Monday, 14 May
5:00 pm
Square Philips
Metro Place des Arts
Montreal, Quebec
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Mark 70 years of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.

5:00 pm, Demonstration, Square Phillips

9:00 pm, Benefit evening, Le Belmont, Mont-Royal

Tuesday, 15 May
4:30 pm
Memorial Provincial Park
450 Broadway
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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AL NAKBA 70 WINNIPEG: Hope Lives in Remembrance

4:30PM:
Gather at Memorial Park (across from the Manitoba Legislature)

5:00-6:00PM:
Public Awareness Event along Osborne and Broadway (Recognition of Palestinian villages destroyed in 1948)

Al Nakba means “the catastrophe” in Arabic. May 15, 2018 marks 70 years of popular resistance against the 1948 displacement, dispossession, and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their homes and lands. 70 years after Al Nakba, Palestinians continue to cherish and work for peace and justice — an end to the Israeli occupation and colonial settlements, the right of return, respect for Arab-Israelis’ rights, demilitarization of the region, and peaceful co-existence.

THIS EVENT SPONSORED BY:
• Canada-Palestine Support Network (Winnipeg)
• Independent Jewish Voices (Winnipeg)
• Mennonite Church Manitoba Working Group on Palestine & Israel
• Peace Alliance Winnipeg
• Winnipeg Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid

“[T]he story of 1948… is the simple but horrific story of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine… Retrieving it from oblivion is incumbent upon us… it is…the very first step we must take if we ever want reconciliation to have a chance, and peace to take root, in the torn lands of Palestine and Israel.”
— Ilan Pappe, Israeli Historian, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

Monday, 14 May
7:00 pm
U.S. Embassy London
33 Nine Elms Lane
London, UK
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On the eve of the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, the US will be moving its embassy to Jerusalem! Join us in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle and protest the US’s step that furthers the ongoing Nakba.

Hands off Jerusalem!
Victory to the Intifada!

Saturday, 12 May
11:30 am – 2 pm
Copley Square
Boston, MA
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7Palestinians and their allies are marking 70 years of Nakba, or the ethnic cleansing of Palestine since 1948, with an exhibit and solemn procession showcasing the nature of Israel’s ongoing crimes.

The schedule is as follows:

11:30 – Exhibit and Museum in Copley Square (Boston)
12:30 – Solemn Procession Commemorating the March of Return through Downtown Crossing
1:00 – Speak-out at Park Street Station

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Palestinians and their allies in Boston are marking the 70th commemoration of the Nakba – the catastrophic Israeli ethnic cleansing of Palestine. In 1948, almost a million Palestinians were violently dispossessed of their homes and land by Zionist settler colonialists. The emerging Israeli state stripped Palestinians of their possessions and livelihood. Many Palestinians were expelled or fled to neighboring areas and have struggled to survive and return ever since. Those who managed to stay in their homes were subjected to Israeli rule and treated as second-class citizens.

Seventy years later, the Nakba continues. Palestinians in Gaza live in the world’s largest open-air prison without sufficient access to water, healthcare, electricity, movement, and work. Those in the West Bank confront highly-oppressive Israeli occupying forces and hostile settler populations daily. Palestinians internally and externally displaced continue to struggle with life in refugee camps and have been violently targeted and uprooted again. Palestinians in Jerusalem have continued to experience “legalized cleansing” – they have no legal status and are under constant threat of home demolition; those living inside 1948 borders with Israeli citizenship are treated as less than second-class citizens. Bedouin Palestinians are under constant threat of being uprooted; and those in the diaspora have often struggled to return home and to raise their voices under fear of reprisal.

As Israelis celebrate, for the seventieth time, the anniversary of their “independence” from their settler colonial sponsor, Palestinians mark their forced expulsion and loss of their livelihood and homeland.

For example, recent events in Gaza only serve to emphasize the ongoing cleansing and conquest of Palestine. In Gaza, the Great March of Return, a peaceful encampment and weekly protests along the border with Israel, has been met with Israeli snipers firing live ammunition, rubber bullets and gas at unarmed protesters, journalists and children and has resulted in the death of over 40 Gazans and injuries to hundreds more. Rising tensions in the West Bank due to heightened Israel military pressure on places like Nabi Saleh – the home of Ahed Tamimi – further exemplifies Israel’s ongoing cleansing, apartheid, and oppression.

The undersigned groups have thus united and organized “Remembering and Resisting the 70 years of Ongoing Nakba” to draw the attention of Bostonians to the Palestinian experience of the Nakba. The exhibit will be displayed on Saturday, May 12 at Copley Square beginning at 11:30 AM. This will be followed by a Solemn Procession to commemorate the March of Return at 12:30 through Downtown Crossing and at a Speak-Out at Park Street Station at 1:00 PM. Our goal is to draw attention to the many and varied ways in which Palestinians have encountered and continue to resist the ongoing Nakba, and the ways in which Israel has ensured its legacy for generations.

Photo credit: Palestine Poster Project

Monday, 14 May
5:00 pm
72nd St and 5th Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
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Stand with us at 5 pm in Bay ridge with the Palestinian community to condemn the US embassy moving to Jerusalem, a move that furthers the ongoing Nakba on the eve of its 70th anniversary. Bay ridge is historically home to a large Palestinian community who demand an end to the U.S. supporting Palestinian suffering, and an end to Israeli and Zionist violence and colonization!

Monday, 14 May
6:30 pm
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Vas. Sofias Street
Athens, Greece
More info:
http://www.autonomia.gr/autonomia/symvoulio/201805b.html

Gathering in front of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Solidarity with the struggle of Palestinians against israeli occupation, Against Greek-Israeli alliance

ViaVelo:
Sunday, 13 May
11:00 am
Brussels
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By bike we travel across Brussels to show our solidarity with the Palestinian people. In 2018, we will cycle

to commemorate:
* 70 years of Nakba (the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to create the state of Israel)

in protest against:
* the launch of the Giro d’Italia from Jerusalem
* the recognition of Jerusalem as capital of Israel
* the imprisonment of Palestinian children

Start at 10:15 at Carrefour de l’Europe (main entrance of Brussels Central Station)
Departure at 11:00 am
1:30 pm – Packed Lunch
Arrive at 4:00 pm for Nakba commemoration by Association Belgo-Palestine

Nakba 70:
Sunday, 13 May
Carrefour de l’Europe (Brussels Central Station)
Brussels
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The Nakba, from 1948 to today.
70 years of Nakba
70 years of disaster for Palestine
70 years of resistance for the Palestinian people

On May 13, 2018, we commemorate 7 decades of dispossession, destruction and dismantling of the Palestinian people, territory and culture.
This May 13, 2018, we will also celebrate 7 decades of resistance and hope since 1948

Come discover the culture and history of a people in resistance!

Stands, concerts, conferences, this day will be a crossroads of solidarity, culture and initiatives for the Palestinian people.

PROGRAM
( Draft)

11:00 – 13:00: Conference
“Palestine: from 1948 to today, the Nakba continues”
With Ilan Pappe.
We are pleased to welcome Ilan Pappe, an Israeli historian and author of “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine”
Reservation required: [email protected]
Free Price – French Translation

13h00 – Opening of the stands
All day long :
Informative booths on the Nakba, cultural stands, BDS campaign, Palestine exhibition, “live in Palestine” game, Palestine Caravan …. many spaces of exchange and sharing on Palestine, its history and culture.

14:00 – Taking words
3 pm – Concert – Kermesz in the East!
A Belgian band and not only, notes of the East on a crazy look but especially artists committed to Palestine for a long time.
16h00 – arrival of ViaVelo Palestina
4:15 pm – Dabké
The Brussels traditional dance troupe Watan Dabke Dance Group – Belgium We will be happy to perform on the stage of NAKBA70
17:00 – Action “Palestinian villages, we do not forget”
In order to commemorate this continuing “Nakba” and mark our solidarity with the Palestinians, a large-scale action is planned.
5:30 pm – Concert
A group “Made in Palestine” – infos will follow.

We will announce them soon, but there will be something for everyone. Music from here and Palestine, artists committed to Palestine!

Permanently :
Palestinian food, animation, parade of traditional dresses, solidarity photomaton, Palestine caravan …

Info: www.association-belgo-palestinienne.be
[email protected]

Nakba70, an event organized by Abp Asbl, in partnership with Palestina Solidariteit, the Palestinian community of Belgium and Luxembourg, the Palestinian Women’s Union of Belgium and Luxembourg, the CNCD-11.11.11, the Charleroi Palestine Platform, PJPO Walloon Brabant, Solsoc, Intal

Saturday, 12 May
2:00 pm
Texas State Capitol
1100 Congress Ave
Austin, TX
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ALL OUT FOR PALESTINE IN COMMEMORATION OF THE NAKBA AND THE ONGOING STRUGGLE FOR LIBERATION AND RETURN

WHEN: Saturday, May 12 @ 2:00PM

WHERE: Texas State Capitol

May 15th, 2018, marks 70 years of the ethnic cleansing of almost 800,000 Palestinians from their homes and lands, at the hands of zionist militias. To this day these refugees and their descendants are still barred from returning to Palestine. Israel has recently escalated its racist and genocidal policies, with the increased detention and murder of children, while Jerusalem, the capital of Palestine, is under threat. The Palestinian people, alongside their international allies, are organizing to let the world know that the land, from Haifa to Jerusalem to Gaza and all in between, will be liberated and that a sovereign, independent, free Palestine is inevitable as long as its people remain beacons of resistance and resilience.

We are gathering as a community to demand:

1. The right of return for ALL Palestinian refugees and their descendants
2. Israel keep its hands off Jerusalem, the capital of Palestine
3. The end of the 11 year blockade of Gaza
4. Freedom for all political prisoners
5. An end to Israeli colonization of ALL of historic Palestine

Despite over 70 years of Israeli colonialism, racism, occupation, and apartheid, the Palestinian people continue to resist and inspire the world to stand up against oppression in all its forms.

In the words of Marwan Barghouti, “Our chains will be broken before we are.”

Monday, 14 May
5:00 pm
941 E Wisconsin Ave
Milwaukee, WI
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Join us to commemorate 70 years since the Nakba (catastrophe) and to protest against the ongoing occupation of Palestine. We will meet by the Sunburst on the end of Wisconsin Ave.