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.

(…اكثر)

When they talk about the war,

planes breaking sound barriers

My mind recalls the nights,

The sleepless dark silent nights,
an uncommon silence
A hollow silence filled with the sound of danger
So close by, i NEED to run!

(…اكثر)

The massive attack on Lebanon in July displaced Lebanese but also affected Lebanon’s hundreds of thousands of migrant workers and refugees.

The Migration Policy Institute, prepared a report – The Lebanese Crisis and Its Impact on Immigrants and Refugees, by Kara Murphy – summarising some of the impact according to official sources.

Israel must take responsibility for the dreadful human toll in Lebanon

By Peter Bouckaert, Emergencies Director, Human Rights Watch

Published in Guardian Unlimited

Day after day, Israeli government spokesmen insist that everything they are doing accords with international humanitarian law. Endless communiqués insist that Israel’s behaviour is “proportionate”. Let us be blunt: those claims are fantasy, as the carnage in Qana has shown once again.

I have seen my share of modern wars, as a researcher at Human Rights Watch. In Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq, we found many civilian casualties due to bombing campaigns. Civilians fleeing attacks were hit by mistake. In Iraq, US bombs often hit civilian homes, hours after Saddam Hussein or members of his inner circle had left, missing their legitimate targets but killing civilians. In Lebanon it is a very different picture. Time after time, Israel strikes at civilian homes and civilian vehicles attempting to flee the besieged southern border zone, killing families without any military objective in sight.

(…اكثر)

by Emad Mekay, Committee for the Cancellation of the Third World Debt

http://www.cadtm.org/article.php3?id_article=2017

Lebanon is firmly en route to becoming the third nation in the Middle East after Iraq and the Palestinian territories to experience a devastating Washington-backed war and a massive influx of new illegitimate debt to cover reconstruction expenses, anti-debt activists say. (…اكثر)

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.

(…اكثر)

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….

(…اكثر)

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. (…اكثر)

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.

(…اكثر)