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Palestinian Support Events in Toronto, May 14 & 15th

Please come out and support the Palestinian struggle on:

* MAY 14 - Al-Awda, Al-Nakba Movie night in support of Palestinian refugees (Bahen Center, 40 St. George, Rm 1130 @ 6h30pm)

* MAY 15 - Protest the ongoing colonization of Palestinian land (Lipa Green Building, 4600 Bathurst, 4-6pm)

For details on these two events, see the two individualized callouts below and make sure to keep informed on developments at http://www.al-awda.ca :

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2. SUNDAY MAY 14: FILM SCREENING TO COMMEMORATE AL-NAKBA

On Sunday May 14, Al-Awda Right of Return Coalition (Toronto) commemorates the 58th anniversary of Al-Nakba with a film screening of the documentary: Jerusalem 1948: Yoom Ilak, Yoom Aleik. The evening will include a discussion period about Al-Nakba and the situation of Palestinian refugees in Canada.

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Date: Sunday May 14
Place: Bahen Center, 40 St. George (room 1130)
Time: 6:30
Donations Welcome
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Al-Nakba (Arabic for Catastrophe) refers to the historic and tragic event of the ETHNIC CLEANSING and DISPOSSESSION of the Palestinian people from historic Palestine which began in 1948. More than 450 Palestinian villages were destroyed and around 900,000 Palestinians driven from their homes, beginning a process of ethnic cleansing that continues to this day.

ABOUT THE FILM - Jerusalem 1948: Yoom Ilak, Yoom Aleik

JERUSALEM 1948 covers the events in Jerusalem and the major villages to the south and west in the period between the 1947 UN Partition Resolution and the first truce between the Arab and Israel armed forces in June 1948. The film challenges the major myths surrounding the war of 1948 that resulted in Israeli statehood and Palestinian exile.

The film aims, on the one hand, to explain the historical complexity of the Palestinian Nakba in 1948 and provide insight into the diversity of Palestinian refugee experiences since then. Palestinian eyewitnesses and experts, now refugees living in refugee camps, villages and cities in Palestine, Jordan and the USA tell the story of their lives in pre-1948 Jerusalem.

JERUSALEM 1948 is based on three years of research on the circumstances of Palestinian eviction from the New City of Jerusalem (now Israeli West Jerusalem) conducted in cooperation with the Institute for Jerusalem
Studies.

For more information please contact us at: info@al-awda.ca

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3. In Commemoration of the 58th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba
(Catastrophe) - Join the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA) to:

>>> PROTEST THE CONTINUING COLONIZATION OF PALESTINE!!! <<<
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Date: Monday May 15, 2006
Time: 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Location: Assemble at Elerslie Park and march to the Lipa Green Building (4600 Bathurst Street, Toronto)
*For TTC directions see bottom of callout*

Join us on May 15, 2006 anytime from 4-6pm at the Lipa Green Building (4600 Bathurst) to commemorate the 58th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba – the Catastrophe of 1948 that heralded the beginning of beginning of the Occupation. More than 450 Palestinian villages were destroyed and around 900,000 Palestinians driven from their homes, beginning a process of ethnic cleansing that continues to this day.

We will be protesting a settler-recruitment drive in Canada by Nefesh B’Nefesh, a Zionist settlement organization that recruits Canadians and facilitates their settlement in Palestine. These colonialist activities should not be taking place in Canada and have no place in the 21st century! While Zionist colonization continues, Palestinian refugees violently expelled in 1948 and 1967 are refused their internationally recognised Right of Return by the Israeli apartheid regime!

Nefesh B’Nefesh was founded with the purpose of recruiting North Americans for settlement activities in Palestine. In 2002 Nefesh B’Nefesh sponsored the largest simultaneous 'aliyah' (Hebrew for 'ascent' to the 'promised land') of settlers from North America to Israel. Incentives are being offered to Zionists to relocate to occupied arreas of Jerusalem and settlements deep in the West Bank, like Maaleh Adumim. Despite this a growing number of citizens of Jewish faith and/or cultural background are objecting to Zionist political pressure, refusing to be recruited to
participate in the colonial occupation of Palestinian land. The false concept of 'aliyah' is one of the many tools used to persuade North Americans and other citizens that they have a homeland in someone else’s land!

THIS COLONIZATION OF PALESTINIAN LANDS MUST STOP!

This is not something happening in far away lands that we can’t do anything about. It is happening right here in the city of Toronto and must not go unchallenged.

For more information contact the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid
(CAIA) at: endapartheid@riseup.net

IF YOU'RE TAKING THE TTC:

+ From York University: 196B to Bathurst, change to 160 or 7 north

+ From Downsview subway station: 84 or 196B east on Sheppard to Bathurst,
change to 160 or 7 north

+ From Sheppard subway station: 84 or 196B west on Sheppard to Bathurst,
change to 160 or 7 north

The assembly area for the commemoration/protest will be Ellerslie Park which is at the SE corner of Ellerslie and Bathurst about 100m north of the Lipa Green Building. There is street parking on Ellerslie - heading north on Bathurst, Ellerslie is the first turn to the right after the Lipa Green Building.

posted by Annamarie at 11:31 PM