Pan-Canadian Day of Action: CANADIAN TROOPS OUT OF AFGHANISTAN !
Saturday, October 28, 2006
MONTREAL DEMONSTRATION
Dorchester Square (corner of Peel and René-Lévesque)
Departure: 13h00. Gathering time : 12h30
Canadian Troops, Out of Afghanistan!
No to Canada’s military partnership with the USA!
OCCUPATION ANYWHERE … RESISTANCE EVERYWHERE!
5 YEARS IN AFGHANISTAN … 500+ YEARS ON TURTLE ISLAND
Join the BLOCK THE EMPIRE anti-imperialist contingent on October 28, part of a worldwide day of action against the occupation of Afghanistan.
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28th, NOON
Parc Norman Bethune
corner of de Maisonneuve and Guy (metro Guy-Concordia)
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The BLOCK THE EMPIRE anti-imperialist contingent will be a “child-friendly” march.
We will be joining and supporting the Échec à la guerre demonstration. We march in opposition to war at home and abroad, and against US/Canadian imperialism.
Boycotting Israeli Apartheid: The Struggle Continues
Conference on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Campaign
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto, 6-8 October 2006
Register now. (If you are planning to go to this conference from Montreal, you are welcome to coordinate travel with us at Tadamon.)
Featuring:
Jamal Jum’a – Coordinator, Stop the Wall Campaign (Palestine)
Willie Madisha – Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
Salim Vally – Palestine Solidarity Committee (South Africa)
As the Israeli states works to finalize its apartheid laws, walls, and the bantustanization of the indigenous Palestinian people and prepares to eliminate popular resistance to its aggression in the region, the Palestinian and Lebanese people remain steadfast under increasingly brutal conditions. Meanwhile, the economic and political leaderships of Western governments, with the US and Canada at the forefront, have increased their efforts to normalize international relations with the Israeli apartheid regime.
Before the Israeli assault on Lebanon, Tadamon! delegation member Stefan Christoff visited Mar Elias and Borj el Barajneh, two of the Palestinian Refugee Camps located in Beirut. Palestinians have been living in the camps for generations but are still being denied the right of return to their homeland. At the same time, they are denied many of their basic economic and civil rights by Lebanon.
Christoff’s photo essay documents the state of these two camps and the continued struggle.
STRATEGIES FOR SOLIDARITY WITH LEBANON IN MONTREAL
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WEDNESDAY, September 27th, 8pm
Frank Dawson Adams Auditorium
2nd Floor, 3450 University St.
[Corner: Milton & University; McGill metro]
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Presentations * Community Iftar Dinner * Poetry * Films * Free Child-care
Flyers can be downloaded here. Posters here. And a radio ad here.
Tadamon! Montreal in collaboration with Les Pages Noires Productions organized a major cultural fundraising event in Montreal entitled “Poets Against the War” on August 30th, featuring over 20 poets from around the world voicing the work in solidarity with the people of Lebanon & in opposition to war.
Included in this message is full biographical information on the performing poets & a link to an online video concerning the event….
From Democracy Now
In Lebanon, thousands of demonstrators filled the streets of Beirut Monday to protest a visit by British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Blair held a joint press conference with Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora. It was interrupted by Irish peace activist Caoimhe Butterly who yelled out “Shame on you, Tony Blair.”
Photo by: Andrew Stern
Jonathan Cook, Electronic Lebanon, 7 September 2006
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article5698.shtml
NAZARETH – The measure of a human rights organisation is to be found not just in the strides it takes to seek justice for the oppressed and victimised but also in the compromises it makes to keep itself out of trouble. Because of the business that human rights defenders are in, they must be held to a standard higher than we demand of others.
Unfortunately, one of the best — Human Rights Watch — has failed that test during the war in Lebanon this summer. (more…)
By Patrick Cockburn in Gaza
Published: 08 September 2006
Gaza is dying. The Israeli siege of the Palestinian enclave is so tight that its people are on the edge of starvation. Here on the shores of the Mediterranean a great tragedy is taking place that is being ignored because the world’s attention has been diverted by wars in Lebanon and Iraq.
A whole society is being destroyed. There are 1.5 million Palestinians imprisoned in the most heavily populated area in the world. Israel has stopped all trade. It has even forbidden fishermen to go far from the shore so they wade into the surf to try vainly to catch fish with hand-thrown nets.
