that she destroyed evidence during a raid on her home on October 30. It comes as part of a sprawling case against eight—and now 12—Michigan student protesters.

The motion to detain Zainab Hakim stems from a superseding indictment that prompted several cars and an armed tactical team to arrest her partner, Henry MacKeen-Shapiro, as he walked from his teaching job on October 30. He was released on unsecured bail the next day. When police breached Hakim and Mackeen-Shapiro’s home, prosecutors allege that Hakim destroyed a laptop. The accusation is now central to an emergency hearing scheduled for 3:30pm EST today.

The case drew sharp criticism from civil-rights groups when the indictment was presented in June. They argued that the government was criminalizing protected political speech. “When an indictment incorporates extensive references to protected advocacy, there is a legitimate concern that it may sweep constitutionally protected speech into the narrative of criminal prosecution,” CAIR-Michigan said in June.

Students in the pro-Palestine movement at the University of Michigan said that the case is a smokescreen to distract from their core demand: transparency regarding the university’s $21.2 billion endowment, which they claim is indirectly invested in weapons and surveillance technology through a “black box” of approximately $6 billion in private funds.

“They want to portray us as stupid terrorists who don’t understand how investments work,” a spokesperson for the Michigan 12 support movement told Drop Site News yesterday. “But what they’re really doing is trying to hide the way the university functions as this corporate vehicle for American imperialism, and refuse these demands of transparency, accountability, and divestment.”

[U.S. Palestinian Community Network @uspcn]

2/2: We demand fully-funded public schools, community control over education, and accountability from public officials and institutions for the money they accept, the investments they authorize, and the policies they defend.

Read our full statement.

[U.S. Palestinian Community Network @uspcn]

1/2: YOU CAN’T BE FUNDED BY GENOCIDE SUPPORTERS AND FIGHT FOR OUR CHILDREN

USPCN-Chicago condemns billionaire influence over public education, electoral contributions from zionist supporters of Israel's Gaza Genocide, and Illinois investments in Israel Bonds.

[Aidan Smith @aidan_smx]

@BulwarkClips Stevens; Why do people care about what happens in other countries

Also Stevens:

[U.S. Palestinian Community Network @uspcn]

USPCN remembers Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers, who passed away at 96. Through historic organizing, she fought for farmworkers’ rights and against exploitation. We honor her contributions to the labor movement and its ongoing struggles.

[Fight Back! News @fightbacknews]

Seinfeld has long been a vocal supporter of Israel, despite community outrage. When approached after a New York Knicks game, Seinfeld was heard laughing and saying Palestine “doesn't exist.” Seinfeld’s wife, Jessica, donated to organizations enacting violent “counter-measures” against student encampments at UCLA. https://t.co/LqfRiH3qow

[U.S. Palestinian Community Network @uspcn]

There’s nothing legitimate about elections in a state built on stolen Palestinian land, ethnic cleansing, and settler colonialism. #Israel #IsraelElection #IsraelElections

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Israelis are heading to the polls to elect the 26th Knesset, in the first general vote since the genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and the wars on Lebanon and Iran.

Here’s how the system works⤵️

🔗 : https://t.co/LOvmzGBWrv

[Visualizing Palestine @visualizingpal]

Our latest highlights key findings from Francesca Albanese’s report, “Truth Under the Rubble: Media in the Time of Genocide”, exposing the systemic silencing of Palestinian journalists & the suppression of truth. Reshare to amplify findings & demand press freedom & accountability

[U.S. Palestinian Community Network @uspcn]

7 Palestinians killed by Israeli bombing in Gaza

[قناة الميادين @AlMayadeenNews]

مراسل #الميادين: 7 شهداء جراء العدوان الإسرائيلي على قطاع غزة منذ فجر اليوم

[U.S. Palestinian Community Network @uspcn]

Michelle Morales never just talked; she executed, delivered, fought, and won. Hers was a life of extraordinary purpose and achievement, a life so well lived. She was a shining star who left us far too soon, and will be deeply missed. May she forever Rest In Power.

[U.S. Palestinian Community Network @uspcn]

USPCN mourns the passing of Michelle Morales, a leader in Chicago’s Puerto Rican community and a close friend of our organization. Please see the following In Memoriam written by Hatem Abudayyeh, who published it on behalf of the Arab American Action Network (AAAN).

[U.S. Palestinian Community Network @uspcn]

To read Michelle’s “We Can Achieve Anything”: https://t.co/gRACPwX05n

To watch the tribute to Michelle by Fuentes from the floor of the Chicago City Council: https://t.co/BuLnAzBQlK

[Pal-Awda NY/NJ @pal_awda]

SHUT DOWN THE SALE OF STOLEN PALESTINIAN LAND IN THE BRONX‼️

📆 Saturday, October 24
⏰ 8pm
📍Riverdale, Bronx (exact location TBA)

‘My Israel Home,’ a Zionist real estate agency, is sponsoring “an inspiring & practical evening about your future in Israel.” The "israeli" real estate agency promotes settlements in occupied Palestine that have been built on the ruins of #StolenPalestinianLand, including several East Jerusalem & West Bank settlements.

Following last week's victory of pushing Nefesh B’ Nefesh’s settler recruitment fair out of NYC, we’re back to taking the streets to protest the sale of stolen Palestinian land. We will continue to confront the genocidal pipeline of settlement that is being promoted in our city & our neighborhoods. All out to the Bronx this Saturday!

More information to be shared soon-stay tuned.

[U.S. Palestinian Community Network @uspcn]

CHICAGO: Join us on October 24th at 6PM at Alhambra Palace for an inspiring night that will include a roundtable conversation featuring USPCN member Muhammad Sankari, vendors, a musical performance, and more.

Get tickets here: https://t.co/xd8y5iT6zs

[U.S. Palestinian Community Network @uspcn]

…Israel Bonds to expire and reduce our complicity in Israel’s Genocidal campaign in Gaza, & the broader region that has also negatively impacted Illinoians.

Sign our petition before the bonds expire to demand @ILTresurer @MikeForIllinois DIVEST!

Go to: https://t.co/QuSGkO7q2d

[U.S. Palestinian Community Network @uspcn]

🧵This past weekend USPCN confronted @iltreasurer in Des Plaines, IL to demand he divest from the $20 million of Israel Bonds set to expire on November 1st.

Although @MikeForIllinois points the blame on the IL General Assembly, it is within his power to choose to allow the…

[U.S. Palestinian Community Network @uspcn]

For 5 weeks, @HoustonTexans' Azeez Al-Shaair has honored Palestinian children who were killed/traumatized by #GazaGenocide.

Today, it's Maryam Ghanem, who saw her parents killed in Israeli strike.

@NFL fining Azeez, but he continues to honor.

1st 📸: PalTimesNews @SNFonNBC

[U.S. Palestinian Community Network @uspcn]

Sunday, October 25 at 3:00pm, @Silk_Road is hosting a screening of The Horse of Jenin at Ganz Hall at Roosevelt University in Chicago!

Join us for this powerful screening, followed by a panel discussion and reception.

Get your tickets today: https://t.co/Eq6hIvP4AU