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
(note change of venue)
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!
One-Day Conference
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
To get your tickets, please go to
http://al-awdacal.org/dinner.html or contact 760-918-9441 Monday to Friday 9 AM
to 5 PM
(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.
Suggested accommodation for out of town guests see: Hotel
circle http://www.hotelcircle.net
Flyer (color): Fifth Al-Awda West Coast Regional Conference
Flyer: Fifth Al-Awda West Coast Regional Conference
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:
SJP @ SDSU, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA 92182; Tel:
661-992-3281 email: [email protected] or Al-Awda San Diego:
[email protected], Tel: 760-918-9441
Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition
PO Box 131352
Carlsbad, CA 92013, USA
Tel: 760-918-9441
Fax: 760-918-9442
Email: [email protected]
WEB: http://al-awdacal.org
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Carlsbad | CA | 92013
