#BDS: From Sharpeville to Gaza: 5 years since the Palestinian call for BDS

Friday October 22nd 7pmUniversité du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)Salle Marie-Gérin-Lajoie405 st Catherine eastpavillion Judith-Jasmin(metro Berri-UQAM)

featuring

Omar Barghouti
founder Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel – PACBI

Areej Ja’afari
Palestine Freedom Project

representative Congress of South African Trade Unions – COSATU

Since 2005’s historic Palestinian call for a comprehensive, international movement for Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israeli apartheid, we have seen many important victories for this movement in both Québec and Canada. Now is the time to reflect on the successes of the BDS movement in Quebec and Canada to date and to consolidate and intensify our efforts in solidarity with the people of Palestine, who continue to suffer under the brutal system of Israeli apartheid.