For Immediate Release
February 27, 2006
Prize-Winning 2005 Documentary 'My Land' Now Available
Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition (PRRC), is pleased to
announce that we now have available copies of the excellent prize-winning 2005 documentary entitled 'My Land' by Tone Andersen. To get your
copy of this outstanding documentary on DVD, simply make a tax-deductible
donation of $25.00 or more to Al-Awda/PRRC by following the instructions at
http://www.al-awda.org/donate.html.
The twenty five-minute documentary in English is particularly relevant to show at the upcoming
annual Yom Al-Ard/Day of the Land commemorations, teach-ins, etc. It
exemplifies the continuing struggle Palestinians are facing against home
demolitions and land expropriation.
Specifically, My Land documents the threat that husband and wife Ali and Trees in the town of Sakhnin (Galilee region, north
Palestine) face from the Zionist occupation authority to destroy the
home the family built on their own land. About 1.3 million Palestinians who were
issued 'Israeli citizenship' are still struggling 57 years after the
imposition of the Zionist state for their rights to their own property and
land. The film shows one of those many struggles.
Yom Al-Ard/Day of The Land has been commemorated world-wide yearly since the
killing on March 30, 1976 of six Palestinians in the Galilee region of
Palestine by Israeli occupation troops during peaceful protests over the
confiscation of Palestinian lands. The documentary, My Land, includes moving footage
of a Yom Al-Ard/Day of the Land demonstration in the Palestinian Arab town
of Sakhnin. It also shows the monument built as memorial in Sakhnin to honor
those who were killed on the occasion of Land Day.
The text on the
monument reads: "In memory of those who fell on Land
Day. They died so that we can live, and their spirit lives on."
Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return
Coalition
PO Box 131352
Carlsbad, CA 92013, USA
Tel: 760-685-3243
Fax: 360-933-3568
E-mail: info@al-awda.org
WWW: http://al-awda.org
Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return
Coalition (PRRC) is the largest network of grassroots activists
and students dedicated to Palestinian human rights. We are
a not for profit tax-exempt educational and charitable 501(c)(3)
organization as defined by the Internal Revenue Service
(IRS) of the United States of America. Under IRS guidelines,
your donations to PRRC
are tax-deductible.
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