Israeli Apartheid Week, Peterborough

Peterborough Coalition for Palestinian Solidarity presents

Israeli Apartheid Week 2012

First launched in Toronto in 2005, IAW has grown to become one of the most important global events in the Palestine solidarity calendar. Last year, more than 90 cities around the world participated in the week's activities.

IAW 2012 takes place at Trent starting March 5th, following a year of incredible successes for the Boycott,Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement on the global level. Lectures and films will highlight some of these successes along with the many injustices that continue to make BDS so crucial in the battle to end Israeli Apartheid.

Peterborough Israeli Apartheid Week's schedule:

(Full event descriptions at bottom)

Monday March 5th:
Yves Engler - 'Lester Pearson: From Palestine to Vietnam, the Truth May Hurt!'
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm. Bata Library Film Theater

Tuesday March 6th:
*Egyptian journalist and activist Deena Gamil: 
Arab Spring, Apartheid Falls? The Egyptian Uprising and Possibilities for Palestinian Resistance
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm. CCS 307. Champlain Lecture Hall

Mary-Jo Nadeau and Ziysah Markson
Solidarity from Peterborough to Palestine: Perspectives on Anti-Apartheid Organizing in Peterborough
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm.
LEC Pit

Wednesday March 7th:
Film screening: Budrus
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
GCS 115 - Gzowski College

Thursday: March 8th:
Paul Kellogg: Palestine, Israel and Colonialism
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
LEC Pit

For more information please visit our page www.peterborough.apartheidweek.org
or contact Peterborough Coalition for Palestinian Solidarity for peterboroughcps@gmail.com

 

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Lester Pearson: From Palestine to Vietnam, the Truth May Hurt!
 
 
The Top 10 things you don’t know about Canada’s most famous statesman, Lester B. Pearson

10 Asked in Parliament, he refused to call for Nelson Mandela’s release from prison.
9. He had Canada deliver weapons to the French to put down the Algerian and Vietnamese independe...nce movements.
8. The Kennedy administration helped Pearson win his first minority government.
7. He incited individuals to destroy a peace group after it called for the outlawing of nuclear weapons.
6. Pearson backed the CIA coups in Iran and Guatemala.
5. He described the formation of NATO, not peacekeeping, as the “most important thing I participated in.”
4. Pearson threatened to quit as external affairs minister if Canada failed to deploy ground troops to Korea.
3. He agreed to have Canada's representatives to the International Control Commission for Vietnam spy for the US and deliver their bombing threats to the North.
2. The world’s leading intellectual, Noam Chomsky, considers Lester Pearson a war criminal.
1. Stephen Harper’s foreign policy resembles that of Pearson more than any Liberal would ever admit.

As part of Israeli Apartheid Week 2012, the Peterborough Coalition for Palestinian Solidarity is pleased to present 'Lester Pearson: From Palestine to Vietnam, the Truth May Hurt!'.

Yves Engler, author of the new book 'Lester Pearson's Peacekeeping - The Truth May Hurt', will be in Peterborough on March 5 to discuss Lester B Pearson's foreign policy record, including support for Israeli apartheid. Also the author of 'Canada and Israel - Building Apartheid' and 'The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy', Yves Engler has been dubbed “one of the most important voices on the Canadian Left today” (Briarpatch), “in the mould of I.F. Stone” (Globe and Mail), “ever-insightful” (rabble.ca) and a “Leftist gadfly” (Ottawa Citizen). His six books have been praised by Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, William Blum, Rick Salutin and many others.

Join us on March 5 at 7pm in the film theatre at Biko (Bata) Library, at Trent University!
 

Arab Spring, Apartheid Falls? The Egyptian Uprising and Possibilities for Palestinian Resistance

Tuesday, March 6,  2:00 pm

Where: Trent University Campus. Champlain Lecture Hall CC 307

Deena Gamil is a journalist, writer, revolutionary socialist activist and leading figure and a founding member of the Socialist Popular Alliance Party, the largest leftist party in Egypt. She has participated in various fronts and coalitions such as Kefaya and the Popular Committee for Solidarity with the Palestinian Uprising. She has been working as a reporter, radio and TV producer and editor at various press and media institutions such as Al-Alam al-Youm economic daily newspaper, and the BBC. She is currently the editor of the home section at Al-Shuruq daily newspaper

 

Film Screening: Budrus

Wednesday, March 7,  7:00 pm

Where: GCS 115, Gzowski College Trent University

While this film is about one Palestinian village, it tells a much bigger story about what is possible in the Middle East. Ayed succeeded in doing what many people believe to be impossible: he united feuding Palestinian political groups, including Fatah and Hamas; he brought women to the heart of the struggle by encouraging his daughter Iltezam's leadership; and welcoming hundreds of Israelis to cross into Palestinian territory for the first time and join this nonviolent effort. Many of the activists who joined the villagers of Budrus are now continuing to support nonviolence efforts in villages from Bil’in to Nabi Saleh to Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem.

Budrus includes diverse voices-- from the Palestinian leaders of the movement and their Israeli allies to an Israeli military spokesman, Doron Spielman, and Yasmine Levy, the Israeli border police captain stationed in the village at that time. While many documentaries about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict either romanticize the notion of peace, or dwell entirely on the suffering of victims to the conflict, this film focuses on the success of a Palestinian-led nonviolent movement.
 

Paul Kellogg on Palestine, Israel, and Colonialism

 

Thursday, March 8: 2:00 pm

Where: LEC Pit, Trent University

Paul Kellogg is an Assistant Professor at Athabasca University, teaching in the Master of Arts, Integrated Studies Program. From 2008 until 2010, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Development Studies at Trent University. His articles have appeared in a variety of scholarly journals, including Canadian Journal of Political Science, Contemporary Politics (U.K.), New Political Science, and Political Studies (U.K). He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University in 1991.

 

 

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