Charlotte – Local Action to Free Palestine!

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Join us as we create awareness in the Charlotte community and surrounding areas. Email us about local events and we will post here. CLT4Palestine@gmail.com.

Saturday, 1/6/24 12-2pm Community Chai for Palestine

📍8310 Harrisburg Road, Islamic Center of Charlotte – Al Nour Community Center

Join the Chai for Palestine event at Al Nour Community Center this Saturday Jan 6th to use your voice and privilege for Gaza. Bring your laptop, phone, or family; follow a checklist for contacting officials verbally or in writing. Kids and teens have designated stations. We need to actively advocate for Palestine’s liberation after nearly 3 months of destruction. Every one of us 800k Charlotte Citizens, can contribute. Ceasefire advocacy is crucial now more than ever! Could help save many, many lives. Free Palestine🇵🇸

🕊️ Saturday, January 27 2024 • Stories from Palestine; a night of storytelling. 🕊️

📍Islamic Center of Greater Charlotte (ISGC), 7025 The Plaza, Charlotte NC 28215

“If I must die,
you must live
to tell my story…”
⁃ Ref’at Al-Areer (1979-2023)

In the midst of our heart wrenching pain, we invite you to an evening of storytelling and poetry from the Palestinian, interfaith communities, and friends in solidarity. We invite you to hear our memories, experiences, and hopes for Palestine.

We invite you to witness, listen with an open heart and share our hopes and dreams. We are not numbers. We are not a headline. We are grandparents, mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters. We are human.

For decades, Palestinian narratives have been reduced to news headlines, charts, and statistics. The erasure of Palestinian stories from the public space is part of the dehumanization of Palestinians. In this event, we disrupt the disconnect between the media’s representations of Palestinians and their lived realities.

In this public event, “Not Just a Headline: Stories from Palestine,” we amplify the voices of Palestinians in the diaspora and friends in solidarity. Some of our speakers are Palestinian Americans who’ve lived or traveled in Palestine.

Some speakers are friends from the interfaith community, who have led educational and interfaith trips to the holy land for decades. Please see the list of confirmed speakers below!

We may not be able to end this war, but we have a moral duty to witness the stories of Palestinians’ hope, resilience, and heartbreak. Please share this event with your friends, families, churches, temples, synagogues and broader networks.

RSVP for this event here: https://forms.gle/NEykDZ8LProDNnhd9

Confirmed Speakers:

Khalid Blata, Palestinian American from the occupied Gaza Strip, who lost several family members in the current violence
Dr. Max Carter, Professor of Quaker Studies, former chaplain at Guilford College and leader of service-learning trips to Palestine and Israel since the 1970s
Dr. Steve Feldman, Professor of Dermatology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine and curator of http://www.PromisedLandMuseum.org
Dr. Suzanne Henderson, New Testament Scholar, Senior Director at Interfaith America, former Queens professor of Religion, who has led multiple interfaith trips to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Zuhair Madanat, Palestinian American Entrepreneur; Christian Seminary Graduate; lived and worked in the occupied West Bank
Nisreen Saad, Palestinian American educator from the occupied West Bank
Izzat Saymeh, Palestinian American businessman, traveled extensively to the occupied West Bank and Israel
Ayah Zoabi, Palestinian American student and MSA president at Queens University of Charlotte

Additional speakers to be added!

Sponsored by Charlotte Palestine Solidarity and Al-Awda Charlotte