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Documents
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Upcoming Events Commemorating
60 years of Nakba
For an updated list of Nakba commemoration events please visit:
http://www.badil.org/campaign40-60/calendar/calendar.html
To add an event to this list, please contact
mediaenglish@badil.org
March 2008
• 25-29 March, Canada
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine speaking Tour
Featuring Professor Ilan Pappe
Montreal -Tuesday March 25, at 7:30pm
at Concordia University H-110
Toronto- Wednesday, March 26, at 7:00 pm at the Health Sciences
Auditorium, 6th Floor, 155 College St. (more info at www.necef.org)
Vancouver-Saturday, March 29, at 7:00 pm at the Vancouver Public
Library, Central Branch, Alice Mackay room, lower level, 350 W. Georgia St.
(at Homer). (more info: support@canpalnet.ca)
• 28 March, Greece
Palestine 1948-2008: 60 Year Infraction of International Law
Lawyers Union Hall (60 Acadimia St.), featuring Rania Madi and Ioanna
Kotovic.
Organized by Al-Awda Greece
• 29 March, Toronto, Canada
Land Day Commemoration with Bishop Atallah Hanna
7pm at the Oasis Convention Centre. Visit: www.palestinehouse.com
• 25 March – 8 April, United States
Acknowledging the Past; Imagining the Future: Palestinians and Israelis on
1948 and the Right of Return
Badil and Zochrot Speaking Tour for Nakba 60
Boston (March 28) – Chicago (March 29-31) – Portland, Oregon (April 1-2) –
Seattle (April 2-3) – New York (April 5) – Philadelphia (April 6-7)
For more information contact ahorowitz@afsc.org, or visit
http://www.afsc.org/israel-palestine/badilzochrottourorganizers.html
March 30: Land
Day, Palestine
• 30 March
Public release of Nakba-60 Declaration with list of endorsing
organizations by the ECCP and Action Platform-Belgium; launch of
Nakba-60 media campaign in Belgium:
www.association-belgo-palestinienne.be/coordination-europeenne/presentation-eccp.htm
Contact: eccp@skynet.be, mirjam.vanbelle@oxfamsol.be
• 30 March, Tubas, Palestine
Heritage and Photo Exhibit Commemorating Land Day
organized by Fari’a Women’s Committee, contact: uyac@uyac.org
• 30 March, Tulkarem, Palestine
Land Day film screenings at schools and community centres,
contact uyac@uyac.org
April 2008
• 1 April, Portland, Oregon.
Badil-Zochrot Speaking Tour at Reed College
Sponsored by Americans United for Palestinian Human Rights and American
Friends Service Committee.
• 6 April, Tubas, Palestine
Al-Awda Basketball Tournament,
contact: uyac@uyac.org
9 April 2008 – 60th Anniversary of the Deir Yassin Massacre
• 12 April, Germany
Commemoration of the Nakba 1948
5:30pm. Organized by the Near East Peace Circle, Women in Black-Koeln,
German-Palestinian Women’s Association;at the Melanchthon-Akademie/Ev.
Jugendpfarramt Kartäuserwall 24 b, Kölner Südstadt.
Contact: Suraya_Hoffmann@gmx.de
• mid-April, Ramallah, Palestine
Fourth Popular Refugee Conference for a one-state vision and popular
activation
organized by the National Committee for the Commemoration of Nakba-60
Contact: uyac@uyac.org, tel: +972-559-255584; or camp@badil.org
April 17th, Palestinian Prisoners Day
• 25 April – 25 May, Ramallah
Return Tent-Camp set up next to the Muqata’a as a site for cultural
events and coordination of activities by the National Committee for the
Commemoration of Nakba-60
Contact: uyac@uyac.org, tel: +972-559-255584; or camp@badil.org
• 25 April, Berne, Switzerland
Breaking the
Logic of Displacement
Conference of
the Forum For Human Rights in Palestine/Israel
9am-6pm (Kornhausforum Berne, Stadtsaal)
For more information visit: http://www.cfd-ch.org/e/peace/forum_conference.php
• 30 April – 2 May, Bil’in, Palestine,
Third Annual Conference on Popular Struggle,
Organized by the Friends of Freedom and Justice – Bil’in Society,
Contact:
ffj.bilin@yahoo.com; tel. +972-547-847 942; www.ffj-bilin.org
• “Free Gaza
Boat” sailing to the Gaza Strip
(date to be set) Breaking the siege, commemorating the
Nakba and demanding return
Visit: www.freegaza.org •
Badil-Zochrot European Speaking Tour (tentative)
Organized by the Belgian Action Platform on Palestine.
Contact: mirjam vanbelle@oxfamsol.be
May 2008
60th
Anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba
• May 2008,
Portland, Oregon, Metro Area 40/60 Commemorations: 60th Anniversary of Al
Nakba . Demonstration, speaking
events and teach ins throughout the month.
• 1 May, Ramallah, Palestine ,
2008 Al-Awda Award Festival,
festive celebration of the winners of the 2nd Al-Awda
Award: Contact: camp@badil.org - www.badil.org
• 5 – 8 May, Bethlehem,
Literary
Festival in Bethlehem, Contact:
victoriacatherine@yahoo.com
• 8 May - Israel’s Independence Day ( Hebrew
calendar) – Day of the Palestinian Nakba:
Return March
Organized by the Association for the Defense of the Rights of the
Internally Displaced (ADRID)
Contact: adrid@palnet.com; fax. +972-4-646-8241, tel.
+972-4-600-1765
• 8 – 10 May, London, UK
“ Ila Haifa”:
an adaptation of Ghassan Kanafani’s Returning to Haifa by PSC and the al-Zaytouna
Dabka group;
10 May
National Demonstration in
central London to commemorate the Nakba and continuing dispossession and
denial of Palestinian rights: www.palestinecampaign.org
• 10 May, Tulkarem, Palestine,
Nakba 60 Art
Exhibit and Human Chain,
contact: uyac@uyac.org
• 10 May, Toronto/Montreal/Vancouver/Ottawa Nakba
Commemoration National Day of Action in Canada, contact Palestine House:
info@palestinehouse.com; Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid: endapartheid@riseup.net•
16 May, New York, United States
Commemorating
the 60th Anniversary of the Nakba (Palestinian Catastrophe)
Dag Hammarskjöld Park
For more information contact: Nakbah60th@gmail.com
• 25 May, Qalqilya, Palestine
Nakba 60 Forum and Discussion,
contact: uyac@uyac.org
• Zochrot’s
Nakba 60 Project – Rebuilding the Map of PalestineFor more visit:
http://www.nakbainhebrew.org/index.php?id=556 Contact: eytanb@netvision.net.il
• Release & public presentation of “100 terms on the Nakba” Organized
by BADIL, Ibn Khaldoun Center, Palestine ROR Coalition Contact:
resource@badil.org
15 May – NAKBA
Commemoration DAY
• Minute of Silence in Palestine and beyond
public rallies and events in all major Palestinian cities and worldwide;
global day of action of the World Social Forum .
Events in Palestine are organized by the
National Committee for the Commemoration of
Nakba-60. Contact: uyac@uyac.org,
tel: +972-559-255584; or camp@badil.org
• 17 May, Belgium Nakba-60
Action Day in Belgium. Contact:
mirjam.vanbelle@oxfamsol.be
• 16-18 May, Anaheim, California
6th Al-Awda Annual Convention
Featuring Bishop Atallah Hanna, Supreme Justice Dr.
Sheikh Taiseer Al Tamimi, Salman Abu Sitta, Dr. Adel Samara, Dr. Ilan Pappe,
George Bisharat, Ghada Karmi, Dr. Saree Makdisi, and many more.
Visit: http://al-awda.org/alert-conv6.html
• 24-25 May, Portland, Oregon
Nakba Commemoration Event
Keynote Speaker Prof. George Bisharat, UC
Hastings College of Law, Portland, Oregon.
• 27 May, Qalqilya Palestine
Photo and Heritage Exhibition,
contact: uyac@uyac.org
June 2008
• Date TBA:
Qalqilya, Palestine Solidarity
Hunger Strike with People of Azbat al-Tabib (village threatened with
forcible displacement) contact
uyac@uyac.org
• 7 June: Manchester, UK “ Palestine
Lives 2008”: Palestine Solidarity Campaign Rally Visit:
www.palestinecampaign.org 20 June – International Refugee Day
• 23 June
2008, Tel Aviv Towards
Return of Palestinian Refugees: Practices, Strategies and Vision -
Conference Organized by Zochrot.
Contact ronaeven@yahoo.com, visit: www.zochrot.org
August 2008
• 8 – 10
August: Chicago, Illinois U.S.
Popular Palestinian National Conference:
“Palestinians in the US: Reclaiming Our Voice, Asserting Our Narrative”See:
www.palestineconference.org and contact: palestineconferenceusa@yahoo.com •
14 – 31 August: The Peace Cycle – Palestine:
cycling from Amman, Jordan, to Palestinian communities and 1948 depopulated
villages in Israel and then to the OPT.
visit:www.thepeacecycle.com
September 2008
• 2 - 4
September, Paris United Nations (OHCHR and UNESCO) Conference on 60 Years
of UDHR O pportunity for
presentation on Nakba-60/right of return. Contact: 60anniversary@ohchr.org
and coordinate with: info@badil.org
• 7 – 8 September, Brussels
The Peace Cycle – Europe Cyclists
gather in Brussels for 2 days of media events and demand from the European
Parliament to take action for justice for the Palestinian people. see:
www.thepeacecycle.com 16-18 September – Commemoration of Sabra and Shatila
Massacres (1982)
• European
Social Forum (tentative; date and venue to be determined)
October 2008
October,
Toronto, Canada First
Annual Toronto Palestine Film Festival
visit: http://www.tpff.ca
December 2008
• 10 December - 60 years of UDHR
• 11 December - 60 Years of UNGAR 194
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