Israeli Apartheid Week - Guelph

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

Events in Guelph, Ontario

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Apartheid 101

Monday, March 14 · 5:30pm - 8:30pm

University Centre Rm 103

Come learn why Israeli laws and Israel's occupation are recognized as "Apartheid" by the United Nations and South African anti-Apartheid veterans alike. A guest from Waterloo's Students for Palestinian Rights will be presenting. Explore the causes of Israeli Apartheid and learn about IAW and the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement.

Organized by OPIRG – Guelph

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Art as Resistance display

Tuesday, March 15 and Thursday, March 17 · 12:30pm - 3:30pm

University Centre Courtyard

Come check out photography from Palestine by a UofG student as well as solidarity art created by students.

Organized by OPIRG – Guelph

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"Zero Degrees of Separation"

Tuesday, March 15 · 7:00pm - 10:00pm

University Centre Rm 334

Zero Degrees of Separation is a film that looks at the Middle East conflict and the Palestinian Occupation, through the eyes of mixed Palestinian and Israeli gay and lesbian couples. Ezra is against the Occupation, yet he's an Israeli. His partner, Selim, is a Palestinian whose protests against the Occupation landed him in jail at age 15. Ezra is a simple plumber whose courage and cheek take on prophet–like proportions as he travels across the... country risking his life to protest the walls, fences and military checkpoints that divide them. Interwoven with their stories is footage of Elle Flanders' grandparents, who were intimately involved in the founding of the state of Israel. Through these home movies, Flanders artfully retraces her grandparents' travels as they tour a fledgling nation brimming with pioneering joyous youth, immigrants, refugees and endless open vistas of the Holy Land, contrasting the ideals at the birth of the "holy land" with the reality of today's Israel, a country mired in the rubble of Occupation.

Organized by Guelph Queer Equality

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"Slingshot Hip Hop"

Wednesday, March 16 · 5:30pm - 8:30pm

University Centre Rm 103

The documentary film Slingshot Hip Hop braids together the stories of young Palestinians living in Gaza, the West Bank and inside Israel as they discover Hip Hop and employ it as a tool to surmount divisions imposed by occupation and poverty. From internal checkpoints and Separation Walls to gender norms and generational differences, this is the story of young people crossing the borders that separate them. (http://iawguelph.wordpress.com/film-trailers/)

Organized by The Critical Knowledge Collective

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Palestinian Unfreedom and Israeli Apartheid:  Breaking the Silences

Thursday, March 17 · 5:30pm - 8:30pm

University Centre Rm 103

Speaker: Alan Sears

IAW-Guelph Keynote speaker. Join us for an in-depth look at Israeli Apartheid and the fightback globally and in Canada. Alan Sears teaches Sociology at Ryerson and is a long-time activist in queer and radical movements. He is a member of Faculty for Palestine (F4P). He has written about Palestine solidarity, queer movements, the education system, work, and radical activism.

Organized by The Peak and OPIRG – Guelph

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Lia Tarachansky – Speaker and Film Screening

Friday, March 18 · 5:30pm - 8:30pm

University Centre Rm 103

Lia Tarachansky, former resident of an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, former UofG student, correspondent for "The Real News Network" and documentary film maker, will be in Guelph. She is currently working on a documentary called "Seven Deadly Myths" about her return to the settlement where she grew up. She will be showing some footage and talking about her recent experiences. (http://iawguelph.wordpress.com/film-trailers/)

Organized by The Peak and OPIRG – Guelph

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"The Time That Remains"

Sunday, March 20 · 1:00pm - 3:00pm

The Bookshelf Cinema, 41 Quebec Street

A beautiful, unique, and deeply personal depiction of Palestine since 1948 from the internationally acclaimed director of Divine Intervention, Elia Sulieman. The Time That Remains is a semi-autobiographical film, in four episodes, about a family from 1948 until recent times. The film is inspired by the director's father's private diaries, starting from when he was a resistance fighter in 1948, and his mother's letters to family members who were forced to leave the country. The film attempts to portray the daily life of those Palestinians who remained and were labelled "Israeli-Arabs", living as a minority in their own homeland. (http://iawguelph.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/film-trailers/)

Organized by the Bookshelf

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CFRU 93.3FM special IAW programming

The following shows are airing special programming leading up to and during Israeli Apartheid Week.  Tune in to CFRU 93.3FM, or listen online (live, or later through the archives) at http://www.cfru.ca/

Friday 11th

1pm-2pm. Silver Screen Dream Machine

Saturday 12th

8am-10am. Royal City rag

Sunday 13th

8pm-10pm. Sandbox

Monday 14th

3pm-4pm. Earful of Queer

5pm-5:30pm. Pioneer Radio

[Note - this show is not explicitly devoted to IAW, but the topic is going to be "Borders", using examples from Palestine.]

Tuesday 15th

1pm-2pm. Stark Raven Radio

Wednesday 16th

Noon-1pm. Campus Community Lectures Show  

Thursday 17th

1pm-2pm. RadiOPIRG

6pm-7pm. State of the Union

Friday 18th

2pm-4pm. A Madwoman's Underclothes