9th Popular Resistance Conference “žUnited in Struggle“ - hosted in Palestine

Wisuschil - Media & Law - As a Palestinian and international movements resisting the Israeli systematic polices against Palestinian, including occupation, the annexation Wall, the Israeli illegal settlements, the forcible displacement and the destruction of our lands, we are among those at the frontlines in defending our struggle for self-determination liberation and freedom. Our struggle will enhance paving the road for justice in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

Today, we are as determined as ever to resist until freedom, justice and equality is achieved. We have resisted generation after generation, in the refugee camps, in the prisons, in the fields and in the streets and we will continue to do so.

We call on all those that are fighting oppression, discrimination, racism and colonisation across the globe to join us in this conference in order to share our experiences so that we can learn from each other and build a united front against racism, repression, colonialism, exclusion and exploitation. Let´s join hands in a common struggle for a just World without Walls.

The Conference is aiming at:

1- To achieve better national coordination and networking between Palestinian grassroots activists from different locations and different political backgrounds.

2- To enhance Palestinian mobilisation to join popular resistance

3- To cooperate and coordinate with the Palestinian political parties to reach better involvement of the political parties participation in popular resistance

4- To establish a unified committee to lead the popular struggle and follow up to build a unified popular resistance strategy to reach mass mobilisation

5- To strengthen the networking with the international solidarity groups from the north and the south

6- To strategize the relationship with the Israeli activists based on the guidelines of BDS campaign to reach a better impact for the Israeli activists in the Israel and globally

Topics of Discussion

“¢ Popular resistance between officials and popular; the role of the political parties, the PA and the popular resistance committees

“¢ Models of popular resistance locally and internationally achievements and challenges

“¢ Relationships between popular resistance committees coordination and networking

The Conference is aiming at:

1- To achieve better national coordination and networking between Palestinian grassroots activists from different locations and different political backgrounds.

2- To enhance Palestinian mobilisation to join popular resistance

3- To cooperate and coordinate with the Palestinian political parties to reach better involvement of the political parties participation in popular resistance

4- To establish a unified committee to lead the popular struggle and follow up to build a unified popular resistance strategy to reach mass mobilisation

5- To strengthen the networking with the international solidarity groups from the north and the south

6- To strategize the relationship with the Israeli activists based on the guidelines of BDS campaign to reach a better impact for the Israeli activists in the Israel and globally

Topics of Discussion

“¢ Popular resistance between officials and popular; the role of the political parties, the PA and the popular resistance committees

“¢ Models of popular resistance locally and internationally achievements and challenges

“¢ Relationships between popular resistance committees coordination and networking

“¢ Joint struggle and the relationship with the international solidarity including Israeli activists

“¢ International solidarity

“¢ Ensure it is not in any way complicit with Israel´s illegal actions, including through:

â—¦ Non-recognition of the unlawful situation created by Israel´s policies and measures in Occupied Palestine, including East Jerusalem, including as a result of the settlements and the wall and all other annexationist policies;

â—¦ Not rendering aid or assistance in maintaining this unlawful situation

â—¦ Distinguishing between the territory of the occupying Power and the occupied territory.

For over 7 decades, Palestinians have been living under the Israeli settler colonial power, through employing an intricate system of discriminatory policies and practices to entrench its colonial occupation that aim to ethnic cleanse the Palestinian population. Palestinians have been facing daily violation of international law; the building of colonies and annexation Wall has destroyed Palestinian land like a cancer destroying the human body, uprooting aged olive trees with no access to Palestinians to their land.

Clearly, in the recent years, Israel, the occupying power, is enjoying the ultimate support of the US administration fostering the power asymmetric between the occupied Palestinians and the Israeli occupation. Moreover, Israel´s intention is clearer than any time before to annex the occupied West Bank and to keep besieged Gaza in an open jail. It has been approved that nonviolent resistance is more effective in the hands of the occupied people than any other strategy.

In the last two decades, Palestinian activists organised direct collective nonviolent actions against the annexation Wall and the illegal Settlements. Grassroots activists establishedpopular resistance committees across the occupied West Bank including East Jerusalem.

Palestinian grassroots popular resistance committees, networks and individuals have decided to come together at this crucial time to unite our popular struggle and, with this, to contribute to the unity of our people as a whole to come out with a unified strategy to mobilise Palestinians to join popular resistance.

Also, to strengthen the coordination and networking with international solidarity movements as well to foster transnational nonviolent actions. Our resistance is part of a larger need to unite among the people struggling for justice globally.

Today, we are not only living a dangerous moment in history for the Palestinian people but for humanity.

We strongly believe that the unity of the movements we represent and that have been leading the popular struggle in the streets and in the fields during the last decade, can give a crucial impulse for the overdue unification of our people as such. We are determined to move on from this conference and bring together the struggle of the old and the young, the workers and the farmers, campaigns for boycotts and for steadfastness.

Our vision looks beyond the West Bank, where the daily struggle of our movements is based, because there can be no unity that does not include beyond the Palestinians from the West Bank, including Jerusalem, those in Gaza, the Palestinians inside the Green Line and those in the diaspora.

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Media-Release of the Palestine Solidarity Austria headquatered in Vienna. Who wants to participate on the events is asked to contact these Organisation over the following lnked Facebook-Page of it:

https://www.facebook.com/Palästina-Solidarität-Österreich-566191377123146/