RESISTING ISRAELI APARTHEID: ANARCHISTS AGAINST THE WALL

Sunday February 22
7PM
Jack Purcell Community Centre, room 201,
320 Jack Purcell Lane (off Elgin St. at Lewis St.)
$5.00 - $50.00 Suggested Donation (No one will be turned away for
financial reasons)   Shachaf Polakow from Anarchists Against the Wall
Speaking on their work in the West Bank and the current situation in Gaza
With video footage and photographs Anarchists Against the Wall is a direct action group that fights
against Israeli apartheid and oppression in all its forms, most
recently also the atrocities in Gaza. For five years the group has
waged a constant struggle against Israel's Wall. The work on the
ground in the West Bank, alongside the Palestinian popular movement is
breaking new ground in the joint struggle for Palestinian liberation.
In December 2008, Anarchists Against the Wall and the Bil'in Village
Committee were jointly awarded the prestigious Carl von Ossietzky
Medal---an award given annually by the Berlin-based International
League of Human Rights, named after German Nobel Peace Prize winner
Carl von Ossietzky who died in a Nazi concentration camp. Now more than ever, it is critical to support the Israeli resistance
movement against the state's attempted repression of our work. Members
of Anarchists Against the Wall continually pay the price for our
activism, including being shot, beaten, arrested and indicted. We
desperately need funding for legal support for both Palestinian and
Israeli activists who are arrested and charged in the course of the
struggle. Schachaf Polakow, a member of Anarchists Against the Wall, will be
touring the U.S. and Canada from February 1st to March 9th. His
presentation will include film and photos, and will focus both on
AATW's recent work in solidarity with Gaza and our ongoing work in the
West Bank. Anarchists Against the Wall website: http://www.awalls.org/ One of the co-founders of Anarchists Against the Wall,  Matan Cohen, is
currently a student @ Hampshire College in Massachusetts, and a member of
the group, Students for Justice in Palestine. SJP was responsible for getting
the college to divest from six companies heavily involved in supplying the
occupation of Palestine. Though the college immediately denied any connection
to Palestine in its choice to divest, they did admit that their
decision was prompted
by the work of SJP. SJP website: http://www.hsjp.org For more information and questions about the tour, please email
aatwtour@gmail.com. OTTAWA endorsements:
Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA) - Carleton University, Not
In Our Name (NION) - Jewish Voices Opposing Zionism ,Common Cause
Ottawa, Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) - Ottawa
University, Ontario Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG) - Carleton