[Fdu] Israeli Apartheid Week 2013 Full Schedule

[Cynthia Wright]

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The Ninth Annual Israeli Apartheid Week
March 1 – 10, 2013
www.apartheidweek.org
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We are very excited for another great IAW in Toronto! The confirmed schedule is below. Hope you can join us in our ode to Palestine and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.

A complete list of speakers and events is available at: www.toronto.apartheidweek.org

Join our facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Israeli-Apartheid-Week-Toronto/46324309566

Follow us on Twitter: @ApartheidWeekTO

If you would like to endorse please email: saia at riseup.net


SUNDAY, March 3rd
Who's Afraid of Syria's Popular Revolution?
Speaker: Razan Ghazzawi
2:00 - 4:00
Location: Ryerson University, Rogers Communication Centre, Eaton Lecture Theatre (RCC204), 80 Gould Street (at Church and Gould)
https://www.facebook.com/events/602798903066930/

This event will be chaired by Jens Hanssen, Associate Professor of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean History.

Razan Ghazzawi, 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.


TUESDAY, March 5th
Film Screening: Roadmap to Apartheid
with discussion by Randa Farah
6:45 - 9:00 PM
Location: Hot Docs Bloor Cinema, 506 Bloor St. West
Co-sponsored by Cinema Politica
https://www.facebook.com/events/413963755364575/

Roadmap to Apartheid, 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.

Randa Farah, 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.

Admission is by donation.

WEDNESDAY, March 6th
>From The Roots: Building Resistance Across Colonized Lands
Speakers: Crystal Lameman and Riham Barghouti
7:00 - 9:00 PM
Location: York University, Curtis Lecture Hall F
https://www.facebook.com/events/492959974085801/

Crystal Lameman 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.

Riham Barghouti is a Palestinian American activist who lived in the Occupied Palestinian Territory for 10 years. She currently resides in New York City where she works as a teacher. Ms. Barghouti is a founding member of Adalah-NY: The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel and PACBI, The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. Ms. Barghouti holds a Masters in Education from Pace University, a Masters in Gender, Law and Development from Birzeit University and a Bachelors Degree in Sociology and Women’s Studies from Hunter College, City University of New York.

THURDAY, March 7th
Peace vs. Pacification
Speaker: Dr. Abdel Razzaq Takriti
7:00 - 9:00 PM
Location: Koffler House 108, University of Toronto, 569 Spadina Crescent
Hosted by Students Against Israeli Apartheid – a working group of OPIRG-Toronto
http://www.facebook.com/events/227161224075743/

This event will be chaired by David McNally, professor in Political Science at York Universit

Dr Abdel Razzaq Takriti is Lecturer in International History at the University of Sheffield, England. He received his doctorate from Oxford University and was subsequently elected to a research fellowship there (2009-2012). He is the author of the multi-award winning Monsoon Revolution: Republicans, Sultans, and Empires in Oman, 1965-76 (Oxford University Press, 2013). He is currently co-authoring, with Dr Karma Nabulsi, a book on the history of the Palestinian revolution. 

THURSDAY, March 7th
Israeli Activism against Occupation and Apartheid: Strategies for Solidarity
Speaker: Noa Shaindlinger
2:30 - 4:30
Location: York University, York Student Centre, GSA room 430 

As an Israeli anti-israeli-apartheid activist, Noa Shaindlinger 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.

FRIDAY, March 8th
I Come From There: Stories of the Living Resistance
6:00 - 9:00 PM
Location: Ryerson University, Oakham House, Thomas Lounge, 63 Gould st.
http://www.facebook.com/events/431888756903818/

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.

SUNDAY, March 10th
The Palestinian Question and International Law (2013 James Graff Memorial Lecture)
Speaker: Afif Safieh
2:00- 4:00
Location: Ryerson University, Rogers Communication Centre, Eaton Lecture Theatre (RCC204), 80 Gould Street 
Co-hosted by the Near East Cultural and Educational Foundation of Canada and Students Against Israeli Apartheid – a working group of OPIRG-Toronto
https://www.facebook.com/events/131136207060755/

Afif Safieh is the senior most Ambassador of the Palestinian Diplomatic Corps. Safieh is considered the most experienced and skilled Palestinian diplomat having served in three politically significant capitals: London, Washington, and Moscow. During his service, he was involved in the Stockholm negotiations that led to the first official and direct American-Palestinian dialogue. He has met and interacted with the leading figures of our age from Yasser Arafat, John Major, and Tony Blair to Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush, and Pope John Paul II.

TUESDAY, March 12
Lessons from Palestine: Right to education, academic freedom, and the BDS movement
Speakers:  Dr. Samia Al-Botmeh
3:00 - 5:00 PM
Location: York University, Room TBA

Dr. Samia Al-Botmeh, 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).

The Mobile Kitchen Lab Presents: beit Suad

FRIDAY March 15th
(Performance and Dinner) 
8:00 PM – Co-presented by FUSE Magazine and Israeli Apartheid Week Toronto

SATURDAY March 16th 
1:00 PM (Workshop and Lunch)

SUNDAY March 17th
1:00 PM (Workshop and Lunch)

Venue: Xpace Cultural Centre, 303 Lansdowne Avenue, Suite 2
www.performanceart.ca

In The Mobile Kitchen Lab, Basil AlZeri will be activating a utilitarian sculptural work with a cooking performance guided by his mother, Suad, via Skype. At the beginning of AlZeri's performance on Friday 15 March, audience members (the guests) will participate in preparation, followed by a full Palestinian gastronomical (sight/site) experience. AlZeri will be facilitating cooking workshops on the two days following the performance. 

AlZeri's performances are part of the FADO Performance Art Centre: Emerging Artists Series .sight.specific.

Curated by Francisco-Fernando Granados
Co-presented by Xpace Cultural Centre

Basil AlZeri is a Toronto-based Palestinian artist working in performance, video, installation, food and public art interventions. His artwork is grounded in his practice as an art educator and community worker, and engages with the intersection of everyday actions and life necessities. AlZeri’s performance work has been exhibited in Toronto (FADO, Nuit Blanche, Whipper Snapper Gallery), Quebec (Fait Maison 14), Winnipeg (Central Canadian Centre for Performance), and Mexico (Transmuted International Performance Art Festival, Performancear O Morir). Upcoming projects include a public performance project with the Ottawa Art Gallery/Creative Cities Conference, and performances in Chile and Argentina in 2013.

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About IAW 2013

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.

Endorsers of Israeli Apartheid Week 2013 so far:

Afghans United for Justice
Ahmediyya Muslim Student Association (York University)
Arab Students Association (University of Toronto)
Art for Justice (University of Toronto)
Association of Part-Time Undergraduate Students (University of Toronto)
BASICS
Canadian Arab Federation
Canadian Friends of Sabeel
CUPE 3903
Centre for Social Justice
Centre for Women & Trans People (University of Toronto)
Centre for Women & Trans People (York University)
Coalition for Tamil Rights
Communist Party of Canada
Faculty for Palestine
Filipino Youth Alliance (York University)
FUSE Magazine
Gaza's Ark - Toronto
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)
New Socialist Group
No One Is Illegal - Toronto
Not In Our Name (NION): Jewish Voices Opposing Zionism
Ontario Coalition Against Poverty
OPIRG-Toronto
OPIRG - York
Palestine House
QueerC.O.R.E.
Queers Against Israeli Apartheid
R3 Collective
Rising Tide-Toronto
Science for Peace
Socialist Action
Students Against Israeli Apartheid - Mississauga
Students for Justice in Palestine - Ryerson
Syrian Revolution Club (York University)
Teachers for Palestine
Toronto Bolivia Solidarity
Toronto Students for Justice in Palestine
United Network for Justice and Peace in Palestine and Israel - Toronto
Women in Solidarity with Palestine
York International Socialists
York University Black Students Association
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