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Israeli Apartheid Week 2011
March 07, 2011 to March 11, 2011
Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) is an annual international series of events held in cities and campuses across the globe. The aim of IAW is to educate people about the nature of Israel as an apartheid system and to build Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns as part of a growing global BDS movement. Last year, Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) took place in more than 40 cities across the globe.
Monday March 7th
University of Toronto: Fitzgerald Building, Room 103, 7pm
Interrogating Apartheid: Campus as a Site of Resistance
Speakers: Judy Rebick, Abbie Bakan, and SAIA (Students Against Israeli Apartheid)
Tuesday March 8th
Ryerson University, ENG 103
Film Screening: Jaffa, the Oranges Clockwork, By Eyal Sivan
Jaffa, The Orange's Clockwork is a political essay unfolding the story of the invention and the visual history of the world's wide famous citrus fruit originated in Palestine and known around the world as "Jaffa oranges". While the orange become the symbol of the Zionist enterprise and of the state of Israel, for Palestinians it symbolizes the lost of their homeland and its destruction.
Wednesday March 9
University of Toronto, Bahen Auditorium, Room 1160, 7pm
The Cultural and Academic Boycott
Speaker: Judith Butler
Thursday March 10
York University
York's Complicity in Apartheid: Art, Culture and Resistance
Speakers: Paul Kellogg, John Greyson and Students Against Israeli Apartheid
Friday March 11th: University of Toronto, OISE Auditorium, G162 (First Floor),
Time: various - see description
Venue: Various - see description
Location: Toronto, ON
Website: http://toronto.apartheidweek.org/
For information contact: iawcanada@apartheidweek.org
Categories: Human Rights, Law, Legal
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