Nakba 75 Action

CDA Ottawa ON Free film screening: "Radiance of Resistance", award-winning documentary
2018-05-27 15:00 - 17:00 UTC | 25 One Community, 251 Bank St., 2nd Floor, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Film Screening followed by a brief discussion
“Radiance of Resistance” Award-Winning Documentary
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 takes an intimate look at their everyday lives and their importance as the new generation of Palestinian non-violent resistance.
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CDA Toronto ON - Book Launch – 2 books – One Past and One Present
2018-05-26 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | Friends House, 60 Lowther at Bedford/Bloor, Toronto, ON, Canada
Book Launch of Two books on Palestine
One Past and One Present; Only One Reality
An Oral History of the Palestinian Nakba
edited by Nahla Abdo and Nur Masalha
featuring a reading by Nahla Abdo and contributor Chandni Desai
Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Palestine in the Present Tense
by Marcello Di Cintio
Oral History:
In 2018, Palestinians mark the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, a mass expulsion that saw more than 750,000 people uprooted and forced to flee their homes in 1948. Even today, the bitterness and trauma of the Nakba remains raw, and it has become the pivotal event both in the shaping of Palestinian identity and in galvanizing their resistance to occupation.
Efforts at preserving the memory of the Nakba have resulted in an unparalleled body of rich oral testimony, with which historians and other scholars have been able to tell the story of this epochal event through the voices of the Palestinians who lived it. This multidisciplinary collection uses oral history as a means of uncovering new insights both into Palestinian experiences of the Nakba and into the wider dynamics of the ongoing situation. In drawing together Palestinian accounts from 1948 with those of the present day, the book also confronts the idea of the Nakba as an event consigned to the past, instead revealing it to be an ongoing process aimed at the erasure of Palestinian history and memory.
Pay No Heed to the Rockets:
Marcello Di Cintio first visited Palestine in 1999. Like most outsiders, the Palestinian narrative that he knew had been simplified by a seemingly unending struggle, a near-Sisyphean curse of stories of oppression, exile, and occupation told over and over again.
In Pay No Heed to the Rockets, he reveals a more complex story, the Palestinian experience as seen through the lens of authors, books, and literature. Using the form of a political-literary travelogue, he explores what literature means to modern Palestinians and how Palestinians make sense of the conflict between a rich imaginative life and the daily tedium and violence of survival.
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Need to know:
– Doors open at 6:50
– Free admission
– Wheelchair Accessible
– Please avoid using strong-scented products due to sensitivities

NZ Auckland - In support of Great March of Return and remembering Al Naqba
2018-05-19 14:00 - 17:00 UTC | Aotea Square, 291-297 Queen St., Auckland, New Zealand
Join us in protest at the massacres currently happening on the Gaza border!
We meet on Saturday 19 May at 2PM until the killing in Gaza stops!
Ramzy Baroud will be a speaker at this Rally to remember Al Naqba as well as voice our outrage at the killings, gassings and bombings in Gaza right now!!
Gazans have gathered peacefully as part of a “Great March of Return” to demand refugees and their descendants be allowed to return to their ancestral homes in Israel. They have been met with bullets and tear gas fired from drones by the Israeli military.
This peaceful protest in Gaza is expected to continue until 15 May when Palestinians commemorate The Naqba when more then 700,000 people were either forced to flee or were forcefully expelled from their homes in the war surrounding Israel’s creation in 1948.

CDA Winnipeg MB: Hope Lives in Remembrance
2018-05-15 16:00 - 18:00 (Asia/Karachi) | City Park, 224 East 125th Street, New York, NY, 10035, United States
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:
• Canadian Palestinian Association of Manitoba (CPAM)
• 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

CDA Montreal QC - Nakba 70 Action
2018-05-14 17:00 - 23:00 UTC | Square Philips, Montreal, QC, Canada
Mark 70 years of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine
Square Philips (Metro Place des Arts)
Montreal, Quebec
Part 1: 5:00 pm, Demonstration, Square Phillips
Part 2: 9:00 pm, Benefit evening, Le Belmont, Mont-Royal

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/425500877873672/

CDA Calgary AB - Calgary Remembers the Nakba
2018-05-13 13:00 - 15:00 UTC | Central Memorial Park, 12th Ave and 2nd St SW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
A family-friendly event open to the Calgary public, we invite all to join us as we commemorate 70 years of the Nakba and 70 years of the Israeli occupation of Palestine. There will be poetry readings and spoken word, first-person accounts of the forced displacement of Palestinians, speeches, a visual pictorial display of the flight and plight of Palestinian refugees during the 1947-48 and 1967 forced displacements, and the ongoing Nakba until the 2018 Gaza Great March of Return. We will also have a children’s activity table.
We will call on the Government of Canada to break its silence and impose economic sanctions on Israel for their 70-year sustained war crimes and continuous violations of international law against the people of Palestine.

USA Northfield MN – Nakba Commemoration
2018-05-12 14:00 - 16:00 UTC | Bridge Square, Division and 4th Street East, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
“Nakba” (catastrophe) refers to events in 1947-1948 that transpired when the British vacated Palestine and Israel became a state. More than 750,000 Palestinians left their homes and more than 400 villages were destroyed. Families are left with their keys and their memories. This “temporary” expulsion is 70 years old this year and the ethnic cleansing of Palestine continues today.
Please join us as we stand in solidarity with those who lost homes and villages. We will name 418 villages that were destroyed.

CDA Toronto ON - Commemoration of Nakba
2018-05-12 13:30 - 15:00 UTC | Israeli Consulate, 180 Bloor St. West, Toronto, ON, Canada
National Committee for the Commemoration of Nakba-Canada
Invites you to participate in a demonstration to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba and reject Trump’s decision to transfer the embassy to Jerusalem and to affirm support for the Great March of Return and lifting of the siege on Gaza.
Place: In front of the Israeli Consulate, 180 Bloor St West.
Time: Saturday 12-5-2018 at 1:30 pm
Please bring your family and friends together with Palestinian flags, Kofeyyeh and return keys.
Please write down the names of your destroyed villages and cities and carry them during the demonstration.
Transportation is provided from Mississauga , buses will be in front of Palestine House and will move 12:30 sharp.

USA Boston MA -Remembering and Resisting: 70 Years of Ongoing Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
2018-05-12 11:30 - 14:00 (America/Halifax) | Copley Square, Boston, Boston, United States
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 have been subjected to Israeli rule and continue to be treated as second-class citizens today.
Seventy years later, the Nakba continues. From Gaza to the West Bank to Israel, from refugee camps to the diaspora, Palestinians have continued to experience gradual genocide and dispossession in numerous ways. 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.
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. Our goal is to draw attention to the many and varied ways in which Palestinians have encountered and continued to resist Israeli apartheid and ethnic cleansing.
Organized by: Palestinian Community of Boston, joined by the Alliance for Water Justice in Palestine, Boston-wide SJP, Grassroots International, Jewish Voice for Peace-Boston, Massachusetts Peace Action, Unitarians Universalists for Justice in the Middle East, and United for Justice with Peace.
The exhibit will be displayed on Saturday, May 12. 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

FREE WEBINAR - Canadians in 1948 Palestine: Local Responsibility for the Nakba
2018-05-10 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Toronto) | Free webinar, Canada
Recent images from the Gaza Strip–at once heart-wrenching and inspiring–are a powerful reminder that seventy years later, the Palestinian refugee crisis grinds on. But what of the origins of this crisis?
Register here for this special online presentation.
The mass expulsion of Palestinians in 1948 can no longer be denied. But while the facts are more and more widely acknowledged, even in Israel, in Canada the discussion lags behind. Hundreds of Canadians travelled to Palestine in 1948 to fight for the Zionist armed forces. The evidence suggests that some of them were involved in grievous human rights abuses, including the massacre of Palestinian civilians. The evidence–from both Palestinian testimony and declassified Israeli archives–is in fact overwhelming.
An honest discussion of this history is long overdue.
This local burden of responsibility should inform our commemoration of 1948. Some in Canada are adding insult to injury by continuing to bury this history while celebrating seventy years since Israel’s establishment. But the 1948 expulsion of Palestine’s native population, which paved the way for Israel’s development, was indeed a nakba (catastrophe).
Join IJV for a discussion of the harsh reality of 1948 Palestine and the Canadian share of responsibility for it.
*Dan Freeman-Maloy is a researcher and activist based in Montreal. He holds a PhD from the University of Exeter and has written for publications ranging from Mondoweiss to Race & Class and the Journal of Palestine Studies. His work on Western involvement in the Palestine war of 1948 is based on research conducted in Britain, Canada, and Palestine/Israel, including in the Central Zionist Archives in Jerusalem.
