SPHR Announcements: Nakba Day Commemoration in Vancouver!
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May 9, 2012, 3:49:07 PM5/9/12
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Dear friends and supporters,
Please check out these events in Vancouver!
1. DOXA 2012, the documentary film festival have 2 very interesting films pertaining to the Occupation.
2. If you want to learn more about the Nakba, please check out this excellent fact sheet prepared by the Institute for Middle-East Understanding.
3. 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.
This community supper will bring together the community to share stories, creative work, and discussions about indigenous resistance, continuing Nakba, and struggles for freedom. The program will include talks by Palestinian and Indigenous activists and community members, Palestinian music, and a short film by Palestinian director Sobhi al-Zobaidi. Childcare is available. We request RSVPs for attendance, and for childcare, to nakbava...@gmail.com in order to ensure we have enough food! No one will be turned away.
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 beginspromptly at 2:30 pm, followed by a program in Grandview Park. Creative actions welcome! This is a family friendly march.
4. Please Like and Follow us on Facebook and Twitter pages for news and updates.
We look forward to you joining us!
--
SPHR UBC Secretary
SPHR-UBC
Please check out these events in Vancouver!
1. DOXA 2012, the documentary film festival have 2 very interesting films pertaining to the Occupation.
The Law In These Parts
Friday, 11 May 2:30pm, Pacific Cinematheque
The legal system imposed by Israel on the West Bank and Gaza Strip is the subject of this remarkably revealing new film. As the lawyers, judges, and ex-military men find themselves on the receiving end of pointed cross-examination from the filmmaker, the tragic disconnect between justice and what these men perpetrated becomes terribly apparent.
5 Broken Cameras
Friday, 11 May, 9:15pm, VanCityTheatre
An anti-war documentary and poetic allegory in one, 5 Broken Cameras places family struggle at its heart, infusing a human dimension into the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict with surprising non-judgment. In the modest Palestinian village of Bil’n (located just west of the city of Ramallah in the West Bank), the olive trees on which the village’s livelihood relies are being uprooted to make way for nearby Jewish settlements and an Israeli imposed separation wall. Farmworker Emad picks up his video camera and begins documenting the weekly protests against the settlement.
There are 10 days between now and Nakba Day: The day to remember the ethnic cleansing of Palestine and the dispossession of indigenous Palestinians from their land. 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.Friday, 11 May 2:30pm, Pacific Cinematheque
The legal system imposed by Israel on the West Bank and Gaza Strip is the subject of this remarkably revealing new film. As the lawyers, judges, and ex-military men find themselves on the receiving end of pointed cross-examination from the filmmaker, the tragic disconnect between justice and what these men perpetrated becomes terribly apparent.
5 Broken Cameras
Friday, 11 May, 9:15pm, VanCityTheatre
An anti-war documentary and poetic allegory in one, 5 Broken Cameras places family struggle at its heart, infusing a human dimension into the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict with surprising non-judgment. In the modest Palestinian village of Bil’n (located just west of the city of Ramallah in the West Bank), the olive trees on which the village’s livelihood relies are being uprooted to make way for nearby Jewish settlements and an Israeli imposed separation wall. Farmworker Emad picks up his video camera and begins documenting the weekly protests against the settlement.
2. If you want to learn more about the Nakba, please check out this excellent fact sheet prepared by the Institute for Middle-East Understanding.
3. 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.
Tuesday, May 15
6 PM - 10 PM
Free 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. The program will include talks by Palestinian and Indigenous activists and community members, Palestinian music, and a short film by Palestinian director Sobhi al-Zobaidi. Childcare is available. We request RSVPs for attendance, and for childcare, to nakbava...@gmail.com in order to ensure we have enough food! No one will be turned away.
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 beginspromptly 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,
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.
4. Please Like and Follow us on Facebook and Twitter pages for news and updates.
We look forward to you joining us!
--
SPHR UBC Secretary
SPHR-UBC
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