Archbishop Desmond Tutu on IAW
“I associate myself with the objectives of the 10th international Israeli Apartheid Week.” – South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, March 2014
The IAW 2014 Event Schedule is out! John Greyson, “The Lab”, and more…
Our full list of events for IAW 2014 is out! You can click the schedule to download it in PDF.
A leaflet of the events is also available for download here.
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June 27th, 2013 – Our Annual General Meeting of the Members – NEW LOCATION
UPDATED WITH A NEW LOCATION – Due to a mixup with the room, we’ve had to move the AGM to the University of Winnipeg. Please assemble at the Bulman Students’ Centre at the U of W. Thanks.
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If you believe that Palestinian rights are human rights, then please join us for the 3RD ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Winnipeg Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (WCAIA):
WINNIPEG COALITION AGAINST ISRAELI APARTHEID
GENERAL MEETING OF THE MEMBERS
Thursday, June 27, 2013
7:00PM – 9:00PM
Bulman Students’ Centre
University of Winnipeg
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Yves Engler on the JNF at electronicintifada.net
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Coalition will fight ban on Students Against Israeli Apartheid
NEWS RELEASE
For immediate release
Saturday, April 13, 2013
Coalition will fight ban of Students Against Israeli Apartheid
U of M Students’ Union urged to support human rights and freedom of speech
WINNIPEG—The Winnipeg Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid is appalled by the University of Manitoba Students’ Union’s April 11 decision to end Students Against Israeli Apartheid’s student group status and ban it from operating in students’ union space.
The motion passed by UMSU Council equates criticism of the Israeli government to discrimination and harassment, and takes extraordinary measures against a student group, although it appears no evidence was presented to substantiate the accusations.
“We are shocked that UMSU would ban Students Against Israeli Apartheid without any evidence or basis for the accusations brought forward in the motion,” said Liz Carlyle, spokesperson for the Winnipeg Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid. “It is clear that the architects of the motion aimed to silence opposition to the Israeli government’s Apartheid policies.”
Added Thiané Diop, a member of SAIA-UM: “By attempting to silence and obstruct SAIA, UMSU has voted to prop up the Israeli Apartheid government, its crushing military occupation and daily abuse of Palestinians’ human rights.”
Israeli Apartheid Week, a global event dedicated to education and debate on Israel’s military occupation of Palestine, has been running on Winnipeg campuses and in the community for 5 years, and SAIA groups have repeatedly shown they are seeking dialogue, while opposing racism and other human rights abuses. There were no incidents of harassment or discrimination by event organizers, speakers or participants at IAW 2013. WCAIA maintains that SAIA’s work embodies respectful and fair political comment, and believes that the UMSU motion constitutes slander, and repression of free speech and freedom of association. WCAIA is pursuing a legal opinion on the matter.
“Support has been flooding in from students and human rights and civil liberties advocates across the country,” added Diop. “We urge UMSU to reinstate Students Against Israeli Apartheid, and to speak up against Apartheid policies everywhere.”
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For information or interviews, please contact:
Liz Carlyle
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Students Against Israeli Apartheid saia.umanitoba
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“We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.”
– Nelson Mandela, 1997
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