press release on NCRA resolution in solidarity with Palestine, August 10, 2011.

Photo: Matthew Cassel Refugee tents in Gaza post 2009 Israeli bombing.

The National Campus and Community Radio Association (NCRA), an organization representing 82 radio stations from every corner of Canada, adopted a motion at its annual general meeting on June 10, 2011, in the city of Halifax to endorse the call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against Israeli apartheid. In doing so, the NCRA is proudly the first national media organization in Canada to join the global movement for BDS.

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By: Rami El-Amine and Mostafa Henaway

No matter how it unfolds, the Egyptian revolution will go down in the history books as a defining moment in the 21st century. Millions of Egyptians brought down one of the world’s most repressive regimes, that of the U.S.-backed Hosni Mubarak, in just 18 days. Their bravery, perseverance, and tactfulness in the face of the regime’s brutal crackdown not only triggered uprisings across the Arab world but inspired and influenced protests against government austerity in the U.S., Spain, Portugal, and Greece. Despite the fact that it is only a few months old, it’s important to begin piecing together a people’s history of the revolution to convey what happened and how it happened so that the lessons from this critical struggle can be disseminated.
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Film Screening Under the Stars…

Wednesday July 20, 2011
Screening begins at 8:30pm
Bibliotheque DIRA- outdoor lot
2035 St. Laurent (Metro St. Laurent)
Free event. Donations welcome.
Facebook event

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film preview & discussion with Shadia Mansour. co-presented via Suoni per il Popolo

Wednesday, June 8 2011
1pm-3pm at la Sala Rossa
4848 St. Laurent
metro Laurier or Bus 55
Montreal, Quebec
facebook event

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As part of the Quebec-Canada trade union solidarity tour May/June 2011.

Wednesday June 1st, 7pm
Centre St. Pierre, room 200
1212, rue Panet (metro Beaudry)
Montreal, Quebec
Facebook event

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musical celebrations for Palestine. photo Bird flying in Palestinian sky.

Monday, May 30, 2011
doors 20h | $6
Kaza Maza
4629, avenue du Parc
Montreal, Quebec
facebook event

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photo via Israeli photo activist collective ActiveStills

Photo: ActiveStills Solidarity with Egypt, Bil’in, Palestine, 5/2/2011.

As hundreds-of-thousands of Egyptians took to the streets in opposition to the US-backed dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak solidarity protests were sparked across the world, including in occupied Palestine. In Bil’in village in the West Bank local residents staged a Egypt solidarity protests as part of their weekly demonstrations in opposition to the Israeli apartheid wall which cuts through the agricultural lands of the village.

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May 23, 2011, by Elliott Frayheyt.

Photo Israeli soldiers arrest crying Palestinian youth.

In the wake of successful/ongoing divestment campaigns at Hampshire College, UC Berkeley, Carleton University, and the University of Johannesburg, a group of students, faculty and community members in Montreal have started to organize a campaign to sever the links between the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, and Concordia and McGill university. Several months ago, this group published a report entitled “Structures of Oppression” that outlines the ‘strong bilateral student exchange programs, joint research projects, and collaborative scholarships’ that Concordia/McGill share with Technion in Haifa.

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Al Jazeera by Neve Gordon, 23 May 2011.

Photo: Israeli flag fading into history?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address US legislators on Tuesday. He will, no doubt, tell members of Congress that he supports a two-state solution, but his support will be predicated on four negative principles: no to Israel’s full withdrawal to the 1967 borders; no to the division of Jerusalem; no to the right of return for Palestinian refugees; and no to a Palestinian military presence in the new state.

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photo essay via Ion Etxebarria

Photo: South African activist Salim Vally speaking at McGill University.

In May 2011 South African academic and activist Salim Vally gave a lecture at McGill University in Montreal entitled ‘Reading Edward Said in South Africa‘, the presentation focused on the growing Palestine solidarity movement in South Africa and specifically the recent move at the University of Johannesburg to sever links with Ben Gurion university. Salim highlighted the recent step toward the international boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign in South Africa within a history of struggle in South Africa for liberation and in opposition to apartheid. Photographer Ion Etxebarria captured the event in photographs at McGill University.

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