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This will be the final event of NYU SJP's Israeli Apartheid Week (details below). Video from yesterday's event *Mowing the Lawn: Understanding Israeli Violence in Gaza* will be posted online soon. FROM FERGUSON TO PALESTINE 238 Thompson Street | NYU Global Center for Academic and Spiritual Life C95 | 7PM | Thursday, March 26 https://www.facebook.com/events/802098696493202/ The St. Louis County Police Department that killed Michael Brown, placed Ferguson under siege, and sparked a nationwide movement against racism and police brutality, trained closely with the Israeli military. Over 9,000 American officials, including police, border guards, and military, have trained closely with the Israeli military. This collaboration has ranged from monitoring suspect ethnic demographics to domestic counterinsurgency and crowd control. Join us for a panel discussion with activists and leaders in the African-American and Palestinian community emphasizing the importance for cross solidarity organizing. The summer's events in Palestine and across the United States, specifically in Ferguson, have placed the connection between racist and colonial oppression in both places on full display sparking transnational solidarity and consciousness raising. It is in the spirit of forming a stronger global movement to liberate all peoples that inspires and challenges us to move towards thinking in terms of joint struggle. Cherrell Brown is a national organizer with Equal Justice USA. This past year, Cherrell was part of a delegation to Palestine and has written about the similarities between black struggle in America and the plight of Palestinians. Dr. Robyn Spencer is professor of history at Lehman College and an organizer of the World Stands with Palestine Rally. She has written extensively on the Black Power Movement in America and parallels between the oppression and brutality against African-Americans and Palestinians. Hazem Jamjoum is a Palestinian activist, writer, and Ph.D. student at NYU’s Joint History/Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Program. FOR MORE ISRAELI APARTHEID WEEK EVENTS: http://apartheidweek.org/events/ https://www.facebook.com/events/1772202276338517 BACKGROUND INFORMATION: Apartheid South African Human Sciences Research Council: Israel Practicing Apartheid in the Palestinian Territories <http://www.hsrc.ac.za/en/media-briefs/democracy-goverance-and-service-delivery/report-israel-practicing-apartheid-in-palestinian-territories> Not an analogy: Israel and the crime of apartheid <http://electronicintifada.net/content/not-analogy-israel-and-crime-apartheid/8164> Factsheet: What is Apartheid? <http://www.stopthewall.org/downloads/pdf/4PageFactSheetOctober9.pdf> The Israeli Invasion of Gaza United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs: Gaza Situation Report post-war <http://www.ochaopt.org/documents/ocha_opt_sitrep_28_08_2014.pdf> Amnesty International on Gaza War Crimes <https://www.amnesty.org/en/articles/news/2014/07/israelgaza-attacks-medical-facilities-and-civilians-add-war-crime-allegations/> UNSG Ban Ki-Moon: Israeli attack on Gaza school a “criminal act” <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/03/ban-ki-moon-gaza-school-attack-un_n_5645595.html> Institute for Middle East Understanding: 50 Days of Death and Destruction <http://imeu.org/article/50-days-of-death-destruction-israels-operation-protective-edge> Ferguson and Palestine Ebony Magazine: The Ferguson/Palestine Connection <http://www.ebony.com/news-views/the-fergusonpalestine-connection-403#axzz3TwMTqXSl> Ferguson activists visit Palestine <http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/rania-khalek/watch-ferguson-activists-bring-message-love-and-struggle-palestine> Boycott-Divest-Sanction Palestinian Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel <http://www.pacbi.org/> NYU Students for Justice in Palestine presents ISRAELI APARTHEID WEEK March 23-26, 2015 "I have witnessed the systematic humiliation of Palestinian men, women and children by members of the Israeli security forces. Their humiliation is familiar to all black South Africans who were corralled and harassed and insulted and assaulted by the security forces of the apartheid government.” Archbishop Desmond Tutu Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) is an international series of events <http://apartheidweek.org/events/> that seeks to raise awareness about Israel’s apartheid policies towards the Palestinians and to build support for the growing Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign. 119 faculty at NYU <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/15Mi6JLAhQnlg4ssnzTlkAtOSAv6W1i9IkIO6YduZ-tk/viewform> have thus far signed onto an open letter calling for NYU to divest from “companies that violate International Law and human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory”and adopt a “human rights screen” for investments. _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
