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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"
Friday, April 4th, 2008
Continuing Al Nakba Series....
Screening and Discussion with director John Halaka ("Made in
Palestine" artist):
The Presence of Absence in the Ruins of Kafr
Bir'im
7:30 p.m.
Alwan for the Arts
16 Beaver St - 4th Floor
New York City, NY
Subway: 4, 5 to Bowling Green; J/M/Z to Broad St.; R,W to Whitehall
St.; 1 to Rector St. or South Ferry; 2, 3 to Wall St.; A, C line to
Broadway-Nassau
Free and Open to the Public
New York Premeire!
Shot on location in the ruins and cemetery of Kafr Bir'im, a
Palestinian village located in the Northern Galilee, the film introduces
the viewer to Mr. Ibrahim Essa, an elderly poet who survived the ethnic
cleansing of his village in 1948. Mr. Essa's family has lived in Kafr
Bir'im for the past 700 years. Through his narrative and poetry, Ibrahim
Essa recounts his experiences as a youth in the village, the hardships of
a life in exile and the intense emotional, physical and historical
connections to the land that he shares with the 5,000,000 Palestinians who
currently live in the Palestinian diaspora. Mr. Essa employs an ancient
oral tradition of poetry that, in style, is similar to what is now
referred to as "Spoken Word Poetry." This improvisational oral tradition
has been around for centuries in Northern Palestine and continues to be
used by farmers and villagers to express the community's intimate
relationship to the land; a yearning for past times; and their cultural,
psychological and physical attachment to the ancient and modern ruins that
exist throughout that region.
In his introduction to the events that resulted in the complete
destruction of the village, John Halaka explains that "The village of Kafr
Bir'im was ethnically cleansed of its Palestinian inhabitants by the
military forces of the newly established state of Israel in early November
1948. All of the 1050 inhabitants of Kafr Bir'im were driven from their
land, and were never allowed to return to the homes and fields that they
and their ancestors had inhabited and cultivated for centuries."
The film commemorates the 59th anniversary of the ethnic cleansing of
Kafr Bir'im and memorializes the 60th anniversary of the beginning of the
ethnic cleansing of Palestine. The ethnic cleansing campaign occurred
between December 1947 and December 1948, resulting in the destruction of
Palestinian civil and political societies, the eradication of 531
villages, and the expulsion of over 800,000 Palestinians.
Professor John Halaka joined the Visual Arts Faculty at USD in 1991.
His creative work serves as a vehicle for meditation on personal, cultural
and political concerns. Halaka creates works of art that raise questions,
for himself as well as for the viewer, about some of the pressing issues
of our time. His experiences as an artist of Palestinian descent informs
his investigations of cycles of repression and displacement as well as the
personal and political relationships between desire, denial and
instability. "Through my work, I attempt to initiate a dialogue with the
viewer that could hopefully instigate transformation, one person at a
time. This effort is best summarized by James Baldwin's eloquent
observation. "When circumstances are made real by another's testimony, it
becomes possible to envision change."
Sunday, March 30th, 2008
Youm Al Ard
The Day of the Land
3:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Solidarity Center
55 W 17th St. (off 6th Ave.), 5th Floor
New
York City, NY
Subway - F, V oR L to 6th Ave/14th St.
NJ Path -
14th St.
On the 60th anniversary of Al Nakba, Al-Awda NY, the Palestine Right to
Return Coalition invites you to celebrate and commemorate:
Youm Al Ard
The Day of the Land
Featuring:
Debka performance
Discussion on debka and farming
The
relationship between the land and resistance
Zionist massacres of
palestinians 1948-2008
Open Discussion on Palestine, history,
politics, Gaza
Much, much more...
THE BUTCHER OF GAZA IS COMING TO NEW YORK!!
PROTEST EHUD BARAK AND THE "FRIENDS OF THE IOF"!
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
5:00 p.m.
Waldorf Astoria
50th St & Park Ave
New York
City, NY
Subway - 6 to 51st Street/Lexington Ave, E or V to Lexington
Ave/53rd St
While hundreds of Palestinians have been slaughtered in Gaza and while
Ehud Barak threatens further invasions and massacres, the so-called
"Friends" of the Israeli Occupation Forces are celebrating Barak and the
war criminals of the Israeli Occupation Forces with a $1000-a-plate dinner
at the Waldorf-Astoria!
Join Al-Awda NY, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, to protest
this outrage!
60 years of Occupation, exile and murder have done nothing but bring
more genocide and, now, threats of Holocaust from Israel's Deputy Minister
of "Defense". Join us to protest in outrage and solidarity as the war
criminal Ehud Barak is celebrated and IOF Soldiers dine at the Waldorf to
raise money for more genocide.
WAR CRIMINALS NOT WELCOME HERE! PROTEST EHUD BARAK AND THE "FRIENDS OF
THE IOF"!
Bring banners, signs and Palestinian Flags!
Protest the Genocide inflicted on Gaza!
Protest the Israeli Occupation Forces Fund-raising Dinner!
Stand in Solidarity with the people of Gaza, Demand an End to
all US Aid to "Israel", Demand an immediate return of all Palestinian
refugees to their rightful homes and a free Palestine!
*Event's Photos*
COMMEMORATE THE LIFE OF DR. GEORGE HABASH
Please join the Palestinian & Arab Community at Widdi Catering Hall
to commemorate and honor the life and work of Al Hakim, Dr. George Habash.
Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
2:00 p.m.
Widdi Catering Hall
5602 6th Ave (Corner of 56th
& 6th Ave)
Sunset Park, Brooklyn, NY
Subway - N/R to 59th
Street
Al-Awda NY & NYCDP Statement in Memory of Dr. George Habash
We admirers of Dr. George Habash in New York celebrate the life of this
Palestinian revolutionary, who died of a heart attack on January 26, 2008,
at age 82. Born in 1925 in al Lydd, George Habash experienced the Nakbe.
He studied medicine yet devoted himself to the necessary task of
organizing Arab resistance to the Zionist occupation of Palestine. Thus,
he cofounded the Arab Nationalist Movement in 1951.
The defeat of 1967 made clear the need for revolutionary organization
and popular leadership in peoples' movements. The new Arab regimes failed
while struggles in Vietnam, Cuba and China succeeded. Understanding this,
Dr. Habash founded the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and
served as its general secretary until 2000.
Habash, lovingly known as Al-Hakim, inspired more than the adoration of
members of his party. During the '70s, his leadership brought the
Palestinian masses the understanding, pride, and determination to gather
their strength. The struggle for liberation that began early in the 20th
century against British colonialism became a revolutionary war against
Israel-Britain's implanted machine adopted by the U.S.
From the beginning he promoted principles of continuous study, personal
discipline, living connection to the refugee camps and sacrifice and
devotion to the cause. These were accompanied by political analysis that
clearly identified the enemies of the Palestinian people; the Zionist
state and international Zionist organizations, world imperialism headed by
the U.S. and supported by Arab regimes and Arab reaction.
Through bloody September in Jordan in 1970 and the resistance in Gaza
through the siege of Beirut in 1982, from the Intifada of 1987 to the
treachery of Oslo, he never wavered from the goal of the total liberation
of Palestine and the right of all its sons and daughters to return to
their homes and land. Inspired by this leadership, mass organizations for
the right to return developed in many parts of the world.
Dr. Habash understood the necessity of international struggle and
identified the liberation of Palestine as key to the liberation of the
entire Arab world. He saw the Palestinian people's struggle as one with
that of oppressed people everywhere.
To remember his analysis and to enrich its fabric with our work is to
truly honor George Habash. He is with us today as we struggle, a mountain
of Palestine.
In the words of Al Hakim, "The oppressed and starving of the world
shall be victorious."
Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition - New York
New
York Committee to Defend Palestine
EMERGENCY GAZA MOBILIZATION
JOIN AL-AWDA NY AND THE ARAB MUSLIM AMERICAN FEDERATION AS WE STAND IN
SOLIDARITY WITH OUR PEOPLE IN GAZA
Friday, January 25th, 2008
3:00 p.m.
Outside the Zionist Consulate
42nd Street & 2nd
Avenue
New York, NY
JOIN US TO DEMAND:
THE RIGHT TO RETURN FOR ALL PALESTINIANS
AN END TO THE SIEGE ON
GAZA
AN END TO ZIONIST WAR CRIMES
AN END TO ZIONIST MASSACRES OF
PALESTINIANS
ZIONIST HANDS OFF PALESTINE
*Event's Photos*
AL NAKBA EDUCATIONAL SERIES
Al-Awda New York presents:
The first in an Al Nakba educational series -
"500 Dunam on the Moon" film showing, followed by discussion led by
1948 Palestinian Said Shehadeh
Saturday, December 1st, 2007
3:00 p.m.
7111 5th Ave (between 71st and Ovington)
Brooklyn, NY
- in the Bay Ridge community
Subway: R to Bay Ridge Avenue
Join Al-Awda New York as we kick off an Al Nakba education series to
mark the 60th year of exile and struggle for Return. This series is
designed to revitalize community organizing, and to raise awareness
particularly among Palestinian youth. All events are free, and all are
welcome.
"500 DUNAM ON THE MOON" (2002, 48 min) presents a critical look
at the art of dispossession and the creativity of the dispossessed,
examining Ayn Hawd, a Palestinian village captured and depopulated by
Zionist armies in 1948, and "Ein Hod", the Zionist "artists' colony"
established over Ayn Hawd, while Ayn Hawd's original and rightful
Palestinian residents, deemed "present absentees", settled only 1.5
kilometers away on the outlying hills, prevented from returning home, and
their village unrecognized, denied water, electricity, or an access road.
This film presents the story and the resilience of the people of Ayn Hawd
in their struggle for land and freedom.
Following the film, Al-Awda member Said Shehadeh will give a brief
presentation and then lead a discussion.
Tell a friend! Download and print the event flyer at:
http://www.al-awdany.org/flyers/awda1201event.pdf
Sunday, October 28, 2007
FESTIVAL OF PALESTINIAN AND ARAB
CULTURE
Widdi Hall
5602 6th Ave (Corner of 56 & 6th Ave
Brooklyn,
NY
12:00 - 6:00 p.m.
2008 WILL MARK THE 60TH YEAR OF AL NAKBA, THE DATE THAT CHANGED THE
LIVES OF EVERY ARAB.
AS WE PREPARE TO MARK THIS TRAGIC DATE WE ASK:
WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF PALESTINE?
HOW CAN WE AFFECT THAT FUTURE?
WHAT DO OUR CHILDREN KNOW ABOUT PALESTINE?
HOW DOES PALESTINE
AFFECT OUR LIVES?
FESTIVAL OF PALESTINIAN AND ARAB CULTURE:
A day of discussion and activity around Palestine. Bring your memories
and hopes for Palestine, the Arab world and its people.
Educational games, skill sharing, watani, music & debka,
discussion, spoken work & More!
ALL ABOUT PALESTINE FOR ADULTS, YOUTH & FAMILIES
***
إئتلاف حق الشعب الفلسطيني في العودة
يوم الأحد, 28 أوكتوبر,
2007 في قاعة الودي من الساعة 12 ظهراً حتى الساعة 6
5602 6th AVE CORNER OF
56& 6th AVE BROOKLYN,NY
للاستفسار الرجاء
الأتصال ب
info @ al-awdany.org , http://www.al-awdany.org/, 718-228-8636
في عام 1949, ديفيد بن غويورن
قال
"الكبار سيموتون,
والصغار ينسون"
*************
العام القادم
سيشهد الذكرى الستين للنكبة
التاريخ
الذي غير حياة كل انسان عربي وفلسطيني
نحيي هذا
التاريخ المأساوي ونتسأل:
ما هو مستقبل فلسطين؟
كيف
يمكننا ان نؤثر في هذا المستقبل؟
ماذا تعلم اطفالنا عن فلسطين؟
وكيف فلسطين تؤثر على حياتنا؟
يوم من المناقشة والفعاليات
حول فلسطين. أحضرعائلتك،أفكارك,ذكرياتك وآمالك لفلسطين وشعبها
والشعب العربي بشكل عام.
للتعلم...
التثقف... اللعب...تبادل المهارات...الجانب الوطني...الموسيقى
الشعبية والدبكة...المناقشات..والخطابات...
وهناك
الكثير والمزيد...
وكل هذا عن
فلسسسطين للكبار..الصغار..والشباب والشبات
Sunday, June 10, 2007
All out for Liberation and Return!
Rally and March
Starting at the West Lawn of the Capitol
Washington D.C.
2:00 Rally
4:00 March (From Capitol Hill to the Ellipse)
New Jersey
Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine and Al-Awda New
York (the Palestine Right to Return Coalition) call on Right to Return
activists to join us in Washington D.C. on June 10th to march together in
a "Liberation and Return" contingent.
While the organizers/sponsors of this mass rally and march are
emphasizing the commemoration of 40 years of occupation in the West Bank,
Gaza, East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights, we must also commemorate the
60th year of the occupation which began with Al-Nakba in 1948. Solidarity
with the Palestinian liberation struggle must include solidarity with
Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, Palestinians in Palestine '48, and
Palestinians in exile.
Over 6 million refugees have the Right to Return to their original
lands and properties, and we must not limit our discussion of Palestine to
a subsequent attack that took place 19 years after the invasion that
forced over 750,000 Palestinians into exile.
Thousands of activists will be marching on Washington D.C. on Sunday,
June 10th. We must be there to raise the banner of Liberation and Return.
Join us to carry Right to Return signs, carry Palestinian flags and chant
for Return and Liberation!
When the call is made to line up for marching, meet us near the tabling
area to the Left when facing the capitol.
Groups in the New York area are organizing buses from Manhattan and
Brooklyn. Please get in touch with us if you need more information on
this.
SATURDAY, MAY 12TH, 2007
COMMEMORATE AL-NAKBA....
GET INVOLVED
WITH THE STRUGGLE FOR RETURN!
3:00 PM
666 Broadway, 6th Floor
New York City
Subway: 6 to Bleecker St; B/D/F/V to Broadway/Lafayette
FREE!
In commemoration of the 59th anniversary of Al-Nakba ("the
catastrophe"), when over 750,000 Palestinians were expelled from their
homes and lands by invading Zionist armies in 1947-48, join Al-Awda New
York, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, for an afternoon of
remembrance, education and organizing!
FILM SCREENING: "Al-Awda/The Return" - This film tells the story of
Al-Nakba, as well as the struggles of Palestinian refugees to return to
their original homes, lands and properties. Today, Palestinian refugees
number near six million - the world's largest refugee population,
prevented from returning home because of their Palestinian Arab identity.
Watch this educational film, produced by the Palestinian Return Center in
the UK, to learn more about the history of oppression and resistance, and
to move towards action!
GENERAL INTEREST MEETING: Following the film showing, Al-Awda New York
will hold a general interest meeting. Find out what you can do, here in
New York City, to get involved with the right to return movement,
including working on cultural projects, Palestinian community organizing,
educational work, rallies and demonstrations, and many more Al-Awda
projects!
TUESDAY, APRIL 24th, 2007
Closing Celebration for PICTURE BALATA
exhibition
Brecht Forum
451 West Street (West Side Highway)
(between Bank & Bethune Streets, which are between 11th & 12th
Streets)
New York, NY
Directions - A, C, E or L to 14th Street & 8th Ave, walk down 8th
Ave. to Bethune, turn right, walk west to the River, turn left. Coming on
the Path from NJ? Take the Path to 14th Street, then the L to 8th Ave,
then follow the directions from 14th Street & 8th Ave.
View photos from the opening reception!
http://www.al-awdany.org/photos/picture_balata/
Al-Awda New York invites you back one more time for an evening of
poetry, music, art and food, to celebrate the success of the Picture
Balata exhibition at the Brecht Forum.
Join us on Tuesday, April 24th as we continue to celebrate cultural
resistance with Palestinian poet Remi Kanazi and friends.
Don't miss this opportunity to come view the photograph of Picture
Balata, a project which puts the camera into the hands of the children
born and raised under conditions of occupation in Palestine. Work is on
display by Picture Balata participants ranging from ages 11 to 18, who
photograph their situation as they live it in Balata Refugee Camp.
Exhibition runs April 6 - April 27, 2007
For viewing info/hours call the Brecht Forum at 212-242-4201.
Three teenage participants from the Picture Balata workshop are in the
Unitd States for the first two weeks of April 2007. Showing their work and
speaking about their lives, the photographers will visit to New York City,
Washington DC, Youngstown, Boston, Chicago and San Francisco.
These young people, leaving Palestine for the first time, will be able
to educate U.S. residents regarding the reality of the situation in Balata
Refugee Camp and occupied Palestine. The tour will also give them the
chance to see that people outside Palestine support their work and the
Palestinian struggle for liberation and justice.
The tour also aims to raise funds to purchase cameras, computers and
internet access so that after further training the workshop participants,
nine in total, will be able to do everything from taking the picture,
editing it on their own computer and then publishing it on a website for
the entire world to see. This self-sustainable project will give these
young people the opportunity to further pursue photography and other media
as a form of resistance.
Background:
Outside the West Bank City of Nablus lies the Balata Refugee Camp. Home
to almost 25,000 residents living on less than one square kilometer,
Balata is one of the most densely populated refugee camps within the West
Bank. In recent years, Balata has seen hundreds of deaths and arrests,
dozens of home demolitions, and the camp is subject to near-nightly
invasions by the zionist military. It is here the Picture Balata workshop
was started to teach youth from the camp about photography.
Picture Balata puts the camera into the hands of the children born and
raised under conditions of occupation in Palestine. Participants ranging
from ages 11 to 18 photograph their situation as they live it in Balata
Refugee Camp.
Picture Balata in New York is sponsored by Al-Awda NY. For more
information, contact us at info (at) al-awdany.org or by phone at
718-228-8636.
For more information on Picture Balata, please visit http://www.picturebalata.net/.
FRIDAY, MARCH 30TH, 2007
Al-Awda Cafe:
Fundraiser for PICTURE
BALATA exhibition! 7:00 p.m.
Sixth St. Community Center
638
East Sixth Street (between Avenue B & C)
New York, NY
Admission: $10 at door
Join us for a fundraising evening to support the young photographers of
Balata Refugee Camp in Palestine! Traditional Irish singer MARY COURTNEY
will share songs of resistance, along with poetry for Palestine, a special
slideshow preview of the upcoming Picture Balata exhibition and a live
auction of Palestinian items, including a handmade sterling silver Handala
pendant!
Join us to support this important project!
For more information on Picture Balata, please visit http://www.picturebalata.net/.
For more information, please contact info (at) al-awdany.org or call
718-228-8636.
SATURDAY, MARCH 3RD, 2007
AL-AWDA NY GENERAL INTEREST MEETING
2:00 p.m.
666 Broadway, 6th Floor
New York, NY
Subway: 6 to Bleecker St; B/D/F/V to Broadway/Lafayette
Do you want to find out what you can do to work for justice in
Palestine?
Do you want to help organize important events, exciting
activities and demonstrations?
Do you want to support the Palestinian cause, and work for the
return of Palestinian refugees to their homes, lands and properties?
Have you been hearing about Al-Awda's work and wondering what
you can do to help?
Get involved!
Join us to find out about Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return
Coalition - NY, our plans and activities for the future, Palestinian
community organizing and awareness-raising events and demonstrations. You
have an important role to play in the struggle to free Palestine!
For more information, please contact info (at) al-awdany.org or call
718-228-8636.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15TH, 2007
APARTHEID THROUGH THE LENS:
A
Fundraising Evening for the Young Photographers of Balata Refugee Camp,
Palestine 7:00 p.m.
Alwan For the Arts
16 Beaver St - 4th
Floor
New York, NY
Subway: 4, 5 to Bowling Green; J/M/Z to Broad St.; R,W to Whitehall
St.; 1 to Rector St. or South Ferry; 2, 3 to Wall St.; A, C line to
Broadway-Nassau
$10 suggested donation at the door
Join Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition - NY for an
evening to support Picture Balata, a project and exhibition for young
photographers of Balata Refugee Camp in Palestine. The evening will
feature slideshows of the photography of young Palestinians involved in
the Picture Balata program, and short films of life in Balata camp created
by the Balata Film Collective.
This fundraiser will help to bring the photography of the youth of
Balata camp to New York City in April 2006, bring the photographers to the
US for a US tour, and, most importantly, to provide the equipment and
support these young photographers need to sustain their work - cameras,
computers and more.
Outside the West Bank City of Nablus lies the Balata refugee camp. Home
to almost 25,000 residents living on less than one square kilometer,
Balata is the most densely populated refugee camp within the West Bank. In
recent years Balata has seen hundreds of deaths and arrests, dozens of
home demolitions and the camp is subject to near nightly invasions by the
Israeli army. It is here that the Picture Balata workshop was started to
teach youth from the camp about photography.
Picture Balata puts the camera into the hands of the children born and
raised inside the ongoing Israeli occupation of Palestine. Participants
ranging from ages 11 to 18 photograph their situation as they live it in
Balata Refugee Camp.
For more information on Picture Balata, please visit http://www.picturebalata.net/.
Part of Israeli Apartheid Week 2007 - New York
SATURDAY, JANUARY 20TH, 2007
FILM SCREENING: PEOPLE AND THE LAND
a film by Tom Hayes 2:00 p.m.
Al-Awda Center
7111 5th
Ave. (between 71st and Ovington)
Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, NY
Subway: R to Bay Ridge Avenue
ADMISSION FREE!
"People and the Land" takes viewers into the universe of the occupied
people of Palestine, unreeling images of a new form of apartheid based on
ethnicity. Challenging US foreign policy, this film examines the concrete
realities of Israel's conduct in the West Bank and Gaza, the level of US
support for that conduct through foreign aid, and the human cost of that
aid in Palestine and the US. The result is a powerful and compelling
portrayal of the situation that highlights the human rights violations
against the Palestinian community.
For more information, please contact info (at) al-awdany.org or call
718-228-8636.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15TH
FILM SCREENING: PALESTINE BLUES
Followed by Q&A with filmmaker NIDA SINNOKROT 7:30 p.m.
Alwan For the Arts
16 Beaver St - 4th Floor
New York, NY
$10 donation goes to United Health Workers Committees in Palestine, on
the brink of collapse...
Join Awda NY for a screening of "Palestine Blues" plus discussion with
the filmmaker - renowned Palestinian artist & sculpturist Nida
Sinnokrot.
Nida Sinnokrot describes his film as follows:
"In June of 2002 the construction of a 400-mile barrier began in the
Occupied West Bank. Though it is referred to as a 'security fence' by
Israel, its form changes along the route, and near large cities it is a
concrete wall twice as high as the Berlin Wall. Construction began in the
northwest part of the West Bank. With its large, unspoiled aquifer, this
land provides nearly 65% of the fruits and vegetables produced in the
region. The wells along the aquifer provide essential water for drinking,
agriculture and sanitation. All of this prime land and its water supply
will fall on the Israeli side of the wall."Palestine Blues follows the
repercussions of the Israeli Security Wall and Settlement expansion in the
engulfed/annexed Palestinian farming communities of the West Bank and the
Gaza Strip. Instead of focusing on the Wall as an object, Palestine Blues
examines the grassroots resistance movement that has sprung up against it.
Palestine Blues is not a 'traditional' political reportage but rather an
interminable road trip across hard and liquid borders, across a terrain
that is being erased as it is being traversed."
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3RD
VOICES OF RESISTANCE: REPORTING BACK FROM
PALESTINE AND LEBANON
With FERNANDO REALS and SAMIA HALABY 7:00
p.m.
Sixth St. Community Center
638 East Sixth Street (between
Avenue B & C)
New York, NY
$5 donation at the door will go to support the Union of Health Work
Committees in Gaza...
Come to an evening of struggle and solidarity, and hear these voices of
resistance reporting back from this summer in Palestine and Lebanon! Hear
what happened on the ground, what is happening now, and what you can do to
join hands and resist Zionism, imperialism, occupation and oppression!
*** Samia Halaby will also discuss her interviews of key figures in the
liberation struggle******
** Q & A to Follow Reports**
Hear from our speakers...
Fernando Reals is a Puerto Rican and Colombian Anti-Imperialist
Activist and Popular Educator who teaches in a NYC public school. Reals
has been a long-term volunteer with DRUM - Desis Rising Up & Moving, a South Asian
Immigrant Justice organization and is a member of SPIN - September 23rd
Pro-Independence Network, a network working in the spirit of Comandante
Filiberto Ojeda Rios to unite and strengthen Puerto Rican Pro-Independence
organizations and movements.
Samia A. Halaby was born in Jerusalem, Palestine, in 1936. In
the 1948 Nakbah, her family had to flee to Beirut and from there they
emigrated to the US, where she studied Art. She taught in American
universities for eighteen years, ending with ten years at the Yale School
of Art. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is in many museum
collections among them the Guggenheim Museum, the Art Institute of
Chicago, and the Institute Du Monde Arab. She is an activist with Defend
Palestine, and Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, and
executive director of Al
Jisser, the Arab art and culture association that recently brought the
"Made in Palestine" art exhibition to New York City. She recently returned
from a delegation to Lebanon.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30TH
On the Sixth Anniversary of the
Intifada...
STOP the WAR AGAINST THE ARAB PEOPLE!
From Palestine
to Lebanon, from Iraq to Brooklyn...March and Rally
Saturday,
September 30th
Gather at 12 Noon
March steps off at 1:00 p.m.
Grand Army Plaza, at the Fountain
Brooklyn, NY
Subway: 2 or 3
to Grand Army Plaza
Join the Coalition in Solidarity with the Arab People to march on the
sixth anniversary of the Intifada to stop the war against the Arab people!
We demand:
- Stop war on the Arab world!
- Immediate & Unconditional Right to return for all Palestinian
refugees!
- End the occupation of historic Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq and
everywhere!
- End all U.S. aid to apartheid Israel
- Release all political prisoners!
- Support the people's right to resist!
We stand united in
our opposition to US war, empire, occupation and racism everywhere, from
Afghanistan to Brooklyn, and in solidarity with the people of Iran and
Syria against the ongoing threats of war.
Join us to march, and raise our voices for justice!!
The Coalition in Solidarity with the Arab People
(Al-Awda, the
Palestine Right to Return Coalition - NY; American-Iranian Friendship
Committee; Anakbayan NY/NJ; Arab American Association of New York; Arab
Muslim American Federation; BAYAN USA; International Action Center;
International League of People's Struggle; Malcolm X Grassroots Movement;
New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine; New
York City Labor Against the War; New York Committee to Defend Palestine;
Pakistan-USA Freedom Forum; Workers World Party)
Also endorsed by: Million Worker March Movement (East), New York
Committee to Free the Cuban Five, Queers For Palestine-East Coast
Endorse the demonstration! Send your endorsements to info @
al-awdany.org or call 718-228-8636!
For more information, to join the coalition, and to get involved,
please contact:
Al-Awda NY
718-228-8636
info @
al-awdany.org
PROTEST ATTACKS ON LEBANON AND PALESTINE!
Friday, July 28th
3:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Zionist Consulate
800 2nd Ave (btw
42nd & 43rd Sts.)
New York, NY
Why: Yet again in front of the Israeli Consul during mid-day traffic,
this Friday, July 28, 2006 at 3:30pm, the people of New York unite to
condemn in the strongest terms the savage Israeli occupation and massacre
of the innocent Palestinian and Lebanese people.
As the innocent children of Palestine and Lebanon cry in grief and
despair, the people of New York respond. Launching yet another weekend of
activity in solidarity with the Lebanese and Palestinian people who are
enduring one of the worst assaults in history, thousands of New Yorkers
unite to remind the world, the US government, and the rogue Israeli state
that the attacks on Lebanon and Palestine must stop immediately. The
street actions began the day of the Israeli bombing of Lebanon, and have
not since ended sprouting up across the city in parks, streets and
campuses.
The Israeli Government, owner of the fourth largest military power in
the world, continues to massacre Lebanese and Palestinian civilians, a
repeat of its genocidal policies conducted in Lebanon in 1982, and an
extension of the fifty-eight year Israeli policy toward Palestinians. The
Israeli State is recipient of two-thirds of the US Foreign Aid Budget,
receiving the equivalent of $4 Billion/ year of American Tax Dollars. It
is with these American Dollars and American-made weapons that the Israeli
government is murdering Lebanese and Palestinian nationals, wiping out
entire families, leaving them buried under the rubble that once was their
homes, and destroying all civilian infrastructure needed for basic
survival.
Groups and individuals of conscience across the city, across the
country and across the world demand that:
1. The US government stop all financial support of the Israeli State;
2. That the Israelis cease fire and withdraw from all Lebanese and
Palestinian Lands;
3. That the Israelis release all Arab and Palestinian Political
Prisoners, over 10,000 are held of whom approximately one thousand are
women and children;
4. All Lebanese and Palestinian Refugees be immediately allowed to
return to their homes to live in safety.
Called by: (AMAF) Arab Muslim American Federation, CAIR, MAS, ICNA,
Al-Awda NY, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition
Download and distribute flyers:
Arabic & English pdf file
Arabic & English jpg file
PROTEST ZIONIST WAR CRIMES IN PALESTINE AND LEBANON
Wednesday,
July 26th
6:00 p.m.
Union Square South
14th St at Broadway
New York, NY
With the full backing of the U.S. government, Israel continues to
unleash its U.S. funded military might on the civilian and refugee
populations of Lebanon and Palestine. Israel has killed hundreds, wounded
thousands and displaced over half a million people, while intentionally
targeting the infrastructure of Lebanon and Gaza with missiles and bombs.
With their propaganda, the U.S. and Israel also demonize Iran and Syria,
in a bloodthirsty attempt to expand their war crimes further throughout
the region. All the while the U.S. continues to occupy Iraq. The onslaught
against the Arab world expands and continues, and we stand up to say no
more!
Join Al-Awda New York on Wednesday, July 26th at 6:00 p.m. in Union
Square at 14th St. to rally against the war crimes in Palestine and
Lebanon!
Stop the War on Lebanon and Palestine!!
Freedom for All Arab
Political Prisoners in Zionist and U.S. Jails!!
End US Aid to Israel
Now!!
The People of Palestine Have the Right to Return!!
Download and distribute flyers:
Arabic pdf file
Arabic jpg file
English pdf file
PROTEST THE KILLING OF PALESTINIANS
DEMAND THE RELEASE OF
PALESTINIAN POLITICAL PRISONERS
Friday, June 30th
4:30 p.m.
Zionist Consulate
800 2nd Ave (btw 42nd & 43rd Sts.)
New York, NY
6:00 p.m.
March to UN
47th St. and 2nd Ave
(Join
demonstrators here if arriving after 6:00 p.m.)
Demonstrators will call for an end to the invasion, an end to U.S. aid
to Israel, freedom for the eight thousand Palestinian political prisoners
in Israeli jails, and the right of the world's more than six million
Palestinian refugees to return to their homes, from which they were
expelled in 1948. Called by Al-Awda New York, the New York Chapter of the
National Council of Arab-Americans, ANSWER, the International Action
Center, and other organizations.
In the past weeks, Israeli attacks in Gaza have killed dozens of
Palestinians and wounded many more. On June 27, Israeli troops invaded
Gaza, destroying water and electricity supplies. In addition, 64 members
of the democratically elected Palestinian Legislative Council have been
taken prisoner in arrest sweep incursions.
Al-Awda calls upon the international community, Palestine solidarity
activists and groups, Arab Community Organization including Community
centres, mosques and churches, to demand:
- Breaking the Siege on the Palestinian people in West Bank and Gaza
- The protection of civilian lives and property, as stipulated in
International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law.
- The immediate release all political Prisoners, including all elected
representatives of the Palestinian people.
- The support Palestinian Refugees in Gaza Strip with Financial and
Material support
- The end of the Israeli Occupation, Apartheid and war crimes
- Immediate Reparations and Compensation for the destruction by the
Israeli Army in Gazawater supply and destruction of the power grid to
more than half the population of Gaza. Repair of the grid will take
months to complete and cost many millions.
Emergency National Action -
Protest Israeli Massacres Of
Palestinians
Friday, June 16th
6:00 p.m.
Union Square
South
14th St at Broadway
New York, NY
PROTEST ISRAELI MURDER OF PALESTINIANS!
END THE SIEGE ON PALESTINE!
RESPOND TO HODA GHALIA'S CRIES FOR JUSTICE!
Tuesday, June 13 - 11 Palestinians murdered
Friday, June 9 - 7
Palestinians murdered
Wednesday, June 7 - 4 Palestinians murdered
Join Chicago, New York, Toronto, Montreal, San Francisco, Boston, and
other cities in North America, calling for a Day of Action in solidarity
with the people of Palestine in their struggle against the Genocidal
Apartheid Zionist State.
STOP THE KILLINGS!! PROTEST!
Rally in Commemoration of Al Nakba
Sunday, May 14th
12:00 Noon
Convene at Lief Eriksen Park
5th Avenue between 66th and 67th
Streets
Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, NY
Subway:
R Train to Bay Ridge Avenue (at 4th Ave). Walk north 3
blocks and right one block to gathering point at park.
N Train to 59th
Street (at 4th Ave). Walk south 7 blocks and left one block to gathering
point at park.
Join us in the heart of Brooklyn's Arab community to commemorate the
58th anniversary of Al Nakba (the catastrophe).
58 years of zionist-imposed occupation, dispossession and oppression
have been met with 58 years of Palestinian struggle, resistance and
steadfastness. We will mark the beginning of the 58th year of the struggle
for Return with a rally, march and display. Palestinians will return to
Palestine!
Saturday, March 25th
Zuhdi Al-Adawi
"Made in Palestine" Artist and Former Political Prisoner
. . . plus
Solidarity with Political Prisoners everywhere!
With special guest
Ashanti Alston!
The Bridge
521 W. 26th St. 3rd Floor
New York City
5:00 p.m. reception
6:00 p.m. presentation
Zuhdi al-Adawi is a Palestinian artist and former political prisoner
whose work is part of the "Made in Palestine" exhibition. While imprisoned
in Ashkelon prison, he taught himself to make art, and secretly made art
during his time in prison, hiding his work and sneaking it out with
visitors; when his art was discovered, he would be thrown in solitary
confinement. In 1985, Zuhdi al-Adawi was released in a prisoner exchange
but was exiled to Lebanon; he since moved to Damascus, Syria, where he
lives today.
Please join us to hear about his experiences, his life, and his art,
and to honor this freedom fighter for Palestine, as an activist and as an
artist.
We will be joined by special guest Ashanti Alston, national co-chair of
the Jericho Movement. A former member of the Black Panther Party and the
Black Liberation Army, Ashanti Alston was a political prisoner for 12
years in the United States. We will also hear reports from our allies on
political prisoner struggles in other movements. Come to learn more about
Assata Shakur, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Leonard Peltier, and struggles in Puerto
Rico and the Philippines!
Sunday, March 19th
Palestinian Health Issues under Occupation
A
discussion with Palestinian health workers
from Ibdaa Health
Committee
The Bridge
521 W. 26th St. 3rd Floor
New York City
3:00 p.m.
Join us to welcome three Palestinian health workers from Ibdaa Health
Committee of Deheisheh Refugee Camp in Palestine, as they discuss the
political situation, the health situation for Palestinians under
occupation, the health needs of Palestinian refugees, and the very
important work of the Ibdaa Health Committee. They are touring the US to
educate the public and health communities here about the severe health
crisis that exists in Palestinian society as a result of occupation and
oppression, and the important work that Ibdaa Health Committee is doing to
address the health needs of the Palestinian people at a grassroots level
in Deheisheh.
Their tour is designed to support the work of Ibdaa Health Committee
and our speakers will be happy to accept any donation to support the work
of the Health Committee. This event is free and open to the public! Please
attend to hear these important voices.
With guests Wisam Hasanat, Areej Ja'fari and Talal Shihadeh
Click here
for full event details and speaker biographies.
PROTEST THE ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA!!Sunday, December
11th
5:00 - 7:00 PM
Marriott Marquis Hotel
1535 Broadway
Between 45th & 46th Streets
NYC
The ZOA will be presenting U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John
Bolton with the "Defender of Israel" award. The ZOA lauds John Bolton for
playing a key role in the repeal of the UN Resolution which recognized
that Zionism is racism.
The Zionist Organization of America was founded in 1897, in the early
stages of the planning for the imperialist conquest of Palestine.
Join Al-Awda NY as we say NO to racism and YES to the Right to Return!
NEW YORK SAYS "NO" TO THE BUTCHER ARIEL SHARON!!
Thursday, September 15th
3:00-6:00 PM
Dag Hammerskjold Plaza
47th St. and 2nd Ave (across from the UN), NYC
Subway:
E, V Train to 53/Lexington Ave. Walk south to 47th St.,
turn left onto 2nd Ave.
4, 5, 6, 7, S Train to 42nd St./Grand Central
Station. Walk east until 2nd Ave. and north to 47th St.
SAY NO TO ARIEL SHARON!
SUPPORT THE RIGHT TO RETURN FOR
PALESTINIAN REFUGEES!
REMEMBER SABRA AND SHATILA!
FREE
PALESTINE!
On Thursday, September 15, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, the man
responsible for the massacres of thousands of Palestinians and Lebanese,
will speak before the United Nations General Assembly as part of the
"World Summit." On the twenty-third anniversary of the killing of
thousands of Palestinian refugees at Sabra and Shatila camps in Lebanon
under Sharon's watch, the war criminal Ariel Sharon will speak as an
honored guest at the United Nations in New York City. JOIN US to express
our outrage at Sharon's presence in New York City before the United
Nations, a body whose resolutions he has repeatedly flouted and ignored!
UN Resolution 194 guarantees the right to return to all Palestinian
refugees. While Sharon speaks before the UN, he refuses to honor and
implement UN Resolution 194 or countless additional resolutions denouncing
Zionist occupation of Palestine and requiring the recognition of the
rights of the Palestinian people. On the contrary, he has continued his
decades-long campaign of brutality against the Palestinian Arab people,
dedicated to eradicating their very existence. From Qibya in 1952 to Sabra
and Shatila in 1982 to Jenin in 2002, Ariel Sharon is a butcher and a war
criminal who should be on trial at the Hague, not speaking before the
General Assembly of the United Nations.
Join Al-Awda New York on THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 from 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM
to declare that SHARON IS NOT WELCOME HERE and to demand the UN
immediately act to implement Resolution 194, the RIGHT TO RETURN OF ALL
PALESTINIAN REFUGEES TO THEIR ORIGINAL HOMES AND PROPERTIES!
Organizational endorsements and involvement are welcome! Please email
protestsharon @ al-awdany.org to endorse or for more information!
Partial list of endorsers (list in formation): NY Committee to Defend
Palestine, NJ Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine, NYC
Jericho Movement, Troops Out Now Coalition, New York City Labor Against
the War, Coalition to Free the Angola 3, ANSWER NY, NYC Free Mumia
Coalition, Palestine Solidarity Group-Chicago
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Al-Awda New York is proud to present the return of:
Al Awda
Cafe!Saturday, September 10th
3:00 - 6:00pm
Alwan for the
Arts
16 Beaver St - 4th Floor
NYC
Plus stick around from 6:00 to 7:00 for a rally poster making session
as we prepare to SAY NO to Ariel Sharon at the UN on September 15th!
Al Awda Cafe returns with a celebration of Palestinian culture and
resistance.
Featuring:
Resistance Hip Hop group Kontrast!
A teaser from the
upcoming Al Jisser presentation of Betty Shamieh's play ROAR!
Short
films from Balata Camp!
Poetry!
Photography and artwork!
Palestine solidarity merchandise!
...plus food!
$10 Sliding Scale
Subway:
4,5 Bowling Green
R,W Whitehall
2,3 Wall Street
J,M Broad Street
1,9 South Ferry
Wednesday, June 22nd
The CHILDREN of the CAMPS:
Al-Rowwad
Palestinian Children's Theatre from Aida Refugee Camp7:00 p.m.
Al-Noor School
675 4th Ave (at 20th St)
Brooklyn, NY
Subway: R train to 25th Street or Prospect
TICKETS: $15/adults $5/children and youth
For additional
information, email
.
Join us to welcome Al-Rowwad Palestinian Children's Theater to New
York! Headquartered in Aida Refugee Camp, Al-Rowwad Children's Theater is
a unique project that supports and emphasizes the creativity of
Palestinian refugee youth. Al-Rowwad Center is a home for the cultural,
artistic and theatrical training of children and youth, housing a computer
center, a debke program, a children's theater program, an art program, and
much more. Lauded in "American Theater" magazine, and visited by some of
the U.S.'s leading playwrights, Al-Rowwad is an inspiring home of
children's creativity and expression amid war and occupation, and an
illustration of the resourcefulness of the refugee youth who continue to
struggle for return and liberation, across generations.
See Al-Rowwad website for details: http://alrowwad.virtualactivism.net/
In June 2005, Al-Rowwad Children's Theater will be touring the U.S.,
beginning their tour in the New York City area, and then traveling to
Connecticut, Vermont, and Kentucky.
Diverse organizers and activists from New York and New Jersey's theater
community and Palestine activist community have joined together to raise
funds to bring Al-Rowwad on this U.S. tour, and to our community. They
will be performing in the New York area from June 18-22.
Join us in welcoming them on June 22!
Tuesday, May 17th
Memorial for a Palestinian Fighter
7:30 p.m.
Widdi Hall
5602 6th Ave.
Brooklyn, NY
Subway: Take the N or the R trains to 59th St. stop.
Ali Qased, long-time activist and organizer for Palestinian national
rights and a true revolutionary, died at the age of 62 in the early hours
of Sunday, April 3rd, 2005, after a long struggle with a debilitating
illness. He succumbed to complications from heart failure at St. Joseph's
Hospital in Paterson, New Jersey.
On Tuesday, May 17th, 2005, a little over 40 days after his death, the
Palestine activists of New York and New Jersey will host a memorial in his
honor. Friends, family, and colleagues from across the country will
descend on a popular Arab community in Brooklyn, site of much of his
organizing, to renew their solidarity and their determination to continue
fighting for liberation, and to honor his life's work.
We solicit written messages of solidarity to be collected in a memorial
scrapbook, and we invite sympathizing local, national and international
organizations to send representatives to this important event where we
will celebrate the life of one of our own ? a rich life that contributed
to the culture of liberation worldwide.
Sponsors: Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition; New Jersey
Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine; the New York
Committee to Defend Palestine; Palestine Solidarity Group - Chicago; Arab
Community Center - Chicago
Friday, April 1st
Palestinian Political Prisoner Tour
Presentation and discussion with Addameer lawyer Sahar Francis and
former Palestinian political prisoners Akram Al-Ayasa and Ala Jaradat
8:00 p.m.
55 W. 17th St. 5th Floor (Between 5th and 6th Aves.)
New York, NY
Subway: F/V or 1/2/3/9 to 14th St.
Sahar Francis, a Palestinian lawyer with Addameer who has worked for
many years with Palestinian prisoners.
Akram Al Ayasa an ex-political prisoner and former President of
Bethlehem University Student Council. Arrested seven times from 1976-1990
by the Israeli occupation forces.
Ala Jaradat, an ex political prisoner and activist with Addameer where
he works with families of political detainees.
There are over 7500 Palestinian political prisoners currently held in
Zionist jails. Find out more about the central, vital struggle of
Palestinian political prisoners and actions of solidarity we can take in
North America!
Sponsored by Al-Awda NY and NY Committee to Defend Palestine
BREAKING THE CHAINS:
AN EVENING OF POLITICAL
PRISONER SOLIDARITY
7:00 p.m.
St. Mary's Church
521 W. 126th St. NYC (Between
Broadway and Amsterdam)
(Subway: 1/9 to 125th Street and Broadway or
A/B/C/D to 125th and St. Nicholas and walk west)
Featuring "Women in Struggle," a new film direct from Palestine about
Palestinian women political prisoners.
Join us for an important evening of political prisoner solidarity, as
activists from communities around the world and across NYC join together
to support our prisoners and their struggles for freedom! From Palestine
to NYC, political prisoners must be free!
Featuring speakers:
Buthina Canaan Khoury, Palestinian filmmaker
and director of "Women in Struggle"
Lynne Stewart, people's lawyer
facing jail for her work
Benjamin Ramos, ProLibertad
Representative of NYC Free Mumia Coalition
Representative of the
Jericho Movement
Representative of NY Committee to Free the Cuban Five
and more!
Sponsored by: Al-Awda NY, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition;
Iglesia de San Romero de las Americas, Jericho Movement, New Jersey
Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine, NYC Free Mumia
Coalition, New York Committee to Free the Cuban Five, ProLibertad and
more!
**Endorsers/sponsors in formation, email info@newjerseysolidarity.org
to endorse or sponsor the event**
Friday, Janurary 21st
Dance for Palestine
Doors Open @ 9
Club Rare
14th Street & 9th Avenue
New York, NY
Come take a break with DJ IZ spinning Arabic and House all night!!
$15 at the door
All proceeds go to support local organizing by Al-Awda NY
Demonstrate for Palestinian rights!
Friday, November 12th
6:00 p.m.
Union Square
New York,
NY
Subway - Take the L,N,R,4,5,6, to Union Square/14th St
Free Palestine!
Tear down the wall!
Palestinian refugees
will return!
Print flyer (pdf)
to help us promote!
Festival of Cultural ResistancePRESS RELEASE: Culture
Breathes Life to a Nation
Alwan for the Arts
16 Beaver Street
4th floor
New York,
NY
Art Exhibition Opening Reception
Friday
September 24
7 - 10 pm
Join us as we launch the Festival of Cultural Resistance with an
opening reception. Works will be displayed by Palestinian and solidarity
artists:
Haifa Bint-Kadi
Haifa Bint-Kadi, an Arab-American Muslim, is an award-winning,
nationally exhibited mosaic tile and glass artist working in the Arts for
more than 15 years. She has degrees in Communications, English and Mosaic
Tile Arts. Her mosaic studies were accomplished in Terni, Italy under
Italian master mosaic tile craftsmen at the Ravenna School of Art. Ms.
Bint-Kadi is also an arts educator and firmly believes that no child is
too young to have their creativity developed and nurtured
Samia Halaby Samia Halaby is a Palestinian artist born in
Quds prior to the nakba. She has taught in American universities for
seventeen years ending with ten years at the Yale School of Art. She is
the author of "Liberation Art of Palestine." Her work is on display in
museums around the world, and she has been featured in numerous one-artist
shows internationally.
Kevin Noble Kevin Noble is an artist from New York who works
primarily in painting, drawing and photography. He is founding member of
the Culture & Conflcit Group which aims to challenge the assumptions
that art is nuetral in any given context. His recent series of photograhs,
'Irish Republicans: Ireland and America', was shown at the CEPA Gallery,
Buffalo, New York, and as part of the 'Terrorvision' exhibition at Exit
Art in New York. He lives and works in New York.
Jackie Salloum Jackie Salloum is a Palestinian/Syrian artist
who works in video, digital printing and sculpture. Her work deals
explicitly with the oppression of the Palestinian people and anti-arab
sentiment in the west. Foscusing on cultural resistance she is currently
working on a video exploring the growth of Hip Hop in Palestine. Her work
has been exhibited widely, including solo and group shows in New York,
Chicago and Ireland. She lives and works in New York.
Meir Gal Meir Gal is an artist from Jerusalem whose work in
Photography and Installation explores the legacy of racism and militarism
in the Isreali state. He has exhibited internationaly, most recently in
Zurich, Switzerland where he produced an extensive installation piece
dealing explicitily with the construction of the Aparthied wall in
Palestine. He currently lives and works in New York.
Frankie Quinn Frankie Quinn is a photographer from Belfast,
Ireland whose work has explored every aspect of life under British
occupation in his native city. He has exhibited internationaly and has
recently traveled to palestine on two occasions to document to the affects
of the ongoing Israeli occupation on the lives of the Palestinan people.
he currently lives and works in Belfast, Ireland.
Cynthia Large Cynthia Large works primarily in painting and
in marquetry. Her work has explored the historical impact of British rule
in Ireland and the dispossession of the Palestinian people in 1948. She
has exhibited widely including recent exhibitions at Ann Nathan Gallery in
Chicago, and as part of the Culture and Conflcit Group, in Galway and
Derry, Ireland. She lives and works in New York.
Dean Bardouka Dean Bardouka , an artist of Syrian descent,
works in painting, design and sculpture and produces work that testifies
to the importance of taking pride in the spirit of resistance in Arab
Culture. His drawings depict the spirit of resistance of the Palestinian
people and his work in screenprinting and metal celebrates the rich
cultural heritage of the Arab world. He lives and works in New York.
Conor McGrady Conor McGrady is an artist from the north of
Ireland whose drawings and paintings explore the impact of military
occupation. He has exhibited widely with a recent solo show in Red Dot
Gallery, New York. He is a member of the Culture & Conflcit group and
currently lives and works in New York.
Evening Of Cultural Resistance
Saturday
September 25
4 - 11 pm
4:00 - 6:30 p.m.
Al-Awda launches the evening with a talent show featuring local youth!
Representing the new generation of cultural resistance, Palestinian Arabs
and Arabs for Palestine between the ages of 4 and 21 will present artwork
and perform poetry, rhymes, and Palestinian and Arabic songs of
liberation.
7:00 p.m.
The celebration of cultural resistance continues with dance and song.
The traditional debka dance evolved from the rich culture of
Palestinian farming. Farmers made their task more enjoyable and
collectively productive by incorporating dance into their work. Today,
debka serves as a Palestinian symbol of victory, solidarity and
resistance.
The Debka troupe, Eyes of Palestine, will perform.
The evening continues with a performance of Palestinian & Iraqi
folk music performed on traditional Arabic instruments such as the oud and
tableh.
Al-Awda is calling on Palestinian Arabs and Arabs for Palestine between
the ages of 4 and 21 to share their talents with us on this evening. To be
involved, please read the Talent Call (English / عربي) for
more information!
Film and Video Mini Festival
Sunday
September 26
3:00 PM
"The Cage", Director Fathi A. Ali, 2003
This film is a documentary about children in Al Ama'ari refugee camp
(near Ramallah). It shows Fathi A. Ali working with the children on a
theatre play about their own lives, the lives of children in Palestine
under the occupation.
4:15 PM
"Mira'at Jamila/Jamila's Mirror", Director Arab Lotfi,
1993 This documentary, by Lebanese/Egyptian filmmaker Arab Lotfi is
about memory. In it Palestinian women in their 40s who had been guerrilla
fighters talk about the time when they were involved in military
operations, often when they were 18 or 19 years old.
5:00 PM
"until when..." Director Dahna Abourahme,
2003 "until when..." is about four Palestinian families who live in
Dheisheh Refugee Camp near Bethlehem. We follow them in their daily
activities as they tell us about their lives and their hopes for a better
tomorrow. "until when..." offers an intimate portrait of a resilient
people whose basic living needs, freedom of movement and equality embody
not only the struggles which come with living under occupation but also
their dreams.
6:30 PM
"like twenty impossibles", Director Annemarie Jacir,
2003 Occupied Palestine: A serene landscape now pockmarked by
military checkpoints. When a Palestinian film crew decides to avert a
closed checkpoint by taking a remote side road, the political landscape
unravels, and the passengers are slowly taken apart by the mundane
brutality of military occupation. Both a visual poem and a narrative, like
twenty impossibles questions the opportunism of artists and the politics
of filmmaking, while focusing on the fragmentation of a people.
7:00 PM
"In The Spider's Web", Director Hanna Musleh,
2004 In the Spiders Web was produced by Al-Haq in order to provide
a visual overview of collective punishment as it affects the daily lives
of Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Directed by Hanna
Musleh, the 45-minute film tells many stories, focusing on two in
particular: those of a woman from Hebron and another from Nablus.
8:00 PM
"Planet of the Arabs", Director Jackie Salloum,
2003 A movie trailer-esque montage spectacle of Hollywood's
relentless dehumanization and vilification of Arabs and Muslims.
8:15 PM
"Rana's Wedding", Director Hany Abu Assad,
2002 Shooting on location in East Jerusalem, Ramallah and at
checkpoints in-between, Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad sees Palestine
through the eyes of a young woman who, with only ten hours to marry, must
negotiate her way around roadblocks, soldiers, stone-throwers, overworked
officials ... and into the heart of an elusive lover.
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