Join us on March 29th in a protest to reaffirm our commitment to our land and struggle. Yom al-Ard (يوم الأرض), or Land Day, recalls the events of March 30, 1976 when six unarmed Palestinians were killed during protests against Israel’s theft of Palestinian land. Israel had ordered the confiscation of approximately 5,000 acres of land belonging to Palestinians in the Galilee. This was a step in Israel’s plan to “Judiase Galilee” after the occupation of Palestine in 1948. Since then, March 30 has become a central date in the Palestinian collective memory; a memory of the 1976 land dispossessions and the brutality of the occupation’s response to Palestinian resistance.

Today is no different. Until this very moment, Israel continues its expansionist colonial agenda in the West Bank and the rest of occupied Palestine.

For us, every day is Land Day. On March 29 at Yonge and Dundas Square, we will commemorate the lives lost in the fight for our land and reiterate what Palestinian poet Tawfiq Zayyad said:

In Lidda, in Ramla, in the Galilee
We shall remain like a wall upon your chest
And in your throat like a cactus thorn
And in your eyes, a sandstorm.
We shall remain.