May 20th – 22nd
Activism 2010 in Jerusalem / Al Quds will be a space for creativity, education, shared activity and community building.
The festival will be comprised of various events, workshops, talks, performances, exhibitions, collective feasts and debates – all with an activist spirit.
This festival is for everyone! So expect everyone to be there.
This will be one space, with enough room for a diversity of different ideas to come together, for our future!
Come share your thoughts on culture, politics, our environment: this community is growing, we all have a lot to say, come say it!
Join us, we’ll meet you there!

أكتفنسم 2010 من تحت ل فوق
أيار 20 – 22 2010
“أكتفنسم 2010″ في القدس, سيكون ملتقى للإبداع, التعليم وتبادل الخبرات وبناء طاقات المجتمع
سيتضمن المهرجان العديد من الأنشطة وورشات العمل, محاضرات, مجموعة من الأدائات المسرحية, معارض, وجبات جماعية ونقاشات كل منها في روح العمل المجتمعي.
هذا المهرجان للجميع! والكل مدعو!
المهرجان مكان واحد يتسع لجميع الأفكار المختلفة للتناقش وتتوحد من أجل مستقبلنا
تعال وشارك أفكارك المتعلقة بالثقافة, السياسة والبيئة: هذا التجمع يكبر بإستمرار,الكل لديه الكثير ليقوله, تعال هنا وشاركه معنا

نبذة عن المهرجان
المهرجان سيحتوي على عدة زوايا للنشاطات المختلفة: البيئة, حقوق الإنسان, الإحتلال الصهيوني, العدالة والعديد من المواضيع الأخرى
عبر اللقاء سوية نأمل أن نبني الأسس لحث التغير في مجتمعنا وتوفير البديل الحضاري الواضح للتحديات التي نواجهها اليوم.
نشرة المهرجان
لجميع النشطاء المجتمعيين في كل مكان!! شاركونا في أيار من 20- 22 لملقى من ثلاثة أيام من الإبداع, التعليم وتبادل الخبرات وبناء طاقات المجتمع
سيتضمن المهرجان العديد من الأنشطة وورشات العمل, محاضرات, مجموعة من الأدائات المسرحية, معارض, والطعام اللذيذ
هذا نشاط مجاني والكل مرحب فيه

الباصات تتحرك من الشيخ جراح, باب العامود, محطة القطارات الرئيسية في تل أبيب, لمزيد من المعلومات والتفاصيل الرجاء زيارة موقعنا الإلكتروني:
www.activism2010.org.il
وعلى الفيس بوك:
Facebook: Activism Fest 2010

To register send in the following information, and send it to Micha@grassrootsJerusalem.org or ayelet225@walla.com

Hello Dear Friends,
Activism Festival 2010 is getting closer, and our crew and committees are narrowing down the concepts and clarifying our goals. We would appreciate your participation in the process by answering a few questions that will help us in our planning. Please fill this form out and send it back to us by March 21st.
Registration form
Name of organization:
Location/s:
Contact person:
Contact info (email, phone, facebook):

Organization mission/context (for the festival booklet):

What is the activity you would like to bring to the Festival? (Workshop, exhibit, booth, movie, screening etc…) please write a short description:

Equipment needed for your activity (film projector, lighting, chairs, etc…):

Besides the festival’s “Fair Grounds”, where you can set up a booth for your group or organization, the festival will host a number of other “zones”, including Ecology and Sustainability, Justice, Peace and Human Rights, Local Economy, Activist Education, Body Soul and community, Open Space Tech’, Direct Action; Where does your organization fit in?:

Please fill in this “logistical” part of the registration form to help us plan and build the festival according to our available resources:
Do you have equipment that could be used for the Festival? (Tables, chairs, projectors, kitchen supplies, lighting, ground mats, vehicles, paint etc…):

Festival Finances: Organizations are encouraged to help pay for festival expenses with a suggested donation of 300nis to 1000nis. Any amount is most welcome. Will your organization be supporting the festival finances? If so, will your donation be to support something specific?:

Festival set-up: Crews begin work in the forest on May 9th and will be there until the festival starts. Are there members of your organization who could be a part of this crew? If so, how many?:

Over the next few weeks we will send you information about the festival to forward to your list-serves and audiences. We are creating a “guesstimate” of our mailing list capacity in order to estimate out how many people will know about and potentially participate in the festival. Does your organization have a list serve? Mailing lists? Facebook group? What are the sizes of these groups?:

Please send your organization’s logo in a PDF file!
It is a pleasure working with you, and we look forward to seeing you in the forest this MAY!!
Blessings,
2010 Activism Festival planning committee.

Last night in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah there was a vigil, a memorial to the families’ homes from which they were evicted. First they were refugees and now they are homeless. After weeks of legal battles, sit-ins and press conferences, several hundreds gathered to acknowledge a critical defeat in the battle over the future of this land and the two peoples who want to live here in peace.

Yes, the Supreme Court ruled, yes, the Palestinians were evicted in accordance with the law and yes, the Jews who moved in there did so legally. But this is a matter of the future viability of a Palestinian state, and the true test, or more correctly, disclosure of Israel’s true intentions and integrity. Assuming the Jews who moved into these houses (and now pray on the rooftops looking down on the newly homeless families in the street), did in fact live there at some point, this only strengthens the argument that all Palestinian refugees are entitled to reclaim their lost homes all over Israel. Israel’s legal system has set this precedent. It has given legal credibility to the 7 million Palestinians who once lived somewhere in Israel and cannot return.

Israel could not be making it any clearer that its policy is to allow, encourage and facilitate Jewish settlement anywhere and everywhere it wishes, right in the middle of Palestinian communities, with the ultimate aim of clearing them out.

How can Israel, in its claim to represent the Jewish people, who have experienced the worst forms of discrimination, violence, ghettoization and homelessness, now inflict it on another people? And what exactly is it trying to achieve? Have we heard any Israeli politician actually articulate what the objective is here, other than showing off the country’s ability to kick people out and take over whatever place they want? What does Israel think it will gain from these reprehensible actions?

http://josephdana.com/