Mark your calendars - the 6th International Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) will take place across the globe from from the 1st to the 14th of March 2010!
Since it was first launched in 2005, IAW has grown to become one of the most important global events in the Palestine solidarity calendar. Last year, more than 40 cities around the world participated in the week's activities, which took place in the wake of Israel's brutal assault against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. IAW continues to grow with new cities joining this year.
IAW 2010 takes place following a year of incredible successes for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement on the global level. Lectures, films, and actions will highlight some of theses successes along with the many injustices that continue to make BDS so crucial in the battle to end Israeli Apartheid.
Boston Events
Screening of "Bil'in Habibti" - March 1, 7pm, Boston University George Sherman Union, 775 Commonwealth Avenue, Auditorium room 228, Boston
Noam Chomsky Speaks on Palestine - March 2, 7pm, Boston University College of General Studies, 871 Commonwealth Avenue, CGS 129, Jacob Sleeper Auditorium, Boston
Mazin Qumsiyeh: Israeli Apartheid, Palestinian Popular Resistance
- March 3: Noon, Northeastern Law School, Dockser 30; 3:00 p.m., Brandeis University, Zinner Forum; 7:00 p.m., St. John's Methodist Church, 80 Mt. Auburn St., Watertown
- March 4: UMass Boston Healey Library, 11th floor (H11-0011B)
Take to the Streets for Shuhada Street - March 13, 1-4pm, place TBD
"Just Married" (film, 2005) - March 14: 7pm, First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church, 3 Church St., Harvard Square, Cambridge.
History of Israeli Apartheid Week
Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) is an international series of events held in cities and campuses across the globe. IAW will be running for the fifth consecutive year in 2009, with events taking place between March 1-8 all over the world. The week’s events will include lectures, multimedia events, cultural performance, film screenings, demonstrations, and more.
The past few years have seen a sharp increase of literature and analysis that has sought to document and challenge Israeli apartheid, including reports issued by major international bodies and human rights organizations and findings published by political leaders, thinkers, academics, and activists. Many of these efforts have highlighted the role that could be played by people and governments across the world in providing solidarity with the Palestinian struggle by exerting urgent pressure on Israel to alter its current structure and practices as an apartheid state.
Prominent Palestinians, Jewish anti-Zionists, and South Africans have been at the forefront of this struggle. At the same time, an international divestment campaign has gained momentum in response to a statement issued in July 2005 by over 170 Palestinian civil society organizations calling for boycotts, divestments and sanctions (BDS) against apartheid Israel . Important gains have recently been made in this campaign in countries like South Africa , the United Kingdom , Canada and the United States .
The aim of IAW is to contribute to this chorus of international opposition to Israeli apartheid and to bolster support for the BDS campaign in accordance with the demands outlined in the July 2005 Statement: full equality for Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel, an end to the occupation and colonization of all Arab lands – including the Golan Heights, the Occupied West Bank with East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip – and dismantling the Wall, and the protection of Palestinian refugees’ right to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in U.N. resolution 194.
In previous years IAW has played an important role in raising awareness and disseminating information about Zionism, the Palestinian liberation struggle and its similarities with the indigenous sovereignty struggle in North America and the South African anti-Apartheid movement. Join us in making this a year of struggle against apartheid and for justice, equality, and peace.
See http://boston.apartheidweek.org/ for program. See http://www.itisapartheid.org/getthefacts for fact sheets on Israeli Apartheid. If you want to post an event or get in touch with us, email: info@itisapartheid.org
Sponsors :
| Occupy the T | Mon Feb 13 | 3:00pm | Copley Square | Boston |  |
| Senators Kerry & Brown: Don't Break Our Hearts! | Tue Feb 14 | 11:45am | Downstairs from Sen. John Kerry's office | Boston |  |
| Occupy Peace Summit | Fri Feb 24 | 6:00pm | Friends Center | Philadelphia, PA |  |
| Remember Fukushima: Walk for a New Spring | Fri Mar 2 | 9:00am | Seabrook, NH to Plymouth, MA to Vernon, VT | Seabrook, NH to Plymouth, MA to Vernon, VT | |
| Occupy AIPAC! | Fri Mar 2 | 9:00am | Washington, DC |  | |
| Remember Fukushima! | Tue Mar 6 | 6:00pm | Cambridge Friends Meeting Center | Cambridge | |
| Challenging the Pivot: The U.S., China, & Alternatives to Asia-Pacific Militarization | Tue Mar 13 | 7:30pm | Episcopal Divinity School | Cambridge | |
| Massachusetts Jobs with Justice 20th Anniversary Dinner | Thu Mar 15 | 6:00pm | Suffolk Downs | East Boston |
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