Economic Mappings of Apartheid
Event Date:
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 - 19:00 - 21:00
Speakers: Dalit Baum, Justin Podur, Eva Bartlett
7:00 - 9:00 PM
Location: University of Toronto, Earth Sciences Centre, Room 1050, 33 Willcocks St.
Hosted by Students Against Israeli Apartheid – a working group of OPIRG-Toronto
Dalit Baum Ph.D., is a co-founder of Who Profits from the Occupation, an activist research initiative of the Coalition of Women for Peace in Israel. During the last five years, Who Profits has become a vital resource for dozens of campaigns around the world, providing information about corporate complicity in the occupation of Palestine. Dalit is a feminist scholar and teacher in Israel, who has been teaching about militarism and about the global economy from a feminist perspective in Israeli universities. As a feminist/ queer activist, she has been active with various groups in the Israeli anti-occupation and democratization movement, including Black Laundry, Boycott from Within, Zochrot, Anarchists against the Wall and Women in Black.
Hosted by Students Against Israeli Apartheid – a working group of OPIRG-Toronto
Dalit Baum Ph.D., is a co-founder of Who Profits from the Occupation, an activist research initiative of the Coalition of Women for Peace in Israel. During the last five years, Who Profits has become a vital resource for dozens of campaigns around the world, providing information about corporate complicity in the occupation of Palestine. Dalit is a feminist scholar and teacher in Israel, who has been teaching about militarism and about the global economy from a feminist perspective in Israeli universities. As a feminist/ queer activist, she has been active with various groups in the Israeli anti-occupation and democratization movement, including Black Laundry, Boycott from Within, Zochrot, Anarchists against the Wall and Women in Black.
Justin Podur is a Toronto-based writer and editor. He writes on political conflicts and social movements, primarily for Z Communications (www.zcommunications.org). He has reported from Palestine, Haiti, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Colombia, Pakistan, and India. He is the author of the upcoming book Haiti's New Dictatorship: From the Overthrow of Aristide to the 2010 Earthquake (Pluto Press 2012). He is also contributor to Empire's Ally: Canadian Foreign Policy and the War in Afghanistan (University of Toronto Press 2012) and Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century (AK Press 2008). His blog is www.killingtrain.com.
Eva Bartlett is an independent Canadian activist and freelance journalist who has spent long periods in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip volunteering with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) and reporting from the ground. In November 2008, Eva sailed with the Free Gaza Movement boat from Cyprus to the Gaza Strip where she joined the ISM in accompanying fishermen in Palestinian waters and farmers in the border regions. During the 2008-2009 Israeli massacre of Gaza, Eva and other ISM members joined Palestinian medics in their ambulances, documenting the victims of Israel's massacre, including Palestinian medics and rescuers. From November 2008 until June 2010, Eva continued this work, also writing for the Electronic Intifada, IPS news, the Dominion, and various independent media, as well as maintaining her blog, In Gaza. She returned to Gaza in May 2011 to see little change or improvement in Palestinians' living conditions. During her recent few months in Gaza, Eva witnessed the resurgence of Israeli bombings, which of course never made the corporate media. Her website is ingaza.wordpress.com and her earlier reports were at opt2007.wordpress.com