Culture Jamming & Action Planning For Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions Campaigns to End Israeli Apartheid
Culture Jamming & Action Planning For Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions Campaigns to End Israeli Apartheid
Presenters: Dunya ‘Alwan, Birthright Unplugged, Don’t Buy Into Apartheid, The Bay Area Campaign to End Israeli Apartheid, & the U.S. Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel; Sharon Lungo, The Ruckus Society
Friday 6/18/10
3:45-5:15pm
Culture jamming is a tactic in which tries
to disrupt and/or subvert mainstream culture and dominant and deceptive
messaging. We will share images, video, and stories from recent
projects designed to spark public interest and action, to educate, and
to garner and create media coverage. Projects include de-shelving
Israeli consumer goods, remaking and reinstalling bus shelter graphics,
subway graphics installation, outdoor projections, appropriating
Zionist outreach materials, and stealth actions at pro-Israel events.
The goal of this work is to shift policies and practices related to
mainstream portrayals of, support for, and collusion with, deadly and
oppressive Israeli actions against Palestinians and to support Boycott,
Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) against Israel. Participants will be
able to discuss methods and tactics. In the second half of the
workshop, we will break into action groups around specific action
strategies developed by the group, pick locations and audiences we want
to reach in our own communities, and set dates and scenarios and go
through action planning process. Each group will then report back to
the larger group with a calendar of planned BDS actions. Yalla, let’s
end Israeli Apartheid!!