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Tax Day/Palestinian Prisoners Day protest photos

by sadie.sabot
Activists gathered in dowtown San Francisco on April 17, 2006 to observe Palestinian Prisoner Day, calling for the freedom of Manla and Nour Ghanem http://www.addameer.org/addameer/campaigns/manal/index.html and to call for an end to US Tax Aid To Israel. The Rally was followed by a march to the Israeli consulate, where the consulate refused to accept petitions.
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Activists and organizers from SUSTAIN, ADC-SF, Act Against Torture, MECA, Critical Resistance, Heads Up collective, and more gathered in downtown San Francisco to observe Palestinian Prisoner Day, calling for the freedom of Manal and Nour Ghanem, a young Palestinian mother and her three year old son, who have been imprisoned since before the boy's birth (http://www.addameer.org/addameer/campaigns/manal/index.html) and to call for an end to US Tax Aid To Israel. The rally was followed by a march to the Israeli consulate, where the consulate refused to accept over 150 signed letters calling for the release of Manal and Nour and for humane treatment of Palestinian Prisoners.

Turn out was great and it was a lovely day for a rally and a march.

Free Palestine!
§Speaker from Critical Resistance
by sadie.sabot
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Rose of Critical Resistance spoke about the connections between incarceration in the US and incarceration abroad, in particular in Palestine.
§No Taxes For War and Imprisonment
by sadie.sabot
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US Tax dollars go to pay for imprisonment here in the US and through tax aid to Israel, we also pay for the imprisonment of Palestinians, including many children. Meanwhile basic social services are cut, public education is defunded, and the infrastructure in this country that poor and working class people (largely people of color) depend on is crumbling. Money for health care and education, not for war and incarceration!
§Speaker from SUSTAIN (Stop US Tax Aid To Israel Now)
by sadie.sabot
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§Speaker from MECA (Middle East Children's Alliance)
by sadie.sabot
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