CONNECTICUT 6th INTERNATIONAL ISRAELI APARTHEID WEEK FILM FESTIVAL

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 speakers throughout the week discussing the global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Q&A will follow after the films.

For detailed schedule please go to: http://artandstruggle.com/ApartheidWeek.php
Schedule: subject to change.
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Monday March 1, 2010 FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE
Central Connecticut State University – 7pm, Marcus White Living Room [multicultural conversation], 1615 Stanley Street, New Britain, CT

SPEAKERS INCLUDE: Aram Ayalon, Stanley Heller, and a special guest

The Iron Wall (2006), 52 min., Palestine

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.Settlements and related infrastructures are impacting every aspect of life for all Palestinians from land confiscation, theft of natural resources, confiscation of the basic human rights, creation of an apartheid-like system, to the devastating impact in regards to the future of the region and the prospect of the peace process.

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Tuesday March 2, 2010 FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE
UConn - Location TBA – 7pm

Digital Resistance (2007), USA, Palestine

Living as Refugees, 13 min.

Idba Stories, six 3min. stories.

Lajee Stories, six 3min. stories.

Youth Worker Stories. 6min. and 3 min.

Twelve youth from Aida and Dheisheh refugee camps, ages 13-19, participated, created digital stories that offer new perspectives on Palestinian history, culture, life under occupation and visions for justice. The following twelve digital stories are 3-5 minute each and have a different subject: the right of return, violent attacks on schools, dreams for the future, etc. The youth share the stories of their life and experience in their own voice and from their unique perspective.

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Wednesday March 3, 2010 FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE
New Haven Location TBA – 7pm

Trip to the Dead Sea (2007), 4min, Isreal

The Northern Dead Sea is the only beach resort in the West Bank. Since March 2007 the Israeli Army prevents Palestinians from entering the area, denying access to one of the West Bank's only vacation spots.

Art and Apathy (2008), 56 min., USA, Israel

Art and Apathy weaves together gorgeous visual compositions and courageous voices from both Israel’s underground and mainstream art community addressing controversial political conversations.

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Thursday March 4, 2010 FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE
Unitarian Universalist Society in Stamford, 20 Forest Street, Stamford – 7pm

Route Peace is Possible: A Perspective on Israel & Palestine

SPEAKER: Mazin Qumsiyeh

Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh (formerly of Yale and Duke universities) teaches at Bethlehem and Birzeit Universities in occupied Palestine and chairs the Palestinian Center for Rapprochement Between People. He is author of a number of books, including "Sharing the Land of Canaan: Human Rights and the Israeli-Palestinian Struggle" and the forthcoming "Hope and Empowerment: Popular Resistance In Palestine". He will share with us his first-hand experience of living in a troubled land and discuss strategies for a peaceful resolution of the present conflict in the region. There will be ample time for questions and clarifications.

Route 433: West Bank road for Israelis only (2008), 8min, Israel

Route 443 serves Israeli commuters traveling between the two largest cities in Israel – Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. The road runs through the West Bank, but Palestinians are strictly prohibited from using it. In the past, Route 443 was the main thoroughfare serving the southern Ramallah district. In 1988, Israel expropriated land from Palestinian villagers living along the road in order to widen it, claiming that the road would serve their villages as well. However in 2002, the army prohibited Palestinian traffic on the road, stating 'security reasons'.

Breaking the Silence, Israeli Soldiers talk about Hebron (2005), 38 min., Israel

Breaking The Silence (BtS) (Hebrew: ?????? ?????? Shovrim Shtika) is an Israeli Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) established by Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers and veterans who collect and provide testimonies about their military service in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem during the Second Intifada, giving serving and discharged Israeli personnel and reservists a platform to confidentially describe their experience in the Israeli-occupied territories.

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Friday March 5, 2010 FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE
La Paloma Coffee House – 7pm, 405 Capitol Avenue, Hartford, CT

SPEAKERS INCLUDE: Aram Ayalon, Stanley Heller and Dr. Saeed Aghari

Arna's Children (2003), 85 min., Israel, Dutch

Arna's Childrentells the story of a theatre group that was established by Arna Mer Khamis. Arna comes from a Zionist family and in the 1950s married a Palestinian Arab, Saliba Khamis. On the West Bank, she opened an alternative education system for children whose regular life was disrupted by the Israeli occupation. The theatre group that she started engaged children from Jenin, helping them to express their everyday frustrations, anger, bitterness and fear.

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Saturday March 6, 2010 FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE
Noah Webster Library (Main) - 2pm, 20 South Main Street, West Hartford, CT - Parking Information

Separated Families (2007), 5min, Israel

Since the beginning of the second intifada, Israel has frozen family unification in these cases. In addition, Israel has ceased issuing visitor's permits, which enabled families to live together legally in the West Bank and Gaza . As a result of the freeze policy, the foreign spouses of Palestinians, mostly women, have faced a cruel choice: leave the Occupied Territories and not be allowed to return to their spouses and children, or stay illegally and not be able to see their parents, siblings, and other relatives living in their native land. Many chose to remain in the West Bank and Gaza, and have thus been sentenced to a life of fear and constant threat of deportation; the problems inherent in moving in the West Bank without any valid identity document virtually makes them prisoners in their own homes and villages.

The Easiest Targets (2007), 85 min., USA

Five women – Palestinian, American, Muslim, Christian, and Jewish – tell stories of humiliation and harassment by Israeli border guards and airport security officials

The Hartford Quaker Meeting house - 7pm, 144 S. Quaker Lane, West Hartford, CT - Map

Reading of a letter from South Africa

Occupation 101 - Voices of the Silenced Majority (2006), 90 min., USA

Occupation 101: Voice of the Silenced Majority is a 2006 documentary on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict directed by Sufyan Omeish and Abdallah Omeish, and narrated by If Americans Knew founder Alison Weir. The film focuses on the effects of the Israeli occupation of theWest Bank and Gaza Strip, and discusses events from the rise of Zionism to the Second Intifada and Israel's unilateral disengagement plan, presenting its perspective through dozens of interviews, questioning the nature of Israeli-American relations — in particular, the Israeli military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, and the ethics of US monetary involvement. Occupation 101 includes interviews with mostly American and Israeli scholars, religious leaders, humanitarian workers, and NGO representatives — more than half of whom are Jewish — who are critical of the injustices and human rights abuses that stem from Israeli policy in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza.

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Sunday March 7, 2010 FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE
Location TBA – 7pm

Reading of a letter from South Africa

Occupation 101 - Voices of the Silenced Majority (2006), 90 min., USA

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For detailed schedule please go to: http://artandstruggle.com/ApartheidWeek.php
Schedule: subject to change.

Join us in making 2010 a year of struggle against apartheid and for justice, equality, and peace.

Supporters:

http://apartheidweek.org/ Apartheid Week

http://artandstruggle.com/ Art And Struggle

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

http://wespac.org/ WESPAC Foundation

http://www.dumpisraelbonds.com/ Dump Israel Bonds

http://ctsaw.org/ CT Students Against the War

http://www.lapalomacoffeehouse.com/ La Paloma Coffeehouse

http://queerswithoutborders.com/wpmu/ Queers Without Borders

http://www.eyesinfinite.com/ Eyes Infinite Films

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

http://www.hopeoutloud.org/ Connecticut Coalition For Peace and Justice

If you would like to volunteer

please write us at Contat@ArtAndStruggle.Com
For detailed schedule please go to: http://artandstruggle.com/ApartheidWeek.php
Schedule: subject to change.