[van-announce] An Invitation for Israeli Apartheid Week at UBC!

[Charlotte Kates]

Hello to our partners at UBC and in Vancouver,

Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights -
UBC<https://www.facebook.com/pages/SPHR-UBC/190741272305> would
like to invite you to events on the UBC campus in participation with the
8th Annual Global  <http://apartheidweek.org/>Israeli Apartheid
Wee<http://apartheidweek.org/>
k <http://apartheidweek.org/>. IAW seeks to draw attention to the nature of
Israel as an apartheid system and its protracted occupation of Palestine.

We have 3 events over the next few weeks on the UBC campus!

We hope to see you soon!
In solidarity,

SPHR-UBC Executive


SPHR-UBC <https://www.facebook.com/pages/SPHR-UBC/190741272305> is hosting
Israeli Apartheid Week from the 27th of February to the 2nd of March. 2
events that we would like to draw your attention to are occuring on
Wednesday and Friday next week.

*Film Screening: Salt of this Sea*
We are hosting a screening of award winning film, Salt of this
Sea<https://www.facebook.com/SaltofthisSea> (Cannes
Official Selection, Un Certain Regard). It is about a refugee returning to
claim her grandparent's effects left from the Nakba, which expelled over
700 000 Palestinans in 1948. Through the eyes of the protagonist, we
confront the Occupation firsthand. As one reviewer has said,
"Salt of This Sea compels us to make a choice between the cold comfort of
indifference or the knowledge that we can make a difference."
Event Link: http://www.facebook.com/**events/239021086186911/<https://www.facebook.com/events/239021086186911/>

*Wednesday, Feb 29, 6pm*, Woodward Room 6, 2329 West Mall, UBC
Entry by donation


*Keynote Address: Nada Elia: Confronting Apartheid: Academic and Cultural
Boycott of Israel*
Next, we are excited to be hosting Nada Elia, professor at Antioch
University, Seattle, organizing committee member of USACBI and founding
member of Arab women's activist groups. She will be giving a talk on
solutions to the Occupation: the academic and cultural boycott of Israeli
institutions which benefit from the Occupation. As a diaspora Palestinian
feminist, it will be an opportunity to hear of gendered perspectives of the
Occupation and apartheid in Israel.
Event Link: https://www.facebook.**com/events/352550398100624/
<https://www.facebook.com/events/352550398100624/>

*Friday, Mar 2, 6pm*, Woodward Room 2, 2329 West Mall, UBC
Entry minimum donation $5 students $10 non-students, no one will be turned
away for lack of funds


*A Child's View from Gaza: Children's Conflict Art Exhibit*

SPHR-UBC is pleased to partner with the Boycott Israeli Apartheid Campaign
(BIAC) <http://www.boycottisraeliapartheid.org> who has coordinated the
exhibit in Vancouver. The show is an exhibition of 25 children’s art
pieces, which are part of the 75-piece exhibition that was created in 2009
by the children of Gaza who witnessed the destruction of Operation Cast
Lead and who participated in after-school children’s therapy programs.
“Cast Lead,” Israel’s December 2008/January 2009 attack on a virtually
unarmed Gaza, killed 1400 Palestinians, including 320 children.

These images are powerful. Children have no agendas. Their art work is an
incredible testament to the lasting trauma suffered from the Assault on
Gaza.

The exhibition will begin in Vancouver on Friday, March 9 and we encourage
all IAW participants and supporters of Palestine to attend. Guest speaker
Barbara Lubin, Founder and Executive Director of the Middle East Children’s
Alliance<http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.258212907546434.67287.145021988865527&type=3>,
is a life-long peace, justice and disability rights activist. The
collection comes to UBC on March 15. For more details about the
exhibition’s visit to Vancouver and a preview of images,see
childsviewfromgaza.org.
*Thursday, Mar 15, 11-5pm*, Abdul Ladha Centre, 2055 East Mall, UBC
Donations are welcome


*The crime of apartheid means inhumane acts of a character similar to those
referred to in para 1, committed in the context of an institutionalized
regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any
other racial group or groups and committed with the intention of
maintaining that regime*
* - Part 2 Art 7 Crimes Against Humanity, 2h, Rome Statute of the
International Criminal Court *
http://www.un.org/law/icc/statute/99_corr/2.htm* *
 --
SPHR UBC Secretary
SPHR-UBC <http://www.facebook.com/pages/SPHR-UBC/190741272305>
www.sphr.org





-- 
Charlotte L. Kates     charlotte.kates at gmail.com