Statement

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As Artists aware of our colo­nial his­tory, we recog­nise the con­tin­ued dis­pos­ses­sion of the Indige­nous peo­ple of this Land. We also recog­nise and sup­port the human rights of the Indige­nous peo­ple of Pales­tine to live on their land with dig­nity — free from mil­i­tary occu­pa­tion and the bru­tal­ity of the Israeli Apartheid system.

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Joins Us — 242 signatures needed.

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As inter­na­tional aware­ness of Israeli apartheid and oppres­sion con­tin­ues to mount, it is impor­tant that this aware­ness finds a voice. Artists Against Apartheid is con­duct­ing a drive for sig­na­tures to show­case sup­port from within artis­tic com­mu­ni­ties for Pales­tin­ian Human Rights. To reflect the con­sis­tent demands for jus­tice from the inter­na­tional com­mu­nity, we aim to get 242 sig­na­tures from artists. 242 is the name of the UN Res­o­lu­tion signed after 1967, which sought a just set­tle­ment of the cat­a­stro­phe of Pales­tin­ian refugees.

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Artists Performing at Israeli Apartheid Week Events

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Some of the artists involved in Artists Against Apartheid are join­ing Stu­dents for Jus­tice in Pales­tine for a music and cul­tural night dur­ing Israeli Apartheid Week, Rhythms of Resis­tance. Bris­bane based singer song writer Phil Mon­sour is one of the per­form­ers and will be proudly fea­tured in an excit­ing lineup includ­ing hip-hop, poetry and spo­ken word. Held in the Granville com­mu­nity cen­tre main hall on Fri­day 9 March, it is being described as “under­ground Syd­ney meets Pales­tine”. The event will be a great oppor­tu­nity to spread aware­ness and raise money for Gaza through Union Aid Abroad and APHEDA. For more infor­ma­tion, check out the face­book page at: http://www.facebook.com/events/212602642171751/

Israeli Apartheid and the Means of Resistance

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Israel Apartheid Week has kicked off at the Uni­ver­sity of Syd­ney, and will run until 15 March. The key event will be a panel dis­cus­sion on the topic “Israeli Apartheid and Means of Resis­tance”, on 16 March at 5:30am. The panel boasts some great speak­ers, includ­ing inde­pen­dent free­lance jour­nal­ist and author of ‘My Israel Ques­tion’, Anthony Lowen­stein, Pales­tin­ian author and human rights advo­cate Samah Sabawi, as well as Prof. John Docker Hon­orary Pro­fes­sor in the School of Philo­soph­i­cal and His­tor­i­cal Inquiry at the Uni­ver­sity of Syd­ney and Prof. Stu­art Rees Direc­tor of the Syd­ney Peace Foun­da­tion and Emer­i­tus Pro­fes­sor at the Cen­tre for Peace and Con­flict Stud­ies at the Uni­ver­sity of Syd­ney. Food and drink will be pro­vided, and the event is spon­sored by Aus­tralians for Pales­tine. Con­tinue read­ing →

Still no response from Cut/Copy about our request to Cancel their gig in Israel

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The con­cert is due for tomor­row and we still haven’t had a response from Cut/Copy band mem­bers or agent.  It will be great if you can do all or one of the fol­low­ing to help boost this cam­paign, there is still time:

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Letter to CUT/COPY — Please don’t sing for Apartheid

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Today we sent a let­ter to Mel­bourne based indie elec­tropop band CUT/COPY, ask­ing them to recon­sider their sched­uled per­for­mance in Tel Aviv, Israel.  We hope to hear from them soon. Here is a copy of the let­ter.  Please feel free to sign and re-send it if you like.

Dear Cut/Copy,

We are Artists Against Apartheid, a col­lec­tive of Aus­tralian artists who are part of an inter­na­tional alliance com­mit­ted to human rights and Jus­tice and the elim­i­na­tion of Apartheid sys­tems in the world.  We are fel­low artists, and some of us are big fans of your work.  We are how­ever deeply sad­dened to hear of your planned con­certs tour in Israel and urge you to can­cel for the rea­sons stated in this letter.We are visual artists, per­form­ers, singers, song writ­ers, actors and art edu­ca­tors who have answered a call to stand in sol­i­dar­ity with the call from Pales­tin­ian civil soci­ety for Boy­cott, Divest­ment and Sanc­tions of Israeli apartheid.   Con­tinue read­ing →