March for Justice for Palestine this SATURDAY!

[SPHR UBC]

Dear Friends,

Thank you for your support of the events in Vancouver to support Palestinian rights, including Palestinian refugees' right to return. The dinner on Tuesday, May 15 was very successful!  There were shared stories from Palestinian and First Nations activists, linking our two struggles, poetry, film screenings, live oud and dabke performances, and of course, incredible food to a packed hall!  If you were not able to be there, video of the event is available thanks to Rabble.ca: http://rabble.ca/rabbletv/program-guide/2012/05/features/watch-live-tuesday-vancouver-end-nakba-sharing-stories-creat. 

Please continue to join us this SATURDAY!  Bring your Palestinian FLAGS and be ready to raise your keffiyehs!! 

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 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.

Saturday, May 19

2 PM 

MARCH OF RETURN: MARCH FOR PALESTINE

Gather at Clark Park (14th and Commercial) at 2 PM, March to Grandview Park

Rally at Grandview Park

March and rally commemorating the Nakba, standing against the continuing Nakba, calling for justice, freedom and return for Palestine! We will also stand against Canada's complicity and its own genocide of indigenous people. Speaking begins at 2:15 pm and march begins promptly at 2:30 pm, followed by a program in Grandview Park. Creative actions welcome! This is a family friendly march. 

The Vancouver Coalition to Commemorate Al-Nakba includes the Alliance for People's Health, Arab Students Association - UBC, Boycott Israeli Apartheid Campaign, Canada Palestine Association, CPSHR - Canada-Philippines Solidarity for Human Rights, Canadian Boat to Gaza, CanPalNet, Canadian Union of Postal Workers, Independent Jewish Voices, No One Is Illegal - Vancouver Unceded Coast Salish Territories, RAGA (Race, Autobiography, Gender & Age Studies) Centre at UBC, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, Seriously Free Speech Committee, Simon Fraser Public Interest Research Group (SFPIRG), Solidarity For Palestinian Human Rights-UBC (SPHR-UBC), SANSAD - South Asian Network for Secularism and Democracy, Stopwar.ca. To join the coalition or for more information please contact nakbava...@gmail.com.

In solidarity,

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SPHR UBC Secretary
SPHR-UBC 

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