The NYC Coalition to Stop Islamophobia issues
A Call to Action for Sunday, August 22nd:

Welcome Muslims to Downtown NYC --
Stop Islamophobia & Racist Threats --
Defend Religious Freedom

Those who have been loudly opposing the proposal to build Cordoba House, an Islamic Community Center and Mosque in downtown Manhattan, will converge from around the country Sunday. We will counter their racist, Islamophobic threats and lies by being present with signs and banners and the message:

We oppose attacks now, and in the future, on Muslims and mosques. We stand by the right of religious freedom for all people. Welcome Cordoba House!

Join us on Sunday, August 22nd, 10:00 am
at Church Street and Warren Street.

Initial Endorsers (To add your name, send a message to: coalitiontostopislamophobia@gmail.com)
Al-Awda NY: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition
International Socialist Organization
Movement for a Democratic Society
World Can't Wait
International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network
Labor for Palestine
New York City Labor Against the War

A Call to All Palestine Solidarity Activists

Attend the National Peace Conference!

Crowne Plaza Hotel, Albany, New York, July 23 to 25, 2010

http://www.nationalpeaceconference.org/

Hundreds of anti-war organizers will converge on Albany, including Al-Awda NY members, this weekend to strengthen anti-war movement building and to deepen the connections and solidarity among our various social movements as we continue to challenge militarism, racism and exploitation at home and abroad.

The Albany gathering, co-sponsored by 31 national organizations, is an important place for the Palestine Solidarity movement in the United States to come together with leading anti-war organizers to continue the momentum generated by the strong Palestine resolutions that came out of the recent US Social Forum in Detroit.  The June 26th, 2010 National People's Movement Assembly in Detroit produced an important series of resolutions adopted by the over 18,000-strong Forum as a whole reflecting the vision of unified struggle against racism, colonialism, oppression and exploitation, including clear support for the Palestinian struggle.

"Such a clear statement is a significant development for the U.S. Left and an achievement for all who worked to ensure the Palestinian and Arab presence at the core of the Social Forum. As the U.S. government funds ongoing Israeli war crimes and welcomes the racist Benjamin Netanyahu to Washington, DC, the US's popular movements affirmed the centrality of the Palestinian liberation struggle and expressed full support" (US Palestinian Community Network).

The US Social Forum concluded with a call on all organizations and social movements to boycott, divest and sanction the Israeli apartheid state and the institutions that support it.

Now is the time to integrate Palestine solidarity with the demands and actions projected by the broader antiwar and social justice movements to be discussed and voted on at the conference.

For those who cannot attend, the conference will be televised online at: http://www.mediasanctuary.tv/

Join Al-Awda, DRUM, and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement:

 

Saturday, July 31 @ 9pm

"The People's FREEDOM Dance"

@ Alwan for the Arts

16 Beaver Street (Btwn Broad & Broadway)

4/5 Train to Bowling Green

 

A bit of politics, a LOT of fun...All for a good cause

Fundraiser to support political prisoners in all of our communities-

From the U.S., to Palestine, to Guantanamo

 

Suggested Donation $5 - $10

 

For info, email: dima.abisaab@gmail.com

 

Al-Awda NY, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, is going to the US Social Forum! See below for our exciting workshop on Friday, June 25. Please contact us at info@al-awdany.org or 718-228-8636 with any questions - see you in Detroit!



Presented by Al-Awda NY, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition
http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/palestine-evolution-movement-liberation

There is a rising sense among activists, Palestinians and others, that justice cannot be achieved within the context of a Zionist state based on de jure and de facto Jewish supremacy over non-Jews in Palestine. Support for the so-called "Two-State Solution," which since the Oslo Accords of 1993 had been cynically presented as the only "realistic" goal for Palestinians, is crumbling.