Statement: The Way Forward for Palestine Solidarity - Please Endorse
Endorsers include Labor for Palestine, the US Palestinian Community Network, and others (See list below.) To endorse this statement as an individual or organization, please email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
In the year and a half since Israel’s massacres in Gaza, the Palestine solidarity movement, for fifteen years weakened by the two-state “Peace Roadmap” of the 1993 Oslo Accords, has gone through what can only be described as a major political recalibration.
After years of meaningless “peace negotiations," the aim of Oslo — a “Jewish state" on 78 percent of historic Palestine and a rump “Palestinian state” on the remaining 22 percent — is rapidly losing whatever credibility it may have once had among Palestinians. Indeed, outside the Palestinian Authority, created by Oslo to serve Israeli interests, it is hard to find any Palestinian voices advocating for such a solution with conviction.
From the ruins of Oslo have emerged new campaigns with holistic goals. The most significant of these has been the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, initiated and overwhelmingly supported by Palestinian civil society.
Al-Awda NY at National Antiwar Conference - July 23-25, 2010A Call to All Palestine Solidarity Activists Attend the National Peace Conference! Crowne Plaza Hotel, Albany, New York, July 23 to 25, 2010 http://www.nationalpeaceconference.org/ Hundreds of anti-war organizers will converge on Albany, including Al-Awda NY members, this weekend to strengthen anti-war movement building and to deepen the connections and solidarity among our various social movements as we continue to challenge militarism, racism and exploitation at home and abroad. The Albany gathering, co-sponsored by 31 national organizations, is an important place for the Palestine Solidarity movement in the United States to come together with leading anti-war organizers to continue the momentum generated by the strong Palestine resolutions that came out of the recent US Social Forum in Detroit. The June 26th, 2010 National People's Movement Assembly in Detroit produced an important series of resolutions adopted by the over 18,000-strong Forum as a whole reflecting the vision of unified struggle against racism, colonialism, oppression and exploitation, including clear support for the Palestinian struggle. "Such a clear statement is a significant development for the U.S. Left and an achievement for all who worked to ensure the Palestinian and Arab presence at the core of the Social Forum. As the U.S. government funds ongoing Israeli war crimes and welcomes the racist Benjamin Netanyahu to Washington, DC, the US's popular movements affirmed the centrality of the Palestinian liberation struggle and expressed full support" (US Palestinian Community Network). The US Social Forum concluded with a call on all organizations and social movements to boycott, divest and sanction the Israeli apartheid state and the institutions that support it. Now is the time to integrate Palestine solidarity with the demands and actions projected by the broader antiwar and social justice movements to be discussed and voted on at the conference. For those who cannot attend, the conference will be televised online at: http://www.mediasanctuary.tv/ Free Palestinian Political Prisoners
Free Palestinian Political Prisoners Stop Torture and Administrative Detention! Forum with Alaa' Jaradat from Addameer (Prisoners' Support and Human Rights Association) on the fight for the 11,000 Palestinian Prisoners held in the Israeli Prisons.
Forum with Dr. Adel Samara: A Year After the Gaza Massacre: Where Is the Struggle For Palestine Heading?
Al-Awda NY at the US Social Forum!Al-Awda NY, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, is going to the US Social Forum! See below for our exciting workshop on Friday, June 25. Please contact us at
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or 718-228-8636 with any questions - see you in Detroit!
Al-Awda NY Workshop:
Palestine: Evolution of the Movement for Liberation Moving Beyond the "Two-State" Solution
Working for Full Equality, Justice and Freedom Presented by Al-Awda NY, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition http://organize.ussf2010.org/ There is a rising sense among activists, Palestinians and others, that justice cannot be achieved within the context of a Zionist state based on de jure and de facto Jewish supremacy over non-Jews in Palestine. Support for the so-called "Two-State Solution," which since the Oslo Accords of 1993 had been cynically presented as the only "realistic" goal for Palestinians, is crumbling. BE READY TO RALLY FOR GAZA AND VIVA PALESTINABE READY TO RALLY |
