ISRAELI APARTHEID WEEK
2021 Callout
Racism, discrimination, xenophobia, and inequality continue to grow around the world. In recent months, we have seen how people in the Global South and people of color, political prisoners, unhoused people, migrants, and refugees, among many others, have suffered from the scourge of COVID19, which has further exacerbated their vulnerability.
We have also seen how millions of people around the world have taken to the streets to protest against systemic racism, patriarchal violence, climate injustice, neoliberal austerity, and economic inequality, among other oppressions that continue to suffocate us. These protests for long-denied justice have inspired us to keep resisting injustice, to continue dreaming of freedom, and to keep insisting on our rights, in a united global front against racism and oppression.
Now, more than ever, we need you, we need each other. We need all our voices united across the world to end racism, colonialism, and apartheid.
Palestine remains a central testing ground for global repression. Israel’s apartheid regime tests its militaristic and racist ideologies, surveillance tools, and weapons of oppression and racial domination on Palestinian bodies and society for export to the world as “field-tested.” These tools end up aggravating the militarized and racial oppression in many countries around the world, from fortress Europe to the US, from India to Myanmar, from Brazil and Honduras to South Sudan and Rwanda, and far beyond.
For the last 17 years, IAW has been organized around the globe to protest some of these injustices and to advocate for Palestinian freedom, justice, and equality as part of the struggle to attain our indivisible justice. Let’s continue to weave ever more powerful networks of hope and mutual, intersectional solidarity. Together we are unstoppable.
Watch Angela Davis’ call to support IAW
TAKE ACTION! JOIN OUR GLOBAL VIRTUAL PROTEST
This year Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) will join the observance of the International Day Against Racism by organizing a global and massive virtual protest to resist racial discrimination, colonialism, and apartheid and to celebrate the diversity and connectedness of our struggles. We want our voices to be loud despite all the repression, but we can’t do it without your help.
How to join the global virtual protest?
What are creative ways you can get your message across :
Mock checkpoints, dabke, public meetings, speak outs, protests, videos – your imagination is the limit.
Let us know what you’re doing tag us BDS Australia on Facebook Instagram and Twitter
If your want to make videos you can download the IAW Call Against Colonialism, Racism, and Apartheid and make a video reading the call following the instructions you will find below.
Post your videos on social media with #United Against Racism and #IsraeliApartheidWeek2021 #BDS and remember to tag us
What you need to know for recording videos
Text to read
Download the IAW Call Against Colonialism, Racism, and Apartheid in English, Spanish or Arabic.
Read the text in your preferred language. You can choose English, Spanish, or Arabic or your own native language! If you want to translate the call into your own native language, please make sure to send along with the full English translation of the text and note the language you are using.
Filming
- Look into the camera.
- Shoot in landscape mode (horizontal, not vertical)
- When using your cellphone, please record it horizontally and in high quality (1920×1080)
- Avoid shaky video:
- Ideal to have someone film you
- Other options: tripod or selfie stick
Lighting & Background
- Find natural light and face the light (when you have the light behind you, it creates a shadow, and you look like you’re in the dark)
- The background must be simple. No clutter or movement going on
Audio
- Close your windows and doors. Find a quiet place with very little background noise.
- If you use a headset, please make sure you place the microphone somewhere close to your neck not to see the wires.