CONNECTICUT 7th International Israeli Apartheid Week Art Festival

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

Israeli Apartheid Week will take place across the globe and a variety of local organizations will be hosting this event, here in Connecticut. Please be advised,there will be several featured artists, poets, musicians and speakers throughout the week performing and discussing culture & apartheid, the global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

Q&A will follow after the films. For detailed schedule please go to: http://mecc.thestruggle.org/iaw2011

Schedule is subject to change.

Permanent art exhibit location TBA

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Monday March 21, 2011 Location TBA Donations Accepted

Featuring the screening of
Gaza on Air - Operation Cast Lead from Inside Gaza, Filmed by Palestinians

Gaza on Air is a Documentary filmed in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead, the Israeli seige on Gaza in 2008. Gaza on Air records the seige from the Palestinian perspective, demonstrating the horror brought on to the world's largest open air prison. The showing will be followed by a discussion

GAZA ON AIR short view
Uploaded by cinemeteque. - Check out other Film & TV videos.
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Tuesday March 22, 2011 Donations Accepted

Solutions to Apartheid - One State

7:00pm - Islamic Association of Greater Hartford

While Apartheid Israel still has 100% support of Obama and Congress it may see impossible to talk about solutions to the problems caused by Israeli oppression. However, the idea that Jews and Palestinians could live together as equals in one state stretching from the Jordan to the Mediterranean has been gaining in popularity. Would it be just? Is it practical? What about the long decades of supposed “hate”?

Speakers:

Justine McCabe - Member of the national Foreign Affairs Committee of the Green Party of the United States. Ms McCabe has visited Palestine several times. She recently went to the One Democratic State conference in Dallas.

Lenni Brenner - Historian and activist, writer of “Zionism in the Age of the Dictators” and “The Iron Wall” among several other books. He recently attended the One Democratic State conference in Dallas.

Fazza Saleh - Born in Palestine in the West Bank in the town of Mazra-el Sherkie. Left in the early 1960’s for the United States. Served in Vietnam and was highly decorated.

Islamic Association of Greater Hartford
1071 Berlin Turnpike - Berlin, CT

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Wednesday March 23, 2011 Donations Accepted

Popular Resistance in Palestine Book Tour

4:00pm - UCONN

Featuring Mazin Qumsiyeh, Author of Popular Resistance in Palestine: A History of Hope and Empowerment

Walls & Water from Flora Stadler on Vimeo.

Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh teaches and does research at Bethlehem and Birzeit Universities in occupied Palestine. He serves as chairman of the board of the Palestinian Center for Rapprochement Between People and coordinator of the Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements in Beit Sahour He is author of "Sharing the Land of Canaan: Human rights and the Israeli/Palestinian Struggle" and the forthcoming book “Popular Resistance in Palestine: A history of Hope and Empowerment”

University of Connecticut Bookstore
2075 Hillside Rd
Storrs, CT 06269
4 - 6PM

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Wednesday March 23, 2011 Donations Accepted

Popular Resistance in Palestine Book Tour

8:00pm - Wesleyan University

Featuring Mazin Qumsiyeh, Author of Popular Resistance in Palestine: A History of Hope and Empowerment

Wesleyan University
Shanklin 107 8-10pm
Directions

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Thursday March 24, 2011 Donations Accepted

Popular Resistance in Palestine Book Tour

1:00pm - Litchfield, CT

Featuring Mazin Qumsiyeh, Author of Popular Resistance in Palestine: A History of Hope and Empowerment

Meeting Room
Oliver Wolcott Library
120 South St,
in Litchfield CT,
1 p.m.

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Thursday March 24, 2011 Donations Accepted

Popular Resistance in Palestine Book Tour

6:00pm - Yale University

Featuring Mazin Qumsiyeh, Author of Popular Resistance in Palestine: A History of Hope and Empowerment

Yale Univeristy, William Harkness Hall - Rm 116, 6 - 8pm
Corner of Wall and College St.
New Haven, CT

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Friday March 25, 2011 Location TBA Donations Accepted

Poetic Injustice Concert

Hosted by Remi Kanazi

8:00pm - Wesleyan University - location TBA

Ladyhips http://ladyhipsband.tumblr.com/

String Theorie http://stringtheorie.com/

Remi Kanazi http://www.poeticinjustice.net/

ReadNex Poetry Squad http://www.myspace.com/readnex

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Saturday March 26, 2011 Donations Accepted

Forum on Palestine and the struggles of Indigenous Peoples

Green Street Art Center, Middletown, CT details TBA

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Sunday March 27, 2011 Donations Accepted

Screening of Salt of this Sea and Discussion with Lamis Deek

3:00pm - location TBA

Lamis Deek - An attorney and human rights advocate specializing in defending Arab & Muslim community members, activists and organizers against governmental attack. Lamis is a long time member of Al-Awda NY: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, the Arab Muslim American Federation, and the National Lawyers Guild. She is co-founder of the US Palestine Community Network.

screening of:

Connecticut Premiere of Salt of this Sea
Trailer:

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For detailed schedule please go to: http://mecc.thestruggle.org/iaw2011

Schedule is subject to change.

Join us in making 2011 a year of struggle for justice, equality, and peace and against apartheid.

Supporters:

http://apartheidweek.org/ Apartheid Week

http://artandstruggle.com/ Art And Struggle

http://www.thestruggle.org/ The Middle East Crisis Committee

http://www.movementinmotion.org/ Movement In Motion

If you would like to volunteer please write us at Contat@ArtAndStruggle.Com