New York City will be participating in this year’s 6th annual International Israeli Apartheid Week.
It will be the 4th year of events here in NYC. For additions/changes to the schedule, please check the NYC section of the international website for updates.
http://newyork.apartheidweek.org/
The New York organizing coalition can be e-mailed at: ApartheidWeekNYC[at]gmail.com
Please note that the “Life Under Siege” panel previously scheduled for Wednesday night at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church has been cancelled.
Event: LIVE ART DISPLAY: MOCK APARTHEID WALL ON LOW PLAZA
Throughout the week, we will be displaying a *mock* Israeli Apartheid Wall in the middle of Low Plaza. On Monday, a local artist will design a mural on the wall in order to showcase the power of art as resistance, which has been utilized on the REAL Apartheid Wall throughout the West Bank.
Date/Time: Monday, March 1st – Friday, March 5th: Monday (11am-5pm), Tuesday-Thursday (12-3pm)
Location: LOW PLAZA – Columbia University
Event: ISRAELI APARTHEID: A BEGINNER’S GUIDE
Ben White, Author and Freelance Journalist
Anjali Kamat, Democracy Now!
Andrew Kadi, Activist from Adalah-NY
Date/Time: Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 at 7:30pm
Location: 420 West 118th street, NY, NY 10027, Room 417 Altschul Auditorium
Sponsoring Organizations: Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine (C-SJP), ASA, TURATH, ISO, CCAW, SDS, Adalah-NY, Codepink, and others
Event: OCCUPATION AND RESISTANCE FROM PALESTINE TO TURTLE ISLAND
An evening of stories, video, music, discussion, and strategizing with 7th Generation Indigenous Visionaries -Students from Haskell Indian Nations University recently returned from Palestine
Date/Time: Wednesday March 3, 7-9 PM
Location: American Indian Community House, 11 Broadway, 2nd floor, 5 train to Bowling Green/R to Whitehall/1 to South Ferry
Sponsoring Organizations: Palestine Education Project and American Indian Community House
Please note that the “Life Under Siege” panel previously scheduled for Wednesday night at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church has been cancelled.
Event: THE INDIGENOUS STRUGGLE: A CALL FOR THE BOYCOTT OF ISRAEL
A panel discussion on indigenous connections between Palestinians, South Africans, and Native Americans, and their joint call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions [BDS] against Israel.
Featuring a member of the Indigenous Delegation to Palestine, Zackie Achmat, a prominent South African anti-apartheid activist, and Nada Khader, the director of WESPAC.
Date/Time: Thursday, March 4th at 7:00PM
Location: New York Univeristy, Kimmel Center Room 802, 60 Washington Square South
Sponsoring Organizations: NYU Students for Justice in Palestine and Palestine Education Project
Event is free and open to the public with photo ID
Event: A MOVING PROCESSION TO PROTEST THE ANNUAL FUNDRAISING DINNER OF “THE FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES” (IDF)
Date/Time: Tuesday, March 9, 2010 from 5:00 – 7:00 P.M.
Location: We will be assembling at the corner of 53rd St. and Lexington Ave. (The Friends of IDF dinner is at Waldorf Astoria)
Sponsoring Organizations: Jews Say No!, Adalah-NY, Gaza Freedom March, Judson Church, Women In Black Union Square, Committee for Open Discussion of Zionism, CODEPINK, Brooklyn For Peace, Women of a Certain Age, Center for Immigrant Families, Wespac, Middle East Crisis Response, Regeneración Childcare NYC, National Lawyers Guild–NY Chapter, Post Road, American Jews for a Just Peace, Jewish Voice for Peace, Woodstock Veterans for Peace, Activist Response Team, Israeli Committee Against House demolitions–USA, Progressive Democrats of America, NYC Anti-War Coalition. This action is also being endorsed by 2 Israeli organizations: Coalition of Women for Peace & Boycott! Supporting the Palestinian Call from Within