Wednesday, January 22, 2020
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Room: A-2885
UQAM | Université du Québec à Montréal
400, rue Sainte-Catherine Est, H2L 2C4
Tionni’tiotiah:ke, Kanien’kehá:ka territory
Metro Berri-UQAM
Facebook event

Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights and Tadamon! bring you a panel on the colonial roots of administrative detention in Canada and Israel.

Administrative detention is a practice with colonial roots, where we find the similarity between the two colonial entities that are Israel and Canada. In both Israel and Canada, the manner in which bodies are policed leads to practices of detention, mass incarceration, systemic racism, apartheid, and genocide of indigenous peoples and marginalized populations. It is therefore a question of noting the similarities between these two colonial entities, following an anti-abolitionist, anti-colonialist, anti-racist, anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist approach.

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(English below)

LES OUVRIERS PALESTINIENS ET PALESTINIENNES SOUS OCCUPATION, UN REGARD
DE L’INTÉRIEUR

Vendredi 1 mars, 2019
6:00 – 8:00pm
CPFQ- 845 Decarie Blvd #201
Metro Côte-Vertu

Événement facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/2883490598329575/

Dans le cadre de notre mandat de mieux informer et de créer des liens entre la société civile québécoise et la communauté palestinienne, nous vous invitons à assister à notre prochain événement , intitulé : ” les ouvriers palestiniens et palestiniennes sous occupation, un regard de l’intérieur

Cet événement se fait en collaboration avec le groupe Labour for Palestine, @palestinelabour qui organise une tournée dans 4 villes Halifax, Ottawa, Montréal & Toronto, afin de tisser des ponts de solidarité et de promouvoir une meilleure compréhension de la situation des ouvriers et ouvrières palestiniens.

Imad Temeiza est le co-fondateur et l’ancien président élu de l’Union des travailleurs aux services Postaux Palestiniens (PPSWU). Aujourd’hui il est le représentant des relations internationales de l’Union.

Imad Temeiza nous présentera les multiples niveaux d’oppression auxquels les travailleurs Palestiniens font face.

La traduction chuchotée sera disponible sur place

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PALESTINIAN WORKERS UNDER OCCUPATION – A VIEW FROM WITHIN

Friday, March 1, 2019
6:00pm-8:00pm
CPFQ-845 Decarie Blvd #201
Metro Côte-Vertu

Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2883490598329575/

Imad Temeiza is the co-founder and former elected leader of the Palestinian Postal Service Workers’ Union (PPSWU). He is currently the PPSWU International Relations Representative. Imad will discuss the multiple levels of oppression that Palestinian workers face in the Palestinian Territories occupied by Israel in 1967, including the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem.

Workers’ struggle and resistance will be situated in the context of the failed Oslo Peace Process which began in the early 1990’s, and led to the creation of the Palestinian Authority. Contrary to the goal of creating a two-state solution, this process led to a system of Apartheid, as prominently witnessed throughout the Territories, in cities such as Hebron.

PUBLIC EVENTS

HALIFAX: Monday, February 25
Glitter Bean Cafe
5896 Spring Garden Road
6:30 – 8:30pm

OTTAWA: February 27th
CUPW National Office
377 Bank Street
7:00 – 9:00pm

MONTREAL: March 1st
CPFQ
845 Decarie Blvd #201
6:00 – 8:00pm

TORONTO: March 2nd
Friends House
60 Lowther Avenue
6:30 – 8:30pm

Labour for Palestine is a pan-Canadian network of labour activists who work to deepen solidarity with Palestinian workers and people in their struggle for liberation.

For more information about the upcoming events and/or how to become involved, you can find us on Facebook Labour for Palestine, Twitter @palestinelabour or contact us by email at L4Pcanada@gmail.com.

Le 31 juillet 2018, la branche canadienne du B’nai B’rith lançait une campagne de diffamation contre le Syndicat des travailleurs et des travailleuses des postes canadien (STTP) et contre le Syndicat des travailleurs du service postal palestinien (PPSWU).

L’engagement du STTP dans la justice sociale est une tradition indéfectible qui s’applique à la situation palestinienne comme à celle des autochtones du Canada. Il est donc de notoriété publique que le STTP soutient les camarades postiers palestiniens du PPSWU, dans leur difficile travail en situation d’occupation et d’entraves mises en place par les autorités israéliennes qui rendent infernale leur vie quotidienne. Au grand dam du B’nai B’rith, le STTP est aussi un syndicat engagé dans la campagne internationale de Boycott, Désinvestissement et Sanctions (BDS) contre l’Etat israélien tant que cet Etat ne respecte pas le droit international, ainsi que dans les diverses Flottilles visant à briser le blocus illégal de Gaza.

Il est également de notoriété publique que le B’nai B’rith est une organisation sioniste dont l’un des buts est de défendre l’Etat d’Israël, quelques soient les violations du droit international et les atteintes aux droits humains dont cet Etat est coupable. Dans ce but, tous les coups sont permis et il conviendrait de traiter ces communiqués comme il se doit: par le mépris le plus total.

Malheureusement, au Canada, il est des gens qui prennent au sérieux les communiqués de cette organisation qui accuse le PPSWU d’être une organisation pro-terroriste, et par conséquent le STTP de soutenir la violence et le terrorisme. Quelle ironie de la part d’une organisation qui défend un pays qui assassine chaque semaine des civil.e.s palestinien.ne.s et tue à petit feu toute la population de Gaza enfermée dans un blocus illégal depuis plus de 10 ans.

Le PPSWU vit la réalité du quotidien en Palestine, l’apartheid, l’occupation militaire, les bombardements, la prison, les checkpoints, mais aussi la complicité de l’Autorité Palestinienne qui fait perdre espoir à une jeunesse palestinienne parfois tentée par la violence. Bien que l’ONU défende le droit de tout peuple opprimé de se défendre, y compris par la lutte armée, le PPSWU privilégie la non violence en défendant la campagne BDS. Elle pleure néanmoins la condamnation à de longues peines de prison, ou l’assassinat de militants sous les balles ou les bombes de l’armée israélienne, quelques soient leurs tendances idéologiques. L’accusation de soutenir le terrorisme est donc insultante, sans fondement et largement ridicule. Le soutien du STTP envers le PPSWU est donc entièrement justifié, défendable et même honorable.

Tadamon dénonce ces accusations comme non fondées et réaffirme ici son soutien plein et entier envers le STTP et le PPSWU pour leur très important travail d’aide aux travailleurs et travailleuses des postes en situation de néolibéralisme agressif et, pour le PPSWU, de répression violente, auquel ce communiqué du B’nai B’rith contribue.

Avec le STTP et le PPSWU, nous continuerons de défendre les droits des travailleuses et travailleurs, ainsi que ceux indéfectibles du peuple palestinien.

Sunday, June 21st, 2015
1pm-3pm Parc Mont-Royal
Beside the Tam-Tams, near the George-Étienne Cartier Monument
Montréal, Québec

A call by Egypt Solidarity on behalf of Egyptian activists who are deeply involved with mobilizing solidarity campaigns for political prisoners both inside and outside Egypt, including relatives and friends of detainees.

Click here for Facebook Event

Global days of action: June 20-21, 2015

http://egyptsolidarityinitiative.org/2015/05/25/take-action-in-solidarity-with-egyptian-political-prisoners-on-june-20-21/

Stop repression of protests – Free political prisoners- Fair trials for all – End abuse and torture – No executions

On 21 June 2014 a small group of demonstrators approached Egypt’s presidential palace. Their demonstration was the first to challenge the repressive anti-protest laws since Abdelfattah Al-Sisi had been sworn in after victory in the presidential elections. Armed thugs and police attacked their peaceful march, and 23 people were arrested and later sentenced to years in jail, simply for exercising their rights to assembly and free expression. Al-Sisi, whose election was hailed by Western leaders as a step forward in Egypt’s “transition”, crushed their protest.

A year later, we are calling for international solidarity with all Egyptian political prisoners, in the hope that highlighting this one case will help build a movement campaigning for justice for the tens of thousands jailed by the military regime.

In January 2011, protesters in Egypt inspired the world with their bravery and determination in the fight for democracy and better life. Today, many of those brave protestors have been either killed or jailed. At the same time, Mubarak and his supporters, including the police generals responsible for killing protesters and corruption, have been set free.

In July 2013, after a popular uprising against then-president Mohamed Morsi, the military overthrew the Muslim Brotherhood’s Morsi, who had been elected president the previous year. Since then, more than 3000 Egyptian citizens have been killed, and no-one has been held accountable. More than 40,000 were arrested during the first year of the military regime. Those arrested have not received a fair trial and many had no access to legal procedures at all. Military and civilian courts in Egypt have issued death sentences against some of the leaders and hundreds of alleged supporters of Muslim Brotherhood, including the ousted president Mohamed Morsi. Human rights groups have condemned these trials as completely unfair.

Revolutionary activists who had opposed Morsi’s regime, and taken to the streets in defiance of the Brotherhood, are also being arrested, abused and jailed. Activists such as Ahmed Douma, who played a leading role in the 2011 revolution have received life sentences. Under a draconian anti-protest law many youth have been jailed. Everything associated with the January revolution of 2011 is now a target in Egypt.

Meanwhile terrorist attacks are escalating, and the current regime has used the discourse of the war on terror to justify a backlash against everything related to civil liberties and human rights. Egypt does not have a parliament. The president holds both legislative and executive power. And parliamentary elections have been delayed yet again.

The president has used this power to issue an enormous number of laws to expand state repression. In 2014, about 90 Egyptian citizens were tortured to death in police stations, without anyone being held accountable or even proper legal investigations. According to the Arab Network for Human Rights Information, 61 journalists have been jailed because of their writing or their work over the last two years in Egypt. Shooting live ammunition at protesters has been normalized.

Al-Sisi’s regime is bankrolled by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and other countries from the Gulf. Western regimes which recently paid lip service to support for human rights and democracy are now sending billions of dollars in military and economic aid, as well as selling arms and surveillance technologies and to the repressive regime in Egypt.

We call for international solidarity with Egyptian political prisoners on June 20-21, 2015.
• Stop repression of protests
• Free political prisoners
• Fair trials for all
• End abuse and torture
• No executions

Photo credit Ali Mustafa

Lecture by Yasser Munif & the “Uprising and Uprooted” photo exhibit