[opirgyork] Israeli Apartheid Week- York U and Toronto

[OPIRG York]

Hey All!

Just a quick email announcement about IAW- it starts next week. OPIRG York
has been involved in IAW for years, so we are happy to promote this event
to you all, and hope you can come out and be a part of the week. SAIA York
is hosting many of the awesome events below-- so come out, learn and be
involved! The events titled in *RED* are the ones happening at York!

-OPIRG York

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Find event details at www.facebook.com/iawtoronto and www.apartheidweek.org

*Monday March 3 Noon to 6:30pm*
Listen in to CHRY Radio 105.5 FM starting at noon for hours of
anti-apartheid discussions,   interviews and tunes of resistance! Facebook
Event

*Tuesday March 4, 6:30pm*
Location: 311B Student Centre, York University
Know Your Rights workshop
Facebook Event
Saron Gebresellassi - lawyer in civil litigation with a passion for
lawsuits against the police and the powerful
Abby Deshman - lawyer and director of the Public Safety Program at the
Canadian Civil Liberties Association

*Tuesday March 4, 7:00pm*
Location: TBA (UofT)
Understanding Apartheid and Building the Global BDS Movement: from South
Africa to Palestine to Turtle Island
Facebook Event
Yusuf Saloojee - former African National Congress (ANC) representative to
Canada
Hind Awwad - former coordinator for the Boycott National Committee (BNC
Palestine)
Chand [ni] Desai - Students Against Israeli Apartheid - UofT

*Tuesday March 4, 6:30pm*
Location: Bloor Cinema (506 Bloor St West.)
Film Screening: Mars at Sunrise by Jessica Habie
Facebook Event
Co-presented by the Toronto Palestine Film Festival (TPFF) and Cinema
Politica

*Wednesday March 5, 7:00pm*
Location: Graduate Students' Association (GSA) Lounge, Rm 430 Student
Centre, York University
Continuity and Resistance: From the Holocaust to Palestine
Facebook Event
Suzanne Weiss - Holocaust survivor and Palestine solidarity activist based
in Toronto

*Thursday March 6, 6:00pm*
Location: Nat Taylor Cinema, York University
Voices From Palestine: Film Screenings and Panel Discussion
Facebook Event
Films: Art and Apathy (16 min), A Day in Palestine (6 min), This
Palestinian Life (29 min)
Discussion with Huda Alsarraj from SAIA alongside a board member of the
Toronto Palestine Film Festival (TPFF)

*Thursday March 6, 7:00pm*
Location: TBA (UofT)
Globally Resisting Settler-Colonial States Through Campaigns and Solidarity
Facebook Event
Carrie Lester - indigenous rights and environmental protection activist
Samah Idriss - Campaign to Boycott Supporters of Israel in Lebanon, Editor
of al-Adab
Soda Stream Campaign speaker - Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA)

*Friday March 7, 7:00pm*
Location: TBA (UofT)
Homonationalism, Pinkwashing and Love under the time of Apartheid
Facebook Event
Zeina Amro - Lover Under the Time of Apartheid Campaign, Palestine
Natalie Kouri-Towe - Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA)

*Saturday March 8, 2:00pm*
Location: TBA (UofT)
Rethinking the Syrian Golan in the Context of Apartheid
Facebook Event
Bashar Tarabieh - Arab Academic Association for Development of the Golan

*Saturday March 8, 7:00pm*
Cultural Night
Location: TBA

*Monday March 10, 7:00pm*
Location: TBA (UofT)
Reaching the Tipping Point? Anti-Normalization and Academic Boycott from
South Africa to Canada
Facebook Event
Salim Vally - South African Anti-Apartheid activist and professor at the
University of Johannesburg in South Africa
Linda Tabar - Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of
Israel (PACBI)
Sue Ferguson - Faculty for Palestine (F4P)

*Tuesday March 11, time TBA*
Location: TBA (UofT - Mississauga Campus)
Displacing the Displaced: Addressing Palestinian Refugees in Syria
Facebook Event
Tha'er al-Shali - Palestinian-Syrian filmmaker from Yarmouk Refugee Camp in
Syria

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-OPIRG York
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416-736-5724
opirg at yorku.ca



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