6th Annual Israeli Apartheid Week: March 4-11, 2010 - Sudbury

We are very proud to announce our speakers along with the very first annual Sudbury Palestine Film Festival! Events in Sudbury will take place at Laurentian University. Join us in making 2010 a year of struggle against apartheid and for justice, equality, and peace.

Thursday, March 4th
1. Film: Amreeka
Room: J-234
Time: 4 pm (near Library)

2. Distributing literature and IAW schedule of events in the Great Hall.
Time: 11am -1:30 pm

Friday, March 5th
Film: Waltz with Bashir
Room: C-114
Time: 8PM

Saturday, March 6th
Two Films:
Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land
AND
Slingshot HipHop
Room: C-309
Time: 8PM

Monday, March 8th

Guest Speaker: Yves Engler
Book launch for Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid
Time: 1:30 pm
Room: FA-055 (Upper Fraser)

Tuesday, March 9th
1. Film: Orientalism
Room: C-205
Time: 10 am

2. Dr. Reuben Roth, Professor of Sociology and Labour Studies at Laurentian
Unsettling Relations: Aspects of Jewish Identity and History
Time: 2:30pm
Room: L-239 (Parker building)

3. Film: Occupation 101
Room: FA-054 (Lower Fraser)
Time: 1 pm

Wednesday, March 10th
1. Repeat showing of Occupation 101
Room: L-507 (Parker Building)
Time: 1:30 pm

2. Dr. Reuben Roth, Professor of Sociology and Labour Studies at Laurentian
Palestinian Working Conditions in the Occupied Territories
Time: 7pm
Room: C-306

3. Film: American Radical
Room: C-102 (Laurentian University Arts Building)
Time: 4:30 PM

Thursday, March 11th
1. "What can we do about the Occupation of Palestine? An educational discussion on the Right to Education and Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Campaigns"

Time: 1PM
Room: FA-054 (Lower Fraser)

Guest speakers:

Mark Evard, National Director, Central Region, Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW)

Rafeef Ziadah, a member of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 3903, the International Solidarity Committee of CUPE Ontario, and a founding member of the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA)
“Israeli Apartheid: The case for Boycotts, Divestments, and Sanctions”

Alan Sears, member of Faculty for Palestine and professor in the Sociology Department at Ryerson University
“Against the Silencers: Free Speech and BDS in Palestine Solidarity”

2. POETICS OF RESISTANCE: SPOKEN WORD/HIP HOP 4 PALESTINE SOLIDARITY

Rafeef Ziadah and Silvertongue
Rafeef Ziadah is a Palestinian spoken-word artist and activist.
Silvertongue is a well-known Sudbury rapper and spoken-word artist.
Time: 4pm
Location: Student Centre (near SGA office)

Sudbury Israeli Apartheid Week at Laurentian is organized by the Palestine Solidarity Working Group (PSWG) with the support of Faculty for Palestine (F4P), Independent Jewish Voices (IJV), and Sudbury Against War and Occupation (SAWO).

To ENDORSE Israeli Apartheid Week in Sudbury, to make a DONATION or GET INVOLVED please email gkinsman@laurentian.ca and Sudburyawo@gmail.com

Find out about the Global BDS movement @ www.bdsmovement.net
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