New York City

[IAW 2012 materials coming soon. For 2011, see below.]

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Past Events

Divest from the U.S.-Backed Israeli Occupation Now!

Event Date: February 28, 2011 - 7:30pm

Body:
New York University, Kimmel, 60 Washington Square South, E&L Auditorium, 4th Floor

Join NYU Students for Justice in Palestine for a discussion on Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions and for the launching of our TIAA-CREF campaign to divest from the oppression of the Palestinian people.

Featuring Sherry Wolf, and Stephen Shalom. Moderated by Jeff Goodwin

Divestment has been an important political strategy in many international campaigns. It has become increasingly used by campus groups around the world and the United States in fighting for Justice in Israel/Palestine. This launches Israel Apartheid Week and focuses on the use of divestment as a political strategy by campus groups. In addition NYU SJP will be launching a campaign with particular relevance to the NYU community.

Sherry Wolf is an independent journalist and author. She is a member of the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network an advocate of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign. She was on the executive committee for the LGBT National Equality March for full civil rights in October 2009. Wolf is a member of the International Socialist Organization and an editor of the International Socialist Review.

Stephen Shalom is a professor, writer, and activist. He teaches political science at William Paterson University and is the director of the Gandhian Forum for Peace and Justice. He is a writer on social and political issues and is a contributor to Znet and Democratic Left. He is on the e-boards of the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars and the democratic socialist journal, New Politics. He is the author of numerous publications and is the author of a political vision called Participatory Politics. He was a contributing writer to Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century.

Jeff Goodwin is a professor of Sociology at New York University. He has done research on revolutions, social movements, and terrorism. He was elected to the board of the International Visual Sociology Association. He has written a number of works, including No Other Way Out: States and Revolutionary Movements, 1945-1991.
Poetic Injustice Book Release Party

Event Date: March 2, 2011 - 7:30pm
Body:
Join us for the release of POETIC INJUSTICE: Writings on Resistance and Palestine By Remi Kanazi

Special guest poets include: Carlos Andrés Gómez, Tahani Salah, Michael Cirelli, Safia Elhillo, More poets to come

Visit www.PoeticInjustice.net for more about the book and to PURCHASE your copy today

Columbia University: Alfred Lerner Hall (Roone Arledge Auditorium) - 2920 Broadway (btwn 114th & 115th), New York, NY

Event on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=194892327204026

Co-sponsored by:
- Columbia SJP
- NAAP-NY (www.naaponline.org/ny)
- CODEPINK NYC (www.codepinknyc.org)
The Iron Wall: Film Screening and Discussion

Event Date: March 3, 2011 - 6:00pm

Body:
About the film: The Iron Wall documentary exposes this phenomenon and follows the timeline, size, population of the settlements, and its impact on the peace process. This film also touches on the latest project to make the settlements a permanent fact on the ground - the wall that Israel is building in the West Bank and its impact on the Palestinian's peoples.

Said Shehadeh from Al-Awda NY will be facilitating a discussion about apartheid in Palestine and the parallels to Apartheid South Africa in the 1970s.

Location: TV Room, Basement, Student Center (SUBO), Brooklyn College, Campus Road and E 27 St.
The Arab People's Revolt: A Night of Solidarity and Discussion

Event Date: March 4, 2011 - 7:00pm

Body:
The Commons Brooklyn (388 Atlantic Avenue)

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=188280147869789

In 2011, Arab countries have exploded with mass popular movementsthat have had radical, and indeed revolutionary results. In Tunisiaand Egypt, longtime U.S.-sponsored dictators have fallen, whileprotests rock Jordan, Algeria and occupied Palestine. Thisunprecedented revolt has provided new hope for a movement to liberatePalestine and the whole Arab world. Join Al-Awda New York to discuss:

    * What is the role of workers in the Arab revolt?
    * What are the challenges yet to come?
    * What do these changes mean for Palestine and the Arab world?
    * What do they mean for people in the U.S. and the world?
    * How can we organize to provide solidarity and support?
    * and much more!

Featuring speakers:

Lamis DeekPalestinian attorney and activist, co-founder Al-Awda NY

Hoda MitwallyEgyptian-American student and Middle East solidarity activist fromRutgers University

Emna ZghalTunisian visual artist

Al-Awda New York: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition
Public Protest! NYC's LGBT Center is trying to choke anti-Apartheid organizing and fundraising.

Event Date: March 5, 2011 - 6:30pm
Body:
The LGBT Center's director, Glennda Testone, cancelled a big Israel Apartheid Week fundraiser this week. She acted just hours after a Zionist activist threatened to organize donors to pull Center funding. Glennda also decided that SiegeBusters can't meet at the Center any more; and that airing Israel's violent repression of Palestinians -- queer and otherwise -- violates the Center's "safe space."

WHOSE SPACE?! PROTEST the LGBT CENTER'S DISCRIMINATION.
- Stand up for anti-Occupation queers, Palestinian queers and self-determination!
- Stand up for the right to organize against the Israeli occupation!
- The LGBT Center belongs to all of us. Safe space for queers and ideas, not for donors!
Bring noise and glamor to take back our community's home!

This isn't the first time the Center is labeling community members "good" or "bad": it's not so long since trans people were literally thrown out when trying to attend Center events. We fought back then, and we'll fight back now. No silencing of voices calling for liberation.

Faced with bad press and a torrent of criticism, Glennda "offered" to substitute the fundraiser with a closed meeting about the Center's policies. We're not distracted by Glennda's bad-faith deal. And we don't have to have a meeting to know that the LGBT Center belongs to all of us
Palestine: Then & Now – The Road to Freedom

Event Date: March 9, 2011 - 7:00pm

Body:
Hunter College (68th & Lexington Ave) 424 Hunter North, Lang Recital Hall

Hunter Students for Justice in Palestine invites you to join us for an evening to discuss the history of Palestine and the importance of Boycott Divestment and Sanction (BDS) in the struggle for the liberation of Palestine. Israeli Apartheid Week is an annual international series of events held in cities and campuses across the globe and the aim of IAW is to educate people about the nature of Israel as an apartheid system and to build BDS campaigns as part of a growing global BDS movement.

Joining us will be:

Lamis Deek: Palestinian Attorney and Co-founder of Al-Awda NY: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition.

Randa Wahbe: Activist with Adalah NY: The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel and a Graduate student at Columbia University.

Dinna Omar: Activist and spoken word artist and a Graduate Student at Columbia University.

Poetry by Tahani Salah

The discussion will be followed by a Q&A with our panelists

Refreshments will be served

For more information please visit www.hcsjp.wordpress.com or email us at sjphunter@gmail.com
Economic Activism for Palestine: who are the main profiteers, and how can we change the bottom line?

Event Date: March 9, 2011 - 8:00pm

Body:
A presentation by Dr. Dalit Baum of Who Profits? and Global
Exchange

Followed by a discussion with activists working for justice in Palestine

304 Held Lecture Hall, Barnard College

Hosted by Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine

The talk will provide a useful framework for examining corporate accountability for the occupation, and offer some of the latest results of Who Profits' 4-year research effort underlying many of the campaigns around the world. We will discuss some of these campaigns, analyze different tools used, learn from the victories. Finally we
will close with a discussion about the complicity of U.S. Corporations and possible ways ahead for U.S. activists in changing corporate policies in Palestine.

Dalit Baum, Ph.D., is the founder of "Who Profits from the Occupation?" – an activist research initiative of the Coalition of Women for Peace in Israel (www.whoprofits.org). In the last four years, Who Profits has become a vital resource for dozens of campaigns around the world, providing information about corporate complicity in the occupation of Palestine.

Dalit is a feminist scholar and teacher in Israel, teaching about militarism and about the global economy from a feminist perspective in the Haifa University and the Beit Berl College. This year she is visiting the U.S. as an activist in residence with Global Exchange, directing a new program titled Economic Activism for Palestine, which aims to support existing divestment campaigns in the U.S. as well as and help create new ones through education, training, networking and the development of dedicated tools.
How Now BDS? Media, Politics and Queer Activism

Event Date: March 11, 2011 - 6:00pm

Body:
A conversation with John Greyson and Judith Butler

Moderated by Jasbir Puar

Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature and the Co-director of the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from Yale University in 1984 on the French Reception of Hegel. Judith Butler is the author of Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Routledge, 1990), Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (Routledge, 1993), Undoing Gender (2004), Who Sings the Nation-State?: Language, Politics, Belonging (with Gayatri Spivak in 2008), Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable? (2009). She is also active in gender and sexual politics and human rights, anti-war politics, and Jewish Voice for Peace. As well she is founding member of the Russell Tribunal for Palestinian Rights and a board member of the Jenin Theatre. She is presently the recipient of the Andrew Mellon Award for Distinguished Academic Achievement in the Humanities..

John Greyson is a Toronto video artist/filmmaker whose features, shorts and installations include Fig Trees (Best Documentary Teddy, Berlin Film Festival, 2009), Proteus (Diversity Award, Barcelona Gay Lesbian Film Festival, 2004), and Lilies (Best Film 'Genie', 1996). An associate professor in Film at York University, he was awarded the 2007 Bell Canada Award in Video Art.

Jasbir Puar, professor of Women's & Gender Studies at Rutgers University, is the author of Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (Duke University Press 2007), which won the 2007 Cultural Studies Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies. Professor Puar has also authored numerous articles that appear in Gender, Place, and Culture; Social Text; Radical History Review; Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography; and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Her edited volumes include a special issue of GLQ entitled "Queer Tourism: Geographies of Globalization" and she co-edited a volume of Society and Space entitled "Sexuality and Space".

Location: Judson Memorial Church, Basement Gym

Organization: Adalah-NY: The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel