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PALESTINE SOLIDARITY GROUP - NORTH AMERICA

The Palestine Solidarity Group (PSG) was formed to establish a diverse, broad-based organization whose main purpose is to advocate and organize around the following issues: ending the illegal, Israeli occupation of all Palestinian and Arab land; the implementation of UN General Assembly Resolution 194, which speaks to the comprehensive Right of Return for all Palestinian refugees and their descendants; and upholding the right of the Palestinians to defend themselves against Israeli aggression.

The main goal is to mobilize supporters and activists from the Palestinian and non-Palestinian community to engage other communities of color, oppressed nationality groups, workers and students in broadening the movement in North America for Palestinian rights, and against racism and Zionism.

The Palestine Solidarity Group (PSG) advocates and organizes for Palestinian national liberation and self-determination. A progressive, secular organization, the PSG upholds the political, civil, and human rights of the Palestinians, and believes that the only path to a comprehensive solution to the conflict is the end of illegal, Israeli occupation of Palestinian land; and the implementation of the Right of Return for all Palestinian refugees and their descendants.

Goals and Objectives:
• To offer a progressive, democratic solution to the issue of Palestinian self-determination.
• To educate and raise the consciousness of the North American public to the plight of the Palestinian people.
• To combat the propaganda of the Zionist, Israeli government, which aims to distort the goals of the Palestinian people.
• To safeguard the political, civil, and human rights of the Palestinians.
• To advocate for the release of all Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli and Palestinian Authority jails.
• To establish alliances with other communities of color and oppressed nationalities in North America.
• To establish alliances with other Palestinian and Arab institutions in North America.

Action Plan:
• Education and action-oriented campaigns involving direct action, civil disobedience, mass demonstrations, leafleting, guerrilla street theater, etc., that target Israeli government institutions in the United States, American government institutions, and corporations that have business relationships with the Apartheid State of Israel.

• Building alliances with religious institutions, college and university students, workers and unions, and grass-roots, community-based organizations by facilitating and organizing educational programs and presentations on the current and historical political situation in Palestine.

• The Internationals for Justice in Palestine project, charged with organizing delegations to travel to Palestine, document Israeli abuses, and make connections with Palestinian human rights and political organizations to establish future projects with them.

• Adopting Palestinian refugee camps in Palestine or the Diaspora, which entails the strengthening of the infrastructure of the respective camp.

Membership:
Membership in the PSG is open to all people who believe in the Right of Return for the Palestinian refugees and ending the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
• Members must adhere to the goals and objectives of the PSG.
• Members must agree to work within one of the local chapters of the PSG.

For more information or to join the Chicago chapter of the Palestine Solidarity Group, please email info (at) psgchicago.org .