U.S.
Regional Building
In the next year the IJAZ Network's organizing in the
United States will focus on building the Study into Action program,
organizing a North American convening of Anti-Zionist Jews, supporting anti-Zionist
Jewish participation in Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, and building
student, spiritual, academic and Jews of color sector networks.
In
late 2009, early 2010, we will host an organizing convening. This convening is
dedicated to offering space where we as anti-Zionist Jews in the United States and Canada can come together and
organize ourselves, plan our next steps and be a part of building a strong,
international movement that challenges racism, imperialism and colonialism
within our own locations and regions.
There are many ways to get involved and many new ideas that
we hope you will bring.
U.S.
Join
us in organizing this convening-become part of the coordinating committee,
organize local planning meetings to develop workshops and prepare for local
participation, participate in the academic, cultural, spiritual, student or
Jews of Color/Mizrahi networks to develop relevant workshops and tracks,
participate in planning a film series, cultural events and/or an art exhibit as
part of the convening, participate in planning a popular tribunal in
conjunction with the convening. If you are interested in organizing the North
American convening, please contact us as
.
Overtime this network will include anti-Zionist
Jewish students organizing across the globe and in partnership with other
anti-imperialist student organizing. The IJAZ Network has been approached by
student organizers in Egypt,
Palestine and Canada to partner in international
student organizing.
In Winter 2009, we hope to support students in launching campus study groups
and beginning to organize a student track and organizing institute as part of
the North American convening. If you are a student and interested in interning
with the IJAZ Network or in campus organizing, please contact us as
.
In San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Miami, IJAN
study groups have completed their first time round or are in progress. They
have been building relationships, shared analysis and strategic thinking toward
building a strategy for building the local work of the Network. Study
groups are a great tool for building new or strengthening already existing
local groups!
To learn more about study groups, to organize a study group
in your home locale or to join the work of the study group coordination team, click
here.
