This audio is from a speak out held on Saturday Nov 22nd, in protest of the cancelling of a Palestinian Solidarity Conference by the University of Toronto administration.
Audio recorded by Irina Ceric.
For more information, see the notes.
Producer: Tom Keefer Uploaded by: Tom Keefer
U of T Administration forces postponement of Toronto Palestinian Solidarity Conference.
A call to action by the Conference Planning Committee.
Nov 22nd, 2003.
Caving under pressure from the Zionist group B'nai Brith, the University of Toronto administration has refused to allow a planned Palestinian solidarity conference to take place less than 24 hours before it was set to begin. Towing the B'nai Brith's line (see http://www.bnaibrith.ca/press/2003/pr-031121-61.html for details) the University of Administration stated that the conference would not be allowed to go ahead as long as organizers stood by a six point basis of unity that defined the purpose and direction of the conference.
Those six points of unity of the conference are as follows:
1. We support the Palestinian right of return. It is non-negotiable. 2. It is becoming increasing clear that a two state solution is not a viable or acceptable option for the Palestinian people. 3. Israel is a racist apartheid state. 4. Our activism is imbued with an anti-colonial feminist practice. 5. We support the right of the Palestinian people to resist Israeli and colonialism by the means of their choosing. 6. Actions that we organize out of this conference will be developed under the framework of respecting a diversity of tactics.
This is a conference for Toronto student and community activists committed to the struggle for Palestinian human-rights, who are united by a common political basis of unity and who want to be able to organize together on the basis of the commonality of their interests as opposed to having to waste valuable time arguing with those who support the Israeli occupation of Palestine. The conference was jointly co-sponsored by Toronto Al-Awda, (see www.al-awda.ca for more information) and the Arab Student's Collective at the University of Toronto, a registered student club which followed all university rules and regulations in booking the space for the event several weeks ago.
The conference was to have had five different panels made up of local student and community activists addressing different aspects of the Palestinian liberation movement. The scheduled conference sessions were as follows: "The historical context of the Palestinian Right of Return; The realities and nature of Israeli apartheid; Queer politics within the context of the Palestinian liberation struggle; The struggle for women
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