International day of action in solidarity with the people of Gaza initiated
by the Popular Committee Against Siege – Gaza City…

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23rd: 1-3pm
Picket at Indigo Bookstore:
St. Catherine St., west of McGill College
metro Peel

Gaza Strip remains under siege. Until today Israel continues to impose collective punishment on the 1.5 million Palestinians of Gaza, who face chronic shortages of electricity, fuel, food and basic necessities in the context of an ongoing campaign of military violence executed by the apartheid state of Israel.

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In the heart of Montreal Denis Kosseim, of the Coalition for Justice and Peace in Palestine (CJPP) waves a Palestinian flag during a solidarity demonstration with Gaza on Saturday, February 9th.

As part of the international Israeli Apartheid Week that occurred in cities across Canada and around the world, a series of events occurred in Montreal to mark Israeli Apartheid Week in February 2008. Israeli Apartheid Week is now in its fourth consecutive year and in 2008, Israeli Apartheid Week occurs during the 60th year of the Palestinian Nakba (”catastrophe”)– 60 years of dispossession, ethnic cleansing and exile for Palestinians resulting from the creation of the state of Israel.

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Le cinéaste Malcolm Guy, à travers une lettre ouverte aux Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois, se retire du jury du prix annuel 2008 de la Fondation Alex et Ruth Dworkin. Cette récompense, à laquelle est jointe une bourse de 5000 $, a pour but de favoriser la tolérance dans le domaine du cinéma.

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Condemnation of a virtual blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip by Israel since last June reverberated loudly yesterday along Montreal’s prime downtown shopping strip.

A vocal 90-minute march by more than 230 demonstrators – punctuated with such chants as: “Israel is criminal, Canada is complicit” – broke the weekend-afternoon tranquility of Ste. Catherine St. W.

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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY, 17th, 8pm
O Patro Vys
356 Mont-Royal east
(mount royal metro)
suggested donation: 7-15$

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On 7 February 2008, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) killed seven Palestinians, raising the number of victims from its military attacks to seventeen persons since the beginning of this month, and 96 persons since the beginning of 2008 in the Gaza Strip. The IOF launched seven attacks in different parts of the Gaza Strip since last night, of which the most affected areas were Khan Younis, al-Nuseirat, and other areas in northern Gaza.

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Listen to an edition of Radio Tadamon! featuring a critique on a state-sponsored series of hearings in Quebec on ‘reasonable accommodation’, which has placed the cultural and religious rights of immigrant communities in the political spotlight.

Radio Tadamon! features a presentation from Gada Mahrouse, academic and social justice activist, who offers an anti-racist view on the issue in a lecture in Montreal, in the context of a grassroots event organized in Montreal north examining the impacts of the current debate on ‘reasonable accommodation’ in Quebec on immigrant communities specifically addressing the impacts of the debate on Muslim women.

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occurring within the context of the international Israeli Apartheid Week.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9th, 12:30
Maisonneuve & Mackay
(metro Guy-Concordia)
Montreal, Quebec

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bring banners, signs, placards, noise-makers…

FRIDAY, JANUARY 25th, 2pm
corner of Maisonneuve & Mackay
ends at Square Phillips
(metro Guy-Concordia)
Montreal, Quebec

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Cities across Canada and around the world are participating in a global week of action against Israeli apartheid from 3 to 10 February. Israeli Apartheid Week, initiated at the grassroots level in Palestine, is now in its fourth consecutive year. In 2008, Israeli Apartheid Week occurs during the 60th year of the Palestinian Nakba (“catastrophe”)– 60 years of dispossession, ethnic cleansing and exile for Palestinians resulting from the creation of the state of Israel.

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