Al Awda-Chicago, American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), Chicago Islamic Center, Depaul-, Northwestern- and UIC-Students for Justice in Palestine, Mosque Foundation Community Center, Muslim American Society, Palestine Solidarity Group, and the United States Palestinian Popular Conference Network (USPCN) invite you to:

Rally to Commemorate 60 years of the Palestinian
Nakba (the Catastrophe)

Friday, May 23, 2008

5pm at the Federal Plaza (Dearborn and Adams in downtown Chicago)

60 Years of Exile, 60 Years of Catastrophe

+ Support the Right Of Return for all Palestinian Refugees and their Descendants.
+ Demand the End of Israeli Occupation.
+ Support Self-determination for the Palestinian People.

EVERY YEAR PALESTINIANS COMMEMORATE THE NAKBA (THE CATASTROPHE) : the expulsion and dispossession of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes and land in 1948. More than 60 percent of the total Palestinian population was expelled. More than 530 Palestinian villages were depopulated and completely destroyed. To date, Israel has prevented the return of approximately six million Palestinian refugees, who have either been expelled or displaced. Approximately 250,000 internally displaced Palestinian second-class citizens of Israel are prevented from returning to their homes and villages.

Join Chicagoland Palestinians and their supporters to commemorate this important occasion and to demand the Right of Return!!!

Contact info (at) palestineactivistnetwork.com, or visit [ www.palestineactivistnetwork.com/ ] for more information.

Buses will be leaving from south- and north-side locations.

Also Sponsored by: American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), ANSWER Coalition, Chicago Coalition Against War and Racism (CCAWR), Chicagoans Against Apartheid in Palestine (CAAP), Church Network for Education on Palestine (CNEP), Fight Back! Newspaper, International Solidarity Movement (ISM)-Chicago

www.amppalestine.org
www.maschicago.org
www.mosquefoundation.org/CommunityCenter/tabid/57/Default.aspx
www.palestineconference.org
www.psgchicago.org
sjp-uic.blogspot.com