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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
To Counter & Drown Out the Concert Celebration of the Zionist State
In Solidarity with Palestinian Resistance, Return, and Refugees
7:00 p.m.
Radio City Music Hall
6th Ave. between 50th & 51st St.
New York City, NY
Subway - B, D or F to Rockefeller Center/50th St.
As the Zionist State continues its genocide against Gaza and the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, Zionists will celebrate their legacy of oppression at a Radio City Music Hall concert. Join us to condemn this gathering and to stand in solidarity with Palestinian Resistance, Demand the Immediate Right to Return of All Palestinian Refugees and Support the Struggle for Liberation & Self-Determination.
Join us to Celebrate a Proud History of Palestinian Resistance and Drown out the Zionists Voices of Genocide
Music, Debka, Solidarity Statements and Demand an End to Siege of Gaza, the Immediate Right To Return of Palestinian Refugees, an End to All US & International Aid to "Israel"
Statement: A CALL TO THE ANTIWAR MOVEMENT: THE NEED FOR UNITY AND CLARITY
This is a call for unity and clarity in the US antiwar movement. As activists from a variety of movements, we have a responsibility to articulate a vision for the antiwar movement that moves us forward, at a time when the ravages of colonial occupation are most deeply felt in Palestine, Iraq, and elsewhere around the world, as US imperialism continues to threaten yet more war internationally, and as racism and repression within the United States threaten our lives and our communities....
Read and sign the full statement here.
TAKAFUL: Family to Family Sponsorship Project
Support a Palestinian Refugee Family in Gaza today
For $100 per month / $3 per day
Your donations go directly to needy families as direct Financial support
Contact us: 1-800-856-8147 www.refugeesupport.org info@refugeeupport.org
Click here to sponsor a family now!
Through Family Sponsorship, your family now has the unique opportunity to help alleviate the suffering of impoverished families in Gaza Strip, Palestine, and show solidarity to those who are impacted the most by the dire humanitarian crisis.
Family sponsorship is a community development initiative that aims to change lives by delivering long-lasting, self-sustaining improvements to help lift generations out of poverty. Your sponsorship will empower parents and children caught in the cycle of poverty.
With your support of $3 per day, delivered in direct monetary assistance (Cash), you are giving your sponsored family the option of sustaining essential life needs, be it food, health, education or merely coming out of crisis.
Your own family will experience the joy of building bridges with your sponsored family as you begin to build a relationship with them. Your children will learn invaluable lessons about caring, sharing and selfless kindness. You will have the option of contacting your sponsored family, and even visiting them as a show of your solidarity with their struggle for dignity, national and human rights.
Family-to-Family sponsorship aims to alleviate the suffering of impoverished families, and provide minimum support to the family unit to sustain itself.
The network also aims to help the families further by supporting education related projects that would provide an incentive for children and youth to continue their educations with the Back to School Schoolbag & Tools program and the Kasid University scholarship program. Please see our website for more details.
Click here to sponsor a family now.
Please Visit Our Website for other Projects: Back to School Schoolbag, Kasid University Scholarship Fund
ABOUT US:
The Palestinian Refugee Support Network is located in the US, Canada, Europe and Palestine.
The project is being launched in the United States & Canada by Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition - New York; Al-Awda Vancouver; New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine, and Palestinian Orphan Association in Germany. Both Al-Awda New York and New Jersey Solidarity are tax-exempt, non-profit organizations in the US. Al-Awda Vancouver is a non-profit organization in Canada. Palestinian Orphan Association is a registered organization in Germany (Weisen Kinder Helfe Palestina e.V).
Our main goal is to develop the family-to-family sponsorship project (Takaful) in coordination with Al-Karmel Cultural and Social Development Association, and Hanan Cultural and Social Development Association in Gaza Strip, Palestine.
The network aims to work with civil organizations in the Arab world and internationally in order to support Palestinian refugees in their just struggle for independence, sovereignty, self-determination & the right to return.
The network aims as well to develop a solid basis for solidarity with the Palestinian people based on their national and human rights.
Al-Karmel & Hanan Cultural and Social Development Associations serve primarily children, women, youth and the disabled, especially those in the most poverty stricken remote communities in Gaza. Since 1993, Al-Karmel's main work has been focused on the economic, education, cultural and social progress and the overall alleviation of suffering in marginalized and deprived communities.
Visit our Websites
www.refugeesupport.org
www.al-awdany.org
www.newjerseysolidarity.org
www.alkarmelgaza.org
www.hanancoo.org
Points of Unity
Al-Awda New York is the local chapter of Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition (Al-Awda is Arabic for "THE RETURN").
The coalition adheres to the following points of unity:
- This Coalition affirms that the Palestinian Arab people, regardless of their religious affiliation, are indigenous to Palestine. Therefore, they are entitled to live anywhere in Palestine which encompasses present-day "Israel", the West Bank and Gaza Strip. This Coalition regards the "Israeli" definition of Jewish nationals, granting exclusive rights to citizenship and land to any Jew from anywhere in the world, as part of the racism and discrimination inherent in Zionist ideology which underlies the policies and laws of the settler state of "Israel".
- This Coalition unequivocally supports the rights of all Palestinian refugees to return to their original towns, villages and lands anywhere in Palestine from which they were expelled. This Coalition also unequivocally supports the rights of all Palestinian refugees to compensation for damages inflicted on their property and lives, and to restitution of all destroyed and confiscated property. All Palestinians are entitled to the rights to self-determination, to political, economic and civil equality, and to live in a single democratic state for all its citizens in all of Palestine. The Palestinian national identity encompasses more than 5.5 million people living in exile, more than 2.5 million living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and more than 1.2 million living within the areas of Palestine controlled by "Israel" since 1948.
- This Coalition firmly stands against the continued displacement of Palestinians, the construction of illegal Jewish-only colonies in the form of residential settlements, the racist confiscation of land and the demolition of homes since 1948. This Coalition firmly stands against the collective punishment of Palestinians, and all violations of Palestinian civil, economic, political, national and human rights. This Coalition abhors and condemns the use of massacres and abuse of civilians to further the expansion of "Israel" to the detriment of Palestinian society.
- This Coalition supports the struggle for the liberation of Palestine and views it as a struggle against all forms of colonialism. This struggle is inseparable from the universal and labor struggles for social, economic and national equality, development, justice and freedom against an imposed global new world order. This Coalition upholds all of the values enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Fourth Geneva Convention, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the Convention on the Political Rights of Women, and the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid. This Coalition also upholds the African Charter of Human and People's Rights, the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act (Pub. L. 99-440) and the American Convention on Human Rights.
- This Coalition respects, recognizes, and supports the central role of Palestinian women in the struggle for national liberation and the right to return. This includes the leadership of Palestinian women in the right to return movement.
- This Coalition will work to educate the public about "Israeli" injustices the US government subsidizes with billions of dollars annually. Until the dismantlement of the exclusionary and racist character of "Israel", and until all Palestinians are granted the right to return and achieve equality, this Coalition is united in working for and demanding:
- An end to all US political, military and economic aid to "Israel"
- The divestment of all public and private entities from all "Israeli" corporations and American corporations with subsidiaries operating within "Israel"
- An end to the investment of Labor Union members' pension funds in "Israel"
- The boycott of all "Israeli" products
- The right to return for all Palestinian refugees to their original towns, villages and lands with compensation for damages inflicted on their property and lives
- The right for all Palestinian refugees to full restitution of all confiscated and destroyed property
- The formation of an independent, democratic state for all its citizens in all of Palestine
To contact us, please write to us at info @ al-awdany.org.
Please also visit the following Al-Awda websites:
Al-Awda
Al-Awda Canada
Al-Awda United Kingdom
Al-Awda California