March 2nd Event - Building Movements Against Apartheid

Building Movements Against Apartheid: From South Africa to Palestine to Canada

Sunday 2 March 2008
11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Peterborough Public Library
345 Aylmer Street North


Panel Speakers:

*Paula Sherman, Co-Chief of the Ardoch Algonquin First Nation and Indigenous Studies Professor at Trent University.

*Salim Vally, South African activist and former regional executive member of the high school South African Student's Movement (SASM). He is the chairperson of the Palestine Solidarity Committee and the Anti-War Coalition in South Africa and is currently a visiting scholar at the School of Social Sciences at York University.

*Kole Kilibarda, organizer with the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA) in Toronto

A Canadian news documentary on 'Canada Park' will also be screened. Built over three destroyed Palestinian villages, Canada Park serves the Israeli public as a recreation area. The documentary reveals the complicity of the Jewish National Fund of Canada, which enjoys charitable status, in ethnic cleansing, land expropriation and occupation.

Zatoun Fair Trade Olive Oil and Soap from Palestine will be available for sale.

For more information email: peterboroughcps@gmail.com