Students Against Israeli Apartheid and Faculty for Palestine invite you to a public forum Featuring Salim Vally (University of Johannesburg) and a speaker from the Students Against Israeli Apartheid.
What: Public Forum
When: Monday May 9th 6:30 PM
Where: Bahen Centre, University of Toronto, Room 1220 (40 St. George Street)
This venue is wheelchair accessible.
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Speakers:
Salim Vally is a member of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign in South Africa as well as a faculty member at the University of Johannesburg. He was active in the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa. He will be speaking on the University of Johannesburg’s recent decision to cut its ties with Israel’s Ben Gurion University, an important victory for the global movement for BDS and campus divestment.
A speaker from the Students Against Israeli Apartheid will be presenting the recent Divestment initiative that was launched in March at the University of Toronto and York University.For more information: http://www.toronto.saia.ca/
The event will be moderated by Faculty for Palestine, a cross-campus network who has been working in coalition with the SAIA Toronto campus divestment campaign. See www.caiaweb.org/faculty
On Monday March 7th, the first night of Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) 2011,the Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA), at the University of Toronto and York University officially launched a campaign demanding that their respective universities divest from four companies involved in violations of Palestinian human rights and Israeli Apartheid. Investments in BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Hewlett Packard have been found in the University of Toronto’s Pension Master Trust, Long Term Capital Appreciation Pool, and Expendable Funds Investment Pool, as well as in York University’s Pension and Endowment Funds. The complicit companies create military technologies used in the murder of civilians, the destruction of infrastructure and the daily humiliation of Palestinians. Just under two decades ago York University was one of the first to divest from South African Apartheid; U of T was shamefully one of the last.
The entire week of IAW events, including guest lectures from Judith Butler, Ali Abunimah, Judy Rebick and Riham Barghouti, focussed on institutional complicity and the importance of the campus as a site of resistance. All of the week’s speakers have signed on to our divestment campaign in the spirit of holding our universities accountable to their purported commitment to the “vigilant protection of human rights”.
Join these renowned intellectuals and social justice activists, in addition to over 100 faculty members who have already signed on, to demand that our universities do the right thing and take action to divest now! Please sign our petition below and encourage your organization, union or club to stand with us against our universities’ complicity in human right’s violations against Palestinians.
For more information, please click here.
The Coalition Against Israel Apartheid is proud to join No One Is Illegal’s May Day of Action on May 1, 2011. We are organizing a Palestine solidarity contingent for this march. Bring your flags, banners and join us to demand status for all and justice for Palestine!
May 1 (International Workers Day) @ 1pm
Queen St. W & Jameson St. (Parkdale)
Rally, March, Free Meal.
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Why a Palestine Solidarity Contingent?
As a result of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, today there are millions of Palestinian refugees, many of whom live without status all over the world. Issues of status, forced migration and refugee rights have always played a central role in the fight for justice for Palestine. A key demand of the 2005 Palestinian civil society call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) is for Israel to respect, protect and promote the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in UN resolution 194.
Israel is a world-leader in ‘homeland security’ and border technology. Israeli technology and weaponry can be found at border fences and immigration detention centres in Canada and around the world. The BDS campaign targets these companies that profit from the exportation of Israeli apartheid.
To find out more about the May Day of Action, please click here.
