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Al-Nakba, Film Screening, March, and More |
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Friends,
- Thursday, May 15 is the 77th anniversary of the 1948 Nakba. The Nakba continues as Gaza is being starved. The Israeli genocide in Gaza has killed over 65,000 Palestinians since October 7, 2023. We cannot be silent! As a prelude to the Nakba March on May 17th, We are screening the "The Palestine Exception" at UMN on Nakba Day. This is a free screening. Make sure to come and watch it with us! (see the flier in the Upcoming Events below). And make sure to show up to the Nakba March this Saturday!!! Also, the screening of the Encampments will continue until May 15th at the main Cinema. The conversation with the UMN encampment student organizers last Saturday after the screening of the film was incredibly inspiring. We are in awe of our students' bravery and unwavering commitment to justice!
- Make sure to support our friends at the Minnesota Library Workers Coalition and AFSCME 3800 UMN by attending their rally this Friday, May 16 at 6pm at the Minnesota Governor’s Mansion to demand that Minnesota legislators prevent catastrophic damage to Minnesota library services and commit to fully funding education and library services in the upcoming budget. (See flier below).
- Don't forget to show up to support Dogukan today at 3 PM!
- For those of you who need a refresher on Nakba, Here is our Instagram post about it from last year. It is hard to believe that the number of Palestinians who have been murdered by the genocidal Israeli State has doubled since last year. And it is shameful that our university refuses to divest and makes us all complicit in this genocide. Here is a useful document about why we should boycott Israeli universities: BRICUP Why Boycott Israeli Universities 2nd Ed (2025) (2).pdf .
For those who do not use Instagram, you can see the Nakba slides here:
Upcoming Events
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Thursday, May 15
Nakba Day
3:00 pm
"The Palestine Exception"
Rapson Hall, Room 100
89 Church Street SE, Minneapolis
About the film
"After years of right-wing assaults on higher education, attacks took a new form in 2023 and 2024 that has been described as the new McCarthyism. As students across the country organize protests against Israel’s war on Gaza, decades-long taboos in academia around criticism of Israel–the “Palestine exception”–are shattered. This film features professors and students as they join calls for a ceasefire and divestment from companies that do business with Israel and face waves of crackdown from administrators, the media, the police and politicians. Scholars from diverse disciplines explain what is at stake in these protests and why so many young people identify with the Palestinian cause. The documentary unfolds as a story of college campuses as sites of both rebellion and repression, places where personal and collective histories converge in unexpected ways.
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Friday, May 16
6 pm
Emergency Protest to Protect MN Libraries and Jobs!
📍 MN Governor’s Mansion -
1006 Summit Avenue, Saint Paul, Minnesota
Minnesota Library Workers Coalition and AFSCME 3800 UMN, and others will rally this Friday, May 16 at 6pm at the Minnesota Governor’s Mansion to demand that Minnesota legislators prevent catastrophic damage to Minnesota library services and commit to fully funding education and library services in the upcoming budget.
Fight censorship! Don’t fall in line with Trump’s attacks on libraries and public education!
If your organization or union would like to endorse this action, please contact info@afscme3800.org or fill out the form at tinyurl.com/defendmnlibraries
The Minnesota Library Worker’s Coalition is a newly formed coalition of unionized and unorganized Library workers in Minnesota fighting back against the current attacks on our libraries!
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Monday, May 12
3 PM
Pack the Room and Rally!
Federal Building
316 N Robert Street
Saint Paul, MN 55101
‼️DOĞUKANS CHARGES ARE DROPPED‼️BUT HE IS STILL IN CUSTODY‼️
As of May 1st, Doğukan, the Carlson student who was detained by ICE, had his charges dropped. Unfortunately, he is still in custody until his rescheduled trial date on May 12th. Come out to support our fellow student on Monday, May 12th at 3PM at 316 N Robert St.
If you are a student, please join us at the East Bank Light Rail station at 1:45PM to ride with SDS to the rally! All are welcome!
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Friday, May 16
6 pm
Syria on Screen
New City Center (Sanctuary)
3104 16th Ave S. Minneapolis, MN 55407
Co-presented by Mizna, the Committee in Solidarity with the People of Syria (CISPOS), and From the Periphery Media Collective, join us for a screening of The War Show (2016) by Obaidah Zytoon and post-screening discussion with Ramah Kudaimi and Mazen Halabi. This event aims to provide space for our local community to learn about and process the recent events in Syria.
Donations at the event go to SARD’s project to rebuild university dorms in Aleppo, Syria.
When: 6:00–9:00 PM (reception with light refreshments at 6:00 PM; film starts at 6:30 PM; discussion at 8:15 PM)
Where: New City Center (Sanctuary), 3104 16th Ave S. Minneapolis, MN 55407
Panelists: Ramah Kudaimi and Mazen Halabi
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Saturday, May 17
1:30 pm
MARCH AGAINST THE ONGOING NAKBA
Gateway Park Fountain
1 S 1st St, Minneapolis
MNFPC: 🇵🇸 Al-Nakba, Arabic for “the catastrophe” refers to the violent expulsion of 750,000+ Palestinians to pave way for Israeli land theft. Hundreds of ethnic cleansing operations made possible the creation of the colonial state of Israel on May 15th, 1948.
🪧 But the Nakba continues! Israel continues to displace Palestinians, mass demolish homes, exile, and deny the 6 million descendents of the 1948 exiles the right to return home—a right enshrined by international law.
Trump continues to escalate the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians by facilitating exile—in the US and abroad!
March to demand an END to the ongoing Nakba! Right of return for ALL Palestinians! MN Divest from genocide NOW! Free Mahmoud Khalil! Defend the right to protest!
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