Vigil for Palestine

We are approaching one year of a perpetrated genocide in Gaza with no immediate ceasefire in sight and with mounting threats that a regional war would break out. We are angry and resentful of our impotent politicians and institutions who have so far not stopped the sale of arms to the Zionist entity or took any concrete measure to divest from the Israeli settler regime, which we view as complicity with genocide and with any escalations into a regional war taking place. We invite activists and Palestine supporters to join us in a nightly vigil to grieve our Palestinian martyrs, the incarceration and torture of Palestinian children, women and men, and the massive destruction and erasure of Palestinian lives, ecologies and culture. This protest vigil is for us to share our anger and grief in front of the Parliament. This vigil will showcase solidarity with Palestine through artistic commissioned works by Norwegian, Arab and Palestinian cultural practitioners.

Program

• Opening address: Kari Veiteberg, Bishop of Oslo
• Political address: Line Khateeb, Leder av Palestina Komitee
• Moment of Silence
• Screening on Stortingets wall of Videos for Palestine by Video Tract for Palestine
  Collective, Mira Adoumie, Islam Shabana
• Poetry Readings by Bendik Vada, Ninthu Paramalingam, Mahmud Beshtawy
• Carnivalesque Performance “Songs of Anemone” by Farah Azrak.

This vigil is a collaboration between Palkom, Aksjonsgruppa for Palestina and Masahat. The artistic program is made possible through a generous grant from KORO.