SUMUD PALESTINE INVITES YOU JOIN US IN REMEMBERING THE NAKBA

When

14th May 2016    
3:00 pm – 5:30 pm

Where

Equality Hall, Raymond Street,
Hanley, , Stoke-on-Trent , ST1 4DP

Event Type

The tragedy of the continuing expulsion of the Palestinians from their homes and their land

 Saturday, 14  May 2016 from 3.00-5.30pm at Equality Hall, 

(The hall is behind the Stepping Stones Nursery.  There is good parking there and on the road)

We will return imagePROGRAMME

3.00 During arrival A Roll Call of Destroyed Villages

 3.30 Welcome and Introduction

 3.35 Palestine Pre 1948, before Zionist Israel “A land without people for a people without land”  

3.45 An Olive Tree, the Land and its Pain (reading)

 4.00 The Nakba: An Ongoing Catastrophe (film)

4.15 Palestinian Coffee and Mint Tea

 4.30 Our Presence is Our Resistance: We were born here. We will die here (film)

4.45 Jonathon Cook speaking from Nazareth on Nakba Day

Jonathon is a writer and award winning journalist who lives in Nazareth

5.00 Questions

 5.15 Ambergris: A poem by Taha Muhammad Ali 1931-2011

There will be separate collections to cover Sumud Palestine’s costs and to raise money to support farmers and mental health professionals in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Information and enquiries E: angela.glendenning@gmail.com  T: 01782-616368

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