Lecture: "Apartheid: Turtle Island, South Africa, Palestine"
Speakers: Prof. Bonita Lawrence, Shaheen Ariefdien, Hazem Jamjoum
Moderator: Judy Rebick
Location: Ryerson (Main Building) LIB 72
Time: 7pm

Professor Bonita Lawrence (Mi'kmaw) currently teaches Native studies and sociology at York University. Her research focuses on mixed-race, urban and non-status Native identity. Professor Lawrence is the author of "Real Indians and Others: Mixed Blood Urban Native Peoples and Indigenous Nationhood." She has co-edited (with Kim Anderson) "Strong Women Stories: Native Vision and Community Survival" and "Indigenous Women: The State of Our Nations" - a special issue of the journal Atlantis.
Shaheen Ariefdien was born in Cape Town, South Africa. He is a teacher who has always been politically and socially conscious - which stems from his school days as an anti-apartheid activist. Shaheen is also a rapper and producer and he made his mark in South Africa’s hip hop industry, as one of the key members of the pioneering South African hip-hop group, Prophets of da City. Shaheen is currently doing his Masters degree in the Anthropology Department at York University.
Hazem Jamjoum is a third generation Palestinian refugee, and one of the founding members of the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid and Sumoud Political Prisoners Solidarity Group. He helped organize Israeli Apartheid Week in 2005 and 2006 as a member of the Arab Students’ Collective at the University of Toronto. He is the host of Kan Ya Makan (CKLN 88.1fm – Tuesday 8-10pm) Toronto’s only Arab community radio show, and sings with Jawqet El-Sheikh Imam, a Toronto tribute band to one of the 20th century’s great artist revolutionaries.

Film Screening: "Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance"
Location: Sidney Smith (room 2128)
Time: 12pm

Film Presentation.

Lecture: "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine"
Speakers: Azada Rahi, Zac Smith, Issam Al Yamani
Moderator: Kole Kilibarda
Location: University of Toronto, Tanz Neuroscience Building, Room 6/7 (Theatre)
Time: 7pm

Issam Al-Yamani is a second generation Palestinian Refugee from Lebanon. He is a writer and journalist, and is the former Executive Director of Palestine House Cultural and Educational Centre in Mississauga. Despite the fact that he has two Canadian born children, is an established member of the Palestinian community in Canada, and was not involved in military activities, the Canadian government has denied him citizenship and has worked to deport him for over 20 years due to his membership in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
Azada Rahi is an Afghani student at the University of Toronto. She has been involved with the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid and the Grass Roots Anti-Imperialist Network – Toronto (GRAIN).
Zac Smith is a student at York University and is an active member of the Palestine Solidarity Committee as well the Grass Roots Anti-Imperialist Network – York (GRAIN).

RALLY AGAINST RACIST POLICE INACTION AND IMPUNITY!
Location: Outside Police headquarters at Bay and College
Time: 12pm noon

Hundreds of Indigenous women have been murdered or have gone missing over the last 30 years. Today we come together to demonstrate against the complicity of the colonizer state and its institutions - police, RCMP, coroners offices and the courts, in the ongoing genocide against First Nations. Indigenous communities are over-policed and indigenous girls make up the fastest growing prison population yet their deaths go uninvestigated and their killers unpunished.
Organized by NO MORE SILENCE

Lecture: "Apartheid in Present-day Palestine"
Speakers: Walter Lehn, Jon Elmer, Nimer Sultany
Moderator: Zein Ayoub
Time: 7pm

Walter Lehn is a leading expert on the Jewish National Fund; his book The Jewish National Fund (1988, authored in association with Uri Davis) is considered the seminal text on this organization. He worked with the United Nations in Beirut during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in the early 1980s, was Director of the Middle East Center at the University of Texas at Austin and Professor of English Linguistics the University of Minnesota, and Al-Najah University, (Nablus, Palestine). He is now retired and lives in Toronto.
Jon Elmer is a photo-journalist, war correspondent and activist who divides his time between Palestine and Canada. With Valerie Zink, he is co-founder and co-editor of the online journal FromOccupiedPalestine.org, featuring frontline reportage and an extensive resource archive. His interviews and writings have appeared in the Journal of Palestinian Studies, Counterpunch, Z Magazine, Palestine Chronicle, The Progressive magazine, The Dominion, The New Standard, and shunpiking magazine. He has just returned from a two-month trip to Lebanon and Palestine.
Nimer Sultany is an SJD candidate at Harvard Law School. He worked as a human rights lawyer in the Association for Civil Rights in Israel and as a researcher at Mada al-Carmel - The Arab Center for Applied Social Research. He has published numerous articles and books on the Palestinian question including: Citizens without Citizenship, Israel and the Palestinian Minority (2003), and Israel and the Palestinian Minority (2004).

Lecture: "Zionism: The Ideology of Israeli Apartheid"
Speakers:
Gabi Piterberg : "The Bible, the Nakba, and Hebrew Literature"
Joel Kovel: "State-Structured Racism"
Moderator: Navid Anvari
Location: University of Toronto, Tanz Neuroscience Building, Room 6/7 (Theatre)
Time: 7pm

Gabi Piterburg was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and grew up in Israel where he served in the state-mandated military service during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in the early 1980s. He is one of the foremost scholars on the intellectual, literary and ideological development of Zionism, and was one of the speakers at Israeli Apartheid Week 2006 in Oxford University where he received his D.Phil.
A flattering Zionist attack on Professor Piterburg can be found at http://www.uclaprofs.com/profs/piterberg.html
Joel Kovel is both a scholar and an activist. He has been Professor of Social Studies at Bard College, Annandale, NY since 1988. He has published nine books (including White Racism, which was nominated for a National Book Award in 1972) and over a hundred articles and reviews. A renowned environmentalist, he joined the Green Party in 1990, and was the party’s candidate for Senator in 1998. A more complete description appears on his website: www.joelkovel.org

Lecture: "Debunking the Myth of Israeli Democracy"
Speaker: Jamal Zahalka
Moderator: Rafeef Ziadah
Location: OISE Auditorium (Ontario Institute of Secondary Education)
Time: 7pm

Dr. Jamal Zahalka is a Member of the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) with the National Democratic Assembly (Tajjamu’ Party), headed by Dr. Azmi Beshara. He has been one of the most outspoken advocates of Palestinian rights in Israel, working towards improving work conditions, employment opportunities, and civil and social rights of Palestinian citizens of Israel. Before becoming a Knesset member, Dr. Zahalka was the founder and President of the Centre for Community Development (http://www. ahalicenter.org), which took on the task of strengthening grassroots activism among Palestinian citizens in Israel through community organizing, as a means to struggle for full citizenship and minority rights, and to ensure the equal distribution of national resources.

DAY OF ACTION BOYCOTT CHAPTERS/INDIGO
Location: Israeli Consulate (180 Bloor Street West)
Time: 1pm

Please join CAIA and allies to protest Israeli Apartheid and highlight the support it receives from the Heseg Foundation. Please visit www.caiaweb.org for more information about Heseg and the Chapters/Indigo connection.
Organized by the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid

TRIVIA NIGHT!
Location: Cat's Eye (University of Toronto)
Time: 7pm

PLUS music by Rubin, Boonaa Mohamed, and many more! light refreshments will be served Bring your family and friends - this is a child-friendly event
Most importantly...Bring your game! $5 or pwyc