Gaza’s humanitarian situation is at its worst since Israel occupied the territory in 1967, say UK-based human rights and development groups.

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Montréal, 7 mars 2008: Un vaste éventail de groupes communautaires, d’ONG et de syndicats s’unit pour lancer un appel commun à la population et au gouvernement canadien concernant la paix en Palestine.

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Montreal premiere of Mai Masri’s latest documentary film
on Israel’s 2006 attack on Lebanon as part of Cinema Politica…

MONDAY, MARCH 10th, 2008, 7pm
Concordia University, Hall Building, H-110
metro Guy-Concordia
Lebanon / 2007 / 70min

Including the first Montreal screening of Sari’s Mother, latest film by
celebrated filmmaker James Longley, director of Iraq in Fragments…

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Journée international e d’action en solidarité avec le peuple palestinien
initiée par le Comité populaire contre le blocus de Gaza…

SAMEDI 23 FÉVRIER, 13h à 15h
Piquetage à la Librairie Indigo
Sainte-Catherine, l’Ouest de la rue McGill College
metro Peel

Par son blocus de Gaza, Israël impose une punition collective aux 1.5 millions de Palestiniens habitant la minuscule bande de territoire palestinien. Cette population vit quotidiennement une pénurie d’électricité, d’essence, de nourriture et des nécessités de base dans le contexte d’une campagne militaire violente menée par l’État israélien et ses politiques d’apartheid.

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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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The Israeli army on Wednesday invaded both the city of Nablus, in the northern West Bank, and the village of Beit Ummer, located near the city of Hebron in the southern West Bank. In total, at least 85 Palestinian civilians were abducted by the invading military.

Israeli troops stormed the village of Beit Ummar at around 1:00 am on Wednesday. Troops searched and ransacked scores of homes, with local sources stating that the army placed the village under curfew, not allowing families to leave their homes.

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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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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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Le mardi 27 novembre 2007, la police de Montréal a arrêté le journaliste indépendant Stefan Christoff au moment où il quittait une manifestation publique se déroulant devant le Palais des Congrès de Montréal, dans le cadre de latenue des audiences de la Commission Bouchard-Taylor sur les accommodements raisonnables.

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SAMEDI, LE 9 FÉVRIER À 12h30
Maisonneuve & Mackay
(métro Guy-Concordia)
Montréal, Québec

* apportez piquets, bannières, affiches, drapeaux, tam-tams…

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