Israeli Apartheid Week Waterloo - March 1st to 8th, 2009.

Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) is taking place in more than 40 cities across the globe (the number of cities is growing daily). This year, IAW happens in the wake of Israel's barbaric assault on the people of Gaza. In Waterloo, a full week of films, actions and a panel discussion will make the point that these latest massacres further confirm the true nature of Israeli Apartheid. Events will take place at Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo. IAW 2009 will continue to build and strengthen the growing Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement at a global level.

Join us in making 2009 a year of struggle against apartheid and for justice, equality, and peace.

EVENTS

Monday, March 2: March for Palestine, From Waterloo to Laurier.
Between the Dana Porter Library and the Arts Lecture Hall
University of Waterloo
200 University Avenue West, Waterloo N2L 3G1

To mark the beginning of Israeli Apartheid Week, Laurier 4 Palestine (L4P) at Wilfrid Laurier University and Students for Palestinian Rights (SFPR) at the University of Waterloo are organizing a march to protest Israel's policies in the West Bank and Gaza. The Palestinians have lived under a brutal occupation for 60 years, and it is time university students and other Canadians spoke out against the occupation.

L4P and SFPR firmly believe that to end casualties on both sides, Israel must end its brutal occupation. This involves dismantaling settlements, removing check points, opening up borders, stopping house demolitions, and ending its policy of apartheid.

Join us on Monday, March 2nd, to protest Israel's occupation. We will be meeting between the Dana Porter Library and the Arts Lecture Hall at 12:30 PM, and marching towards Laurier at 12:45 PM. (WLU students will meet at noon in the concourse and head over to the Dana Porter library at UW). The march is scheduled for 12:30-3:30 PM.

Thursday, March 5: PANEL DISCUSSION - Palestine/Israel conflict and the Occupation
Science Building, Room: N1002
Wilfrid Laurier University
75 University Avenue West, Waterloo N2L 3C5

This is the main event which will take place at Wilfrid Laurier University (organized by both L4P and SFPR). This Panel discussion is scheduled from 6 - 9 PM. (*THE EVENT IS NO LONGER BEING HELD IN THE STUDENT LIFE CENTRE*)

EDWARD CORRIGAN:
holds a B.A. in History and a Master’s Degree in Political Science from the University of Western Ontario. Ed also has a Law Degree from the University of Windsor and was called to the Bar of the Law Society of Upper Canada in 1992. He has distinguished himself as a lawyer and is recognized as one of the top Immigration lawyers in Canada. He is featured on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation web site as a leading Immigration lawyer. His academic area of expertise is the Middle East and he has published numerous articles in academic and journalistic publications. Ed Corrigan has published, "The Legal Debate in Canada on the Protection of Stateless Individuals Under the 1951 Geneva Convention," 23 Immigration Law Reporter (3d) pp. 196-209. He has also published "The Safe Third Country Agreement: Impact on Refugee Claimants," in 9 Bender's Immigration Bulletin, September 15, 2005. Ed Corrigan has been active in refugee protection issues since being called to the bar and was a member of the Canadian Council for Refugees (C.C.R.) Legal Affairs Committee from 1993 to 1997 and has served as Regional Contact for the C.C.R. Refugee Protection Committee from 1993 to 2000.

DR. PETER EGLIN:
holds a BA from University Coll., London and a PhD from the University of British Columbia. He is a sociology professor at Wilfrid Laurier University who has been teaching undergraduates mostly sociology of crime, sociology of suicide, sociology of human rights, theory and practice, and ethnomethodology since 1976. Under Roy Turner he studied ethnosemantics as practical reasoning (Talk and Taxonomy (John Benjamins, 1980)). Alone or in collaborations with students, he has published studies of mundane reasoning, interactional organization, professional dominance and social construction of or in a complaint to the police, calls to the police, the Ontario coroners system, suicidology and official statistics. He particularly values two years spent at each of Universitat Konstanz and (then) Newcastle Polytechnic, and four months at the Centre of Socio-Legal Studies at Wolfson College Oxford. Since 1985 he has enjoyed active collaboration with Stephen Hester (University of Wales, Bangor; formerly WLU) in studies of crime (A Sociology of Crime [Routledge, 1992]) and membership categorisation analysis (Culture in Action University Press of America, 1997), including most recently The Montreal Massacre (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2003), which was short-listed for the Harold Adams Innis Prize for Best English-Language Book in the Social Sciences in 2004. He currently combines these ethnomethodological studies with critical inquiry into intellectuals' (plus state, business and media) responsibility for human rights in areas of Canadian foreign and social policy (East Timor, Palestine, Canadian First Nations, the poor).

KHALED MOUAMMAR:
the current president of the Canadian Arab Federation (CAF). He was elected to the post in early 2006. Mouammar was also president in the 1970s, and again from 1980 to 1982. CAF objectives include protecting civil liberties and human rights as well as combating racism and hate within Canada. It has been most vocal against recent anti-Arab and anti-Muslim activities in Canada, and has issued many position papers to the government with respect to its policies in the Southwest Asia and its domestic policies dealing with immigration.

Friday, March 6: FORMER ISRAELI SOLDIER SPEAKS
Student Life Centre (SLC) - Great Hall
University of Waterloo
200 University Avenue West, Waterloo N2L 3G1

Former staff-sergeant in the Israeli Defense Forces speaks about his experiences regarding the Palestine/Israel issues. This is scheduled for 2 - 4pm.

Israeli Apartheid Week Waterloo is organized by: Laurier 4 Palestine at Wilfrid Laurier University (a working group of LSPIRG) and Students For Palestinian Rights at University of Waterloo.

To ENDORSE Israeli Apartheid Week in Waterloo, to make a DONATION or GET INVOLVED please email laurier4palestine@gmail.com and sfpruw@gmail.com