[opirgyork] THE INTERNATIONAL WEEK AGAINST THE APARTHEID WALL 2010

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THE INTERNATIONAL WEEK AGAINST THE APARTHEID WALL 2010

BRING THEM DOWN!

Walls From Palestine to Turtle Island. From Physical to Invisible.

Wednesday, November 10th: 6:30pm | Location: York University, GSA
Conference Room, Student Centre: Rm. 430

Join Students Against Israeli Apartheid and No One Is Illegal as we mark
the week of solidarity with the Palestinian people against the illegal
Apartheid Wall. This event will feature a panel discussion that traces the
network of walls that have been built as barricades to dispossess, divide
and isolate people here and around the world. From Occupied Palestine to
Occupied Turtle Island, these walls permeate everyday life. These may be
walls that create open air prisons in Gaza, Bantustans in the West Bank,
border walls strewn with barbed wire that bleed migrants or walls that are
erected as barriers to our own dignity and humanity. Walls so grotesquely
visible and walls that are so conspicuously invisible – walls that
crisscross the streets we walk on, this city we live in.

Join us as we trace this network of walls from Palestine to Mexico to
United States to Canada. Hear stories of people working tirelessly to
bring them down. Most important of all, be part of a resistance movement
that seeks no other compromise but a complete destruction of these
oppressive structures.

Speakers Include:

Clare O'Connor,  is a member of the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid
and an editor for Upping the Anti: A journal of theory and action. She was
involved with Palestine solidarity activism at York University between
2005-08, and now works for the Ontario Public Interest Research Group at
the University of Toronto.

Graciela Flores, an anti-racist feminist, student, and activist who
combats individual and systemic oppression particularly around issues of
gender and migrant justice. A Mexican migrant who lived without status in
the United States near the Mexico-U.S border for the majority of her life,
Graciela uses her personal experience to educate people about the
consequences of physical and invisible racist walls that seek to
dehumanize. Aside from working with Latina youth in order to empower them
and help create safe spaces where intersecting oppressions are challenged
through education, Graciela is also a member of No One Is Illegal-Toronto,
a grassroots migrant justice organization.


Jean McDonald, a SSHRC post-doctoral fellow at the Institute on
Globalization and the Human Condition at McMaster University. Her research
examines migrant illegalization and the production of 'internal borders'
within the realm of service provision in Toronto, focusing on gender
violence, racism, nationalism and global capitalism. Recent publications
include, “Citizenship, Illegality and Sanctuary,” (2007) in Interrogating
Race and Racism, ed. by Vijay Agnew. Jean is a long-time member of No One
Is Illegal in Toronto.

Katherine Lapointe, an organizer with Students Against Israeli Apartheid
(SAIA) and the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA). She is also a
graduate student in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York
University, where her research is on decolonizing education and critical
pedagogy.

**Childcare available**

 ++Light refreshments will be provided.++

For more about the Week Against the Wall, visit:
http://www.stopthewall.org/

For more information about Students Against Israeli Apartheid -York and No
One Is Illegal- Toronto:
NOII- http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/
SAIA: saiayork at riseup.net

Endorsed by: Ontario Public Interest Research Group at York
York University Graduate Students' Association (YUGSA)