SATURDAY JANUARY 10th
13h00 Dorchester square
Corner Peel and René-Lévesque
metro Peel
Montréal, Québec

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Rachad Antonius, Professor, Université du Québec à Montréal, December 31 2008

Photo: Israeli military siege on the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli government’s propaganda about the war in Gaza has been uncritically accepted by Canadian media, becoming the dominant discourse in most news reports. The violence we are witnessing is explained by declaring that Hamas has broken the truce with Israel, and therefore it is responsible for the current level of Israeli violence, which is thereby represented merely as a reasonable and justified retaliation. According to this view, Israel is only defending itself against a vicious enemy which is still intent on destroying it. At best, the excesses of the attacks against Gaza are deplored, but their presentation as retaliation is not even questioned.

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vigil in solidarity with the people of Gaza.

FRIDAY JANUARY 2nd 12h00
corner St. Catherine & McGill College ave.
Indigo Bookstore
corner of St. Catherine & McGill College
(metro McGill)
Montreal, Canada

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gather at ‘Solidarité Gaza’ banner from 11pm to 12am at the Pavillion Jaques Cartier.

DECEMBER 31st, 2008: 11pm – 12am
at the Pavillon Jacques-Cartier
old port of Montreal
metro Place d’Armes
(see map below)

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SUNDAY, JANUARY 4th 12h30
carré Cabot: corner St. Catherine | Atwater
(metro Atwater)
Montreal, Quebec

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Photo: Drapeau Palestinien.

Quelques centaines de personnes ont marché dans les rues du centre-ville de Montréal, cet après-midi, pour condamner les raids israéliens sur la bande de Gaza. Les manifestants ont vertement critiqué la réaction du gouvernement Harper, qu’ils ont qualifiée de «trop frileuse» au lendemain des attaques qui ont tué près de 300 Palestiniens et en ont blessé plus de 700 autres.

«Israël: assassin! Harper: complice!» ont scandé les protestataires alors qu’ils défilaient dans la rue Sainte-Catherine. Dans la foule, des pancartes demandant «que cesse le blocus de Gaza» ou qualifiant les attaques de «génocide massif» s’élevaient au-dessus des têtes parmi des drapeaux palestiniens.

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FRIDAY JANUARY 9th 2009
5-7pm Café l’Escalier
552 Ste-Catherine east
(metro Berri-UQAM)
this is a free event

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JANUARY 2009: Cinémathèque québécoise
Salle Fernand-Séguin
entry: 7$ (students, elders 6$)
335, boul. De Maisonneuve Est – Métro Berri-UQAM

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photos capturing Montreal solidarity action with Muntader al-Zaidi.

Inspired by Iraqi journalist Muntader al-Zaidi, who launched a pair of shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush this past week in Baghdad, local activists in Montreal held a mass shoe-throwing directed at the U.S. Consulate and the Canadian Armed Forces recruiting centre in downtown Montreal this past Saturday.

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SATURDAY DECEMBER 20, 1pm
In solidarity with Muntadar al-Zeidi
outside the US Consulate in Montreal
(1155 St-Alexandre, métro McGill)

bring extra shoes and footwear to throw! bring noisemakers!

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