[Indigsol] Mar 3-7: Israeli Apartheid Week

[ipsmo at riseup.net]

Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) is an annual international series of events
(including rallies, lectures, cultural performances, film screenings,
multimedia displays and boycott of Israel actions) held in cities and
campuses across the globe. Last year’s IAW was incredibly successful with
over 215 cities participating worldwide.

IAW seeks to raise awareness about Israel's apartheid policies towards the
Palestinians and to build support for the growing Boycott, Divestment, and
Sanctions (BDS) against Israel campaign.

Worldwide website: http://apartheidweek.org


Students Against Israeli Apartheid Carleton and Solidarity for Palestinian
Human Rights Ottawa is proud to announce our diverse series of events for
our tenth annual IAW below.

Full week Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/284383871714626/


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MONDAY, MARCH 3, 2014: SETTLER COLONIALISM FROM TURTLE ISLAND TO
PALESTINE, featuring ROBERT LOVELACE and DEEPAN BUDLAKOTI in collaboration
with No One is Illegal Ottawa featuring indigenous activist Robert
Lovelace and Deepan Budlakoti at CARLETON UNIVERSITY, Mackenzie Building
Room 3275 at 7 PM.

Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/766613523360472/?ref=22

ROBERT LOVELACE is a continuing adjunct lecturer at Queen’s University in
the Department of Global Development Studies. His academic interests
include Indigenous Studies, sustainable development and re-Indigenizing
society and the commons.

Robert is a retired Chief of the Ardoch Algonquin First Nation. He lives
in the Algonquin highlands at Eel Lake in the Ardoch Algonquin territory
where he continues to offer traditional teaching and ceremony.

Robert is also an activist in anti-colonial struggles. In 2008, Robert
spent 3 ½ months as a political prisoner for his part in defending the
Ardoch Algonquin First Nation homeland from uranium exploration and
mining. Robert was released on appeal after a groundbreaking decision of
the Ontario Court of Appeal found that Aboriginal law is an essential part
of Canadian law. Robert continues to study, write and speak on issues
regarding “corporate social responsibility” and the effects of the
Canadian mining industry on indigenous people in Canada and
internationally.

Robert is currently involved with the “Freedom Flotilla” movement to
challenge the illegal blockade of Palestine. He also works with an
international effort to protect the Great Lakes watershed. His work
highlights the intersection between Canadian Aboriginal policy and
International reluctance to challenge economic imperialism affecting
indigenous peoples around the world.

DEEPAN BUDLAKOTI is a Canadian citizen subjected to double punishment and
facing deportation to India - a country he has never visited. The Justice
for Deepan Campaign stands with Deepan as he fights to remain with his
family, friends and community in Ottawa and to uphold his full dignity. We
reject the unjust and racist policies that seek to dehumanize and throw
him out of our community and the country. We demand that Deepan be
immediately released from the conditions imposed on him and that his
citizenship be restored to him without delay.

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TUES., MARCH 4, 2014 (Carleton U): FILM SCREENING - ROADMAP TO APARTHEID
at CARLETON UNIVERSITY at Southam Hall Theatre B at 7 PM moderated by SAIA
Carleton student activists and discussing strategies for BDS on campuses.

Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/827370327277009/

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBmXmeS8RmM

There are many lessons to draw from the South African experience of
Apartheid relevant to conflicts all over the world. Roadmap to Apartheid
explores in detail the apartheid comparison as it is used in the enduring
Israel-Palestine conflict. As much an historical document of the rise and
fall of apartheid, the film shows us why many Palestinians feel they are
living in an apartheid system today, and why an increasing number of
people around the world agree with them.

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TUES., MARCH 4, 2014 (U Ottawa): ON ACADEMIC BOYCOTT: uOTTAWA'S EXCHANGE
PROGRAM WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA. Desmarais Room 12110, uOTTAWA at
7PM.
University of Ottawa professor Nadia Abu Zahra and former student
representative at the University's Senate Joseph Hickey will be discussing
the role of academic institutions on both the administrative and faculty
level in the boycott divestment movement and uOttawa's ongoing exchange
program with the University of Haifa.

NADIA ABU ZAHRA is a professor at the University of Ottawa who has written
extensively on mobility, human security, and militarisation. She teaches
in ethics, international development, human rights, and research methods,
and has also taught on climate change and remote sensing. Prior to joining
the University of Ottawa, Nadia was a Research Fellow at the University of
Oxford. Her recent work focuses on how states - and particularly their
policies of identity documentation (passports, IDs, databases, etc.) -
affect individuals and groups at personal levels. Abu Zahra's recently
published "Unfree in Palestine: Registration, Documentation, and Movement
Restriction".

JOSEPH HICKEY was the graduate student representative to U of O Senate for
the Sciences section (Faculties of Science, Engineering, Health Sciences,
and Medicine) for the academic years 2010-2011 and 2011-2012. He presented
a motion in 2011 to freeze a scholarship-endowed joint law degree venture
with the University of Haifa, Israel. The motion, which raised concerns as
to discrimination against Arab students at the University of Haifa and the
circumstances under which the Schwartz-Reisman donor agreement was
concluded.

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WED., MARCH 5: UNDERSTANDING APARTHEID AND BUILDING THE GLOBAL BDS
MOVEMENT: FROM SOUTH AFRICA TO PALESTINE, featuring YUSUF SALOOJEE AND
YAFA JARRAR at Carleton University, at 7PM in Minto Centre Room 5050.

Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/530771833705906/?fref=ts

YUSUF SALOOJEE, former ANC Chief Representative to Canada, Before the ANC
had permanent representation in Canada, Saloojee was secretary of the ANC
Toronto Committee. Saloojee was sent to mobilize anti-apartheid support in
the country. Throughout the period the ANC was a critical node in the
anti-apartheid network, organizing material aid drives, coordinating
speakers, passing on information from ANC headquarters and working closely
with Canadian based activist groups. Yusuf Saloojee traveled across
Canada, speaking, attending meetings, helping coordinating guests from
Canada and launching ANC specific aid campaigns. He was the longest
serving chief representative of the ANC in Canada as he stayed in the
position until 1989. Upon leaving Canada, Saloojee was deployed to the ANC
International Department in Lusaka, Zambia. Following this, Saloojee
served as the South African Ambassador to several countries.

YAFA JARRAR was born in Jerusalem and raised in the Occupied Palestinian
city of Ramallah. She moved to Canada in 2003 to attend Lester B. Pearson
College of the pacific. Influenced by her own lived experience and
upbringing under Israeli Military Occupation and Apartheid policies, where
she witnessed the arrests of both her parents numerous times, and endured
the effects of torture on her father in Israeli military prisons, Yafa
became involved in social and global justice activism at a very young age.
Yafa has been an active member of SAIA Carleton since 2009.

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THURS., MARCH 6: CANADA'S COMPLICITY IN ISRAELI APARTHEID : THE RHETORIC
OF HARPER'S "NEW ANTI-SEMITISM". Panel discussion hosted at Carleton
University at 7 PM in Loeb Building C164. This event is brought to you by
Students Against Israeli Apartheid and Independent Jewish Voices.

Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/491626987613855/

Prof Michael Keefer will be discussing the rhetoric of "the new
anti-semitism" and Canada's complicity in Israel's ruling elites who are
moving ever deeper into the swamp of apartheid. The work of Eva Illouz,
one of Israel's leading sociologists, will serve as a critique of claims,
like Harper's, that systematic critiques of Israel's oppression of the
Palestinians are no more than a "new". Finally, Keefer will speak to how
Harper's positions which have heightened support for Israel, and been
accepted in attenuated form by all of the other Canadian political
parties.

MICHAEL KEEFER is a Professor Emeritus in the School of English and
Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph, a former President of the
Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English, and a
member of Independent Jewish Voices. He holds degrees from the Royal
Military College of Canada, the University of Toronto, and the University
of Sussex. He has been published widely on Renaissance literature, early
modern philosophy, and contemporary politics and cultural politics; and is
an editor and co-author of Antisemitism Real and Imagined: Responses to
the Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Antisemitism (2010).

DIANA RALPH is a life-long activist on a broad range of issues. She
co-founded Independent Jewish Voices in 2008 and works for Palestinian
liberation. She is a therapist in Ottawa. A retired social work professor,
she is the author of two books, Work and Madness and Open for Business:
Closed to People: Mike Harris’s Ontario.

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FRI., MARCH 7: VERSES vs APARTHEID: A night celebrating Palestinian
culture and resistance through dance, poetry and art at the Bronson Centre
@ 7 PM. $10 Donation or Pay-What-You-Can.

Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/256040024569946/?fref=ts


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