Al Awda Convenes in Los Angeles.

The article focuses on the third annual conference of Al Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition that took place from April 15 to 17, 2005 at the UCLA campus in Los Angeles, California. The opening two days of the conference ended with cultural evenings. The first reflected the Arab-American heritage of many of the participants including speakers such as Vernon Bellecourt of the American Indian Movement (AIM), who spoke about the necessity of mutual support and understanding between various solidarity groups such as AIM and Al Awda, and a number of hip hop and spoken word performers. The closing cultural activities focused on traditional Palestinian arts.