Lettre ouverte à Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal

Alain Dancyger, directeur général, Les Grands Ballets canadiens de Montréal

En 2008, Jean-Luc Godard, grand cinéaste français et l’un des fondateurs de la Nouvelle vague du cinéma français dans les années 1960, a décliné une invitation à participer au Festival international du film étudiant de Tel Aviv. Ce faisant, il reconnaissait l’importance du mouvement de boycottage de l’apartheid israélien auquel appellent de nombreux organismes de défense des droits de la personne en Palestine, en Israël et partout dans le monde.

L’objet de cette lettre est un appel de Tadamon!, un mouvement basé à Montréal de solidarité avec les luttes pour l’autodétermination, l’égalité et la justice au Moyen-Orient, qui participe activement à la campagne internationale actuelle pour le boycott, le désinvestissement et les sanctions contre le gouvernement.

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une soirée aux sons du hip-hop, du jazz et de la musique expérimentale.

DIMANCHE, 22 MARS
20h00 5 à 10 $
La Sala Rossa
4848 boul. Saint-Laurent
Montréal, Québec

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closing event for Israeli Apartheid Week 2009 co-presented with Cinema Politica

MONDAY MARCH 9 19h30
Concordia University
1455 de maisonneuve, room H-110
free screening: donations welcome
metro Guy-Concordia
Montreal, Quebec.

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Lettre ouverte à la communauté universitaire au sujet des droits
des Palestinien(ne)s et des universités canadiennes.

Photo: Fathima Cader. manif de solidarité avec la Palestine à Toronto.

Durant les deux dernières années, plusieurs efforts ont été déployés pour restreindre le débat en faveur des droits des Palestinien(ne)s dans les universités canadiennes, à un tel point qu’on voit se dessiner un motif ou un modèle établi de suppression de la liberté d’expression et de la liberté d’association.

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photo essay on Khaim prison, southern Lebanon.

Photo: Benjamin Aronoff. “A Solitary Confinement” at Khiam.

A striking symbol for the twenty-two year Israeli military occupation in southern Lebanon is the Khiam detention center. Hundreds of Lebanese and Palestinian political prisoners were detained for years at Khiam, living in squalor conditions, at times in solitary confinement and all without trial.

Multiple accounts from former prisoners at Khiam and reports issued by human rights organizations such as Amnesty International illustrate that torture was widely practiced against prisoners at Khiam. Israel’s proxy army in Southern Lebanon, the South Lebanon Army (SLA), maintained Khiam as a detention and interrogation center from 1985 until 2000 when the Israeli military was forced from southern Lebanon, leading to the collapse of the SLA.

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McGill Daily, by Nadim Roberts.

Photo: Matthew Cassel. Olive branch and refugee tents in the Gaza Strip.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has recently ordered an inquiry into the attacks against UN facilities in the Gaza Strip, including educational facilities. While Ban Ki-moon, Amnesty International, and many other human rights groups are looking for answers regarding Israeli military aggression in the Gaza Strip, McGill has shamefully excluded itself from the process of seeking truth and establishing justice and equality.

A recent motion submitted to SSMU’s General Assembly that called for the condemnation of Israel’s bombing of educational institutions in Gaza was not even given a chance to be discussed or debated; as it turns out, even human rights can be “postponed indefinitely.”

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rabble.ca By Liisa Schofield | February 18, 2009.

The last few months have seen a global surge in support for the movement of boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israeli Apartheid. Important solidarity actions have occurred across the globe, including: a wave of student occupations across the UK; union resolutions in Europe, New Zealand and Australia; and, most recently, the historic action of South African dockworkers refusing to unload Israeli ships.

These actions register important steps forward in building solidarity with the Palestinian people and show that popular opinion is beginning to shift towards an understanding of Israel as an apartheid state that must be isolated in the manner of the struggle that was waged against South African Apartheid.

At the same time, pro-Israel organizations have responded to the strength of the BDS movement with the familiar tactics of repression, stifling of dissent and bureaucratic harassment. This article details a remarkable case of repression against student organizing at the University of Toronto (UofT).

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February, 2009

Photo: Israeli walls surrounding the Gaza Strip.

“For the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent.” –Martin Luther King Jr., Beyond Vietnam, April 4, 1967

We salute the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) in Durban, and Western Australian dock worker members of the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA), for refusing to handle Israeli cargo.

Theirs is a courageous response to Israel’s attack on Palestinians in Gaza that, since December 27 alone, have left some 1,400 dead and 5,000 wounded — nearly all of them civilians.

This action is in the best tradition of dock workers in Denmark and Sweden (1963), the San Francisco Bay Area (1984) and Liverpool (1988), who refused to handle shipping for apartheid South Africa; Oakland dock workers’ refusal to load bombs for the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile (1978); and West Coast dock workers’ strike against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (2008).

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A photo essay by Tanya Traboulsi

Photo: Tanya Traboulsi. Scrambled Eggs perform in Beirut, Lebanon.

A striking compilation of photos presented by Tadamon! from photographer Tanya Traboulsi which document the underground music scene in Beirut, Lebanon, a center for groundbreaking culture in the Middle East today and for decades. Admits the political chaos of Lebanon these photographs present a glimpse into the thriving world of alternative musical culture in Beirut which has attracted international attention for it’s mix of Middle Eastern musical traditions and modern musical expression from hip-hop, to free Jazz, to electronic music.

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Soha Béchara écrivaine libanaise, résistante et ex-prisonnière politique

LUNDI le 2 MARS à 19h00
Cégep de Saint-Laurent, salle Émile-Legault
625 ave Sainte-Croix
Montréal, Québec
(métro Du Collège)

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