Al-Awda New York

Alwan for the Arts
16 Beaver St - 4th Floor
New York City, NY
Subway: 4, 5 to Bowling Green; J/M/Z to Broad St.; R,W to Whitehall St.; 1 to Rector St. or South Ferry; 2, 3 to Wall St.; A, C line to Broadway-Nassau

Shot on location in the ruins and cemetery of Kafr Bir'im, a Palestinian village located in the Northern Galilee, the film introduces the viewer to Mr. Ibrahim Essa, an elderly poet who survived the ethnic cleansing of his village in 1948. Mr. Essa's family has lived in Kafr Bir'im for the past 700 years. Through his narrative and poetry, Ibrahim Essa recounts his experiences as a youth in the village, the hardships of a life in exile and the intense emotional, physical and historical connections to the land that he shares with the 5,000,000 Palestinians who currently live in the Palestinian diaspora. Mr. Essa employs an ancient oral tradition of poetry that, in style, is similar to what is now referred to as "Spoken Word Poetry." This improvisational oral tradition has been around for centuries in Northern Palestine and continues to be used by farmers and villagers to express the community's intimate relationship to the land; a yearning for past times; and their cultural, psychological and physical attachment to the ancient and modern ruins that exist throughout that region.

In his introduction to the events that resulted in the complete destruction of the village, John Halaka explains that "The village of Kafr Bir'im was ethnically cleansed of its Palestinian inhabitants by the military forces of the newly established state of Israel in early November 1948. All of the 1050 inhabitants of Kafr Bir'im were driven from their land, and were never allowed to return to the homes and fields that they and their ancestors had inhabited and cultivated for centuries."

The film commemorates the 59th anniversary of the ethnic cleansing of Kafr Bir'im and memorializes the 60th anniversary of the beginning of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. The ethnic cleansing campaign occurred between December 1947 and December 1948, resulting in the destruction of Palestinian civil and political societies, the eradication of 531 villages, and the expulsion of over 800,000 Palestinians.

Professor John Halaka joined the Visual Arts Faculty at USD in 1991. His creative work serves as a vehicle for meditation on personal, cultural and political concerns. Halaka creates works of art that raise questions, for himself as well as for the viewer, about some of the pressing issues of our time. His experiences as an artist of Palestinian descent informs his investigations of cycles of repression and displacement as well as the personal and political relationships between desire, denial and instability. "Through my work, I attempt to initiate a dialogue with the viewer that could hopefully instigate transformation, one person at a time. This effort is best summarized by James Baldwin's eloquent observation. "When circumstances are made real by another's testimony, it becomes possible to envision change."

Sunday, March 30th, 2008
Youm Al Ard
The Day of the Land

Solidarity Center
55 W 17th St. (off 6th Ave.), 5th Floor
New York City, NY
Subway - F, V oR L to 6th Ave/14th St.
NJ Path - 14th St.

On the 60th anniversary of Al Nakba, Al-Awda NY, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition invites you to celebrate and commemorate:

Debka performance
Discussion on debka and farming
The relationship between the land and resistance
Zionist massacres of palestinians 1948-2008
Open Discussion on Palestine, history, politics, Gaza
Much, much more...

THE BUTCHER OF GAZA IS COMING TO NEW YORK!!

5:00 p.m.
Waldorf Astoria
50th St & Park Ave
New York City, NY
Subway - 6 to 51st Street/Lexington Ave, E or V to Lexington Ave/53rd St

While hundreds of Palestinians have been slaughtered in Gaza and while Ehud Barak threatens further invasions and massacres, the so-called "Friends" of the Israeli Occupation Forces are celebrating Barak and the war criminals of the Israeli Occupation Forces with a $1000-a-plate dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria!

Join Al-Awda NY, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, to protest this outrage!

60 years of Occupation, exile and murder have done nothing but bring more genocide and, now, threats of Holocaust from Israel's Deputy Minister of "Defense". Join us to protest in outrage and solidarity as the war criminal Ehud Barak is celebrated and IOF Soldiers dine at the Waldorf to raise money for more genocide.

WAR CRIMINALS NOT WELCOME HERE! PROTEST EHUD BARAK AND THE "FRIENDS OF THE IOF"!

Stand in Solidarity with the people of Gaza, Demand an End to all US Aid to "Israel", Demand an immediate return of all Palestinian refugees to their rightful homes and a free Palestine!

COMMEMORATE THE LIFE OF DR. GEORGE HABASH

Please join the Palestinian & Arab Community at Widdi Catering Hall to commemorate and honor the life and work of Al Hakim, Dr. George Habash.

2:00 p.m.
Widdi Catering Hall
5602 6th Ave (Corner of 56th & 6th Ave)
Sunset Park, Brooklyn, NY
Subway - N/R to 59th Street

We admirers of Dr. George Habash in New York celebrate the life of this Palestinian revolutionary, who died of a heart attack on January 26, 2008, at age 82. Born in 1925 in al Lydd, George Habash experienced the Nakbe. He studied medicine yet devoted himself to the necessary task of organizing Arab resistance to the Zionist occupation of Palestine. Thus, he cofounded the Arab Nationalist Movement in 1951.

The defeat of 1967 made clear the need for revolutionary organization and popular leadership in peoples' movements. The new Arab regimes failed while struggles in Vietnam, Cuba and China succeeded. Understanding this, Dr. Habash founded the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and served as its general secretary until 2000.

Habash, lovingly known as Al-Hakim, inspired more than the adoration of members of his party. During the '70s, his leadership brought the Palestinian masses the understanding, pride, and determination to gather their strength. The struggle for liberation that began early in the 20th century against British colonialism became a revolutionary war against Israel-Britain's implanted machine adopted by the U.S.

From the beginning he promoted principles of continuous study, personal discipline, living connection to the refugee camps and sacrifice and devotion to the cause. These were accompanied by political analysis that clearly identified the enemies of the Palestinian people; the Zionist state and international Zionist organizations, world imperialism headed by the U.S. and supported by Arab regimes and Arab reaction.

Through bloody September in Jordan in 1970 and the resistance in Gaza through the siege of Beirut in 1982, from the Intifada of 1987 to the treachery of Oslo, he never wavered from the goal of the total liberation of Palestine and the right of all its sons and daughters to return to their homes and land. Inspired by this leadership, mass organizations for the right to return developed in many parts of the world.

Dr. Habash understood the necessity of international struggle and identified the liberation of Palestine as key to the liberation of the entire Arab world. He saw the Palestinian people's struggle as one with that of oppressed people everywhere.

To remember his analysis and to enrich its fabric with our work is to truly honor George Habash. He is with us today as we struggle, a mountain of Palestine.

In the words of Al Hakim, "The oppressed and starving of the world shall be victorious."

Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition - New York
New York Committee to Defend Palestine

EMERGENCY GAZA MOBILIZATION

JOIN AL-AWDA NY AND THE ARAB MUSLIM AMERICAN FEDERATION AS WE STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH OUR PEOPLE IN GAZA

THE RIGHT TO RETURN FOR ALL PALESTINIANS
AN END TO THE SIEGE ON GAZA
AN END TO ZIONIST WAR CRIMES
AN END TO ZIONIST MASSACRES OF PALESTINIANS
ZIONIST HANDS OFF PALESTINE

AL NAKBA EDUCATIONAL SERIES

"500 Dunam on the Moon" film showing, followed by discussion led by 1948 Palestinian Said Shehadeh

3:00 p.m.
7111 5th Ave (between 71st and Ovington)
Brooklyn, NY - in the Bay Ridge community

Join Al-Awda New York as we kick off an Al Nakba education series to mark the 60th year of exile and struggle for Return. This series is designed to revitalize community organizing, and to raise awareness particularly among Palestinian youth. All events are free, and all are welcome.

"500 DUNAM ON THE MOON" (2002, 48 min) presents a critical look at the art of dispossession and the creativity of the dispossessed, examining Ayn Hawd, a Palestinian village captured and depopulated by Zionist armies in 1948, and "Ein Hod", the Zionist "artists' colony" established over Ayn Hawd, while Ayn Hawd's original and rightful Palestinian residents, deemed "present absentees", settled only 1.5 kilometers away on the outlying hills, prevented from returning home, and their village unrecognized, denied water, electricity, or an access road. This film presents the story and the resilience of the people of Ayn Hawd in their struggle for land and freedom.

Following the film, Al-Awda member Said Shehadeh will give a brief presentation and then lead a discussion.

Sunday, October 28, 2007
FESTIVAL OF PALESTINIAN AND ARAB CULTURE

2008 WILL MARK THE 60TH YEAR OF AL NAKBA, THE DATE THAT CHANGED THE LIVES OF EVERY ARAB.

WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF PALESTINE?
HOW CAN WE AFFECT THAT FUTURE?
WHAT DO OUR CHILDREN KNOW ABOUT PALESTINE?
HOW DOES PALESTINE AFFECT OUR LIVES?

A day of discussion and activity around Palestine. Bring your memories and hopes for Palestine, the Arab world and its people.

Educational games, skill sharing, watani, music & debka, discussion, spoken work & More!

يوم الأحد, 28 أوكتوبر, 2007 في قاعة الودي من الساعة 12 ظهراً حتى الساعة 6

التاريخ الذي غير حياة كل انسان عربي وفلسطيني

ما هو مستقبل فلسطين؟
كيف يمكننا ان نؤثر في هذا المستقبل؟
ماذا تعلم اطفالنا عن فلسطين؟
وكيف فلسطين تؤثر على حياتنا؟

يوم من المناقشة والفعاليات حول فلسطين. أحضرعائلتك،أفكارك,ذكرياتك وآمالك لفلسطين وشعبها والشعب العربي بشكل عام.

للتعلم... التثقف... اللعب...تبادل المهارات...الجانب الوطني...الموسيقى الشعبية والدبكة...المناقشات..والخطابات...

وكل هذا عن فلسسسطين للكبار..الصغار..والشباب والشبات

Sunday, June 10, 2007
All out for Liberation and Return!

New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine and Al-Awda New York (the Palestine Right to Return Coalition) call on Right to Return activists to join us in Washington D.C. on June 10th to march together in a "Liberation and Return" contingent.

While the organizers/sponsors of this mass rally and march are emphasizing the commemoration of 40 years of occupation in the West Bank, Gaza, East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights, we must also commemorate the 60th year of the occupation which began with Al-Nakba in 1948. Solidarity with the Palestinian liberation struggle must include solidarity with Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, Palestinians in Palestine '48, and Palestinians in exile.

Over 6 million refugees have the Right to Return to their original lands and properties, and we must not limit our discussion of Palestine to a subsequent attack that took place 19 years after the invasion that forced over 750,000 Palestinians into exile.

Thousands of activists will be marching on Washington D.C. on Sunday, June 10th. We must be there to raise the banner of Liberation and Return. Join us to carry Right to Return signs, carry Palestinian flags and chant for Return and Liberation!

When the call is made to line up for marching, meet us near the tabling area to the Left when facing the capitol.

Groups in the New York area are organizing buses from Manhattan and Brooklyn. Please get in touch with us if you need more information on this.

SATURDAY, MAY 12TH, 2007
COMMEMORATE AL-NAKBA....
GET INVOLVED WITH THE STRUGGLE FOR RETURN!

In commemoration of the 59th anniversary of Al-Nakba ("the catastrophe"), when over 750,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes and lands by invading Zionist armies in 1947-48, join Al-Awda New York, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, for an afternoon of remembrance, education and organizing!

FILM SCREENING: "Al-Awda/The Return" - This film tells the story of Al-Nakba, as well as the struggles of Palestinian refugees to return to their original homes, lands and properties. Today, Palestinian refugees number near six million - the world's largest refugee population, prevented from returning home because of their Palestinian Arab identity. Watch this educational film, produced by the Palestinian Return Center in the UK, to learn more about the history of oppression and resistance, and to move towards action!

GENERAL INTEREST MEETING: Following the film showing, Al-Awda New York will hold a general interest meeting. Find out what you can do, here in New York City, to get involved with the right to return movement, including working on cultural projects, Palestinian community organizing, educational work, rallies and demonstrations, and many more Al-Awda projects!

TUESDAY, APRIL 24th, 2007
Closing Celebration for PICTURE BALATA exhibition

Directions - A, C, E or L to 14th Street & 8th Ave, walk down 8th Ave. to Bethune, turn right, walk west to the River, turn left. Coming on the Path from NJ? Take the Path to 14th Street, then the L to 8th Ave, then follow the directions from 14th Street & 8th Ave.

Al-Awda New York invites you back one more time for an evening of poetry, music, art and food, to celebrate the success of the Picture Balata exhibition at the Brecht Forum.

Join us on Tuesday, April 24th as we continue to celebrate cultural resistance with Palestinian poet Remi Kanazi and friends.

Don't miss this opportunity to come view the photograph of Picture Balata, a project which puts the camera into the hands of the children born and raised under conditions of occupation in Palestine. Work is on display by Picture Balata participants ranging from ages 11 to 18, who photograph their situation as they live it in Balata Refugee Camp.

Three teenage participants from the Picture Balata workshop are in the Unitd States for the first two weeks of April 2007. Showing their work and speaking about their lives, the photographers will visit to New York City, Washington DC, Youngstown, Boston, Chicago and San Francisco.

These young people, leaving Palestine for the first time, will be able to educate U.S. residents regarding the reality of the situation in Balata Refugee Camp and occupied Palestine. The tour will also give them the chance to see that people outside Palestine support their work and the Palestinian struggle for liberation and justice.

The tour also aims to raise funds to purchase cameras, computers and internet access so that after further training the workshop participants, nine in total, will be able to do everything from taking the picture, editing it on their own computer and then publishing it on a website for the entire world to see. This self-sustainable project will give these young people the opportunity to further pursue photography and other media as a form of resistance.

Outside the West Bank City of Nablus lies the Balata Refugee Camp. Home to almost 25,000 residents living on less than one square kilometer, Balata is one of the most densely populated refugee camps within the West Bank. In recent years, Balata has seen hundreds of deaths and arrests, dozens of home demolitions, and the camp is subject to near-nightly invasions by the zionist military. It is here the Picture Balata workshop was started to teach youth from the camp about photography.

Picture Balata puts the camera into the hands of the children born and raised under conditions of occupation in Palestine. Participants ranging from ages 11 to 18 photograph their situation as they live it in Balata Refugee Camp.

Picture Balata in New York is sponsored by Al-Awda NY. For more information, contact us at info (at) al-awdany.org or by phone at 718-228-8636.

FRIDAY, MARCH 30TH, 2007
Al-Awda Cafe:
Fundraiser for PICTURE BALATA exhibition!

Join us for a fundraising evening to support the young photographers of Balata Refugee Camp in Palestine! Traditional Irish singer MARY COURTNEY will share songs of resistance, along with poetry for Palestine, a special slideshow preview of the upcoming Picture Balata exhibition and a live auction of Palestinian items, including a handmade sterling silver Handala pendant!

For more information, please contact info (at) al-awdany.org or call 718-228-8636.

SATURDAY, MARCH 3RD, 2007
AL-AWDA NY GENERAL INTEREST MEETING

Do you want to help organize important events, exciting activities and demonstrations?

Do you want to support the Palestinian cause, and work for the return of Palestinian refugees to their homes, lands and properties?

Have you been hearing about Al-Awda's work and wondering what you can do to help?

Join us to find out about Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition - NY, our plans and activities for the future, Palestinian community organizing and awareness-raising events and demonstrations. You have an important role to play in the struggle to free Palestine!

For more information, please contact info (at) al-awdany.org or call 718-228-8636.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15TH, 2007
APARTHEID THROUGH THE LENS:
A Fundraising Evening for the Young Photographers of Balata Refugee Camp, Palestine

Subway: 4, 5 to Bowling Green; J/M/Z to Broad St.; R,W to Whitehall St.; 1 to Rector St. or South Ferry; 2, 3 to Wall St.; A, C line to Broadway-Nassau

Join Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition - NY for an evening to support Picture Balata, a project and exhibition for young photographers of Balata Refugee Camp in Palestine. The evening will feature slideshows of the photography of young Palestinians involved in the Picture Balata program, and short films of life in Balata camp created by the Balata Film Collective.

This fundraiser will help to bring the photography of the youth of Balata camp to New York City in April 2006, bring the photographers to the US for a US tour, and, most importantly, to provide the equipment and support these young photographers need to sustain their work - cameras, computers and more.

Outside the West Bank City of Nablus lies the Balata refugee camp. Home to almost 25,000 residents living on less than one square kilometer, Balata is the most densely populated refugee camp within the West Bank. In recent years Balata has seen hundreds of deaths and arrests, dozens of home demolitions and the camp is subject to near nightly invasions by the Israeli army. It is here that the Picture Balata workshop was started to teach youth from the camp about photography.

Picture Balata puts the camera into the hands of the children born and raised inside the ongoing Israeli occupation of Palestine. Participants ranging from ages 11 to 18 photograph their situation as they live it in Balata Refugee Camp.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 20TH, 2007
FILM SCREENING: PEOPLE AND THE LAND
a film by Tom Hayes

"People and the Land" takes viewers into the universe of the occupied people of Palestine, unreeling images of a new form of apartheid based on ethnicity. Challenging US foreign policy, this film examines the concrete realities of Israel's conduct in the West Bank and Gaza, the level of US support for that conduct through foreign aid, and the human cost of that aid in Palestine and the US. The result is a powerful and compelling portrayal of the situation that highlights the human rights violations against the Palestinian community.

For more information, please contact info (at) al-awdany.org or call 718-228-8636.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15TH
FILM SCREENING: PALESTINE BLUES
Followed by Q&A with filmmaker NIDA SINNOKROT

$10 donation goes to United Health Workers Committees in Palestine, on the brink of collapse...

Join Awda NY for a screening of "Palestine Blues" plus discussion with the filmmaker - renowned Palestinian artist & sculpturist Nida Sinnokrot.

"In June of 2002 the construction of a 400-mile barrier began in the Occupied West Bank. Though it is referred to as a 'security fence' by Israel, its form changes along the route, and near large cities it is a concrete wall twice as high as the Berlin Wall. Construction began in the northwest part of the West Bank. With its large, unspoiled aquifer, this land provides nearly 65% of the fruits and vegetables produced in the region. The wells along the aquifer provide essential water for drinking, agriculture and sanitation. All of this prime land and its water supply will fall on the Israeli side of the wall."Palestine Blues follows the repercussions of the Israeli Security Wall and Settlement expansion in the engulfed/annexed Palestinian farming communities of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Instead of focusing on the Wall as an object, Palestine Blues examines the grassroots resistance movement that has sprung up against it. Palestine Blues is not a 'traditional' political reportage but rather an interminable road trip across hard and liquid borders, across a terrain that is being erased as it is being traversed."

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3RD
VOICES OF RESISTANCE: REPORTING BACK FROM PALESTINE AND LEBANON
With FERNANDO REALS and SAMIA HALABY

$5 donation at the door will go to support the Union of Health Work Committees in Gaza...

Come to an evening of struggle and solidarity, and hear these voices of resistance reporting back from this summer in Palestine and Lebanon! Hear what happened on the ground, what is happening now, and what you can do to join hands and resist Zionism, imperialism, occupation and oppression!

*** Samia Halaby will also discuss her interviews of key figures in the liberation struggle******

Fernando Reals is a Puerto Rican and Colombian Anti-Imperialist Activist and Popular Educator who teaches in a NYC public school. Reals has been a long-term volunteer with DRUM - Desis Rising Up & Moving, a South Asian Immigrant Justice organization and is a member of SPIN - September 23rd Pro-Independence Network, a network working in the spirit of Comandante Filiberto Ojeda Rios to unite and strengthen Puerto Rican Pro-Independence organizations and movements.

Samia A. Halaby was born in Jerusalem, Palestine, in 1936. In the 1948 Nakbah, her family had to flee to Beirut and from there they emigrated to the US, where she studied Art. She taught in American universities for eighteen years, ending with ten years at the Yale School of Art. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is in many museum collections among them the Guggenheim Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Institute Du Monde Arab. She is an activist with Defend Palestine, and Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, and executive director of Al Jisser, the Arab art and culture association that recently brought the "Made in Palestine" art exhibition to New York City. She recently returned from a delegation to Lebanon.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30TH
On the Sixth Anniversary of the Intifada...
STOP the WAR AGAINST THE ARAB PEOPLE!
From Palestine to Lebanon, from Iraq to Brooklyn...

Join the Coalition in Solidarity with the Arab People to march on the sixth anniversary of the Intifada to stop the war against the Arab people! We demand:

The Coalition in Solidarity with the Arab People
(Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition - NY; American-Iranian Friendship Committee; Anakbayan NY/NJ; Arab American Association of New York; Arab Muslim American Federation; BAYAN USA; International Action Center; International League of People's Struggle; Malcolm X Grassroots Movement; New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine; New York City Labor Against the War; New York Committee to Defend Palestine; Pakistan-USA Freedom Forum; Workers World Party)

Also endorsed by: Million Worker March Movement (East), New York Committee to Free the Cuban Five, Queers For Palestine-East Coast

Endorse the demonstration! Send your endorsements to info @ al-awdany.org or call 718-228-8636!

For more information, to join the coalition, and to get involved, please contact:
Al-Awda NY
718-228-8636
info @ al-awdany.org

PROTEST ATTACKS ON LEBANON AND PALESTINE!

Friday, July 28th
3:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Zionist Consulate
800 2nd Ave (btw 42nd & 43rd Sts.)
New York, NY

Why: Yet again in front of the Israeli Consul during mid-day traffic, this Friday, July 28, 2006 at 3:30pm, the people of New York unite to condemn in the strongest terms the savage Israeli occupation and massacre of the innocent Palestinian and Lebanese people.

As the innocent children of Palestine and Lebanon cry in grief and despair, the people of New York respond. Launching yet another weekend of activity in solidarity with the Lebanese and Palestinian people who are enduring one of the worst assaults in history, thousands of New Yorkers unite to remind the world, the US government, and the rogue Israeli state that the attacks on Lebanon and Palestine must stop immediately. The street actions began the day of the Israeli bombing of Lebanon, and have not since ended sprouting up across the city in parks, streets and campuses.

The Israeli Government, owner of the fourth largest military power in the world, continues to massacre Lebanese and Palestinian civilians, a repeat of its genocidal policies conducted in Lebanon in 1982, and an extension of the fifty-eight year Israeli policy toward Palestinians. The Israeli State is recipient of two-thirds of the US Foreign Aid Budget, receiving the equivalent of $4 Billion/ year of American Tax Dollars. It is with these American Dollars and American-made weapons that the Israeli government is murdering Lebanese and Palestinian nationals, wiping out entire families, leaving them buried under the rubble that once was their homes, and destroying all civilian infrastructure needed for basic survival.

Groups and individuals of conscience across the city, across the country and across the world demand that:

2. That the Israelis cease fire and withdraw from all Lebanese and Palestinian Lands;

3. That the Israelis release all Arab and Palestinian Political Prisoners, over 10,000 are held of whom approximately one thousand are women and children;

4. All Lebanese and Palestinian Refugees be immediately allowed to return to their homes to live in safety.

Called by: (AMAF) Arab Muslim American Federation, CAIR, MAS, ICNA, Al-Awda NY, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition

PROTEST ZIONIST WAR CRIMES IN PALESTINE AND LEBANON

Wednesday, July 26th
6:00 p.m.

Union Square South
14th St at Broadway
New York, NY

With the full backing of the U.S. government, Israel continues to unleash its U.S. funded military might on the civilian and refugee populations of Lebanon and Palestine. Israel has killed hundreds, wounded thousands and displaced over half a million people, while intentionally targeting the infrastructure of Lebanon and Gaza with missiles and bombs. With their propaganda, the U.S. and Israel also demonize Iran and Syria, in a bloodthirsty attempt to expand their war crimes further throughout the region. All the while the U.S. continues to occupy Iraq. The onslaught against the Arab world expands and continues, and we stand up to say no more!

Join Al-Awda New York on Wednesday, July 26th at 6:00 p.m. in Union Square at 14th St. to rally against the war crimes in Palestine and Lebanon!

Stop the War on Lebanon and Palestine!!
Freedom for All Arab Political Prisoners in Zionist and U.S. Jails!!
End US Aid to Israel Now!!
The People of Palestine Have the Right to Return!!

PROTEST THE KILLING OF PALESTINIANS
DEMAND THE RELEASE OF PALESTINIAN POLITICAL PRISONERS

Friday, June 30th
4:30 p.m.

Zionist Consulate
800 2nd Ave (btw 42nd & 43rd Sts.)
New York, NY

6:00 p.m.
March to UN
47th St. and 2nd Ave
(Join demonstrators here if arriving after 6:00 p.m.)

Demonstrators will call for an end to the invasion, an end to U.S. aid to Israel, freedom for the eight thousand Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails, and the right of the world's more than six million Palestinian refugees to return to their homes, from which they were expelled in 1948. Called by Al-Awda New York, the New York Chapter of the National Council of Arab-Americans, ANSWER, the International Action Center, and other organizations.

In the past weeks, Israeli attacks in Gaza have killed dozens of Palestinians and wounded many more. On June 27, Israeli troops invaded Gaza, destroying water and electricity supplies. In addition, 64 members of the democratically elected Palestinian Legislative Council have been taken prisoner in arrest sweep incursions.

Al-Awda calls upon the international community, Palestine solidarity activists and groups, Arab Community Organization including Community centres, mosques and churches, to demand:

Emergency National Action -
Protest Israeli Massacres Of Palestinians
Friday, June 16th
6:00 p.m.

Union Square South
14th St at Broadway
New York, NY

PROTEST ISRAELI MURDER OF PALESTINIANS!
END THE SIEGE ON PALESTINE!
RESPOND TO HODA GHALIA'S CRIES FOR JUSTICE!

Tuesday, June 13 - 11 Palestinians murdered
Friday, June 9 - 7 Palestinians murdered
Wednesday, June 7 - 4 Palestinians murdered

Join Chicago, New York, Toronto, Montreal, San Francisco, Boston, and other cities in North America, calling for a Day of Action in solidarity with the people of Palestine in their struggle against the Genocidal Apartheid Zionist State.

Rally in Commemoration of Al Nakba
Sunday, May 14th
12:00 Noon

Convene at Lief Eriksen Park
5th Avenue between 66th and 67th Streets
Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, NY

Subway:
R Train to Bay Ridge Avenue (at 4th Ave). Walk north 3 blocks and right one block to gathering point at park.
N Train to 59th Street (at 4th Ave). Walk south 7 blocks and left one block to gathering point at park.

Join us in the heart of Brooklyn's Arab community to commemorate the 58th anniversary of Al Nakba (the catastrophe).

58 years of zionist-imposed occupation, dispossession and oppression have been met with 58 years of Palestinian struggle, resistance and steadfastness. We will mark the beginning of the 58th year of the struggle for Return with a rally, march and display. Palestinians will return to Palestine!

Friday, May 12th
Resisting Occupation Through Film:
Balata Film Collective

The Bridge
521 W. 26th St. 3rd Floor
New York City

7:00 p.m.

$5 - $10 suggested donation

The Balata Film Collective was initiated to enable young Palestinians from Balata Refugee camp to use film as a method to break their isolation, challenge their oppression, and represent their lives to the world. This May 2006, 3 members of the collective will be touring the U.S. sharing their films and their stories, and hoping to build connections with other film collectives and film makers involved in the global struggle for justice and liberation.

Ruby Said (26 years old), who had no prior experience with video cameras or computers, became active in the Balata Film Collective in Spring of 2005. Since then, she has participated in the making of 5 short films and the documentary film "Nour's Dream". Ruby is also a women's rights activist and a secretary at the Yafa Cultural Center where she coordinates children's activities.

Mohammed Farraj (28 years old) helped to found the Balata Film Collective and balatacamp.net news service after he was released from spending 2 years in zionist prisons in winter of 2004. Mohammed is a prisoner rights and human rights activist and a journalism student at An-Najah National University.

Mohammed Hajhamad (32 years old) has run many drama programs and summer camps for children in Balata Camp, and he is the head theater trainer of A'edoon ("We Will Return") Dabke and Art Theater group in Balata Camp's Yafa Cultural Center. Mohammed has been working in theater since 1993, and has directed many plays, several television pieces, and most recently the documentary film "Nour's Dream".

The Balata Film Collective will be raising funds during their visit to help them achieve the following goals:

Founding theaters or cinemas to make our films available for every one who wants to see them.
Training children, youth and adults in Balata Camp how to make documentaries and how to use cameras to deliver their ideas.
Participating in film festivals to deliver our ideas to the world.

Sponsored by Al-Awda NY, Al Jisser Group and New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine.

Wednesday, May 3rd
Films from Balata Camp:
Visions of Struggle and Steadfastness
A benefit to bring filmmakers from Balata Camp to The Bridge

The Bridge
521 W. 26th St. 3rd Floor
New York City

7:00 p.m.

$5 suggested donation

Balata Refugee Camp is one of the most hard-hit communities in Palestine's West Bank. The over 30,000 residents, refugees of the 1948 Nakba, live in a heavily militarized zone where tear gas, gunshots, and military searches are a part of everyday life. Join us to see these remarkable films - made in Balata Camp by young Palestinians, members of the Balata Film Collective!

In cooperation with Al Jisser Group and New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine, Al-Awda NY will be bringing 3 members of the Balata Film Collective to The Bridge! Please join us on May 3rd to view several of their short films and help us raise funds to cover their travel expenses for their U.S. tour.

Sunday, April 9th
A Survivor talks about the 58th Anniversary of Deir Yassin Massacre

The Bridge
521 W. 26th St. 3rd Floor
New York City

6:00 p.m.

On the 58th anniversary of the Deir Yassin Massacre, Al Awda NY celebrates another triumph of the human spirit as we listen to 'am Dawud. Dawud As'ad, 17 years old young Palestinian at the time, miraculously survived the massacre, but had to live with the loss of more than 20 members of his extended family. His traumatic experience meant among other things the dealing with the loss of his only TWO years old brother, his 96 years old grandmother and the arrest of his SIX years old sister. 'am Dawud in his seventies now, enjoys an active life in New Jersey where he is a prominent member of the Arab Muslim community.

Dawud's story begins early in the morning of April 9, 1948, when commandos of the Irgun (headed by Menachem Begin) and the Stern Gang attacked Deir Yassin, a village with about 750 Palestinian residents. The village had a peaceful reputation, but it was located on high ground in the corridor between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Deir Yassin was slated for occupation under Plan Dalet and the mainstream Jewish defense force, the Haganah, authorized the irregular terrorist forces of the Irgun and the Stern Gang to perform the takeover.

In all over 100 men, women, and children were systematically murdered. Fifty-three orphaned children were literally dumped along the wall of the Old City, where they were found by Miss Hind Husseini and brought behind the American Colony Hotel to her home, which was to become the Dar El-Tifl El-Arabi orphanage.

From Deir Yassin, to Jenin, the Zionist enterprise has only strived to stay faithful to its racist nature!

Saturday, April 1st
Al-Awda Cafe
Commemorating Yom al Ard (Day of the Land)

The Bridge
521 W. 26th St. 3rd Floor
New York City

7:00 p.m.

$10 suggested donation

Join us as we commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Day of the Land (March 30, 1976)

The event will feature:

a commemoration of the life of Ali Kased
a screening of the Al-Awda film contest winner "My Land"
the unveiling of the Al-Awda Youth mural project!
musical entertainment!
the unveiling of a very special Al-Awda project!
fundraising for Al Rowwad Cultural Center!

Saturday, March 25th
Zuhdi Al-Adawi
"Made in Palestine" Artist and Former Political Prisoner
. . . plus Solidarity with Political Prisoners everywhere!
With special guest Ashanti Alston!

Zuhdi al-Adawi is a Palestinian artist and former political prisoner whose work is part of the "Made in Palestine" exhibition. While imprisoned in Ashkelon prison, he taught himself to make art, and secretly made art during his time in prison, hiding his work and sneaking it out with visitors; when his art was discovered, he would be thrown in solitary confinement. In 1985, Zuhdi al-Adawi was released in a prisoner exchange but was exiled to Lebanon; he since moved to Damascus, Syria, where he lives today.

Please join us to hear about his experiences, his life, and his art, and to honor this freedom fighter for Palestine, as an activist and as an artist.

We will be joined by special guest Ashanti Alston, national co-chair of the Jericho Movement. A former member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army, Ashanti Alston was a political prisoner for 12 years in the United States. We will also hear reports from our allies on political prisoner struggles in other movements. Come to learn more about Assata Shakur, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Leonard Peltier, and struggles in Puerto Rico and the Philippines!

Sunday, March 19th
Palestinian Health Issues under Occupation
A discussion with Palestinian health workers
from Ibdaa Health Committee

Join us to welcome three Palestinian health workers from Ibdaa Health Committee of Deheisheh Refugee Camp in Palestine, as they discuss the political situation, the health situation for Palestinians under occupation, the health needs of Palestinian refugees, and the very important work of the Ibdaa Health Committee. They are touring the US to educate the public and health communities here about the severe health crisis that exists in Palestinian society as a result of occupation and oppression, and the important work that Ibdaa Health Committee is doing to address the health needs of the Palestinian people at a grassroots level in Deheisheh.

Their tour is designed to support the work of Ibdaa Health Committee and our speakers will be happy to accept any donation to support the work of the Health Committee. This event is free and open to the public! Please attend to hear these important voices.

PROTEST THE ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA!!

The ZOA will be presenting U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton with the "Defender of Israel" award. The ZOA lauds John Bolton for playing a key role in the repeal of the UN Resolution which recognized that Zionism is racism.

The Zionist Organization of America was founded in 1897, in the early stages of the planning for the imperialist conquest of Palestine.

NEW YORK SAYS "NO" TO THE BUTCHER ARIEL SHARON!!

Thursday, September 15th
3:00-6:00 PM
Dag Hammerskjold Plaza
47th St. and 2nd Ave (across from the UN), NYC

Subway:
E, V Train to 53/Lexington Ave. Walk south to 47th St., turn left onto 2nd Ave.
4, 5, 6, 7, S Train to 42nd St./Grand Central Station. Walk east until 2nd Ave. and north to 47th St.

SAY NO TO ARIEL SHARON!
SUPPORT THE RIGHT TO RETURN FOR PALESTINIAN REFUGEES!
REMEMBER SABRA AND SHATILA!
FREE PALESTINE!

On Thursday, September 15, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, the man responsible for the massacres of thousands of Palestinians and Lebanese, will speak before the United Nations General Assembly as part of the "World Summit." On the twenty-third anniversary of the killing of thousands of Palestinian refugees at Sabra and Shatila camps in Lebanon under Sharon's watch, the war criminal Ariel Sharon will speak as an honored guest at the United Nations in New York City. JOIN US to express our outrage at Sharon's presence in New York City before the United Nations, a body whose resolutions he has repeatedly flouted and ignored!

UN Resolution 194 guarantees the right to return to all Palestinian refugees. While Sharon speaks before the UN, he refuses to honor and implement UN Resolution 194 or countless additional resolutions denouncing Zionist occupation of Palestine and requiring the recognition of the rights of the Palestinian people. On the contrary, he has continued his decades-long campaign of brutality against the Palestinian Arab people, dedicated to eradicating their very existence. From Qibya in 1952 to Sabra and Shatila in 1982 to Jenin in 2002, Ariel Sharon is a butcher and a war criminal who should be on trial at the Hague, not speaking before the General Assembly of the United Nations.

Join Al-Awda New York on THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 from 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM to declare that SHARON IS NOT WELCOME HERE and to demand the UN immediately act to implement Resolution 194, the RIGHT TO RETURN OF ALL PALESTINIAN REFUGEES TO THEIR ORIGINAL HOMES AND PROPERTIES!

Organizational endorsements and involvement are welcome! Please email protestsharon @ al-awdany.org to endorse or for more information!

Partial list of endorsers (list in formation): NY Committee to Defend Palestine, NJ Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine, NYC Jericho Movement, Troops Out Now Coalition, New York City Labor Against the War, Coalition to Free the Angola 3, ANSWER NY, NYC Free Mumia Coalition, Palestine Solidarity Group-Chicago

Al-Awda New York is proud to present the return of:
Al Awda Cafe!

Plus stick around from 6:00 to 7:00 for a rally poster making session as we prepare to SAY NO to Ariel Sharon at the UN on September 15th!

Featuring:
Resistance Hip Hop group Kontrast!
A teaser from the upcoming Al Jisser presentation of Betty Shamieh's play ROAR!
Short films from Balata Camp!
Poetry!
Photography and artwork!
Palestine solidarity merchandise!

Subway:
4,5 Bowling Green
R,W Whitehall
2,3 Wall Street
J,M Broad Street
1,9 South Ferry

Wednesday, June 22nd
The CHILDREN of the CAMPS:
Al-Rowwad Palestinian Children's Theatre from Aida Refugee Camp

Join us to welcome Al-Rowwad Palestinian Children's Theater to New York! Headquartered in Aida Refugee Camp, Al-Rowwad Children's Theater is a unique project that supports and emphasizes the creativity of Palestinian refugee youth. Al-Rowwad Center is a home for the cultural, artistic and theatrical training of children and youth, housing a computer center, a debke program, a children's theater program, an art program, and much more. Lauded in "American Theater" magazine, and visited by some of the U.S.'s leading playwrights, Al-Rowwad is an inspiring home of children's creativity and expression amid war and occupation, and an illustration of the resourcefulness of the refugee youth who continue to struggle for return and liberation, across generations.

In June 2005, Al-Rowwad Children's Theater will be touring the U.S., beginning their tour in the New York City area, and then traveling to Connecticut, Vermont, and Kentucky.

Diverse organizers and activists from New York and New Jersey's theater community and Palestine activist community have joined together to raise funds to bring Al-Rowwad on this U.S. tour, and to our community. They will be performing in the New York area from June 18-22.

Tuesday, May 17th
Memorial for a Palestinian Fighter

Ali Qased, long-time activist and organizer for Palestinian national rights and a true revolutionary, died at the age of 62 in the early hours of Sunday, April 3rd, 2005, after a long struggle with a debilitating illness. He succumbed to complications from heart failure at St. Joseph's Hospital in Paterson, New Jersey.

On Tuesday, May 17th, 2005, a little over 40 days after his death, the Palestine activists of New York and New Jersey will host a memorial in his honor. Friends, family, and colleagues from across the country will descend on a popular Arab community in Brooklyn, site of much of his organizing, to renew their solidarity and their determination to continue fighting for liberation, and to honor his life's work.

We solicit written messages of solidarity to be collected in a memorial scrapbook, and we invite sympathizing local, national and international organizations to send representatives to this important event where we will celebrate the life of one of our own ? a rich life that contributed to the culture of liberation worldwide.

Sponsors: Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition; New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine; the New York Committee to Defend Palestine; Palestine Solidarity Group - Chicago; Arab Community Center - Chicago

Friday, April 1st
Palestinian Political Prisoner Tour

Presentation and discussion with Addameer lawyer Sahar Francis and former Palestinian political prisoners Akram Al-Ayasa and Ala Jaradat

8:00 p.m.
55 W. 17th St. 5th Floor (Between 5th and 6th Aves.)
New York, NY
Subway: F/V or 1/2/3/9 to 14th St.

Sahar Francis, a Palestinian lawyer with Addameer who has worked for many years with Palestinian prisoners.

Akram Al Ayasa an ex-political prisoner and former President of Bethlehem University Student Council. Arrested seven times from 1976-1990 by the Israeli occupation forces.

Ala Jaradat, an ex political prisoner and activist with Addameer where he works with families of political detainees.

There are over 7500 Palestinian political prisoners currently held in Zionist jails. Find out more about the central, vital struggle of Palestinian political prisoners and actions of solidarity we can take in North America!

Featuring "Women in Struggle," a new film direct from Palestine about Palestinian women political prisoners.

Join us for an important evening of political prisoner solidarity, as activists from communities around the world and across NYC join together to support our prisoners and their struggles for freedom! From Palestine to NYC, political prisoners must be free!

Featuring speakers:
Buthina Canaan Khoury, Palestinian filmmaker and director of "Women in Struggle"
Lynne Stewart, people's lawyer facing jail for her work
Benjamin Ramos, ProLibertad
Representative of NYC Free Mumia Coalition
Representative of the Jericho Movement
Representative of NY Committee to Free the Cuban Five and more!

Sponsored by: Al-Awda NY, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition; Iglesia de San Romero de las Americas, Jericho Movement, New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine, NYC Free Mumia Coalition, New York Committee to Free the Cuban Five, ProLibertad and more!

**Endorsers/sponsors in formation, email info@newjerseysolidarity.org to endorse or sponsor the event**

Friday, Janurary 21st
Dance for Palestine

Demonstrate for Palestinian rights!

Festival of Cultural Resistance

Art Exhibition: Representation & Misrepresentation
Sept 24 - October 3, 2004

Join us as we launch the Festival of Cultural Resistance with an opening reception. Works will be displayed by Palestinian and solidarity artists:

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Past Events Friday, April 4th, 2008 Continuing Al Nakba Series.... Screening and Discussion with director John Halaka ("Made in Palestine" artist): The Presence of Absence in the Ruins of Kafr Bir'im 7:30 p.m. Alwan for the Arts 16 Beaver St - 4th Floor New York City, NY Subway: 4, 5 to Bowling Green; J/M/Z to Broad St.; R,W to Whitehall St.; 1 to Rector St. or South Ferry; 2, 3 to Wall St.; A, C line to Broadway-Nassau Free and Open to the Public New York Premeire! Shot on location in the ruins and cemetery of Kafr Bir'im, a Palestinian village located in the Northern Galilee, the film introduces the viewer to Mr. Ibrahim Essa, an elderly poet who survived the ethnic cleansing of his village in 1948. Mr. Essa's family has lived in Kafr Bir'im for the past 700 years. Through his narrative and poetry, Ibrahim Essa recounts his experiences as a youth in the village, the hardships of a life in exile and the intense emotional, physical and historical connections to the land that he shares with the 5,000,000 Palestinians who currently live in the Palestinian diaspora. Mr. Essa employs an ancient oral tradition of poetry that, in style, is similar to what is now referred to as "Spoken Word Poetry." This improvisational oral tradition has been around for centuries in Northern Palestine and continues to be used by farmers and villagers to express the community's intimate relationship to the land; a yearning for past times; and their cultural, psychological and physical attachment to the ancient and modern ruins that exist throughout that region. In his introduction to the events that resulted in the complete destruction of the village, John Halaka explains that "The village of Kafr Bir'im was ethnically cleansed of its Palestinian inhabitants by the military forces of the newly established state of Israel in early November 1948. All of the 1050 inhabitants of Kafr Bir'im were driven from their land, and were never allowed to return to the homes and fields that they and their ancestors had inhabited and cultivated for centuries." The film commemorates the 59th anniversary of the ethnic cleansing of Kafr Bir'im and memorializes the 60th anniversary of the beginning of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. The ethnic cleansing campaign occurred between December 1947 and December 1948, resulting in the destruction of Palestinian civil and political societies, the eradication of 531 villages, and the expulsion of over 800,000 Palestinians. Professor John Halaka joined the Visual Arts Faculty at USD in 1991. His creative work serves as a vehicle for meditation on personal, cultural and political concerns. Halaka creates works of art that raise questions, for himself as well as for the viewer, about some of the pressing issues of our time. His experiences as an artist of Palestinian descent informs his investigations of cycles of repression and displacement as well as the personal and political relationships between desire, denial and instability. "Through my work, I attempt to initiate a dialogue with the viewer that could hopefully instigate transformation, one person at a time. This effort is best summarized by James Baldwin's eloquent observation. "When circumstances are made real by another's testimony, it becomes possible to envision change." Sunday, March 30th, 2008 Youm Al Ard The Day of the Land 3:00 - 6:00 p.m. Solidarity Center 55 W 17th St. (off 6th Ave.), 5th Floor New York City, NY Subway - F, V oR L to 6th Ave/14th St. NJ Path - 14th St. On the 60th anniversary of Al Nakba, Al-Awda NY, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition invites you to celebrate and commemorate: Youm Al Ard The Day of the Land Featuring: Debka performance Discussion on debka and farming The relationship between the land and resistance Zionist massacres of palestinians 1948-2008 Open Discussion on Palestine, history, politics, Gaza Much, much more... THE BUTCHER OF GAZA IS COMING TO NEW YORK!! PROTEST EHUD BARAK AND THE "FRIENDS OF THE IOF"! Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 5:00 p.m. Waldorf Astoria 50th St & Park Ave New York City, NY Subway - 6 to 51st Street/Lexington Ave, E or V to Lexington Ave/53rd St While hundreds of Palestinians have been slaughtered in Gaza and while Ehud Barak threatens further invasions and massacres, the so-called "Friends" of the Israeli Occupation Forces are celebrating Barak and the war criminals of the Israeli Occupation Forces with a $1000-a-plate dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria! Join Al-Awda NY, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, to protest this outrage! 60 years of Occupation, exile and murder have done nothing but bring more genocide and, now, threats of Holocaust from Israel's Deputy Minister of "Defense". Join us to protest in outrage and solidarity as the war criminal Ehud Barak is celebrated and IOF Soldiers dine at the Waldorf to raise money for more genocide. WAR CRIMINALS NOT WELCOME HERE! PROTEST EHUD BARAK AND THE "FRIENDS OF THE IOF"! Bring banners, signs and Palestinian Flags! Protest the Genocide inflicted on Gaza! Protest the Israeli Occupation Forces Fund-raising Dinner! Stand in Solidarity with the people of Gaza, Demand an End to all US Aid to "Israel", Demand an immediate return of all Palestinian refugees to their rightful homes and a free Palestine! COMMEMORATE THE LIFE OF DR. GEORGE HABASH Please join the Palestinian & Arab Community at Widdi Catering Hall to commemorate and honor the life and work of Al Hakim, Dr. George Habash. Sunday, February 3rd, 2008 2:00 p.m. Widdi Catering Hall 5602 6th Ave (Corner of 56th & 6th Ave) Sunset Park, Brooklyn, NY Subway - N/R to 59th Street Al-Awda NY & NYCDP Statement in Memory of Dr. George Habash We admirers of Dr. George Habash in New York celebrate the life of this Palestinian revolutionary, who died of a heart attack on January 26, 2008, at age 82. Born in 1925 in al Lydd, George Habash experienced the Nakbe. He studied medicine yet devoted himself to the necessary task of organizing Arab resistance to the Zionist occupation of Palestine. Thus, he cofounded the Arab Nationalist Movement in 1951. The defeat of 1967 made clear the need for revolutionary organization and popular leadership in peoples' movements. The new Arab regimes failed while struggles in Vietnam, Cuba and China succeeded. Understanding this, Dr. Habash founded the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and served as its general secretary until 2000. Habash, lovingly known as Al-Hakim, inspired more than the adoration of members of his party. During the '70s, his leadership brought the Palestinian masses the understanding, pride, and determination to gather their strength. The struggle for liberation that began early in the 20th century against British colonialism became a revolutionary war against Israel-Britain's implanted machine adopted by the U.S. From the beginning he promoted principles of continuous study, personal discipline, living connection to the refugee camps and sacrifice and devotion to the cause. These were accompanied by political analysis that clearly identified the enemies of the Palestinian people; the Zionist state and international Zionist organizations, world imperialism headed by the U.S. and supported by Arab regimes and Arab reaction. Through bloody September in Jordan in 1970 and the resistance in Gaza through the siege of Beirut in 1982, from the Intifada of 1987 to the treachery of Oslo, he never wavered from the goal of the total liberation of Palestine and the right of all its sons and daughters to return to their homes and land. Inspired by this leadership, mass organizations for the right to return developed in many parts of the world. Dr. Habash understood the necessity of international struggle and identified the liberation of Palestine as key to the liberation of the entire Arab world. He saw the Palestinian people's struggle as one with that of oppressed people everywhere. To remember his analysis and to enrich its fabric with our work is to truly honor George Habash. He is with us today as we struggle, a mountain of Palestine. In the words of Al Hakim, "The oppressed and starving of the world shall be victorious." Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition - New York New York Committee to Defend Palestine EMERGENCY GAZA MOBILIZATION JOIN AL-AWDA NY AND THE ARAB MUSLIM AMERICAN FEDERATION AS WE STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH OUR PEOPLE IN GAZA Friday, January 25th, 2008 3:00 p.m. Outside the Zionist Consulate 42nd Street & 2nd Avenue New York, NY JOIN US TO DEMAND: THE RIGHT TO RETURN FOR ALL PALESTINIANS AN END TO THE SIEGE ON GAZA AN END TO ZIONIST WAR CRIMES AN END TO ZIONIST MASSACRES OF PALESTINIANS ZIONIST HANDS OFF PALESTINE AL NAKBA EDUCATIONAL SERIES Al-Awda New York presents: The first in an Al Nakba educational series - "500 Dunam on the Moon" film showing, followed by discussion led by 1948 Palestinian Said Shehadeh Saturday, December 1st, 2007 3:00 p.m. 7111 5th Ave (between 71st and Ovington) Brooklyn, NY - in the Bay Ridge community Subway: R to Bay Ridge Avenue Join Al-Awda New York as we kick off an Al Nakba education series to mark the 60th year of exile and struggle for Return. This series is designed to revitalize community organizing, and to raise awareness particularly among Palestinian youth. All events are free, and all are welcome. "500 DUNAM ON THE MOON" (2002, 48 min) presents a critical look at the art of dispossession and the creativity of the dispossessed, examining Ayn Hawd, a Palestinian village captured and depopulated by Zionist armies in 1948, and "Ein Hod", the Zionist "artists' colony" established over Ayn Hawd, while Ayn Hawd's original and rightful Palestinian residents, deemed "present absentees", settled only 1.5 kilometers away on the outlying hills, prevented from returning home, and their village unrecognized, denied water, electricity, or an access road. This film presents the story and the resilience of the people of Ayn Hawd in their struggle for land and freedom. Following the film, Al-Awda member Said Shehadeh will give a brief presentation and then lead a discussion. Tell a friend! Download and print the event flyer at: http://www.al-awdany.org/flyers/awda1201event.pdf Sunday, October 28, 2007 FESTIVAL OF PALESTINIAN AND ARAB CULTURE Widdi Hall 5602 6th Ave (Corner of 56 & 6th Ave Brooklyn, NY 12:00 - 6:00 p.m. 2008 WILL MARK THE 60TH YEAR OF AL NAKBA, THE DATE THAT CHANGED THE LIVES OF EVERY ARAB. AS WE PREPARE TO MARK THIS TRAGIC DATE WE ASK: WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF PALESTINE? HOW CAN WE AFFECT THAT FUTURE? WHAT DO OUR CHILDREN KNOW ABOUT PALESTINE? HOW DOES PALESTINE AFFECT OUR LIVES? FESTIVAL OF PALESTINIAN AND ARAB CULTURE: A day of discussion and activity around Palestine. Bring your memories and hopes for Palestine, the Arab world and its people. Educational games, skill sharing, watani, music & debka, discussion, spoken work & More! ALL ABOUT PALESTINE FOR ADULTS, YOUTH & FAMILIES * إئتلاف حق الشعب الفلسطيني في العودة يوم الأحد, 28 أوكتوبر, 2007 في قاعة الودي من الساعة 12 ظهراً حتى الساعة 6 5602 6th AVE CORNER OF 56& 6th AVE BROOKLYN,NY للاستفسار الرجاء الأتصال ب info @ al-awdany.org , http://www.al-awdany.org , 718-228-8636 في عام 1949, ديفيد بن غويورن قال "الكبار سيموتون, والصغار ينسون" ********* العام القادم سيشهد الذكرى الستين للنكبة التاريخ الذي غير حياة كل انسان عربي وفلسطيني نحيي هذا التاريخ المأساوي ونتسأل: ما هو مستقبل فلسطين؟ كيف يمكننا ان نؤثر في هذا المستقبل؟ ماذا تعلم اطفالنا عن فلسطين؟ وكيف فلسطين تؤثر على حياتنا؟ يوم من المناقشة والفعاليات حول فلسطين. أحضرعائلتك،أفكارك,ذكرياتك وآمالك لفلسطين وشعبها والشعب العربي بشكل عام. للتعلم... التثقف... اللعب...تبادل المهارات...الجانب الوطني...الموسيقى الشعبية والدبكة...المناقشات..والخطابات... وهناك الكثير والمزيد... وكل هذا عن فلسسسطين للكبار..الصغار..والشباب والشبات** Sunday, June 10, 2007 All out for Liberation and Return! Rally and March Starting at the West Lawn of the Capitol Washington D.C. 2:00 Rally 4:00 March (From Capitol Hill to the Ellipse) New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine and Al-Awda New York (the Palestine Right to Return Coalition) call on Right to Return activists to join us in Washington D.C. on June 10th to march together in a "Liberation and Return" contingent. While the organizers/sponsors of this mass rally and march are emphasizing the commemoration of 40 years of occupation in the West Bank, Gaza, East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights, we must also commemorate the 60th year of the occupation which began with Al-Nakba in 1948. Solidarity with the Palestinian liberation struggle must include solidarity with Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, Palestinians in Palestine '48, and Palestinians in exile. Over 6 million refugees have the Right to Return to their original lands and properties, and we must not limit our discussion of Palestine to a subsequent attack that took place 19 years after the invasion that forced over 750,000 Palestinians into exile. Thousands of activists will be marching on Washington D.C. on Sunday, June 10th. We must be there to raise the banner of Liberation and Return. Join us to carry Right to Return signs, carry Palestinian flags and chant for Return and Liberation! When the call is made to line up for marching, meet us near the tabling area to the Left when facing the capitol. Groups in the New York area are organizing buses from Manhattan and Brooklyn. Please get in touch with us if you need more information on this. SATURDAY, MAY 12TH, 2007 COMMEMORATE AL-NAKBA.... GET INVOLVED WITH THE STRUGGLE FOR RETURN! 3:00 PM 666 Broadway, 6th Floor New York City Subway: 6 to Bleecker St; B/D/F/V to Broadway/Lafayette FREE! In commemoration of the 59th anniversary of Al-Nakba ("the catastrophe"), when over 750,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes and lands by invading Zionist armies in 1947-48, join Al-Awda New York, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, for an afternoon of remembrance, education and organizing! FILM SCREENING: "Al-Awda/The Return" - This film tells the story of Al-Nakba, as well as the struggles of Palestinian refugees to return to their original homes, lands and properties. Today, Palestinian refugees number near six million - the world's largest refugee population, prevented from returning home because of their Palestinian Arab identity. Watch this educational film, produced by the Palestinian Return Center in the UK, to learn more about the history of oppression and resistance, and to move towards action! GENERAL INTEREST MEETING: Following the film showing, Al-Awda New York will hold a general interest meeting. Find out what you can do, here in New York City, to get involved with the right to return movement, including working on cultural projects, Palestinian community organizing, educational work, rallies and demonstrations, and many more Al-Awda projects! TUESDAY, APRIL 24th, 2007 Closing Celebration for PICTURE BALATA exhibition Brecht Forum 451 West Street (West Side Highway) (between Bank & Bethune Streets, which are between 11th & 12th Streets) New York, NY Directions - A, C, E or L to 14th Street & 8th Ave, walk down 8th Ave. to Bethune, turn right, walk west to the River, turn left. Coming on the Path from NJ? Take the Path to 14th Street, then the L to 8th Ave, then follow the directions from 14th Street & 8th Ave. View photos from the opening reception! http://www.al-awdany.org/photos/picture_balata/ Al-Awda New York invites you back one more time for an evening of poetry, music, art and food, to celebrate the success of the Picture Balata exhibition at the Brecht Forum. Join us on Tuesday, April 24th as we continue to celebrate cultural resistance with Palestinian poet Remi Kanazi and friends. Don't miss this opportunity to come view the photograph of Picture Balata, a project which puts the camera into the hands of the children born and raised under conditions of occupation in Palestine. Work is on display by Picture Balata participants ranging from ages 11 to 18, who photograph their situation as they live it in Balata Refugee Camp. Exhibition runs April 6 - April 27, 2007 For viewing info/hours call the Brecht Forum at 212-242-4201. Three teenage participants from the Picture Balata workshop are in the Unitd States for the first two weeks of April 2007. Showing their work and speaking about their lives, the photographers will visit to New York City, Washington DC, Youngstown, Boston, Chicago and San Francisco. These young people, leaving Palestine for the first time, will be able to educate U.S. residents regarding the reality of the situation in Balata Refugee Camp and occupied Palestine. The tour will also give them the chance to see that people outside Palestine support their work and the Palestinian struggle for liberation and justice. The tour also aims to raise funds to purchase cameras, computers and internet access so that after further training the workshop participants, nine in total, will be able to do everything from taking the picture, editing it on their own computer and then publishing it on a website for the entire world to see. This self-sustainable project will give these young people the opportunity to further pursue photography and other media as a form of resistance. Background: Outside the West Bank City of Nablus lies the Balata Refugee Camp. Home to almost 25,000 residents living on less than one square kilometer, Balata is one of the most densely populated refugee camps within the West Bank. In recent years, Balata has seen hundreds of deaths and arrests, dozens of home demolitions, and the camp is subject to near-nightly invasions by the zionist military. It is here the Picture Balata workshop was started to teach youth from the camp about photography. Picture Balata puts the camera into the hands of the children born and raised under conditions of occupation in Palestine. Participants ranging from ages 11 to 18 photograph their situation as they live it in Balata Refugee Camp. Picture Balata in New York is sponsored by Al-Awda NY. For more information, contact us at info (at) al-awdany.org or by phone at 718-228-8636. For more information on Picture Balata, please visit http://www.picturebalata.net. FRIDAY, MARCH 30TH, 2007 Al-Awda Cafe: Fundraiser for PICTURE BALATA exhibition! 7:00 p.m. Sixth St. Community Center 638 East Sixth Street (between Avenue B & C) New York, NY Admission: $10 at door Join us for a fundraising evening to support the young photographers of Balata Refugee Camp in Palestine! Traditional Irish singer MARY COURTNEY will share songs of resistance, along with poetry for Palestine, a special slideshow preview of the upcoming Picture Balata exhibition and a live auction of Palestinian items, including a handmade sterling silver Handala pendant! Join us to support this important project! For more information on Picture Balata, please visit http://www.picturebalata.net. For more information, please contact info (at) al-awdany.org or call 718-228-8636. SATURDAY, MARCH 3RD, 2007 AL-AWDA NY GENERAL INTEREST MEETING 2:00 p.m. 666 Broadway, 6th Floor New York, NY Subway: 6 to Bleecker St; B/D/F/V to Broadway/Lafayette Do you want to find out what you can do to work for justice in Palestine? Do you want to help organize important events, exciting activities and demonstrations? Do you want to support the Palestinian cause, and work for the return of Palestinian refugees to their homes, lands and properties? Have you been hearing about Al-Awda's work and wondering what you can do to help? Get involved! Join us to find out about Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition - NY, our plans and activities for the future, Palestinian community organizing and awareness-raising events and demonstrations. You have an important role to play in the struggle to free Palestine! For more information, please contact info (at) al-awdany.org or call 718-228-8636. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15TH, 2007 APARTHEID THROUGH THE LENS: A Fundraising Evening for the Young Photographers of Balata Refugee Camp, Palestine 7:00 p.m. Alwan For the Arts 16 Beaver St - 4th Floor New York, NY Subway: 4, 5 to Bowling Green; J/M/Z to Broad St.; R,W to Whitehall St.; 1 to Rector St. or South Ferry; 2, 3 to Wall St.; A, C line to Broadway-Nassau $10 suggested donation at the door Join Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition - NY for an evening to support Picture Balata, a project and exhibition for young photographers of Balata Refugee Camp in Palestine. The evening will feature slideshows of the photography of young Palestinians involved in the Picture Balata program, and short films of life in Balata camp created by the Balata Film Collective. This fundraiser will help to bring the photography of the youth of Balata camp to New York City in April 2006, bring the photographers to the US for a US tour, and, most importantly, to provide the equipment and support these young photographers need to sustain their work - cameras, computers and more. Outside the West Bank City of Nablus lies the Balata refugee camp. Home to almost 25,000 residents living on less than one square kilometer, Balata is the most densely populated refugee camp within the West Bank. In recent years Balata has seen hundreds of deaths and arrests, dozens of home demolitions and the camp is subject to near nightly invasions by the Israeli army. It is here that the Picture Balata workshop was started to teach youth from the camp about photography. Picture Balata puts the camera into the hands of the children born and raised inside the ongoing Israeli occupation of Palestine. Participants ranging from ages 11 to 18 photograph their situation as they live it in Balata Refugee Camp. For more information on Picture Balata, please visit http://www.picturebalata.net. Part of Israeli Apartheid Week 2007 - New York SATURDAY, JANUARY 20TH, 2007 FILM SCREENING: PEOPLE AND THE LAND a film by Tom Hayes 2:00 p.m. Al-Awda Center 7111 5th Ave. (between 71st and Ovington) Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, NY Subway: R to Bay Ridge Avenue ADMISSION FREE! "People and the Land" takes viewers into the universe of the occupied people of Palestine, unreeling images of a new form of apartheid based on ethnicity. Challenging US foreign policy, this film examines the concrete realities of Israel's conduct in the West Bank and Gaza, the level of US support for that conduct through foreign aid, and the human cost of that aid in Palestine and the US. The result is a powerful and compelling portrayal of the situation that highlights the human rights violations against the Palestinian community. For more information, please contact info (at) al-awdany.org or call 718-228-8636. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15TH FILM SCREENING: PALESTINE BLUES Followed by Q&A with filmmaker NIDA SINNOKROT 7:30 p.m. Alwan For the Arts 16 Beaver St - 4th Floor New York, NY $10 donation goes to United Health Workers Committees in Palestine, on the brink of collapse... Join Awda NY for a screening of "Palestine Blues" plus discussion with the filmmaker - renowned Palestinian artist & sculpturist Nida Sinnokrot. Nida Sinnokrot describes his film as follows: "In June of 2002 the construction of a 400-mile barrier began in the Occupied West Bank. Though it is referred to as a 'security fence' by Israel, its form changes along the route, and near large cities it is a concrete wall twice as high as the Berlin Wall. Construction began in the northwest part of the West Bank. With its large, unspoiled aquifer, this land provides nearly 65% of the fruits and vegetables produced in the region. The wells along the aquifer provide essential water for drinking, agriculture and sanitation. All of this prime land and its water supply will fall on the Israeli side of the wall."Palestine Blues follows the repercussions of the Israeli Security Wall and Settlement expansion in the engulfed/annexed Palestinian farming communities of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Instead of focusing on the Wall as an object, Palestine Blues examines the grassroots resistance movement that has sprung up against it. Palestine Blues is not a 'traditional' political reportage but rather an interminable road trip across hard and liquid borders, across a terrain that is being erased as it is being traversed." FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3RD VOICES OF RESISTANCE: REPORTING BACK FROM PALESTINE AND LEBANON With FERNANDO REALS and SAMIA HALABY 7:00 p.m. Sixth St. Community Center 638 East Sixth Street (between Avenue B & C) New York, NY $5 donation at the door will go to support the Union of Health Work Committees in Gaza... Come to an evening of struggle and solidarity, and hear these voices of resistance reporting back from this summer in Palestine and Lebanon! Hear what happened on the ground, what is happening now, and what you can do to join hands and resist Zionism, imperialism, occupation and oppression! * Samia Halaby will also discuss her interviews of key figures in the liberation struggle** Q & A to Follow Reports Hear from our speakers... Fernando Reals is a Puerto Rican and Colombian Anti-Imperialist Activist and Popular Educator who teaches in a NYC public school. Reals has been a long-term volunteer with DRUM - Desis Rising Up & Moving, a South Asian Immigrant Justice organization and is a member of SPIN - September 23rd Pro-Independence Network, a network working in the spirit of Comandante Filiberto Ojeda Rios to unite and strengthen Puerto Rican Pro-Independence organizations and movements. Samia A. Halaby was born in Jerusalem, Palestine, in 1936. In the 1948 Nakbah, her family had to flee to Beirut and from there they emigrated to the US, where she studied Art. She taught in American universities for eighteen years, ending with ten years at the Yale School of Art. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is in many museum collections among them the Guggenheim Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Institute Du Monde Arab. She is an activist with Defend Palestine, and Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, and executive director of Al Jisser, the Arab art and culture association that recently brought the "Made in Palestine" art exhibition to New York City. She recently returned from a delegation to Lebanon. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30TH On the Sixth Anniversary of the Intifada... STOP the WAR AGAINST THE ARAB PEOPLE! From Palestine to Lebanon, from Iraq to Brooklyn... March and Rally Saturday, September 30th Gather at 12 Noon March steps off at 1:00 p.m. Grand Army Plaza, at the Fountain Brooklyn, NY Subway: 2 or 3 to Grand Army Plaza Join the Coalition in Solidarity with the Arab People to march on the sixth anniversary of the Intifada to stop the war against the Arab people! We demand: Stop war on the Arab world! Immediate & Unconditional Right to return for all Palestinian refugees! End the occupation of historic Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq and everywhere! End all U.S. aid to apartheid Israel Release all political prisoners! Support the people's right to resist! We stand united in our opposition to US war, empire, occupation and racism everywhere, from Afghanistan to Brooklyn, and in solidarity with the people of Iran and Syria against the ongoing threats of war. Join us to march, and raise our voices for justice!! The Coalition in Solidarity with the Arab People (Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition - NY; American-Iranian Friendship Committee; Anakbayan NY/NJ; Arab American Association of New York; Arab Muslim American Federation; BAYAN USA; International Action Center; International League of People's Struggle; Malcolm X Grassroots Movement; New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine; New York City Labor Against the War; New York Committee to Defend Palestine; Pakistan-USA Freedom Forum; Workers World Party) Also endorsed by: Million Worker March Movement (East), New York Committee to Free the Cuban Five, Queers For Palestine-East Coast Endorse the demonstration! Send your endorsements to info @ al-awdany.org or call 718-228-8636! For more information, to join the coalition, and to get involved, please contact: Al-Awda NY 718-228-8636 info @ al-awdany.org PROTEST ATTACKS ON LEBANON AND PALESTINE! Friday, July 28th 3:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Zionist Consulate 800 2nd Ave (btw 42nd & 43rd Sts.) New York, NY Why: Yet again in front of the Israeli Consul during mid-day traffic, this Friday, July 28, 2006 at 3:30pm, the people of New York unite to condemn in the strongest terms the savage Israeli occupation and massacre of the innocent Palestinian and Lebanese people. As the innocent children of Palestine and Lebanon cry in grief and despair, the people of New York respond. Launching yet another weekend of activity in solidarity with the Lebanese and Palestinian people who are enduring one of the worst assaults in history, thousands of New Yorkers unite to remind the world, the US government, and the rogue Israeli state that the attacks on Lebanon and Palestine must stop immediately. The street actions began the day of the Israeli bombing of Lebanon, and have not since ended sprouting up across the city in parks, streets and campuses. The Israeli Government, owner of the fourth largest military power in the world, continues to massacre Lebanese and Palestinian civilians, a repeat of its genocidal policies conducted in Lebanon in 1982, and an extension of the fifty-eight year Israeli policy toward Palestinians. The Israeli State is recipient of two-thirds of the US Foreign Aid Budget, receiving the equivalent of $4 Billion/ year of American Tax Dollars. It is with these American Dollars and American-made weapons that the Israeli government is murdering Lebanese and Palestinian nationals, wiping out entire families, leaving them buried under the rubble that once was their homes, and destroying all civilian infrastructure needed for basic survival. Groups and individuals of conscience across the city, across the country and across the world demand that: 1. The US government stop all financial support of the Israeli State; 2. That the Israelis cease fire and withdraw from all Lebanese and Palestinian Lands; 3. That the Israelis release all Arab and Palestinian Political Prisoners, over 10,000 are held of whom approximately one thousand are women and children; 4. All Lebanese and Palestinian Refugees be immediately allowed to return to their homes to live in safety. Called by: (AMAF) Arab Muslim American Federation, CAIR, MAS, ICNA, Al-Awda NY, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition Download and distribute flyers: Arabic & English pdf file Arabic & English jpg file PROTEST ZIONIST WAR CRIMES IN PALESTINE AND LEBANON Wednesday, July 26th 6:00 p.m. Union Square South 14th St at Broadway New York, NY With the full backing of the U.S. government, Israel continues to unleash its U.S. funded military might on the civilian and refugee populations of Lebanon and Palestine. Israel has killed hundreds, wounded thousands and displaced over half a million people, while intentionally targeting the infrastructure of Lebanon and Gaza with missiles and bombs. With their propaganda, the U.S. and Israel also demonize Iran and Syria, in a bloodthirsty attempt to expand their war crimes further throughout the region. All the while the U.S. continues to occupy Iraq. The onslaught against the Arab world expands and continues, and we stand up to say no more! Join Al-Awda New York on Wednesday, July 26th at 6:00 p.m. in Union Square at 14th St. to rally against the war crimes in Palestine and Lebanon! Stop the War on Lebanon and Palestine!! Freedom for All Arab Political Prisoners in Zionist and U.S. Jails!! End US Aid to Israel Now!! The People of Palestine Have the Right to Return!! Download and distribute flyers: Arabic pdf file Arabic jpg file English pdf file PROTEST THE KILLING OF PALESTINIANS DEMAND THE RELEASE OF PALESTINIAN POLITICAL PRISONERS Friday, June 30th 4:30 p.m. Zionist Consulate 800 2nd Ave (btw 42nd & 43rd Sts.) New York, NY 6:00 p.m. March to UN 47th St. and 2nd Ave (Join demonstrators here if arriving after 6:00 p.m.) Demonstrators will call for an end to the invasion, an end to U.S. aid to Israel, freedom for the eight thousand Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails, and the right of the world's more than six million Palestinian refugees to return to their homes, from which they were expelled in 1948. Called by Al-Awda New York, the New York Chapter of the National Council of Arab-Americans, ANSWER, the International Action Center, and other organizations. In the past weeks, Israeli attacks in Gaza have killed dozens of Palestinians and wounded many more. On June 27, Israeli troops invaded Gaza, destroying water and electricity supplies. In addition, 64 members of the democratically elected Palestinian Legislative Council have been taken prisoner in arrest sweep incursions. Al-Awda calls upon the international community, Palestine solidarity activists and groups, Arab Community Organization including Community centres, mosques and churches, to demand: Breaking the Siege on the Palestinian people in West Bank and Gaza The protection of civilian lives and property, as stipulated in International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law. The immediate release all political Prisoners, including all elected representatives of the Palestinian people. The support Palestinian Refugees in Gaza Strip with Financial and Material support The end of the Israeli Occupation, Apartheid and war crimes Immediate Reparations and Compensation for the destruction by the Israeli Army in Gazawater supply and destruction of the power grid to more than half the population of Gaza. Repair of the grid will take months to complete and cost many millions. Emergency National Action - Protest Israeli Massacres Of Palestinians Friday, June 16th 6:00 p.m. Union Square South 14th St at Broadway New York, NY PROTEST ISRAELI MURDER OF PALESTINIANS! END THE SIEGE ON PALESTINE! RESPOND TO HODA GHALIA'S CRIES FOR JUSTICE! Tuesday, June 13 - 11 Palestinians murdered Friday, June 9 - 7 Palestinians murdered Wednesday, June 7 - 4 Palestinians murdered Join Chicago, New York, Toronto, Montreal, San Francisco, Boston, and other cities in North America, calling for a Day of Action in solidarity with the people of Palestine in their struggle against the Genocidal Apartheid Zionist State. STOP THE KILLINGS!! PROTEST! Rally in Commemoration of Al Nakba Sunday, May 14th 12:00 Noon Convene at Lief Eriksen Park 5th Avenue between 66th and 67th Streets Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, NY Subway: R Train to Bay Ridge Avenue (at 4th Ave). Walk north 3 blocks and right one block to gathering point at park. N Train to 59th Street (at 4th Ave). Walk south 7 blocks and left one block to gathering point at park. Join us in the heart of Brooklyn's Arab community to commemorate the 58th anniversary of Al Nakba (the catastrophe). 58 years of zionist-imposed occupation, dispossession and oppression have been met with 58 years of Palestinian struggle, resistance and steadfastness. We will mark the beginning of the 58th year of the struggle for Return with a rally, march and display. Palestinians will return to Palestine! Friday, May 12th Resisting Occupation Through Film: Balata Film Collective The Bridge 521 W. 26th St. 3rd Floor New York City 7:00 p.m. $5 - $10 suggested donation The Balata Film Collective was initiated to enable young Palestinians from Balata Refugee camp to use film as a method to break their isolation, challenge their oppression, and represent their lives to the world. This May 2006, 3 members of the collective will be touring the U.S. sharing their films and their stories, and hoping to build connections with other film collectives and film makers involved in the global struggle for justice and liberation. Ruby Said (26 years old), who had no prior experience with video cameras or computers, became active in the Balata Film Collective in Spring of 2005. Since then, she has participated in the making of 5 short films and the documentary film "Nour's Dream". Ruby is also a women's rights activist and a secretary at the Yafa Cultural Center where she coordinates children's activities. Mohammed Farraj (28 years old) helped to found the Balata Film Collective and balatacamp.net news service after he was released from spending 2 years in zionist prisons in winter of 2004. Mohammed is a prisoner rights and human rights activist and a journalism student at An-Najah National University. Mohammed Hajhamad (32 years old) has run many drama programs and summer camps for children in Balata Camp, and he is the head theater trainer of A'edoon ("We Will Return") Dabke and Art Theater group in Balata Camp's Yafa Cultural Center. Mohammed has been working in theater since 1993, and has directed many plays, several television pieces, and most recently the documentary film "Nour's Dream". The Balata Film Collective will be raising funds during their visit to help them achieve the following goals: Founding theaters or cinemas to make our films available for every one who wants to see them. Training children, youth and adults in Balata Camp how to make documentaries and how to use cameras to deliver their ideas. Participating in film festivals to deliver our ideas to the world. Sponsored by Al-Awda NY, Al Jisser Group and New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine. Wednesday, May 3rd Films from Balata Camp: Visions of Struggle and Steadfastness A benefit to bring filmmakers from Balata Camp to The Bridge The Bridge 521 W. 26th St. 3rd Floor New York City 7:00 p.m. $5 suggested donation Balata Refugee Camp is one of the most hard-hit communities in Palestine's West Bank. The over 30,000 residents, refugees of the 1948 Nakba, live in a heavily militarized zone where tear gas, gunshots, and military searches are a part of everyday life. Join us to see these remarkable films - made in Balata Camp by young Palestinians, members of the Balata Film Collective! In cooperation with Al Jisser Group and New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine, Al-Awda NY will be bringing 3 members of the Balata Film Collective to The Bridge! Please join us on May 3rd to view several of their short films and help us raise funds to cover their travel expenses for their U.S. tour. Sunday, April 9th A Survivor talks about the 58th Anniversary of Deir Yassin Massacre The Bridge 521 W. 26th St. 3rd Floor New York City 6:00 p.m. On the 58th anniversary of the Deir Yassin Massacre, Al Awda NY celebrates another triumph of the human spirit as we listen to 'am Dawud. Dawud As'ad, 17 years old young Palestinian at the time, miraculously survived the massacre, but had to live with the loss of more than 20 members of his extended family. His traumatic experience meant among other things the dealing with the loss of his only TWO years old brother, his 96 years old grandmother and the arrest of his SIX years old sister. 'am Dawud in his seventies now, enjoys an active life in New Jersey where he is a prominent member of the Arab Muslim community. Dawud's story begins early in the morning of April 9, 1948, when commandos of the Irgun (headed by Menachem Begin) and the Stern Gang attacked Deir Yassin, a village with about 750 Palestinian residents. The village had a peaceful reputation, but it was located on high ground in the corridor between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Deir Yassin was slated for occupation under Plan Dalet and the mainstream Jewish defense force, the Haganah, authorized the irregular terrorist forces of the Irgun and the Stern Gang to perform the takeover. In all over 100 men, women, and children were systematically murdered. Fifty-three orphaned children were literally dumped along the wall of the Old City, where they were found by Miss Hind Husseini and brought behind the American Colony Hotel to her home, which was to become the Dar El-Tifl El-Arabi orphanage. From Deir Yassin, to Jenin, the Zionist enterprise has only strived to stay faithful to its racist nature! Saturday, April 1st Al-Awda Cafe Commemorating Yom al Ard (Day of the Land) The Bridge 521 W. 26th St. 3rd Floor New York City 7:00 p.m. $10 suggested donation Join us as we commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Day of the Land (March 30, 1976) The event will feature: a commemoration of the life of Ali Kased a screening of the Al-Awda film contest winner "My Land" the unveiling of the Al-Awda Youth mural project! musical entertainment! the unveiling of a very special Al-Awda project! fundraising for Al Rowwad Cultural Center! Saturday, March 25th Zuhdi Al-Adawi "Made in Palestine" Artist and Former Political Prisoner . . . plus Solidarity with Political Prisoners everywhere! With special guest Ashanti Alston! The Bridge 521 W. 26th St. 3rd Floor New York City 5:00 p.m. reception 6:00 p.m. presentation Zuhdi al-Adawi is a Palestinian artist and former political prisoner whose work is part of the "Made in Palestine" exhibition. While imprisoned in Ashkelon prison, he taught himself to make art, and secretly made art during his time in prison, hiding his work and sneaking it out with visitors; when his art was discovered, he would be thrown in solitary confinement. In 1985, Zuhdi al-Adawi was released in a prisoner exchange but was exiled to Lebanon; he since moved to Damascus, Syria, where he lives today. Please join us to hear about his experiences, his life, and his art, and to honor this freedom fighter for Palestine, as an activist and as an artist. We will be joined by special guest Ashanti Alston, national co-chair of the Jericho Movement. A former member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army, Ashanti Alston was a political prisoner for 12 years in the United States. We will also hear reports from our allies on political prisoner struggles in other movements. Come to learn more about Assata Shakur, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Leonard Peltier, and struggles in Puerto Rico and the Philippines! Sunday, March 19th Palestinian Health Issues under Occupation A discussion with Palestinian health workers from Ibdaa Health Committee The Bridge 521 W. 26th St. 3rd Floor New York City 3:00 p.m. Join us to welcome three Palestinian health workers from Ibdaa Health Committee of Deheisheh Refugee Camp in Palestine, as they discuss the political situation, the health situation for Palestinians under occupation, the health needs of Palestinian refugees, and the very important work of the Ibdaa Health Committee. They are touring the US to educate the public and health communities here about the severe health crisis that exists in Palestinian society as a result of occupation and oppression, and the important work that Ibdaa Health Committee is doing to address the health needs of the Palestinian people at a grassroots level in Deheisheh. Their tour is designed to support the work of Ibdaa Health Committee and our speakers will be happy to accept any donation to support the work of the Health Committee. This event is free and open to the public! Please attend to hear these important voices. With guests Wisam Hasanat, Areej Ja'fari and Talal Shihadeh Click here for full event details and speaker biographies. PROTEST THE ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA!! Sunday, December 11th 5:00 - 7:00 PM Marriott Marquis Hotel 1535 Broadway Between 45th & 46th Streets NYC The ZOA will be presenting U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton with the "Defender of Israel" award. The ZOA lauds John Bolton for playing a key role in the repeal of the UN Resolution which recognized that Zionism is racism. The Zionist Organization of America was founded in 1897, in the early stages of the planning for the imperialist conquest of Palestine. Join Al-Awda NY as we say NO to racism and YES to the Right to Return! NEW YORK SAYS "NO" TO THE BUTCHER ARIEL SHARON!! Thursday, September 15th 3:00-6:00 PM Dag Hammerskjold Plaza 47th St. and 2nd Ave (across from the UN), NYC Subway: E, V Train to 53/Lexington Ave. Walk south to 47th St., turn left onto 2nd Ave. 4, 5, 6, 7, S Train to 42nd St./Grand Central Station. Walk east until 2nd Ave. and north to 47th St. SAY NO TO ARIEL SHARON! SUPPORT THE RIGHT TO RETURN FOR PALESTINIAN REFUGEES! REMEMBER SABRA AND SHATILA! FREE PALESTINE! On Thursday, September 15, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, the man responsible for the massacres of thousands of Palestinians and Lebanese, will speak before the United Nations General Assembly as part of the "World Summit." On the twenty-third anniversary of the killing of thousands of Palestinian refugees at Sabra and Shatila camps in Lebanon under Sharon's watch, the war criminal Ariel Sharon will speak as an honored guest at the United Nations in New York City. JOIN US to express our outrage at Sharon's presence in New York City before the United Nations, a body whose resolutions he has repeatedly flouted and ignored! UN Resolution 194 guarantees the right to return to all Palestinian refugees. While Sharon speaks before the UN, he refuses to honor and implement UN Resolution 194 or countless additional resolutions denouncing Zionist occupation of Palestine and requiring the recognition of the rights of the Palestinian people. On the contrary, he has continued his decades-long campaign of brutality against the Palestinian Arab people, dedicated to eradicating their very existence. From Qibya in 1952 to Sabra and Shatila in 1982 to Jenin in 2002, Ariel Sharon is a butcher and a war criminal who should be on trial at the Hague, not speaking before the General Assembly of the United Nations. Join Al-Awda New York on THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 from 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM to declare that SHARON IS NOT WELCOME HERE and to demand the UN immediately act to implement Resolution 194, the RIGHT TO RETURN OF ALL PALESTINIAN REFUGEES TO THEIR ORIGINAL HOMES AND PROPERTIES! Organizational endorsements and involvement are welcome! Please email protestsharon @ al-awdany.org to endorse or for more information! Partial list of endorsers (list in formation): NY Committee to Defend Palestine, NJ Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine, NYC Jericho Movement, Troops Out Now Coalition, New York City Labor Against the War, Coalition to Free the Angola 3, ANSWER NY, NYC Free Mumia Coalition, Palestine Solidarity Group-Chicago Download flyers! Full size 4-up Al-Awda New York is proud to present the return of: Al Awda Cafe! Saturday, September 10th 3:00 - 6:00pm Alwan for the Arts 16 Beaver St - 4th Floor NYC Plus stick around from 6:00 to 7:00 for a rally poster making session as we prepare to SAY NO to Ariel Sharon at the UN on September 15th! Al Awda Cafe returns with a celebration of Palestinian culture and resistance. Featuring: Resistance Hip Hop group Kontrast! A teaser from the upcoming Al Jisser presentation of Betty Shamieh's play ROAR! Short films from Balata Camp! Poetry! Photography and artwork! Palestine solidarity merchandise! ...plus food! $10 Sliding Scale Subway: 4,5 Bowling Green R,W Whitehall 2,3 Wall Street J,M Broad Street 1,9 South Ferry Wednesday, June 22nd The CHILDREN of the CAMPS: Al-Rowwad Palestinian Children's Theatre from Aida Refugee Camp 7:00 p.m. Al-Noor School 675 4th Ave (at 20th St) Brooklyn, NY Subway: R train to 25th Street or Prospect TICKETS: $15/adults $5/children and youth For additional information, email . Join us to welcome Al-Rowwad Palestinian Children's Theater to New York! Headquartered in Aida Refugee Camp, Al-Rowwad Children's Theater is a unique project that supports and emphasizes the creativity of Palestinian refugee youth. Al-Rowwad Center is a home for the cultural, artistic and theatrical training of children and youth, housing a computer center, a debke program, a children's theater program, an art program, and much more. Lauded in "American Theater" magazine, and visited by some of the U.S.'s leading playwrights, Al-Rowwad is an inspiring home of children's creativity and expression amid war and occupation, and an illustration of the resourcefulness of the refugee youth who continue to struggle for return and liberation, across generations. See Al-Rowwad website for details: http://alrowwad.virtualactivism.net/ In June 2005, Al-Rowwad Children's Theater will be touring the U.S., beginning their tour in the New York City area, and then traveling to Connecticut, Vermont, and Kentucky. Diverse organizers and activists from New York and New Jersey's theater community and Palestine activist community have joined together to raise funds to bring Al-Rowwad on this U.S. tour, and to our community. They will be performing in the New York area from June 18-22. Join us in welcoming them on June 22! Tuesday, May 17th Memorial for a Palestinian Fighter 7:30 p.m. Widdi Hall 5602 6th Ave. Brooklyn, NY Subway: Take the N or the R trains to 59th St. stop. Ali Qased, long-time activist and organizer for Palestinian national rights and a true revolutionary, died at the age of 62 in the early hours of Sunday, April 3rd, 2005, after a long struggle with a debilitating illness. He succumbed to complications from heart failure at St. Joseph's Hospital in Paterson, New Jersey. On Tuesday, May 17th, 2005, a little over 40 days after his death, the Palestine activists of New York and New Jersey will host a memorial in his honor. Friends, family, and colleagues from across the country will descend on a popular Arab community in Brooklyn, site of much of his organizing, to renew their solidarity and their determination to continue fighting for liberation, and to honor his life's work. We solicit written messages of solidarity to be collected in a memorial scrapbook, and we invite sympathizing local, national and international organizations to send representatives to this important event where we will celebrate the life of one of our own ? a rich life that contributed to the culture of liberation worldwide. Sponsors: Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition; New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine; the New York Committee to Defend Palestine; Palestine Solidarity Group - Chicago; Arab Community Center - Chicago Friday, April 1st Palestinian Political Prisoner Tour Presentation and discussion with Addameer lawyer Sahar Francis and former Palestinian political prisoners Akram Al-Ayasa and Ala Jaradat 8:00 p.m. 55 W. 17th St. 5th Floor (Between 5th and 6th Aves.) New York, NY Subway: F/V or 1/2/3/9 to 14th St. Sahar Francis, a Palestinian lawyer with Addameer who has worked for many years with Palestinian prisoners. Akram Al Ayasa an ex-political prisoner and former President of Bethlehem University Student Council. Arrested seven times from 1976-1990 by the Israeli occupation forces. Ala Jaradat, an ex political prisoner and activist with Addameer where he works with families of political detainees. There are over 7500 Palestinian political prisoners currently held in Zionist jails. Find out more about the central, vital struggle of Palestinian political prisoners and actions of solidarity we can take in North America! Sponsored by Al-Awda NY and NY Committee to Defend Palestine BREAKING THE CHAINS: AN EVENING OF POLITICAL PRISONER SOLIDARITY 7:00 p.m. St. Mary's Church 521 W. 126th St. NYC (Between Broadway and Amsterdam) (Subway: 1/9 to 125th Street and Broadway or A/B/C/D to 125th and St. Nicholas and walk west) Featuring "Women in Struggle," a new film direct from Palestine about Palestinian women political prisoners. Join us for an important evening of political prisoner solidarity, as activists from communities around the world and across NYC join together to support our prisoners and their struggles for freedom! From Palestine to NYC, political prisoners must be free! Featuring speakers: Buthina Canaan Khoury, Palestinian filmmaker and director of "Women in Struggle" Lynne Stewart, people's lawyer facing jail for her work Benjamin Ramos, ProLibertad Representative of NYC Free Mumia Coalition Representative of the Jericho Movement Representative of NY Committee to Free the Cuban Five and more! Sponsored by: Al-Awda NY, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition; Iglesia de San Romero de las Americas, Jericho Movement, New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine, NYC Free Mumia Coalition, New York Committee to Free the Cuban Five, ProLibertad and more! Endorsers/sponsors in formation, email info@newjerseysolidarity.org to endorse or sponsor the event Friday, Janurary 21st Dance for Palestine Doors Open @ 9 Club Rare 14th Street & 9th Avenue New York, NY Come take a break with DJ IZ spinning Arabic and House all night!! $15 at the door All proceeds go to support local organizing by Al-Awda NY Demonstrate for Palestinian rights! Friday, November 12th 6:00 p.m. Union Square New York, NY Subway - Take the L,N,R,4,5,6, to Union Square/14th St Free Palestine! Tear down the wall! Palestinian refugees will return! Print flyer (pdf) to help us promote! Festival of Cultural Resistance PRESS RELEASE: Culture Breathes Life to a Nation Art Exhibition: Representation & Misrepresentation Sept 24 - October 3, 2004 Alwan for the Arts 16 Beaver Street 4th floor New York, NY Art Exhibition Opening Reception** Friday September 24 7 - 10 pm Join us as we launch the Festival of Cultural Resistance with an opening reception. Works will be displayed by Palestinian and solidarity artists:
Haifa Bint-Kadi Haifa Bint-Kadi, an Arab-American Muslim, is an award-winning, nationally exhibited mosaic tile and glass artist working in the Arts for more than 15 years. She has degrees in Communications, English and Mosaic Tile Arts. Her mosaic studies were accomplished in Terni, Italy under Italian master mosaic tile craftsmen at the Ravenna School of Art. Ms. Bint-Kadi is also an arts educator and firmly believes that no child is too young to have their creativity developed and nurtured Samia Halaby Samia Halaby is a Palestinian artist born in Quds prior to the nakba. She has taught in American universities for seventeen years ending with ten years at the Yale School of Art. She is the author of "Liberation Art of Palestine." Her work is on display in museums around the world, and she has been featured in numerous one-artist shows internationally. Kevin Noble Kevin Noble is an artist from New York who works primarily in painting, drawing and photography. He is founding member of the Culture & Conflcit Group which aims to challenge the assumptions that art is nuetral in any given context. His recent series of photograhs, 'Irish Republicans: Ireland and America', was shown at the CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, New York, and as part of the 'Terrorvision' exhibition at Exit Art in New York. He lives and works in New York. Jackie Salloum Jackie Salloum is a Palestinian/Syrian artist who works in video, digital printing and sculpture. Her work deals explicitly with the oppression of the Palestinian people and anti-arab sentiment in the west. Foscusing on cultural resistance she is currently working on a video exploring the growth of Hip Hop in Palestine. Her work has been exhibited widely, including solo and group shows in New York, Chicago and Ireland. She lives and works in New York.		Meir Gal Meir Gal is an artist from Jerusalem whose work in Photography and Installation explores the legacy of racism and militarism in the Isreali state. He has exhibited internationaly, most recently in Zurich, Switzerland where he produced an extensive installation piece dealing explicitily with the construction of the Aparthied wall in Palestine. He currently lives and works in New York. Frankie Quinn Frankie Quinn is a photographer from Belfast, Ireland whose work has explored every aspect of life under British occupation in his native city. He has exhibited internationaly and has recently traveled to palestine on two occasions to document to the affects of the ongoing Israeli occupation on the lives of the Palestinan people. he currently lives and works in Belfast, Ireland. Cynthia Large Cynthia Large works primarily in painting and in marquetry. Her work has explored the historical impact of British rule in Ireland and the dispossession of the Palestinian people in 1948. She has exhibited widely including recent exhibitions at Ann Nathan Gallery in Chicago, and as part of the Culture and Conflcit Group, in Galway and Derry, Ireland. She lives and works in New York. Dean Bardouka Dean Bardouka , an artist of Syrian descent, works in painting, design and sculpture and produces work that testifies to the importance of taking pride in the spirit of resistance in Arab Culture. His drawings depict the spirit of resistance of the Palestinian people and his work in screenprinting and metal celebrates the rich cultural heritage of the Arab world. He lives and works in New York. Conor McGrady Conor McGrady is an artist from the north of Ireland whose drawings and paintings explore the impact of military occupation. He has exhibited widely with a recent solo show in Red Dot Gallery, New York. He is a member of the Culture & Conflcit group and currently lives and works in New York.
Evening Of Cultural Resistance Saturday September 25 4 - 11 pm 4:00 - 6:30 p.m. Al-Awda launches the evening with a talent show featuring local youth! Representing the new generation of cultural resistance, Palestinian Arabs and Arabs for Palestine between the ages of 4 and 21 will present artwork and perform poetry, rhymes, and Palestinian and Arabic songs of liberation. 7:00 p.m. The celebration of cultural resistance continues with dance and song. The traditional debka dance evolved from the rich culture of Palestinian farming. Farmers made their task more enjoyable and collectively productive by incorporating dance into their work. Today, debka serves as a Palestinian symbol of victory, solidarity and resistance. The Debka troupe, Eyes of Palestine, will perform. The evening continues with a performance of Palestinian & Iraqi folk music performed on traditional Arabic instruments such as the oud and tableh. Al-Awda is calling on Palestinian Arabs and Arabs for Palestine between the ages of 4 and 21 to share their talents with us on this evening. To be involved, please read the Talent Call (English / عربي) for more information! Film and Video Mini Festival Sunday September 26
3:00 PM "The Cage", Director Fathi A. Ali, 2003 This film is a documentary about children in Al Ama'ari refugee camp (near Ramallah). It shows Fathi A. Ali working with the children on a theatre play about their own lives, the lives of children in Palestine under the occupation. 4:15 PM "Mira'at Jamila/Jamila's Mirror", Director Arab Lotfi, 1993 This documentary, by Lebanese/Egyptian filmmaker Arab Lotfi is about memory. In it Palestinian women in their 40s who had been guerrilla fighters talk about the time when they were involved in military operations, often when they were 18 or 19 years old. 5:00 PM "until when..." Director Dahna Abourahme, 2003 "until when..." is about four Palestinian families who live in Dheisheh Refugee Camp near Bethlehem. We follow them in their daily activities as they tell us about their lives and their hopes for a better tomorrow. "until when..." offers an intimate portrait of a resilient people whose basic living needs, freedom of movement and equality embody not only the struggles which come with living under occupation but also their dreams. 6:30 PM "like twenty impossibles", Director Annemarie Jacir, 2003 Occupied Palestine: A serene landscape now pockmarked by military checkpoints. When a Palestinian film crew decides to avert a closed checkpoint by taking a remote side road, the political landscape unravels, and the passengers are slowly taken apart by the mundane brutality of military occupation. Both a visual poem and a narrative, like twenty impossibles questions the opportunism of artists and the politics of filmmaking, while focusing on the fragmentation of a people.		7:00 PM "In The Spider's Web", Director Hanna Musleh, 2004 In the Spiders Web was produced by Al-Haq in order to provide a visual overview of collective punishment as it affects the daily lives of Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Directed by Hanna Musleh, the 45-minute film tells many stories, focusing on two in particular: those of a woman from Hebron and another from Nablus. 8:00 PM "Planet of the Arabs", Director Jackie Salloum, 2003 A movie trailer-esque montage spectacle of Hollywood's relentless dehumanization and vilification of Arabs and Muslims. 8:15 PM "Rana's Wedding", Director Hany Abu Assad, 2002 Shooting on location in East Jerusalem, Ramallah and at checkpoints in-between, Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad sees Palestine through the eyes of a young woman who, with only ten hours to marry, must negotiate her way around roadblocks, soldiers, stone-throwers, overworked officials ... and into the heart of an elusive lover.

Past Events

Friday, April 4th, 2008 Continuing Al Nakba Series.... Screening and Discussion with director John Halaka ("Made in Palestine" artist): The Presence of Absence in the Ruins of Kafr Bir'im

Sunday, March 30th, 2008 Youm Al Ard The Day of the Land

THE BUTCHER OF GAZA IS COMING TO NEW YORK!!

COMMEMORATE THE LIFE OF DR. GEORGE HABASH

EMERGENCY GAZA MOBILIZATION

AL NAKBA EDUCATIONAL SERIES

Sunday, October 28, 2007 FESTIVAL OF PALESTINIAN AND ARAB CULTURE

Sunday, June 10, 2007 All out for Liberation and Return!

SATURDAY, MAY 12TH, 2007 COMMEMORATE AL-NAKBA.... GET INVOLVED WITH THE STRUGGLE FOR RETURN!

TUESDAY, APRIL 24th, 2007 Closing Celebration for PICTURE BALATA exhibition

FRIDAY, MARCH 30TH, 2007 Al-Awda Cafe: Fundraiser for PICTURE BALATA exhibition!

SATURDAY, MARCH 3RD, 2007 AL-AWDA NY GENERAL INTEREST MEETING

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15TH, 2007 APARTHEID THROUGH THE LENS: A Fundraising Evening for the Young Photographers of Balata Refugee Camp, Palestine

SATURDAY, JANUARY 20TH, 2007 FILM SCREENING: PEOPLE AND THE LAND a film by Tom Hayes

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15TH FILM SCREENING: PALESTINE BLUES Followed by Q&A with filmmaker NIDA SINNOKROT

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3RD VOICES OF RESISTANCE: REPORTING BACK FROM PALESTINE AND LEBANON With FERNANDO REALS and SAMIA HALABY

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30TH On the Sixth Anniversary of the Intifada... STOP the WAR AGAINST THE ARAB PEOPLE! From Palestine to Lebanon, from Iraq to Brooklyn...

PROTEST ATTACKS ON LEBANON AND PALESTINE! Friday, July 28th 3:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Zionist Consulate 800 2nd Ave (btw 42nd & 43rd Sts.) New York, NY

PROTEST ZIONIST WAR CRIMES IN PALESTINE AND LEBANON Wednesday, July 26th 6:00 p.m. Union Square South 14th St at Broadway New York, NY

PROTEST THE KILLING OF PALESTINIANS DEMAND THE RELEASE OF PALESTINIAN POLITICAL PRISONERS Friday, June 30th 4:30 p.m. Zionist Consulate 800 2nd Ave (btw 42nd & 43rd Sts.) New York, NY

Emergency National Action - Protest Israeli Massacres Of Palestinians Friday, June 16th 6:00 p.m. Union Square South 14th St at Broadway New York, NY

Rally in Commemoration of Al Nakba Sunday, May 14th 12:00 Noon Convene at Lief Eriksen Park 5th Avenue between 66th and 67th Streets Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, NY

Friday, May 12th Resisting Occupation Through Film: Balata Film Collective

Wednesday, May 3rd Films from Balata Camp: Visions of Struggle and Steadfastness A benefit to bring filmmakers from Balata Camp to The Bridge

Sunday, April 9th A Survivor talks about the 58th Anniversary of Deir Yassin Massacre

Saturday, April 1st Al-Awda Cafe Commemorating Yom al Ard (Day of the Land)

Saturday, March 25th Zuhdi Al-Adawi "Made in Palestine" Artist and Former Political Prisoner . . . plus Solidarity with Political Prisoners everywhere! With special guest Ashanti Alston!

Sunday, March 19th Palestinian Health Issues under Occupation A discussion with Palestinian health workers from Ibdaa Health Committee

PROTEST THE ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA!!

NEW YORK SAYS "NO" TO THE BUTCHER ARIEL SHARON!!

Al-Awda New York is proud to present the return of: Al Awda Cafe!

Wednesday, June 22nd The CHILDREN of the CAMPS: Al-Rowwad Palestinian Children's Theatre from Aida Refugee Camp

Tuesday, May 17th Memorial for a Palestinian Fighter

Friday, April 1st Palestinian Political Prisoner Tour

Friday, Janurary 21st Dance for Palestine

Demonstrate for Palestinian rights!

Festival of Cultural Resistance

Art Exhibition: Representation & Misrepresentation Sept 24 - October 3, 2004

Friday, April 4th, 2008
Continuing Al Nakba Series....

Screening and Discussion with director John Halaka ("Made in Palestine" artist):
The Presence of Absence in the Ruins of Kafr Bir'im

Sunday, March 30th, 2008
Youm Al Ard
The Day of the Land

Sunday, October 28, 2007
FESTIVAL OF PALESTINIAN AND ARAB CULTURE

Sunday, June 10, 2007
All out for Liberation and Return!

SATURDAY, MAY 12TH, 2007
COMMEMORATE AL-NAKBA....
GET INVOLVED WITH THE STRUGGLE FOR RETURN!

TUESDAY, APRIL 24th, 2007
Closing Celebration for PICTURE BALATA exhibition

FRIDAY, MARCH 30TH, 2007
Al-Awda Cafe:
Fundraiser for PICTURE BALATA exhibition!

SATURDAY, MARCH 3RD, 2007
AL-AWDA NY GENERAL INTEREST MEETING

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15TH, 2007
APARTHEID THROUGH THE LENS:
A Fundraising Evening for the Young Photographers of Balata Refugee Camp, Palestine

SATURDAY, JANUARY 20TH, 2007
FILM SCREENING: PEOPLE AND THE LAND
a film by Tom Hayes

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15TH
FILM SCREENING: PALESTINE BLUES
Followed by Q&A with filmmaker NIDA SINNOKROT

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3RD
VOICES OF RESISTANCE: REPORTING BACK FROM PALESTINE AND LEBANON
With FERNANDO REALS and SAMIA HALABY

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30TH
On the Sixth Anniversary of the Intifada...
STOP the WAR AGAINST THE ARAB PEOPLE!
From Palestine to Lebanon, from Iraq to Brooklyn...

PROTEST ATTACKS ON LEBANON AND PALESTINE!

Friday, July 28th
3:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Zionist Consulate
800 2nd Ave (btw 42nd & 43rd Sts.)
New York, NY

PROTEST ZIONIST WAR CRIMES IN PALESTINE AND LEBANON

Wednesday, July 26th
6:00 p.m.

Union Square South
14th St at Broadway
New York, NY

PROTEST THE KILLING OF PALESTINIANS
DEMAND THE RELEASE OF PALESTINIAN POLITICAL PRISONERS

Friday, June 30th
4:30 p.m.

Zionist Consulate
800 2nd Ave (btw 42nd & 43rd Sts.)
New York, NY

Emergency National Action -
Protest Israeli Massacres Of Palestinians
Friday, June 16th
6:00 p.m.

Union Square South
14th St at Broadway
New York, NY

Rally in Commemoration of Al Nakba
Sunday, May 14th
12:00 Noon

Convene at Lief Eriksen Park
5th Avenue between 66th and 67th Streets
Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, NY

Friday, May 12th
Resisting Occupation Through Film:
Balata Film Collective

Wednesday, May 3rd
Films from Balata Camp:
Visions of Struggle and Steadfastness
A benefit to bring filmmakers from Balata Camp to The Bridge

Sunday, April 9th
A Survivor talks about the 58th Anniversary of Deir Yassin Massacre

Saturday, April 1st
Al-Awda Cafe
Commemorating Yom al Ard (Day of the Land)

Saturday, March 25th
Zuhdi Al-Adawi
"Made in Palestine" Artist and Former Political Prisoner
. . . plus Solidarity with Political Prisoners everywhere!
With special guest Ashanti Alston!

Sunday, March 19th
Palestinian Health Issues under Occupation
A discussion with Palestinian health workers
from Ibdaa Health Committee

Al-Awda New York is proud to present the return of:
Al Awda Cafe!

Wednesday, June 22nd
The CHILDREN of the CAMPS:
Al-Rowwad Palestinian Children's Theatre from Aida Refugee Camp

Tuesday, May 17th
Memorial for a Palestinian Fighter

Friday, April 1st
Palestinian Political Prisoner Tour

Friday, Janurary 21st
Dance for Palestine

Art Exhibition: Representation & Misrepresentation
Sept 24 - October 3, 2004