Week Against the Apartheid Wall November 9 - 16, 2011

Actions Around the World to Stop the Wall
http://stopthewall.net/
Activists in 18 Countries Support Palestinian Popular Resistance!

Factsheet On Palestine For Trade Unions
The Apartheid Wall has been deemed illegal by the International Court of Justice, yet the international community has done nothing to halt its encroachment on Palestinian land. Palestinian workers and farmers have been the most effected by the ongoing construction of the wall, thus we reach out to trade unions, invoking the best practices of trade union solidarity and internationalism under the tried and true union slogan of ‘an injury to one is an injury to all!’. We implore workers around the world in the spirit of the South African Anti-Apartheid struggle, where trade union solidarity was critical, to raise awareness within their unions and workplaces about the daily violations Palestinian workers and farmers have to endure. Help us expose the companies complicit in the construction of the Apartheid Wall.
We ask the trade union movement to stand in solidarity with Palestinian workers and farmers by joining the Week Against the Apartheid Wall and by helping us to distribute the following facts.

Factsheet on Palestine for Trade Unions:
1. An overview of the Wall
Link to Factsheet on the Wall:
http://stopthewall.org/apartheid-wall-updated-2009
2. The Wall and Development of a Ghetto Economy
A Full Critique of West Bank Development Approaches and Projects:
http://stopthewall.org/briefing-development-or-normalisation-critique-we...
3. A Worker's Perspective on the Wall
Read a First-hand Story from Famer Mitri Ghounam:
http://stopthewall.org/mitri-ghounam-when-you-have-finished-your-wall-yo...
4. Palestinian Popular Resistance Against the Wall
Report on Popular Resistance and Repression:
http://stopthewall.org/report-people-versus-oppression
5. A History of the Palestinian Labor Movement
Read about the Palestinian Labor Movement:
http://stopthewall.org/impact-palestinian-workers-under-israeli-occupation
6. Corporations complicit in the Occupation and Exploitation of the Palestinian People
Factsheet on Companies Building the Wall:
http://stopthewall.org/factsheet-companies-building-wall

Palestinian Actions for the Week Against the Apartheid Wall
Stop the Wall is organizing three demonstrations to add to the weekly Friday activities against the Wall in the different villages:
• November 13: Demonstration for the southern part of the West Bank in Tarqumiya.
The demonstration takes place to commemorate the massacre of the people of al Sammou, south of Hebron. Exactly 45 years ago, on November 13 1966 Israeli forces raided this village, destroyed 125 houses, the village clinic and school as well as 15 houses in a neighboring village. 18 people were killed and 54 wounded.
• November 15: Central demonstration in Qalandiya.
Qalandiya has become the flashpoint of confrontation, a symbol of the Palestinian determination not to accept the isolation of Jerusalem and the ongoing ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian capital.
• November 20: Demonstration for the northern part of the West Bank in Tulkarem.
Tulkarem, its refugee camps and surrounding villages are heavily impacted by the Wall and its checkpoints. People from the northern parts of the northern part of the West Bank will gather to demonstrate their determination to continue resistance against the Apartheid Wall and the Israeli project of enclosing them in enclaves and Bantustans.

Global Actions for the Week Against the Apartheid Wall

EUROPE
Austria
• November 7, Vienna: Two hour vigil dedicated to the Protest against the Wall and in support of the recognition of the State of Palestine.
• November 9, Vienna: Showing the film “Bil'in Habibti”
Contact: Women in Black

Belgium
• November 10: In Brussels, Intal will organize a conference and debate in support of the Palestinian call for a comprehensive and mandatory military embargo on Israel by highlighting the fact that Belgium sells weapons to Israel. This conference will have as a goal to inform our members and their friends about the weapons business between Belgium and Israel.
• Distribution of electronic material on surveillance at check points inside the wall.

Greece
• Distribution of the call to action: http://r-freepalestine.blogspot.com/2011/09/9-16.html
• October 20: The Association Intifada organizes an open discussion on "Alliance between Greece and Israel will not allow?"

Iceland
The Iceland Palestine Committee has planned a series of activities, including:
• Press release to local media, interviews and articles sent to media
• Awareness raising activities with the members of the and other peace organizations
• Public action
Contact: palestina@palestina.is Iceland Palestine Committee

Italy
• November 13: Radio program by the committee "Con la Palestina nel cuore" on the Wall and popular resistance against it on Radio Città Aperta (88.9 mhz), 11.20 am to 12.00.

Netherlands
• Activities are planned in Utrecht and Amsterdam.
• Signatures will be collected for a so-called citizens initiative asking for a debate in parliament on ‘the ICJ ruling’. From the needed 40,000 signatures the last 3,000 will be collected that week plus the following weeks of the year.
Contact: Netherlands Palestine Committee
Norway
• November 10: Open meetings in Kristiansand on Palestine.

Scotland
• Protest Scottish Government funding of Eden Springs - No reward to human rights violators. Join Scottish PSC outside the Scottish Parliament on Wednesday 9 November, 12.30-5.30pm - raise awareness of the direct involvement of Eden Springs in war crimes and Israel's illegal occupation of the Golan. Protest Scottish Government funding of Eden Springs UK. Exhibition on Israel's occupation, use of the Apartheid Wall to steal water and their impact on the lives of Palestinians.

Spain/Basque country
• November 10: A conference in Bilbao about Israeli walls.
• Speakers include: Stop the Wall in Ramallah via Skype and Mohammad Rujailah, a Palestinian from Gaza and co-director of "To shoot an elephant"
Contact: az con Dignidad

England
• November 10: Hilda Meers reads poems at several poetry evenings in Aberdeen, UK
• November 12: Wall around the Monument in Newcastle City Centre. A human wall where each person represents a fact about the apartheid wall. Distribution of fact sheets on the wall, Israeli apartheid, human rights abuses, and BDS nearby. BDS pledge cards will be distributed to the public. The event will be filmed and posted on YouTube by Tyne and Wear Palestine Solidarity Campaign
• November 14: Also as part of Tyne and Wear Palestine Solidarity Campaign's Week Against the Apartheid Wall activities, Gemma Houldey from Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association will bring us the latest news on anti-wall activism and will place this within the context of the wider Palestinian human rights struggle including political prisoners in a lecture.
• November 16: 17:00 at the Khalili Lecture Theatre, School of Oriental and African Studies a lecture hosted by SOAS and Goldsmiths' Palestine Societies, “Palestine: Resistance and Occupation”

AMERICAS
Argentina
Federación de Entidades Argentino Palestinas conjuntamente con diversas organizaciones realizarán actividades callejeras y culturales las cuales podrán verse actualizadas en:
• Federación De Entidades Argentino-Palestinas
• El programa de radio Derribando Muros de la Federación de Entidades Argentino Palestinas emitido por la Radio de las madres de Plaza de Mayo realizará un programa especial en relación a la semana internacional de lucha contra el muro
• El cual se podrá escuchar en directo el domingo de 13 noviembre a las 20 hs Buenos Aires: http://www.madres.org/wms2.htm
• La Juventud de Fearab Buenos Aires y Todos por Palestina lanzan un llamado de Boicot académico y cultural a Israel en Argentina, las firmas de las personalidades que apoyan la iniciativa se darán a conocer públicamente el 16 de Noviembre como cierre de la semana internacional de lucha contra el muro.
Contact: movimiento.BDS@gmail.com, Juventudargentina@fearab.org; FB juventud fearab argentina porpalestina@hotmail.com

Brazil
• November 8: A debate in PUC-SP (Pontifícia Universidad Católica de São Paulo) about “The Apartheid Wall and Non-violent Resistance,” an initiative of Frente em Defesa del Pueblo Palestino (In Defense of Palestinian People) and in part with Apropuc (Associacion of Professors of PUC).
• The Frente em Defesa del Pueblo Palestino has also produced a press release for newspapers, websites, and blogs to be sent to members of popular movements and unions in Brazil, such as CUT, MST and CSP-Conlutas.
• Ciranda supports the Radio Intifada initiative to circulate audio materials to independent radio in Spanish, which can also be used in Brazil.
• November 15: Delegation of the Movimiento de los Trabajadores Rurales Sim Tierra (MST) participates in protest march in Qalandiya.

Canada
• November 10: An evening with writer and photo journalist Jon Elmer, Students Against Israeli Apartheid in Toronto
• November 12: Rally at the Occupy Montreal. Contact: http://tadamon.ca / info@tadamon.ca

Mexico
• Organizations have distributed a link to the letter from Palestine in solidarity with the Mexican students for the killing of Carlos Sinhue Cuevas, Mexican student and activist. See link to solidarity letter here: http://www.stopthewall.org/2011/11/02/solidarity-mexican-students-and-society

United States
• Huge awareness-raising campaign tool kits for various action ideas by US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation: http://endtheoccupation.org/article.php?id=3134
• November 15: Boston showing of "Cultures of Resistance" organized by Grassroots International: http://grassrootsonline.org/what-you-can-do/come-to-event/boston-showing-cultures-resistance
• November 4: OPEN WORKSHOP and TEACH-IN for anyone who wants to learn more about social justice activism and might want to take direct action for today’s social justice struggles by Students for Justice in Palestine, Chicago, IL.

ASIA
Thailand
• Palestine Solidarity Committee of Thailand collected information for an awareness-raising campaign. With this material they did a mail-out, posted it on their website, and initiated a Facebook campaign.
South Korea
• November 12: A performance to educate the public on the Apartheid wall and its effects on Palestinians.
• Hand outs with information about Palestine will be distributed.

AFRICA
South Africa: To be confirmed.
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