Panel: Empire and Apartheid, G20, the West and Palestine

Panel: Empire and Apartheid, G20, the West and Palestine
Thursday June 10th 2010
7:30pm @ the KWCCSJ
63 Courtland Ave E, Kitchener
*no charge/pay what you want

As settlements expand across Jerusalem and Israel’s military occupation in the West Bank and Gaza intensifies, Palestinians are on the edge of a new popular revolt. Israel continues its crippling siege of Gaza, while – a year after the war – it is again expanding military action in the strip.

Palestinian citizens of Israel are also feeling the pressure as urban renewal and gentrification is used as a pretext to force them out of their historic cities, while the government passes laws to criminalize public discussion of their identity and history. Meanwhile repression against Palestinians and Israeli solidarity activists continues, as does the Palestinian Authority collaboration with Israel.

As the G20 replaces the G8 as the center of global economic and political power, it becomes the representative consensus of American empire and the club that Israel courts for affection. The Daily Nuisance editors and contributors Carmelle Wolfson and Jesse Rosenfeld will examine the relationship between Israeli Apartheid, American Empire and the Group of 20 in this discussion followed by a Q & A.

About The Daily Nuisance

While international mainstream news filters out and misinterprets local voices, TDN uses English to present local perspectives to an International audience. The editorial collective is comprised of Palestinian, leftwing Israeli and international journalists and media makers. Go to www.thedailynuisance.com

Bios

Carmelle Wolfson is a Canadian-Israeli print and broadcast journalist and an editorial collective member at The Daily Nuisance. She has worked as an editor for major mainstream Middle East news media such as The Jerusalem Post. She is also a copy editor for the Canadian independent social issues magazine Briarpatch. She has been involved in community radio programming, as well as indigenous sovereignty, student, labour and feminist organizing and has twice coordinated Media Democracy Day in Toronto. Her work can be found in The Globe and Mail, NOW Magazine, Electronic Intifada, The Real News, Znet and rabble.ca.

Jesse Rosenfeld is a Canadian print and video journalist based out of Ramallah and Tel Aviv-Jaffa since 2007. He is the print editor of The Daily Nuisance and has written from the Middle East for The Nation, The Guardian, The National (Abu Dhabi English language newspaper), Haaretz English, The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, NOW Magazine, Z Net and Electronic Intifada. He has also blogged for Allvoices.com, Mondoweiss and produced video content for The Daily Beast and The Real News.