following the call by Palestinian Civil Society

Free All Palestinian Political Prisoners !

On April 17, 2012, over 2,000 Palestinian prisoners launched an open-ended hunger strike that came to an end two days ago after some of their demands were met. Their strike was hit hard with retaliation from Israel Prison Services, including beatings, transferring from one prison to another, confiscation of salt (an act that could have severe health consequences for hunger strikers), denial of family and lawyer visits, and isolation and solitary confinement of hunger strikers. These are only some of the measures that the Israeli prison authorities use against political prisoners.

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Exhibition from May 5 to June 3, 2012

Vernissage with live music and snacks
Thursday, May 10, 2012
from 6pm to 10pm
Kahwa Café, 263 Mont-Royal Ave. E., (at Laval)
Mont-Royal metro station
Facebook event

Tadamon invites you to an exhibition of drawings made by children from Gaza following Israel’s attack on Gaza in 2008-2009. This exhibition previously survived an attempt to ban it when it was first shown in Oakland, California. (more…)

Sumoud : an evening in solidarity with Palestinian Political Prisoners

Thursday April 19, 2012
6:30pm at Concordia University
Hall Building, room H-110
1455 de Maisonneuve West
metro Guy-Concordia
facebook event
Montreal, Quebec

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join the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Global day of action on March 30th, 2012

Friday March 30th
12pm-2pm
Westmount square, corner of Saint Catherine and Greene.
(metro Atwater)
Montreal, Quebec

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Palestine solidarity contingent at 22/03 Montreal protest against tuition hikes.

Thursday, March 22, 13h
South/east corner St. Catherine/Peel
Montreal, Québec
photo Palestinian students in Gaza Strip.

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Montreal, March 2012 | Statement supporting the Syrian movement for dignity and self-determination and opposing militarization of the struggle and foreign military intervention.

Photo: Syrian refugees protest during a demonstration against Bashar el-Assad at Reyhanli refugee camp in Antakya, on March 15, 2012.

The Syrian people continue to demand their rights and liberties and the end of the al-Assad regime. The Syrian state has responded with brutal repression.

Since the uprising began, the Syrian regime’s propaganda machine has labelled those calling for freedom and justice “criminals”, “terrorists” and religious fanatics. It has also claimed that they are foreign agents with a mission to install a puppet regime that would abandon regional resistance movements and sign a peace agreement with Israel.

In truth, Syrians are engaged in a legitimate struggle to change an untenable local reality: a brutal authoritarian state that has governed through intimidation, fear and repression for 40 years; a security apparatus that arrests and detains citizens arbitrarily and that subjects them to torture and other abuse with impunity; increasing impoverishment, unemployment, income and wealth disparity and uncertainty about the future due to neo-liberal economic policies in recent decades.

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photo essay via Heri Rakotomalala

Photo Ensemble Acalanto performs at Artists Against Apartheid.

View beautiful photographs from the eighteenth Artists Against Apartheid concert in Montreal via Heri Rakotomalala.

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featuring NYC hip-hop collective Rebel Diaz, at Israeli Apartheid Week 2012

Sunday, March 11, 2012
doors 20h, $10 in advance | $12 at door
O Patro Vys
356 avenue du Mont-Royal est
Montreal, Quebec
facebook event

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speaker: Bassam Haddad an event within Israeli Apartheid Week 2012 in Montreal

Monday, March 12

6:30pm, Concordia University
1455 de Maisonneuve West, H – 763
(Guy-Concordia metro)
facebook event

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Tadamon! statement by Freda Guttman for International Women’s Day protest.

Photo: Palestinian women protest at border crossing in Rafah, Gaza Strip.

This International Women’s Day, we recognize the struggles of Palestinian women in their fight against an entrenched system of discrimination and segregation. Khitam Saafin, chair woman of the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees describes the challenges that Palestinian women face.

“The first challenge is the occupation itself. The occupation is a crime as are its policies and strategies against our people – arresting of people, confiscation of land, taking of water sources, the checkpoints and other means of restricting our movement, the siege of Gaza – all these are considered to be crimes against humanity in violation of International laws. The burden of massive oppression in any society, as we know, falls on the shoulders of women.

The second challenge is the traditional society which is still considered an obstacle towards full equality, dealing with woman as equal people in Palestinian society. We know that this social challenge is a global challenge for women, even in countries which have secular or more equal laws, based on a historical discrimination against women.”

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