Israel‘s Palestinian Prisoners, America’s
Other Guantanamo:
A Report on the Conditions of Palestinian Political Prisoners

Featuring,
directly from Ramallah in Occupied Palestine,
human rights activist Ala Jaradat of Addameer–Prisoners’ Support
and Human
Rights Association

WHERE:
Smith Memorial
Student Center
Rm 296
1825 SW Broadway Portland
OR 97201

WHEN:
Friday, November 20th, 2009, at 7:00 PM

The $3
billion dollars of annual U.S.
aid to Israel
helps fund Israeli prisons and detention centers where 8,100 Palestinian
prisoners — including 60 women, 390 children, and 550 administrative detainees
held without charge — are imprisoned in substandard conditions and subject to
torture.

As part of a national
tour organized by the United States
Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) and

the Palestine Solidarity Group
(PSG)-Chicago,

in local
partnership with Al-AWDA Oregon
and the Al-Nakba Awareness Project,

Human
rights activist Ala Jaradat, the program manager of Addameer, the Palestinian
prisoners rights organization in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, and a
former Palestinian political prisoner, will be sharing his experiences
campaigning against political prosecution, for the rights of political detainees,
actively working against the use of torture, arbitrary detention, the use of
isolation, and other forms of political repression.

Other cities on the tour included
Chicago; Milwaukee; San Francisco; Youngstown, OH; College Park, MD;
Washington, DC; New York; Columbus, OH; Portland, OR; and Philadelphia.
For more information, email info@psgchicago. org.