Fwd: 10 Days to the Popular Conference - Be a Part of Popular Participatory Decision-Making!

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From: US Palestinian Community Network <uspcn@palestineconference.org>
Date: Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 8:01 AM
Subject: 10 Days to the Popular Conference - Be a Part of Popular Participatory Decision-Making!
To: palashbiswaskl@gmail.com

You're receiving this newsletter because you have contacted the US Palestinian Community Network in the past. Having trouble reading this email? View it in your browser.   Act now! Register online today! Register today for the Palestinian Popular Conference, October 29-31! Book your hotel room today! Book your hotel room today to ensure the special USPCN rate!   Donate! Your support is vital to making the Palestinian Popular Conference a success. Please donate today to support this effort!   Join us on Facebook   Connect on Twitter   More about USPCN Learn more about the US Palestinian Community Network, a grassroots community-based organization that grew out of the first Palestinian Popular Conference. Ten days to the Popular Conference - Be a Part of Popular Participation in Decision-Making! Ten days remain before the Second Palestinian Popular Conference in Chicago. Now is the time, if you have not yet done so, to register for the Conference and prepare to attend! In its attempt to ensure an empowering, participatory and popular Palestinian conference in the US, the Organizing Committee of USPCN made the following important additions to the conference's program: Palestinian Movement Assemblies (PMAs), and the General Assembly. US Palestinians and Arabs wishing, but unable to participate in the conference have the means to influence the deliberations and decisions of the conference by submitting proposals online. Learn more about the process at: http://popular.palestineconference.org/general-assembly/ Palestinian Movement Assemblies Palestinian Movement Assemblies represent a powerful method of building for our liberation movement and our community and associational life in the US. They provide an organizing strategy for us to enter the Popular Conference with our own ideas, and emerge with stronger coordination, more defined directions and mandates for change. PMAs seek to empower Palestinians in the US to learn together and from each other, and take control of their own movement for justice. A PMA is coordinated by several Palestinian organizers and activists representing various parts of our community who facilitate discussion around how to best advance our struggle within our particular localities, as a US community, and as part of the Palestinian people. Community members come together to set priorities for our movement, think together about ways to intensify collaboration, and develop Action Proposals to be adopted by the General Assembly and implemented by our community as a whole. In our PMAs, we will lift each other's voices as we think collectively. All of us have a place within our movement, and all of us must participate. The PMAs will culminate in the General Assembly on Sunday, October 31st, where Action Proposals will be voted on and adopted. Representatives from each PMA will gather to synthesize all Action Proposals and PMA recommendations into a National Call to Action and Structure for the Palestinian Community in the United States. Learn more about the PMAs. Childcare will be available! Childcare will be available for parents at the Popular Conference. Child care/babysitting will be provided for children ages 2-4 and a children's track of programming for children ages 5-13 years. The cost s $10/day per child, and this includes all meals for the day as well as any arts & crafts materials the children will use. The children will eat with the other children in the program, rather than with their parents. Please register your children online using our registration page, and purchase one child's ticket per child! Thank you! Make your travel plans today! If you haven't had the chance to make your travel arrangements, please do so as soon as possible! The Palestinian Popular Conference, "Palestine: One Land, One People, One Destiny - Together, Restoring our National Institutions, Reclaiming our Rights, Empowering Our Community" will take place in Chicago, IL on October 29-31, 2010. The conference will take place at: The Westin Chicago Northwest, 400 Park Boulevard, Itasca, IL 60143. Hotel rooms are available for $89/night. Book your hotel room online or call the Westin at (630) 773-4000 and tell them that you are booking as part of the USPCN conference to ensure this rate. Support the Popular Conference! You also have the opportunity to support the conference by donating today. This conference means bringing speakers from around the world, sponsoring student and youth participation, and creating an environment that welcomes participation. It is not possible without community sustenance and support. Please help by making a donation! More important opportunities at the Popular Conference: Volunteer at the Popular Conference! Buy an Ad in the Conference Ad Book - Express your Solidarity! Bazaar and Tabling at the Popular Conference - reach thousands of Palestinians and Arabs. Be a part of the Women's Track or the Student Track of the conference! Learn more about Ghassan Ben Jiddo, Marcel Khalife, Haneen Zoabi, and the other speakers at the Popular Conference! Register Today! Come together to defend our community and build our organizing! The US Palestinian Community Network is a grassroots network of Palestinian groups and individuals in the United States, united in commitment to a free Palestine, the right of return of Palestinian refugees and an end to the colonization of Palestine. Learn more about the US Palestinian Community Network. Contact us at conference@palestineconference.org. Don't want to receive these emails anymore? Please unsubscribe instantly.

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