IAW 2010 Seattle

March 2-3, 2010 - Help Protest at Israeli Musician Idan Raichel's concert
March 6, 2010 - Boycott Action: Non-violent Protest in Front of American Apparel Store
March 7, 2010 - Ali Abunimah Speaks on "The Crisis In Israel/Palestine: Towards a Just solution"
March 8, 2010 - Ali Abunimah Speaks at South Puget Sound Community College
March 13, 2010 - Talk & Dinner: Palestinian Women Resist Israeli Occupation
March 16, 2010 - Seeking Accountability, Seeking Justice, Remembering Rachel Corrie

Tuesday & Wednesday, March 2-3, 2010

Help Protest at Israeli Musician Idan Raichel's Concert at Jazz Alley. Sponsored by the Palestine Solidarity Committee – Seattle Jazz Alley, 6th & Lenora 6:00 – 7:30 Last year, Idan Raichel came to Seattle as part of Israel's "rebranding" campaign. We protested, talked with him and caught him in many falsehoods and ignorant statements which revealed a lack of understanding of the Palestinian cause and the reality of their lives. Raichel, a popular "world music" performer billed as a ' one-man Middle East peace accord [who] makes music that is an ambitious celebration of multicultural diversity', has shown himself to be an avid supporter of the Israeli Army, and has publicly expressed approval of its recent invasions of Gaza. He has received direct assistance from the Israeli government for taking part in the whitewashing of Israel's image. The "Idan Raichel Project" poses as a young, sexy, and above all multi-cultural music experience (incorporating many cultural influences except those of the Palestinians). However, there is nothing attractive about whitewashing Israel's crimes against humanity. Last year we promised that we would protest if Raichel returned. He is coming back to Jazz Alley, 6th Ave./Lenora (click here for directions) on March 2nd and 3rd. The music starts 7:30 pm, but the Jazz Alley is a dinner theater and on its web site, advises patrons to arrive 1 1/2 hours early. Our protest therefore begins at 6:00 pm, ends at 7:30 pm on both March 2nd and 3rd. Please help take a stand against Israeli whitewashing of its crimes against the Palestinian people. This protest has been approved by PACBI, the Palestinian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. Idan Raichel is part of an increasingly successful "world music" scene from Israel, which leaves out Palestinian voices, while claiming to be inclusive, and is becoming increasingly popular among US fans and local radio. They are contributing to confusion about what is really going on in Israel-Palestine, and to varying degrees are engaging in cultural theft. Additionally, his album title is cruelly inappropriate. This is part of Israel's "rebranding" campaign. Don't let this group play in Seattle without protest! For more information on what PSC does, on Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions, & how to get involved: www.palestineinformation.org The Palestine Solidarity Committee -- Seattle supports Palestinians in their struggle for the fundamental right of self-determination. PSC works for an end to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank (including East Jerusalem), the Gaza Strip, and the Golan Heights. We support the provision of full human rights to all Palestinians living as minorities or refugees anywhere in the world and the right of Palestinian refugees and their descendants to return to their homeland. We also support the right of the Palestinians themselves to determine the kind of state they will live in. Saturday, March 6, 2010

Boycott Action: Non-violent Protest in Front of American Apparel Store Sponsored by Voices of Palestine (voicesofpalestine.org) Co-sponsored by the Greater Seattle Chapter of Veterans for Peace (vfp92.org)

TELL AMERICAN APPAREL TO END ITS LINKS TO APARTHEID AND CLOSE ITS STORES IN ISRAEL
HELP BUILD AWARENESS OF THE GLOBAL PALESTINIAN BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT, AND SANCTIONS (BDS) CAMPAIGN

Media Contact: Shelley Day, shelleymday@gmail.com When: Saturday, March 6, 2010 from 12 noon until 2 PM Where: American Apparel, NE 45th St. & University Way NE, Seattle (map) Why: American Apparel (AA) bills itself as a socially conscious producer and vendor of "hip" clothing but there's nothing progressive or admirable about supporting Israeli apartheid. On AA's web site it is proudly asserted that AA "is part Israeli, literally." When a pro-Israel blogger produced a parody "Zionist Apparel" ad, AA's webmaster thought it was great and added it to their web site. More importantly, contrary to the 2005 call of Palestinian civil society for "broad boycotts ... against Israel," AA has opened two stores in that country, one in Tel Aviv and another in al-Quds (Jerusalem) with plans to open another in Haifa. As the authors of the 2009 Toronto Declaration noted: "Tel Aviv is built on destroyed Palestinian villages, and ... the city of Jaffa, Palestine's main cultural hub until 1948, was annexed to Tel Aviv after the mass exiling of the Palestinian population." The Tel Aviv store is in the Dizengoff Center, named after Meir Dizengoff, the first mayor of Tel Aviv. Dizengoff, who was born in Imperial Russia, first traveled to Palestine under the auspices of Baron Edmond de Rothschild's colonization scheme. While scouting locations for the al-Quds store, an AA employee took time out to mug for the camera with two armed soldiers from North America serving in an Israeli combat unit. The al-Quds store is located in/near the historic Mamilla district, "one of seven mixed or mainly Arab neighborhoods" that was "emptied of its Arab inhabitants" during the 1948 war (Bernard Wasserstein, Divided Jerusalem, p. 163). Today, despite protests and lawsuits a branch of the Museum of Tolerance is being built in an historic Muslim cemetery a couple of hundred meters south of AA's al-Quds store (see mamillacampaign.org). The planned location of AA's third store is Haifa, one of the largest cities of Palestine to be ethnically cleansed during the Nakba--"Out of the 61,000 Palestinian Arabs who used to call Haifa home, only 3,566 Palestinians were allowed to stay." Leaflet #1 -- Call to Protest (PDF) Leaflet #2 -- Protest American Apparel (PDF) Sunday, March 7, 2010

The Crisis In Israel/Palestine: Towards a Just Solution What: A talk on the Current situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, followed by Q&A Who: Ali Abunimah – Author of the book One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse, lauded by The Economist as "A way forward ... advocated so skillfully and interestingly" When: 6:00PM Sunday, March 7 Where: Seig 134, University of Washington - Seattle (map) Sponsored by: ASUW | Palestine Solidarity at UW| Campus Antiwar Network |Amnesty Int’l at UW| Jewish Voice for Peace | International Socialist Organization | Voices of Palestine For more information email palsol@u.washington.edu To request disability accommodation, contact the Disability Services Office at: 206.543.6450 (voice), 206.543.6452 (TTY), 206.685.7264 (fax), or email at dso@u.washington.edu. Please send requests as far in advance of the event as possible. Monday, March 8, 2010

Ali Abunimah, co-founder of Electronic Intifada, to speak at South Puget Sound Community College Olympia, WA – Ali Abunimah, author and co-founder of the online publication Electronic Intifada, will speak about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a presentation at South Puget Sound Community College, March 8, 2010, at 7 PM. Mr. Abunimah is a Palestinian-American journalist, a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Chicago, and the author of One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. His articles on the conflict have been published in major newspapers around the world, including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Lebanon’s Daily Star, and Ha'aretz. The event will be on the South Puget Sound Community College campus in Building 26, Room 105 (map). It is free to the public and is sponsored by The Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice and BRICK. Co-Sponsored by: Islamic Circle of North America, People for Peace, www.icna.com, Justice and Healing and Olympia, www.tacomapjh.org, Olympia Fellowship of Reconciliation, www.olyfor.org, CAIR-WA (Council on American-Islamic Relations), www.cairseattle.org, Greater Seattle Chapter of Veterans for Peace, http://www.vfp92.org/en, Voices of Palestine, www.voicesofpalestine.org For more information, please visit www.rachelcorriefoundation.org, www.spsccbrick.org, or call (360) 754-3998. Saturday, March 13, 2010

Talk & Dinner: Palestinian Women Resist Israeli Occupation Celebrate International Women's Day 2010 In the daily struggle to survive and overcome decades of destruction by the Zionist state, women are mainstays and leaders. Attend Radical Women's annual International Women's Day event and discuss how to support the fight for Palestinian freedom against Israel's big guns, which are massively funded by the U.S. Saturday, March 13, 7:30pm New Freeway Hall 5018 Rainier Ave S., Seattle Door donation $2.00 Middle Eastern Dinner, prepared by chef Ziyad Zaitoun, 6:00pm Dinner donation $10.00 Sliding scale and work exchanges available Featured speakers are Nada Elia, Co-chair of the INCITE! Anti-militarism Taskforce and organizer for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel; and Adrienne Weller, Jewish feminist, veteran defender of Palestinian rights and signer of the Cairo Declaration against Israeli apartheid. The chair will be Raya Fidel, Anti-Zionist Israeli-American and UW professor. For more information, rides or childcare call 206-722-6057 or 722-2453; email RWseattle@mindspring.com or www.radicalwomen.org Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Seeking Accountability, Seeking Justice, Remembering Rachel Corrie Tues. March 16, 6:30pm Urban Onion Ballroom 116 Legion Way SE, Olympia WA (map) Celebrating Rachel’s life and legacy Join us for a potluck (please bring a dish to share) Music by local Olympian artist Afrok accompanied by a live band. Updates from the festival in honor of Rachel in Gaza and from Rachel's parent, Cindy and Craig Corrie from the civil court case taking place in Israel seeking accountability for Rachel's killing and more. Sponsored by The Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice Co-Sponsored by: Olympia Fellowship of Reconciliation, www.olyfor.org, Islamic Circle of North America, www.icna.com, Greater Seattle Chapter of Veterans for Peace, http://www.vfp92.org/en, Voices of Palestine, www.voicesofpalestine.org For more information please contact serena@rachelcorriefoundation.org or 360.754.3998