New York City
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The New York organizing coalition can be e-mailed at: ApartheidWeekNYC@gmail.com
Schedule will be forming below:
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: A NIGHT FOR GAZA
Lamis Deek, Dima Abi Saab and Poetry by Tahani Salah
Date/Time: Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 at 5:30pm
Location: Brooklyn College, Penthouse (7th Floor), SUBO
Sponsoring Organizations: The Palestinian Club at Brooklyn College
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
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: A.R.T. (Activist Response Team), Adalah-NY, American Jews for a Just Peace, Brooklyn For Peace, Center for Immigrant Families, Codepink, Committee for Open Discussion of Zionism, Gaza Freedom March, Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions-USA, Jewish Voice For Peace, Jews Say No!, Judson Church, Middle East Crisis Response, National Lawyers Guild - NY Chapter, NYC Anti-War Coalition, New York Collective of Radical Educators, Post Road, Progressive Democrats of America, Regeneración Childcare NYC, WESPAC Foundation, Women In Black Union Square, Women of a Certain Age, Woodstock Veterans For Peace, Veterans for Peace, Delaware Valley Veterans For America
This action is also being endorsed by the following Israeli organizations: Coalition of Women for Peace, Boycott! Supporting the Palestinian Call for BDS From Within, New Profile, Anarchists Against the Wall