[Bloquez l'empire!] [Montreal] February 2008: Israeli Apartheid Week in Montreal...

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ISRAELI APARTHEID WEEK MONTREAL
60 Years of Nakba: End Israeli Apartheid

http://tadamon.resist.ca/index.php/post/1114

Cities across Canada and around the world are participating in a global week of 
action against Israeli apartheid from 3 to 10 February. Israeli Apartheid Week, 
initiated at the grassroots level in Palestine, is now in its fourth 
consecutive year. In 2008, Israeli Apartheid Week occurs during the 60th year 
of the Palestinian Nakba ("catastrophe")-- 60 years of dispossession, ethnic 
cleansing and exile for Palestinians resulting from the creation of the state 
of Israel.

Tadamon! Montreal invites you to participate in a series of events to mark 
Israeli Apartheid Week in Montreal:


---> PALESTINE: Solidarity in the Academy
a panel discussion

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7th, 6:30pm
School of Community & Public Affairs
2149 Mackay, metro Guy-Concordia

Presentations from...

* Toufic Haddad: Palestinian-American activist and author of Between the Lines: 
Readings in Israel, the Palestinians and the U.S War Against Terror, (Haymarket 
Books)

* Ronald Cameron: president of Fédération nationale des enseignantes et 
enseignants du Québec FNEEQ

* Sophie Schoen: political organizer with L'Association pour une Solidarité 
Syndicale Étudiante (ASSÉ)


---> PICKET OF INDIGO BOOKSTORE: Boycott Israeli Apartheid

SATURDAY, 9 FEBRUARY, 1-3pm
in front of Indigo bookstore
(at St. Catherine St., just west of McGill College, Peel metro)

organized by the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid Montreal, as part of the 
cross-Canada boycott campaign against Indigo/Chapters bookstores (more 
information: http://caiaweb.org)


---> ARTISTS AGAINST APARTHEID II
An evening of poetry, spoken word and musical performances ...

SUNDAY, 17 FEBRUARY, 8pm
O Patro Vys
356 Mont-Royal east (Mont Royal metro)
Suggested donation: 7 to 15$

Performances from...

* SYNCOP: North African Rai music fusing reggae & hip hop elements

* Mohamed Mehdi & members of the Kalmunity Vibe Collective

* Kaie Kellough: Author of Lettricity and spoken-word poet


---> BACKGROUND: Israeli Apartheid Week
and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign...

Israel is now taking its place in the global conscience, alongside other 
settler-colonial states like South Africa, as an apartheid state, and not only 
a belligerent occupying power. Prominent Palestinians, Israeli anti-Zionists, 
and South Africans have been at the forefront of efforts to expose the 
apartheid nature of the state of Israel.

At the same time, an international campaign of boycotts, divestment and 
sanctions against Israeli apartheid, as called for by over 170 Palestinian 
grassroots and civil society organizations in July 2005, is gaining momentum 
globally, day by day.

Israeli Apartheid Week promotes the strategy of boycott, divestment and 
sanctions against Israeli apartheid to support the demands of the July 2005 
grassroots appeal: full equality for Arab citizens of Israel; an end to the 
occupation and colonization of the West Bank and Gaza; and the implementation 
of the right of return and compensation for Palestinian refugees pursuant to UN 
resolution 194.

Responding to a call from the Coalition against Israeli Aparthied in Toronto, 
Tadamon is participating in Anti-Apartheid Week on the understanding of Israel 
as an apartheid state, with a commitment to the Palestinian right of return, in 
opposition to all forms of racism, and in solidarity with oppressed people 
across the globe. In North America (Turtle Island), Tadamon recognizes the 
central importance of solidarity with the indigenous people of the continent, a 
continuing anti-colonial struggle with a clear political parallel to the 
struggle against Israeli apartheid.

Join us in making 2008 a year of resistance to Israeli apartheid.
The refugees will return! Apartheid will fall!

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Tadamon! Montreal
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514 664 1036
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