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E-Newsletter: February 2010

Dear BACEIA supporters,

Our organizing is evolving! This month we have a packed newsletter. We begin this newsletter with news of an important development in our campaign: we are forming a coalition under the BACEIA name! Then, this month, we had a successful event with Dalit Baum representing the Israeli coalition behind the whoprofits.org website – a ground breaking source of information for BDS activists. Following the Gaza Freedom March in January to break the siege of Gaza, international delegates wrote and signed the “Cairo Declaration”, now BACEIA has signed on. Read below to find out why. The beginning of March is the internationally coordinated Israeli Apartheid Week… which is also the one year anniversary of the BACEIA campaign! More about this important week of action is below. Finally, bus stop advertisements highlighting BDS & U.S. coroporate involvement in Israeli apartheid were installed around the Bay Area. As a special item, we’ve included some pictures of these works of art to close off this month’s newsletter.

We hope to see you out at events and actions soon!

BACEIA

Read the full February E-Newsletter here >>>

Posted: Saturday, Feb 27th, 2010
Filed under: Uncategorized

Israeli Apartheid Week 2010 at UC Berkeley

Cal Students for Justice in Palestine: Third Annual (ANTI) ISRAELI APARTHEID WEEK
March 1st-8th 2010

Monday, March 1st:
INTRO TO APARTHEID
Speakers: Joanna Manqueros, activist against South African apartheid and Doctor Hatem Bazian, UC Berkeley Middle Eastern Studies Department
Location: Room 105, Boalt Hall School of Law – Bancroft between College & Piedmont
Time: 7 pm

Tuesday, March 2nd:
TO SHOOT AN ELEPHANT – film screening
Location: Room 2060, Valley Life Sciences Building
Time: 7 pm

Wednesday, March 3rd:
DEBATING BOYCOTT DIVESTMENT AND SANCTIONS
Speakers: Omar Barghouti, Co-founder of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
Location: Room 105, Boalt Hall School of Law – Bancroft between College & Piedmont
Time: 6:30 pm

Thursday, March 4th:
STRIKE
Join the massive statewide Strike and Day of Action in Defense of Public Education.
Strike agenda:
7am -12pm: Massive Picket Lines @ North Entrance, Sather Gate, Oxford & Center and California Hall
12pm: Rally @ Bancroft & Telegraph and March to Downtown Oakland for the Rally

Friday, March 5th:
CULTURAL CELEBRATION / FUNDRAISER
Arabic music ensemble directed by Elias Lammam
Poetry by Mahaliyah Ayla O, Dina Omar and Hadeel Ramadan
Middle Eastern food from local restaurants and cafes such as Sunrise Deli and Fertile Grounds
Debke (Traditional Palestinian Dance) by Al-Jathoor
Speaker: Ziad Abbas of Ibda’ Cultural Center and the Middle East Children’s Alliance
Proceeds will go to the Middle East Children’s Alliance “Maia” project for Gaza.
Location: MLK Multi-Cultural Center, Inside the ASUC building
Time: 7 pm

Monday, March 8th:
PALESTINIAN NON-VIOLENT RESISTANCE & INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY
Speakers: Lubna Masarwa, Alternative Information Center coordinator and Al-Quds University community organizer, Jerusalem
Other speakers: TBA
Location: Room 105, Boalt Hall School f Law – Bancroft between College & Piedmont
Time: 6:30 pm
* co-sponsored by: Law Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace

There will also be DIRECT ACTIONS and DEMONSTRATIONS on Sproul throughout the week between 10 am and 2 pm.

for more information about IAW, please visit apartheidweek. org
for more information about SJP, please visit calsjp.org
Contact SJP at admin@calsjp. org or on our facebook group: Students for Justice in Palestine

Posted: Saturday, Feb 27th, 2010
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: IAW, SJP

SF Activists Protest Hebron (al-Khalil) Closures

On February 24th, BACEIA members joined a large collection of SF activists that took to the streets of downtown SF to draw attention to the ongoing closure of Shuhada Street in al-Khalil (Hebron), Israel’s system of aparthied, and the global BDS moment as an avenue for ending the injustices.

See the full post on Indybay >>>

On a normal Thursday evening, a group of protesters transformed San Francisco’s busiest shopping district into a scene which reflected the realities of Palestinian life in Hebron in the West Bank.

shuhada_sf1.jpg

We closed a major street running through the financial heart of our
city, to call attention to Israeli road closures and restrictions of
movement that are imposed every day on Palestinians in Hebron.

The blocking of major thoroughfares in the city culminated in nine
arrests, after protesters holding a banner that read “Israeli
Apartheid closes streets” closed off Powell Street and refused police
orders to disperse, while a crowd of hundreds looked on chanting and
cheering.

The People of Colour Action Theatre group re-enacted apartheid
separation under Israeli occupation, and disrupted business in front
of flagship stores which profit from the Israeli occupation.

Handing out Palestinian and Israeli “identification documents”, actors
playing Israeli soldiers in uniform forced “Palestinians” and
“Israelis” to walk on separate sides of the barrier; often roughing up
and harassing those playing Palestinians.

Unsuspecting passers-by were incorporated into the theatre performance
and forced to walk on one side or the other.

See the full post on Indybay >>>

Meanwhile, in Hebron, Palestinians are protesting Israel’s new “Heritage Plan” where they have laid out a plan to appropriate holy sites in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories as “Israeli Heritage”. Palestinians in Hebron, where sensitive sites have been named for appropriation by Israel, have protests have been on-going for 5 days.

See this news coverage >>>

Posted: Saturday, Feb 27th, 2010
Filed under: Uncategorized

BDS Bus Ad Sightings

Hewlett Packard, 7/11 and Kimberly Clark/Unicef/Pampers also profit from Israeli Apartheid and this February, Bay Area artists culture jammed about those ties. The group used the whoprofits database to fact check their information and created faux ads that were installed in San Francisco and the East Bay.

www.bdsmovement.net • facebook: Don’t Buy Into Apartheid

Hewlett Packardwww.bdsmovement.net • facebook: Don’t Buy Into Apartheid

Hewlett Packard (HP) owns EDS Israel which sells the Basel System to the Israeli government. The Basel System biometrically controls the movement of Palestinian people at checkpoints in the West Bank and Gaza. These checkpoints prevent students from getting to school, workers from making a living, and families from meeting and accessing medical care.
Hewlett Packard profits from Israeli Occupation and Apartheid, both of which are illegal under international law.
When you buy a computer or printer, choose a brand that Does Not Buy Into Apartheid and let
HP know you did! Mark Hurd, CEO: 650.857.1501

Proctor and Gamble

Proctor and Gamble uses materials made in illegal West Bank settlements by Avgol Industries an Israeli company. And, UNICEF partner with Pampers to fund it’s programs.
Let Proctor & Gamble know you don’t buy into Apartheid and they should not either.
P&G: http://pg.custhelp.com

7 Eleven

What do Slurpees have to do with war crimes?!

The Alon Group is an Israeli company with a monopoly on the gas supply to Gaza. They
switch it off at will depriving the population of essential services. This is collective
punishment. This is a war crime. Alon USA owns 170 7 Eleven stores in the U.S..
Let 7 Eleven know you don’t buy into Apartheid and they should not either.
7 Eleven: 800.255.0711

Posted: Saturday, Feb 27th, 2010
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: 7/11, BDS, Bus Ad, Culture Jam, Hewlett-Packard, Kimberly Clark, Pampers, Unicef

Fueling Israeli Apartheid: Corporate Profits and Accountability

The Bay Area Campaign to End Israeli Apartheid presents

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Fueling Israeli Apartheid:
Corporate Profits and Accountability
a conversation with Dalit Baum of WhoProfits.org

Tuesday, February 16 • 7pm
El Centro Del Pueblo Auditorium
474 Valencia at 16th St., San Francisco
Donations requested at the door

Israeli and international corporations are directly involved in apartheid and occupation: in the construction of Israeli colonies and infrastructure in the occupied territories, in the settlements’ economy, in building walls and checkpoints, in the supply of specific equipment used in the control and repression of civilian populations. In 2007, the Coalition of Women for Peace initiated Who Profits from the Occupation, a unique on-line resource with research on hundreds of companies directly involved in the occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, a major component of Israel’s apartheid structure, exposing many of the companies for the first time.

Dalit Baum, PhD, teaches Gender and the Global Economy at the Haifa university and Beit Berl College in Israel.

Organized by BACEIA, a coalition of: Break the Siege, the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (Bay Area), Global Women’s Strike, and Queers Undermining Israeli Terror. Co-sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee – Pacific Mountain Region.

Download and print the complete flyer!

Posted: Wednesday, Feb 10th, 2010
Filed under: SF events

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