<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><p class="yiv1017808544MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Hi everyone, <br></span></p><p class="yiv1017808544MsoNormal"><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p><p class="yiv1017808544MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">I am really pleased to invite you to an exhibition which opend on the 2nd of September at Freedom gallery, above Freedom book shop next to the Whitechapel art gallery.</span></p><p class="yiv1017808544MsoNormal"><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p><p class="yiv1017808544MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">I hope to see you all in a few weeks.</span></p><p class="yiv1017808544MsoNormal"><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p><p class="yiv1017808544MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;
font-family: Arial;">best <br></span></p><p class="yiv1017808544MsoNormal"><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p><p class="yiv1017808544MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Pennie<br></span></p><p class="yiv1017808544MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><br></span></p><p class="yiv1017808544MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">T<span style="font-weight: bold;">adamon <br></span></span></p><p class="yiv1017808544MsoNormal"><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></p>
<p style="font-weight: bold;" class="yiv1017808544MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>Photographs
by Pennie Quinton </span></p>
<p style="font-weight: bold;" class="yiv1017808544MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-weight: bold;" class="yiv1017808544MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Images of
solidarity and strength in Palestine </span></p>
<p class="yiv1017808544MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="yiv1017808544MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Tadamon
means solidarity in Arabic and these images show moments of strength witnessed
in the Palestinian struggle for survival.</span></p>
<p class="yiv1017808544MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="yiv1017808544MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Moments
following extra-judicial killings of beloved members of the community wanted by
the Israeli government.</span></p>
<p class="yiv1017808544MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="yiv1017808544MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Moments in
which people in the West Bank are forced to deal with their confusion and pain
brought on by the Gaza war of 2008/2009 – combined with the Palestinian Authority
clamping down on protest in the West bank at this desperate time.</span></p>
<p class="yiv1017808544MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="yiv1017808544MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Moments
such as the bravery of children whose first language has become the politics of
survival, out on the streets hurling stones at the wall following yet another
bombardment of their cousins in Gaza. </span></p>
<p class="yiv1017808544MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="yiv1017808544MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Or moments
of the villagers of Nilin and Belin facing tear gas and stun grenades in their
protests, held every Friday since 2004, resisting the illegal apartheid wall
built on village lands.</span></p>
<p class="yiv1017808544MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="yiv1017808544MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">There is a
saying in Palestine that ‘to be Palestinian is to exist to resist‘ and this
essential stubbornness and refusal to disappear, this insistence on being
continually present in the face of ongoing repression that interferes in every
area of life, is a potent force in the demand for sovereignty.</span></p>
<p class="yiv1017808544MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="yiv1017808544MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">The price
of this is high, and people have been paying it since 1948. But there is no
choice but to keep on paying it to resist is to survive.</span></p>
<p class="yiv1017808544MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="yiv1017808544MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">I love and
admire this Palestinian strength in the struggle for self-determination and the
moments where dancing and joy overflow despite everything.</span></p>
<p class="yiv1017808544MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">.</span></p>
<p class="yiv1017808544MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">I am proud
to share some of these moments I was honoured to witness during my work in
Palestine.</span></p>
<p class="yiv1017808544MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="yiv1017808544MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Tadamon
Exhibition opens on the 2<sup>nd</sup> September at the Freedom Gallery. above
Freedom book shop in Angel Alley off Whitechapel High Street. Nearest Tube
Aldgate East.</span></p>
<p class="yiv1017808544MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="yiv1017808544MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">The Tadamon
Exhibtion is open 12.00 – 17.00 Monday to Saturday until October the 5<sup>th</sup>.</span></p>
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<p class="yiv1017808544MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p><br><br><div style="text-align: center;"><font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" size="4">Pennie Quinton </font><font size="4"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></font><font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" size="4">0044 7981 184 474</font><font size="4"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></font><font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" size="4">http://itsmefumingrightsinit.blogspot.com/</font><font size="4"><br> www.Imemc.org <br>www.london.indymedia.org.uk/ <br></font></div><br></td></tr></table><br>