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StopTheWall.org Worldwide Activism
9th -
16th Of November 2006:
Palestine:
Mobilization gears up again all over the world protesting the Apartheid Wall and calling for an end to Israeli occupation and apartheid. Let the Palestinian grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign know about your action: contact us at Global@StopTheWall.org!
MOPASSOL calls for a Vigil for Peace and Against Militarization in the framework
of the Week against the Apartheid Wall. A photo exhibit against the Wall. the
vigil will further highlight other colonial and imperialistic crimes committed
in Latin America - such as the assassination of the 6 priests in El Salvador on
November 16 1989. It highlights the intrinsic link of colonial, racist and
genocidal policies in the Middle East and Latin America. Radio show: La Radio de las Madres de Plaza de Mayo, “Derribandos Muros”, November 9, 10 – 11 PM, streaming on www.madres.org Protest: November 9, rally and following screenings of videos against the Apartheid Wall, organized by a coalition of Argentinean Human Rights and Civil Society organizations. Activists will stage an awareness-raising event in the heart of Melbourne’s business district. A 3m x 5m mock wall will be erected, a photo exhibit displayed and the activists will hand out leaflets to the by-passers. Date: 9th of November Time: 12 am (lunch time) Place: Melbourne Contact: info@australiansforpalestine.com, www.australiansforpalestine.com In Graz activists stage two protest in the city center. Passers-by will have to pass through a check point in a mock wall where they will be given fake ID cards with information about life in the ghettos surrounded by the Apartheid Wall on the back of them. Information to come soon. In Brussels the 231st sit-in in front of the Israeli embassy will be held. The silent protest has continue over the years of the second Intifada giving continuity to the solidarity efforts. Bilbao: Date: November 9 Place: Plaza circular Date: November 10 Time: 12:30 – 1:30 pm Place: UKKEL, Observatoriumlaan 40, in front of the Israeli embassy Contact: Association Belgo-Palestinienne The activists in the favelas of Acari together with the Landless Movement (MST) are organizing awareness raising events on the question of Palestine. In the camps of the MST on the 10th and 11th of November two workshops will be organized. **** University students in Porto Velho will hold a one-day conference on Palestine within the framework of the Week against the Apartheid Wall. It will highlight the global movement to isolate apartheid Israel as well as the broader political context in which the current ghettoization of the Palestinian people is embedded. Date: November, 10 Place: Auditorium "Paulo Freire" in UNIR Campus, (Federal University of Rondônia, in Porto Velho City, RO) Program: Conference "The Palestine Question" A. World Campaign against Israeli apartheid B. Act against the aggression Israeli and the occupation -For the people's self-determination -In defence of human rights -Stop the Wall Exhibition of slides and movies C. Conference activities: 14:00 - The Constitution of Israel State Professor Aleksander Allen Nina Palitot (History) 15:00 - The Middle East and the Hegemony of USA Professor João Paulo Saraiva Leão Viana (Political Science) Conducting the discussion: Professor Marcio Secco (Philosophy) 16:00 - The Conflict Israel-Palestine: Territorial discussion Professor Thalles Gomes da Fonseca (Geography) 17:00 - War of Sticks and Stones: The Intifada Professor José Felinto (History) Conducting the discussion: Professor Nilson Santos (Philosophy) Contact: Centrr of Education, Centre of Present's Hermeneutics, for information: Vinícius Miguel
Israel's ongoing assault on the people of Palestine in Gaza and all over Palestine coincides with the 4th International Week of Action against Israeli apartheid. From 9th - 16th November, demonstrations, teach-ins and other events will be held across Ontario to protest Israeli apartheid and show support to the global campaign of boycotts, divestment and sanctions. Contact: CAIA (Coalition against Israeli Apartheid), endapartheid@riseup.net
NOVEMBER 9th: Activists are organizing a whole week of actions around an art exhibition. Conferences, video screenings and performances round up the initiative. Date: November 9 - 17 Place: Radio ECCA in Escaleritas, Planta baja del Edificio del Pino, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Program: - Arts Exposition: November 9 - 17 o Artists from the Canary Islands condemn the injustice with their paintings and sculptures o Homage to the Palestinian cartoonist Naji Al-Ali: “Handala: the imposible indifference” - Jueves 9. Opening of the Arts-Exposition - Viernes 10. Screening of the documentary “Chekpoint” and discussion. - Lunes 13. Conference with Alá Jaradat, ADDAMEER (Palestinian association for support to Palestinian political prisoners). - Martes 14. screening of the documentary “Promises” and debate. - Miércoles 15. Conference: “The Palestinian refugees”, organizad by CEAR (Comisión Española de Ayuda al Refugiado). - Jueves 16. Screening of the documentary “Palestine-Israel: two people condemned to understand each other”, with the participation of the author, Alberto Rojas. - Viernes 17. Palestinian poetry and music with life performance by D. Ibrahim Khair playing the oud.
Contact: Mujeres por la Paz y Acción Solidaria con Palestina.
· Chile
Activists together with the Palestinian delegation in Chile are organizing a whole month of activities joining in the Week against the Apartheid Wall. Place: Santiago de Chile and Quilpué Program: Sunday, November 12: commemoration of the death of Yasser Arafat. Club Palestino, 12am. Wednesday, November 15: Celebration of the Declaration of Independence, Club Palestino, 7pm Wednesday, November 15: Public event for Palestine, Collegio arabe Saturday, November 18: Cultural evening in Quilpé
· Denmark
Activists in Denmark have invited the Youth coordinator of the Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, Muhammad Othman for a speaking tour around the country to raise awareness and mobilize support for the Palestinian BDS call.
Programme:
Monday, November 6: Public presentation, organized by the local Palestine Initiative, 7 pm, Harders Spillested. Tuesday, November 7: Meeting with the Palestinian community in Gallerup Friday, November 10: Presentation for teachers’ college students, 8 – 10 am, Silkeborg Public meeting, 9 pm Saturday, November 11: speech at an evening event organised by the Danish Communist Party, Copenhagen,7 pm Tuesday, November 14: Speech at the street activities of the Palestine Initiatives, Copenhagen, 3-6 pm Wednesday, November 15: Presentation at the public meet, House of Democracy, Vesterbro, 7:30 pm Thursday, November 16: public meeting at Helsingør High Schoool with MP Rune Lund
· France
All over France, rallies, sit-ins and demonstrations are organized to protest
the Apartheid Wall, the Occupation and its brutal massacres in Gaza.
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Under the title « Jerusalem – a city for all » the French Platform of NGOs for Palestine organizes a public conference centred on the reality and future of the Palestinian capital. The conference stands within the ongoing campaign against the French participation in the construction of the settlement lightrail in Jerusalem.
Date : November 9 Time : 7 pm Place : Paris, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris Entrée du public : 27, rue Saint Guillaume - Paris 7ème - Amphithéâtre Chapsal - Métro : St Germain des Prés, Sèvres-Babylone, Rue du Bac. Contact: Plateforme des ONG françaises pour la Palestine, du Secours Catholique-Caritas France, Pax Christi France (supported by Adala)
· Germany
The German coordination against the Wall in Palestine has organized the second national conference against the Wall followed by speaking tours. A Campaign delegate, Fathy Khdirat has been invited to address the conference and to participate in a speaking tour.
Date: 18th of November Time: 9 am – 6:30 pm Place: Genezareth-Kirche, Herrfurthplatz 14, 12049 Berlin (Neukölln) Program: “Stop the Wall in Palestine” 9.00 am: Introduction by a speaker of the organizers 9.30 am: The situation in Palestine, Lebanon, and Israel today & The German and European involvement in the region Speakers: Janet Michael, Fathi Khdirat, Jeff Halper, Gilbert Achcar, Jamalat Abou Youssef 1.30 pm: Lunch Break 2.30 pm: Campaigning and Activities against war, occupation and the wall Short introduction of campaigns/activities like German-Israeli-military cooperation and the BDS-campaign (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) Speakers: Ottfried Nassauer, Raif Hussein, Fanny-Michaela Reisin Activists of social and solidarity movements will discuss with our guests about actions to be taken now in order to support the Palestinian and Lebanese peoples’ struggle for their rights and to stop war and occupation and tear down the wall. 6.30 pm: conclusion Organizers: http://www.konferenz.stopptdiemauer.de Pax Christi, deutsche Sektion, www.paxchristi.de; Internationale Ärzte für die Verhütung des Atomkrieges/Ärzte in sozialer Verantwortung e.V. ,IPPNW, deutsche Sektion, www.ippnw.de; Deutsch-Palästinensische Gesellschaft, DPG, www.dpg-netz.de; Jüdische Stimme für gerechten Frieden in Nahost, www.juedische-stimme.de; Palästinensische Gemeinde Deutschland e.V.; Vereinigung für internationale Solidarität e.V., VIS;
· Ireland
The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign has organised a mass picket of the
European Union Offices in central Belfast. The protest will call for the
suspension of the EU-Israel Date: November 11 Time: 1:30 pm Place: EU offices, Belfast Contact : belfastipsc@yahoo.ie www.ipsc.
· Italy
In Venice, activists are mobilizing against the
exhibit of Apartheid Israel within the famous arts exhibit held in the city.
Under the slogan “against the architecture of apartheid� the activists will
line up on both sides of the road that leads from the boat station to the
entrance of the architecture exhibit. The artist Piero Gilardi has prepared
white dresses to represent the cloth the dead are wrapped in. Leaflets will be
distributed.
· Korea
The Korean Palestine Peace Solidarity group has organized a demonstration against the Apartheid Wall and a public event.
Demonstration against the Apartheid Wall Date: November 9 Place: In front of the Israel Embassy
Campaign against the Apartheid Wall Date: November 12 Place: Seoul. Korea
Contact: Palestine Peace Solidarity, nablus3@gmail.com
· Mexico
In Mexico, the declaration of the social movements gathered in the Border Social Forum held on October 13 – 15 has resolved: “We will organize an International Week of Action from the 9th to the 12th of November, including solidarity actions with the Mexican and Palestinian people and educational activities regarding the common struggles.”
Solidarity groups and organizations in defence of Human Rights and Immigrants are organizing a rally against the Apartheid Wall in Palestine and the Wall of Death along the Mexican- US border. Further protests and awareness raising events are planned in the main cities of the country.
Rally: Date: November 9 Place: In front of the Israeli embassy, Mexico City Contact: Coordinadora de solidaridad con Palestina en México (Corsopal), palestinaymexico@yahoo.com
Protests: Date: November 11 Mexico City: Parque Mexico Events in other cities will be communicated later.
· Norway
The Norwegian solidarity organizes a concert with Palestinian singer Rim Banna. The singer will perform a concert dedicated to the struggle against the Apartheid Wall and the walls around the world that oppress, kill and dispossess the people. The performance itself is based on a true story about the struggle of a couple living on either side of the apartheid wall in the West Bank.
A speaking event, film screening, creative signature collection directed to the Norwegian government and an exhibit will complete the campaigning in Oslo.This initiative forms part of the wider solidarity activism that has brought Norway to inspire many around the world with its Boycott initiatives.
Date: November 16 Place: Oslo Programme: Screening of the documentary “The Iron Wall", followed by a discussion with Rim Banna about her experiences with the Wall. Interventions of solidarity activists and possibly one of the couple that has inspired the Rim Banna’s concert will close off the afternoon. Concert in the evening.
Contact: post@rivmuren.no
· Portugal
Portuguese youth activists are preparing a photo exhibit against the Apartheid Wall featuring the paintings drawn by Palestinian children and photographs. Video screenings will accompany the exhibit.
Date: November 10 - 30 Place: Cubo das Artes, Fontainhas - 4795-021 Vila das Aves, Portugal Contact: AA78-Associação Avense
· Quebec
Tadamon! is holding an evening of presentations, inspiring poetry & beautiful music to advance the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions [BDS] campaign against Israeli apartheid in Montreal. This event is being held in coordination with groups internationally who are organizing events to mark the 4th international week of action against the Israeli apartheid wall.
Date: 9th of November Time: 7 pm Place: Maison de l'Amitie, 120 Duluth East, East of St. Laurent, [Sherbrooke metro]
Programme: Boycotting APARTHEID: Besieging OCCUPATION
Speakers: * Tadamon! Montreal representatives: report back from the landmark Toronto conference of Israeli apartheid, outlining the growing call for a campaign of BDS and present an analysis of the ways Israeli apartheid directly affects the entire Middle East region. * JOONEED KHAN: Renowned international affairs reporter for La Presse who has reported on Apartheid from South Africa & Palestine * MOSTAFA HENAWAY: Independent journalist & social activist with the International Solidarity Movement - Montreal, who will speak on Israeli & Canadian apartheid, drawing links between the struggle in Six Nations & in Palestine.
Performances: * KAIE KELLOUGH: Celebrated Montreal writer & poet who is a key member of the Kalmunity Vibe Collective. * STEFAN CHRISTOFF on Piano & YASSER SHOUKRY on Percussion * HOSSEIN SHARANG, an Iranian poet born in Jiroft, Iran, who will recite poetry in Persian & French with CLAUDE MAHEU's 'musique actuelle' sounds on a variety of instruments. * GHADA CHEHADE: will be reading two poems that deal with her experience as a Palestinian in Diaspora and her identity as an Arab Woman.
· Senegal
Senegalese progressive forces join the international campaign against the Apartheid Wall with a series of activities launching the Senegal Palestine Solidarity group. In particular the activists have planned:
· Spain
In Spain activists in Barcellona and in Valencia are organizing rallies against the Apartheid Wall. Mock walls are used to raise awareness about the reality Palestinians are strugglnig against since over 50 years and to denounce the complicity of the international comunity with the Zionist politics of Israel.
Valencia Date: November 9 Time: 7 pm Place: Calle del Hospital en Valencia. Contact: Palestina Lliure
Madrid Date: November 12 Time: 12 am – 2 pm (including the symbolic destruction of the mock wall) Place: Plaza Mayor Further Info: http://www.jerusalemites.org/spanish/Copy%20of%20spanish/noticias/2006/noviembre2006/102.htm
· Sweden
A coalition of solidarity groups and progressive organizations have joined to organize a protest in the Swedish capital to call for an end to the Apartheid Wall.
Date: November 11 Time: 1 pm Place: Medborgarplatsen, Stockholm Organizers: Palestinska föreningen i Stockholm. Palestinagrupperna. ISM stockholm. Nätverket bojkotta israel. Seko klubb 119. ssu Stockholm. Vänsterpartiet stockholm. Ung vänster storstockholm. Kommunistiska partiet. RKU. Socialistiska partiet. Ungsocialisterna.
· Switzerland The Collectif Urgence Palestine launches a series of activities in Geneva to join in the Week against the Apartheid Wall. Rally against the Wall with video screenings and performances:
LAUSANNE
Time: 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Place: Passage de la Monnaie
Street action with a mock wall: Date: November 11 Time: 1pm – 4pm Place: Passage de la Monnaie
“The Wall and the Colonization” - Information evening with testimonies from the 18th and 19th civil mission to Palestine
Date: November 15 Time: 8pm Place: Maison des Associations (salle Gandhi)
Contact: Collectif Urgence Palestine, info@urgencepalestine.ch
· Turkey
Turkish activists stage a demonstration with torches and a seminar to protest against the Apartheid Wall in solidarity with the Palestinian people. To further raise awareness, the activists will put up a stall and distribute info material in the streets of Istanbul.
Demonstration: Date: November 9, evening Place: Istanbul
Seminar: Date: November 11
Contact: MAZLUMDER (Organization of Human Rights and Solidarity for Oppressed People), İstanbul branch
· UK
PSC UK organizes an action in protest of the ongoing construction of the Illegal Apartheid Wall in Palestine, with placards, a mock wall and a Palestinian Dabka Dance group. Date: November 11 Time: 11:0 am – 2pm Place: by the steps of St Martin-in-the-Fields, by Trafalgar Square Contact: info@palestinecampaign.org
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The Oxford Palestine Solidarity Campaign will be putting on a protest vigil against the Apartheid Wall. It will include street theatre, stalls and a poster display and an educational meeting.
Protest vigil: Date: November 9 Time: 11.30am-1.30pm Place: Cornmarket, Oxford
Educational meeting: Date: November 14 Time: 7.30 pm Place: Oxford Town Hall (with Palestinian speaker and/or film)
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Manchester ''Victory to the Intifada group'' will be holding a picket of Marks&Spencer supermarket to call for boycott and divestment from Israel.
Date: November 11 Time: 12pm - 3pm Place: Market Street , Manchester city centre
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In Camden a demonstration against the Apartheid Wall will march the streets of the London suburb.
Date: November 11 Place: At Euston Station, Camden.
· USA
In the Bay Area, Break the Siege has organized a series of events to join in the protests against the Apartheid Wall, Israeli colonization and occupation and US support for the Zionist crimes.
Hayward Vigils: Dates: November 9, 16 Time: 4–5 pm Place: Five Flags Park, Foothill Blvd, Jackson, Street and Mission Blvd, Hayward Thursday,
Public Wall Action – a day of creative action: Date: November 11
Conference: “Popular Resistance in Palestine” Date: November 13 Time: 7 pm Place: 766 Valencia Street, New College, SF Program: Mohammed Khatib and Feryal Abu Haikal will share their personal experiences with Israeli efforts to expel Palestinians from their own land, homes and communities, as well as Palestinian efforts to resist those measures.
Contact: creativeaction@gmail.com ; www.breakthesiege.net
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Al-Awda New York organizes a film screening and discussion in commemoration of
the Week of Resistance Against the Apartheid Wall Date: November 15 Time: 7.30 pm Place: Alwan For the Arts, 16 Beaver Street (b/n Broad & Broadway), 4th Floor Programme: screening of PALESTINE BLUES (80min) followed by a question & answer session with award winning filmmaker & renowned Palestinian artist and sculpturist Nida Sinnokrot.
"Palestine Blues follows the repercussions of the [Zionist Apartheid Wall] and
Settlement expansion in the engulfed/annexed Palestinian farming communities of
the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Instead of focusing on the object of the Wall,
this documentary examines the grassroots resistance movement that has sprung up
against it. Palestine Blues is not a "traditional" political reportage but
rather an interminable road trip across hard and liquid borders, across a
terrain that is being erased as it is being traversed." ****
Activists in New York organize a slideshow and report-back by members of DRUM (Desis Rising Up & Moving) who will share their first-hand accounts of the wall in Palestine and Arizona from a recent visit. The event aims to show how the fight against racist travel bans, the fight for dignity, and the fight against militarized borders link the struggle for immigrant rights in the U.S. to the struggle for freedom in Palestine. After the event, a march is planned to bring the Wall to the streets of New York.
Date: November 11 Time: 1:30 PM: Workshop ; 3:00 PM : March Place: Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South, New York Contact: Ad Hoc Coalition for Justice in the Middle East, www.mideastjustice.org, justiceME@gmail.com
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In Boston, activists have organized a conference to examine why Israel’s policies towards Palestinians are apartheid policies. It will explore the role activists can play to respond to the Palestinian Call for BDS, and to help create the kind of pressure that will be needed to move the region “beyond apartheid.”
Date: November 19 Time: 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Place: Northeastern University Law School, Room 97, 400-416 Huntington
Avenue
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The American University Students for Justice in Palestine are hosting a weeklong awareness campaign the week of the 9th in Washington D.C.
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Activists in San Jose are organizing actions in San Jose against the Apartheid Wall in Palestine and the Wall the U.S. government is planning to build along the "border" with Mexico. The protest will link the dramatic repression in Oaxaca and Palestine.
Date: November 11 Time: 11 am – 12 noon Place: Stevens Creek Boulevard where the cars get off the 17 freeway heading towards Valley Fair Mall and Santana Row Mall
Date: November 15 Time: 4 pm – 6 pm Place: south end of Cesar Chavez Plaza at the corner of Market and San Carlos Streets
· Venezuela
The National Association of Free and Alternative Media (ANMCLA) has programmed 3 activities, and is preparing for the open air screenings of wall related media..
**** The Foro Itinerante de Participacion Popular and the National Radio of Venezuela organize a video screening under the title “Lebanon – Scars of the Empire!” as part of the Week against the Apartheid Wall. The film maker Angel Palacios will moderate the evening and the contribution of the singer Amaranta Carpio.
Date: Novembre 9 Time: 3pm Place: Auditorio Ali Primera, Unefa (chuao)
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The Revista MATEA organizes two video screenings in Caracas.
November 9: "Private" November 16: "Los Hijos de Arnes" (Arna’s children) Contact: ateneopopularcaracas@yahoo.com or revistamatea@gmail.com ****
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