[tadamon-l] [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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