CONNECTICUT 7th International ISRAELI APARTHEID WEEK ART FESTIVAL     Israeli Apartheid Week will take 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 artists, poets, musicians and speakers throughout the week performing and discussing culture & apartheid, the  global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Q&A will follow after the films. Main - Isreaeli Apartheid Week, global website What is the Call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)?         Schedule: subject to change.                                                                    (last year schedule) BEHAVIOR POLICIES                                                                                                                                 Permanent art exhibit  location TBA Monday March 21, 2011        FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE                                 Donations Accepted  location TBA - 7pm    March 21 is: "International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination", it is also "World Poetry Day". short film screening: GAZA ON THE AIR  by  Samir Abdallah Documentary, 2010, 90 min.,  Egypt, Palestine, France  Connecticut  Premiere   During the January 2009 bombardment of Gaza, and with foreign news crews barred from the area, a group of Palestinian journalists and cameramen risked their lives to covertly film scenes of the destruction, intended for news broadcast around the world. Director Samir Abdallah intercuts this harrowing, often never-aired footage with interviews with the cameramen about their traumatic experiences—how they struggled with releasing these images because of their graphic nature, and how they continue to cope with their haunting, horrifying memories. Gaza on the Air is a bold, uncompromising tribute to the men and women of the media. VIEWER WARNING: This is an exceptionally graphic film that contains raw footage of war victims.     Tuesday March 22, 2011        FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE                         Donations Accepted  7:00pm - Islamic Association of Greater Hartford DIGITAL POETRY: YOUTH EXPRESSIONS FROM AIDA CAMP by  Julie Norman  Video Art, 2009, 16 min.,  Palestine       Solutions to Apartheid - One State     While Apartheid Israel still has 100% support of Obama and Congress it may see impossible to talk about solutions to the problems caused by Israeli oppression. However, the idea that Jews and Palestinians could live together as equals in one state stretching from the Jordan to the Mediterranean has been gaining in popularity. Would it be just? Is it practical? What about the long decades of supposed “hate”? Speakers: Justine McCabe - Member of the national Foreign Affairs Committee of the Green Party of the United States. Ms McCabe has visited Palestine several times. She recently went to the One Democratic State conference in Dallas. Lenni Brenner - Historian and activist, writer of “Zionism in the Age of the Dictators” and “The Iron Wall” among several other books. He recently attended the One Democratic State conference in Dallas. Fazza Saleh - Born in Palestine in the West Bank in the town of Mazra-el Sherkie. Left in the early 1960’s for the United States. Served in Vietnam and was highly decorated.   Islamic Association of Greater Hartford 1071 Berlin Turnpike - Berlin, CT   Wednesday March 23, 2011     FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE                        Donations Accepted 4:00pm -UCONN   Popular Resistance in Palestine Book Tour Featuring Mazin Qumsiyeh, Author of Popular Resistance in Palestine: A History of Hope and Empowerment   Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh teaches and does research at Bethlehem and Birzeit Universities in occupied Palestine. He serves as chairman of the board of the Palestinian Center for Rapprochement Between People and coordinator of the Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements in Beit Sahour He is author of  "Sharing the Land of Canaan: Human rights and the Israeli/Palestinian Struggle" and the forthcoming book “Popular Resistance in Palestine: A history of Hope and Empowerment” University of Connecticut Bookstore 2075 Hillside Rd Storrs, CT 06269 4 - 6PM     Wednesday March 23, 2011     FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE                        Donations Accepted 8:00pm - Wesleyan University   Popular Resistance in Palestine Book Tour Featuring Mazin Qumsiyeh, Author of Popular Resistance in Palestine: A History of Hope and Empowerment   Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh teaches and does research at Bethlehem and Birzeit Universities in occupied Palestine. He serves as chairman of the board of the Palestinian Center for Rapprochement Between People and coordinator of the Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements in Beit Sahour He is author of  "Sharing the Land of Canaan: Human rights and the Israeli/Palestinian Struggle" and the forthcoming book “Popular Resistance in Palestine: A history of Hope and Empowerment” Wesleyan University Shanklin 107 8-10pm Directions   Thursday March 24, 2011     FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE                            Donations Accepted 6:00pm - Yale University Popular Resistance in Palestine Book Tour Featuring Mazin Qumsiyeh, Author of Popular Resistance in Palestine: A History of Hope and Empowerment   Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh teaches and does research at Bethlehem and Birzeit Universities in occupied Palestine. He serves as chairman of the board of the Palestinian Center for Rapprochement Between People and coordinator of the Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements in Beit Sahour He is author of  "Sharing the Land of Canaan: Human rights and the Israeli/Palestinian Struggle" and the forthcoming book “Popular Resistance in Palestine: A history of Hope and Empowerment”   Yale Univeristy, William Harkness Hall - Rm 116,  6 - 8pm Corner of Wall and College St. New Haven, CT   Friday March 25, 2011     FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE                        Donations Accepted 8:00pm - Wesleyan University   Poetic Injustice Concert    Hosted by Remi Kanazi                                     Ladyhips http://ladyhipsband.tumblr.com/ String Theorie http://stringtheorie.com/ Remi Kanazi http://www.poeticinjustice.net/ ReadNex Poetry Squad http://www.myspace.com/readnex     ISRAELI ATTACK ON THE MAVI MARMARA by  Iara Lee Documentary Short, 2010, 15 min.,  USA   In the pre-dawn hours of Monday, May 31, 2010, Israeli naval forces surrounded and boarded ships sailing to bring humanitarian aid to the blockaded Gaza Strip in international waters. On the largest ship, the Mavi Marmara, Israeli commandos opened fire on civilian passengers, killing at least nine passengers and wounding dozens more. Cultures of Resistance director Iara Lee was aboard the besieged ship, detained in the port of Ashdod, and deported to Istanbul before returning home. Despite the Israeli government’s thorough efforts to confiscate all footage taken during the attack, Iara Lee and Director of Photography Srdjan Stojiljkovic were able to retain some raw video footage. This film is a 15-minute excerpt.      Wesleyan University, 200 Church Street, Middletown, CT 06459       Saturday March 26, 2011     FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE                            Donations Accepted Green Street Art Center (Wesleyan) detalis TBA   Palestine, Israeli Apartheid and its relevance towards communities around the world. Gale Courey Toensing J Kehaulani Kauanui Ph.D. is an associate professor of anthropology and American studies at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. Her first book, Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity, was published by Duke University Press (2008). She is currently embarking on two new book monographs: The Kingdom Come? Hawaiian Nationalism and the Politics of Gender and Sexuality, and Hawaiian New England: The Grammar of American Colonialism. She has co-edited special journal issues: “Migrating Feminisms,” Women’s Studies International Forum (1998);”Native Pacific Cultural Studies on the Edge,” The Contemporary Pacific (2001); and “Women Writing Oceania: Weaving the Sails of the Waka,” Pacific Studies (2007). Her essays have been published in the following journals: SAQ: South Atlantic Quarterly, Social Text, Political and Legal Anthropology Review, American Studies, Comparative American Studies, The Hawaiian Journal of History, Mississippi Review, Amerasia Journal, The Contemporary Pacific, Pacific Studies, Women’s Studies International Forum, and American Indian Quarterly. She also sits on the following editorial boards: Settler Colonial Studies, American Indian Quarterly; Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism; Hulili: Multidisciplinary Research on Hawaiian Well-Being; and Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific. From 2005-2010, she also served as an editorial board member of Journal of Pacific History. From 2005-2008, Kauanui was part of a six-person steering committee that co-founded the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA). From 2008-2009, she served as an acting council member. In May 2009, she was elected as a council member for a three year term. For more information, see: http://naisa.org/She is a member of the Advisory Board of the US Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel. For more information, see: http://usacbi.wordpress.com/ Chris Doucot Stan Heller     Sunday March 27, 2011     FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE                              Donations Accepted 3:00pm location TBA   Arts & Culture   speaker: Lamis Deek - An attorney and human rights advocate specializing in defending Arab & Muslim community members, activists and organizers against governmental attack. Lamis is a long time member of Al-Awda NY: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, the Arab Muslim American Federation, and the National Lawyers Guild. She is co-founder of the US Palestine Community Network.   screening of: Salt of this Sea    (Connecticut premiere) A romantic drama about a working-class woman and her experiences traveling back home. The first feature film by a Palestinian woman, Salt of this Sea tells the story of Soraya, a third-generation, working-class Palestinian refugee living in Brooklyn NY. Soraya discovers that her grandfather’s savings have been frozen in a bank account in Jaffa since he was expelled in 1948. Determined to reclaim what is theirs, she fulfills her life-long dream to return to Palestine. Critic Deborah Young says Salt of this Sea "boldly grabs hold of the central issue at the heart of the Israel-Palestine conflict.” This film was the official selection at the Cannes Film Festival 2008. The film has also been nominated as the Palestinian Entry to the Oscars. (FIPRESCI Critics Award, Osians) Annemarie Jacir has been working in independent cinema as a filmmaker and writer since 1994 and has written, directed and produced a number of award-winning films. Salt of This Sea is the first feature film directed by a Palestinian woman director. She is chief curator and co-founder of the ground breaking Dreams of a Nation Palestinian cinema project. She has taught courses at Columbia University, Bethlehem University, and Birzeit University and also works as a freelance editor, cinematographer and film curator. She organized Palestine’s first major traveling film festival in 2004, screening films across the country. She is a founding member of the Palestinian Filmmakers’ Collective, based in Palestine. Jacir currently lives in Amman since being forbidden from returning to Palestine.    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://ladyhipsband.tumblr.com/                         Ladyhips http://stringtheorie.com/                                       String Theorie http://www.poeticinjustice.net/                            Remi Kanazi http://www.myspace.com/readnex                     ReadNex Poetry Squad 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,         posters by Melanie Cervantes, Jesus Barraza of Dignidad Rebelde and Josh MacPhee of Just Seeds Collective                          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. Boycott and divestment gets mainstream attention in church, on campus     Permanent art exhibit  location TBA                        Contact Us [form] If you would like to volunteer please write us at  Contat@ArtAndStruggle.Com    This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.