Saturday, 12 May
2:00 pm
Corner of Westheimer and Post Oak
Houston, TX
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/197725290841471/

We are gathering as a community to declare:
All Palestinian refugees and their descendants have the right to return to Palestine.
Jerusalem is the capital of Palestine.
The 11 year Gaza blockade must end.
Freedom for all political prisoners.

Commemorating 70 years of resistance since the Nakba (‘day of the catastrophe’) in 1948 displaced hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, Texas is holding a state-wide day of solidarity.

“Our chains will be broken before we are.”
– Marwan Barghouti

This day of action will be a show of our unity with other communities who have faced racism, displacement, expulsion, deportation, classism, sexism, transphobia, xenophobia, Islamophobia, and antisemitism.

This is a family-friendly event. We encourage you to fly Palestinian flags, wear keffiyeh with pride, and bring signs and banners in the spirit of resistance.

Saturday, 12 May
11:00 am – 10:00 pm
Hermannplatz
Berlin, Germany
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Es ist die gemeinsame Geschichte, die niemand hören möchte und doch erzählt werden muss. Am 70. Jahrestag wollen wir das Leben feiern. Es ist ein Tag für Palästina..

It is the common story that nobody wants to hear and yet has to be told. On the 70th memorial day we want to celebrate life. It’s a day for Palestine

Thursday, 10 May
6:30 pm
Kimmel Center
300 S Broad St
Philadelphia, PA
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As we enter the SIXTH WEEK of protests against Philadelphia Orchestra’s decision to tour Apartheid Israel, the Philly Don’t Orchestrate Apartheid coalition urges you to join us on Thursday outside the Kimmel Center. Palestinian culture will not be erased by the Zionist occupiers nor their mercenary supporters like the management of the Philly Orchestra!

Thursday, 10 May
7:00 pm
Ham Yard Hotel
1 Ham Yard
London, UK
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10TH MAY 2018 – PROTEST APARTHEID ISRAEL SPONSORED FILM FESTIVAL – DEMAND FREEDOM FOR PALESTINIAN POET DAREEN TATOUR

DATE: Thursday 10th May 2018, 7pm
LOCATION: Ham Yard Hotel, 1 Ham Yard, London W1D 7DT (nearest tube is Piccadilly Circus)
WEB: http://inminds.co.uk/article.php?id=10799

Inminds human rights group will protest the London opening gala of the Israeli government sponsored Seret 2018 International Israeli Film & TV Festival on Thursday 10th May 2018 outside the Ham Yard Hotel in Piccadilly.

The festival is part of Israel’s “brand Israel” propaganda project, whereby culture is used to whitewash an apartheid state founded on the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people and occupation of their land. Former deputy director general of the Israeli foreign ministry, Nissim Ben-Sheetrit, explained it, upon launching the million dollar Brand Israel campaign in 2005: “We are seeing culture as a hasbara [propaganda] tool of the first rank, and I do not differentiate between hasbara and culture.”. Along with the Israeli government, through its London Embassy and Ministry of Economy and Industry, the festival is sponsored by racist quasi-government agencies, including the the World Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency, both of which are central to Israel’s Jewish-only illegal settlement project, and by Leumi Bank and Mizrahi Tefahot Bank, both of which finance Israel’s illegal settlement expansion.

Inminds chair Abbas Ali said “We have protested this propaganda fest since 2013. After several years of protests outside their gala opening at the BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) the prestigious BAFTA finally dropped Seret last year and now the opening gala is being held in a back street hotel.. Our campaign continues.. We will not let our city be used to launch propaganda projects for an apartheid rogue state which today is slaughtering women and children in Gaza as they try to return to their homes. Our message is clear – culture cannot whitewash war crimes. Respect the Palestinian call for a cultural boycott of apartheid Israel.”

The protest will also demand freedom for Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour who was convicted last week for her poetry, having been in custody since 2015. The writer’s association PEN condemned the verdict as “an unacceptable attack on freedom of expression.. a poem is not a crime”. The group’s international president, Jennifer Clement said “Dareen Tatour has been convicted for doing what writers do every day – we use our words to peacefully challenge injustice”.

Inminds chair Abbas Ali said “Not only does Israel use art and culture as propaganda tools to whitewash its war crimes, but at the same time Israel suppresses Palestinian culture and art, targets Palestinian artists, and imprisons them for their art. We will not let Dareen Tatour be silenced, we will read aloud her poem ‘Resist, My People, Resist Them’ so that the so-called VIP’s, like Israel’s chief propagandist and now Ambassador Mark Regev, entering the gala cannot evade her words.”

If you support this activity please share this alert widely, thank you.

JazakAllah,

Abbas Ali
Inminds Human Rights Group

Thursday, 10 May
6:00 pm
Sykdikalistiskt Forum
Ovre Husargatan 27
Gothenburg, Sweden
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The commemoration of the Nakba is marked each year on May 15, a day of remembrance of the expulsion of the Palestinian people before and after the Israeli state declaration of independence in 1948.

Before this year’s Nakba Day, we in the Frihet at Ahed Tamimi Gothenburg will screen a film at the Syndikalistisk Forum on Thursday, 10 May, on the Palestinian liberation struggle. We will be screening the film, Radiance of Resistance, focusing on Ahed Tamimi and her cousin Janna Ayyad, and their roles in the resistance movement in their hometown of Nabi Saleh. For more information and short films, visit http://radianceofresistance.com.

Come in time to see the film, starting promptly at 6:00 pm! If you come before the film starts, you can have a coffee at the cafe, check out their books, discuss the Palestine solidarity movement, or write a letter to Ahed Tamimi or another Palestinian political prisoner.

Nakba-dagen (“nakba” betyder katastrof) inträffar 15:e maj varje år och är en dag för åminnelse av fördrivningen av det palestinska folket som föregick och följde Israels självständighetsförklaring 1948 dagen innan samma år.

Inför detta års Nakba-dag ordnar vi i Frihet åt Ahed Tamimi Göteborgfilmvisning på Syndikalistiskt Forum torsdagen 10:e maj med fokus på den palestinska befrielsekampen. Vi har det stora nöjet att visa dokumentären Radiance of Resistance som fokuserar på just Ahed Tamimi och hennes kusin Janna Ayyad och deras roller i motståndsrörelsen i deras hemby Nabi Salih. För mer info och korta filmsnuttar, besök http://www.radianceofresistance.com/. Filmen är en timme och en minut lång, den är delvis textad på engelska och innehåller våldsamma scener.

OBS: Kom i god tid så att du får plats (begränsat med platser) och så att du inte stör filmvisningen (planerad start 18:00)!

Kommer du innan filmen börjar kan du alltid ta en fika på kaféet, kolla in deras böcker, diskutera palestinasolidaritetsrörelsens utmaningar och möjligheter eller varför inte skriva ett brev till Ahed Tamimi eller någon annan palestinsk politisk fånge?

Välkomna!

Öppet kl. 16-20, film från 18:00
Syndikalistiskt Forum
Övre Husargatan 27
Hpts: Olivedalsgatan eller Linnéplatsen
Cash is Queen! (även swish)

Tillgängligheten på Forum är tyvärr begränsad – kan vara svårt för rullstolsburen att själv ta sig till badrum. Armstöd finns i badrummet. Dock är det tillgängligt i själva kafédelen. För mer info, kontakta gärna Syndikalistiskt Forum!

Saturday, 19 May
2:00 pm
Münsterplatz
Bonn, Germany
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/367298543762754/

Israel celebrates the 70th anniversary of its founding in May this year. For the Palestinians it is the 70th anniversary of the “Nakba”, the catastrophe of expulsion, land theft, occupation and apartheid, which simply will not end.

The expulsions began even before the founding of the state of Israel, just after the vote on the UN partition plan. Israel used planned massacres, such as in the village of Deir Yassin, where Zionist terror groups killed around a third of its residents in April 1948. By the end of the war, Israel had expelled about ninety percent of the Palestinians (750,000 people).

Expulsions were also illegal in 1948. Therefore, the UN called on Israel in UN Resolution 194 to allow the return of the refugees. Israel accepted the resolution to become a member of the UN, but still refuses to implement it!

Today, in the West Bank, the illegal Israeli wall separates Palestinian farmers from their fields, more than 700,000 Israeli settlers are stealing Palestinian land, countless military checkpoints are paralyzing and destroying the economy. Everyday life is determined by relentless raids, arrests and house demolitions. Meanwhile, Gaza has been converted into a permanently besieged and bombarded open-air prison.

What is the way out of this unbearable situation? Israel as an occupying power must be urged internationally to recognize the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination and to accept the provisions of international law, ie:

* the cessation of occupation and the siege of the West Bank and Gaza, the demolition of all walls and fences
*equality of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel
*and the recognition of the right of Palestinian refugees to return!

Israel feiert im Mai diesen Jahres den 70. Jahrestag seiner Staatsgründung. Für die Palästinenser ist es der 70. Jahrestag der “Nakba”, so nennen sie die Katastrophe aus Vertreibung, Beraubung, Besatzung und Apartheid, die einfach nicht enden will.
Die Vertreibungen begannen bereits vor der Staatsgründung Israels, gleich nach der Abstimmung über den UN-Teilungsplan. Israel nutzte dazu planmäßig durchgeführte Massaker, so wie etwa in dem Dorf Deir Yassin, in dem jüdische Terrorgruppen im April 1948 rund ein Drittel der Bewohner töteten. Bis zum Kriegsende hatte Israel so rund neunzig Prozent der Palästinenser (750.000 Menschen) vertrieben.

Vertreibungen waren auch schon 1948 illegal. Daher forderte die UNO Israel in der UN-Resolution 194 dazu auf, die Rückkehr der Flüchtlinge zuzulassen. Israel akzeptierte die Resolution, um Mitglied der UN zu werden, verweigert aber bis heute deren Umsetzung!

Heute trennt in der Westbank die illegale israelische Mauer palästinensische Bauern von ihren Äckern, mehr als 700.000 israelische Siedler rauben palästinensisches Land, unzählige Militärkontrollposten lähmen und zerstören die Ökonomie. Der Alltag ist von unablässigen Razzien, Festnahmen und Hauszerstö-
rungen bestimmt. Gaza wurde derweil in ein permanent belagertes und beschossenes Freiluftgefängnis umfunktioniert.

Welchen Ausweg kann es aus dieser unerträglichen Lage geben? Israel als Besatzungsmacht muss international gedrängt werden, das Recht des palästinensischen Volkes auf Selbstbestimmung anzuerkennen und die Bestimmungen des Völkerrechts zu akzeptieren, dies bedeutet:

Die Beendigung der Besatzungund der Belagerung der West-
bank und Gazas, den Abriss aller Mauern und Zäune, die vollstän-
dige Gleichberechtigung der arabisch-palästinensischen Bürger
Israels und die Anerkennung des Rechts der palästinensischen
Flüchtlinge auf Rückkehr!

Tuesday, 15 May
12:30 pm
Office of Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould
104-1245 W. Broadway
Vancouver, BC
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Join us for a picket and PEOPLES’ TRIAL on May 15, 2018 as we mark the 70th anniversary of the dispossession and dismemberment of the Palestinian people and nation. Known as the “Nakba”, over 400 Palestinian towns and villages were destroyed and/or depopulated in 1948. More than 750,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes and lands, resulting in a Palestinian refugee population now numbering almost 8 million. Canadian officials were complicit in this project in 1947-48 and they are complicit now in the continuing suffering of the Palestinian people. The Canadian government has yet to condemn the Israeli murder of over 40 unarmed Palestinians(and counting) in Gaza since March 30, a number which includes children and journalists. Gaza’s population is predominantly refugees expelled in 1948.
We charge successive Canadian governments with aiding and abetting continued Israeli war crimes against the Palestinian people.
We call for sanctions on Israel now and ask the Canadian people to intensify BDS campaigns.
Remember, Resist! Palestine will be Free!

Tuesday, 15 May
6:30 pm
Folkets Bio Malmo
Friisgatan 19 D
Malmo, Sweden
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/140455056808215/

8Radiance of Resistance (USA 2017)
Documentary, 59 min. Arabic dialogue, English text

The film follows Janna Ayyad and Ahed Tamimi when they were 9 and 14 years old. Janna Ayyad has been called the youngest journalist in Palestine. Ahed Tamimi is the young activist who has become a symbol of an entire people’s dream of freedom. She was recently sentenced at the age of 17 to 8 moths in prison after slapping an Israeli soldier. Janna and Ahed belong to a generation born of parents who have never experienced anything but Israeli occupation, who grew up with soldiers and checkpoints, destroyed homes and illegal settlements, demonstrations and tear gas. The film follows them in their daily lives, while demonstrating their importance as the new generation of Palestinian resistance.

Read more about the film and watch the trailer: http://www.radianceofresistance.com/

Vi visar film med efter följande panelsamtal på Panora.
OBS! Fri entré, först till kvarn gäller.

RADIANCE OF RESISTANCE (USA 2017)
Dokumentär, 59 min, arabiskt tal, engelsk text

Filmen följer Janna Ayyad och Ahed Tamini när de var 9 år respektive 14 år gamla. Janna Ayyad har blivit kallad den yngsta journalisten i Palestina. Ahed Tamini är den unga aktivisten som har blivit en ikon som symboliserar ett helt folks dröm om frihet. Hon dömdes nyligen, 16 år gammal, till ett 8 månaders fängelsestraff efter att ha örfilat en israelisk soldat. Janna och Ahed tillhör en generation som fötts av föräldrar som själva aldrig upplevt något annat än israeliskt ockupation, och som vuxit upp med soldater och check-points, raserade hus och illegala bosättningar, demonstrationer och tårgas. Filmen följer dem i deras vardag, samtidigt som den visar deras betydelse som det palestinska motståndets nya generation.

Läs mer om filmen samt se trailer: http://www.radianceofresistance.com/

Panelsamtal: Med bland andra Per Garthon. Mer info kommer snart!

SYNOPSIS
Radiance of Résistance tells the story of Janna Ayyad 9 years old, and Ahed Tamimi 14 years old that live under military occupation in Nabi Saleh, Palestine. Janna Ayyad has been called the youngest journalist in Palestine. Ahed won the Handala Courage Award from Turkey when she was 13 and met with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. This film will take an intimate look at their everyday lives and their importance as the new generation of Palestinian non-violent resistance.

AL NAKBA
Med våld eller hot om våld fördrevs 750 000 palestinier från städer och byar mellan åren 1947-1950. Över fyrahundra byar jämnades med marken. Denna etniska rensning, som palestinierna kallar Al-Nakba, Katastrofen, har dokumenterats i detalj av israeliska historiker. Ändå förnekar Israels regeringar att man har någon som helst skuld till fördrivningen, och man vägrar att låta flyktingarna återvända – vilket FN krävt ända sedan Israel bildades 1948. Ännu idag lever miljoner palestinier som flyktingar runt om i världen.

1967 ockuperade Israel resten av landet och fördrev ytterligare ca 300.000 palestinier. De som stannat kvar utsätts sedan 50 år för en brutal ockupations- och annekteringspolitik.

Israel har rivit mer än 48.000 palestinska hem på Västbanken och i östra Jerusalem. Genom murar och vägspärrar trakasseras palestinier dagligen. De hindras att nå skolor och arbetsplatser och att få tillgång till sina åkrar, vatten, sjukvård och social service.
Al Nakba fortsätter! Israel gör livet outhärdligt för palestinierna på ockuperad mark för att förmå även dem att lämna sitt land – Palestina.
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Arrangörer: ABF Malmö, ARF Malmö, Feministiskt initiativ Malmö, Folkets Bio Malmö, Frihetsteaterns vänner, Grupp 194 Malmö, Nyckeln till friheten, Palestinska Centret i Sverige, Palestinagrupperna, Palestinska Rättvisecentret i Malmö, Ung Vänster Malmö, Vänsterpartiet Malmö.