<br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Laila Murad ~ ليلى مراد</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lailawimurad@gmail.com">lailawimurad@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Thu, May 17, 2012 at 6:25 AM<br>Subject: Tonight! Commemorating the Nakba: A night of remembrance, poetry, and music<br>To: <br><br><br><div dir="ltr">*******Please Forward Widely*******<br>
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Commemorating the 64th Anniversary of the Nakba in Palestine,<br>
please join us for an evening of remembrance, poetry, and musical performance.<br>
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Tonight! Thursday May 17th, 2012<br>
7:00 PM<br>
Lewis Room<br>
Cambridge Public Library, Central Square<br>
45 Pearl St, Cambridge<br>
accessible by bus and red line, Central Sq stop, wheelchair accessible<br>
This event is free.<br>
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Here We Shall Stay (excerpt)<br>
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"...Here we shall stay<br>
Like a wall upon your breast<br>
Washing dishes in idle, buzzing bars<br>
Pouring drinks for our overlords<br>
Scrubbing floors in blackened kitchens<br>
To snatch a crumb of bread for our children<br>
>From between your blue fangs.<br>
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Here we shall stay<br>
A hard wall on your breast.<br>
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We hunger<br>
Have no clothes<br>
We defy<br>
Sing our songs<br>
Sweep the sick streets with our angry dances<br>
Saturate the prisons with dignity and pride<br>
Keep on making children<br>
One revolutionary generation<br>
After another<br>
As though we were twenty impossibilities<br>
In Lydda, Ramla, and Galilee..."<br>
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by Tawfiq Zayyad<br>
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HISTORY<br>
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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, 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.<br>
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*This event is sponsored by the P3 Committee: Palestine, Poetry, and Politics and is free and open to the public.<br>
Flyers attached.</div>
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