Sabeel, Code Pink, the Washington Report for Middle East Affairs, and several other organizations are sponsoring a Nakba remembrance outside the White House next week. The groups are hoping for 500 to attend so as to commemorate every village extirpated:
In Their Name….. We Remember The NAKBA
Come congregate with us….
531 of us (1 for every village lost) for a memorial
In front of the White House on May 15, 2012 6:30pm-Sunset
We will be joined by local students on a Hunger Strike in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners. -Reading of Village Names -Testimonials of Survivors -Display of Antiquities from the Nakba…..Old Village Key, Diary -Mobile Art Exhibit – “Faces of Nakba” Mobile Slide Show of the Nabka – LED truck will circle the White House And… At Sunset….1 person, 1 candle, 1 village…..
531 candles lit in remembrance & hope with a reading of Mahmoud Darwish’s Poem “I Come From There”
Sponsored by Ad Hoc Committee for Nakba 2012
Q: After shifting on gay-marriage (a form of human rights), can an Obama shift from pretend to real concern for Palestinian human and national rights be far behind? A: yes, but we must keep working. Maybe sometime in November there might be an announcement * * * (I DID say “maybe”).
If I were advising Obama I would’ve told him to wait until after the election to come out for gay marriage (mind you only 57,000 couples even got gay married out of tens of millions of US gays) because now he’ll lose toss-up North Carolina and maybe Florida and Iowa and Ohio (and possibly Virginia too) with that stance – because Romney is such a pathetic candidate Obama will still squeak out an electoral win with 271 electoral votes in a worst-case-scenario … as for the Nabka, absolutely O should wait until after the election – there is not enough gay money to substitute for the lower amount of jewish money this election cycle
awesome!
someday a president will honor the nakba in a ceremony in the rose garden!