The Truth About the Attack at Sea:Gaza Freedom Flotilla with Ann Wright
Details of the three events scheduled for an eye witness account on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla.
June 18th Friday 7 PM: Essex, MA
First Universalist Church of Essex — 57 Main Street, Essex,MA
June 19th Saturday 6 PM: Allston, MA
Palestinian Cultural Center for Peace – 41 Quint Avenue, Allston,MA
$10 Suggested donation; Community dinner included
June 20th Sunday 6:30 pm: Worcester, MA
Blessed Sacrament Church, Phelan Center — 551 Pleasant Street, Worcester MA
Ann Wright, a retired US Army colonel, spent twenty-nine years in the military and later served as a high-ranking diplomat in the US State Department. In 2001, she helped oversee the opening of the US mission in Afghanistan. In 2003, she resigned her post at the State Department to protest the war in Iraq. Ms. Wright was a passenger on the Challenger 1, one of the six boats in the Gaza flotilla that was raided by Israeli commandos on May 31. She was deported to Turkey.
Source: www.bdsmovement.net
Die-in at Israeli Consulate-Boston
June 1, 12:30PM - there was a demonstration outside the Israeli consulate to protest Israel’s attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. Some demonstrators staged a die-in in the street, and the police, unusually, let the event continue without interference.
Check out full story and photos here: http://blog.dennisfox.net/index.php/archives/2010/06/01/die-in-at-israeli-consulate-boston-2/
June 4: Boston Demands: End the Siege on Gaza! at Government Center
Boston Demands: End the Siege on Gaza!
Friday, June 4
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
JFK Federal Building, Government Center
Downtown Boston
Tell President Obama: Enough is enough! End the illegal and immoral siege on Gaza! Demand an independent investigation into the Israeli attack on the Freedom Flotilla!
The U.S. State Department is closer than ever to declaring its support for an end to the siege on Gaza. Accelerate this change, using the momentum gained from the Flotilla attack. Join us Friday as we call for an end to the siege and for an investigation into the murderous attack on the Mavi Marvara.
Please forward widely.
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From: www.bdsmovement.net
May 20, 2010 7 PM: Commemorating the 62nd Anniversary of the Nakba in Palestine, with Ghassan Kanafani at Cambridge Public Library
Commemorating the 62nd Anniversary of the Nakba in Palestine,
Please join us for an evening of readings from the work of Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani
This event is free.
When
Thursday May 20th, 2010
7:00 PM
Directions
Where: Lewis Room, Cambridge Public Library, Central Square
Address: 45 Pearl St Cambridge, MA 02139
Public Transportation
accessible by bus and red line, Central Sq stop, wheelchair accessible
Featuring:
- Sameer Abu-Alsaoud
- Laila Murad
- Nada Samih
- Dara Bayer
- Lana Habash
- Spiritchild
- Viviane Saleh-Hanna
- Gina Rodriguez, and
- Ashanti Allston, former political prisoner
There will be readings of Kanafani’s work, musical performance, a photo exhibit, and Palestinian food.
From Ghassan Kanafani’s “Returning to Haifa”, 1969:
“What happened to you, Said?” “Nothing. Nothing at all. I was just asking. I’m looking for the true Palestine, the Palestine that’s more than memories, more than peacock feathers, more than a son, more than scars written by bullets on the stairs. I was just saying to myself: What’s Palestine with respect to Khalid? He doesn’t know the vase or the picture or the stairs or Halisa or Khaldun. And yet for him, Palestine is something worthy of a man bearing arms for, dying for…. Tens of thousands like Khalid won’t be stopped by the tears of men searching in the depths of their defeat for scraps of armor and broken flowers. Men like Khalid are looking toward the future, so they can put right our mistakes and the mistakes of the whole world…”History:
This May marks the 62nd anniversary of the Nakba (Arabic for “catastrophe”) in Palestine in 1948 when over 935,000 Palestinians (85% of the indigenous population of Palestine at that time) were forced off their land, in some cases at gunpoint, in other cases through massacres or threats of massacres like the massacre at Deir Yassin. As a result, 530 of an estimated 550 total villages were completely destroyed or depopulated. “Israel” was founded on the racist ideology of zionism. It has followed the expansionist and genocidal logic of white supremacy and colonialism for over sixty years. Today, the genocide in Palestine continues: from the planned expulsion of thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank, to the demolition of Palestinian homes in occupied Al Quds (Jerusalem), to the continued siege of the people of Gaza– deprived of food, water, electricity, and medicine– to the mass detention of over 11,000 Palestinian political prisoners. Ghassan Kanafani, beloved Palestinian writer, was murdered by Zionist forces in 1972. His work reminds us of the spirit of resistance that has sustained the Palestinian people for generations.
Please join us.
**The Cambridge Public Library is not a sponsor of this event.-
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