In 2008, we mark the 60th anniversary of Al-Nakba and the dispossession of the Palestinian people, and recognize 60 years of the Palestinian people's resistance to the occupation of their homeland. On this anniversary, we pledge to continue to support the Palestinian people's struggle for self-determination, justice and liberation, in Palestine and in exile. In the United States, the Palestinian exile community is coming together in the United States Popular Palestinian Conference, to be held 8-10 August 2008 in Chicago.

As solidarity activists, we pledge to support the Popular Palestinian Conference and we are honored to stand alongside the courageous Palestinian families, communities and activists in their sustained struggle for justice and liberation.

We pledge to support the conference in its goal of spearheading a community-wide meeting of Palestinian Americans in their stated goals of empowering their community, unifying their voices, and affirming the right of Palestinians in the exile to participate fully in shaping the joint destiny of the Palestinian nation as a whole. We recognize and defend the right of Palestinian Americans to organize and assume a central role in the struggle for a Free Palestine. As activists living in the United States, we hold ourselves responsible and pledge to continue to act, organize and work to hold the United States government accountable for its role in denying Palestinian rights, suppressing Palestinian organizing and actively supporting and funding the destruction of Palestinians' rights, aspirations, and lives.

Every day, the U.S. government gives $10 million of our tax dollars to fund Israel's occupation army and to prevent Palestinian refugees, in exile for sixty years, from returning home. As solidarity activists living in the U.S., we pledge to resist these actions of the U.S. government, and, furthermore, to provide support to Palestinian organizing and Palestinian activism to secure Palestinian rights, particularly in Palestinian communities across the United States.

As such, we, the undersigned, commit to work, organize and campaign to support the United States Popular Palestinian Conference and the activities and organizing of the Palestinian community.

On the 60th anniversary of Al-Nakba, all of our voices are needed now to stand for justice and liberation, and it is particularly crucial that solidarity activists act now to support, empower and struggle alongside the Palestinian community in its quest for self-determination, liberation and return.

What can you do to support the Popular Palestinian Conference?

As part of my commitment to supporting the Palestinian Popular Conference, I am interested in the following acts of solidarity (Check all that apply):