Don't Let Israel Ballet Tiptoe Around Apartheid!
Date:
Friday, February 26, 2010 - 7:00pm
Location :
Maryland
Where: Takoma Park / Silver Spring Performing Arts Center: Takoma Park Campus of Montgomery College 7995 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring MD 20910
http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/pac/takoma_park/takoma_park_map.htm
What: Protest the Israel Ballet performanceLocal chapters of US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, Peace Action, and Codepink: Women for Peace are some of the peace and social justice groups joining the national campaign to boycott all performances of the Israel Ballet during the ballet company’s February, 2010, US tour, because of their complicity in whitewashing Israeli apartheid.
Come support the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel, and help dance away apartheid! There will be tutus, music, dancing, and more.
The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs launched an initiative called "Brand Israel,"
to salvage Israel's deteriorating image abroad, sending well-known novelists,writers, former ministers, theater companies, and exhibits overseas to "showIsrael's prettier face" in an attempt to conceal the fact that it is committing grave violations of international law and denying basic human rights to the Palestinian people.
Endorsed by over 170 NGOs, trade unions, political parties, networks, and campaigns representing Palestinians inside and outside Palestine, the Boycott Divestment andSanction (BDS) of Israel Campaign is a nonviolent form of resistance to oppression
inspired by the historic role of the international community to fight injustice, asexemplified in their struggle to abolish apartheid in South Africa through diverse forms of boycott including academic and cultural.
