Jazz benefit in Montreal @ Kaza Maza

Monday January 31st
doors 20h | $6
Kaza Maza
4629, avenue du Parc
Montreal, Quebec

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Solidarity Statement From Tadamon! Montreal, January 2011.

Photo: Palestinian flag at demonstration signed in solidarity with Gaza.

As the world remembers the Israeli bombardment of Gaza at the turn of 2009, the Palestine solidarity movement continues to build the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israeli apartheid. Social justice networks globally are moving in unprecedented ways to back the growing BDS campaign, launched in occupied Palestine by civil society organizations in 2005.

Recently in La Plata, Argentina, the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC) held their 10th international conference and voted to join the global BDS movement.

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rabble.ca by Mary-Jo Nadeau | January 20, 2011.

Photo Israeli apartheid wall in occupied Palestine.

This month, the Hudson Bay Company (HBC) have discontinued sales of Ahava cosmetic products. Ahava is an Israeli company that has been a target of the Palestinian campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel.

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Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign, press release 13 Jan 2011.

Photo ActiveStills Israeli military tear gas over the sky in occupied Palestine.

Irish singer-songwriter Dylan Walshe became the landmark 200th signatory to the “Irish Artists’ Pledge to Boycott Israel”, which commits endorsers to not “avail of any invitation to perform or exhibit in Israel, nor to accept any funding from any institution linked to the government of Israel, until such time as Israel complies with international law and universal principles of human rights”.

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Global Day of Action for Jawaher Abu Rahmah & Palestinian Popular Resistance

Thursday February 10 2011
5:30pm, Phillips Square
across from the Bay, 585 St. Catherine west
St. Catherine & Union, metro McGill
Montreal, Quebec
facebook event page
listen/download CKUT radio announce
download PDF poster | flyer

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Join us for a holiday dinner party to celebrate five years of successes in the Quebec BDS movement!

Wednesday, December 15
Doors at 6pm, Dinner at 7pm
Alternatives
3720 Parc Avenue, 2nd floor
Montreal, Quebec

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press release IWW 12/2/2010.

Photo Palestinian running along Israeli apartheid wall.

The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or Wobblies) has officially voted to support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement in support of Palestinian rights. The “Resolution in Support of the Workers of Palestine/Israel” was adopted in an overwhelming vote both at the IWW’s convention in Minneapolis and by the membership via referendum. This vote makes the IWW the first union in the US and the third union in Canada to officially support the Palestinian United Call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions.

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South Africa Artists Against Apartheid opening declaration

Photo Andrew Jackson South African musician.

As South African Artists and Cultural Workers who have lived under, survived, and in many cases resisted apartheid, we acknowledge the value of international solidarity in our own struggle. It is in this context that we respond to the call by Palestinians, and their Israeli allies, for such solidarity.

As artists of conscience we say no to apartheid – anywhere. We respond to the call for international solidarity and undertake not to avail any invitation to perform or exhibit in Israel. Nor will we accept funding from institutions linked to the government of Israel. This is our position until such time as Israel, in the least, complies with international law and universal principles of human rights. Until then, we too unite with international colleagues under the banner of “Artists Against Apartheid.”

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Biennial conference sees unanimous approval for BDS motion via Technical Engineering and Electrical Union – TEEU in Ireland.

Photo Palestinian flag flies on Mount Errigal in Ireland.

At its biennial conference last weekend, the Technical Engineering and Electrical Union (TEEU) unanimously voted to “support for a boycott campaign of Israeli goods and services and a policy of disinvestment from Israeli companies” as a result of the Israeli state’s continuing breaches of international law and human rights abuses against the people of Palestinian. The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) welcomed the passing of the motion [1].

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Jon Booth, McGill Daily Nov. 18 2010.

Photo: Drawing comparisons to South African apartheid policies, the Israeli military forces Palestinians to carry identification documents that restrict their movement.

The word apartheid is one of the most controversial parts of the Palestinian solidarity movement. Opponents of the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign claim that the word apartheid is a slur used solely to delegitimize Israel. We in Tadamon!, however, believe this term is an accurate legal description of the Israeli state, and do not shrink from using an accurate term because it is controversial.

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