During the International Week against the Apartheid Israeli http://apartheidweek.org/ and the trial in Haifa on the case of Rachel Corrie, an activist twenty-three, to March 16, 2003, was crushed to death by a Caterpillar bulldozer of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in Rafah in the Gaza Strip. (See letter the parents of Rachel Corrie )
18 hours: presentation of the book 'Identity and Conflict: The Israeli-Palestinian case', Cynthia Nachira.
from Le Monde Diplomatique : "Careful reflection on the roots of identity of the conflict in Palestine. With an analysis of the construction process of Israeli nationalism, at the base of the colonial policies and the nature same state of Israel. With an unprecedented insight on the major contradictions in Israeli society. "
The author in this book traces the thread of a debate from the late nineteenth century to today, the cycle repeats: the solution to the Israeli state has responded to a need or a demand nationalism in the context of a colonial project?
Reflecting on Israeli society does not mean to identify with it or make concessions to the "victims" of Zionism, which it feeds in and outside Israel, is to put into practice one of the most basic truth about the struggles of liberation of oppressed peoples: the most valuable ally is oppressing the people of the country in rebellion to be an accomplice of their governments and militaries. In this mechanism does not escape the Palestinian people, whose leaders for many years now have fully understood the importance of "collective crisis of conscience" Israel.
The event is organized in cooperation with the Palestine Solidarity Campaign Marches, made up of associations and individuals for many years working for a just peace in the Middle East and against the Israeli occupation.
at 21: Screening of "Checkpoint Rock ' Fermin Muguruza and Javier Corcuera
The vitality of the music scene in front of the Palestinian culture of death that would require Israel in the occupied territories. The music becomes an ideal metaphor to remind everyone that "a people that sings and dies" "Checkpoint Rock" is a lesson in collective hope.
An extraordinary documentary that combines the power of reason to emotion contagious. The film is full of characters 'magic', some talk, sing and still others when you rap there is no difference between one thing and another. The spokesman for the rap group Dam, quoting Public Enemy, who said that the African American rap was the CNN of the street, said that the Palestinian rap is the way of Al Jazeera.
