[tadamon-l] Ontario: Next weekend: STANDING AGAINST APARTHEID -- relocated to TORONTO!

[Tadamon!]

* Please forward to your Palestine solidarity lists


STANDING AGAINST APARTHEID
Building Cross-Campus Solidarity with Palestine

WHEN: October 4th, 11 am - 9 pm and October 5th, 10 am - 5 pm
WHERE: OISE, 252 Bloor Street West, Toronto

** The conference was moved from Hamilton for logistical reasons;
OISE-Toronto is the confirmed location **


Dear friends:

We are writing to invite you to participate in next weekend's Palestinian 
solidarity skill-building conference, "Standing Against Apartheid: Building 
Cross-Campus Solidarity with Palestine," October 4-5 at OISE. Activists with 
all levels of experience are welcome to attend!  The goal of the conference is 
to strengthen the student and faculty movement against Israeli apartheid by 
sharing resources, strategies, and lessons learned through two days of 
workshops and panel discussions with organizers from universities and colleges 
across Canada.

The conference will feature workshops and talks such as:

* How to host Israeli Apartheid Week (www.apartheidweek.org) on your campus
* The Right to Education campaign
* Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions in an academic context
* Debating the academic boycott of Israeli apartheid
* Building solidarity across movements
* Planning events and educationals
* Getting creative in your activism
* Fighting censorship and backlash on university campuses
* How to organize faculty effectively
* Working with the media
** Please see confirmed workshop schedule -- attached **

Speakers and facilitators will include members of:

* Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA)
* Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR)
* Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA)
* Faculty for Palestine (F4P)
* Tadamon!
* CUPE Ontario
* Association pour une Solidarité Syndicale Étudiante (ASSÉ)
* and many more.

Conference participants will be given free educational kits that include 
information on how to organize Israeli Apartheid Week, fact sheets on students 
living under occupation, film clips, and other materials to use in your work.

* To RSVP and receive more detailed information about the conference as it 
develops, please return the attached registration form to 
standing.against.apartheid at gmail.com as soon as possible.* We are asking $20 
from participants to cover conference costs, but no one will be turned away due 
to lack of funds.  Funding to partially cover transportation costs from outside 
Toronto will be available, and we will try to facilitate a carpooling network 
for participants.

* IMPORTANT NOTE: A major focus of the weekend will be preparing students to 
host Israeli Apartheid Week on their campuses in early March 2009.  If you are 
unable to attend the conference but would still like to be included in the 
organizing loop, giving you access to big-name speakers and resources, please 
let us know by writing to saia at riseup.net.

We look forward to seeing you next weekend!
The Standing Against Apartheid Organizing Committee

For more info or to register, contact standing.against.apartheid at gmail.com

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