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Watch the rebroadcast: End the Nakba -- sharing stories, creating resistance
On the 64th anniversary of the occupation of Palestine, and as the Palestinian people enter the 64th year of dispossession and exile, the Vancouver Coalition to Commemorate Al-Nakba is organizing events to commemorate the Nakba, stand against the continuing Nakba, and call for the right of return for Palestinian refugees and freedom for Palestine. 64 years after the Nakba - the war of 1948 in which over 800,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes and land and the state of Israel created on that land -- Palestinians continue to struggle for their right to return, for freedom from occupation, for justice, and against the Nakba that continues today. Watch this community event live, beginning at 6PM PST, Tuesday, May 15th.
March to commemorate the Nakba: March for Palestine, march for return
May 19 2012 - 2:00pm
May 19 2012 - 4:00pm
Location
Clark Park to Grandview Park
Gather at 14th and Commercial for March
Vancouver, BC Canada
49° 15' 40.4136" N, 123° 6' 50.1372" W
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On the 64th anniversary of the occupation of Palestine, and as the Palestinian people enter the 64th year of dispossession and exile, the Vancouver Coalition to Commemorate Al-Nakba is organizing 2 events to commemorate the Nakba, stand against the continuing Nakba, and call for the right of return for Palestinian refugees and freedom for Palestine. 64 years after the Nakba - the war of 1948 in which over 800,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes and land and the state of Israel created on that land - Palestinians continue to struggle for their right to return, for freedom from occupation, for justice, and against the Nakba that continues today.
Save the date now and plan to be part of these 2 important events!
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Free Community Supper for Palestine - Sharing Stories, Creating Resistance
May 15 2012 - 6:00pm
May 15 2012 - 10:00pm
Location
Unitarian Church
949 W. 49th St
Vancouver , BC Canada
49° 13' 35.8428" N, 123° 7' 36.8292" W
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Tuesday, May 15
6 PM - 10 PM
Community Supper: Sharing Stories, Creating Resistance
Unitarian Church, 949 W. 49th St (49th and Oak), Vancouver
This community supper will bring together the community to share stories, creative work, and discussions about indigenous resistance, continuing Nakba, and struggles for freedom.
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Palestinians break Syrian border on day of protests
In a historic, co-ordinated protest at the Lebanese, Syrian, West Bank and Gazan borders with Israel, Palestinian refugees crossed the border, and many were killed. On the 63rd commemoration of the Nakba (Arabic: Catastrophe), Palestinians co-ordinate a historic demonstration. Protests at the Lebanese, Syrian, West Bank, and Gazan borders and inside Egypt took place. Many died as a result of live fire, and hundreds were injured both from Israeli forces and others such as the Egyptian and Lebanese armies. The Real News' Lia Tarachansky reports from the Qalandiya refugee camp in the West Bank where thousands demonstrated and summarizes the historic day in which refugees succeeded in breaking through the Syrian border and reuniting with Palestinians in the Golan Heights.
63 years of Nakba
Marking the 63 year memory of the Nakba, this Manifesto presents "a simple, true, self-explanatory expression of what we're sick of."
Film: Memory & Memorialization - Remembering the Nakba
May 13 2010 - 7:30pm
May 13 2010 - 10:00pm
Location
Beit Zatoun
612 Markham Street (right by Bathurst subway)
TorontoCanada
Phone:
647.726.9500
43° 39' 53.2584" N, 79° 24' 44.6868" W
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Film: Memory & Memorialization - Remembering the Nakba
The screening of two short videos and a moderated discussion explores the basis of memory and the human need to memorialize.
The narrative surrounding the Nakba in 1948 remains central to Palestinians and their supporters. Despite criminalization inside Israel's borders by the Nakba Draft Law (February 2010), the commemoration of the Nakba is a reality -- independent of laws and media.
For many the Nakba references a specific history, for others it provokes questions of memory and personal loss, of collective loss and finally, the loss of truth or recorded reality. The filmmakers will be in attendance.
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