Palestine in the World

Join us for an afternoon of reflection and learning about the global impacts of the Nakba, partitions, and displacements. In 1948, over 500 Palestinian villages were destroyed and depopulated, and up to 1 million Palestinians were forcibly expelled through ethnic cleansing by the Zionist entity. We come together to commemorate Nakba Day and all internationalist struggles bound up in Palestinian liberation - as Palestinian revolutionary Ghassan Kanafani wrote: "Imperialism has laid its body over the world, the head in Eastern Asia, the heart in the Middle East, its arteries reaching Africa and Latin America."

The Palestinian liberation movement echoes in a worldwide continuum with many interconnected legacies and trajectories. Come hear about freedom struggles from Palestine to Sudan, anti-displacement fights from the Downtown Eastside to global land defense movements, and the afterlives of colonial mandates and partition plans from Palestine to South Asia to Turtle Island.

Monday May 18 (long weekend)

Food & gallery exhibit: 11:30 am to 12:30 pm

Speakers: 12:30-2 pm

Vines Den, 825 East Hastings Street

Part of the Remembering the Nakba commemoration weekend, including workshops and an art exhibit May 16-18 at Vines Den, and a Nakba Day Rally on Friday May 15 at 5:30 pm at Grandview Park.

Speakers:

Chantelle Spicer (she/they): organiser, food grower, and poet

Laurel Albina (she/her): grandaughter of Jamil Albina, prominent Palestinian photographer from Al-Quds

Harjap Grewal (he/him): participant in spectrum of movements with interest in identifying connections

Hala Mousa: community organizer with Sudan Solidarity Collective, with focus on war economies

WOW Accessibility + Housekeeping:

This event is being hosted in a venue in the DTES, a neighbourhood targeted by colonial, racist, anti-poor, anti-sex worker, and anti-drug user policies and rhetoric especially impacting Indigenous peoples. If you’re a guest in the DTES, please reflect on being present in the neighbourhood in a good way.

We will be collecting distro items: socks, underwear, toiletries, blankets, period products, flashlights, emergency blankets.

Free event, donations will be collected at the door for Gaza

Masks are mandatory & will be available on site

ASL-English Interpretation confirmed

Harm reduction supplies are available onsite

Please note that the venue has a portable ramp, and we welcome advance notice to avoid any delays making the space accessible for you. Venue Accessibility: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v3_YYoL-MebhsDDJO2J1vDU-W-Z-KaVi280BeqKMd_k/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.2t4x7o4xj5yg

We never collaborate with any policing agency. This includes never allowing entry to cops, cbsa etc, nor ever providing information or immigration status of people.