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National BDS Conference in Chicago, May 9-11 to target Israeli Apartheid |
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by CAAP
Email: caap_mail (nospam) yahoo.com (unverified!) |
10 Apr 2008
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A National Conference on Boycotts, Divestments and Sanctions will take place in Chicago (Illinois) from May 9-11. The purpose of the conference is to develop the strategies and tactics of a coordinated, national BDS campaign; not to debate whether a national BDS campaign should be adopted. Accordingly, every representative of an attending organization must have the authority to vote on these matters and bind his/her organization to the resulting decision. The national conference is being organized by Chicagoans Against Apartheid in Palestine (CAAP). |
Press Release
For Immediate Release: April 10, 2008
National BDS Conference in Chicago, May 9-11
A National Conference on Boycotts, Divestments and Sanctions will take place in Chicago (Illinois) from May 9-11. The purpose of the conference is to develop the strategies and tactics of a coordinated, national BDS campaign; not to debate whether a national BDS campaign should be adopted. Accordingly, every representative of an attending organization must have the authority to vote on these matters and bind his/her organization to the resulting decision. The national conference is being organized by Chicagoans Against Apartheid in Palestine (CAAP).
CAAP is a coalition of organizations and individuals who have worked on issues of justice in Palestine. Specifically, we have been involved in the “StopCat Coalition,” which focused on stopping sales of militarized bulldozers by Caterpillar to Israel. We decided that even though the campaign against Caterpillar remains valid, the focus was too narrow given the recent events in the Middle East.
We believe that after decades of occupation, the only appropriate description of the political situation in Palestine is that of apartheid. By using the term apartheid, borrowed from the pre-liberation regime in South Africa, we mean a regime that applies separate systems of law and practice to people occupying the same territory based solely on their nationality/race/religion. The world community rose in response to the apartheid regime in South Africa by imposing sanctions against both South Africa and countries aiding and doing business with the apartheid regime; boycotting South African goods and national cultural institutions (art, music, sports, etc.); and divesting from both South African companies and companies doing business with the South African regime.
Our goal is to make it untenable for Israel to do business in the world and for the world to do business with Israel until it dismantles the apartheid system imposed on the Palestinians.
To achieve this goal, we will initiate targeted campaigns: to boycott Israeli goods and cultural institutions; to divest from Israeli companies and those companies conducting business with Israel; and for international sanctions against Israel and countries aiding the Israeli government.
Organizations wishing to participate in this National BDS Conference should visit our website www.caapweb.org and send a message to caap_mail (at) yahoo.com.
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Say NO to another exclusionary state |
by Down with West Bank apartheid
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10 Apr 2008
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Finally- someone is dealing with the separtist fundamentalist communities in the west Bank and Gaza.
It was shocking to hear the president of Al Quds University sari Nusseibeh declare his intentions that Palestine be a Jew-free community
"The Israelis now living in the territories of the future Palestinian state should return to living within the borders of the state of Israel. No Jew in the world, now or in the future, as a result of this document, will have the right to return, to live, or to demand to live in Hebron, in East Jerusalem, or anywhere in the Palestinian state."
That, coupled with the ongoing harrassment of Christians in Gaza, make this conference very topical.
We need to convince the Palestinianss that a democractic state, where it does not matter what the name of your diety is, is a worthy goal. |
