Deir Yassin Remembered's Annual Fund raising drive
By Guest Post • Dec 11th, 2008 at 17:11 • Category: Artwork, Grassroots Activism, Ideas and Projects, Israel, Nakba and Right of Return, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance
Deir Yassin Remembered's Annual Solicitation, a request from Dan McGowan
In addition to maintaining two websites that keep alive the memory of Deir Yassin and all that it represents, DYR awarded 5 scholarships in 2008 under the banner of Peace Through Education. All of the money raised was passed through to young Palestinians struggling to get an education while under continued occupation. The organization has no paid staff and took nothing from the gifts we were able to raise.
In 2009 we hope to continue this program, which is chaired by Steve Beikirch and directed by Susan Abulhawa, Henry Herskovitz, and Israel Shamir. But we need your help to do it.
We are also planning a second Deir Yassin memorial, a bronze uprooted olive tree sculpted by Khalil Bendib. It will be erected near a mosque in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The project is expected to cost about $25,000 and is dependent upon your support.
I realize that times are tough and that you, like I, have suffered losses in the market. But I ask you to be as generous as possible.
Membership renewal $ 100
Patron $ 250
Sustaining member $1,000
Scholarship donor $2,500
MN memorial sponsor $5,000 (to be listed in bronze on the statue base)
Deir Yassin Remembered
4174 Scandling Center
Geneva, NY 14456
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I'll send in a contribution. It's vital to keep the memory of Deir Yassin alive in view of the systematic Zionist effort not merely to exterminate the Palestinian people but to erase every trace of their former presence in the land and delete even the memory of them from the history-books. They have not succeeded and they will not succeed, in sha' Allah.