Conference 2009
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From April 22th to April 24th, 2009, Bil’in held their fourth Annual International Conference. The conference was dedicated to the memory of Bassem Abu Rahma killed at the weekly demonstration against the wall and settlements on April 17, 2009.
Extract from the closing statement:
The participants of the Fourth Bil’in Conference for Non-Violent Resistance are committed to the rights of the Palestinian people through: supporting and promoting popular forms of resistance throughout the occupied Palestinian territories, encouraging the Palestinian leadership and civil society to assume a more active role in the popular resistance movement, promoting the culture of resistance and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel, unifying the Palestinian people geographically and politically through involving Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in the popular movement and helping overcome the blockade and isolation, and raising the awareness of the daily realities of Palestinian suffering under the occupation through field visits.
Movements against the occupation: the Bil’in conference, new ways to stop the apartheid
28/05/2009
The “4th Bil’in conference on grassroots popular resistance” took place from April 22 to 24th. The objective of the international meeting was to strengthen the relationships with the international solidarity social movements and to find new ways to strengthen and support the popular Palestinian struggle . Riccardo Carrara, activist of the SCI, the International Civil Service, participated at the conference. “We tried to find new solutions to end the apartheid in Palestine”. One of the most interesting interventions was presented by Zico Tamela. Mr. Tamela, International Officer of the South-african Transport and Allied Workers Union, drow a parallel between the history of Palestine and South-Africa. In South-Africa the boycott campaign has been able to push the african government to end the apartheid regime. So it should be in Palestine.
Guests of the program: Riccardo Carrara, Zico Tamela
Dr. Haidar Eid's speech at the 4th Bil'in International Conference on Grassroots Popular Resistance
18/05/2009
Dr. Haidar Eid is Associate Professor in the Department of English Literature, Al-Aqsa University, Gaza Strip, Palestine. Dr. Eid is a founding member of the One Democratic State Group (ODSG) and a member of Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI).
This speech was delivered via video link between Gaza and the West Bank, at a panel on “Promoting a Culture of Resistance” at the 4th Bil’in International Conference on Grassroots Popular Resistance.
Gaza 2009: The Moment of Truth
05/05/2009
[Palestine Chronicle] Gaza has returned to its pre-massacre state of siege, confronted with the usual, conspiratorial, "international" indifference after 22 long days and dark nights, during which its brave people were left alone to face one of the strongest armies in the world — an army that has hundreds of nuclear warheads, thousands of trigger-happy soldiers armed with Merkava tanks, F-16s, Apache helicopters, naval gunships and phosphorous bombs. Gaza now does not make news. It’s people die slowly, its children malnourished, its water contaminated, its nights dark, and yet it is deprived even of a word of sympathy from the likes of Ban Ki Moon and the president of "Change; Yes We Can."
Máiread Corrigan-Maguire: Stand Up to Israeli Apartheid
01/05/2009
[Counter Punch] An Open Letter to Barack Obama from a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Bil’in Nonviolent Resistance Conference: Between Rhetoric and Action
27/04/2009
[AIC] From 22-24 April 2009, the village of Bil’in hosted the Fourth International Conference of Popular Nonviolent Resistance. Hundreds of Palestinian, Israeli and international participants attended the event, a number that greatly increased in the last day of the program, which coincided with the weekly nonviolent demonstration. This year the conference was held in honor of the pacifist member of the Bil’in popular committee, Bassem Abu Rahma, who was shot dead by a tear gas canister on 17 April 2009. The intensive conference program consisted of three days of activities: political and grassroots speeches about the complexity of the Palestinian issue and its possible resolutions; workshops and field trips which gave a direct and pragmatic knowledge of different examples of nonviolent resistance; drawing up of the conference closing statement and participation in the weekly demonstration.
