Bold claims about Middle East peace from
London ring hollow in the empty streets of Gaza.

It is a strange feeling: after working as a productive professional in Gaza for five years, I have become a black market junkie. I make several phone calls a day hunting for fuel for my car, diesel for the electricity generator waiting on standby to power the house, even cigarettes and vitamins. The only way to get hold of these things, to buy life-saving medicines, to purchase the essentials for a life of basic dignity, is through the black market, if at all. Today all Gaza suffers severe water shortages, with the fuel needed to pump and transport water (as well as sewage) dangerously scarce. The few cars seen on Gaza’s mostly empty streets today almost invariably run on used cooking oil due to the lack of diesel.

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un mois d’actions contre l’apartheid Israélien en Mai.

Joignez-vous aux actions et aux événements qui se tiendront durant le mois
de mai 2008 pour marquer les soixante ans de luttes contre l’apartheid israélien.

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Avril 2008.

Avril 2008: Les organisations signataires de ce document félicitent le Syndicat des Travailleurs et Travailleuses des Postes (STTP) pour avoir rejoint la campagne internationale de boycottage de l’apartheid israélien. Nous appelons les travailleurs et travailleuses ainsi que les syndicats dans le monde à se joindre au STTP afin de créer un mouvement de travailleurs fort et efficace en solidarité avec les luttes contre l’apartheid israélien.

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How did a Jewish state founded 60 years ago
end up throwing filth at cowering Palestinians?

When you hit your 60th birthday, most of you will guzzle down your hormone replacement therapy with a glass of champagne and wonder if you have become everything you dreamed of in your youth. In a few weeks, the state of Israel is going to have that hangover.

She will look in the mirror and think – I have a sore back, rickety knees and a gun at my waist, but I’m still standing. Yet somewhere, she will know she is suppressing an old secret she has to face. I would love to be able to crash the birthday party with words of reassurance. Israel has given us great novelists like Amos Oz and A.B. Yehoshua, great film-makers like Joseph Cedar, great scientific research into Alzheimer’s, and great dissident journalists like Amira Hass, Tom Segev and Gideon Levy to expose her own crimes.

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Following is an edited open letter from Gaza lecturer Dr. Haider Eid
to Nobel Prize-winning South African author Nadine Gordimer…

I am a Palestinian lecturer in Cultural Studies living in Gaza. I happen to also have South African citizenship as a result of my marriage to a citizen of that beloved country. I spent more than five years in Johannesburg, the city in which I earned my PhD and lectured at both traditionally black and white universities. At Vista in Soweto, I taught your anti-apartheid novels My Son’s Story, July’s People and The Late Bourgeois World.

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JEUDI 8 MAI 20h30
8-15$ à la porte
La Sala Rossa, 4848 St. Laurent
Montreal, Quebec

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BEIRUT: In the wake of the summer 2006 war, Beirutis were witness to a curious contest. All over town red-and-white billboards, in Arabic, French or English announced “I Love Life.”

Appearing early in the political wrangle that has riven Lebanon’s citizens into two camps, the ad campaign seemed apolitical. Yet, as it implied the Other are more interested in killing and martyrdom than enjoying life, the ad was explicitly partisan.

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Tadamon! et ASSÉ présentent…

Une initiative d’éducation populaire émergeant de la lutte pour la justice sociale
et contre le racisme, la guerre et l’occupation, au Moyen-Orient et au Québec…

Lundi le 21 avril, à midi, Cégep Bois de Boulogne
au café étudiant le Caféinné
10 555 ave du Bois-de-Boulogne, Montréal
Une présentation du Comité d’action pour la lutte étudiante boulonnaise (CALEB)

Mardi le 22 avril à 12h30, au Cégep Drummondville
960 rue St-Georges, Drummondville
Une présentation de l’Association générale étudiante du Cégep de Drummondville

Mercredi le 23 avril à 13h00, au Cégep de St-Jérôme
455 rue Fournier, St-Jérôme
Une présentation de l’Association étudiante du Cégep de St-Jérôme (AGES)

Mercedi le 23 avril à midi, au Collège de Lionel-Groulx
100 rue Duquet, Ste-Thérèse
Une présentation de l’Association générale étudiante du Collège de Lionel-Groulx (AGECLG)

Mercredi le 23 avril à 19h, à Sherbrooke
Au local Le Tremplin, 97 rue Wellington Sud, Sherbrooke
Une présentation de l’Association étudiante du Cégep de Sherbrooke (AÉCS)

Jeudi le 24 avril à 18 heures Au GRIP-McGill
3647 rue University, 3ème étage, métro McGill
Une présentation du Groupe d’action et de sensibilisation au pouvoir étudiant (GRASPé)

Samedi le 26 avril de 14h30 à 16h30 au MUCS
Une présentation du Montreal Freeschool / l’École libre de Montréal
2000 rue Northcliffe, suite 218 (coin De Maisonneuve), métro Vendôme
(entrer par le stationnement situé sur la face nord de l’édifice)

The Grass-Roots Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign wishes to express its solidarity with and call for the immediate and unconditional release of indigenous political prisoners Chief Donny Morris, Deputy Chief Jack McKay, Head Councilor Cecilia Begg, councilors Sam McKay and Darryl Sainnawap and council employee Bruce Sakakeep from Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) and spokesperson Bob Lovelace from the Ardoch Algonquin First Nation (AAFN).

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Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) escalated its war crimes in the Gaza Strip disregarding the lives of civilians, who are paying the price of this escalation. Last Friday, 9 Palestinians were killed in the Gaza Strip. Seven of the victims, including 6 civilians that included 2 children, were killed by IOF excessive use of lethal force in El-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. In addition, 27 people, most of them civilians that included 12 children, were injured.

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