Past MN Break the Bonds Campaign events
Join us for 3 full days of film, art, information and discussion!
Atwood Theater of Atwood Memorial Center on the SCSU campus. Directions.
This event is free and open to the public.
For a complete schedule as well as a brief description of films,
please visit www.confrontingisraeliapartheid.org
Sunday July 19, 9pm
on the Bedlam Theatre rooftop deck
1501 S. 6th Street, on the West Bank, Minneapolis
an outdoor viewing of Slingshot Hip Hop
Slingshot Hip Hop is the first feature-length documentary about the Palestinian
hip hop movement. At the cutting edge of this emerging Middle Eastern youth
it is a fresh, complex and energizing window into contemporary life in
Palestine and Israel, and into one of the many identities that Arabs are exploring
today.
These events are free of charge (donations gladly accepted) and brought to you by
the International Jewish anti-Zionist Network, Twin Cities (IJAN-TC)
For more information on the network, ijsn.net
For more information on the events, ijan.tc@gmail.com
June 29, 2009–IJAN-TC presents Anthropologist, author and feminist Smadar Lavie in a talk “Mizrahi Jewish Feminism and the Question of Palestine” at the Bedlam Theatre, 1501 S. 6th Street, Minneapolis, MN (on the West Bank), Wednesday, July 15, 2009, at 6:30 pm.
Smadar Lavie is a Mizrahi Jew, born and raised in Israel. She is the author of the academic bestseller, The Poetics of Military Occupation (1990, University of California Press) and several other books and articles. She is the co-founder of the Feminist of Color Movement in Israel, the Coalition Against Apartheid in Israeli Anthropology, and other feminist and anti-racist NGOs.
For the last two years she held the Hubert H. Humphrey Distinguished Visiting Professorship in Islam and the Middle East at Macalester College in St. Paul. She is completing a book on the relationship between the Mizrahim, Palestine, and the racial formations of Israel.
Join us for an exciting discussion about a facet of Israeli society that is not well known in this country and how it relates to Palestinian/Israeli issues.
For more information on IJAN; http://www.ijsn.net
Three films about Palestine will be shown during July and August in Northfield.
The dates are:
July 9 – Anna Baltzer’s Life in Occupied Palestine
July 30 – Occupation 101
Aug 20 – Peace, Propaganda, and the Promised Land
Each of these dates are Thursdays, and the movie will begin at 7 p.m. The location is the Just Foods Co-op, 516 Water Street, in downtown Northfield.
The films are being presented by Northfielders for Justice in Palestine/Israel. For more information, call (507) 645-7660.
On Tax Day, members of Minnesota Break The Bonds Campaign went to post offices, where people were filing taxes, to hand out leaflets calling for an end to US military aid for Israel.
