<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); ">Commemorating the 64th Anniversary of the Nakba in Palestine, </span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); ">please join us for an evening of remembrance, poetry, and musical performance.</span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); ">Thursday May 17th, 2012</span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); ">7:00 PM</span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); ">Lewis Room</span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); ">Cambridge Public Library, Central Square</span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); ">45 Pearl St, Cambridge</span><br style="color:
rgb(69, 69, 69); "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); ">accessible by bus and red line, Central Sq stop, wheelchair accessible</span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); ">This event is free. </span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); ">*****</span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); ">Here We Shall Stay (excerpt)</span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); ">"...Here we shall stay </span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); ">Like a wall upon your breast </span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); ">Washing dishes in idle, buzzing bars </span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><span style="color:
rgb(69, 69, 69); ">Pouring drinks for our overlords </span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); ">Scrubbing floors in blackened kitchens </span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); ">To snatch a crumb of bread for our children </span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); ">From between your blue fangs. </span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); ">Here we shall stay </span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); ">A hard wall on your breast. </span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); ">We hunger </span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); ">Have no clothes </span><br style="color: rgb(69,
69, 69); "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); ">We defy </span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); ">Sing our songs </span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); ">Sweep the sick streets with our angry dances </span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); ">Saturate the prisons with dignity and pride </span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); ">Keep on making children </span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); ">One revolutionary generation </span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); ">After another </span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); ">As though we were twenty impossibilities </span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69,
69); ">In Lydda, Ramla, and Galilee..."</span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); ">by Tawfiq Zayyad</span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); ">*****</span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); ">HISTORY</span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); ">This May marks the 64th anniversary of the Nakba (Arabic for "catastrophe") in Palestine in 1948 when over 935,000 Palestinians (85% of the indigenous population of Palestine at that time) were forced off their land, </span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); ">in some cases at gunpoint, in other cases through massacres or threats of massacres like the massacre at Deir
Yassin. As a result, 530 of an estimated 550 total villages were completely destroyed or depopulated. "Israel" was founded on the racist ideology of zionism. It has followed the expansionist and genocidal logic of white supremacy and colonialism for over sixty years. Today, the genocide in Palestine continues: from the planned demolition of Palestinian homes in occupied Al Quds (Jerusalem) to the attacks by zionist settlers on Palestinian farmers to the continued siege of the people of Gaza-- deprived of food, water, electricity, and medicine-- to the mass detention of over 11,000 Palestinian political prisoners. </span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); ">*This event is sponsored by the P3 Committee: Palestine, Poetry, and Politics and is free and open to the public.</span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><span style="color: rgb(69,
69, 69); ">Flyers attached.</span> <br></div></div></body></html>