IPSC Nakba Week 2010 (8 - 15 May): Remember Past Injustices, Organise to End Current Abuses

national | rights, freedoms and repression | press release Thursday May 06, 2010 20:58 by IPSC

Nakba Week events from 8th - 15th May 2010.

To commemorate the 62nd Anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba (the Arabic for 'catastrophe') - which saw the forcible explusion of over 700,000 Palestinians from their homes to faciliate the creation of the Zionist State of Israel in 1948 - the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign(IPSC) will be hosting a series of Nakba Week events from 8th - 15th May 2010. The events include protests, a pamphlet launch, a day of discussion, film and skill-sharing and and a social evening with food and music.

Sat 8th May: Dublin - Rally to Remember the Children of Palestine
Mon 10th May: Dublin - Solidarity Demo with anti-Veolia Motion at DCC
Tue 11th May: Ennis - Protest the Defence Forces possibly buying Israeli bullets
Thur 13th May: Dublin - Launch of IPSC pamphlet *Gaza: A Background to the Conflict
Sat 15th May: Dublin - Palestine Day in Seomra Spraoi: Skill-sharing,discussions, film and social evening


Related Links:
Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign | Al Nakba | Palestine Remembered | Nakba Archive | Al-Awda: The Palestinian Right to Return Coalition |
Palestinian Return Centre | Al Nakba in Pictures

*Previous Nakba actions in Ireland:*

(2009) http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/ipsc/displayRelease.php?releaseID=116 | Dublin
(2008) http://www.indymedia.ie/article/87164 | Dublin
(2008) http://www.indymedia.ie/article/87466 | Dublin
(2008) http://www.indymedia.ie/article/89761 | Howth
(2008) http://www.indymedia.ie/article/86332 | Belfast
(2008) https://www.indymedia.ie/article/87148 | Belfast
(2008) http://www.indymedia.ie/article/82581 | Limerick
(2007) https://www.indymedia.ie/article/82537 | Dublin
(2007) "https://www.indymedia.ie/article/82463?condense_comments=false#comment194933