Liberate Palestine Forty-Eight (LP 48) is a self-proclaimed “grassroots movement, mobilizing strategic actions in the GTA to amplify the voice of the Palestinian people.” On May 8, 2026, LP 48 posted on Instagram:
SHOW UP ON FRIDAY, MAY 15TH: 78 YEARS OF NAKBA & 78 YEARS OF UNBREAKABLE RESISTANCE.
On Nakba Day, Friday, May 15th at 6:00 PM we gather not to mourn, but to embrace that with every passing year, our resistance and resilience grows stronger.
78 years of Nakba.
78 years of resistance and reclaiming what is rightfully ours.
Despite the escalating brutality and oppression, our people remain steadfast. Every hardship strengthens our certainty that victory is near. With every challenge, we move forward, more united, more resilient, and closer to liberation from the river to the sea.
We trust in Allah.
We stay strong.
We keep moving forward.
We do not beg. We do not ask for permission.
We are here to claim back our stolen land.
SHOW UP ON FRIDAY, MAY 15th AT NATHAN PHILLIPS SQUARE, TORONTO – NAKBA DAY!
The keynote speaker at Nakba Day was a representative from Al-Ahrar, a Palestinian Prisoner Support organization.
According to its official website:
Al-Ahrar, الأحرار (The Free People), is a new international organization working to support Palestinian prisoners through political education and building solidarity. Inspired by Toufan Al-Ahrar, طوفان الأحرار (The Flood of The Free), the prisoner exchange secured by the Resistance that freed thousands of Palestinians this year, we work to amplify the struggle of Palestinian political prisoners, their conditions, and demands as they work to achieve justice and liberation for all of Palestine. We do this through organizing campaigns, hosting events, creating resources, building coalitions, and advocating for the rights of Palestinian prisoners and their families.
While our Toronto chapter and our international organization is a nascent group, our members have engaged in prisoner solidarity work internationally for years. Our focus is with Palestinian prisoners and liberation, but our work is always in solidarity with political prisoners across the globe– especially with prisoners in the imperial core where we are based. It is essential that we recognize the connections between incarceration and settler-colonialism in occupied Palestine and in so-called Canada where we see the daily criminalization of poverty, migrants, refugees, Indigenous land defence, Black life, anti-policing movements, and more. From Turtle Island to Palestine, Free Them All!
Palestinian prisoners are the heart of the Palestinian struggle for freedom. The prisoners consist of all ages, all factions of the Resistance, and all aspects of Palestinian society. Each one represents the imprisonment of the entire nation of Palestine. Our role in the fight for justice and liberation is to uplift and support the prisoners, spread awareness, and take action.
In the words of the great revolutionary and former prisoner Ghassan Kanafani, “Fighting for freedom is as important as fighting for life itself.”
Here is the transcript of the Al-Ahrar representative’s speech:
Thank you for having me here today. One more time. Free, free Palestine. Free, free Palestine. I’m here on behalf of Al-Ahrar [الأحرار – The Free People] – Palestinian Prisoner Support.
We are an international organization supporting Palestinian prisoners and prisoners of the Palestinian struggle. Al-Ahrar is a part of Masar Badil [المسار البديل], the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement. It’s an international movement in the diaspora with resistance forces in west Asia.
Today on May 15, Ahrar commemorates the Nakba, the catastrophe, the genocidal escalation that took place in Palestine 78 years ago to this day. However, as some of you may know, today has also historically been known in Palestine as the day of Palestinian struggle.
And it’s in this context in which Ahrar and the Masar Badil would like to restore May 15 too, May 15 as the day of Palestinian struggle. This represents over a hundred years of struggle against Zionism where resistance across generations in all its forms has remained steadfast and relentless.
Khaled Barakat, a member of the executive committee of the Masar [Badil] says that restoring nation’s theme as the day of Palestinian struggle does not mean diminishing the historical importance of the Nakba, but rather that confronting this ongoing Nakba cannot be achieved solely by weeping over the past or revisiting scenes of displacement.
It requires highlighting the path of popular and armed resistance, the steadfastness of the prisoners, the uprising of the people, the refugees’ commitment to the right of the return and the growing international solidarity with Palestine.
So, all who stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people must reject the language of [unintelligible] as a characterization of this national liberation project. And we instead must embrace today as a commemoration of militant struggle and victory. On the day of Palestinian struggle, Ahrar uplifts the Palestinian resistance. We uplift regional forces, the axis of resistance.
We uplift the Islamic Republic of Iran as they wage a historic battle against the largest and most powerful military known to humanity. And they are winning. They are eliminating US military bases from across West Asia as we speak.
The Palestinian resistance and the Axis Iran and Lebanon and other regional forces are the ones freeing the prisoners. As a prisoner solidarity organization, we know this all too well.
Why was Al-Aqsa Flood battle waged on October 7? It was to free thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Zionist dungeons. It is only through armed resistance that the incarceration, the torture and the killing of Palestinians in Zionist prison is defeated. And the [unintelligible] of the prisoners’ exchange that was secured by the resistance just last year is what our organization Ahrar is aiming for. Exchange, freeing thousands of Palestinians. And this is how the 10,000 Palestinian prisoners that still remain inside will be liberated very, very soon.
Political prisoners are the compass and the leadership of the struggle for Palestinian liberation. Imprisonment was designed to control and repress liberation movement even here in Canada. And it’s no coincidence that the most prominent leaders of the Palestinian armed resistance are serving some of the longest prison sentences in the world.
The enemy targets these leaders with imprisonment and torture and solitary confinement in attempt to isolate them from their comrades and to fracture the movement. But despite the enemy’s attempts, Palestinians continue to struggle from inside prison walls, engaging in hunger strikes, political education and coalition building amongst the factions.
But it’s not only the leaders and the members of the resistance who are targeted. The Zionist entity imprisons Palestinians from all walks of life to demoralize Palestinian society and inflict harm on their collective. And because of this, every single Palestinian prisoner is a political prisoner. And their personal incarceration cannot be detached from the Palestinian struggle for liberation or from the armed resistance forces who center prisoners in their operations and in their negotiations with the enemy.
2026 marks three years with one of the most courageous acts of resistance in our lifetime Al-Aqsa Flood battle. The glorious efforts of the resistance have opened up the possibility of return for the scattered Palestinian diaspora who must now form a response to this newfound reality.
And this starting point of this response must be unconditional support for Palestinian resistance and the action. Anything less than that is a betrayal of their sacrifice and struggle.
Today, on the day of Palestinian struggle, Ahrar and the Masar Badil invite the Palestinian and Arab [unintelligible] diaspora and all those who stand in solidarity with the resistance and return to join us in November of this year in Toronto from historic North America wide gathering that we are calling three years of Al Aqsa Flood Resistance and return from the belly of the beast.
This will be an assembly of forces from all across North America, a revolutionary gathering of conversation, education, relationship building, political refinement and it’s happening this November in our city. We are going to strengthen our solidarity with the Palestinian prisoners and all those who are imprisoned because of their sacrifices to the cause.
We are going to build internationalist relationships across global movements against imperialism. We are going to mobilize the Palestinian and the Arab diaspora in our region in recognition of their role as revolutionaries. And we are going to determine the next phase of struggle that is explicitly aligned with resistance forces struggling in West Asia as we see.
As diasporic and international organizers, activists, people of conscience, we have a duty to consolidate our forces, fortify the movement in the face of repression. Join us this November.
Free all Palestinian prisoners, Free all Lebanese and Syrian prisoners from the Zionist jails. Free all Palestinian imprisoned in exile and long live the resistance!
