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May 20, 2012

12:00am - 12:00pm

Bay to Breakers Team 2012

Join the team and raise funds to provide clean water to children in Gaza!

May 15, 2012

7:00pm

San Francisco, CA: Nakba Commemoration Vigil

In 1948 nearly 800,000 Palestinians were uprooted from their lands and displaced across the world as a result of Zionist Colonization. Join us -- along with several Bay Area groups -- for a silent vigil to commemorate the Palestinian catastrophe, Al Nakba.

May 19, 2012

2:00pm - 5:30pm

Seattle, WA: Water Rights Forum

Join panel discussion and workshop on water justice! One of the panelists is MECA's Ziad Abbas

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May 15, 2012

Details emerge of Israeli concessions that ended historic Palestinian mass hunger strike

Details of the Israeli concessions that ended an historic 28-day mass hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, and the more than two-month hunger strikes of several prisoners, emerged today.

May 15, 2012

Top 10 Facts You Probably Didn’t Know About the #Nakba

Nakba is the Arabic word for catastrophe. It is used to describe the Palestinian loss of land and property during the depopulation of Palestine from 1947-1949 and does not refer simply to the declaration of a state of Israel.

May 15, 2012

Addameer: Palestinian Prisoners’ Mass Hunger Strike Concludes After Agreement is Reached

Ramallah, 15 May 2012 – After nearly a full month of fasting, around 2,000 Palestinian political prisoners ended last night their mass hunger strike upon reaching an agreement with the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) to attain certain core demands

May 13, 2012

Israel closes Palestinian school to make way for West Bank military training zone

The Israeli Civil Administration issues demolition order against the school, though residents have no access to any other.

May 13, 2012

Thaer Halahleh’s letter to his daughter: "My Beloved Lamar…Forgive me"

Thaer Halameh, a Palestinian prisoner on his 75th day of a hunger strike, writes to his daughter: "My Beloved Lamar, forgive me because the occupation took me away from you, and took away from me the pleasure of witnessing my firstborn child that I have always prayed to God to see, to kiss, to be happy with."

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