Month: January 2015

Saturday, Jan. 31, 2015, 2:30pm
706 Clark Drive, Vancouver
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Is being Anti-Zionist synonymous with being Anti-Semitic? Come explore this question speakers from Independent Jewish Voices and YCL – Vancouver.

Accessibility, Washrooms:

This event has stairs leading up to it, but can be made accessible upon request. Too, two gender neutral washrooms are available.

This event will be taking place on unceded Coast Salish territories.

Date & Time: January 17th 2015 at 1:30 pm (sharp) to 3:30 pm.
Place: Dr. Ambedkar Room (room 418) City Centre Library, 10350 University Drive, Surrey
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Speakers:
Dr. Sunera Thobani (Associate Professor at the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies, UBC)
Hanna Kawas (Chairperson, Canada Palestine Association)
Sid Shniad (Independent Jewish Voices)

In 1942, some leading Zionists met in New York to formulate plans for a Jewish state and for the last 68 years, the history has experienced nothing but the brutal and severe war crimes by Zionist forces in the pure land of Palestine. To discuss this journey of struggle and resistance by the people of Palestine and to create an awareness on this issue the Fraser Valley Peace Council has arranged a seminar.

Lets be there to show solidarity and salute the struggle of Palestinian people for their national liberation and more than six decades of efforts to get freedom just to live in peace on their homeland.

Organized by Fraser Valley Peace Council
“Fraser Valley Peace council is an organization under the flag of Canadian Peace Congress. This is an organization of Canadian people that advocates and works for world peace and disarmament.”

Monday, January 12 at 7:30pm
SFU Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings Street, Segal Rooms; Vancouver, BC
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Wednesday, January 14 at 5:00pm
Coach House at Green College, UBC; 6201 Cecil Green Park Road (off NW Marine Drive, opposite Chan Centre and Rose Parkade)
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A talk by Professor Steven Salaita, who is at the centre of an international protest against academic censorship.

Salaita, author of six books and many articles, was “unhired” from a tenured position in American Indian studies at the University of Illinois when donors pressured the university because of Salaita’s tweets on his personal Twitter account about the Gaza massacre this past summer.

Because this action is widely recognized as part of a broad effort to silence voices for Palestinian rights and justice, and as one incident in the long history of colonial treatment of indigenous peoples, the case has attracted international attention.

Salaita’s books will be available at this event.

Co-sponsored by:
CanPalNet
Canada-Palestine Association
Centre for the Comparative Study of Muslim Societies and Cultures, SFU
BIAC (Boycott Israeli Apartheid Coalition)
UNJPPI (United Network for Justice and Peace in Palestine and Israel)
Building Bridges Vancouver
Independent Jewish Voices – Vancouver
Institute for the Humanities, SFU
SFU English Department
SPHR-UBC (Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights)
Critical Race and Postcolonial Feminist Theory Group-UBC
Social Justice Committee of the Unitarian Church-Vancouver

“Steven Salaita & Academic Censorship“: an interview on Voice of Palestine

Friday, January 9, 2015
6:30 PM – 9 PM
Room 7000, Simon Fraser University Harbour Center
515 West Hastings, Vancouver, BC

Captive Revolution: Palestinian Women’s Anti-Colonial Struggle Within the Israeli Prison System

Sponsored by SFU Anthropology and Sociology Departments, Independent Jewish Voices and rabble.ca

Endorsed by Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, Boycott Israeli Apartheid Campaign, Red Sparks Union, Canada Palestine Association, Voice of Palestine

Women throughout the world have always played their part in struggles against colonialism, imperialism and other forms of oppression. However, there are hardly any academic books on Arab political prisoners, fewer still on the Palestinians who have been detained in their thousands for their political activism and resistance.

Nahla Abdo’s Captive Revolution seeks to break the silence on Palestinian women political detainees, providing a vital contribution to research on women, revolutions, national liberation and anti-colonial resistance. Based on the stories of the women themselves, Abdo draws on a wealth of oral history and primary research in order to analyse Palestinian women’s anti-colonial struggle, their agency and their treatment as political detainees.

Making crucial comparisons with the experiences of women political detainees in other conflicts, and emphasising the vital role Palestinian political culture and memorialisation of the ‘Nakba’ have had on their resilience and resistance, Captive Revolution is a rich and revealing addition to our knowledge of this little-studied phenomenon.

‘With Captive Revolution, Nahla Abdo reveals just how much of the history of anti-imperialist struggles is absent when women — especially Palestinian women freedom fighters — are overlooked. In the process of reconstructing this history through testimonies of Palestinian women political detainees, Abdo offers us incisive critiques of orientalist feminisms and of the persistence of racism in the Israeli occupation of Palestine.’ — ANGELA DAVIS, Distinguished Professor Emerita, History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

Nahla Abdo is an Arab feminist activist and Professor of Sociology at Carleton University. She has published extensively on women, racism, nationalism, and the State in the Middle East, with a special focus on Palestinian women. Captive Revolution seeks to break the silence on Palestinian women political detainees, providing a vital contribution to research on women, revolution, national liberation and anti-colonial resistance.

Check out Voice of Palestine interview with Nahla Abdo

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