CONNECTICUT The 6th International ISRAELI APARTHEID WEEK FILM FESTIVAL                                                            Israeli Apartheid Week takes place across the globe and a variety of local organizations will be hosting this event, here in Connecticut. Please be advised,there will be several featured speakers throughout the week discussing the global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Q&A will follow after the films. History of Israeli Apartheid Week  What is the Call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)? Main - Isreaeli Apartheid Week, global website   Opening: Boycott National Committee Speech (Riham Barghouti) "State of the Movement" Brief speeches by representatives from the past decade of the campus divestment movement" University of California, Berkeley; Stanford University and Georgetown; and Hampshire College   Schedule: subject to change.  BEHAVIOR POLICIES                                                                                                                                                                  Monday March 1, 2010        FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE             Disclaimer  Central Connecticut State University - 7pm, Marcus White Living Room, 1615 Stanley Street, New Britain Multicultural Conversation Comment: Stanley Heller The Iron Wall (2006), 52 min., Palestine  The Iron Wall documentary exposes this phenomenon and follows the timeline, size, population of the settlements, and its impact on the peace process. This film also touches on the latest project to make the settlements a permanent fact on the ground - the wall that Israel is building in the West Bank and its impact on the Palestinian's peoples.Settlements and related infrastructures are impacting every aspect of life for all Palestinians from land confiscation, theft of natural resources, confiscation of the basic human rights, creation of an apartheid-like system, to the devastating impact in regards to the future of the region and the prospect of the peace process.   Tuesday March 2, 2010        FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE             Disclaimer  UConn – 6pm, Babbidge Library, Theatre 2   Digital Resistance (2007), USA, Palestine Living as Refugees, 13 min. Idba Stories, six 3min. stories. Lajee Stories, six 3min. stories. Youth Worker Stories. 6min. and 3 min.  Twelve youth from Aida and Dheisheh refugee camps, ages 13-19, participated, created digital stories that offer new perspectives on Palestinian history, culture, life under occupation and visions for justice. The following twelve digital stories are 3-5 minute each and have a different subject: the right of return, violent attacks on schools, dreams for the future, etc. The youth share the stories of their life and experience in their own voice and from their unique perspective.   Error: A main street in Hebron "closed by mistake" (2007), 4min, Israel   The main street in Hebron 's commercial area has been closed to Palestinians since 2000. The army closed all the shops and sealed the doors at the entrances to the houses . Six years later, three Palestinians try to cross the street.   In January 2007, B'Tselem launched it's camera distribution project, a video advocacy project focusing on the Occupied Territories. We provide Palestinians living in high-conflict areas with video cameras, with the goal of bringing the reality of their lives under occupation to the attention of the Israeli and international public, exposing and seeking redress for violations of human rights. More information   Wednesday March 3, 2010     FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE             Disclaimer  West Haven Public Library – 7pm, Sacco Meeting Room, 300 Elm Street, West Haven Trip to the Dead Sea (2007), 4min, Israel  The Northern Dead Sea is the only beach resort in the West Bank. Since March 2007 the Israeli Army prevents Palestinians from entering the area, denying access to one of the West Bank's only vacation spots.   Art and Apathy (2008), 56 min., USA, Israel  Art and Apathy weaves together gorgeous visual compositions and courageous voices from both Israel’s underground and mainstream art community addressing controversial political conversations.   Thursday March 4, 2010      FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE              Disclaimer  Unitarian Universalist Society in Stamford, 20 Forest Street, Stamford – 7pm   Route Peace is Possible: A Perspective on Israel & Palestine SPEAKER: Mazin Qumsiyeh     Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh (formerly of Yale and Duke universities) teaches at Bethlehem and Birzeit Universities in occupied Palestine and chairs the Palestinian Center for Rapprochement Between People. He is author of a number of books, including "Sharing the Land of Canaan: Human Rights and the Israeli-Palestinian Struggle" and the forthcoming "Hope and Empowerment: Popular Resistance In Palestine". He will share with us his first-hand experience of living in a troubled land and discuss strategies for a peaceful resolution of the present conflict in the region. There will be ample time for questions and clarifications. Route 433: West Bank road for Israelis only (2008), 8min, Israel  Route 443 serves Israeli commuters traveling between the two largest cities in Israel – Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. The road runs through the West Bank, but Palestinians are strictly prohibited from using it. In the past, Route 443 was the main thoroughfare serving the southern Ramallah district. In 1988, Israel expropriated land from Palestinian villagers living along the road in order to widen it, claiming that the road would serve their villages as well. However in 2002, the army prohibited Palestinian traffic on the road, stating 'security reasons'.   Breaking the Silence, Israeli Soldiers talk about Hebron (2005), 38 min., Israel  Breaking The Silence (BtS) (Hebrew: ?????? ?????? Shovrim Shtika) is an Israeli Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) established by Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers and veterans who collect and provide testimonies about their military service in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem during the Second Intifada, giving serving and discharged Israeli personnel and reservists a platform to confidentially describe their experience in the Israeli-occupied territories.   Friday March 5, 2010            FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE             Disclaimer La Paloma Coffee House – 7pm, 405 Capitol Avenue, Hartford,   SPEAKERS INCLUDE: Aram Ayalon, Stanley Heller and Dr. Saeed Aghari   Arna's Children (2003), 85 min., Israel, Dutch  Arna's Childrentells the story of a theatre group that was established by Arna Mer Khamis. Arna comes from a Zionist family and in the 1950s married a Palestinian Arab, Saliba Khamis. On the West Bank, she opened an alternative education system for children whose regular life was disrupted by the Israeli occupation. The theatre group that she started engaged children from Jenin, helping them to express their everyday frustrations, anger, bitterness and fear.   Saturday March 6, 2010        FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE             Disclaimer Noah Webster Library (Main) - 2pm, 20 South Main Street, West Hartford, - Parking Information   Separated Families (2007), 5min, Israel  Since the beginning of the second intifada, Israel has frozen family unification in these cases. In addition, Israel has ceased issuing visitor's permits, which enabled families to live together legally in the West Bank and Gaza . As a result of the freeze policy, the foreign spouses of Palestinians, mostly women, have faced a cruel choice: leave the Occupied Territories and not be allowed to return to their spouses and children, or stay illegally and not be able to see their parents, siblings, and other relatives living in their native land. Many chose to remain in the West Bank and Gaza, and have thus been sentenced to a life of fear and constant threat of deportation; the problems inherent in moving in the West Bank without any valid identity document virtually makes them prisoners in their own homes and villages.   The Easiest Targets (2007), 85 min., USA   Five women – Palestinian, American, Muslim, Christian, and Jewish – tell stories of humiliation and harassment by Israeli border guards and airport security officials     ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Hartford Quaker Meeting house - 7pm,  144 S. Quaker Lane, West Hartford - Map Reading of a letter from South Africa   Palestinian villages suffer a water shortage while water is plentiful in the nearby settlement (2007), 5min, Israel  The Bidu-Qatanna village bloc, in Ramallah District, suffers from a severe water shortage, as do many other areas in the Occupied Territories . Mekorot, the Israeli water company, supplies only one-half of the water consumed by the 50,000 villagers of this area. To meet the rest of their water needs, the villagers have to buy water from private suppliers at a much higher price and store it in unsanitary conditions. As a result, the residents are forced to consume poor-quality water and use it in small quantities. Meanwhile, the 3,000 settlers in the nearby settlement of Har Adar receive an unlimited amount of water, which comes from the same reservoir.    Occupation 101 - Voices of the Silenced Majority (2006), 90 min., USA  Occupation 101: Voice of the Silenced Majority is a 2006 documentary on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict directed by Sufyan Omeish and Abdallah Omeish, and narrated by If Americans Knew founder Alison Weir. The film focuses on the effects of the Israeli occupation of theWest Bank and Gaza Strip, and discusses events from the rise of Zionism to the Second Intifada and Israel's unilateral disengagement plan, presenting its perspective through dozens of interviews, questioning the nature of Israeli-American relations — in particular, the Israeli military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, and the ethics of US monetary involvement. Occupation 101 includes interviews with mostly American and Israeli scholars, religious leaders, humanitarian workers, and NGO representatives — more than half of whom are Jewish — who are critical of the injustices and human rights abuses that stem from Israeli policy in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza.   Sunday March 7, 2010          FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE             Disclaimer  BEHAVIOR POLICIES                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Join us in making 2010 a year of struggle against apartheid and for justice, equality, and peace. The Art of Resistance: Culture and the Boycott of Israel   was the closing panel of the international Israeli Apartheid Week, which took place in New York City and more than forty cities around the world during the first week of March, 2009     Supporters: http://apartheidweek.org/                       Apartheid Week                                         http://connecticut.apartheidweek.org/ http://artandstruggle.com/                      Art And Struggle http://www.thestruggle.org/                   The Middle East Crisis Committee http://wespac.org/                                   WESPAC Foundation http://www.dumpisraelbonds.com/           Dump Israel Bonds http://ctsaw.org/                                   CT Students Against the War http://www.lapalomacoffeehouse.com/     La Paloma Coffeehouse http://queerswithoutborders.com/wpmu/  Queers Without Borders http://www.eyesinfinite.com/                  Eyes Infinite Films      http://www.movementinmotion.org/          Movement In Motion http://www.hopeoutloud.org/                 Connecticut Coalition For Peace and Justice               Endorse the Boycott    poster by Jesus Barraza of Dignidad Rebelde             Responding to the call of Palestinian civil society to join the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction movement against Israel, we are a U.S. campaign focused specifically on a boycott of Israeli academic and cultural institutions, as delineated by PACBI (Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel). If you wish to endorse this call for an academic and cultural boycott, please email us at: uscom4acbi [at] gmail.com. 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