NYCsocialist.orgInternational Israeli Apartheid Week.
For additions/changes to the schedule, please check the NYC section of the international website for updates.
Please note that the "Life Under Siege" panel previously scheduled for Wednesday night at St. Mary's Episcopal Church has been cancelled.
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.
Monday, March 1 Friday, March 5
Monday (11 am-5 pm), Tuesday-Thursday (12-3 pm)
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
Tuesday, March 2
7:30 pm
Room 417 Altschul Auditorium
420 West 118th street
Upper Manhattan
Sponsoring Organizations: Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine (C-SJP), ASA, TURATH, ISO, CCAW, SDS, Adalah-NY, Codepink, and others
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
Wednesday March 3
7-9 pm
American Indian Community House
11 Broadway, 2nd floor
Lower Manhattan
5 train to Bowling Green/R to Whitehall/1 to South Ferry
Sponsoring Organizations: Palestine Education Project and American Indian Community House
Please note that the "Life Under Siege" panel previously scheduled for Wednesday night at St. Mary's Episcopal Church has been cancelled.
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.
Thursday, March 4
7:00 pm
New York Univeristy
Kimmel Center Room 802
60 Washington Square South
Greenwich Village, Manhattan
Sponsoring Organizations: NYU Students for Justice in Palestine and Palestine Education ProjectEvent 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)
Tuesday, March 9
5:00 – 7:00 pm
We will be assembling at the corner of 53rd St. and Lexington Ave.
Midtown, Manhattan
(The Friends of IDF dinner is at Waldorf Astoria)
Sponsoring Organizations: Jews Say No!, Adalah-NY, Gaza Freedom March, Judson Church, Women In Black Union Square, Committee for Open Discussion of Zionism, CODEPINK, Brooklyn For Peace, Women of a Certain Age, Center for Immigrant Families, Wespac, Middle East Crisis Response, Regeneración Childcare NYC, National Lawyers Guild—NY Chapter, Post Road, American Jews for a Just Peace, Jewish Voice for Peace, Woodstock Veterans for Peace, Activist Response Team, Israeli Committee Against House demolitions--USA, Progressive Democrats of America, NYC Anti-War Coalition. This action is also being endorsed by 2 Israeli organizations: Coalition of Women for Peace & Boycott! Supporting the Palestinian Call from Within
