 |
| Palestine |
Editing by Carolyn Bennett
Week against the Apartheid Wall, November 9 – 16 — “Together we will
tear down the Apartheid Wall!”
The Wall isolates Jerusalem and
puts more than 260,000 Palestinians at risk of expulsion.… Once finished,
together with the settlements and military closed areas, the Apartheid Wall would
annex some 50 percent of the West Bank and steal most of its water resources. When
Israel started construction of the Wall in 2002, they scheduled completion for 2005;
then 2008; then 2011. This year Israel set the deadline for 2020. Popular
resistance has played a primary role in delaying construction of the Wall.
 |
| Middle East Occupied Territories |
Prolonged, popular struggle …
comes at a high cost. Mass killings, large-scale arrests, and torture have been
used by the regimes to protect their power.
Emboldened by impunity, the Israeli
reaction has been murder, repression, and more walls. Israeli authorities have announced
construction of a wall along the Egyptian border and in the Syrian Golan
Heights.
 |
| Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign |
Struggle continues. Solidarity is
imperative.
It is time for the world, movements, organizations and people of
conscience to stand up and support the Arab and Palestinian people. Pressure governments,
institutions, and corporations to withdraw their protection and support of
Israeli apartheid, colonialism, and occupation — because Palestine is the heart
of the Arab world; without a solution to the Palestinian issue, there can be no
lasting peace and justice!
No walls will shield Israeli
apartheid against our spirit of rebellion and our calls for justice and
self-determination. Join the 9th-annual International Week against the
Apartheid Wall November 9-16, 2011.
 |
| Boycott logo |
Stand with the Palestinian
popular resistance.
Sources and notes
Week against the Apartheid wall,
November 9-16, 2011, http://www.stopthewall.org/week-against-apartheid-wall
STOP THE WALL Campaign
The Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign (or Stop the
Wall) launched in 2002 has been the main national grassroots body mobilizing
and organizing the collective efforts against the Apartheid Wall. It is based
on the efforts of popular committees in the villages affected by the Wall where
people can meet, organize, strategize and mobilize. A coordination mechanism in
each West Bank district allows regional coordination as well as West Bank wide
coordination.
The Stop the Wall coordination office works to ensure national
networking, research and international outreach.
Sanctioned by the decision of the International Court of Justice on the
legal consequences of the construction of the Wall (July 9 2004), the immediate
goals of the Stop the Wall campaign are:
Immediate cessation
of the building of the Wall
Dismantling of all
parts of the Wall and its related zones already built
Return of lands
confiscated for the path of the Wall
Compensation of
damages and lost income due to the destruction of land and property in addition
to the restitution of land
http://www.stopthewall.org/about-us
Images from Stop the Wall site
Global
Actions for the Week Against the Apartheid Wall
EUROPE
Austria
November 7, Vienna: Two hour vigil dedicated to the Protest against the
Wall and in support of the recognition of the State of Palestine.
November 9, Vienna: Showing the film “Bil'in Habibti”
Contact: Women in Black
Belgium
November 10: In Brussels, Intal will organize a conference and debate
in support of the Palestinian call for a comprehensive and mandatory military
embargo on Israel by highlighting the fact that Belgium sells weapons to
Israel. This conference will have as a goal to inform our members and their
friends about the weapons business between Belgium and Israel.
Distribution of electronic material on surveillance at check points
inside the wall.
Greece
Distribution of the call to action:
http://r-freepalestine.blogspot.com/2011/09/9-16.html
October 20: The Association Intifada organizes an open discussion on
"Will we allow the alliance between Greece and Israel?"
Iceland
The Iceland Palestine Committee has planned a series of activities,
including:
Press release to local media, interviews and articles sent to media
Awareness raising activities with the members of the and other peace organizations
Public action
Contact: palestina@palestina.is
Iceland Palestine Committee
Italy
November 13: Radio program by the committee "Con la Palestina nel
cuore" on the Wall and popular resistance against it on Radio Città Aperta
(88.9 mhz), 11.20 am to 12.00.
Netherlands
Activities are planned in Utrecht and Amsterdam.
Signatures will be collected for a so-called citizens initiative asking
for a debate in parliament on ‘the ICJ ruling’. From the needed 40,000
signatures the remaining 3,000 needed will be collected that week plus the
following weeks of the year.
November 13: An action is scheduled in Amsterdam during an art market
in the Wester Park to show solidarity with Palestine.
Contact: Netherlands Palestine Committee
Norway
November 10: Open meetings in Kristiansand on Palestine.
Scotland
Protest Scottish Government funding of Eden Springs - No reward to
human rights violators. Join Scottish PSC outside the Scottish Parliament on
Wednesday 9 November, 12.30-5.30pm - raise awareness of the direct involvement
of Eden Springs in war crimes and Israel's illegal occupation of the Golan. Protest
Scottish Government funding of Eden Springs UK. Exhibition on Israel's
occupation, use of the Apartheid Wall to steal water and their impact on the
lives of Palestinians.
Spain/Basque country
November 10: A conference in Bilbao about Israeli walls.
Speakers include: Stop the Wall in Ramallah via Skype and Mohammad
Rujailah, a Palestinian from Gaza and co-director of "To shoot an
elephant"
Contact: az con Dignidad
England
November 10: Hilda Meers reads poems at several poetry evenings in
Aberdeen, UK
November 12: Wall around the Monument in Newcastle City Centre. A human
wall where each person represents a fact about the apartheid wall. Distribution
of fact sheets on the wall, Israeli apartheid, human rights abuses, and BDS
nearby. BDS pledge cards will be distributed to the public. The event will be
filmed and posted on YouTube by Tyne and Wear Palestine Solidarity Campaign
November 14: Also as part of Tyne and Wear Palestine Solidarity
Campaign's Week Against the Apartheid Wall activities, Gemma Houldey from
Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association will bring us the latest
news on anti-wall activism and will place this within the context of the wider
Palestinian human rights struggle including political prisoners in a lecture.
November 16: 17:00 at the Khalili Lecture Theatre, School of Oriental
and African Studies a lecture hosted by SOAS and Goldsmiths' Palestine
Societies, “Palestine: Resistance and Occupation”
AMERICAS
Argentina
Federación de Entidades Argentino Palestinas conjuntamente con diversas
organizaciones realizarán actividades callejeras y culturales las cuales podrán
verse actualizadas en:
Federación De Entidades Argentino-Palestinas
El programa de radio Derribando Muros de la Federación de Entidades
Argentino Palestinas emitido por la Radio de las madres de Plaza de Mayo
realizará un programa especial en relación a la semana internacional de lucha
contra el muro
El cual se podrá escuchar en directo el domingo de 13 noviembre a las
20 hs Buenos Aires: http://www.madres.org/wms2.htm
La Juventud de Fearab Buenos Aires y Todos por Palestina lanzan un
llamado de Boicot académico y cultural a Israel en Argentina, las firmas de las
personalidades que apoyan la iniciativa se darán a conocer públicamente el 16
de Noviembre como cierre de la semana internacional de lucha contra el muro.
Contact: movimiento.BDS@gmail.com, Juventudargentina@fearab.org; FB
juventud fearab argentina porpalestina@hotmail.com
Brazil
November 8: A debate in PUC-SP (Pontifícia Universidad Católica de São
Paulo) about “The Apartheid Wall and Non-violent Resistance,” an initiative of
Frente em Defesa del Pueblo Palestino (In Defense of Palestinian People) and in
part with Apropuc (Associacion of Professors of PUC).
The Frente em Defesa del Pueblo Palestino has also produced a press
release for newspapers, websites, and blogs to be sent to members of popular
movements and unions in Brazil, such as CUT, MST and CSP-Conlutas.
Ciranda supports the Radio Intifada initiative to circulate audio
materials to independent radio in Spanish, which can also be used in Brazil.
November 15: Delegation of the Movimiento de los Trabajadores Rurales
Sim Tierra (MST) participates in protest march in Qalandiya.
Canada
November 10: An evening with writer and photo journalist Jon Elmer,
Students Against Israeli Apartheid in Toronto
November 12: Rally at the Occupy Montreal. Contact: http://tadamon.ca /
info@tadamon.ca
November 16: Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights at the University
of Western Ontario, in London, Ontario, Canada is constructing a 16-ft long and
10-ft high wall and covering it in art from the West Bank. They're also
distributing information from our website on Palestine.
Mexico
Organizations have distributed a link to the letter from Palestine in
solidarity with the Mexican students for the killing of Carlos Sinhue Cuevas,
Mexican student and activist. See link to solidarity letter here: http://www.stopthewall.org/2011/11/02/solidarity-mexican-students-and-society
United States
Huge awareness-raising campaign tool kits for various action ideas by
US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation:
http://endtheoccupation.org/article.php?id=3134
November 4: OPEN WORKSHOP and TEACH-IN for anyone who wants to learn
more about social justice activism and might want to take direct action for
today’s social justice struggles by Students for Justice in Palestine, Chicago,
IL.
November 14:
Existence is Resistance and Hunter Students for Justice in Palestine
present a live show featuring Palestinian Rap Trio DAM, Palestinian Female MC
and Songstress Shadia Mansour alongside M1 of Dead Prez. More info:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=302731756422484
November 15: Boston showing of "Cultures of Resistance"
organized by Grassroots International:
http://grassrootsonline.org/what-you-can-do/come-to-event/boston-showing-cultures-resistance
ASIA
Thailand
Palestine Solidarity Committee of Thailand collected information for an
awareness-raising campaign. With this material they did a mail-out, posted it
on their website, and initiated a Facebook campaign.
South Korea
November 12: A performance to educate the public on the Apartheid wall
and its effects on Palestinians.
Hand outs with information about Palestine will be distributed.
AFRICA
South Africa
To be confirmed.
____________________________
Bennett's books are available in New York State independent bookstores: Lift Bridge Bookshop: www.liftbridgebooks.com [Brockport, NY]; Sundance Books: http://www.sundancebooks.com/main.html [Geneseo, NY]; Mood Makers Books: www.moodmakersbooks.com [City of Rochester, NY]; Dog Ears Bookstore and Literary Arts Center: www.enlightenthedog.org/ [Buffalo, NY]; Burlingham Books – ‘Your Local Chapter’: http://burlinghambooks.com/ [Perry, NY 14530]; The Bookworm: http://www.eabookworm.com/ [East Aurora, NY] • See also: World Pulse: Global Issues through the eyes of Women: http://www.worldpulse.com/ http://www.worldpulse.com/pulsewire
____________________________
No comments:
Post a Comment