No Separate Justice Monthly Vigil: Holy Land Five

Date 

Add to My Calendar Monday, November 2, 2015 6:00pm to 7:00pm

Location 

Metropolitan Correctional Center
150 Park Row
New York, NY

Please join CCR and our partners in the No Separate Justice (NSJ) campaign for our monthly vigil on November 2.

The November vigil will focus on the case of the Holy Land Five (HL5), a charity founded in 1989 that provided aid to people in Palestine and across the world. The prosecution and incarceration of the Holy Land Five underlines a number of pressing issues related to how terrorism suspects are tried and convicted in post 9/11 America. The prosecution alleged that charity commissions in Palestine through which the HL5 used to distribute aid were controlled by Hamas. This enabled the US government to argue the men were guilty of providing material support to a terrorist group, even though the same charity commissions were also used by the United Nations and the Red Cross to distribute aid. Five former employees of the HL5 are currently serving between 15 and 65 years in prison.

The vigil is also co-sponsored by NYC Students for Justice in Palestine, Jewish Voice for Peace, Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, Al-Awda NY: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, Islamic Movement for Justice, Brooklyn College Students for Justice in Palestine, Adalah-NY: The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel, and others.

Join the Facebook event and visit the NSJ website to learn more about the campaign.

Directions to Vigil: The closest subway to MCC is the 4, 5, or 6 train to Brooklyn Bridge.  Walk up Centre Street to Foley Square and look for Pearl Street, which is in between the two large federal courthouses on Foley Square. Walk down Pearl Street one block to where it dead ends on Park Row.  The vigil takes place on the corner across from the entrance to the MCC.

Last modified 

October 28, 2015