Un voyage multimédia explorant la guerre de 34 jours au LIBAN et ses conséquences

Une soirée mettant en vedette une présentation multimédia interactive sur la récente guerre sur le Liban et ses conséquences, avec la journaliste indépendante et récipiendaire de plusieurs prix Ana Nogueira de Democracy Now! et Andrew Stern, photojournaliste.

JEUDI, 30 novembre, 19h
Librairie Atwater
1200 Atwater
coin de Sainte-Catherine
[métro Atwater]
Don suggéré, $5-10

Traductions vers l’anglais, le français et l’arabe disponibles * Garderie fournie

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Film Screening with filmmaker David Martinez visiting from San Francisco.

SATURDAY, November, 18th, 7pm
School of Community & Public Affairs
2149 MacKay [above de Maisonneuve]
Metro Guy-Concordia
Suggested Donations 5$.

Join filmmaker David Martinez for an intimate screening of 500 Miles to Babylon a one-hour documentary film currently in post-production about Iraq under U.S. occupation. Narrated by the filmmaker, using footage shot in Iraq during the past years threaded with graphically animated archival sequences to provide historic context, the film will address the current war not simply is a conflict over petroleum profits or a scheme to fill a company’s coffers, but as part of a larger American imperial project.
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Lens On Lebanon is an international grassroots documentary initiative formed during the Israeli bombardment of 2006. The documentary material, photo narratives, and video diaries of daily life gathered here have been conceived, produced, and contributed by residents of Lebanon from all walks of life.

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The UN troops claim they are in Lebanon toprotect the Shia. The Shia think they’re there to protect Israel from Hizbollah. Is this because the peacekeepers are really a Nato army in disguise?

The blue and white UN flag looks good in the morning over these soft, pale hills. For all of 28 years, it has flown beside Irish battalions, Nepalese battalions, Senegalese battalions, Finnish battalions, all kinds of battalions, from every worthy neutral nation you can imagine. But now the flag snaps over French battalions, Spanish battalions, Italian battalions, German naval units, over the offices of four Nato generals, two French, one Spanish and one Italian. (Lire la suite…)

Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz reported on 14 November that the high failure rate of these cluster munitions was because “Israel opted for cheaper, unsafe cluster bombs”.

Haaretz – During the second Lebanon war, Israel made use of American-made cluster bombs that left behind thousands of unexploded bomblets, even though Israel Military Industries produces cluster bombs that leave nearly no unexploded munitions. The main reason for the use of the U.S.-made weapons: Israel uses military aid funds to purchase cluster bombs from the U.S., and in order to buy IMI-made bombs, the Israel Defense Forces would have to dip into its own budget.

“The consideration is budgetary,” a defense related source said. This, despite the fact that each cluster bomblet costs a mere $10.

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Following the recent massacre in Beit Hanoun, a group of citizens, united by sense of outrage at the silence of western and Arab governments, will be engaging in a four day hunger strike, outside of the UNIFIL office in Tyre in solidarity with the besieged people of Gaza. (Lire la suite…)

MONTREAL: As Israeli continues its brutal assault on the Gaza Strip, Montrealers took the streets to voice solidarity with the Palestinian people. Hundreds of demonstrators marched through the heart of Montreal reflecting growing international outrage toward the latest attack on Gaza.

“Intifada! Intifada! Long Live the Intifada!” shouted demonstrators marching under rainy skies, in contrast to the silence of Canadian politicians in response to Israeli war crimes committed in the Gaza town of Beit Hanoun.

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Move hailed as step on path to WTO
 
Daily Star – BEIRUT: The United States expects to finalize a new trade agreement with Lebanon by the end of November, marking progress in Beirut’s stalled bid for membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO). Viewed as a prelude to a bilateral free-trade agreement between the two countries, the new Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) should eventually lead to Lebanon’s ascension to the WTO, US Ambassador Jeffrey Feltman said in a speech at a dinner hosted by the Lebanese American Chamber of Commerce on Friday.

“What that means is economic opportunities for Lebanon,” Feltman said of the country’s anticipated inclusion in the world body.

Lebanon, which gained WTO observer status in 1999, has missed several target dates for ascension due to the governments’ failure to adopt the required legislation on a range of trade issues, including piracy, anti-dumping, customs duties and food safety standards.

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Jamal Juma, Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, November 3rd, 2006

Jerusalem, November 3, 2006: In this dreadful Autumn of death and destruction, the Palestinian and Mexican people are united more than ever in a common history, mourning and struggle.

In Palestine in the last 48 hours a new massacre has been perpetrated. 20 martyrs from the refugee camp of Beit Hanoun have been added to the hundreds of victims that have been killed since June, when the Occupation forces launched another ruthless offensive in the Gaza Strip.

In the same way, since June the Mexican government has started to use all the destructive force of its military against the 70,000 educational workers in Oaxaca who struggle for their rights. The same government that followed the demands of the US government to send its soldiers to invade and massacre the Iraqi people today turns these weapons against its own people in defense of imperialist interests.
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COMPTE-RENDU DE LA CONFÉRENCE

Une trentaine des montrealais-es ont voyagé à Toronto à fin d’assister dans cette conférence. Le mouvement  « Boycotter l’apartheid israélien » aggrandit à Montréal actuellement. Contacter Tadamon! ou la Coalition pour la Justice et la Paix au Palestine (www.cjpp.org) pour savoir comment vous pouvez vous impliquer.

La conférence, « La lutte se poursuit : Boycotter l’apartheid israélien », organisée du 6 au 8 octobre 2006 à Toronto fut un événement inspirant et révélateur. Plus de 600 personnes ont pris part aux différentes séances de cette conférence qui s’est avérée l’un des plus importants événements de solidarité avec le peuple palestinien à se tenir sur le continent.

Bien que cette conférence se destinait aux activistes ontariens impliqués dans les mouvements de solidarité avec la Palestine, beaucoup de participants provenaient de tout le Canada, dont Montréal, Halifax et Vancouver de même qu’en provenance des États-Unis. La conférence a réuni des personnalités de calibre international telles que Jamal Jumaa’ de « Stop the Wall Campaign » de Palestine, Salim Vally du Comité de solidarité avec la Palestine en Afrique du Sud, Betty Hunter du Comité de solidarité avec la Palestine du Royaume uni et Jonathan Rosenhead, professeur émérite au « London school of Economics » et membre du Comité britannique pour les universités de Palestine. Robert Lovelace, l’un des chefs de la nation algonquine d’Ardock en Ontario a clôturé la conférence avec une puissante comparaison entre les expériences coloniales au Canada et en Palestine. 

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