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Badil Releases 2010 Desk-Calendars: “Palestine's Ongoing Nakba: Colonization, Occupation & Apartheid”

The Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights is pleased to announce that the 2010 Desk-Calendars are out, and ready to be ordered and shipped.


This year's calendar is titled “Palestine's Ongoing Nakba: Colonization, Occupation & Apartheid”, and includes photos and information about the ongoing forced displacement of Palestinians.
 
Relevant historic dates and events are marked for each month of the year, as well as information about some of the specific aspects of Palestine's ongoing Nakba as follows:

January: 1948 & 1967: The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
February: Destruction of Palestine's Archive
March: Ongoing Depopulation & Destruction of Palestine's Villages
April: Erasure of Existence & Identity of Palestinian Cities
May: Ongoing Nakba - Ongoing Exile
June: The Siege of Gaza
July: A Maximum of Palestinian Land with a Minimum of its People
August: Denial of Residency & Citizenship Rights
September: Secondary Displacement
October: Excessive and Indiscriminate Use of Force, Murder
November: Settler Implantation and “Judaization”
December: Accountability and the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) Movement
 
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Calendars are in Arabic and English, and cost 5 Euros. They can be ordered online at:
http://www.badil.org/en/publications?page=shop.browse&category_id=10
 
People who have a subscription to Badil's English Language quarterly magazine al-Majdal will receive a free copy of the calendar with the next issue (Issue#42, Autumn 2009). This issue of al-Majdal is titled “Nakba Education on the Path of Return” and focuses on Nakba education in its various dimensions, including Palestinian students and the Israeli education system, political prisoner education, the use of Palestinian poster art in U.S. classrooms, popular education amongst refugee youth in the West Bank and Lebanon, and many others.
Read this issue of al-Majdal online at:
 
People who purchase a subscription to al-Majdal before 1 December 2009 will also receive a free copy of Badil's 2010 Desk-Calendar. You can purchase your subscription to al-Majdal at by following the link from the al-Majdal homepage:
 
Or from the Badil publications page:
 
Note: Bulk orders of Badil's 2010 Desk-Calendar at a reduced price can be arranged by contacting [email protected]