PALESTINE: STOLEN HOMELAND
An outdoor installation/display will cover Westlake Plaza, visually suggesting both a refugee camp of tents and a cemetery for the 500 Palestinian villages destroyed 1947-49. All the village names will be on the markers, along with references to other key events such as the massacres at Tantura and Deir Yassin, the recent assault on Gaza, and the ongoing settlement movement and ethnic cleansing of Palestinian territory.
Some of the tents will also remember other refugee populations: refugees from Iraq, homeless people in Seattle, Native Americans who have been displaced inside the US. This August is also the fourth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, and the Nakba display will remember the evacuees from New Orleans, many of whom are dispersed around the country still waiting to return home.
This Saturday will also have some onsite performances, including STATE OF EMERGENCY OR NO PROBLEM, a puppet show about Occupations overseas and (if we're not careful) at home. The forty-minute puppet show will perform at 12:30 and 3:00 pm
SATURDAY AUGUST 22
12-4 pm
Westlake Plaza, 4th & Pine
STATE OF EMERGENCY or NO PROBLEM at 12:30 and 3:00 pm
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Amin Odeh
VoicesofPalestine.org
VoicesofPalestine.org
"Stand up for what is right, even if you are standing alone"
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