[van-announce] March for Palestine - May 13th, noon

[Stephanie Smith]

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Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 15:46:29 -0700
From: shniad a t sfu ca

Al-Awda Vancouver

MARCH FOR PALESTINE:  SUPPORT THE PALESTINIAN RIGHT OF RETURN A 
Rally and March to mark Al Nakba (May 15) and 58 years of 
Dispossession

When:        Saturday, May 13, Noon
Where:       Meet @ the Vancouver Art Gallery (Robson Side)

Join us in a rally and march to protest Israel's continuing 
crimes of war, occupation and human rights abuses.  To denounce 
the Canadian, U.S. and British governments' continued sponsorship 
and support of these crimes. For Justice for Palestine: From the 
river to the sea, Palestine will be Free!

Al Nakba (The Catastrophe):  With the unilateral declaration of 
the state of Israel on May 15, 1948, almost 1 million 
Palestinians were driven from their homes and homeland by Zionist 
terror which included massacres, rape, kidnapping and the 
destruction of whole villages.  Today there are over 5 million 
Palestinian refugees, denied the right to return to their homes, 
villages and homeland by the racist State of Israel and its 
imperialist partners.  With the active support of the U.S., 
Canadian and British governments Israel continues to reject the 
right of return of Palestinian refugees and maintains its brutal 
occupation of Palestine, and the Zionist project of building a 
racist colonial state on Palestinian land.

Al Awda (The Return):  The Right of Return is an inalienable 
right of Palestinian refugees.  It is a struggle shared by the 
millions in the Palestinian Shatat (diaspora) whether in refugee 
camps in Jordan or Lebanon or living Montreal, Toronto or 
Vancouver.  Many Palestinian families, displaced by the Zionist 
terror, still have the keys to their homes and deeds to their 
lands, though the Israeli state has raised their houses and tried 
to erase their villages from the map.  After 58 years, the 
struggle for Return, for justice, goes on.

SUPPORT THE MARCH BY:
1. Attending the march and bringing your family and friends.
2. Urging your Mosque, union, or community organization to endorse
    and mobilize for the march.
3. Forwarding this announcement to others who might be interested
    and putting up a poster or flyer in your community.

Event Organized by Al-Awda Vancouver
and the Palestinian Arab Women’s Association (PAWA)
Vancouver at al-Awda.org
pawaorg at yahoo.ca