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<div style="text-align:center"><b>Sunday, April 17th -
10am PDT, 1 PM EDT, 8pm Palestine</b><br>
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<div style="text-align:left"><b><a
href="http://artagainstprison.org"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">Art
Against Imprisonment</a> </b>is hosting this
event to mark Palestinian Prisoners Day, April 17th
2022. Palestinians have commemorated April 17th
since 1974 as <a
href="https://www.birzeit.edu/en/palestinian-prisoners-day"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">a national
tribute to prisoners and their sacrifices, a call
to unify the efforts to support them and their
right to freedom, and a call for solidarity with
their families.</a> This year we uplift the daring
<a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/tamara-nassar/israel-seeks-revenge-after-palestinian-great-escape"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">Great
Escape </a>of six Palestinian prisoners from the
maximum security Gilboa prison on September 6th,
2021. We also mark the courageous collective <a
href="https://www.addameer.org/index.php/news/4736"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">boycott of
Israeli military courts by Palestinian
administrative detainees</a> since January 1,
2022, now in its fourth month.</div>
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<div style="text-align:left">Art Against Imprisonment
shines a light on the creativity which people in
prison use to break through repression, isolation
and invisibility. For Palestinian Prisoners Day
2022, we are proud to host Palestinian former
prisoners and artists to celebrate steadfast
resistance against imprisonment, occupation, and
settler colonialism.</div>
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<div style="text-align:left"><b>Featuring - <br>
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<div style="text-align:left"><a
href="https://www.borderlines-cssaame.org/posts/2021/4/28/art-activism-and-the-presence-of-memory-in-palestine-interview-with-palestinian-artist-rana-bishara"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><b>Rana
Bishara</b></a><b> - Palestinian installation
artist, painter, graphic artist, photographer and
performing artist, based in Palestine<br>
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<div style="text-align:left"><a
href="https://www.yenisafak.com/en/world/palestinian-theatre-group-uses-art-to-resist-israeli-occupation-3585150"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><b>Mustafa
Sheta</b></a><b> - Palestinian former political
prisoner and General Director Jenin Freedom
Theater, based in Palestine<br>
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<div style="text-align:left"><a
href="https://clarissabitar.com/#/"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><b>Clarissa
Bitar</b></a><b> - Palestinian oud musician and
composer, based in the U.S.
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<div style="text-align:left"><b><a
href="https://www.cgazaleh.com/" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">Chris Gazaleh</a> -
Palestinian visual artist, musician, writer,
organizer and educator, based in the U.S.
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<div style="text-align:center"><b>Sunday April 17 -
10 am PDT, 2:30 EDT, 8:00 pm Palestine<br>
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moz-do-not-send="true"><b>REGISTER FOR THE EVENT</b></a></div>
<div style="text-align:center"><b>For more
information contact <a
href="mailto:artagainstimprisonment@gmail.com"
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class="moz-txt-link-freetext">artagainstimprisonment@gmail.com</a><br>
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<div style="text-align:left"><b>EVENT SPONSORS:
ADDAMEER Prisoner Support & Human Rights
Association, U.S. Palestinian Community Network,
Arab Resource and Organizing Center, California
Coalition for Women Prisoners, Freedom Archives
and Palestinian Youth Movement</b></div>
<div style="text-align:left"><b>CO-SPONSORS - Critical
Resistance, Jenin Freedom Theatre, Chicago
Alliance Against Racist & Political
Repression, Palestinian Feminist Collective,
Coalition for Civil Freedoms, Release Aging People
in Prison, Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and
Diasporas Studies</b>
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light on the creativity which people in prisons
use to break through their isolation and
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