Israeli Apartheid Week
In conjunction with over 43 other cities worldwide, from Palestine to South Africa to Canada to the United Kingdom to across the Unites States, the Emory Advocates for Justice in Palestine (EAJP) present Atlanta's first Israeli Apartheid Week!
To contact us, email eajpcc@gmail.com
ALL EVENTS WILL TAKE PLACE AT THE EMORY UNIVERSITY CAMPUS
MONDAY MARCH 2: Understanding
Apartheid: From South Africa to Israel
Math & Science Center Auditorium
400 Dowman Dr.
Atlanta, GA 30322
7:00 P.M.
*Kali Akuno
Kali Akuno is the National Organizer for the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and
the Director of Education, Training and Field Work for the US Human Rights Network. He is the former Executive Director of
the Peoples' Hurricane Relief Fund (PHRF) based in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is also a co-founder of the School of Social
Justice and Community Development (SSJCD) a public school serving the academic needs of low-income African American and Latino
communities in Oakland, California.
*Nicholas Juliano
Nick Juliano is a senior at Emory University with
a major in non-Western History and a minor in Arabic. Born in Atlanta Georgia, he has spent considerable time abroad studying
in England, France, Germany, Japan and Morocco and has also attended classes at Brown University and Cambridge University
(U.K.)
TUESDAY MARCH 3: Testimony, Apartheid and Resistance
Harland
Cinema
Dobbs University Center/Drawer B
Atlanta, GA 30322
7:00 P.M.
*Zeiad Shamrouch
Zeiad
Shamrouch is a Palestinian refugee and journalist from Dheisheh Refugee Camp in the West Bank. He co-founded an organization,
Ibdaa, whose mission is to provide a safe environment for the camp's children, youth, and women to develop a range of skills,
creatively express themselves, and build leadership through cultural, educational, and social activities that are not readily
available in either the camp or occupied Palestine. He has crossed the US and the world speaking to numerous audiences about
the occupation of Palestine and is currently working with MECA (Middle East Children's Alliance) in Berkeley, California.
*Stephan Bell
Dr. Steven Bell has been a Professor of Psychology at Berry College
since 1976. Dr. Bell and Linda spent the summer of 2007 researching the conditions of Palestinians in the West Bank
and Israel. For two terms, Bell was the president of Rodeph Shalom synagogue in Rome, GA. Dr. Bell will be teaching during
the Spring Semester 2010 in the Psychology Department at Ber Zeit University in the West Bank.
WEDNESDAY MARCH 4: Rally in Solidarity with Palestine
Asbury Circle
Atlanta, GA 30322
11 A.M.-4:00
P.M.
THURSDAY MARCH 5: Behind the Gaza Massacre
Glenn Memorial
Building
1660 North Decatur Road NE
Atlanta, GA 30307
7:00 P.M.
*Norman Finkelstein
Dr.
Norman G. Finkelstein received his doctorate in 1988 from the Department of Politics at Princeton University. For many years
he taught political theory and the Israel-Palestine conflict. He is currently an independent scholar. Finkelstein is the author
of five books which have been translated into more than 40 foreign editions, including Beyond Chutzpah: On the misuse of anti-Semitism
and the abuse of history (University of California Press, 2005; expanded paperback edition, 2008), The Holocaust Industry:
Reflections on the exploitation of Jewish suffering (Verso, 2000; expanded paperback edition, 2003), Image and Reality of
the Israel-Palestine Conflict (Verso, 1995; expanded paperback edition, 2003) and he has just completed a new book entitled
A Farewell to Israel: The coming break-up of American Zionism, to be published in 2009.
