Al-Awda,
The Palestine Right to Return Coalition announces our third National Demonstration.
This demonstration is to Commemorate the Second Anniversary of the Intifada
and a solemn Remembrance of the 20th Anniversary of the Sabra and Shatilla
Massacre, on Sunday September 29th, 2002 in Chicago , Illinois.
Al-Awda calls on all its members and supporters to join us in Chicago
on the weekend of September 29th. Preliminary events will begin on Saturday
the 28th, which include: working groups, opportunities to network and attend
workshops and a special event on Saturday night: Cafe Intfada, which will
include an evening of spoken word, music and performance for the Liberation
of Palestine.
Sunday's
National Rally will be held from 11 am to 6 PM, In Federal Plaza, and will
include a march and a rally with a variety of speakers. These events will
draw the public's attention to the dire situation in Palestine, attention
to the plight of the Palestinian Refugees, Israel's gross human rights abuses
and the suffering it has inflicted over 54 years, the past two years unlike
any events seen in the history of the Palestine. We affirm the inalienable
right of all Palestinian Refugees to return to their homes of origin, and
to the lands from which they were expelled in 1948 and thereafter. The Rally
will highlight the unity of the Palestinian people everywhere, as well as
reaffirm our unqualified support for our people in Occupied Palestine suffering
for two long years under the brutal regime of Ariel Sharon , Israeli policies,
and the racist Israeli Apartheid policies which have killed over 2000, innocent
men women and children and injured, and maimed for life over 20,000 Palestinians
two thirds who are children under the age of eighteen.
The events will also commemorate and honor those lost in the 1982
Massacre of Sabra and Shatilla, in Beirut Lebanon, at the hands of the Butcher
known to us as Ariel Sharon. In September 1982, approximately two thousand
innocent Palestinian and Lebanese men, women and children were killed in
the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatilla in Beirut. These massacres were financed
and supported by Israel whose military surrounded the camps and occupied
Beirut at the time. The ongoing Al-Aqsa Intifada began in September 2000
following Ariel Sharon's provocative visit to Islam's holiest site in Jerusalem.
We, Al-Awda, as the largest grassroots network for Palestinian
human rights, call on each and every supporter defender and advocate for
the Palestinian people to join us on this solemn occasion, by reaching out
to your local groups and committees to arrange for the largest possible attendance.
There is no time to waste and no sacrifice too great for us all to show our
undying solidarity with the Palestinian people, as well as to show a massive
force of dissent at the current ill begotten support of Israsl by the United
States, by way of its policies towards Israel and against the full and certain
rights of the Palestinian peoples as they have suffered over two years in
this brutal assault on their life and liberty.
Please join us on September 29th, as we affirm out national aspirations,
as we affirm the inalienable right to return and compensation of all Palestine
Refugees. On that day, there will be similar events across the globe, as
we stand in unity with our besieged people at this time of desperation and
outrage.
More information will be forthcoming as will announcements about
events taking place simultaneously around the globe, in the camps and on
the ground in Palestine.
If you are interested in helping to plan for these events, please
help by joining Al-Awda Events Committee by sending a blank message to:
al-awda-events-subscribe@yahoogroups.com as soon as possible.
We also call on all local committees in North America and Canada,
to begin the process of planning for transportation and fundraising for this
most vital and important event.
Working together we can make this event the largest ever Al-Awda Rally.
STAND UP FOR PALESTINE! SPEAK OUT AGAINST THE USA's POLICIES! CALL FOR AN END TO ZIONIST ISRAELI APARTHEID AND MURDER!
Join US as We Dare to Speak Truth To Power!
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