| Educating, Advocating, and Organizing For The Return Fifth Al-Awda West Coast Regional Conference | | | Hosted by Students for Justice in Palestine @ SDSU, UCSD and USD, and Al-Awda San Diego, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition Where : La Mesa Community Center, 4975 Memorial Drive, La Mesa, CA 91942
| |  LEARN about the Palestinian refugee crisis and what is happening here on the West Coast SHARE IDEAS with fellow activists and help empower the right to return movement at large ACT NOW! your participation is urgently needed in the months ahead! This is your chance! Saturday February 13, 2010, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm Program: Strategy & tactics discussions will include panels on Student Activism, Refugee Support, Media Activism, and preparations for the upcoming Annual International Al-Awda Convention. Speakers will include Dr. Jess Ghannam, Chair of Al-Awda's National Coordinating Committee, Mazen Almoukdad, Al-Awda Refugee Support Activist, Adam Shapiro, activist filmmaker, among others. There will also be a special presentation of personal experience by a Palestinian refugee recently arrived from Al-Waleed camp in Iraq. For a tentative schedule with more details of the one day conference, visit this page. Conference is free of charge!! The conference will be followed by Dinner Banquet - Celebrating 10 Years of Al-Awda! When: 6:30 pm - 10:00 pm (doors open 6:00 pm) Banquet Includes: Keynote Address by Dr. Jamal Nassar, Dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at California State University, San Bernardino; The Second West Coast Regional Dabke Competition; and Delicious Arabic Food (all Halal) | | Banquet Dinner Tickets: General $25.00; Student $15.00; Children under 5 free (Please note that attendance at the conference is not required for attendance at the dinner and vice versa) Sponsorship: We welcome individual and organizational sponsorship of The Fifth Al-Awda West Coast Regional Conference. All Sponsors will be listed in the printed program of the conference and acknowledged at the Ten Years of Al-Awda Celebration Dinner unless otherwise requested. Underwriters will each also have a table for eight people reserved for them at the Dinner Celebration. For more information, please go to this sponsorship page. Directions to Conference and Banquet: Take the Spring St exit from I-8 E toward El Centro (6.8 miles). Merge onto 13A (85 ft). Slight left to stay on 13A (315 ft). Continue onto Spring Street (0.1 mile). Turn left at University Ave (0.4 miles). Turn left at Memorial Dr. Parking is free. Plenty available. | | For more information, contact: Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition
PO Box 131352
Carlsbad, CA 92013, USA
Tel: 760-918-9441
Fax: 760-918-9442
Email: info@al-awdacal.org
WEB: http://al-awdacal.org | | | |
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