[Dublin] Nakba Day events: Vigil (1pm) & Moving Gallery (5pm)

dublin | rights, freedoms and repression | event notice Friday May 11, 2012 00:41 by Kev - IPSC

1pm – 2pm, Vigil - Israeli Embassy
4pm - 6pm, Moving Gallery - Stephens Green to The Spire

On Tuesday 15th May 2012, to commemorate what Palestinians call Nakba Day which marks the 64th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba (‘Catastrophe’) which saw the expulsion of over 700,000 Palestinians, forcibly uprooted from their homeland in an act of ethnic cleansing that facilitated the foundation of the State of Israel, the IPSC has organised two actions in Dublin.

1pm – 2pm, Vigil outside the Israeli Embassy in Ballsbridge, holding large photographs from Al Nakba and Palestinian flags. (Assemble at 1pm outside the Israeli Embassy, 122 Pembroke Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4)

4pm - 6pm, ‘Moving Gallery’, where people will walk from St. Stephen’s Green (Grafton St entrance) to the Spire on O’Connell Street carrying large photographs from Al Nakba and Palestinian flags. (Assemble at 4pm at the Grafton Street entrance to St. and will set off down Grafton St towards the Spire.)