Billboards have gone up (click here), posters were spotted in national newspapers (see here), the Churches have issued a call (read statement here), campuses are abuzz (click here for students' reaction to envoys)… and today, Israeli Apartheid Week officially kicks-off in South Africa!

 

Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) is an annual international series of events (including rallies, lectures, cultural performances, films and workshops) held in cities and campuses across the globe. IAW seeks to raise awareness about Israel's apartheid policies toward the Palestinians and to mobilize support for the growing Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) of Israel movement.

 

See below this email or click here for the Full IAW 2012 Schedule with all events, activities and film screenings. Here are some upcoming highlights:

STELLENBOSCH - "Bethlehem" Rally with Allan Boesak, Terry Crawford-Browne, Breyten Breytenbach

Rally and Handover: “The Bethlehem Call” 

Monday, 05 March @ 13h00 (Starts at Stellenbosch University Arts Building [Corner Merriman and Ryneveld] and ends at Faculty of Theology [171 Dorp Street])

Speakers: Professor Alan Boesak, Reverend Edwin Arrison, Breyten Breytenbach (TBC) and Terry Crawford-Browne (author "Eye on the Money")

DURBAN - Professor Patrick Bond and hip-hop performer "Ewok"

Seminar and Performance: "Why boycotting Israeli apartheid follows South Africa’s liberation strategy"

Tuesday, 06 March @ 12h30 (CCS Seminar room, Memorial Tower Building, Howard College Campus, UKZN)

Speakers and Performer: Professor Patrick Bond, Lubna Nadvi (Lecturer, UKZN) and Ewok (Hip-hop and graffiti artist)

CAPE TOWN - Zackie Achmat and others speak on BDS

Public Discussion: "Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)" 

Tuesday, 06 March @ 18h00 (LS2D Leslie Social Science Building, University of Cape Town)

Speakers: Zackie Achmat (Founder of Treatment Action Campaign), Professor Andrew Nash (UCT Academic), Carol Martin (World Council of Churches EAPPI) and Mbuyiseni Ndlozi (Chairperson of Wits University Post Graduate Association and board member of BDS South Africa)

COUNTRYWIDE - National film tour, "Roadmap to Apartheid"

The Tri-Continental Human Rights Film Festival (www.tcff.org.za), IAW South Africa Team and BDS South Africa will premiere the film, Roadmap to Apartheid (www.roadmaptoapartheid.org) at several South African universities, schools and community centers as an official 2012 Israeli Apartheid Week event. 'Roadmap to Apartheid' is a full-feature film that explores the comparison between former South Africa and current Israel. Click here for more information on the national film tour.

COUNTRYWIDE - Art murals painted across South Africa (+ music video)

Members of SA Artists Against Apartheid and "Gangs of Graffiti" are painting large art murals across the country in support of Israeli Apartheid Week (click here to view photos of the murals). A YouTube music video, featuring some of the graffiti artists, has been released for IAW, click here to watch the music video. Sadly, Israeli supporters have responded to these art murals by defacing and whitewashing some of them. 

An official pre-IAW protest rally, hosted by the South African Communist Party in Port Elizabeth and attended by Mayor Zanoxolo Wayile and former Minister of Intelligence Ronnie Kasrils, took place yesterday morning. At the rally, Steve Faulkner, the international officer of the SA Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) and member of COSATU, announced his union's support for IAW and declared: "All South African municipalities must be Apartheid Israel free!" We enter Israeli Apartheid Week echoing this sentiment...

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ISRAELI APARTHEID WEEK 2012 FULL SCHEDULE