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14th Annual Israeli Apartheid Week | Toronto, March 7th-19th, 2018
Mark your calendars! The 14th Annual Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) will take place in Toronto from March 7th to 19th.
First launched in Toronto in 2005, IAW has grown to become one of the most important global events in the Palestine solidarity calendar. This year, IAW will take place in more than 150 cities across the globe. The week aims to raise awareness about Israel's ongoing practices of apartheid, occupation, and dispossession against the Palestinian people. Lectures, films, and creative performances will build support for the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Israeli Apartheid Week in Toronto is organized by the University of Toronto Graduate Students' Union BDS Committee, Students Against Israeli Apartheid, the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid, and the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 3902 BDS Committee.
Our program of events can be found below.
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Wednesday, March 7th: Neoliberal Colonization and Israeli Apartheid
Featuring: Andy Clarno
Time: 3:30-5:30pm
Location: SK720 (Faculty of Social Work, 246 Bloor Street West)
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As Israel intensifies its settler colonial project, apartheid has become an increasingly important framework for understanding and challenging the racial state. The UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) recently published a powerful report documenting Israeli violations of international law and concluding that Israel has established an apartheid regime that oppresses and dominates the Palestinian people as a whole. This lecture by Andy Clarno builds on that report, raises questions about the limitations of international law, and points to an alternative way of understanding apartheid that could provide a foundation for building deeper connections between struggles in Palestine, South Africa, the US and beyond.
Thursday, March 8th: "From Gaza to the Grasslands": Indigenous Refusals and Anti-Colonial Resistance
Featuring: Ghada Ageel, Chandni Desai, Nick Estes
Moderated by: Lina Assi
The keynote event of Israeli Apartheid Week 2018 - featuring
Ghada
Ageel, Nick Estes, Chandni Desai, and Lina Assi - will explore Indigenous refusals and anti-colonial resistance against the ongoing violence and dispossession of settler colonial projects in Turtle Island (North America) and historic Palestine. Panelists will reflect on how far anti-colonial movements have progressed over the past few decades and make sense of the directions they have taken during that time.
We thank Erica Violet Lee whose poem, written during the 2014 Gaza attacks, inspired the title of this event. To read the full poem, please visit her website:
https://moontimewarrior.com/2014/08/19/our-revolution-first-nations-women-in-solidarity-with-palestine/
Monday, March 12th: "Jerusalem: The East Side Story": Film Screening and Discussion
Featuring: To be announced
Time: 6:30-8:30pm
Directed by Mohammed Alatar, this film documents Palestinian everyday life under Israeli occupation in East Jerusalem. The film reviews nearly one hundred years of history and exposes the past forty years of Israeli military occupation policies in Jerusalem and their devastating impact on the city and its peoples.
Tuesday, March 13th: Cultural Night: Nakba, Displacement, Resistance, Return
Featuring: To be announced
Time: 6:00-9:00pm
Location: Cat's Eye (124 Charles Street)
Cost: $5-10 sliding scale (pay what you can, no one turned away)
SAIA at UofT marks 70 years of popular resistance to the ongoing Nakba with a cultural night on the themes of Nakba, Displacement, Resistance, Return. The Nakba, or 'Catastrophe' in Arabic, is a term first coined by Dr. Constantine Zurayk for the 1948 expulsion of approximately three-quarters of a million Palestinians from their homes, villages, towns, cities and lands by armed Zionist forces to make way for the establishment of the Israeli apartheid state. The Nakba is ongoing and still translates into ethnic cleansing and dispossession on a daily basis.
Thursday, March 15th: Storytelling for Resistance: A Workshop
Featuring: Ghadeer Malek
Time: 5:00-7:00pm
Location: OI5240 (OISE, 252 Bloor Street West)
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This two hour storytelling workshop led by Ghadeer Malek will discuss how storytelling can be an important medium of struggle and solidarity building. Connecting struggles between occupied Palestine and occupied Turtle Island, we will explore how stories and storytellers are invaluable to the work of resisting settler colonialism.
Monday March 19th: "Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory": Film Screening and Discussion
Featuring: To be announced
Time: 6:00-9:00pm
Location: TBA
"Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory" is a meditation on the Palestinian people's struggle to produce an image and self-representation on their own terms in the 1960s and 1970s, with the establishment of the Palestine Film Unit as part of the PLO. Unearthing films stored in archives across the world after an unprecedented research and access, the film begins with popular representations of modern Palestine and traces the works of militant filmmakers in reclaiming image and narrative through revolutionary and militant cinema. In resurrecting a forgotten memory of struggle, Off Frame reanimates what is within the frame, but also weaves a critical reflection by looking for what is outside it, or what is off frame.
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