Catalogue Number
NMLH.1994.168.231
Object Name
Poster
Title
OSPAAAL day of solidarity with Palestine poster
Place
Palestine
Events
Nakba day
Date
1970
Creator(s)
Description
Long rectangular yellow poster - top of poster says "Jornada de Solidaridad Con Palestina / 15 de Mayo/Day of solidarity with Palestine May 15/Journee De solidarite Avec Palestine/15 Mai." The poster shows a map drawing and text in black, of Palestine and Jerusalem. Shows a black and white photogtaph of a man holding a gun. Bottom right of the poster shows the OSPAAAL logo of a globe and a gun. Artist is called Alberto Blanco. The 15th May - the date the poster is advertising as a day of solidarity with Palestine, the Nakba day, also known as the memory of catastrophe. This commemoratres the Nakba, which comprised the destruction of Palestinian society and homeland in 1948 and the displacement of many Palestinian people. This date is the day after the end of the British mandate for Palestine.
This poster is in solidarity with Palestine, and Nakba day is still commemorated today with protests, national mourning, speeches and rallies. This poster was issued by OSPAAAL - OSPAAAL is the Organization of Solidarity with the People of Asia, Africa and Latin America. Abbreviated as OSPAAAL, it was a Cuban political movement with the stated purpose of fighting globalisation, imperialism, neoliberalism and defending human rights. The OSPAAAL was founded in Havana in January 1966, after the Tricontinental Conference, a meeting of over 500 delegates and 200 observers from over 82 countries.
Acting as the "key bridge" to unite liberation struggles and movements in the three continents, OSPAAAL's main objective is the promotion of anti-imperialism and socialism. The Organization of American States (OAS) called OSPAAAL "the most dangerous threat that international communism has yet made against the inter-American system". OSPAAAL's motto was "This great humanity has said: enough! And has started to move forward". Until 2019, it published the magazine Tricontinental as their main transnational communication tool. After the closing of OSPAAAL by the Cuban Government, the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research seeks to continue the heritage of the Tricontinental conference and the organization. They "stand, in the words of Franz Fanon, with the wretched of the earth to create a world of human beings."
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