[tadamon-l] Three interviews by CKUT Radio :: Boycotting Israeli Apartheid

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Three interviews by CKUT Radio :: Boycotting Israeli Apartheid

The following interviews were conducted in the lead up to the first-ever
conference on Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Against Israeli
apartheid, with three of the conference’s key participants. The
conference, “The struggle continues: Boycotting Israeli Apartheid“, is
happening in Toronto from October 6th to the 8th (www.caiaweb.org).

==> Talk given by Rafeef Ziadah during Tadamon’s Fires of War :: Voices of
Resistance event in Montreal (27 September 2006).
Audio link: http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2006/10/14544.php

Rafeef Ziadah is a third-generation Palestinian refugee and an organizer
with the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA) and SUMOUD - Political
Prisoner Solidarity Group in Toronto. She has been active with a number of
grassroots campaigns on Palestine including the SUSTAIN (Stop US
Tax-funded Aid to Israel Now!) campaign in Washington DC. She is currently
completing her PhD at York University.

==> Interview with Jamal Juma’a in CKUT
Audio link: http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2006/10/14545.php

Jamal Juma’a was born and lives in Jerusalem and is the coordinator of the
Palestinian grassroots anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign (www.stopthewall.org).
He is a founding member of several support organizations including the
Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees (PARC) and the Palestinian
Association for Cultural Exchange (PACE) on whose boards he continues to
serve. He has written several widely published and translated analysis
pieces on the Wall and the struggle for Palestine. He regularly represents
the Stop the Wall Campaign.

==> Interview with Salim Vally
Audio link: http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2006/10/14515.php

Salim Vally has been a social justice activist since high school and was a
regional executive member of the high school South African Student’s
Movement (SASM), which played a pivotal role in the Uprising of 1976. He
has been a teacher, union educator, organizer and spokesperson, and as a
researcher into grassroots community and worker conditions and needs has
produced numerous critical reports. He is a lecturer and senior researcher
in the School of Education at the University of the Witwatersrand in
Johannesburg and chairperson of the Palestine Solidarity Committee and the
Anti-War Coalition.

The interviews and recordings were conducted by the CKUT Community News
Collective in Montreal.

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