Opinion Editorials, February 7, 2008
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SIXTH AL-AWDA CONVENTION TO MARK 60 YEARS OF PALESTINIAN
NAKBA
May 16-18, 2008, Anaheim California
The 6th Annual International Al-Awda Convention will mark a devastating event in the long history of the Palestinian people. We call it our Nakba.
In May of 1948, with the support of the governments of the United States, Britain, and other European powers, Zionists declared the establishment of the state of Israel on stolen Palestinian Arab land and intensified their full-scale attack on Palestine. They occupied our land and forcibly expelled three quarters of a million of our people. This continues to be our great catastrophe, which we, as Palestinians with our supporters, have been struggling to overcome since.
The sixth international Al-Awda convention is taking place at a turning point in our struggle to return and reclaim our stolen homeland. Today, there are close to 10 million Palestinians of whom 7.5 million are living in forced exile from their homeland. While the Zionist state of Israel continues to besiege, sanction, deprive, isolate, discriminate and murder our people, in addition to continually stealing more of our land, our resistance has grown. Along with our sisters and brothers at home and elsewhere in exile, Al-Awda has remained steadfast in demanding the implementation of the sacred, non-negotiable national, individual and collective right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and lands.
The sixth international Al-Awda
convention will be a historic and unique
event. The convention will aim to recapitulate Palestinian history
with the help of those who have lived it, and to strengthen our
ability to educate the US public about the importance and justness
of implementing the unconditional right of Palestinian refugees to
return to their homes and lands. With symposia and specialty
workshops, the focus of the convention will be on education that
lead to strategies and mechanisms for expanding the effectiveness of
our advocacy for the return.
INVITATION
We invite all Al-Awda members, and
groups and individuals who support the implementation of the rights
of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes of origin, and to
reclaim their land, to join us in this landmark Sixth Annual
International Convention on the 60th year of Al-Nakba. Among the
confirmed speakers so far are Bishop Atallah Hanna (Orthodox Church
Jerusalem), Dr. Adel Samara, Dr. Salman Abu Sitta, Dr. Asad Abu
Khalil, Dr. Saree Makdisi, and journalist author Ramzy Baroud.
Sheikh Rafiq Al Tamimi, The Imam of Al Aqsa Mosque, has also been
invited.
MASS RALLY FOR THE RETURN TO PALESTINE
The convention will culminate in a
major demonstration in remembrance of 60 years of
Nakba and to call for The RETURN TO PALESTINE. The demonstration
will be held in solidarity and coordination with our sisters and
brothers who continue the struggle in our beloved homeland.
Registration:
http://www.al-awda.org/convention6/reserve.html
Sponsorship: http://www.al-awda.org/convention6/sponsor.html
Advertising: http://www.al-awda.org/convention6/ads.html
Exhibitors: http://www.al-awda.org/convention6/table.html
Hotel Accommodation: http://www.al-awda.org/convention6/hotel.html
Directions: http://www.al-awda.org/convention6/maps.html
Media: http://www.al-awda.org/convention6/media.html
Sponsorship: http://www.al-awda.org/convention6/sponsor.html
Advertising: http://www.al-awda.org/convention6/ads.html
Exhibitors: http://www.al-awda.org/convention6/table.html
Hotel Accommodation: http://www.al-awda.org/convention6/hotel.html
Directions: http://www.al-awda.org/convention6/maps.html
Media: http://www.al-awda.org/convention6/media.html
Convention Host Committee Organizations:
http://www.al-awda.org/convention6/hosts.html
Points of Unity: http://www.al-awda.org/pou.html
Points of Unity: http://www.al-awda.org/pou.html
For more information, please go to
http://al-awda.org/convention6 and
keep revisiting that page as it is being updated regularly.
To submit speaker and panel/workshop proposals,
write to:
info@al-awda.org
or
convention6@al-awda.org
Until return,
Al-Awda Executive and Convention Host Committees
Al-Awda Executive and Convention Host Committees
The Palestine Right to Return
Coalition
PO Box 131352
Carlsbad, CA 92013, USA
Tel: 760-685-3243
Fax: 360-933-3568
E-mail: info@al-awda.org
WWW: http://al-awda.org
Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition (PRRC) is the largest network of grassroots activists and students dedicated to Palestinian human rights. We are a not for profit tax-exempt educational and charitable 501(c)(3) organization as defined by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) of the United States of America. Under IRS guidelines, your donations to PRRC are tax-deductible. http://www.al-awda.org/donate.html
PO Box 131352
Carlsbad, CA 92013, USA
Tel: 760-685-3243
Fax: 360-933-3568
E-mail: info@al-awda.org
WWW: http://al-awda.org
Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition (PRRC) is the largest network of grassroots activists and students dedicated to Palestinian human rights. We are a not for profit tax-exempt educational and charitable 501(c)(3) organization as defined by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) of the United States of America. Under IRS guidelines, your donations to PRRC are tax-deductible. http://www.al-awda.org/donate.html
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