Commemorating the 63rd Anniversary of the Nakba in Palestine,
please join us for an evening of remembrance, poetry, and musical performance.

Thursday May 19th
7:00 PM
Saint Katharine Drexel Parish Center
175 Ruggles St. Roxbury
(across Tremont St from the Ruggles T Stop on the Orange Line)*

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“In Jerusalem
there is a sky dispersed in people.
She protects us, we protect her,
and we carry her on our shoulders,
if the times grow too cruel for her moons…

In Jerusalem
there’s a scent compounding Babel and India,
in the perfume market by the oil quarter,
a scent that, by God,
has a language.
You’d understand it if you listened.

And when they throw their tear gas,
it says: never mind,
And when the gas has dispersed,
it says: you see?”

Tamim Al-Barghouti, Fil Quds (In Jerusalem)
Translated by Tasnim Qutait

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HISTORY

This May marks the 63rd 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 demolition of Palestinian homes in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied Al Quds (Jerusalem)
to the attacks by Zionist settlers on Palestinian farmers in the Qana valley 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.

PLEASE JOIN US.

*This is the second event in the P3 Series: Palestine, Poetry, and Politics and is free and open to the public. Free parking will be available.

Please distribute widely… 3 events

Saturday,March 26, 6:30-Palestine Cultural Center for Peace,Allston
EVERY DAY IN PALESTINE IS LAND DAY

Join us Commemorate Land Day with an Eye Witness
account on the Current Resistance in Palestine with
Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh.

Program includes:
- A Talk, a discussion, and a book signing by Dr.
Mazin Qumsiyeh of his new book “Popular Resistance in
Palestine, A History of   Hope and Empowerment”.
- Palestinian Dinner, and an Arabic Musical program
featuring Kareem Azab.

Where: The Palestine Cultural Center for Peace, 41
Quint Ave, Allston.
When: Saturday, March 26, at 6:30pm.

$10 Donation is suggested; students are free;