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Sign Up, Endorse, Sponsor - Al-Awda Convention, July 14-16, 2006 San Francisco
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Al-Awda Convention Announcement
July 14-16, 2006
San Francisco, CA
Jack Adams Hall
San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Avenue,
San Francisco, CA 94132, USA
BUILDING THE RIGHT TO RETURN MOVEMENT
Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, and the General Union of Palestine Students at SFSU are proud to announce the Fourth International Al-Awda Convention in San Francisco, CA. It will be a strategic planning conference focused on adapting to shifting realities and rising to meet the challenges of our era. In working for return, we will highlight two main themes:
1) Political and material isolation of the Genocidal Zionist State of Israel,
2) Political and material support of the Palestinian refugee population.
Opening program and dinner will be held on Friday night with keynote speakers Dr. Salman Abu Sitta and Prof. Rabab Abdulhadi. The conference will be devoted to political assessments, breakout sessions on organizing of
refugee support, divestment from Israel, and planning for the coming year as well as workshops on organizing in different sectors, and arriving at concrete resolutions recommended by the separate breakout sessions. We
intend to make Return-to-Palestine central to all aspects of pro-Palestine organizing.
Confirmed Speakers:
- Dr. Salman Abu Sitta, former member of the Palestine National Council and known expert researcher on Palestinian refugee affairs.
- Michel Shehadeh, L.A. 8 defendant
- Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi, Director of Center for Arab American Studies at the University of Michigan-Dearborn
- Dr. Asa'd Abu Khalil, Professor at California State University, Stanislaus
Evening programs will be celebrations of Palestinian culture and spirit, including food, music, speakers, dabkeh, live entertainment and more!
Endorsed by (list in formation): Diwan Al-Arab Magazine (www.diwanalarab.com ); Committee to Defend Refugee Rights, Palestine; Palestine Return Center (PRC), London, UK; National Council of Arab Americans (NCA), USA; Palestine Solidarity Group (USA); Palestinian Refugees Association of Europe (Iraq and Lebanon
Chapters); Organization for Peace and Solidarity, Iraq.
To send in your organizational endorsement, please email musa@al-awda.org
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
EMAIL INFO@AL-AWDA.ORG
OR CALL 415-678-6220
Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition
PO Box 131352
Carlsbad, CA 92013, USA
Tel: 760-685-3243
Fax: 360-933-3568
E-mail: info@al-awda.org
WWW: http://al-awda.org
Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition (PRRC) is the largest
network of grassroots activists and students dedicated to Palestinian human
rights. We are a not for profit tax-exempt educational and charitable
501(c)(3) organization as defined by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) of
the United States of America. Under IRS guidelines, your donations to PRRC
are tax-deductible |
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