[Bloquez l'empire!] Conference on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Campaign

[mary foster]

Boycotting Israeli Apartheid: The Struggle Continues

Conference on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Campaign
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto, Canada
6-8 October 2006

Register now: www.caiaweb.org.

(If you are planning to go to this conference from Montreal, you are welcome
to coordinate travel with us at Tadamon: tadamon at resist.ca.)

Featuring:
Jamal Jum'a - Coordinator, Stop the Wall Campaign (Palestine)
Willie Madisha - Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
Salim Vally - Palestine Solidarity Committee (South Africa)

As the Israeli states works to finalize its apartheid laws, walls, and the
bantustanization of the indigenous Palestinian people and prepares to
eliminate popular resistance to its aggression in the region, the
Palestinian and Lebanese people remain steadfast under increasingly brutal
conditions. Meanwhile, the economic and political leaderships of Western
governments, with the US and Canada at the forefront, have increased their
efforts to normalize international relations with the Israeli apartheid
regime.

Taking strength from the heroic struggle of the South African peoples'
struggle and the global solidarity movement against apartheid, energies are
being exerted worldwide to build a boycott, divestment and sanctions
campaign against Israeli apartheid. With recent victories of this campaign
in North America, and the growth of the movement here, it has come time to
bring the different anti-apartheid forces together.

The Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA) invites you to join us from
October 6-8, 2006 for "Boycotting Israeli Apartheid: The Struggle Continues"
a broad-based conference dedicated to promoting the growing anti-apartheid
movement in Palestine and abroad through a comprehensive boycott,
divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign targeting Israeli apartheid.

The conference will include participants from Palestine, South Africa and
Turtle Island; bringing together all those working on BDS as a means of
dismantling Zionist racism and opening up new spaces for creative action.
The conference aims to develop understandings, strategies and networks that
can give impetus to a national BDS campaign.

The weekend will also serve as a showcase of the Palestinian arts, featuring
cultural programming and a marketplace of alternative 'Apartheid Free'
products from Palestine. Furthermore, BDS campaigners from across Canada,
representing different community, faith, labour, and student organizations
will be on hand to share in this important strategizing, networking and
learning experience.

For more information see www.caiaweb.org
Or email endapartheid at riseup.net
To coordinate travel from Montreal: tadamon at resist.ca