photo exhibition launch!

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 13th 2009
6-8pm Bar Populaire
6584 St-Laurent
this is a free event

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février 2009, Tadamon! Montreal

Photo: Darren Ell. Ballons aux couleurs de la Palestine en hommage aux enfants tués .

« Des ballons pour la paix » tel est le titre d’un article paru dans le Devoir le lundi 26 janvier 2009 concernant la manifestation de solidarité au peuple palestinien qui a eu lieu le dimanche 25 janvier 2009. Quelques erreurs se sont malencontreusement glissées sous la plume du journaliste qu’il convient de mettre en lumière.

L’article fait état de 250 personnes présentes or, selon la CBC Radio, il y avait au moins 1000 manifestants dans les rues de Montréal. Au-delà de l’inexactitude du chiffre, c’est le choix même des mots employés qui est problématique.

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photo essay from Darren Ell. extended visual slide-show

Photo: Protesting complicity of the Canadian government with Israeli military actions.

Thousands marched on the streets of Montreal throughout recent weeks to protest the Israeli military campaign in Gaza which took an estimated 1300 Palestinian lives in the Gaza Strip. Beyond Montreal protests mounted around the world from Europe, to the Middle East, to Latin America, mobilizations for Gaza that mark some of the largest Palestinian solidarity demonstrations in recent history.

Protests in Montreal in solidarity with Gaza were documented by photojournalist Darren Ell. Tadamon! features selected images from an extended visual slide-show.

As the world monitors a fragile ceasefire in Gaza across the Gaza Strip, Palestinians are slowly rebuilding after the devastating military attack, which saw the U.N. administered schools, the Islamic University of Gaza, hundreds of homes and civilian infrastructure bombed in Israeli air strikes across Gaza.

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Mary Ellen Davis, Le Devoir, jeudi 29 janvier 2009.

Photo: la mort et destruction dans la bande de Gaza.

Les quartiers en ruines dans la bande de Gaza. Des maisons, des immeubles, des édifices: pulvérisés. Comme dans le titre du livre de l’écrivain québecois Rawi Hage: Parfum de poussière. Parmi les décombres, des âmes perdues errent à la recherche des dépouilles d’êtres chers, ou de leurs biens.

Mais nous nous détournons afin de regarder l’avènement de Barack Obama, objet de tous les espoirs. Les scénaristes israéliens ont bien organisé l’enchaînement. À l’aube d’une nouvelle ère, qu’importent les vies perdues, les familles décimées, les blessés, les mutilés, les endeuillés, les médecins et les infirmiers surmenés et ciblés, les 50 000 sans-abri, le tout formant un peuple privé d’État depuis 60 ans?

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By Stefan Christoff, Sada al Mashrek.

Photo: Sabrien Amrov. Gaza solidarity protests in Montreal.

Response to Israel’s latest military attack on Gaza in Canada took a strikingly different tone on the streets and within the halls of power.

On the streets across Canada thousands marched in solidarity with Gaza, marking some of the largest Palestinian solidarity demonstrations in Canadian history.

Tens-of-thousands marched in Montreal and Toronto in the cold winter winds calling not only for an end to Israel’s military attack on Gaza but also for a boycott of the Israeli government; sparks of decisive movement in solidarity with Palestine rooted in the international boycott campaign that struck a critical blow to the apartheid regime in South Africa.

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February 2009: Israeli resistance to apartheid.

Photo: ActiveStills. Demonstration against attack on Gaza in Israel.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21st
“Israeli resistance to apartheid”
6:00pm Comité Sociale Centre-Sud
1710 Beaudry (metro Beaudry)
entry by donation ($5 or more suggested)

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22nd
“Anarchism in Israel and the politics of solidarity”
1:00pm Café Cagibi
5490 St-Laurent
entry by donation ($5 or more suggested)

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Le Devoir. January 24 2009.

Photo: Israel drops chemical weapons over a U.N. school in Gaza.

We are a group of teachers and employees at Quebec colleges and universities who stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people, and with the people of Gaza who have suffered through the Israeli siege as targets of Israel’s brutal military attack. It will take more than ceasefires to bring a just and lasting peace in Palestine and Israel. We are acting in response to an appeal for support issued January 2, 2009 by the Palestinian Federation of Unions of University Professors and Employees. In the wake of the Israeli bombing of the Islamic University of Gaza, the Federation of Unions has urged academics around the world to support a boycott of Israeli academic institutions.

We support this call and place it within a wider campaign of boycott, divestment, and sanctions. The struggle against apartheid in South Africa was supported through boycotts, divestment, and sanctions. We support a similar strategy against the Israeli state.

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Cinema Politica launch for winter/spring 2009 program. co-presented by Tadamon!

MONDAY JANUARY 19th 19h30
Concordia University, room H-110
1455 de Maisonneuve
metro Guy-Concordia
Montreal, Quebec

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Montreal Mirror. by Matthew Hays.

Photo: Israeli bombings over the Gaza Strip.

It’s an old adage in the film business that timing is everything, but the coincidence involving the Palestinian Perspectives documentary film series showing in the next couple of weeks at the Cinémathèque is truly odd.

The series, which features several different docs on issues facing Palestinians, screens on the next two consecutive Fridays at the Cinémathèque québécoise. The films were chosen and programmed last year, long before the current Gaza offensive by the Israeli military. “Now it’s become a crisis,” says Mary Ellen Davis, a filmmaker and co-programmer of the event. “But even before this, every day, the Palestinians have been under siege. They’ve been dealing with checkpoints, new settlements and the wall for some time now.”

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Montreal, January 15th, 2009.

Photo: Palestinians running with flag along Israel’s apartheid wall.

On the twentieth day of Israel’s attack on Gaza, a group of Montrealers occupied the office of Quebec’s Economic Development Minister Raymond Bachand, calling on the Charest government to immediately end ties with Israel, and specifically withdraw from the Quebec-Israel accord.

“The accord, signed this fall, establishes unconditional economic ties between the two countries,” said Marc-André Faucher, spokesperson for ASSÉ, representing over 40,000 Quebec students. “The accord does not include measures to force Israel to respect international law, but provides economic backing and diplomatic cover for current war crimes in Gaza.”

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