Toronto: International Week of Action Against the Apartheid Wall (November 9-17)
9TH - 16TH OF NOVEMBER 2007: 5TH INTERNATIONAL WEEK AGAINST THE APARTHEID WALL
The 5th International Week Against the Apartheid Wall sees Israel continue its relentless assault on the people of Gaza and further entrench the Bantustans in the West Bank. From 9th - 16th November events will be held across Canada to protest Israeli apartheid and show support for the global campaign of boycotts, divestment and sanctions (see the call-out from Palestine below).
The Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid calls on supporters to join and support the following activities in Toronto. For further information, contact CAIA at endapartheid@riseup.net or visit http://www.caiaweb.org:
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 9
CAIA presents a film screening of the "Iron Wall" @ 9 pm
at the Brunswick Theatre 296 Brunswick Ave. at Bloor, West
of Spadina. For More Information:
http://www.brunswicktheatre.com/ 416-238-7903
TUESDAY NOV.13TH
Students Against Israeli Apartheid will be holding a day
of outreach @ 11am – 4pm Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George
Street contact saia@riseup.net for more information
TUESDAY NOV.13TH
Ryerson Students Union presents a film screening of "A
Caged Bird Sings" & Discussion @ 6pm-9pm Thomas Lounge,
Oakham House, 55 Gould Street for more information contact
vp.education@rsuonline.ca or 416-979-5255 ext. 2318
THURSDAY NOV 15
Students Against Israeli Apartheid present “apartheid:
From South Africa to Palestine “ a forum with South
African activist and academic Salim Vally @ 6pm – 8pm
Sandford Fleming Building, 10 King's College Rd, Room #
1101, contact saia@riseup.net for more information
SATURDAY NOV 17
Picket Chapters Indigo Stores: 12noon – 2pm picket Indigo
outside the Eaton Centre Yonge and Dundas: 2pm – 4pm
picket Worlds Biggest Bookstore at Yonge and Edward St .
For further information and to sign up for a shift contact
CAIA at endapartheid@riseup.net or visit
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CALL FROM PALESTINE
Fifth Week against the Apartheid Wall: 9th - 16th November 2007
1947 -2007:
Our Struggle Continues, Our Liberation Will Come
The Fifth Week against the Apartheid Wall – called for by the Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign and its popular committees – marks 60 years of our dispossession and our human quest for liberation. We call on the world to take action from November 9 – 16 to raise awareness of the global silence and complicity with the occupation of our land and ethnic cleansing of our people and to join the movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions.
1947: On November 29, against the very principle of self-determination, the UN resolved on the plan for the partition of Palestine under UN resolution 181. This paved the way for our Nakba (catastrophe) that lead to the destruction of over 500 Palestinian villages and the transformation of the majority of the Palestinian people into refugees. This opened the path for the continuous expulsion and systematic discrimination against our people and the relentless colonization of our land. Apartheid Israel today keeps full control over all of historic Palestine while we are imprisoned behind eight meter high walls.
2007: The Zionist walls – fragmenting the West Bank, encaging Gaza and ghettoizing Palestinians within the Green Line – are the cornerstones of the Zionist plans to drive us from our land. They stand as proof of international silence and complicity with Israeli policies and crimes. They are warning signs that our resistance must not abate and that your action is more urgently needed now than ever.
As Palestinians we will escalate resistance once again during the Week against the Apartheid Wall - November 9 - 16.
We know that continued struggle is our only hope.
We ask all those that stand with the Palestinian people and our struggle for justice, liberation and return and against colonialism, war and racism to heed this call and to:
• Mobilize and raise awareness against Israel’s Apartheid Wall and policies
• Choose a target to focus your action:
• Target your media: Ask them to tell the truth about the last 60 years in Palestine! – check out our media briefing on the Palestinian threatened Villages on both sides of the Wall.*
• Target your political representatives: Ask them to stand up for justice in Palestine and against the Zionist Walls check out our activist material on the OECD’s invitation to Apartheid Israel and Arms Trade with the Occupation.*
• Target the business that supports Israeli Apartheid - check out our activist material on Veolia’s and Agrexco’s involvement in Israeli apartheid.*
Join the global mobilization for 2008 to end the ongoing Nakba now! Endorse the ICNP action call for the Nakba Year - Mobilize on May 15, 2008!
Target the United Nations: November 29 is the Day for Palestinian Rights! Start implementing our rights NOW! – check out the petition to the UN General Secretary!*
*Online on www.stopthewall.org from October 1, 2007.