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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">***Forward Widely***</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:35px;">Remember al-Nakba</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;"><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:xx-large;">The Palestinian Catastrophe: 1948 to Today</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:26.0pt;"><b>Wednesday, May 13, </b><span style="font-size:24.0pt;"><b>3:30pm</b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;"><b>2<sup>nd</sup> Floor of Campus Center, Rm. 2545</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:24px;font-weight:bold;">UMASS BOSTON</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;"><b> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:21px;">On May 13, <u>WEAR BLACK</u> and join us in a
discussion of </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:21px;">the history of the Nakbah and the situation of Palestinians
today.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;"><i> </i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;"><b>***</b></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;"><i>Special
Guest </i></span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;"><b>OMAR BADDAR</b></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;"><b> </b></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;"><i>will
be speaking***</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;"><i> </i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;"><i>The Nakba, which means catastrophe in Arabic,
refers to the systematic campaign waged by Zionist paramilitaries</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;"><i> between 1947
and 1949 to "empty" Palestine of its Arab inhabitants in order to set
up the exclusively Jewish state </i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;"><i>of Israel. Some 800,000 Palestinians were
driven into exile.</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:19px;font-style:italic;"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;"><i>Unfortunately, the forced expulsion and oppression
of Palestinians goes on today, as we witnessed with </i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;"><i>Israel’s barbarous siege on
Gaza and the on-going expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank.</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;"><i> </i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">**</span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Omar Baddar</span></b><span style="font-weight:normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> is the Director of the Palestine Cultural Center, a
Steering Committee member of the</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style="font-weight:normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style="font-weight:normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">and
a Board member of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee of
Massachusetts. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style="font-weight:normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Omar travels to the Middle East on a biennial basis, and his
last trip</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style="font-weight:normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span> to Israel/Palestine was in the summer of 2008.
(<a target="_blank" href="http://omarbaddar.net/index.html">http://omarbaddar.net/index.html</a>)</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:ArialMT;color:white;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;"><b>Students
Against Occupation</b></span></p>
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