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22 March, Rome: Diaspora Stories: Daily life in a Palestinian refugee camp

Friday, 22 March
6:00 pm
Centro Documentazione Palestinese
Via Hortis 38
Rome, Italy
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/426621354574232/

The Palestinian Documentation Center invites you to attend this information meeting on living conditions in Palestinian refugee camps and the right of return.

The meeting will be attended by Wisam al-Jaafari, director of two short films on the life in the refugee camps: «Without waves» and «Wishes for the new paint» – which will be screened during the meeting.

“Dobbiamo fare tutto il possibile per impedire che i palestinesi ritornino! Gli anziani moriranno, i giovani scorderanno…”

Il Centro Documentazione Palestinese invita a partecipare all’incontro informativo sulle condizioni di vita nei campi profughi palestinesi e sul diritto al ritorno.

All’incontro parteciperà Wisam al-Jaafari, autore di due cortometraggi sulla vita nei campi profughi: «Without waves» e «Auguri per la nuova vernice» – che verranno proiettati durante l’incontro.

L’appuntamento è per venerdì 22 marzo 2019 – H18:00
Sede del Centro Documentazione Palestinese – Via Attilio Hortis 38

30 March, Manchester: National Day of Action – Exist, Resist, Return

Saturday, 30 March
12:00 pm
Piccadilly Gardens
Manchester
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/463166254219978/

March 30th will be the 1st anniversary of the start of the Gaza Return March. 30 March is also Palestinian Land Day. Palestinians have issued a call for international action on the day.

Join the protest on Saturday 30th March

We will be demanding an end to the siege of Gaza and the right of return for Palestinians.

No new Nakba !
End the Siege of Gaza!
Defend the Right of Return!

So join us on March 30th to show support for the Palestinian people and their rights to EXIST, RESIST & RETURN!

#FreePalestine #ExistResistReturn

Details
30th Mar 2019 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Piccadilly Gardens, City Centre, Manchester,

22 March, Toronto: Revolutionary Struggles Film Festival

Friday, 22 March
4:00 pm
Hart House Music Room
7 Hart House Circle
Toronto, ON
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/324006048248266/

The Revolutionary Struggles Film Festival will feature a series of documentaries that showcase some of the most significant revolutionary struggles that were waged against colonialism, racism, capitalist imperialism and military occupation in the 20th century across continents.

Following the film screening of Naila and the Uprising, Naila’s son – Majd – who in 1988 was an infant and kept in prison with his mother – will be joining us in discussion.

This festival is organized as part of a course on Revolution in the Transnational Context being taught in Equity Studies at New College, University of Toronto. All film screenings are free and will be followed by an analysis and discussion.

23 March, Vienna: Stop Arming Colonialism

Saturday, 23 March
2:00 pm
Boltzmangasse 16
Vienna, Austria
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/579475099196521/

As part of the Israeli Apartheid Week 2019, we call for a rally and march under the motto “Stop Arming Colonialism.“ It will begin at the US embassy and take us to the embassy of the Israeli apartheid state. Regardless of which administration is charge, the USA has long been and continues to be the power that arms Israel politically and ideologically, which in practical terms means giving US aid and protection as Israel carries out its expansion and annexation policies. Moreover, the EU and its member states by-and-large tolerate Israel’s violations of international law. On Saturday March 23rd, we want to express our solidarity with the people of Gaza, al-Khalil, al-Quds, Nablus, Jenin, Haifa and Akko loudly and clearly.
Free Palestine!
Boycott Israel!

Im Rahmen der Israeli Apartheid Week 2019 rufen wir unter dem Motto „Stop Arming Colonialism“ zur Demonstration auf, die uns von der Botschaft der USA zur Botschaft des israelischen Apartheidstaates führt. Die USA waren und sind – unabhängig der jeweiligen Administration – diejenige Macht, die Israel ideologisch und politisch „bewaffnet“, was konkret den Schutz Israels bei seiner Expansions- und Annektierungspolitik bedeutet. Jedoch wird das völkerrechtswidrige Agieren Israels von der EU und den Mitgliedsstatten weitgehend geduldet.
An diesem Tag wollen wir auf der Straße unsere Solidarität mit den Menschen in Gaza, al-Khalil, al-Quds, Nablus, Jenin, Haifa und Akko laut und deutlich zum Ausdruck bringen.
Free Palestine!
Boycott Israel!

29 March, NYC: 52 Fridays – Great Return March 1 Year Anniversary Rally & Event

Friday, 29 March
4:00 pm
Times Square
New York City
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/302727097056500/

52 Fridays: Great Return March 1 Year Anniversary

4:00 pm — Rally Honoring the Martyrs of the Great Return March with the NY4Palestine Coalition
Location: Times Square

6:30 pm — Within Our lifetime event: Great Return March teach-in followed by a discussion with Raja Abdulhaq and Palestinians from the front lines in Gaza.
Location: The People’s Forum (320 w. 37th St.)

Join us in commemorating 52 Fridays of resistance and marching with the people of Gaza on the 53rd consecutive Friday of protests.

30 March, Gothenburg: Victory for Palestine’s Liberation Struggle!

Saturday, 30 March
2:00 pm
Brunnsparken
Gothenburg, Sweden
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/237054617109662/

On 30 March 2019, we commemorate a dual anniversary. It is the 43rd anniversary of Land Day (Yom al-Ard in Arabic), a day when the Israeli occupation forces used deadly repression against Palestiniaan protests against land theft. This is also the first anniversary of the Great Return March, a popular mobilization that has since continued every Friday since 30 March 2018. It has inolved hundreds and thousands of Palestinians in Gaza for the right of return of all Palestinian refugees. Leading activists of the Great Return March are calling on the world to stand with people in Gaza and the entire Palestinian people’s liberation struggle on 30 March!

Slogans of the demonstration:
Honor the memory of Land Day!
Support the struggle of the Great Return March!
Boycott Israel!

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Den 30:e mars i år, 2019, är en dubbel årsdag. Den är den 43:e årsdagen för Jorddagen (“Yom al-Ard” på arabiska), en dag då den israeliska ockupationsmakten svarade med dödlig repression på palestinska protester mot markstölder. Dagen är även den första årsdagen för Stora återvändarmarschen, en folklig massmobilisering som varje fredag sedan den 30:e mars 2018 har involverat hundratals och tusentals palestinier i Gaza som har protesterat för ett sluta på Israels belägring av Gaza och för rätten till alla palestinska flyktingars återvändo. Ledande aktivister och organisatörer i Stora återvändarmarschen kallar på omvärlden för att stå med gazaborna och hela det palestinska folkets befrielsekamp den 30:e mars!

Manifestationens paroller:
– Hedra Jorddagens minne!
– Stöd de kämpande i Stora återvändarmarschen!
– Bojkotta Israel!

Affisch för manifestationen: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1z-PfRR8C0JbripCSEOAkhEHfLOPE5yna

Plakat, banderoller och fanor på manifestationen är välkomna, även med organisationssymboler, men endast palestinska nationsflaggor är tillåtna.

Är du med i en organisation som är intresserad av att vara med som medarrangör? Vill du att din organisation representeras av en talare? Hör av dig till oss här på Facebook eller via samidoungbg@gmail.com.

Arrangörer:
Samidoun Göteborg
Palestinska riksförbundet
194 Al-Salam förening
Röd Makt Göteborg
Solens Port – باب الشمس
مؤسسة جفرا | Jafra Foundation

Plats: Johannastatyn, Brunnsparken
Datum: Lördag 30:e mars
Tid: 14:00

21 March, Brussels: Belgian Money for Israeli Weapons?

Thursday, 21 March
6:00 pm
Intal Globalize Solidarity
Haachtsesteenweg 53
1210 Brussels
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1986771378298341/

Open discussion with Palestine solidarity activists from across Europe

How is Belgium complicit in the Israeli occupation? What kind of military relations does the Belgian government have with Israeli military and weapon industry? How is our taxpayers’ money being used to support human rights violations by Israel?

Thursday the 21st of March
LOCATION: Intal – Chaussée de Haecht 53,
Begins at 18h00
Languages: English and French

As a part of the Israeli Apartheid Week, Intal Globalize Solidarity invites you to an event discussing Belgian complicity in Israel’s war crimes against the Palestinian people. The Israeli Apartheid week is an international series of events that seek to raise awareness about Israel’s apartheid regime over the Palestinian people and build support for the growing Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

We will discuss the presence of Israel’s biggest arms company – Elbit – in Belgium and its impact on the Palestinian people.

From 2003, OIP Sensor Systems, located in Oudenaarde, is wholly owned by Elbit. As a key company in the Israeli arms industry, the presence of Elbit’s factories in Belgium should not go unchallenged, its components produced in Belgium are used in attacks on the Palestinian people.

OIP Sensor Systems is currently seeking a major contract to provide the navies of Belgium and the Netherlands with mine warfare vessels, using the slogan “buy Belgian.” The vessels which OIP is offering would include the Elbit-manufactured Seagull system.

At this event you will have an opportunity to meet, discuss with and learn from the experience of activists from across Europe who are involved in organizing campaigns and direct actions challenging their countries’ military relations with Israel.

This event will be the starting point for re-launching the Belgian campaign for a military embargo on Israel.


Speakers:

DAVID CRONIN is a journalist and an associate editor of The Electronic Intifada, a website focused on Palestine. His books include ‘Balfour’s Shadow: A Century of British Support for Zionism and Israel’ and ‘Europe’s Alliance with Israel: Aiding the Occupation’.

EWA JASIEWICZ is an activist in the Palestine solidarity movements since 2002. She was part of the International Solidarity Movement and a coordinator of the Free Gaza Movement that sent siege-breaking boats and flotillas to Gaza. She was a medical rescue volunteer with ambulances during the Israeli attack on Gaza in 2008/9. In the UK, she is part of London Palestine Action and helped organize the hugely successful roof top occupation and shutdown of Elbit’s Shenstone drone engine factory during Israel’s 2014 war on Gaza as well as other BDS actions. In Poland, she co-founded the Polish Campaign of Solidarity with Palestine and wrote ‘Raze Gaza’ which was nominated for the Beata Pawlak award for international literature.

JEAN GUY GREILSAMER is an activist and campaigner from BDS France.


in cooperation with ECCP – European Coordination of Committees and Associations for Palestine

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Belgisch geld voor Israëlische wapens

Open discussie met activisten solidair met Palestina uit heel Europa.

Hoe is België medeplichtig in de Israëlische bezetting? Welke relaties heeft de Belgische overheid met de Israëlische militaire industrie? Hoe wordt ons belastinggeld gebruikt om de schending van mensenrechten door Israël te steunen?

Donderdag 21 maart
LOCATIE: Intal – Haechtsesteenweg 53, Sint-Joost
Begint om 18h00
Talen: Engels en Frans

In het kader van de Israeli Apartheid Week, nodigt Intal Globalize Solidarity je uit op een discussie-avond over de Belgische medeplichtigheid in Israel’s oorlogsmisdaden tegen de Palestijnse mensen. De Israeli Apartheid Week is een reeks internationale evenementen met het doel om aandacht te geven aan Israël’s politiek van apartheid ten opzichte van het Palestijnse volk en om de Boycott, Desinvestering en Sancties (BDS) beweging te helpen groeien.

We zullen de aanwezigheid van Israël’s grootste wapenbedrijf – Elbit – in België bespreken en diens impact op de Palestijnse mensen.

Sinds 2003, is OIP Sensor Systems, gesitueerd in Oudenaarde, volledig in de handen van Elbit. Als een hoofdrolspeler in de Israëlische wapenindustrie, mag de aanwezigheid van Elbit’s fabriek in België niet zomaar onbetwist blijven. De onderdelen die in die Belgische fabriek geproduceerd worden, worden gebruikt in de aanvallen op Palestijnse mensen.

OIP Sensor Systems is momenteel in onderhandelingen om een contract binnen te halen om België en Nederland van mijnenjagers te voorzien. Ze gebruiken hierbij de slogan “Koop Belgisch”. De mijnenjagers die OIP aanbiedt, zouden het door Elbit-geproduceerde Seagull systeem bevatten.

Op onze discussie-avond krijg je de kans om Europese activisten te ontmoeten, aan te spreken en van hun ervaring te leren. Onze sprekers zijn activisten met ervaring in het organiseren van verschillende campagnes en directe acties om de militaire relaties tussen hun landen en Israël aan te klagen.

Dit evenement betekent ook het startpunt voor het herlanceren van de Belgische campagne voor een militair embargo tegen Israël.

Sprekers:

DAVID CRONIN is een journalist en editor van The Electronic Intifada, een website die zich focust op Palestina. Hij heeft ook meerdere boeken geschreven, onder andere ‘Balfour’s Shadow: A Century of British Support for Zionism and Israel’ en ‘Europe’s Alliance with Israel: Aiding the Occupation’.

EWA JASIEWICZ is activiste binnen de solidariteitsbewegingen met Palestina sinds 2002. Ze was een deel van de International Solidarity Movement en een coordinator van de Free Gaza Movement die boten en flotillas naar Gaza stuurden in een poging om de blokkade te doorbreken. Ze was een medische vrijwilligster tijdens de Israëlische aanval op Gaza in 2008/9. In het VK, is ze lid van de London Palestine Action groep en ze hielp mee de succesvolle dakbezetting en shutdown van Elbit’s Shenstone dronefabriek organiseren tijdens Israël’s oorlog op Gaza in 2014. In Polen, richtte ze mee de Polish Campaign of Solidarity with Palestine op en ze scheef ‘Raze Gaza’ dat voor de Beata Pawlak award voor internationale literatuur genomineerd werd.

JEAN GUY GREILSAMER is een activist en campagnevoerder van BDS Frankrijk.

in coöperatie met ECCP – European Coordination of Committees and Associations for Palestine
met steun van de VGC

23 March, Tournai: 8 Hours for Mustapha Awad

Saturday, 23 March
2:00 pm
La Petite Fabriek
Rue du Moulin 16
Tournai, Belgium
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1033631806820766/

2 pm: Reception
3 pm: Theater “Made in Palestine” by the Croquemitaine Theater
4:30 pm: Dances by Raj’een Dabkeh Group, Mustapha’s troupe
6 pm: Lecture by Léa Tsemel, his Israeli lawyer
8 pm : Meals (by reservation before March 18th at wapi@abp-wb.be) and Palestinian music by Alaa Shublaq, a refugee from Gaza in Belgium
Organized by: ABP Wallonie picarde

Programme :
-14 h : Accueil
-15 h : Théâtre “Made in Palestine” par le théâtre Croquemitaine
16 h 30 : Danses par Raj’een Dabkeh Group, la troupe de Mustapha
18 h : Conférence de Léa Tsemel, son avocate israélienne
20 h : Repas (sur réservation avant le 18 mars à l’adresse wapi@abp-wb.be) et musique palestinienne par d’Alaa Shublaq, réfugié de Gaza en Belgique
Organisation : ABP Wallonie picarde

21 March, Toronto: Palestine In our Hearts – A Thorn in the Flesh of Imperialism

Thursday, 21 March
6:30 pm
University of Toronto
University College – Room 52
Toronto, ON
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/398202580971760/

PALESTINE IN OUR HEARTS, PALESTINE A THORN IN THE FLESH OF IMPERIALISM featuring Dr. Nahla Abdo

We are currently living in an unprecedented stage of capitalist imperialism. This is despite, or in fact, because of the decline of the unipolar world power (the US) and the rise of a multipolar one. The monstrosity of this imperialist stage has crossed all human, ethical and international legal conventions. In addition to targeting Venezuela, Palestine is at the core of imperialist intervention in the Middle East, as Dr. Nahla Abdo’s keynote address will explore.


Dr. Nahla Abdo is an Arab Canadian feminist, political activist and Professor of Sociology at Carleton University. She has extensive publications on anti-colonial, anti-imperialist feminism, racism, nationalism and the Settler Colonial State, with specialization in the Middle East. Among her recent publications: An Oral History of the Palestinians during the Nakba. (2018- with Nur Masalha); Captive Revolution: Palestinian Women’s Anti-Colonial Struggle (2014) –this book received the Times Higher Education Book of 2014; Women in Israel: Race, Gender, and Citizenship (2011); Violence in the Name of Honour: Theoretical and Political Challenges, (2004 – with Shahrzad Mojab) and, Women and the Politics of Military Confrontation: Palestinian and Israeli Gendered Narratives of Dislocation,(with Ronit Lentin 2002).

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Israeli Apartheid Week 2019: Stop Arming Colonialism
University of Toronto, March 19th – March 27th
#IsraeliApartheidWeek #StopArmingColonialism

Tues 19 Mar @ 6:30pm – Dr. Ruba Salih: De-colonial and intersectional alliances in the Palestinian struggle for justice with No One Is Illegal @ University College Rm 144
https://www.facebook.com/events/840425602964421/

Tues 26 Mar @ 7pm – Film Screening: A Stone’s Throw from Prison @ Lash Miller Rm 158

Wed 27 Mar @ 6:30pm – Wala3at Indigenous Interactive Musical Dance Performance opened by Sto: Loh Elder Lee Maracle @ Multi-Faith Centre, Main Activity Hall

divest@utgsu.ca / saia.opirg.uoft@gmail.com / www.uoftdivest.com / UofT Divest FB / SAIA FB

First launched in Toronto in 2005, Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) has grown to become one of the most important global events in the Palestine solidarity calendar. This year, IAW will take place in more than 150 cities across the globe. This year’s IAW is an international series of events that aims to raise awareness of Israel’s apartheid regime over the Palestinian people and build support for the growing global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. IAW 2019 at UofT is a collaborative effort of the UofT Graduate Student Union BDS Committee, the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 3902 BDS Committee, No One Is Illegal, UofT’s Ontario Public Interest Research Group, UofT’s Students Against Israeli Apartheid, UofT’s Independent Jewish Voices, Faculty for Palestine and the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid. JOIN US on March 19 to 27th, as we continue to build momentum on campus for the main BDS campaign at UofT that calls on the University of Toronto administration to divest from companies which are directly complicit in the violation of Palestinian human rights, and that profit from the illegal occupation of Palestinian land and the construction of the Apartheid Wall. These companies include Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin and Hewlett Packard — all of which help maintain the Israeli apartheid military infrastructure.

This year’s theme, Stop Arming Colonialism, highlights that ending the arms trade, military aid and cooperation with Israel will undercut financial and military support for its regime of apartheid. It is also an important platform for building the campaign for a military embargo on Israel. The demand for a military embargo on Israel has been reinforced by Israel’s recent violent repression of the Great March of Return in Gaza. Israel is able to maintain its illegal occupation and apartheid regime over Palestinians partly due to its arms sales and the military support it receives from governments across the world. The United States alone is the single largest supplier of arms and military aid to Israel, followed by several European states. These directly sustain Israel’s oppression and human rights violations. In the Global South, Israel has been known to supply weapons to genocidal regimes in Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and elsewhere.

We thank our generous sponsors and endorsers. IAW 2019 would not be possible without the support of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 1281 and the Association of Part-time Students Association (APUS), CUPE 3903 (UofT), We Are UofT 89.5 FM, Salaam Canada, No More Silence, The Socialist Project, OPIRG UofT, Upping the Anti, Jamhoor, Canadian Friends of Sabeel and Actions4Palestine (A4P).

Please check our Facebook for an updated list of our endorsers.

21 March, Bern: Protest against Israeli apartheid – not at universities?

Thursday, 21 March
7:00 pm
Uni vonRoll, Institutsgebäude B005
Fabrikstrasse 6

Bern, Switzerland
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/2319223911462229/

Information and Discussion

At an event in June 2017, Jewish-Israeli and Palestinian activists Stavit, Majed and Ronnie interrupted Israeli parliamentarian Aliza Lavie’s speech at Berlin’s Humboldt University and confronted her with her responsibility for war crimes in Gaza and for the apartheid regime of Israel. These non-violent protesters have been taken to court in March 2019. The three activists will talk about the consequences of their case and the attempts to criminalize their commitment to Palestinian rights.

Info- und Diskussionsveranstaltung

Die jüdisch-israelischen und palästinensischen Aktivist*innen Stavit, Majed und Ronnie unterbrachen im Juni 2017 die Rede der israelischen liberalen Parlamentarierin Aliza Lavie an der Berliner Humboldt-Universität und konfrontierten sie mit ihrer Mitverantwortung für die Kriegsverbrechen in Gaza und für das Apartheidregime Israels. Die gewaltfreie Protestaktion wird im März 2019 vor Gericht verhandelt. Die drei Aktivist*innen sprechen über die Folgen ihres Falles und über die Versuche, den Einsatz für die palästinensischen Rechte zu kriminalisieren.

Veranstaltet von bacaia & Diskussionsgruppe Palästina