Olive Harvest 2024: Honor Palestinian Resistance
Tenney Park 1500 Sherman Ave., Madison, Wisconsin 53703
media release: Madison-Rafah Sister City Project (MRSCP) invites you to the annual Palestinian Olive Harvest event on Sunday, Oct. 27, at the Tenney Park Shelter, 402 N. Thornton Avenue, Madison, 1-4 pm.
The event honors the resilience of Palestinian families as they carry out the October olive harvest in the face of violence by Israeli settlers and military, including the wholesale destruction of olive groves.
The program includes updates from Gaza and the West Bank, poetry reading, live music by Ensemble Shamaali, and olives, olive oil, hot tea, and light snacks.
Palestinian olive oil, olive oil soap, hand-crafted treasures, kuffiyehs from Nablus, yard signs and more will be for sale; explore or purchase children’s books about Palestine with Read Palestine!; Children’s activities will include a read-aloud, kite decorating, window sign making, and temporary tattoos. Books from the Andaleeb Cartonera project will be on display.
The event is free and open to all; donations accepted for Gaza emergency relief via the Middle East Children's Alliance, and for planting trees in the Madison-Masafer Yatta Olive Grove.
Like last year, the event takes place under the shadow of Israel's unspeakable, murderous war in Gaza (and now Lebanon and Yemen) carried out in collaboration with our own government, using our own tax dollars and weapons. Therefore, the event will again close with a public vigil for Palestine along East Johnson Street. We’ll provide materials to make signs, or bring your own signs, flags and banners.
Check the face book listing for more details and updates. Sponsored by MRSCP, Palestine Partners, Jewish Voice for Peace-Madison and Playgrounds for Palestine-Madison.