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Palestine Day at the Farm

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Join the Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace & Justice for Palestine Day at the Farm at Dancing Goats and Singing Chickens Organic Farm in Yelm — a family-friendly day of connection, learning, and community.

Saturday, July 18 · 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.

  • Farm tour and “coffee, compost, and conversation”
  • Discuss ongoing efforts toward peace and justice for Palestine
  • Children’s activities
  • Build community together
  • Farm tours and farm products available

Learn about permaculture, social-change farming, and composting while building community. Free and open to all ages.

Please RSVP: bit.ly/dancing-goats-rsvp
Dancing Goats and Singing Chickens Farm · 14062 Yelm Highway SE, Yelm, WA 98597

Kite Festival – solidarity with occupied Burin

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The residents of Burin, in the occupied West Bank, invite people around the world to fly kites with them between July 4 to July 12. Every year, residents and activists of the village organize the Kite Festival, where the whole community comes together to build and fly kites in the skies of Burin. The festival represents an act of resistance and a sign of the daily struggle of the residents in the face of the harsh reality of the occupation. The message of the festival is:

“We have the right to smile, we have the right to have fun. We have the right to be happy, we have the right to play, we have the right to move. From the Burin mountains to the sands of Gaza they will not kill our hope.”

Our partners at Palestine Action of South Sound are organizing a Kite Festival in Olympia, Sunday July 5, 12-5pm, near the Heritage Fountain. and invite people to help prepare kites every Monday night ahead of the Kite Festival on July 5th.  Reach out to Michelle (([email protected]) to help volunteer during the Kite Festival.

EVERYONE IS WELCOME.  Come join us designing, decorating, and flying kites.

Jewish Voice for Peace Tacoma is also hosting a Kite Festival on July 5th, 2pm at Dune Peninsula Park.

Read more about the Kite Festival here and register to host your own solidarity event.

Nakba Day

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On May 11, 2022, acclaimed Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed by the Israeli military. Shireen was fatally shot by an Israeli military sniper while she was reporting for Al Jazeera on Israel’s “military raids” on the Jenin Refugee Camp in the northern West Bank.

The “military raids” near Jenin happened just before Nakba Day, marked every year on May 15. Nakba refers to the catastrophe of the destruction of more than 500 Palestinian villages and the forced displacement of over 750,000 Palestinians from their homeland in 1948 as Israel became a state.

Scholars agree that the Nakba began before 1948 and has never ended. It is an ongoing reality today for Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.

Commemorate the Nakba with us this Friday, and come to other events this month supporting Palestinians, promoting peace, and confronting militarization.

Join us this Friday at our weekly peace vigil, 4th & Water Street, as we remember Shireen Ablu Akleh and commemorate the 78th anniversary of Nakba Day, or find a Nakba Day event near you.

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Olympia, WA 98501

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