Boston

BOSTON'S SCHEDULE OF EVENTS (still in formation) Check back often to see the updated schedule. All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. For more information email Info@itisapartheid.org

Sponsors:
Itisapartheid.org
Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights
Boston University: Students for Justice In Palestine
Students for Justice in Palestine- Northeastern University School of Law
Code Pink Greater Boston
United for Justice with Peace and the UJP Palestine Task Force
University of Mass Boston Student and Faculty Against the Occupation
AJJP (American Jews for Just Peace) Boston
Brandies Students Stand Up For Justice
Wellesley Students for Justice in Palestine

Monday March 1:

Screening of "Bil'in Habibti"
Host: Boston University: Students for Justice In Palestine!
Date: Tuesday, March 1, 2010
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Boston University: George Sherman Union Conference Auditorium rm 228
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Come see a screening of the documentary, "Bil'in Habibti" directed by Israeli activist and filmmaker Shai Pollak. Bil’in is a Palestinian village that is struggling to exist. It is fighting to safeguard its land, its olive trees, its resources… its liberty. By annexing close to 60% of Bil’in land for Israeli settlements and the construction of Israel’s separation wall, the state of Israel is strangling the village. Supported by Israeli and international activists, Bil’in residents peacefully demonstrate every Friday in front of the “work-site of shame”. And every Friday the Israeli army responds with violence, both physically and psychologically.

Bil’in residents have continued to withstand these injustices despite the frequent night raids of Israeli soldiers in the town followed by an increasing number of arrests of inhabitants and of activists. But now, the army has toughened the oppression by systematically arresting members of the Bil’in committee in charge of organizing the non-violent resistance actions. The aim of the arrests is to discourage Bil’in residents and reduce their resistance to the occupation. The villagers confront the Israeli army with creative, weekly demonstrations and direct actions. The army replies with arrests, teargas and bullets. Armed with a camera, the Israeli director Pollak comes to Bil'in as an activist. During his stay, he witnesses Bil'in as it turns into the symbol of resistance against the safety fence and the Israeli occupation.

Comments afterwards by Ian Chinich, A Jewish American Activist and a BU student who spent a month and a half living in the village of Bil'in.

**Free to attend, open to the pulic**

Tuesday March 2:
Noam Chomsky at Boston University

Host: Boston University: Students for Justice In Palestine!
Date: Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Jacob Sleeper Auditorium - College of General Studies- rm: 129
Street: 871 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
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Wednesday March 3:

Mazin Qumsiyeh, 12pm, Northeastern, University, Dockser 32
NUSL and Dockser Hall are located on Forsythe St right by 400 Huntington Ave. The building is within a one minute walk of both Ruggles (orange line) and Northeastern (Green "E" line) and Bus #39

Mazin Qumsiyeh, 3pm, Brandeis, Zinner Forum

Mazin Qumsiyeh 7pm, Watertown, St. Johns Methodist church 80 Mt Auburn St. Watertown, MA

Screening Occupation 101, 7pm, Boston University: Photonics Center rm 206 -- 1 Silber Way, Boston, MA

Thursday March 4:

Mazin Qumsiyeh, 9:30 am, University of Massachussets Boston
Healey Library 11th floor, (H11-0011B).

Thursday March 11:

Film: Occupation 101
Host: Wellesley Students for Justice in Palestine
Date: Thursday March 11
Time: 7pm
Location: Wellesely College Collin Cinema

Saturday March 13:

Take to the Streets for Shuhada Street
Location: TBD
Shuhada Street used to be the principal street for Palestinians in the city of Hebron, including residents, businesses and a very active market place. Today, because it runs through the Jewish settlement of Hebron, Shuhada Street is closed to Palestinian movement and is a ghost town which only Israelis and tourists are allowed to access. Hate graffiti has been sprayed across the closed Palestinian shops and Palestinians living on the street have to enter and exit their houses by climbing over neighbor's roofs.

Actions around the world are demonstrating what its like for streets to be occupied. We wont rest until Shuhada street is open and the occupation of Palestine is over!
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Sunday March 14:

Screening of “Just Married”
Host: UJP Palestine Task Force, Justice in the Middle East Task Force at First Parish Cambridge UJP Film screening
Date: Sunday March 14
Time: 7pm
Location: First Parish in Cambridge Unitarian Universalist Church, 3 Church St., Cambridge, MA

A documentary Israel's apartheid marriage laws that discriminate against Arabs and Palestinians in Israel and the Occupied Territories, on March 14, at the .

Noam Chomsky:prolific author and Institute Professor Emeritus at MIT, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he taught for over half a century. Among his many dozens of books are Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs, The New Military Humanism: Lessons from Kosovo, Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians, Manufacturing Consent, Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies, and Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy. (for more information: http://www.chomsky.info/)

Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh teaches and does research at Bethlehem and Birzeit Universities in occuied Palestine. He previously served on the faculties of the University of Tennessee, Duke and Yale Universities. He served on the board/steering/executive committees of a number of groups including Peace Action Education Fund, the US Campaign to End the Occupation, the Palestinian American Congress, Association for One Democratic State in Israel/Palestine, and BoycottIsraeliGoods.org. He is now president of the Palestinian Center for Rapprochement Between People and coordinator of the Popular Committee to Defend Ush Ghrab (PCDUG). He advised many other groups including Sommerville Divestment Project, Olympia-Rafah Sister City Project, Palestine Freedom Project, Sabeel North America, and National Council of Churches of Christ USA. He is an active member of a number of human rights groups (Amnesty, Peace action, Human Rights Watch, ACLU etc.). He published several books of which the most acclaimed "Sharing the Land of Canaan: human rights and the Israeli/Palestinian Struggle" which was also translated to spanish. He also has an activism book published electronically on his web site (http://qumsiyeh.org). His main interest is media activism and public education. He published over 200 letters to the editor and 100 op-ed pieces and interviewed in TV and radio extensively (local, national and international). Appearances in national media included the Washington Post, New York Times, Boston Globe, CNBC, C-Span, and ABC, among others. He also regularly lectures on issues of human rights and international law. He is currently finishing a book on Palestinian civil resistance going back to the beginning of the Zionist project in the 19th century until today.

See last year's Boston schedule.