On the 60th Anniversary of the Nakba

the New England Committee to Defend Palestine presents

Struggle for the Land: Zionism and the Repression of Anti-Colonial Movements

An Education and Strategy Conference

Saturday, April 12 to Sunday, April 13

Saturday April 12 at 12 PM: Community Church of Boston 565 Boylston St, Boston at Copley Square near Back Bay T stop (Orange Line) and Copley T stop (Green Line)

Sunday April 13 at 1 PM: Venue and workshop locations will be announced at the conference on Saturday

Suggested Donation: $15

Confirmed speakers include:

•Amer Jubran, Palestinian activist and former political detainee •Saja Raoof, Iraqi anti-war activist •Kali Akuno, Executive Director of the People's Hurricane Relief Fund in New Orleans and Malcolm X Grassroots Movement National Organizer •Marta Rodriguez, Puerto Rican independence activist and member of the NECDP •Ward Churchill, American Indian Movement activist and author •Dara Bayer, Palestine solidarity activist •Jihad Abdul-Mumit, former Black Liberation Army political prisoner •Nada Elia, Palestinian activist, and member of the INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence national collective. •Jeffrey Blankfort, anti-Zionist journalist and activist, co-plaintiff in a lawsuit against the ADL for spying on left organizations

as well as

Photography Exhibition from Gaza Palestinian political artwork, and art by Brazilian Artist Carlos Latuff

This year is the sixtieth anniversary of the Nakba (catastrophe) in Palestine. Despite escalation of the already brutal strangulation of Gaza, and continued colonization elsewhere, Palestinians continue to resist in all of their historic land. In Gaza, under starvation conditions, Palestinians broke the siege by destroying the wall at Rafah crossing and continue to defend their land through armed resistance against settlers.

The US provides the main economic, political and military aid to the Zionist settler colony.

Zionism plays a role not only in US foreign policy, but helps suppress anti-colonial movements here to prevent emergence of a serious pro-Palestinian opposition power bloc. It attacks genuine leaders and organizations while cultivating less radical alternatives.

This has led to a repressive collaboration between Zionist political organizations, "Israeli" and "US" police and intelligence forces, mercenaries, and corporations in the private "security" sector.

Confronting Zionism is crucial to any movement forward against militarism and internal oppression.

Bringing together representatives of several movements, our conference will focus on two themes: Zionist disruption of anti-colonial movements and land as the basis of struggle and solidarity.

For more information and to pre-register, go to www.onepalestine.org

Co-sponsored by Jericho Boston http://www.jerichoboston.org