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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Actions/webinars to commemorate the Nakba <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>“While facing the daunting impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and Israel’s #CoronaRacism, Palestinians everywhere are commemorating the 72nd anniversary of the Nakba [catastrophe] --the pre-meditated and violently executed ethnic cleansing of a majority of the Indigenous Palestinians from our homeland in 1948, at the hands of Zionist militias, to make room for an exclusionary, settler-colonial state.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> Most Palestinians exiled from their homeland carried with them the keys to their beloved homes, clinging to hope that they would soon return. Since then the Palestinian refugee key has become an icon of the Palestinian tragedy and a reminder that our refugees will one day return. Return has become our <strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>#KeyToJustice</span></strong>.” (Palestine BDS National Committee<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0 style='background:white'><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:106%;color:black'>Friday May 15. 2020</span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:106%'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:blue'>► Friday, May 15</span></b><span style='color:black'>, Take action this week to oppose Israeli settlements and annexation. <a href="http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/51044/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=22739">Click to send message to Congress.</a></span><b><span style='color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:blue'>►Friday, May 15</span></b><span style='color:black'>, 11am, Nakba Day Rally. <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAudOGrpj4sHtLsr0NL6xWEmkOKdRiP99P-?emci=b07e257f-c693-ea11-86e9-00155d03b5dd&emdi=02bcd284-5094-ea11-86e9-00155d03b5dd&ceid=253600">Click to Register</a></span><b><span style='color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black'>► </span></b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/266628057849849/" target="_blank">72 Years, A Birth Certificate</a><span style='color:black'> @ 12pm ET video premiere featuring Sara Abou Rashed’s Nakba Day poem-in-movement, hosted by Jewish Voice for Peace Boston facebook, funded by Palestine Advocacy Project </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black'>►Homemade: An Online Poetry Reading for the People </span></b><span style='color:black'>@ 7-9pm ET - Featuring Aja Monet, Dareen Tatour, Tef Poe, Frank Waln, Remi Kanazi, and more! <b>Watch the livestream at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/poetajamonet" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/poetajamonet</a></b></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>► </span><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fSQJFHRzROKHyMqyqfM7Vg" target="_blank">Palestine & the Blockade on Gaza</a><span style='color:black'> @ 5pm PT / 8pm ET - hosted by AROC and the Red Nation </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>►<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PH_wGz7hAdv7L8dO5pz_Hezp0-z3TCEXW6WLjv8dOP8/edit" target="_blank">Twitter Storm using #NakbaDay2020</a><span style='color:black'> (click for sample tweets), May 15th @ 2-4pm EST, hosted by USPCN.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>►Nakba Actions From the Palestinian BDS National Committee <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><a href="https://bdsmovement.net/emailblaster/sendy/l/hnNABUjMajI6lmdVwOPjjA">Participate in our #KeyToJustice online action tomorrow on Nakba Day, May 15, by sharing a photo of yourself holding a Palestinian refugee key on social media</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><a href="https://bdsmovement.net/emailblaster/sendy/l/54cALrLSUsmEbgy1EgLXwg">Join our webinar today on connections between struggles to end the ongoing Nakba and those of refugees, migrants and others without adequate housing</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><a href="https://bdsmovement.net/emailblaster/sendy/l/YpgyuyIP7633jnANld02ArzQ">Register to participate in our global online Nakba Day Rally on May 15</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><a href="https://bdsmovement.net/emailblaster/sendy/l/ElrVvyVbNGnbBJaa1Yv3YQ">Read our full statement on the ongoing Nakba and intensifying BDS pressure</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;line-height:106%;color:black'><br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:106%;color:black'>Saturday May 16, 2020</span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:106%'><o:p></o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0 style='background:white'><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:blue'>Saturday, May 16</span></b><span style='color:black'>, 11am, From Nakba to Return: The Ongoing Struggle for Palestinian Liberation. <a href="http://bit.ly/nakba2return">Click to register</a>.</span><b><span style='color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:blue'>Saturday, May 16</span></b><span style='color:black'>, 9am, Webinar: Commemorate by Resisting: The Nakba and Indigenous Struggles. Stories from Palestinian and Native American resistance. <a href="http://fosna.nationbuilder.com/nakba_2020?utm_campaign=nakbeh2020&utm_medium=email&utm_source=fosna">Click to register</a></span><b><span style='color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:106%;color:black'>All week (Monday May 11 - Friday May 15):</span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:106%'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://twitter.com/sjpchi/status/1256298297104490497/photo/1" target="_blank">Digital Apartheid Week</a><span style='color:black'> hosted by SJP Chicago. Events include panel discussion, cooking class, live performance, and more! Follow @SJPChi on Twitter for updates. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B_0kNC0Ardc/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link" target="_blank">From Nakba to Return - Commemoration Event</a><span style='color:black'> @ 11am - hosted by Palestinian Youth Movement. Registration: <a href="http://bit.ly/nakba2return" target="_blank">bit.ly/nakba2return</a> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black;background:#F9CB9C'><br>More Actions </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>- </span><a href="https://twitter.com/uspcn/status/1259586548766511104/photo/3" target="_blank">Call your US Representatives</a><span style='color:black'> and demand they support the No Way to Treat a Child Bill (H.R. 2407) - </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PH_wGz7hAdv7L8dO5pz_Hezp0-z3TCEXW6WLjv8dOP8/edit" target="_blank">more details here</a><span style='color:black'>.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>- </span><a href="https://bdsmovement.net/news/take-action-mark-72-years-nakba-with-keytojustice" target="_blank">Mark 72 years since the Nakba with #KeytoJustice</a><span style='color:black'>: </span><span style='color:#242C2E'>join a collective action marking the Nakba and joint global struggles for rights by posting a photo holding a key of return with #KeyToJustice. Organized by the BDS Movement. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:106%'>For questions, to subscribe or unsubscribe, please email sacreg4palestinianrights@gmail.com<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>