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<DIV><B><FONT size=4>The Ninth Annual Israeli Apartheid Week<BR>March 1 10,
2013<BR><A style="COLOR: rgb(17,85,204)" href="http://www.apartheidweek.org"
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are very proud to announce our preliminary list of confirmed speakers along
with the specific themes of each evening for IAW 2013. Mark
your calendars with the different topics for each evening and
speakers. Hope you can join us in our ode to Palestine and the Boycott,
Divestment and Sanctions movement.</DIV>
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face="arial, sans-serif">A complete list of speakers and events is available
at: </FONT><A style="COLOR: rgb(17,85,204)"
href="http://www.toronto.apartheidweek.org/"
target=_blank>www.toronto.apartheidweek.org</A></DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif; COLOR: rgb(34,34,34); FONT-SIZE: 13px"><B>FRIDAY,
March 1st</B></DIV>
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<DIV>IAW Opening Party Featuring spoken word artists <B>Suheir
Hammad</B> and <B>Remi Kanazi</B><BR>Doors Open at 8:00
pm<BR><B>Location: Tranzac, <A style="COLOR: rgb(17,85,204)"
href="https://maps.google.ca/maps?q=292+Brunswick+Avenue&hnear=292+Brunswick+Ave,+Toronto,+Ontario+M5S+1Y2&gl=ca&t=m&z=16"
target=_blank>292 Brunswick Avenue</A></B></DIV>
<DIV>With a presentation by FUSE magazine and Basil AlZeri </DIV>
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<DIV><B>SUNDAY, March 3rd</B></DIV>
<DIV><B>Syria and the Peoples Revolution </B></DIV>
<DIV>Speaker: Razan Ghazzawi</DIV>
<DIV>Afternoon, Time TBA</DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 15px; FONT-FAMILY: arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Location:
TBA</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><B>Razan Ghazzawi</B>, a blogger from Syria who started blogging using
an alias, Golaniya, when Israel launched a war against Lebanon 2006.
When the Syrian revolution broke out in March 2011, Razan was among those
who disseminated updates on demonstrations taking place across Syria using
her real name. She was detained twice during the revolution, her SCM
colleagues blogger Hussein Ghrer and Hani Zetani along with her boss Mazen
Darwich, are still in prison ever since regime security forces raided SCM
office in Damascus 16th February 2012. Razan was awarded by Front Line
Defenders 2012.</DIV>
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<DIV><B>MONDAY, March 4th</B></DIV>
<DIV><B>Lessons from Palestine: Right to education, academic freedom, and
the BDS movement</B></DIV>
<DIV>Speakers: Dr. Samia Al-Botmeh, Ayah Abubasheer</DIV>
<DIV>7:00 - 9:00 PM</DIV>
<DIV>Location: University of Toronto, Bahen Centre, Room 1160,<A
style="COLOR: rgb(17,85,204)"
href="https://maps.google.ca/maps?q=40+st+george+st&hl=en&hnear=40+St+George+St,+Toronto,+Toronto+Division,+Ontario+M5S&gl=ca&t=m&z=16"
target=_blank> 40 St. George St.</A></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 15px; FONT-FAMILY: arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hosted by
Students Against Israeli Apartheid a working group
of OPIRG-Toronto</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><B>Dr. Samia Al-Botmeh,</B> Director of the Center for Development
Studies at Birzeit University, Ramallah, West Bank and member of
Steering Committee for the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and
Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI).</DIV>
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<DIV><B>Ayah Abubasheer</B>, M.A., London School of Economics, and member of
the Gaza-based BDS committee,Palestinian Students for the Cultural
and Academic Boycott of Israel (PSCABI).</DIV>
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<DIV><B>TUESDAY, March 5th</B></DIV>
<DIV><B>Film Screening: Roadmap to Apartheid </B></DIV>
<DIV><B>with discussion by Randa Farah</B></DIV>
<DIV>6:45 - 9:00 PM</DIV>
<DIV>Location: Hot Docs Bloor Cinema, <A style="COLOR: rgb(17,85,204)"
href="https://maps.google.ca/maps?q=506+Bloor+St.+West&hnear=506+Bloor+St+W,+Toronto,+Ontario+M5S+1Y5&gl=ca&t=m&z=16"
target=_blank>506 Bloor St. West</A></DIV>
<DIV>Co-sponsored with Cinema Politica</DIV>
<DIV><B><I><BR></I></B></DIV>
<DIV><B><I>Roadmap to Apartheid</I>, </B>narrated by Alice Walker, is an
award-winning documentary that is the first to offer an in-depth
exploration of parallels between the South African and Israeli forms of
apartheid, while serving a comprehensive and accessible introduction to
the apartheid anaysis of Israeli and the Boycott, Divestment,
Sanctions Movement.</DIV>
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<DIV><B>Randa Farah,</B> Department of Anthropology, University of Western
Ontario. Dr. Farah is researcher and specialist on Palestinian refugees,
and will also participate in the Q & A after the film.</DIV>
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<DIV><I>This is a free public event - but donations at the door are
welcome.</I></DIV>
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<DIV><B>WEDNESDAY, March 6th</B></DIV>
<DIV><B>From The Roots: Building Resistance Across Colonized
Lands</B><BR>Speakers: Crystal Lameman, and more TBA<BR>7:00 - 9:00
PM<BR>Location: TBA</DIV>
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<DIV><B
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Crystal Lameman </B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial,helvetica,sans-serif">is a 30 year old mother of two
and she is from and resides on the Beaver Lake Cree Nation which is located 2.5
hours N.E. of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. She is a college and University
graduate, holding a 2 year Social Work Diploma, a Bachelor of Arts and Sciences,
and a Bachelor of Elementary Education. She has always taken an active role
in participating in the dialogue on the Rights of Indigenous People. It is
through her involvement at the grassroots level she has been given numerous
opportunities to travel, i.e. London, Oxford, Birmingham England to deliver her
message in relation to the Fuel Quality Directive and the Canadian tar sands
importation into Europe, while there she was a keynote speaker at the People and
Planets Shared Planet conference, and rallied for support around England in the
campaign to stop the tar sands destruction. She is also an alumni member of the
Front-Line Fellowship program through the Environmental Action Coalition in
Washington DC where she travelled to receive a three day training
initiative. She attended the United Nations Rio+20 Conference on
Sustainability. She was a keynote speaker at the PowerShift 2012 conference
in Ottawa, and was a part of a She Speaks: Indigenous Women Speaking out Against
the Tar Sands panel that had stops in Vancouver, BC and Toronto, Sarnia, and
Brantford, Ont. She is actively involved in all that encompasses Indigenous
rights and issues socially, economically, and
environmentally. Crystal is currently doing contractual work with the
Canadian Indigenous Tar Sands Campaign and Sierra Club Prairie Chapter as the
Alberta Climate and Energy Campaigner. She actively speaks to media and
plays host to the many people who travel to her community seeking information
regarding the Beaver Lake Cree Nations court case against the Canadian
Government and the over 17, 000 permits and leases granted to big oil without
the Government following through with their duty to consult the Beaver Lake
Cree. She proudly states that the entirety of her work is done at the
grassroots level.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><B>THURDAY, March 7th</B></DIV>
<DIV><B>Peace vs. Pacification</B></DIV>
<DIV>Speaker: Dr. Adel Razzaq Takriti</DIV>
<DIV>7:00 - 9:00 PM<BR>Location: TBA</DIV>
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<DIV><B>Dr Abdel Razzaq Takriti</B> is Lecturer in International History at
the University of Sheffield, England.He is currently co-authoring, with
Dr Karma Nabulsi, a book on the history of the Palestinian
revolution.</DIV>
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<DIV><B>THURSDAY, March 7th</B></DIV>
<DIV><B>Israeli Activism against Occupation and Apartheid: Strategies for
Solidarity</B><BR>Speaker: Noa Shaindlinger</DIV>
<DIV>Afternoon, time TBA</DIV>
<DIV>Location: York University, Room TBA</DIV>
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<DIV>As an Israeli anti-israeli-apartheid activist, <B>Noa
Shaindlinger</B> will first discuss her involvement in Zochrot, a
Tel-Aviv NGO whose mission statement it to educate Israeli-Jews about the
Nakba and preserve the memory of pre-1948 Palestine. Noa also joined
anarchists against the wall and participated in demonstrations and other
actions against the current realities of land theft, expanding settlements
and limitations imposed on the freedom of movement of Palestinians. She
will speak about the nature of this type of solidarity work, the joint
struggle and its internal tensions and pitfalls.</DIV>
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<DIV><B>FRIDAY, March 8th</B></DIV>
<DIV><B>I Come From There: Stories of the Living Resistance</B><BR>6:00 - 9:00
PM</DIV>
<DIV>Location: TBA</DIV>
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<DIV>An intimate and rare night of storytelling featuring a
cross-section of Palestinian elders, youth, artists, and activists from
the community. Through personal stories, folk tales, and poetry,
loved ones will share their diverse experiences of living in the
diaspora, under occupation, and as refugees. The night will be an ode to
our past, present, and future.</DIV>
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<DIV><B>SUNDAY, March 10th</B></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-SIZE: small"><B>The
Palestinian Question and International Law </B></SPAN><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-SIZE: small"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-SIZE: small">(2013 James
Graff Memorial Lecture)</SPAN></B></DIV>
<DIV>Speaker:<B> </B>Afif Safieh</DIV>
<DIV>2:00 PM</DIV>
<DIV>Location: University of Toronto, <SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-SIZE: small">OISE Auditorium,
<A
href="https://maps.google.ca/maps?q=252+bloor+st+west&hnear=252+Bloor+St+W,+Toronto,+Toronto+Division,+Ontario+M5R&gl=ca&t=m&z=16"
target=_blank>252 Bloor St West</A></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-SIZE: small">Co-hosted
by the Near East Cultural and Educational Foundation of </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-SIZE: small">Canada
and </SPAN><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 15px; FONT-FAMILY: arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> Students
Against Israeli Apartheid a working group of OPIRG-Toronto</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><B>Afif Safieh </B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-SIZE: small">is the senior
most Ambassador of the Palestinian </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-SIZE: small">Diplomatic
Corps. Safieh is considered the most experienced and </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-SIZE: small">skilled
Palestinian diplomat having served in three politically </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-SIZE: small">significant
capitals: London, Washington, and Moscow. During his </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-SIZE: small">service, he was
involved in the Stockholm negotiations that led to the </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-SIZE: small">first official
and direct American-Palestinian dialogue. He has met </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-SIZE: small">and interacted
with the leading figures of our age from Yasser Arafat, </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-SIZE: small">John Major, and
Tony Blair to Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush, and Pope </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-SIZE: small">John Paul
II.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><B>About IAW 2013</B></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>First launched in Toronto in 2005, IAW has grown to become one of
the most important global events in the Palestine solidarity
calendar. Last year, over 200 cities around the world participated in the
week's activities.</DIV>
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<DIV><B>Endorsers of Israeli Apartheid Week 2013 so far:</B></DIV>
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<DIV>Art for Justice, <SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-SIZE: small">Association of
Part-Time Undergraduate Students - University of Toronto, </SPAN>BASICS,
Canadian Arab Federation, Canadian Friends of Sabeel, Coalition for Tamil
Rights, Communist Party of Canada, Faculty for Palestine, FUSE Magazine, Gaza's
Ark, Health For All, Independent Jewish Voices, International Jewish
Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN) Canada, Justicia for Migrant Workers, Latin
American & Caribbean Solidarity Network, Middle Eastern Students'
Association (University of Toronto), No One Is Illegal Toronto, Not in Our
Name: Jews, Opposed to Zionism, OPIRG-Toronto, Ontario Coalition Against
Poverty, Palestine House, Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA) Toronto,
Queer C.O.R.E., R3 Collective, Rising Tide Toronto, Socialist Action, Students
Against Israeli Apartheid Mississauga, Students for Justice in Palestine
Ryerson, Toronto Students for Justice in Palestine, Women in Solidarity
with Palestine (WSP).</DIV>
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