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Summer School Launch

July 2010

The Palestinian Youth Network is pleased to announce the launch of the summer school project, which will consist of fifty youth from 22 different countries from all over the world from July 11^th- 28^th in Spain. With academic cadres such as Hani Al Masri, Gilbert Achkar, Adel Samara, HazemJamjoum, Andre Zaaiman, Ignacio Gonzalez Martines, Naeem Jeenah and James Wiegel the focus of the work during the school will be in promoting and enriching the values of the national identity and humanitarian values of the Arab culture.

The School aims to find a common dialogue in order to preserve what remains of the Palestinian identity, which melted in the midst of the countries and cities of exile. A variety of lectures, seminars, workshops, readings and discussions seek to develop critical intellectual analysis on the Palestinian exile, and the national community and culture. The approach of work will aim to help youth on developing ways on how to combine theory and methodology to develop creative and new methods to preserve the cultural and justice dimensions of the national issue and cause which will help the participants in the summer school transfer their experience to their country of residence in order to spread the knowledge to the greatest number of individuals possible.

Readings from prominent scholars including Edward Said, Rashid Khalidi, Frantz Fanon, Rabab Abdulhadi, Rosemary Sayag, Mureed Barghouti, Samih Farsoun, Naseer Aruri and many more. The program will aim to provide the following:

- Creative spaces and imaginative dialogues will materialize thus enabling us to develop new models of more efficient, effective and long-term sustainable advocacy and activism by examining the Palestinian history, politics, and the different experiences of the youth.

- Opening creative and safe spaces for the youth to examine the issues behind paralyzing our generation into inaction, demoralization.

- Allowing the youth to exchange resources, networks, experiences, thoughts, skills, initiatives and more to illuminate the diversities of our demographics.

- Creating spaces in which youth can strategically plan and develop new models of organizing, advocacy, and activism around human rights and justice for the longevity of the PYN and other human rights and social justice initiatives on local, national and international levels

This program is first of its kind where it contains sessions that are designed for the participants to analyze the current situation and work on strategic proposals for the next phase of the Palestinian Youth Network development.

For your inquiries please contact Saif AbuKeshek : 0034685900540

Until Return and Liberation,

Palestinian Youth Network

62 years of the Palestinian Nakba

1948 – 2010

On 29 November 1947, as a result of Zionist aspirations, the UN General Assembly voted the unjust partition of Palestine, into two states against the will of its own people.

Today, we commemorate the Palestinian Nakba (Catastrophe) of 1948 in which over 800,000 Palestinians were uprooted from their lands and displaced into UN refugee camps and host countries across the Arab world and beyond as a result of the establishment of the racist Israeli state. Over 500 Palestinian villages were completely destroyed; the conquered territory included 78 percent of mandated Palestine.

Today, Palestinians remain the largest and longest lasting refugee population worldwide-70% of Palestinians living outside of our homeland and prohibited from return- while those Palestinians who reside within Palestine live within a paradigm of foreign-settler-colonialism in which the occupying force, Israel, pursues the complete annihilation of the Palestinian people through the continued illegal annexation of Palestinian lands, torment-violence-torture-imprisonment-harassment and forced migration of Palestinians. What was once referred to as the land of Palestine has now become isolated ethnic enclaves creating the imagery of an archipelago of ghettos...more

Palestine Brings Us Together

About PYN

The Palestinian Youth Network (PYN) is an independent, nonpartisan alliance, founded by a group of young Palestinians scattered throughout the world as a result of the occupation of our homeland. Our belonging to Palestine, passion to preserve our Palestinian identity, and desire to contribute to the liberation of our land and people has driven us to build this network aimed at amplifying the voices of Palestinian youth and enhancing their role in building a better future for ourselves and our children. PYN is comprised of Palestinian youth between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five from over thirty three countries in Europe, the Arab world, North America, Central America and South America.

One of our primary missions is to create a platform in which Palestinian youth from an array of different professional, academic, religious, geographic, linguistic, cultural, political, activist, and experiential backgrounds are able to meet and learn about the diversity of Palestinian identities. This goal is aimed to give Palestinian youth the knowledge and experience needed to organize amongst one another in an umbrella of unity towards a justice centered viable solution to the Palestinian plight that addresses the inherent human, legal, civil, cultural, gender, and environmental rights of all Palestinians in the world, foremost among them the refugees right to return to their homeland.

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