Wednesday, May 18

Sunday events to attend around teh world

Sunday will be a significant day around the world as we not only commemorate but this time ACT to end the Nakba that started 63 years ago.  You can choose to wait it out or you can go out in the streets and be the change you want to see in this world.  I personally will be in Al-Walaja in the Bethlehem district where we gather at 10 AM AT Ain Jweiza mosque and march at 11 AM from the part of Al-Walaja occupied in 1967 to the part occupied and ethnically cleansed in 1948. Others will be in Qalandia Checkpoint (11 AM) and then Ofer Checkpoint (at 2 PM) near Ramallah.  Thousands will march on the Lebanese-Palestinian border from both sides.  Same for Egypt and Jordan.  Thousands will be in cities around the world marching on Israeli embassies and consulates (usually around noon to 2 PM).  63 years of ethnic cleansing meant that most of our people are refugees or displaced people (over 7 million) and that we comprise the largest remaining refugee population on earth.  30% of the world refugees are Palestinians.  Enough is enough.  Thousands have already demonstrated in Egyptian cities and in cities around the world on Friday and Saturday. But it is also not enough to have rallies and speeches.  Civil disobedience/civil resistance and other methods (e.g. boycotts, divestments, and sanctions) must be expanded. In Jerusalem, young Milad Said Ayash (17 years old)  was murdered by the apartheid regime as the first martyr of the Return uprising.Silence remains as complicity.

Here is what awaits in Palestine: The Beauty of Palestine

Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD
Join us in Palestine July 8-16 (see http://palestinejn.org)



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