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Third North American Student Conference on the Palestine Solidarity
Movement
Following in the path set by the first two conferences of the
student/community Palestine solidarity movement, we are proud to announce
that the third North American conference will be held from October 10-12,
2003 at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. Divestment movements
have sprouted across the country, International Solidarity Movement
activists have traveled to Palestine, and at campuses and in communities
throughout the United States, organizers have taken action, rallied,
demonstrated, spoken and educated--to bring the truth about Palestine to
a broad audience and build a mass movement for action.
The Third Conference will seek to build on our successes, analyze our
tactics and develop strategies, skills and knowledge for the future.
We will engage in educational sessions and workshops, activist
skill-sharings and trainings, collective decision-making, public speaking
events, rallies and direct action; we will come together as a movement to
build unity and action, recognize and act upon diverse voices, and
encourage collective involvement and expression. We will celebrate
Palestinian resistance and work to build our own voices of resistance; we
will strategize for divestment from Israeli apartheid. As Israel continues
its oppression and occupation of Palestinian people and Palestinian land,
we will raise our voices to demand an end and call for meaningful peace
with justice in Palestine. As a solidarity movement, we will work to act
in full support of and solidarity with the Palestinian national liberation
movement. At a time when Palestine and the fundamental rights of the
Palestinian people are under attack by forces of Zionism and imperialism,
it is imperative that we come together to build a student movement
that unites with our brothers and sisters in Palestine to uphold
Palestinian rights and Palestinian liberation.
We look to the purposes of the conference as enabling people to work with
others to learn and put into practice how to run a group, teaching and
strategizing ways which groups can go about a divestment campaign,
empowering people and communities, including recognizing and building
diversity, recognizing and building on successes, dealing with and
handling opposition, and strategizing for media and community outreach, as
well as becoming educated about the right of return, the history of the
occupation and the resistance, and the fight for full equality under law
and the end of Israeli apartheid and discrimination, as well as other
relevant political/historical topics.
Any organizations that believe divestment from Israeli apartheid is a
necessary and worthwhile strategy, that stand for an end to the Israeli
occupation of Palestinian land, the full right of return for all
Palestinian refugees to their homes and homeland, and full equality under
law and the abolition of Israeli apartheid; and that reject racism and
all forms of oppression are welcome to be part of the organizing process
for the Third Conference! Please email proposals@newjerseysolidarity.org to
become a part of the organizing process. Get involved in organizing the
Third Conference--bring your experiences, strategies and ideas to the
table to work towards building a mass movement for divestment from
Israeli apartheid and for justice in Palestine!
Endorse the conference!
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