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Palestine Right to Return Newsletter for Friday, November 09, 2007

Issue: 38

About the Movie: A Palestinian village peacefully stands up to an opposing force when they're forced with being split in two by the Separation wall in this inspiring documentary. Filmmaker Shai Carmeli Pollak started as an activist when he came to the village, but ended up chronicling an amazing moment in time when the Israelis and Palestinians came together to halt the wall's construction. Focusing on one of the village's local committee members and a farmer who risks losing much of his land to the proposed barrier, the film takes a look at how these leaders in the movement are able to communicate and eventually work with a group of Israeli activists that heads the opposing faction.
Date & Time: 07:00 PM Wednesday, November 14
location: Galbraith Building - UofT, 35 St. George Street, Room 119

Other Keynote speakers of events for the month of November
November 15		apartheid: From South Africa to Palestine  with South African activist and academic Salim Vally details
November 17		Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror with JOHN PILGER John Pilger will be presenting his documentary "Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror" as well as his new book "Freedom Next Time" to Toronto audiences. details
November 29		Israel and Palestine: Roots of conflict, prospects for peace with Dr. Norman Finkelstein The Canadian-Palestinian Educational Exchange (CEPAL) invites you to attend its eleventh annual commemoration of the United Nations International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, November 29. This day was instituted in 1977 by the UN General Assembly, and is meant to be one of solidarity with the Palestinian people, as well as an opportunity to reinvigorate efforts aimed at achieving a just peace. Keynote speaker, Dr. Norman Finkelstein will discuss roots of conflict and prospects for peace in Israel and Palestine. CEPAL is honored to host Ms. Olfat Mahmoud, Director of the Womens Humanitarian Organisation (WHO), a CEPAL partner in Bourj el-Barajneh Palestinian refugee camp near Beirut. ....details

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CALL FROM PALESTINE
Fifth Week against the Apartheid Wall: 9th - 16th November 2007
1947 -2007: Our Struggle Continues, Our Liberation Will Come

The Fifth Week against the Apartheid Wall  called for by the Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign and its popular committees  marks 60 years of our dispossession and our human quest for liberation. We call on the world to take action from November 9  16 to raise awareness of the global silence and complicity with the occupation of our land and ethnic cleansing of our people and to join the movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions.
1947: On November 29, against the very principle of self-determination, the UN resolved on the plan for the partition of Palestine under UN resolution 181. This paved the way for our Nakba (catastrophe) that lead to the destruction of over 500 Palestinian villages and the transformation of the majority of the Palestinian people into refugees. This opened the path for the continuous expulsion and systematic discrimination against our people and the relentless colonization of our land. Apartheid Israel today keeps full control over all of historic Palestine while we are imprisoned behind eight meter high walls.
2007: The Zionist walls  fragmenting the West Bank, encaging Gaza and ghettoizing Palestinians within the Green Line  are the cornerstones of the Zionist plans to drive us from our land. They stand as proof of international silence and complicity with Israeli policies and crimes. They are warning signs that our resistance must not abate and that your action is more urgently needed now than ever.
As Palestinians we will escalate resistance once again during the Week against the Apartheid Wall - November 9 - 16.
We know that continued struggle is our only hope.

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