PRESENTS a HISTORIC ONE HOUR PACIFICA NATIONAL SPECIAL-

Thursday, May 15th 3-4pm

KPFK, 90.7 in Los Angeles, 98.7 in Santa Barbara
streaming live and archived at www.kpfk.org

To mark the 60-year anniversary of the ongoing Nakba - the catastrophe - which left Palestinians displaced and dispossesed from their native land - Pacifica National radio will mark the occasion with a one-hour SPECIAL – part of an 18 hour international broadcast spearheaded by the International Middle East Media Center in Palestine in partnership with stations in Canada and the U.S. *

The Pacifica special mixes speeches, interviews, songs and spoken words from Pacifica producers and voices on the ground in Palestine to present a "Sankofa" - looking back so we can move forward.

A collaboration between Voices With Vision on WPFW and the dcradiocoop in DC and Palestine, Radio Intifada and the SWANA collective of KPFK-LA; Flashpoints of KPFA, Berkeley and Palestine; and Arab Voices of KPFT Houston, Texas, this one hour special features scholars, reporters, artists and activists, including: Naseer Aruri, Jess Ghanem, Suheir Hammad, Ambassador Afif, Dennis Halliday, former UN Assistant Secretary-General Suha Dabousseh, Julie Nasser, Kristen Ess, Rami ElAmin, Nasser Faris, Sherna Berge Gluck, Norma Barrows-Friedman, Layla Haddad of FSRN - and many more!

* to listen to other portions of the 18 hour special, go to :
http://www.imemc.org/index.php?obj_id=2196

SWANA CALENDAR

Friday 5/16- Sunday 5/18, Al-Awda Convention, featuring a wide range of workshops, films and speakers including: Ilan Pappe, Ghada Karmi, Saree Makdisi and more. For complete program: http://al-awda.org/convention6/program.html

Sunday, 5/18 – 6pm, Benefit for Palestine Children’s Relief Fund @ UCLA Ackerman Grand Ballroom- Featuring keynote speech by Dr. Alexnder Zouros + food, music, dabkeh and more. All proceeds to benefit PCRF

Tuesday, 5/20 - 7pm - The Future of Peace: Israel and Palestine at 60, Is There a Solution, featuring Saree Makdisi, Ghada Karmi, Bernard Avishai and Amy Wilentz + music by Naser Musa and Haim Ovadia. SGI-USA Culture of Peace Resource Center, 606 Wilshire, SM. Limited seating. RSVPs strongly urged: 310-657-5511

5/26-6/1 The Migrant Trail: We Walk for Life - South Asian Network staff will be walking on the fifth annual 75-mile journey from Sásabe, Sonora to Tucson, Arizona in solidarity with our migrant sisters and brothers who have walked this trail and lost their lives. We bear witness to the lives that are lost, the families who mourn, and the communities that suffer the divisions that borders wreak on all of us. To lend your support contact South Asian Network @ 562-403-0488,