| EMPOWERING
THE PALESTINE RIGHT TO RETURN MOVEMENT ON THE WEST COAST
OF NORTH AMERICA
Al-Awda San Diego in conjunction with
Students for Justice at The University of California
at San Diego will be hosting a one-day West Coast regional
conference for the Right to Return Movement for Palestinian
refugees.
The conference will take place on
Saturday 20 November 2004 at UCSD in La Jolla, California.
The objectives of the conference are
to:
1. Begin preparation and mobilization
for Al-Awda's third International Convention, which
will be held in California in the Spring of 2005.
2. Further develop and coordinate
intra- and inter-state grassroots activism to further
empower the Palestine Right to Return Movement on the
West Coast.
BACKGROUND
Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return
Coalition's Second Annual International Convention in
New York City named California as the site of the organization's
third convention, which is scheduled to take place in
mid-April 2005.
During the past year, new Al-Awda
chapters have emerged on the West Coast of
North America from San Diego, California to Vancouver,
British Columbia in Canada.
In order to solidify and strengthen
the network of Palestine Right to Return chapters and
action committees on the West Coast , it is vital that
activists meet, plan and strategize to insure a successful
Al-Awda convention in 2005 while developing mechanisms
to coordinate intra- and inter-state grassroots advocacy
for the Palestinian refugees' right to return .
The one-day regional conference, "Empowering
the Palestine Right to Return Movement on the West Coast
of North America", will take place on 20 November
2004 at the University of California in La Jolla, San
Diego. The conference is important. It represents the
first regional meeting for the Right to Return Movement
on the West Coast.
INVITATION
We are inviting Palestinian, Arab
and other community members, grassroots activists, students,
and solidarity organizational representatives to attend
and share their thoughts, needs, and how they'd like
to see our collective efforts for the rights of Palestinian
refugees develop on the West Coast and at Al-Awda's
upcoming International Convention in California.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Al-Awda San Diego
The Palestine Right to Return Coalition
PO Box 131352
Carlsbad, CA 92013, USA
E-mail: [email protected]
WWW: http://al-awdasandiego.org
Fax: 1-360-933-3568
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