February 2011. by Mostafa Henaway

Photo: ActiveStills Palestinian youth protest Israeli occupation in the West Bank.

From February 4th to the 6th the peoples commission network will be holding a popular forum called Whose security? Our Security!, to bring activists, social justice organizers and communities together, in order to broaden the movement against Canada’s National Security Agenda. Whether it be the criminalization of social justice movements, national security measures that target immigrant and migrant communities, will all be discussed during this two day popular gathering here in Montreal.

The importance of such a gathering as it relates to Palestine solidarity is intrinsic. In terms of the ongoing work towards solidarity with Palestine through the growing Boycott Divestment and Sanctions campaign to end Israeli apartheid. It is critical for those who work on the question of Palestine to also build an analysis and a challenge to the way in which national security has been used by the Conservative government as a means to show its continued support for Israeli Apartheid, through the discourse of the war on terror and to delegitimise both the Palestine solidarity here and the struggle for self-determination and justice in Palestine.

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La lutte continue. Piquet de grève quotidien jusqu’ à la victoire.

Février 2 | 3 | 4
17h – 18h
consulat égyptien
1000 rue De La Gauchetiere O.
(metro Bonaventure)
Montreal, Quebec

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Tadamon! appuie sans réserve l’adhésion de Dru Oja Jay au Conseil d’administration de Mountain Equipment Co-op en 2011.

Photo: Colonies israéliennes dans les territoires occupés de Cisjordanie, en Palestine.

Nous partageons plusieurs des objectifs que Dru s’est fixés, et en particulier son désir de renforcer l’engagement de MEC envers l’approvisionnement éthique. À cet égard, ce qui importe tout particulièrement à Tadamon est la volonté exprimée par Dru de soutenir les efforts en cours visant à convaincre les membres de la Co-op de voter contre la vente de produits fabriqués en Israël dans les magasins MEC du Canada.

Cette démarche concorde avec l’appel au Boycott, aux Sanctions et au Retrait des investissements lancé par la société civile palestinienne en juillet 2005 pour forcer Israël à mettre fin à sa politique d’apartheid, son occupation illégale de la Palestine, ses crimes de guerre et ses violations des droits humains. Comme Dru le dit lui-même : « On peut profiter de la guerre et de l’occupation, ou l’on peut profiter du statut de ‘fournisseur éthique’, mais on ne peut pas profiter des deux à la fois ».

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photography via Hossam el-Hamalawy Cairo, Egypt.

Photo: Hossam el-Hamalawy. Mass protests in Cairo, Egypt against dictatorship.

Independent journalist and social activist Hossam el-Hamalawy has been capturing the mass protests in recent days in Cairo, Egypt, a selection of images from the protests follows, taken from the streets of Cairo.

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Déclaration de solidarité de Tadamon! Montréal, janvier 2011

Photo: Drapeau palestinien signé en solidarité avec Gaza.

Alors que le monde se remémore le bombardement de Gaza perpétré par Israël au tournant de 2009, le mouvement de solidarité envers la Palestine poursuit la mise sur pied de la campagne de boycottage, désinvestissement et sanctions (BDS) contre l’apartheid israélien. À l’échelle planétaire, les réseaux de justice sociale s’activent plus que jamais pour appuyer la campagne de BDS, lancée en 2005 en Palestine occupée par des organismes de la société civile.

Récemment, lors de sa 10e conférence internationale, l’AMARC, l’association mondiale des radiodiffuseurs communautaires, a voté son adhésion au mouvement mondial de BDS.

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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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McGill Daily Kristin Li and Niko Block, Jan 13

Photo Anna Carastathis. Protest against McGill University administration.

On January 21 2009, the Ontario Progressive Conservative Campus Association (OPCCA) held a series of workshops advising young conservatives on how to dominate campus discourse, take over student government, and attack their campus public interest research group (PIRG). In the following weeks, similar workshops were held at Carleton and Wilfred Laurier University.

Recordings from the Toronto session were released on WikiLeaks in March of that year. The speakers from the recording are Ryan O’Connor and Aaron Lee-Wudrick, both of whom were active in student politics, and their Conservative Party campus chapter, at the University of Waterloo.

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Amnesty International 11 January 2011

Photo Israeli apartheid wall in the occupied West Bank, Palestine.

Amnesty International has condemned an Israeli military appeal court’s decision to extend the prison sentence of a Palestinian non-violent activist, convicted over his involvement in organizing protests in the occupied West Bank.

Abdallah Abu Rahma, head of the Popular Committee Against the Wall in the West Bank village of Bil’in, had his sentence extended from 12 months to 16 months by the Israeli Military Court of Appeals at Ofer in the West Bank on Tuesday, after the prosecution argued that his initial sentence was too lenient.

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Yves Engler, The Electronic Intifada 13 January 2011

Photo Israeli colony Har Homa in the occupied Palestinian West Bank.

Canada’s tax system currently subsidizes Israeli settlements that Ottawa deems illegal, however, the Conservative government says there’s nothing that can be done about it.

In June of last year, Guelph activist Dan Maitland emailed Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon concerning Canada Park, a Jewish National Fund of Canada initiative built on land Israel occupied after the June 1967 War. Three Palestinian villages (Beit Nuba, Imwas and Yalu) were demolished to make way for the park.

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Journée d’action pour Jawaher Abu Rahmah & et la résistance palestinienne

Jeudi, le 10 février 2011
17h30, Carré Phillips
en face du La Baie, 585 Ste-Catherine O.
au coin de Ste-Catherine & Union
Métro McGill
sur facebook
écouter/télécharger l’annonce radio de CKUT
télécharger l’affiche en format PDF

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