Events Schedule
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Tuesday June 5th
1pm Shared lunch
4pm Introduction to Israeli Apartheid and BDS workshop
This introductory workshop will be run daily and is designed to give people some basic facts about Israeli apartheid and the Palestinian campaign for boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel.
5pm Action planning workshop ahead of G4S AGM on June 7 – introduced by Shiar from Corporate Watch
G4S is a huge private security company involved in oppression and abuse of rights all over the world. The company lost its contract to deport people from the UK last September after 773 complaints of abuse were made against the company and following the death of Jimmy Mubenga, an Angolan asylum seeker who died after being ‘restrained’ by G4S guards.
G4S is contracted to provide equipment to the Israeli prisons in which Palestinian political prisoners, including child prisoners, are illegally held. More than 1,600 Palestinian political prisoners recently held a mass hunger strike and several remain on hunger strike.
6pm Chronicles of a Refugee (continued)
7pm Talk with Sebastian Rodriguez, Israeli BDS activist and Anarchists Against the Wall member, and live link up with Israeli activist Yonatan Shapira
Wednesday June 6th
1pm Shared Lunch
4pm Introduction to Israeli Apartheid and BDS workshop
This introductory workshop will be run daily and is designed to give people some basic facts about Israeli apartheid and the Palestinian campaign for boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel.
6pm International law and Palestine – Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights Daniel Machover and Frank Barat, Russell Tribunal on Palestine
Thursday June 7th
1pm Shared lunch
6pm Introduction to Israeli Apartheid and BDS workshop
This introductory workshop will be run daily and is designed to give people some basic facts about Israeli apartheid and the Palestinian campaign for boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel.
8pm-10pm – Palestine and the Arab revolutions
Talk with Ahdaf Soueif and Ben White
Friday June 8th
19:00 – ILAN PAPPE
Saturday June 9th
ISM Workshop on going to Palestine (10am-5pm)
Sunday June 10th
ISM Workshop on going to Palestine (10am-5pm)
7pm – 9:30pm Jeremy Hardy
Showing of the film Jeremy Hardy vs the Israeli army by Leila Sansour followed by a talk by Jeremy Hardy.
Monday June 11th
19:00 – Selma Dabbagh, Book Promotion of ‘Out of It’
Tuesday June 12th
19:00 – Linda Ramsden, chair of ICAHD UK (Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions)
Wednesday June 13th
16:00 – Glyn Secker (Jewish Boat to Gaza/JFJP)
Thursday June 14th
Jordan Valley Workshop
19:00 – PEDAL
19:00 – Ghada Karmi – Palestinian author and academic
Friday June 15th
3pm-4.30pm Erased Wiped Off the Map (Alberto Arce and Mohammed Rujailah 2009) The only Western-made documentary on Operation Cast Lead 2008-2009 featuring evidence of Israel’s use of white phosphorous in civilian areas, shooting of medical personnel and targeting of children
4pm Introduction to Israeli Apartheid and BDS workshop
This introductory workshop will be run daily and is designed to give people some basic facts about Israeli apartheid and the Palestinian campaign for boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel.
5:30pm The architecture of the occupation with Nadia Barhoum
Nadia Barhoum, a Palestinian American Master’s student in Research Architecture at Goldsmiths College, will introduce and facilitate a discussion about the the architecture of occupation in Palestine. It will be a discussion about the built environment and Israel’s state planning policies in East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
7pm ‘Journey Through Thorns’
One man’s story of growing up in Gaza during the First Intifada and setting up a trauma centre in Gaza. Presentation and discussion. Excellent introduction to a complex issue through a personal account. Mohammed Altawil and David Harrold. Palestinian Trauma Centre (UK)
8pm-10pm – Screening ‘Racism Reports; Africans in Israel’
With the demonstrations held in Tel Aviv against African migrants being a ‘cancer to the state of Israel’ this documentary is essential to highlight and discuss for collective action to defend Israel’s migrant communities. Documentary will be followed by a panel discussion by David Sheen, Carol Roper and Samantha Asumadu.
Saturday June 16th
15:00 – 17:00 – John Snowden, BIN and Palestine Solidarity Campaign; WSF and Cultural Boycott
19:00 – Selma Dabbagh – lawyer and author of Out of It
Sunday June 17th
Palestine Place Closes with final event (Details to be released)
16:00 – 18:00 – Arthur Neslen, Writer of ‘Occupied Minds: A Journey Through the Israeli Psyche’
Will there be an opportunity for setting up a stall of revolutionary literature?
of course, we hope to have a library in the space as well; as long as the revolutionary literature is not in conflict wit the politics of our solidarity.