Monday, March 1, 2010 - 12:00am - Tuesday, March 9, 2010 - 11:00pm
Event Announcement:
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.
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
