Global mobilization June 9/10:
The World Says No
To Israeli Occupation!
Short overview of major actions planned around the globe: (To add your action to the list, please write to ICNPcall@gmail.com)
Palestine:
Place: Ramallah
Location: Al Manara Square
Date: June 5
Time: 10:30am
Type of Activity: Demonstration and rally with speeches
Place: Jerusalem
Location: Ambassador Hotel
Date: June 5
Time: 9:00 am
Type of Activity: Conference on Jerusalem
Place: Ramallah
Location: Best Eastern Hotel
Date: June 6
Time: 9:00 am
Type of Activity: Conference on Jerusalem
Place: Haifa
Location: Haifa
Date: June 7
Time: 9:00 am
Type of Activity: Conference on Jerusalem
Place: Um Salamoneh, South Bethlehem
Date: June 8
Time:11:00 am
Type of Activity: Two central demonstrations from Bethlehem and Hebron towards Um Salamoneh
Place: Qalandiya, Ramallah
Location: Entrance of the Refugee Camp
Date: June 9
Time: 11:00 am
Type of Activity: Demonstration
Place: Bethlehem and Qalandiya
Location: In front of the checkpoints of Qalandiya and al Kubbe
Date: June 28
Type of Activity: Marches towards Jerusalem until the two checkpoints isolating the Palestinian capital
Place: Amwas, Yalu, Beit Nuba(villages destroyed in 1967) Latroun
Date: June 9 – 23
Type of Activity: Central march towards the demolished villages to remember their destruction and the expulsion of the people
Place: Qalqiliya
Location: Workers Terminal
Date: June 10
Time: 11:00 am
Type of Activity: Demonstration
Place: Nablus
Location: city of Nablus
Date: June 17
Type of Activity: Human Chain
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Argentina:
Palestinian Federation of Argentina organizes a march during the action days.
Australia:
City: Sydney
Location: Sydney Town Hall
Date: June 9
Time : 1 pm
Type of initiative : rally
Organizers: www.coalitionforpalestine.org, cjpp@coalitionforpalestine.org
City: Sydney
Location: Jubilee Room, Parliament House, Macquarie Street
Date: June 6
Time : 6:30 for 7 pm
Type of initiative : Public meeting
Organizers: www.coalitionforpalestine.org, cjpp@coalitionforpalestine.org
City: Adelaide
Location: Victoria Square
Date: June 5
Time : 12 noon – 2.00 pm
Type of initiative : Vigil
Other details: Walk to office of the Minister for Foreign Affairs Alexander Downer where he will be presented with postcards on the Wall for federal members of the Liberal and Labor Party
Organizers: Australian Friends of Palestine
City: Canberra
Location: Nara Peace Park
Date: June 3
Time : 2:30 pm
Type of initiative : Rally and march to Israeli Embassy
Organizers: Fair Go For Palestine, AJPP
Contact: www.fairgoforpalestine.org
City: Canberra
Place: Garema Place
Date: June 5
Time: 5.30 pm
Type of Activity: Candle light vigil outside the Israeli Embassy
Organizers: AJPP
City: Brisbane
Location: Queen’s Park
Date: June 3
Time : 1 pm
Organizers: Australian Friends of Palestine
Contact: afopawa@friendsofpalestine.org.au, web:www.friendsofpalestine.org.au
City: Brisbane
Location: Social Sciences Lecture Theatre, University of Western Australia, WA
Date: June 6
Time : 6:15 – 9:30 pm
Type of Initiative: Film screening : The Iron Wall
Organizers: Australian Friends of Palestine
Contact: afopawa@friendsofpalestine.org.au, web:www.friendsofpalestine.org.au
City: Melbourne
Location: Bourke Street Mall, corner Elizabeth Street
Date: June 9
Time : 12 noon – 2.00pm
Type of Initiative: Vigil
Organizers: Women for Palestine
Contact: enquiries@womenforpalestine.com, web:www.womenforpalestine.com
City: Melbourne
Location: Conference Centre and Theatrette, State Library of Victoria, Entry 3, 179-181 La Trobe Street,
Date: June 16 /17
Time : 10.00 am – 8.30 pm both days
Type of Initiative: The “Occupation” Exhibition and Palestine Film Festival
Organizers: Women for Palestine
Contact: enquiries@womenforpalestine.com, web:www.womenforpalestine.com
Austria:
City: Graz
Location: Central Square
Date: June 9
Time: 11:00-14:00
Type of initiative: Rally
Details: Mock wall, exhibition, leaflets, speaches, music.
Organizers: Solidaritätskomitee für Palästina, Steirische Friedensplattform
Contact: solidaritaetskomitee@gmx.net
City: Vienna
Location: in front of the Burgtheater
Date: June 6
Time: 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Type of activity: Vigil, after which we will hand over letters to officials at the Vienna Parlament
Organizers: Women in Black (Vienna) www.fraueninschwarz.at and the Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East (Austria) www.nahostfriede.at and supporters
City: Vienna
Place: Amerling Haus
Date: June 6
Time: 7:00 pm
Type of Activity: film screening of âPrivateâ by Saverio Costanzo
City: Vienna
Date: June 9
Type of Initiative : Public Meeting with Palestinian minister for tourism and antiquities Dr. Khouloud Deibes
Organizers: SAAR with the Palestinian Community
Belgium:
City: Brussels
Location: Parc du Cinquantenaire
Date: June 9
Time : 3 pm – evening
Type of initiative : rally and cultural evening
Other details :
3 pm : workshops and debates
6 pm : political testimonies
7 pm – 9 pm: Solidarity concert
9 pm: Orchestre National de Barbes
Organizers : Association Belgo-Palestinienne
Contact details: tel. 02 223 07 56 www.association-belgo-palestinienne.be
City: Brussels
Location: Shuman Place
Date: June 4
Type of initiative : Street Action
Further Details: 40 chained persons will hold each a picture of daily life under occupation. At the same time 40 white pigeons will be released.
Organizers: Actieplatform
City: Leuven and two other Cities in Wallon and Flemish Brabant
Date: June 2
Type of Activity: Itâs ENOUGH! 40 km for 40 years of occupation â cycling protest towards Bruxelles.
Brazil:
City: Sao Paolo
Place: Av. Paulista, at the “vao livre do Masp” (large public square beneath the MASP, Sao Paulo Art Museum)
Date: June 9
Time: 3 pm
Type of initiative: Demonstration – “O mundo diz Não à ocupação israelense”
Other details: Speeches, followed by street theatre performance “Boys and Stones”, and a dance performance(combination of Brazilian Indian dances, with Beduin, and Arab folklore)
Organizers: Institute for Arab Culture
Supporters: Theatre Company Nucleo Entrelinhas, Mila Dance company
Contact details: www.icarabe.org and www.icarabe.org/palestina
City: Sao Paolo
Place: Polis Institute, Rua Araujo, 124 – Centro, Sao Paulo
Date: May 31
Time: 6 pm
Type of initiative: Build-up activity for the June 9th Demonstration
Other details: Exhibition of the film “L`Attente”, followed by a debate with Abdel Latif Hasan Abdel Latif, Gershon Knispel and others.
Organizers: Institute for Arab Culture and Polis Institutewww.icarabe.org and www.icarabe.org/palestina and www.polis.org.br
Canada:
City: Toronto, Montreal and various other major cities across Canada
Date: June 9/10
Type of initiative: pickets against Chapters&Indigo book store support for Israeli military
Organizers : Coalition against Israeli Apartheid and various national groups and organizations
Contact: www.caiaweb.net
City: Montreal
Location:In front of Queen Elizabeth Hotel 900, boulevard René-Lévesque Ouest, Montréal (between Av. Universite & Mansfield)
Date: June 6
Time: 4:30 -6 pm
Type of Activity: Demonstration
Further Details: Protest against the JNF annual fundraiser
Organizers: PAJU (Palestinian and Jewish Unity) and the JAAO (Jewish Alliance Against the Occupation)
City: Montreal
Location: Dorchester square (corner René-Lévesque Ouest & Peel, Peel or Bonaventure Metro)
Date: June 8
Time: 1 pm
Type of Activity: INFO-FAIR
Further Details: 24 hours of info stands and movies on “40 years of occupation, 59 years of apartheid”
Organizers: Coalition pour la justice et la paix en Palestine
Contact details: www.cjpp.org
City: Montreal
Location: Dorchester square (corner René-Lévesque Ouest & Peel, Peel or Bonaventure Metro)
Date: June 9th
Time: 1 pm
Type of Activity: Demonstration
Further Details: “40 years of occupation, 59 years of apartheid”
Organizers: Coalition pour la justice et la paix en Palestine
Contact details: www.cjpp.org
City: Montreal
Place: Indigo Bookstore, corner Ste. Catherine & McGill College (McGill Metro)
Date: June 2
Time: 1:00 pm â 3 pm
Type of Activity: Picket
Further Details: Boycott Indigo Bookstore for links to Israeli Apartheid
Organizers: Tadamon! Montréal
Contact Details: tel. 514 664 1036,https://tadamon.resist.ca
City: Montreal
Place: Cinema du parc, 3575 Parc Ave. (Place des arts Metro)
Date: June 5
Time: 6.30 pm
Type of Activity: Picket and outdoor film screening
Further Details: Cultural boycott of the 2nd Israeli film festival
Organizers: Coalition against Israeli Apartheid-Montreal
Contact Details: bdsmontreal@gmail.com , tel. 514 664 1036
City: Fredericton
Location: In front of City Hall, corner of York and Queen.
Date: June 1
Time: 12 noon
Type of Activity: Peace Vigil and Info Picket
Organizers: Women in Black Fredericton Chapter and the Fredericton Peace Coalition.
Contact: www.frederictonpeace.org
Denmark:
City: Copenhagen
Place: in front of the Israeli Embassy
Date: June 9
Time:
Type of Activity: protest/rally
Further details: The rally is the culmination of a week of actions from June 5 – 8
Orgaizers: Danish Palestinian Friendship Association
City: Copenhagen
Date: June 9
Type of initiative: a mobile Wall to move through Copenhagen
Organizers: Tear Don the Wall Initiative, Denmark
Contact details: www.riv-muren-ned.org
France:
Location: la Rortande Stalingrad/Jaurès
Date: June 9
Time 4pm â 8 pm
Type of initiative : outdoor concert/meeting
Further Details: 40 chained persons will hold each a picture of daily life under occupation. At the same time 40 white pigeons will be released.
Organizers: Collectif National pour une paix juste et durable entre Palestiniens et Israéliens and others
City: Nantes
Location: Place du Cirque
Date: June 9
Time : 5 pm – 8 pm
Type of initiative : creative demonstration against occupation
Other details : Big creative demonstration with drums, painting clothes with anti-occupation slogans, Marmoud Darwhish’s poems, drawings on the road and so on
Organizers : Association France Palestine Solidarite, CCFD, Pays de Loire Gaza Jerusalem, and many others
Supporters : to come
Contact details: nantes@ism-france.org
City: Strasbourg
Location: Kleber Place, in front of the FNAC-Bookstore
Date: June 9
Time: 4 pm – 6 pm
Type of Activity: rally (distribution of leaflets and collection of signatures for a pettiton to the presidency of the European Union)
Organizers: Women in Black and others
Germany:
Palestine events are scheduled during the G8 protests and alternative summit.
City: Rostock
Date: to be defined
Type of initiative: workshop “G8 – Peace brokers or war profiteers?”
Organizers: IPPNW, EJJP, Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, National Coordination Stop the Wall in Palestine
Contact details: info@stopptdiemauer.de
City: Rostock
Date: June 2
Type of initiative: large international demonstration in Rostock with Palestine bloc
Contact details: www.heiligendamm2007.de
City: Rostock
Date: June 5
Type of initiative: action day against war with Palestinian participation
Contact details: www.g8-alternative-summit.org
City: Berlin
Place: Breitscheidplatz at the Gedächtniskirche (Memorial Church)
Date: June 9
Time: 2 pm
Type of Activity: Rally
City: Berlin
Date: June 9
Type of initiative : vigil and presentations at Hackescher Markt
City: Hamburg
Date: June 9
Type of initiative : demonstration and rally , information desks , leaflets etc.
City: Frankfurt / Main
Location: Katharinenkirche / Hauptwache
Date: June 9
Time: 13:00 – 15:00
Type of initiative : vigil, information, leaflets and collection
of signatures for a petition to the presidency of the European Union
Organizers: Arbeitskreis Palästina/Israel, Frankfurt
Contact: ClaudiaKaras@web.de
Greece:
Details to come soon.
Iceland:
City: Reykjavi
Date: June 9
Organizers: Association Iceland-Palestine
Contact details: palestina@palestina.is
India:
City: Mumbai
Place: Islam Gymkhana, Marine Lines Station, Mumbai.
Date: June 7
Time: 6pm – 9pm
Type of initiative: Conference : “Indians for Solidarity with Palestine”
Organizers: Various Secular democratic as well as faith based organizations
Supporters: Peace Mumbai, Pak-India Forum for Peace and Democracy, Focus on the Global South, Muslim Intellectual Forum, Build, Ambedkar-Phule Vichar Manch, Vidhyarthi Bharthi Sangathana.
Contact details: Jatin Desai : 00-91-93222-55812 : desaijatin@yahoo.co.uk
; Feroze Mithiborwala : 00-91-98208-97517 : ferozearachne@gmail.com ; Varsha Berry : 00-91-98206-03704 : varshab@yahoo.com
Ireland:
City: Dublin
Place: Assemble at Central Bank, Dame Street
Date: 9 Jun 2007
Time: 2:00 pm
Type of Initiative: National Demonstration
Further Details: the demonstration is the culmination of a week of action, including an open-air press conference outside the Israeli Embassy on the 5th, a public meeting with Michael Warschawski on the 7th, a film-showing on the 8th.
Contact: www.ipsc.ie/
Italy
City: Rome
Location: Piazza S. Maria Liberatrice
Date: June 8
Time: 6:00 pm -11:00 pm
Type of initiative: Rally with speakers, music, dance, poetry, videos, and photographic exhibitions.
Other details: Concert by Dalouna-Al Khamandjati Palestinian International Solidarity Orchestra
Organizers: Associazione per la pace, Arci, Piattaforma ONG per il Medio oriente, Fiom-Cgil, Donne in nero, Cgil, Ebrei contro l’occupazione, Giovani Comunisti, PRC Comunità palestinese in Italia, Associazione amici della mezzaluna palestinese
Contact: https://www.assopace.org/
City: Rome
Place: Piazza Esedra
Date: 9 Jun 2007
Type of Initiative: National Demonstration
Japan:
City: Osaka
Place: Dawn Center(Osaka Prefectual Women’s Center)
Date: June 10
Time: 15:00pm – 18:30pm
Type of initiative: Conference : Rally
15:00 speach by Professor Susumu Fujita
17:00 presentation about BDS campaign
17:30 video conference between Palestine and Osaka
Organizers: Kansai Network for Peace in Palestine
Supporters: ATTAC Kansai, Osaka YWCA International Department, Kansai United Action,Society of persistent for Article 9, The United Church of Christ in Japan (Social Committee of Osaka district) and Palestine Forum Japan
Contact details:
email: palestine.forum@gmail.com
tel: +81-90-9273-4316
fax: +81-6-6624-2835
City: Tokyo
Location: Bunkyo civic center
Date: June 10
Time: 1:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Type of initiative: “This about Palestine” week
Other details:
JVC, the Japanese NGO working in Palestine, will hold a series of events “Think about Palestine” week from 5th to 10th week. On the final day, 10th June, we will have an event to consider the problems of the conflict from various angles.
Session one:”Walking NOW in Palesine” by Hirotaka Hayashi
Session two:”Reading Palestine from map” by Taizo Imano
Session three:”Discrete people: Palestinians” by Ai Nishikida
Session four:”Consider the root of Palestinian problem” by Akira Usuki
Organizers: JVC (Japan International Volunteer Center)
Contact details: JVC: https://www.ngo-jvc.net/index.html, Rika Fujiya: jvc-jer@ngo-jvc.net
Netherlands:
City: Amsterdam
Place: De Dam
Date: June 9
Time 1 pm – 3 pm
Type of initiative: demonstration’Ik ben ontzet!’
Organizers: Initiatiefgroep, including Alternative View, Coalitie Stop de Oorlog, Een Ander Joods Geluid, ICCO, Internationale Socialisten, Humanistische Partij, Nederlands Palestina Komitee, Oxfam Novib, Palestijnse Gemeenschap Nederland Palestina Komitee Rotterdam, Palestijns Platform voor Mensenrechten en Solidariteit
PEACE Consumentenfederatie, SIVMO, Stichting Hope, Stichting Stop de Bezetting Stichting Talliq, Transnational Institute, Universitaire Activisten, United Civilians for Peace, Vrouwen in het Zwart, Werkgroep Keerpunt, YMWC Nederland Contact details: info@40jaarbezetting.nl.
City: Den Haag
Place: Het Plein
Date: June 5
Type of initiative: demonstration
Organizers: Initiatiefgroep
Contact details: info@40jaarbezetting.nl.
New Zealand
City: Wellington
Location:Cuba Mall (Staged Area)
Date: June 9
Time : 12.30
Type of initiative : Rally
Organizers: Wellington Palestine Group – wpgnz@hotmail.co.nz
Norway:
City: Oslo
Location: Youngstorget
Time: 12:00 am
Type of initiative: Rally
Other details: speech (among others) by Prime Minister Kaare Willoch, march to the Israeli embassy
Organizers: The Norwegian Association of NGO’s for Palestine
Supporters: Norwegian People’s Aid, The Peace Initiative, YMCA-YWCA Global, The Palestine Commitee, The Palestinegroups of Norway, The Palestinian Community in Norway, The Norwegian Association of NGO’s for Palestine, Socialist Left Party, Red, Worker’s Youth League.
Contact details: The Norwegian Association of NGO’s for Palestine – https://www.fup@palestina.no, 22 17 06 77.
City: Bergen
Place: VÃ¥gsallmenningen
Date: June 9
Time: 12:00 am
Type of Initiative: Rally
Further details: Speeches by Parliament member Aagot Valle (Socialist Left Party)
Organizer: The Palestinian Committee
Place: VÃ¥gsallmenningen
Date: June 9
Time: 12:00 am
Type of initiative: Photo exhibition
Organizer: Tear Down the Wall Campaign
City: Stavanger
Place: Arneageren (v/Kulturhuset i Stavanger
Date: June 9
Time: 2:00 pm
Type of Initiative: Rally
Further Details: Speeches by Odd Kristian Reme (member of the Central Committee, Labor Party) and greetings from Nablus, friend city of Stavanger.
Organizer: The Palestinian Committee and The Norwegian Association of NGOs for Palestine
Philippines
City: Manila
Location: Israeli Embassy
Date: June 8
Time: 1:00 pm
Type of initiative: Protest rally
Organizers: Stop the War Coalition Philippines
Contact details: corafabros2000@yahoo.com
South Africa:
City and Location: Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban and other major cities and many towns
Time: June 4 – 9, every day
Type of initiative: Mass marches in a few cities; rallies in many cities and towns; pickets outside supermarkets and companies doing business with Apartheid Israel; demonstrations outside US, EU and Israeli consulates/embassies and interest sections; building of replicas of the Apartheid Wall on campuses and a parliamentary debate.
Organizers: End the Occupation Campaign, including African National Congress, ANC Youth League, Cosatu, Friends of Al-Aqsa, Media Review Network, Muslim Judicial Council, Muslim Students Association, Muslim Youth Movement, Not In My Name, Palestine Solidarity Alliance, Palestine Solidarity Committee, Palestine Solidarity Group, Social Movements (various), South African Communist Party, Workers’ Organisation for Socialist Action (WOSA), Young Communist League, Al-Quds Foundation, Palestine Solidarity Group, Islamic Medical Association
Contact: 082 802 5936 / 084 574 2674
City: Cape Town,
Location: from Kaizergracht
Date: June 9
Time: 10 am
Type of initiative: March
Other details: Other activities are planned in Cape Town in the run up to the June 9
Organizers: ANC, Muslim Judicial Council and a range of other organisations.
Contact details: Max Ozinsky +27824147147
City: Gauteng
Location: University of Johannesburg Auckland Park campus (former RAU)
Date: June 5 or 6
Type of initiative: Lecture
Spain
City: Madrid
Date: June 9
Time 7 pm
Type of initiative : National demonstration
Organizers: Red Solidaria contra la ocupación de Palestina
Contact details: acsur@acsur.org
Further demonstrations and mobilizations during the week in Madrid, Barcelona, Malaga, Valence, Asturies, Catalonia and in Basque Country.
Sweden
City: Gothenburg
Location: Bältespännarparken/Brunnsparken
Date: June 9
Time: 13 pm â 16 pm
Type of initiative: spreading info, campaign aimed at the Swedish government, interactive theatre in the streets in the form of a staged Israeli checkpoint.
Organizers: Palestine Now!
Contact details: palestinenow@yahoo.se, www.palestinenow.orgin swedish)
Switzerland
City: Geneva
Date: June 9
Time: 2 pm
Type of initiative: National demonstration and Human Chain from the Israeli Embassy to the UN headquarters in Geneva
Other details: 6 pm after the demonstration, cultural evening at the Place des Nations
Organizers: Collectif Urgence Palestine and others Contact: www.stopoccupation.ch
Week of Solidarity – Caravan towards the Global Action Days
City: Geneva
Location: COE, 150 rte de Ferney Grand-Saconnex
Date: June 3
Time: 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Type of initiative: Opening, Picnic for Peace
Other details: Greetings from Jerusalem and around the world, local-international send-off for the caravan
Organizers: Local Church members and International Church Action for Peace in Palestine and Israel, Joint advocacy Initiative of the World Council of Churches
City: Nyon
Date: June 4
Time: 6:30 pm
Type of initiative: welcoming of the Caravan by local authorities
Organizers: Collectif Urgence Palestine (CUP) Nyon – La Cote
City: Lausanne
Location: place de la Riponne
Date: June 5
Time: 1 pm
Type of initiative: arrival of the Caravan and hand over of petition
Other details:
2 pm: picnic at Pole Sud, av. J-J Mercier 3 (Flon).
4 pm – 6 pm: public debate at Place de la Palud
6:20 pm: cultural evening at Pole Sud with testimonies from the women’s mission to Palestine
Organizers: CUP Vaud, participant-e-s EAPPI
City: Payerne /Fribourg
Location: in front of the military airport, Payerne
Date: June 6
Time: 2 pm
Type of initiative: protest “No to military cooperation with Israel”
Other details:
Evening: public debate on the same theme in Fribourg
Organizers: GSsA/GSoA
City: Bienne/Biel
Location: Dufourstrasse
Date: June 7
Time: 4 pm
Type of initiative: welcoming of the Caravan
Other details:
5 pm – 7 pm: street theatre
Organizers: Bildungsstelle der kath. Kirche Biel/Service de formation de l’Eglise catholique de Bienne, Arbeitskreis fuer Zeitfragen Biel, dt. Pfarreien der kath. Kirche Biel, Femmes pour la Paix Bienne, Pfarrei Bruder Klaus.
City: Bern
Location: Bundesplatz oder Weisenhausplatz
Date: June 8
Time: 12 noon
Type of initiative: welcoming of the Caravan and mock wall with silent vigil
Other details:
1 pm: prominent voices in dialogue
9:30 pm: film screening – The Iron Wall
Organizers: OeME Fachstelle Oekumene, Mission und Entwicklungszusammenarbeit der Ref. Kirchen Bern-Jura-Solothurn, Berner Mahnwache, CH Teilnehmende EAPPI, Komitee Palaestina Petition
United Kingdom:
City: London
Location: Lincoln’s Inn Fields to Trafalgar Square
Date: June 9
Time: 1:30 pm
Type of initiative: demonstration and rally
Organizers: ENOUGH! Coalition (50 member organizations)
Contact: www.enoughoccupation.org ; martial.kurtz@palestinecampaign.org
City: Southampton
Place: Southampton train station (to catch train to London for the London March)
Date: 9th March
Time: Meeting at 11:15am, train leaves at 11:30am, return 4-5pm
Initiative: London march against the Isreali Occupation of Palestine
Further details: the march starts at Lincoln’s Inns Fields (tube: Holborn)
Organisers: Southampton University Free Palestine group
Contact: Simon Nash, sfmn103@soton.ac.uk
United States:
City: Washington, DC
Location: West Lawn of Capitol
Time: 2:00 OPM, Sunday, June 10th
Type of initiative: National rally and march, followed by grassroots lobbying day on June 11th
Other details: www.endtheoccupation.org
Organizers: US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, United for Peace and Justice
Supporters: 200+ endorsing organizations
Contact details: 202-332-0994 or us_campaign@endtheoccupation.org
City: Washington
Place: Ave. Armory (Corner of Lark St & Central Ave. Albany)
Date: June 8
Time: 4:30pm – 5:30pm
Organized by: The Palestinian Rights Committee
Co-Sponsored by: Upper Hudson Peace Action, the Solidarity Committee of the Capital District, Albany County Greens, Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace, Schenectady Neighbors for Peace & Friends Meeting of Albany (in formation)
City: Seattle
Place: Cal Anderson Park on Capitol Hill (Capitol Hill, 11th Avenue and East Olive),also nearby locations & other places around the city.
Date: June 8, 9, and 10
Type of Activities: theater, visual art, performances, discussions and films
Sponsoring organizations:
Palestine Solidarity Committee, Jewish Voice for Peace, Voices of Palestine, Green Party Seattle, The Phoenix Group, The Palestine Concerns Task Force of the Church Council, Episcopal Peace Fellowship of Greater Seattle, Arab American Community Coalition, Friends of the Palestinian Medical Relief Society, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, Sabeel, Jewish Voice for Peace – Puget Sound, AFSC
Contact details: www.palestineinformation.org or write info@ palestineinformation.org or call 206 633 1086
Further details:
June 8
Place: Seattle Central Community College, Student Activity Center – 1718 Broadway Room 208
Time: 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Type of Activity: Documentary films and discussion, Personal Narratives: Accounts of the Effects of Occupation; In the Spider’s Web 2004, produced by Al-Haq, directed by Hanna Musleh; Dying to Live 2002, 10 minutes, Producer/Director Amineh Ayyad; Amineh Ayyad will comment the films.
June 9
Place: Cal Anderson Park
Time: 12:00 am – 6:00 pm
Type of Activity: The Occupation Game – An outdoor living gameboard with a self-guided all-directions-at-once journey into day-by-day life in military occupation;
Contact details: theatersquad@aol.com
Place: Cal Anderson Park
Time: 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Type of Activity: Antigoneâs Nation – an outdoor voice-and-image theater performance adapted from Sophocles;Antigone, exploring the conflict between security, stability, rebellion and freedom; directed by Robert Leigh from an adaptation by local playwright Edward Mast.
Contact details: theatersquad@aol.com
Place: Central Lutheran Church by Cal Anderson Park, 1710 11th Ave
Time: 3 pm
Type of Activity: Ending the Occupation: A panel discussion featuring Tariq Abuhamdia, activist from Hebron, West Bank; Majd Bani-Odeh, student from Nablus; West Bank, and Assaf Oron, Israeli military refuser, activist.
June 10
Place: Cal Anderson Park
Time: 12:00 am – 6:00 pm
Type of Activity: The Occupation Game – An outdoor living gameboard with a self-guided all-directions-at-once journey into day-by-day life in military occupation; For more information: theatersquad@aol.com
Place: Capitol Hill Arts Center (CHAC), 1621 12th Ave
Time: 2:00 pm
Type of Activity: “Hebrew National?” An Afternoon of Radical Jewish Performance; Organized by Jewish Voice for Peace, Seattle
Place: Shoreline Library, 345 NE 175th, Shoreline, WA 98155
Time: 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Type of Activity: Israel And Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, Presentation by Dr. Therese Saliba a discussion on the question of Apartheid in Palestine
Place: Central Cinema 1411 21st Ave
Time: 7:00 pm and 9:30 pm
Type of Activity: Film: The Color Of Olives – From Mexican director Carolina Rivas and cinematographer Daoud Sarhandi comes this elegant and visually breathtaking new film about the Palestinian experience. The Amer family lives surrounded by the infamous West Bank Wall,
where their daily lives are dominated by electrified fences, locked gates and a constant swarm of armed soldiers; www.thecolourofolives.com; followed by discussion led by local activists.
Place: Newberry Books, 561 NE Ravenna Blvd (65th & Ravenna Blvd.)
Date: June 2
Time: 4:00 pm
Type of Activities: Ed Mast speaks on the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Human Rights Perspective. Ed Mast is a poet, playwright and Palestine activist.
For information contact: J. Glenn Evans, Program Director www.poetswest.com
call 206.682.1268 or write info@poetswest.com
Place: Trinity Episcopal Church, Seattle ( 609 Eighth Ave. )
Date: June 6
Time: 7:00 pm
Type of Activity: The Rev. Dr. Naim Ateek will speak on the topic: “June 6, 1967–Will The Occupation Ever End?”
Place: University Friends Center, 4001 9th Ave NE, just north of the University Bridge in Seattle Date: June 16
Time: 3:00 pm â 5:00 pm
Type of Activity: Dr. Mona el-Farra will speak about the situation in Palestine