Palestine workshop -- afternoon session

29 January 2009

WSF 2009

Most of the participants present for the afternoon session had not been to the morning session, so there would have to be quite a lot of repetition. Also, at least half of those present were students unaffiliated with any organisation or campaign. We therefore decided that it would be more productive to split the meeting, with organisation/campaign representatives discussing Palestine proposals and the WSF process with Stop the Wall in adjacent room and Nadia leading a Q&A on BDS and general session on actions to take on the issue.

The split worked out quite well. Students were very enthusiastic about taking action in Brazil and across Latin America around the trade agreement between Israel and Latin American countries. Many felt that they benefited from the opportunity to find out more about the campaign, what other actions were happening around the world, and how to take action strategically around BDS.